From faraji.farshid at gmail.com Tue Jan 1 14:37:46 2013 From: faraji.farshid at gmail.com (Farshid Faraji) Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 23:07:46 +0330 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 2nd CFP: RoboCup 2013 Rescue Agent Simulation League Message-ID: *2nd Call for Participation* *RoboCup 201**3** Rescue Simulation League* *Agent, Infrastructure and* *Multi-Agent Challenge Competitions* *June **24**-30, 2013 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)* www.robocup2013.org** The RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation league is inviting interested teams to apply for participation at the RoboCup 2013 competition in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The Rescue Simulation league will be held in three classes: Agent, Infrastructure and Multi-Agent Challenge. If you are interested in participating, please pre-register your team. *1) Agent Competition* ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Agent competition involves scoring competing agent coordination algorithms on different maps of the RoboCup Rescue simulation platform. The challenge in this case involves developing coordination algorithms that will enable teams of Ambulances, Police Forces, and Fire Brigades to save as many civilians as possible and extinguish fires in a city where an earthquake has just happened. Teams have to individually achieve a score on chosen maps which represent different situations (e.g., civilians and fires, major fire in one corner of a city, blocked roads to refuges, damaged platoon agents, fire maps, civilian maps where only fires need to be extinguished or civilians need be saved respectively) and this will determine how they compare with other teams. The teams with the highest scores in all the maps are then selected to move up the various rounds of the tournament, which is composed of two preliminaries round, one semi-final round and one final round. *2) Infrastructure Competition* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Infrastructure competition involves evaluating tools and simulators for simulating disaster management problems in general. Here, the intent is to build up realistic simulators and tools that could be used to enhance the basic RoboCup Rescue simulator and expand upon it. The best tools and simulators will be evaluated by a panel and a winner chosen accordingly. The best tools will be selected for further integration with the simulation platform. This year, teams and participants should focus in the following scopes: 1. A contribution to increase the future number of participants; 2. An integration of Agent and Virtual Robot competitions; 3. Improvements for server?s stability; 4. Improvements for sub simulators. *DUTY OF RELEASE* In the Team Description Paper (TDP), the team must describe a schedule for release of their result. If the winner releases their result, the prize will be sent to them. If the team doesn't release it, we cancel the prize of infrastructure winner. *3) Multi-Agent Challenge* ---------------------------------------------------------- RoboCup Rescue 2013 Multi-Agent Challenge http://kaspar.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~rslb Entries are welcome for the 2013 RoboCup Rescue Agent challenge to be held in conjunction with the RoboCup 2013. Participation in the challenge will consist of demonstrating efficient algorithms for coordinating large teams of agents solving one or more of the pre-defined challenge tasks in the Rescue Agent simulation environment. The goal of the challenge is to provide scenarios relevant to large-scale urban search and rescue (USAR) and disaster mitigation. These will include performance metrics to assess technologies in the areas of distributed and centralized multi-agent task allocation, team formation, and path planning. The challenge comes with an open source policy designed to encourage collaboration and the dissemination of ideas and algorithms. *CHALLENGE FORMAT** *The competition will include several tasks run within various scenarios. Teams are encouraged to participate in as many tasks as possible. Each task will be designed by a simple interface that does not require implementing the full agent solution as needed for the main competition. This interface could be, for example, a simple function call for assigning agents to targets given utilities computed beforehand. Winners in each of the individual task as well as an overall winner will be announced. The overall winner receives an official RoboCup Rescue challenge award. Teams have to hand-in beforehand their Team Description Paper (TDP) that should explain the team's methods for addressing the announced tasks. *CHALLENGE TASKS** *Envisioned tasks are, for example, the distributed and centralized assignment of agents to targets. These targets could be either fires to extinguish or buried civilians to rescue. The challenge in this task is to distribute agents among the targets in that to minimize the overall damage, i.e., either reducing the number of burning buildings or increasing the number of rescued civilians. Another task will be the efficient planning of multi-agent routes given the problem of unknown blockage of roads, also known as the Canadian Traveler Problem. More details can be found on the web page at http://kaspar.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~rslb * 4) Pre-registration* ----------------------------------------------------- For the pre-registration you need to send an email to faraji.farshid at gmail.com with the subject *'**2013 Pre-registration TEAM_NAME'*. The E-Mail should contain the following information: 1. Team name: 2. Team leader: 3. Email address: 4. Institution: 5. City and country: 6. Estimated size of team: 7. Competition you want to enter: [ ] Agent competition [ ] Multi-agent challenge (See call for participation below) [ ] Infrastructure competition The pre-registration *deadline is **January 15th*, no qualification materials are required at this stage. A list of pre-registered teams will be published regularly at http://www.roborescue.sf.net *5) Qualification* -------------------------------------------------------------- For qualification, each team is required to submit a team description paper (TDP) for each competition entry. Information about the submission procedure will be sent to the pre-registered teams and to the mailing list at a later stage. Qualification deadline is February 10th. *6) Rule and Package* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- We will announce final rule and package by qualification deadline. *7) RoboCup Rescue: Communication Library* ------------------------------------------------------------------- This library is a "Communication Library". By using this library teams can share a part of their source code, easily. This library provides the communication protocol between agents and center. We recommend teams to use this library: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/rcrscs/releases/ *8) Important Dates *----------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Pre-Registration Deadline: January 15th, 2013 Deadline for qualification materials: February 10th, 2013 Team Qualification Notification: February 28th, 2013 Best Regards, Farshid Faraji On Behalf of Organizing Committee RoboCup 2013 Rescue Agent Simulation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jcalado at dem.isel.ipl.pt Mon Jan 7 10:49:30 2013 From: jcalado at dem.isel.ipl.pt (=?UTF-8?