AIEDAM
Special Issue, Fall 2010, Vol. 24, No. 4
Biologically Inspired Design
Edited by:
Amaresh Chakrabarti & Li Shu
This special issue of
AIEDAM
will be devoted to papers concerned with biologically inspired design.
Natural processes have led to the development of a plethora of
biological systems that carry out a multitude of tasks in a highly
resource-effective way within a variety of environments and
constraints. Many of these tasks, environments and constraints are
similar to those relevant in engineering design and therefore
biological systems offer a rich, potential source of inspiration for
novel and resource-effective engineering designs. History shows ample
anecdotal evidence of using these systems as inspiration for
engineering. While biologically-inspired designs had earlier been an
outcome of individual interest or accidental exposure, supporting
their use in inspiring engineering design is rapidly developing into
an area of active research and exploration. This special issue aims to
provide a state of the art collection of research outcomes in this
emerging area.
For this issue, while papers with normal AI content are desired, we
broaden the scope to also include papers that provides knowledge and
associated methodology for biologically-inspired design.
Suitable topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
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Models, techniques, or systems, both human-centered and computational,
for (supporting) biologically inspired design (including
biomimetics/biomimicry/bionics);
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Models of reasoning for biologically inspired design;
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Studies of reasoning for biologically inspired design.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least three
reviewers. The selection for publication would be made on the basis of
these reviews.
Information about the format and
style required for
AIEDAM papers can be found at
www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/Instructions/.
However, note that all
submissions for special issues go to the Guest Editors, and not to the
Editor in Chief.
Important dates:
Intend to submit (Abstract & Title): As soon as possible
Submission deadline for full papers: 15 September 2009 ***
Reviews due: 15 December 2009
Notification and reviews to authors: 15 January 2010
Revised version submission deadline: 1 May 2010
Issue to publisher: 1 June 2010
Guest editors:
Please direct all enquiries and submissions to the guest editors:
Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti
Innovation, Design Study and Sustainability Laboratory (IdeasLab)
Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560012, India.
Email: ac123 [at] cpdm [dot] iisc [dot] ernet [dot] in
Dr Li H. Shu
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto
5 King's College Road
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G8, Canada.
Email: shu [at] mie [dot] utoronto [dot] ca
