International
Symposium on PRACTICAL COGNITIVE AGENTS and ROBOTS
--- Celebrating 50 Years of Artificial
Intelligence ---
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://agents.csse.uwa.edu.au/pcar/
Paper Submission: September 30, 2006
27- 28 November, 2006 (Perth, Australia)
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Masahiro Fujita -
General
Manager, Chief Distinguished Researcher, Intelligent Systems Research
Laboratory, Information Technologies Laboratories, Sony Corporation,
Japan. Technical leader of Sony's entertainment robot AIBOand
humanoid QRIO.
Patrick Doherty
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Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer and
Information Science, Linköping University, and Director for LinkLab,
a center for Future Aviation Systems, which is a joint venture
between Saab Aero Systems and Linköping University.
Mobile autonomous
robots can perform complex tasks in unstructured and
dynamic environments. Advances in autonomous mobile robotics over the
last decade have been extraordinary, and the potential for future
scientific breakthroughs and applications is breathtaking. However, a
number of bottlenecks to future advancement have been identified such
as building robots that know what they are doing, and that can adapt to
changing conditions and requirements.
This symposium seeks to move the research frontier by focusing on the
scientific bottlenecks, namely equipping robots with more knowledge
about internal representations and the external world, as well as
developing an awareness of oneself and others.
Hosted by the University of Western Australia, and sponsored by
Department of Education, Science and Technology (DEST, Australia) and
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, China), The
University of Technology Sydney and University of Science and
Technology China, the symposium has already won government support from
both Australia and China and attracted an impressive list of leading
researchers in Artificial Intelligence to serve on the program
committee. The symposium aims at soliciting research ideas and results
from practical research on implementing knowledge representation and
high-level reasoning into mobile autonomous robots. Papers on
autonomous agents and robots in general are all welcome, but the
following areas are highly encouraged,
* Grounding representations to sensorimotor experiences
* Integrating knowledge representation into behaviour based robots
* Inter-robot communication and human-robot interaction
* Robot Cooperation and Collaboration
* Building Robots that Know what they are doing
* Networking multiple robots using Semantic Web or Agent Technologies
* Cognitive Robotics and their applications
Come and join the celebration of 50 years research in Artificial
Intelligence at the world third most livable city - Perth (ranked in
2005 http://www.cbcunlocked.com/artman/publish/printer_631.shtml).
Come and experience the passion of mankind - trying to reverse engineer
ourselves by building intelligence into software and hardware. Come and
participate at very affordable registration to voice your research
ideas...
PUBLICATION of PAPERS
Accepted papers will be published by the University of Western
Australia Press, and selected best papers will be to invited to submit
to a Special Issue of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent
Systems (JAAMAS) edited by the symposium chairs and scheduled for
publication in late 2008.
SYMPOSIUM and PROGRAM CHAIRS
Xiaoping Chen - The University of Science and Technology of China
Wei Liu - The University of Western Australia
Mary-Anne Williams - The University of Technology Sydney
SYMPOSIUM WEBSITE: http://agents.csse.uwa.edu.au/pcar/
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission: Sep 30 2006
Notification of Acceptance: Oct 30 2006
Camera Ready Submission: Nov 6 2006
Symposium dates and location: 27- 28 Nov, 2006 (Perth, Australia)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Eyal Amir, University of Illonois, USA
Christian Balkenius, Lund University Cognitive Science, Seweden
Salem Benferhat, Universite d'Artois, France
Thomas Braunl, University of Western Australia, Australia
Gerhard Brewka, University of Liepzig, Germany
Stephan Chalup, University of Newcastle, Australia
Tony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK
Gamini Dissanayake, University of Technology, Sydney
Patrick Doherty, University of Linkoping, Sweden
James Harland, University of Western Australia, Australia
Anthony Hunter, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Benjamin Johnson, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Alankar Karol, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen University of Technology, Germany
Jerome Lang, CNRS, France
Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Aarati Martino, Google Inc, USA
John McCarthy, Stanford University, USA
Thomas Meyer, University of NSW, Australia
Leora Morgenstern, IBM Research, USA
Daniele Nardi, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Timothy Oates, University of Maryland, USA
Maurice Pagnucco, University of NSW, Australia
Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras, Greece
Massimo Picardi, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Fiora Pirri, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
David Poole, University of British Columbia, Canda
Michael Quinlan, University of Newcastle, Australia
Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, Australia
Thomas Rofer, University of Bremen, Germany
Andrew Solomon, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Christopher Stanton, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Dan Stronger, University of Texas, USA
Ubbo Visser, University of Bremen, Germany
Chenghong Wang, National Nature Science Foundation of China, China
Guo Wei, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA
Michael Wise, University of Western Australia, Australia
Kui Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hongbin Zha, Peking University, China
Bo Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
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Professor Mary-Anne Williams
Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney
Sydney NSW 2007 Australia
http://www.innovation.it.uts.edu.au/
Mary-Anne