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_Calado?=) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:49:30 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Fwd: Reenc. CfP: Robotica 2013 - 13th Int Conf on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions Message-ID: <29b4a4d4580ae81d71ccb649c7ace7b1@dem.isel.ipl.pt> *** Apologies for cross-posting *** ========================= *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ========================= Robotica 2013 - 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions http://www.dem.isel.pt/robotica2013/ April 24-25, 2013 Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Sponsored by: - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society - Portuguese Robotics Society The 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions is an international scientific meeting in the field of autonomous robotics and related areas, which will take place in conjunction with the 13th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup Local Event. The conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 24-25, 2013. Lisbon is the capital of Portugal, one of the oldest cities in the world with a pleasant subtropical-Mediterranean climate. The conference has been growing continuously for the past decade and is nowadays a truly international forum attracting quality research papers from worldwide. Its technical program is the result of a thorough review process. Due to its growing prestige and impact, the conference proceedings will be indexed in IEEExplore and the conference has also already confirmed for this 13th edition a **Special Issue of selected extended papers in the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems** from Springer, indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge (IF=0.83). == Important Dates == Submission of full-length papers: ** Feb. 1, 2013 ** Notification of acceptance: Mar. 7, 2013 Camera-ready papers: Mar. 15, 2013 Early registration deadline: Mar. 22, 2013 Conference: Apr. 24, 2013 All dead-lines are 23:59 GMT. == Topics == Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots; Artificial Intelligence; Autonomous Robotic Systems; Computer Vision and Image Processing; Control Architectures and Programming; Cooperative Perception; Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation; Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping; Educational Robotics; Entertainment Robots; Evolutionary Robotics; Humanoid Robotics; Human-Robot Interaction; Localization, Mapping, and Navigation; Locomotion and Actuation Systems; Multi-Robot Coordination; Multi-Robot Systems; Planning, Reasoning and Modeling; Recognition and Tracking; Robot Learning; Robotic Competitions; Robotic Simulation; Sensors and Sensor Integration; Swarm Robotics; Underwater Robotics. == Submission Guidelines == Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=robotica2013 ). Six pages in the standard IEEE format are allowed for each paper, including figures. Papers must be written in English following the standard IEEE guidelines (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). Welcome and look forward to seeing you in Robotica 2013! Kind Regards, Jo?o Calado, ISEL, Portugal Luis Paulo Reis, University of Minho, Portugal Rui P. Rocha, University of Coimbra, Portugal (Co-Chairs of the 13th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CARTAZ-Organizing Committee-1[1].pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 376874 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ansgar.bredenfeld at dr-bredenfeld.de Mon Jan 7 12:27:15 2013 From: ansgar.bredenfeld at dr-bredenfeld.de (Ansgar Bredenfeld) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:27:15 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoboCup German Open 2013: Call for Participation (Reminder DL 15.1.) Message-ID: <50EB0573.10608@dr-bredenfeld.de> RoboCup German Open 2013 Call for Participation http://www.robocupgermanopen.de 26 ? 28 April 2013 MESSE MAGDEBURG, Germany The RoboCup German Open 2013 will be the 12th open RoboCup competition held in Germany. The event will take place in Magdeburg at MESSE MAGDEBURG. -- RoboCup Major Leagues (International teams) ---------------------- Competitions are offered in the following leagues: - RoboCupSoccer Standard Platform League - RoboCupSoccer Humanoid League (Kid-Size) - RoboCupSoccer Small-Size League - RoboCupSoccer Simulation 3D League - RoboCupRescue Robot League - RoboCup at Home League - Logistics League (sponsored by Festo) - RoboCup at Work (Demonstration) The registration deadline is *** 15 January 2013 ***. Visit http://www.robocupgermanopen.de to register your RoboCup Major League team. Details on the registration (fee, accommodation, rules) are available on the web site. Booking of blocked accommodation with special rates is possible after your registration. The Major Leagues Organising Committee: - Thomas R?fer (Standard Platform League) - Sven Behnke (Humanoid League) - Michael Bleier (Small Size League) - Klaus Dorer, Simon Raffeiner (Soccer Simulation 3D League) - Johannes Pellenz, Adam Jacoff (Rescue Robot League) - Paul Pl?ger (RoboCup at Home League) - Ulrich Karras (Logistics League) - Nico Hochgeschwender (RoboCup at Work Demo) -- RoboCup Junior (German teams only) ------------------------------- The German RoboCup Junior qualification for RoboCup 2013 is done in two steps. German teams qualify in four local tournaments in Berlin, Hannover, Sankt Augustin and V?hringen for the 13th German RoboCup Junior Championship which is held within the RoboCup German Open. The best Junior teams will qualify for RoboCup 2013 in Eindhoven. -- Important dates ------------------------------------------------- 15.01.2013 Registration deadline RoboCup Major 28.02.2013 Major League team member names due 15.03.2013 Registration fee due 24.04.2013 