[robocup-legged] [cfp] robocup symposium 2006, remind: deadline is approaching

[domenico g. sorrenti]

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Dear all,

the deadline for the 2006 International Robocup Symposium is approaching. For call for papers, topics of interest, details for submission, etc, refer to the Symposium website at:

http://www.ira.disco.unimib.it/robocupsymposium06.

Best regards.
Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Elizabeth Sklar, City University of New York, USA
Domenico G. Sorrenti, Università di Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Tomoichi Takahashi, Meijo University, Japan




OVERVIEW
The 10th annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup-2006, immediately after the Competitions and Demonstrations. 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 at Home, new for 2006, provides additional opportunity to expand the areas of discussion at the Symposium. 

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. 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 "Scientific Challenge Award", which recognizes outstanding research within a field related to the scope of the Symposium.
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.

IMPORTANT DATES
submission of abstracts  January 26th, 2006; 23:59 PST
submission of papers     January 30th, 2006; 23:59 PST
notification to authors  March 15th, 2006
camera-ready copies due  April 15th, 2006
Robocup Competitions     June 14-18, 2006
RoboCup Symposium        June 19-20, 2006