www.robocup2006.org

RoboCup International Symposium 2006 Bremen, Germany 19th and 20th of June 2006

www.robocup.org

Call for papers

Call for papers, pdf version (approx. 100KB)

OVERVIEW

The 10th annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup-2006, immediately after the Competitions and Demonstrations. The Symposium represents the core meeting for the presentation and discussion of scientific contributions in diverse areas related to the three main threads within RoboCup: Soccer, Rescue and RoboCupJunior. Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and education activities within the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
Due to its interdisciplinary nature and the exploration of various and intimate connections of theory and practice across a wide spectrum of different fields, the symposium offers an excellent opportunity to introduce new techniques to various scientific disciplines. The experimental, interactive and benchmark character of the RoboCup initiative creates the opportunity to present, learn and evaluate novel ideas and approaches with significant potential. If promising, they are then rapidly adopted and field-tested by a large (and still strongly growing) community. In particular, we would like to urge also people not actively participating in a RoboCup team to submit their work. The introduction of RoboCup@Home, new for 2006, provides additional opportunity to expand the areas of discussion at the Symposium. Following is a list of the major topics of interest.

• multiagent systems and multi-robot systems:
  • learning and adaptive systems
  • cooperation and collaboration
  • teamwork and heterogeneous agents
  • dynamic resource allocation
  • adjustable autonomy
  • planning, reasoning and modeling
  • simulation
• sensory processing and control:
  • robot vision (including omnidirectional)
  • image processing
  • self-localization and navigation
  • world modeling
  • sensor-motor control
  • distributed sensor networks
• robot hardware and software:
  • system integration and software engineering
  • real-time and concurrent programming
  • robot programming environments and languages
  • embedded and mobile hardware
  • mobile robots and humanoids
  • new devices and materials for robots
• human-robot interaction:
  • visualization
  • speech synthesis and natural language generation
  • human-robot interfaces
• applications:
  • disaster rescue information systems
  • search and rescue robots
  • service robots
  • robots at home
• education and endutainment:
  • AI, robotics and science education
  • educational robotics
  • computer and robotic entertainment

SUBMISSION

Both papers describing real-world research and papers dealing with strong theoretical results are welcome, as well as combinations thereof. We also encourage the submission of high-quality overview articles for any field related to the general scope of RoboCup, especially the ones listed above. The proceedings of the RoboCup Symposium are published within the Springer LNAI series.
All submissions to the International Symposium are automatically entered in the selection process for the RoboCup "Best Paper Award", which recognizes outstanding research within a field related to the scope of the Symposium.
If the primary author of a paper is a student, then the paper will automatically be entered into the selection process for the "Best Student Paper Award".
By submitting to the RoboCup Symposium, authors are declaring that their work has not already been submitted for publication elsewhere (in any form: conference, workshop, journal, etc.) and that it will not be submitted until they are notified about the results of the RoboCup reviewing process.
Submitted papers should follow the Springer LNAI format and are limited to 12 pages. Instructions for formatting can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers will be submitted electronically via ConfMaster and will be blind-reviewed. Instructions about the electronics submission process can be found on the submission page of the symposium website. The electronic submission process requires a PDF file of the full paper, and the separate submission of an abstract.

IMPORTANT DATES (please verify here for changes)

SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS

• Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, Germany; gerhard - at - informatik.rwth-aachen.de
• Elizabeth Sklar, City University of New York, USA; sklar - at - sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu
• Domenico G. Sorrenti, Università di Milano - Bicocca, Italy; sorrenti - at - disco.unimib.it
• Takahashi Tomoichi, Meijo University, Japan; ttaka - at - ccmfs.meijo-u.ac.jp

maintainer's email: sorrenti@disco.unimib.it

Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126, Milano, Italy