Set-Up day Major League teams 25.04.2013 Set-Up day Major League teams 26.04.2013 RoboCup German Open (open to public) 27.04.2013 RoboCup German Open (open to public) 28.04.2013 RoboCup German Open (open to public) Please contact info at robocupgermanopen.de for any questions. See you all again at the 12th RoboCup German Open 2013! Best regards, Ansgar Bredenfeld (Chair RoboCup German Open) RoboCup German Open is organized on behalf of the German RoboCup Committee by Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg and Dr. Bredenfeld UG. Co-operation partners of the technology event are the University of Magdeburg (ovgu.de) and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (mdr.de). From assadn at yahoo.com Wed Jan 9 02:57:26 2013 From: assadn at yahoo.com (Asad Norouzi) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 23:57:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 2nd Call For Participation: RoboCup IranOpen 2013 Message-ID: <1357718246.17591.YahooMailNeo@web122001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ******************************* Apologies for duplicate messages **************************** ########################### Call For Participation ########################## ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ? The 8th RoboCup IranOpen Competitions ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ????? ??? ??? ? ??03- 7 April 2013 ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ????? ??? ??? ??? ? Tehran, Iran ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ????? ??? ??? http://2013.iranopen.ir ##########################? RoboCup IranOpen 2013 ######################## The 8th RoboCup IranOpen competitions will be held in Tehran on April 3-7, 2013. Having had the experience of 7 years successful organization of these competitions, we look forward to an even more glorious event with more teams competing in this major robotics event from all over the world. Last year we, gladly, had 330 teams from China, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Mexico, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Portugal, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States. ? RoboCup IranOpen is an attempt to further promote AI and Robotics research. These competitions will provide a chance for all researchers to present and share their experiences and achievements. The RoboCup IranOpen 2013 competitions leagues are as follows: - Humanoid - Middle Size - Small Size - Standard Platform - Soccer 3D Simulation - Soccer 2D Simulation - Rescue Robot - Rescue Simulation - RoboCup at Home - Junior Soccer A Open Weight - Junior Soccer B Open Weight - Junior Soccer B Light Weight - Junior Rescue A Primary - Junior Rescue A Secondary - Junior Rescue B - Junior CoSpace Rescue The RoboCup IranOpen 2013 competitions extra leagues which are not among the official RoboCup leagues: - Deminer Autonomous - Deminer Manual - Deminer Technical Challenge - Senior Demo - Junior Demo Primary - Junior Demo Secondary - IranOpenROV (Radio Operated Vehicles - underwater robots) - IranOpenUAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) Participation: All teams are required to pre-register through the online form available in the website. The pre-registered teams should then submit the relevant qualification materials. Last year 367 teams were qualified from 1000 pre-registered teams. Important dates: Pre-Registration: November 06, 2012 - February 03, 2013 Submission of qualification materials: December 05, 2012 - February 03, 2013 Qualification: February 03 - 28, 2013 Registration: February 03 - March 18, 2013 Teams Setup: April 03 - 04, 2013 Competitions: April 05 - 07, 2013 For further information please visit our official website at http://2013.iranopen.ir For enquiries please contact us via the hereunder email addresses: General Enquiries: info at iranopen.ir Registration: registration at iranopen.ir Visa & International Affairs: visa at iranopen.ir Travel Support: asadollah_norouzi at sp.edu.sg Regards On behalf of, Iranian RoboCup National Committee RoboCup IranOpen 2013 Organizing Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baj at mail.ustc.edu.cn Mon Jan 14 22:31:25 2013 From: baj at mail.ustc.edu.cn (=?UTF-8?B?5p+P54ix5L+K?=) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:31:25 +0800 (CST) Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 2nd Call for Participation in RoboCup 2013 Soccer Simulation 2D Competition In-Reply-To: <1491605.2489741356055879422.JavaMail.coremail@mailweb> References: <1491605.2489741356055879422.JavaMail.coremail@mailweb> Message-ID: <15128264.4481011358220685551.JavaMail.coremail@mailweb> ==============Apologies for duplicate messages =============== Call for Participation Soccer Simulation League - 2D Simulation Competition, RoboCup 2013 June 24-30, 2013 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) http://www.robocup2013.org/ Introduction ------------ The RoboCup 2D Simulated Soccer League is the oldest of the RoboCup Soccer Simulation Leagues. It is based on the RoboCup Soccer Simulator that enables two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robots plus an autonomous coach agent to play a game of soccer with very realistic rules and game play. Due to its stability the RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a very good research and educational tool for multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning. We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2013 Soccer Simulation League, 2D competition, which will take place Jun 24-30, 2013, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. To pre-register all teams have to provide a Team Description Paper and in case they are based on another team under a license they have to publish the agent source code. The teams will also have to provide a binary file and annotated logfiles showing the team game play quality. Schedule -------- Team Pre-Registration Deadline: January 31, 2013 - 23:59 UTC Materials Submission Deadline: February 15, 2013 - 23:59 UTC Qualification Notification: March 1, 2013 - 23:59 UTC QualificationMarch 1, 2013 - 23:59 UTC -------------- In RoboCup 2013 up to 24 teams will be allowed to participate in the 2D Simulation competitions. Qualification is based on the quality of the TDP, the team's current performance based annotated logfiles sent. Previous achievements in RoboCup and scientific contributions to the RoboCup community in past years are also relevant for qualification. There are several general rules on which the qualification processes as well as the tournaments are based: 1. One-Fourth-Rule: Only one fourth of the participating teams may be from the same country. With 24 places in RoboCup 2013 only 6 teams per country are allowed. If a team is situated in more than one country, the bound location counts. Teams infringing this rule will be ignored in the ordered list of qualified teams. False statement results in penalty. See Appendix A.1 for further explanations. 