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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>RoboCup International Symposium 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Eindhoven, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>July 1st, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.robocup2013.org/">http://www.robocup2013.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>OVERVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The 17th annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup 2013 (June 24-30). The Symposium represents the core meeting for presentation and discussion of scientific contributions to a variety of research areas related to all RoboCup divisions (RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home, RoboCup@Work and RoboCupJunior). Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and educational activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the symposium offers a unique venue for exploring various and intimate connections of theory and practice across a wide spectrum of research fields. The experimental, interactive, and benchmark character of the RoboCup initiative presents the opportunity to disseminate novel ideas and promising technologies, which are rapidly adopted and field-tested by a large (and still growing) community.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We solicit submissions of papers reporting on high-quality, original research with relevance to the areas mentioned below. All researchers working in these areas, even if not actively participating in RoboCup teams, are urged to submit their work. Both papers describing real-world research and papers reporting theoretical results, as well as combinations thereof, are welcome. We also encourage the submission of high-quality overview articles for any field related to the general scope of RoboCup.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium are published and archived within the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Submitted papers are limited to 12 pages formatted according to the LNAI requirements (<a href="http://www.springer.com/series/1244">http://www.springer.com/series/1244</a>) and must be electronically submitted through the symposium web site:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2013">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2013</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All contributions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a blind review process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NEW TRACK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To encourage open-source releases of hard- and software components, a special track on open-source developments will be included in the 2013 RoboCup International Symposium. Contributions to this track are limited to eight pages, formatted according to LNAI requirements. They should include evidence of impact of the released component to the RoboCup community. Review of these contributions will be based on technical contribution and benefit for the RoboCup community.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Submission of full papers: March 1, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Notification to authors: April 14, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Submission of camera-ready copies: April 29, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* RoboCup 2013 Symposium: July 1st, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Sven Behnke, University of Bonn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=NL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Arnoud Visser, Universiteit van Amsterdam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=NL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Rong Xiong, Zhejiang University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=NL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=NL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>AREAS OF INTEREST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Robot Hardware and Software<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- mobile and humanoid robots<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- sensors and actuators<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- embedded and mobile devices<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- robot construction and new materials<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- robotic system integration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- robot software architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- robot programming environments and languages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- real-time and concurrent programming<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- robot simulators<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Perception and Action<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- distributed sensor integration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- sensor noise filtering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- real-time image processing and pattern recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- motion and sensor models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- sensory-motor control<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- robot kinematics and dynamics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- high-dimensional motion control<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Robotic Cognition and Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- world modeling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- localization, navigation, and mapping<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- planning and reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- decision making under uncertainty<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- reinforcement learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- complex motor skill acquisition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- motion and sensor model learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Multi-Robot Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- team coordination methods<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- communication protocols<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- learning and adaptive systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- teamwork and heterogeneous agents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- dynamic resource allocation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- adjustable autonomy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Human-Robot Interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- human-robot interfaces<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- speech synthesis and natural language generation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- emotion recognition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- human's intent cognition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- affect detection and synthesis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- robot response to external disturbances<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- safety and dependability<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Education and Edutainment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Robotics and Artificial Intelligence education<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- educational robotics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- robot kits and programming tools<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- robotic entertainment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- disaster rescue information systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- search and rescue robots<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- robotic surveillance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- service and social robots<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>- robots at home<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Regards on behalf of the symposium co-chairs Manuala Veloso, Rong Xiong, Sven Behnke and Arnoud Visser Email:robocupsymposium2013@easychair.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>