[robocup-nao] PCAR 2010: Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots

Mary-Anne Williams Mary-Anne at TheMagicLab.org
Mon Jan 18 03:46:28 EST 2010


 *Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots*

May 10 or May 11, 2010

Toronto, Canada

http://agents.csse.uwa.edu.au/pcar2010

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
cognitive robots that are aware of what they are doing, and that can adapt
to changing conditions and requirements.

This workshop seeks to advance the research frontier by developing a new
understanding of cognition and using it to equip robots to deal with novel
and surprising experiences.

This workshop 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 robots in general are
all welcome, but the following areas are highly encouraged,

·       Grounding representations to sensorimotor experiences

·       Representing knowledge and know-how in robots

·       Inter-robot and human-robot interaction and communication

·       Inter-robot and human-robot cooperation and collaboration

·      Awareness, attention and anticipation

·       Semantic Web or agent applications for robots

·       Cognitive Robotics

·       Robot perception, planning, and embodiment

·       Autonomous Multi-robot exploration, navigation and collaboration

·       Intelligent robotic applications

·       Autonomous agents and the Law

PCAR 2010 will be an opportunity to step back from technical details, and
discuss the broader-picture applications of theory and philosophy in
practical systems. We are interested in designing and building robots that:
can adapt to changing environments; understand what they are doing and their
context in the world; and understand the relationship between internal and
external representations of the world. We see theory as crucial to solving
the technical bottlenecks. We intend to focus the workshop conversation
around symbol grounding, intelligence dynamics, representing tactics in
soccer or multi-robot coordination and cooperation, and how one might
construct robots that actually know what they are doing. PCAR 2010 will be
discussion-oriented workshop spanning one day. Short talks by distinguished
invited speakers will serve as cues for open discussion on the pressing
philosophical and technical challenges involved in applying knowledge
representation and artificial intelligence to the practice of cognitive
agents.
Important Dates

    *Submission:*  FEBRUARY 2, 2010

    *Notification of Acceptance: *MARCH 2, 2010**

    *Camera Ready: *MARCH 12, 2010**

    *Early Bird Registration:  *MARCH 12, 2010**

    *Symposium:  * May 10 or May 11, 2010
Paper Submission and Publication

We are seeking three kinds of contributions related to the workshop topics.

1.     Technical full papers detail innovative algorithms, solutions and
theoretical treatment of one or more issues of interest.

2.     Short position papers identify challenging issues and propose
visionary solutions with strong basis on the state of the art.

3.     Demo papers explain practical applications of the theoretical
development in KR and AI.

All papers should be prepared using the AMMAS Proceeding Guidelines. Papers
can be up to 8 pages in length. Accepted papers will be published by ACM
Digital Library, and the author will hold copyright. We may explore
possibilities for a Special Issue in a relevant journal depending on the
quality of submissions.

All papers should be submitted electronically at PCAR 2010 website through
the link to EasyChair.
Organising Committee

* *

*Wei Liu (Chair) and Anthony Blond*

School of Computer Science and Software Engineering

University of Western Australia

* *

*Xiaoping Chen*

Computer Science Department

University of Science and Technology of China



*Benjamin Johnston*

Faculty of Economics and Business

University of Sydney, Australia



*Rony Novianto, Xun Wang and Mary-Anne Williams*

Innovation and Enterprise Research Laboratory

University of Technology, Sydney Australia


Program Committee <still under construction>
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA   Salem Benferhat, Universite
d'Artois, France   Gamini Dissanayake, University of Technology,
Sydney   Patrick
Doherty, University of Linkoping, Sweden   Eyal Amir, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA  Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University   Michael
Genesereth, Stanford University  Yaochu Jin, Honda Research Institute Europe
GmbH, Germany,   Birger Johansson, University of Technology, Sydney   Gerhard
Lakemeyer, Aachen University of Technology, Germany   Pedro Lima, Lisbon
Technical University, Portugal   Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, China   Cara MacNish, University of Western
Australia, Australia   Aarati Martino, Google Inc, USA   Sheila McIlaith,
University of Toronto   Leora Morgenstern, IBM Research, USA   Don Perlis,
Univeristy of Maryland, USA  Roland Philippsen, Stanford University, USA  David
Poole, University of British Columbia, Canada   Kanna Rajan, Monterey Bay
Aquarium Research Institute   Thomas Rofer, German Research Center for
Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)   Erik Sandewall, University of Linkoping,
Sweden   Oskar von Stryk, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany   Michael
Theilscher, University of New South Wales, Australia   Peter Turner,
Tribotix, Australia  Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA   Glenn
Wightwick, IBM Australia Development Labs   Kui Yuan, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China   Hongbin Zha, Peking University, China  Stefan Zickler,
Carnegie Mellon, USA
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