2. One-Team-Per-Research-Institution: Each university or research institute may only qualify one team. If a team is affiliated with more than one institution, the unbound affiliation counts. Teams infringing this rule will be ignored in the ordered list of qualified teams. False statement results in penalty. 3. Plagiarism-Penalty: If a team commits plagiarism, the team and its members will be banned from participation for this and next year's RoboCup. The term plagiarism comprises any use of external knowledge without proper referencing, i.e. copying or using the thoughts, ideas, texts or language in general and presenting them as their own. This applies for Team Description Papers as well as logfiles, team code and binaries. All kinds of licenses and copyright have to be respected. This applies for the qualification process as well as the RoboCup tournaments. Please be aware that when a team is found guilty of committing plagiarism it is disqualified and banned at any time. This may also be in the middle of the tournament. 4. No-Show-Penalty: If a team qualifies for RoboCup 2013, but is not able to participate, it has to cancel its participation before the deadline in order to give the next-ranked team the chance to take its place. If there are reasons for delays in registration the team has to let OC know so that a reaction in time is possible. If a team fails to observe this rule ('no-show'), the team and its members will be banned for next RoboCup competitions. 5. Academic-Fairness-Rule: If any team breaches general academic fairness in any other way, it has to face penalties as well. 6. Automatic-Qualification-Rules: The top three teams from last RoboCup (i.e. Helios, WrightEagle and Marlik), and the OC (i.e. Aijun Bai, Jo?o Alberto Fabro and Karl Tuyls) team(s) (if any) are automatically qualified (after pre-registering their teams and submitting appropriate materials). The remaining teams will be selected through the qualification process. Pre-Registration ---------------- All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the deadline (31 January 2013). To pre-register, send an E-Mail to aijunbai at gmail.com with the subject '2013 Pre-registration TeamName'. The E-Mail should contain the following information: 1. Team-Name: 2. Country: 3. Affiliation: 4. Team-Leader: 5. Team Members: 6. Contact E-Mail: 7. Base-Team: 8. Dependencies: You should receive a confirmation e-mail for your pre-registration. Affiliation is the team's organization, institute or university. Dependencies should include all dependencies of your team binaries from the standard repositories (we will set these up before hands, so every team binary should be executable at the tournament). Under Base-Team each team using another team as base for their agents, has to specify this team. Please note that you have to provide correct and full information and giving false or incomplete statement will be penalized with banning of the team and its members. Please be aware that with respect to gentlemanly play, we will NOT allow any team name changes from the pre-registration to the competition in RoboCup 2013. If a team has based its agent on external code or libraries published under certain licenses or copyright, it has to observe the according rules. In most cases this will be the GNU General Public License, i.e. a proper disclaimer has to be included in Team Description Paper and source code and the source code has to be submitted as well. After official RoboCup competitions the binaries will be published, i.e. the rules of the corresponding license have to be respected as well. For GPL this also implies publishing the code. Qualification Materials ----------------------- All teams who wish to qualify need to send their qualification materials by the deadline (15 February 2013). To send the qualification materials, send an E-Mail to aijunbai at gmail.com with the subject '2013 Qualification Materials TeamName'. The E-Mail should contain the following information and files: 1. Team-Name: 2. Country: 3. Affiliation: 4. Team-Leader: 5. Team Members: 6. Contact E-Mail: 7. Base-Team: 8. Dependencies: Attachment Files: 9. Team Description Paper ('TDP_TeamName.pdf') 10. Team Binary (and also source code depending on the base code license) 11. Logfiles (compressed in a single file ('Logfiles_TeamName.tar.gz') 12. Appendix ('Appendix_TeamName.pdf') In order to participate in qualification, a team has to send as attachments a Team Description paper, the team current binary as well as logfiles showing the team's game play quality and a separate appendix to the TDP describing the logfiles. The deadline for submission is February 15th, 2013. Team Description Paper ---------------------- Each team has to submit a team description paper (in English) describing the focus and ideas as well as recent advancements implemented in the team. This paper must have a length of 4 to 6 pages in Springer LNCS style and has to be submitted as PDF (to be named 'TDP_TeamName.pdf'). Please note: A team can only be qualified if the quality of its TDP is appropriate! The Team Description Paper (TDP) should comprise, among other things: the scientific focus of the team; team's current efforts; progress since last TDP/competition; team base code and description how the team is different from the base code; originality of the team's approach; results (team results or ideally results achieved using the team's main scientific contribution(s)); related work (at least 5 and ideally more than 10 references comparing the work with related work developed by other teams). Please be aware that the TDP has to describe the team's very own scientific efforts and explicitly illustrate whether a team has used external knowledge (ideas, code, agent base or the like) to build upon. If a team did use knowledge not evolved by this team, the own achievements have to be outlined in contrast to this. This also applies if one or more team members have switched from another team or a new team is created on the base of another even though the involved persons have not changed. If external knowledge is used but not referenced, explained and differentiated from in the TDP, the team and its members will be penalized with banning for this and next year's RoboCup. Team Binary/Source Code ----------------------- Teams should send an attachment with a working binary. Depending on the base