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<p>RoboCup IranOpen 2009 Symposium</p>
<p>3-6 April, 2009<br>
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<p>http://www.iranopen2009.ir<br>
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<p><o:p></o:p>The 1<sup>st</sup>
RoboCup IranOpen International Symposium will be held in conjunction
with RoboCup IranOpen 2009, during the Competitions and Demonstrations.
The Symposium represents the meeting for the presentation and
discussion of scientific contributions in areas related to
RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home and RoboCupJunior.
Furthermore, the research activities related to Artificial Intelligence
and Robotics are also considered and welcomed.<br>
Due to its interdisciplinary nature and intimate connections of theory
and practice in different fields, the symposium offers an excellent
opportunity to introduce new techniques to various scientific
disciplines. The unique activity in different fields of RoboCup
provides the opportunity to learn and evaluate novel ideas during
development and actual robotic competitions. We would like to urge not
only all teams who participate in competitions, but also the researches
who work on the topics of interest in this symposium to submit their
work.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><strong>Important dates:<o:p></o:p></strong></p>
<p><strong>Submission of papers: January 12<sup>th</sup>, 2009</strong><br>
<strong>Notification to authors: February 19<sup>th</sup>, 2009</strong><br>
<strong>Submission of camera-ready copies: March 5<sup>th</sup>, 2009</strong></p><p><strong><br></strong></p>
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<p>The major topics of interest include the following<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>robot hardware and software <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>system integration and software engineering <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>real-time and concurrent programming <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>environments and languages <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>embedded and mobile hardware <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>mobile robots and humanoids <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>new devices and materials <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>robot simulators<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>sensory processing and control <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>robot vision and perception <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>image processing <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>self-localization and navigation <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>world modeling <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>sensor-motor control <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>distributed sensor networks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>human-robot interaction <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>visualization <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>speech synthesis and natural language generation <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>human-robot interfaces <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>multi-agent and multi-robot systems <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>learning and adaptive systems <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>cooperation and collaboration <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>teamwork and heterogeneous agents <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>dynamic resource allocation <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>adjustable autonomy <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>planning, reasoning and modeling <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>distributed perception<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>applications <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>disaster rescue information systems <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>search and rescue robots <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>service robots <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>robots at home<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>education and edutainment <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>AI, robotics and science education <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span>educational robotics <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Submission:<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We solicit submissions of papers reporting on high-quality, original research with relevance to the</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">areas mentioned above. All researchers working in these areas, even if not actively participating in</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">RoboCup teams, are urged to submit their work. Both papers describing real-world research and papers</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">reporting theoretical results, as well as combinations thereof, are welcome. <br>
Submitted papers must be in <strong>English</strong> and limited to <strong>5 pages</strong> formatted according to the <strong>IEEE formatting</strong> and must be electronically submitted</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">through the electronic submission website. All submissions must include the <strong>entire manuscript pdf file without authors name(s) and affiliation</strong> attached with the <strong>entire manuscript doc file without authors name(s) and affiliation</strong>. All contributions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a <strong>blind review</strong> process.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For further instructions on paper submission please refer to the Symposium page of http://www.iranopen2009.ir<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For further information please contact symposium@iranopen2009.ir</span></p></span></div></div></div><br>
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