IROBOT 2009 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Robotics
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		Call For Papers – text IROBOT'2009 Thematic Track on Intelligent Robotics http://www.fe.up.pt/~irobot To be held at EPIA 2009 (http://epia2009.appia.pt/) 12-15 October 2009, Aveiro, Portugal EPIA'2009 is an international conference hosted with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). The purpose of this conference is to discuss and promote research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related disciplines. Aspects covered range from theoretical and foundational issues to applications interesting researchers, engineers and practitioners. The conference is structured as a set of thematic tracks, which includes IRobot. IRobot Description Robotics, from the point of view of AI, has been an important application field, from which AI has also gained. Namely the dynamic and unforeseen nature of the environment, especially for mobile robots, has fostered research in these aspects of AI. A continued point of discussion has been the cognitive versus reactive approaches which has contributed to the generation of interesting hybrid models, by combining the two approaches. This will constitute the focal theme of the IROBOT'2009 thematic track. IROBOT'2009 poses itself as a follow-up on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd International Workshops on Intelligent Robotics – IROBOT'’2005 (held at EPIA’2005), IROBOT'’2007 (held at EPIA’2007) and IROBOT’2008 (held at IBERAMIA’2008). As in previous editions, its main purpose is to bring together researchers, engineers and other professionals interested in the application of AI techniques in real/simulated robotics to discuss current work and future directions. Each edition tries to promote a focal debate theme. This years edition will target the above referred “Cognitive versus Reactive approaches – hybridization is the solution?”. A related aspect will be explored, consisting on analysing these models from the point of view of stringent applications of mobile robots, in particular in robotic competitions. “Are the theoretical models of any use when real time competition is the goal?” These topics will be the subject of panel discussions led by well known researchers with vast experience in robotics and their different applications, in particular, mobile robot competitions. Nevertheless a non exhaustive list of topics that may be addressed is suggested next. Topics of Interest The thematic track will address the following themes: . AI Planning for robotics . Autonomous vehicles . Cognitive Robotics . Computer vision and object recognition . Coordination in robotics . Evolutionary robotics and reactive intelligence . Human-robots interfaces . Intelligent buildings and warehouses . Intelligent transportation systems . Learning and adaptation in robotics . Mobile robot performance measures . Modelling and simulating complex robots . Multi-Robot systems . Field Robots . Real-time reactivity . Robot behaviour engineering . Robot Expressiveness and Emotional Awareness . Robotic surveillance . Sensor fusion . Simulation and virtual reality systems in robotics This topic's list is not exhaustive. Authors should not feel limited by it. Unlisted topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in the thematic track main subject. Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Scientific or technical articles describing state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms, systems, environments, problems or applications relevant to the area of Intelligent Robotics may be submitted. Papers discussing application transfer from simulated to real robots and papers showing socially useful robotic applications generated by participations in robotic competitions are also welcome. Submissions must follow the guidelines specified in the thematic track site. The Springer LNCS format must be used (instructions in http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html/). The length of submitted full papers must not exceed 12 pages. Authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. Paper submissions will be made in PDF format, according to instructions available in EPIA'09 and IRobot'09 websites. Three program committee members will be assigned to review each paper. Acceptance will be based on the paper's significance, technical quality, clarity, relevance and originality. Accepted papers, must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors should register at the Conference. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Important Dates 15 April 2009: Paper Submission Deadline 31 May 2009: Author Notification 15 July 2009: Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Copies 12-15 October 2009: EPIA Conference Thematic Track Organizing Committee Luís Paulo Reis (contact person) Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Engenharia Informática Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal Phone: +351 22 5081829, Fax : +351 22 5081443 http://www.fe.up.pt/~lpreis Email: lpreis at fe.up.pt Luís Correia Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Artificial Life Group - LabMAg Research Center Campo Grande, 1749 - 016 Lisboa, Portugal Phone: +351 217500238(ext.26307) Fax: +351 217500084 http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~lcorreia Email: Luis.Correia at di.fc.ul.pt António J. R. Neves Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática / IEETA Campus Universitário Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Phone: +351 234 370522, Fax: +351 234 370545 http://www.ieeta.pt/~an Email: an at ua.pt Program Committee António José Neves - Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal António Paulo Moreira - Universidade do Porto, Portugal Armando J. Pinho - Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Armando Sousa - Universidade do Porto, Portugal Augusto Loureiro da Costa - UFBA, Salvador, Brazil Carlos Carreto - Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal Cesar Analide - Universidade do Minho, Portugal Eduardo Silva - Instituto Sup. Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Enrico Pagello - University of Padua, Italy Fernando Lobo Pereira - Universidade do Porto, Portugal Fernando Osório - Universidade São Paulo/SC, Brazil Fernando Ribeiro - Universidade do Minho, Portugal Flavio Tonidandel - Centro Univ. FEI, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil Gabriella Sanniti Di Baja - Istituto di Cibernetica CNR, Italy Guy Theraulaz – CRCA, University of Toulouse III: Paul Sabatier, France Hans-Dieter Burkhard - Humboldt-Universität, Germany Huosheng Hu - University of Essex, UK Jacky Baltes - University of Manitoba, Canada Jorge Dias - Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Jose Miguel Sanchiz - University Jaume I, Spain Luís Correia - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Luís Paulo Reis - Universidade do Porto, Portugal Luis Seabra Lopes - Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Marco Dorigo - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Maria Isabel Ribeiro - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Martin Riedmiller - University of Osnabrueck, Germany Mikhail Prokopenko - CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Nuno Lau - Universidade de Aveiro Paulo Gonçalves - Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal Paulo Oliveira - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Paulo Urbano - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Reinaldo Bianchi - IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain Stephen Balakirsky - National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA Urbano Nunes - Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Xiaoping Chen - University of Science and Technology, China