code license teams should also provide the team's complete source code. Team binary or source code should be compressed in a single file named ('Binary_TeamName.tar.gz' or 'Source_TeamName.tar.gz'). Logfiles and Appendix --------------------- In order to assess the team's performance and evaluate its scientific efforts in the context of game play, teams have to submit 8 logfiles against one or more teams of last year's RoboCup (http://www.socsim.robocup.org/files/2D/binary/RoboCup2012/) and 2 logfiles against the latest agent2d (http://sourceforge.jp/projects/rctools/downloads/55186/agent2d-3.1.1.tar.gz/ or later). Logfiles comprise both rcg and rcl in version 5 (server::game_log_version = 5) generated with compression (server::game_log_compression = 1 and server::text_log_compression = 1) on using the most recent version of the Soccer Server. These logfiles have to prove that the team is competitive enough to participate and demonstrate the team's characteristics. It is expected that specific scenes from these logfiles are referenced from within a separate appendix (to be named 'Appendix_TeamName.pdf', consisting of entries in the following form: ; additional graphics are allowed) accompanying the TDP, linking research with implementation and game play. Due to the size of logfiles, it is recommended to store your files online and send only the link(s). Qualification Results ----------------------- The TDPs and logfiles of all teams will be peer reviewed by experts in 2D RoboCup Simulation League nominated by the OC. The reviewers will evaluate the qualification materials and rank the teams. The ranks will be averaged into a global ranking and the top teams on that ranking will be qualified for the RoboCup 2D simulation competition. Qualification results will be announced on March 1th 2013. Please notice that the submitted materials of all qualified teams will be made publicly available during the announcement of qualification results. Appendix -------- A.1 Explanations to General Rule 1 "If a team is situated in more than one country, the bound location counts." General rule 1 defines an upper bound of 6 teams from the same country. If 6 qualified teams already originate from country A and there is a team XY originating from country A as well as country B, team XY is not allowed to participate in RoboCup despite the fact that the quota for country B may not be reached. A.2 Explanations to General Rule 2 "If a team is affiliated with more than one institution, the unbound affiliation counts." General rule 2 defines that only one team per institute may participate in RoboCup. However, if a team XY is affiliated with institution A as well as institution B and there is already a team affiliated with A, the team XY may participate. ?? Best Regards, Aijun Bai On Behalf of Organizing Committees 2D Competition, Soccer Simulation League RoboCup 2013 - Eindhoven -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jla at ua.pt Tue Jan 15 05:06:30 2013 From: jla at ua.pt (Jose Luis Azevedo) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:06:30 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2013: Middle-Size League - Call for Participation (Reminder - DL: 28/1) Message-ID: *********************************************************************************** Call for Participation RoboCup 2013 Middle Size League June 24-30, 2013 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) http://www.robocup2013.org/ *********************************************************************************** We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2013 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2013 MSL competitions. 1) Pre-registration -------------------------- For the pre-registration please send a mail to rc-msl-oc at lists.robocup.org containing the following data: - team name - URL of the team?s home page - name of team leader - e-mail address of team or team leader - affiliation - country - link to qualification material 2) Qualification material ---------------------------------- Besides the pre-registration please prepare the following qualification material: - list of five RoboCup related scientific publications - overview of the performance in past events - a Team Description Paper describing the most innovative contributions or scientific results (The TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) - a qualification video (the maximum duration of the video is 1 minute) - an overview of the contributions to the MSL community - a mechanical and electrical description together with a software flow chart (please include size and weight of the robots) The details regarding the qualification material are contained in the rules and regulations document. Please read it thoroughly. The qualification material should be placed on a dedicated web page on the team's home page. Please include the link to the qualification material on the pre-registration information. 3) Deadline ---------------- - Deadline for submission: *** January 28, 2013 *** - Announcement of qualified teams: *** February 18, 2013 *** 4) Rules ------------ The rules and regulations for the RoboCup 2013 Middle Size League will be published at http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League The updated rules and regulations will be released by December 31, 2012,at the latest. 5) Publication -------------------- Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the qualification material of the qualified teams will be made publicly available. Teams applying for participation therefore grant the right of publication of their qualification material to the MSL league. 6) Plagiarism -------------------- Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code and ideas (see ?http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/plagiarism_FAQ.html? for a more detailed description) is not tolerated in the RoboCup community. The teams and team members that plagiarize other peoples' work and present it as their own will be disqualified. For a first offense, the team and team members will be banned from RoboCup competition for two years (usually the current and next year). Harsher penalties will be applied to repeat offenders or extremely serious cases of plagiarism. A team may be disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even after the competition has started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any expenses related to their disqualification. We hope to welcome you all in Eindhoven. With kind regards, The 2013 RoboCup MSL Organizing and Technical committees. -- ******************************************************************** Jose Luis Azevedo University of Aveiro Dep. of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal Tlf. +351.234 370500 / Fax. +351.234 370545 (jla at ua.pt) ******************************************************************** From A.Visser at uva.nl Tue Jan 15 09:32:21 2013 From: A.Visser at uva.nl (Visser, A.) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:32:21 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 2nd Call for Papers: RoboCup Symposium 2013 Message-ID: <0963669047ECDE4B9EF137DF26A5E2501321115C@MBX04.uva.nl> ******************************************************************** Call for Papers RoboCup International Symposium 2013 Eindhoven, The Netherlands July 1st, 2012 http://www.robocup2013.org/ ******************************************************************** OVERVIEW 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 at Home, RoboCup at Work and RoboCupJunior). Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and educational activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. 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. SUBMISSION 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. 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 (http://www.springer.com/series/1244) and must be electronically submitted through the symposium web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2013 All contributions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a blind review process. NEW TRACK 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. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full papers: March 1, 2013 * Notification to authors: April 14, 2013 * Submission of camera-ready copies: April 29, 2013 * RoboCup 2013 Symposium: July 1st, 2013 SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS * Sven Behnke, University of Bonn * Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University * Arnoud Visser, Universiteit van Amsterdam * Rong Xiong, Zhejiang University AREAS OF INTEREST * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile and humanoid robots - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robotic system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators * Perception and Action - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robotic Cognition and Learning - world modeling - localization, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - reinforcement learning - complex motor skill acquisition - motion and sensor model learning * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Human-Robot Interaction - human-robot interfaces - speech synthesis and natural language generation - visualization - emotion recognition - human's intent cognition - affect detection and synthesis - robot response to external disturbances - safety and dependability * Education and Edutainment - Robotics and Artificial Intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications - disaster rescue information systems - search and rescue robots - robotic surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home Regards on behalf of the symposium co-chairs Manuala Veloso, Rong Xiong, Sven Behnke and Arnoud Visser Email: robocupsymposium2013 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alex.farinelli at gmail.com Tue Jan 15 11:42:24 2013 From: alex.farinelli at gmail.com (Alessandro Farinelli) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:42:24 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 2nd CFP Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OPTMAS) @ AAMAS 2013 Message-ID: ========================================================================== CFP: Sixth International Workshop on Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OPTMAS VI) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ To be held in conjunction with the Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2013) ========================================================================== Workshop Website --------------------------- optmas2013.org Call ------ This workshop invites works from different strands of the multi-agent systems community that pertain to the design of algorithms, models, and techniques to deal with multi-agent optimisation problems. In so doing, this workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers to discuss common issues that arise in solving optimisation problems in different areas and elaborate common benchmarks to test their solutions. Important dates ----------------------- * February, 9, 2013 - Submission of contributions to workshops (deadline extended) * February 27, 2013 - Workshop paper acceptance notification * March 8, 2013 - Submission of camera-ready version * May 6 or 7, 2013 - Workshop takes place in conjunction with AAMAS 2013. Invited Talk ------------------------ Invited speech given by Prof. Kagan Tumer (http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~ktumer/) Background ----------------- The number of novel applications of multi-agent systems has followed an exponential trend over the last few years, ranging from online auction design, through in multi-sensor networks, to scheduling of tasks in multi-actor systems. Multi-agent systems designed for all these applications generally require some form of optimization in order to achieve their goal. Given this, a number of advancements have been made in the design of winner determination, coalition formation, and distributed constraints optimization algorithms among others. However, there are no general principles guiding the design of such algorithms that would enable researchers to either exploit algorithms designed in other areas or to ensure that their algorithms conform to some level of applicability to real problems. This workshop aims to address the above issues by bringing together researchers from different parts of the Multi-Agent Systems research area to present their work and discuss acceptable solutions, benchmarks, and evaluation methods for generally researched optimization problems. In particular, the main issues to be addressed by the workshop include (but are not limited to): - Techniques to model and solve optimisation problems in which the actors are partly or completely distributed and can only communicate with their peers. - Algorithms to compute solutions to mechanisms that deal with different stakeholders who may be self interested or may have different computation/communication capabilities from their peers. - Techniques to manage and disseminate relevant information across different agents. - Dealing with privacy concerns: solving complex optimization problems while leaking as little private information as possible - Problems that require anytime algorithms. - Algorithms that need to provide guarantees on the quality of the solution. - Mechanisms whose properties can be significantly affected if the solution computed is not the optimal one. - Techniques to deal with optimizations that have to be repeated with possibly only slight changes in the input data. - Techniques to deal with situations where the input data may be uncertain or unreliable, requiring that the solution computed be robust to slight differences from the true values. - Techniques to deal with agents that are tied to physical devices. This involves computation and communication constraints that need to be considered in the coordination techniques, as well as the possibility of failures of the devices and communication links. - Benchmarks for optimisation algorithms in dynamic environments. Keywords -------------- Topics include but are not limited to: * Distributed Constraints Optimisation/Satisfaction * Winner Determination Algorithms in Auctions * Coalition Formation Algorithms * Algorithms to compute Nash Equilibrium in games * Optimisation under uncertainty * Optimisation with incomplete or dynamic input data * Algorithms for real-time applications Submission ----------------- Submissions should conform to the LNCS Springer format, Authors are encouraged to use the following style file ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip or see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 for more details. Submission should not be more than *16* pages long (excluding appendices and assuming the LNCS format above). Authors can submit their papers through the OPTMAS 2013 Easychair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=optmas2013 Reviewing process --------------------------- Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for selection of papers will include: originality, readability, relevance to themes, soundness, and overall quality. Publication ----------------- Best papers from OPTMAS 2008 and OPTMAS 2009 were selected for publication in the special issue on Optimisation in Multi-Agent System of the Journal of Autonomous and Multiagent Systems. We have negotiated a special issue on Optimisation in Multi-Agent System with the Computer Journal, and we are now selecting best papers from OPTMAS 2010, OPTMAS 2011 and OPTMAS 2012. We plan to continue this initiative for the following editions of OPTMAS. Organizing committee -------------------------------- Dr. Jes?s Cerquides Bueno, IIIA - CSIC, Spain Dr. Alessandro Farinelli, University of Verona, Italy Dr. Sarvapali D. Ramchurn University of Southampton, UK Dr. Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar,IIIA - CSIC, Spain Dr. Meritxell Vinyals, University of Southampton, UK Dr. Archie Chapman, University of Sydney, Austrlia Programme Committee -------------------------------------------------------------- Roie Zivan Ben Gurion University of the Negev Sam Miller University of Southampton Long Tran-Thanh University of Southampton Kate Larson University of Waterloo Maria Polukarov University of Southampton Toni Penya-Alba IIIA-CSIC Bo An Chinese Academy of Sciences Pradeep Varakantham Singapore Management University Greet Vanden Berghe KaHo Sint-Lieven Akshat Kumar UMass Amherst Chongjie Zhang University of Massachusetts Amherst Francesco Delle Fave University of Southern California Robert N. Lass Drexel University William Yeoh New Mexico State University Sven Koenig University of Southern California Sameer Singh University of Massachusetts, Amherst Onn Shehory IBM Haifa Research Lab Emma Rollon Department of Software, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University Patricia Gutierrez IIIA CSIC Katsutoshi Hirayama Kobe University Ana L. C. Bazzan Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Hala Mostafa BBN Technologies Paul Scerri Carnegie Mellon University Yoonheui Kim University of Mass. at Amherst Georgios Chalkiadakis Technical University of Crete Marc Pujol-Gonzalez IIIA-CSIC -- Dr. Alessandro Farinelli Computer Science Department University of Verona Ca' Vignal 2, Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona, Italy Phone: +39 045 802 7072 Fax: +39 045 802 7068 E-mail: alessandro.farinelli at univr.it Web Page http://profs.sci.univr.it/~farinelli/ From gstein at ist.tugraz.at Wed Jan 16 04:10:04 2013 From: gstein at ist.tugraz.at (Gerald Steinbauer) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:10:04 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] CFP - IEEE AFRICON 2013 - Special Session on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa Message-ID: <50F66E6C.3010400@ist.tugraz.at> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Papers for the IEEE AFRICON 2013 Special Session on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information =================== IEEE AFRICON is the premier biennial event of the IEEE in Africa. This flagship conference provides a platform for academics and industry professionals to share ideas and present their latest research. Co-sponsored by the IEEE Region 8 and the IEEE South Africa Section, Africon 2013 will be hosted in the wonderful island of Mauritius from 9 ? 12 September 2013. We are happy to announce the Special Track on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa (RAIA). Robotics and Artificial Intelligence research in the African context has not yet reached its full potential. Since the last edition of this special track at 2011 AFRICON, the African researchers in the field of AI and robotics are much better connected, for instance, through initiatives such as the AFRON network. With this special track, we intend to bring together the African Robotics and AI community and discuss the various aspects of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in the African context. Both cutting-edge fields may become drivers for Africa industry and have a great potential for education and the development of human resources. With this special session, besides sharing actual research results, we are interested in building a vibrant and sustainable research community by connecting people who are active in both fields. Further, the focus of this special session is on Robotics and AI in education. We are interested in robotics and AI initiatives in Africa and want to invite interested researcher from Africa and all over the world to contribute to this aspect. In particular, we intend to address the following: * Current research results from African researchers in the fields. * Robotics and AI in education that could make an impact for Africa. * Robotics competitions relevant in the African context (e.g. RoboCup Junior or IEEE Robocomp). * The role of open source in development of Robotics and AI in Africa. * The role of Robotics and AI for the economic development in the context of 21st century production and manufacturing in Africa (automation, mining industries, etc.) * Successful robotics and AI co-operation projects between African institutions and institutions in the rest of the world Important Dates =============== * Paper submission: February 28, 2013 * Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2013 * Camera-ready copy due: June 30, 2013 * Technical Session: September 9 ? 13, 2013 Submission Details ================== Prospective authors are invited to electronically submit full papers of their work in English (6 pages, ~4500 words, in pdf format), following the instructions available on the web site. Accepted papers will be published in an IEEE proceedings volume that will be indexed by EI and IEEE Xplore, and will be available at the time of the conference. For further information visit main conference website at: * http://africon2013.org. Further detail about the RAIA Special Track will be made available soon. Session Chairs ============== Alexander Ferrein, FH Aachen, Germany Gerald Steinbauer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Billy Okal, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany From tucker at cc.gatech.edu Fri Jan 18 09:47:07 2013 From: tucker at cc.gatech.edu (Tucker Balch) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:47:07 -0500 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] ICML 2013 contact information & poster Message-ID: <182015B5-411B-4C82-9BA7-2BE5715F0D9A@cc.gatech.edu> Dear Colleague, Help us to promote ICML 2013, and enable us to keep in touch with you. Please follow the link below and let us know your address. We'll ship you one or more beautiful ICML 2013 posters! The deadline for submitting poster requests is 01/31/2013. We'll also follow up with occasional emails to let you know about the events for ICML 2013 in Atlanta. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BLNTNKG Best regards, Tucker (local organizer) From bt.software at gmail.com Sat Jan 19 09:33:11 2013 From: bt.software at gmail.com (Behzad Tabibian) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:33:11 -0500 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 2nd Call For Participation in RoboCup 2013 Rescue Virtual Robot Competitions. Message-ID: ==============Apologies for duplicate messages =============== Dear All, Please note that the pre-registration for the RoboCup 2013 Rescue Virtual Robot competition in Eindhoven, The Netherlands is open. To pre-register your team, please follow the procedure shown below. Important dates: Team pre-registration: February 5, 2013. Symposium submission: March 1, 2013. Qualification material deadline: February 28 2013. Team qualification notification: March 5 2013. The list of teams currently pre-registered is available at: http://www.robocuprescue.org/wiki/index.php?title=2013_Preregistered Registration Procedure: The interested team must provide the following qualification material 1) Fill in the form at: http://robocup2013.btabibian.com/ 2) Submit a team description paper, The paper should be accessible through the link you provide in the form above. A team description paper should describe your rescue robot team, the algorithms applied in your control software, your research interests and a summary of previous relevant work and publications. The paper must be concise and of 8 pages maximum. The TDP must be according to the LNCS format which can be downloaded from http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 Deadline for submission: *** February 5, 2013 *** This year, we would also like to encourage the submission of short demonstration video's. In this video we like to see you demonstrate the skills of your system, for instance: - the ease of usage of your operator interface - the autonomous navigation skills of your robot - the localization and mapping quality of your system - the relay mechanisms in your communication system - the additional attribution you provide about victims and map locations The maximum duration of the video is 5 minutes. The video should be supplied as a link to it at YouTube link. New-comers We understand that not all groups are familiar with the Virtual Robot competition environment UsarSim. However, new teams can either choose to code their own algorithms from scratch or use algorithms developed on top of the provided middl-ware like Player, MOAST, or ROS. A number of teams have published their code on-line, which can be used as reference implementation. Note: It is important that new teams improve upon and acknowledge previous teams' codes. Otherwise, they will be not be qualified. 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It is based on the RoboCup Soccer Simulator that enables two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robots plus an autonomous coach agent to play a game of soccer with very realistic rules and game play. Due to its stability the RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a very good research and educational tool for multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning. We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2013 Soccer Simulation League, 2D competition, which will take place Jun 24-30, 2013, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. To pre-register all teams have to provide a Team Description Paper and in case they are based on another team under a license they have to publish the agent source code. The teams will also have to provide a binary file and annotated logfiles showing the team game play quality. Schedule -------- Team Pre-Registration Deadline: *January 31, 2013 - 23:59 UTC* Materials Submission Deadline: *February 15, 2013 - 23:59 UTC* Qualification Notification: *March 1, 2013 - 23:59 UTC* QualificationMarch 1, 2013 - 23:59 UTC -------------- In RoboCup 2013 up to 24 teams will be allowed to participate in the 2D Simulation competitions. Qualification is based on the quality of the TDP, the team's current performance based annotated logfiles sent. Previous achievements in RoboCup and scientific contributions to the RoboCup community in past years are also relevant for qualification. There are several general rules on which the qualification processes as well as the tournaments are based: 1. One-Fourth-Rule: Only one fourth of the participating teams may be from the same country. With 24 places in RoboCup 2013 only 6 teams per country are allowed. If a team is situated in more than one country, the bound location counts. Teams infringing this rule will be ignored in the ordered list of qualified teams. False statement results in penalty. See Appendix A.1 for further explanations. 2. One-Team-Per-Research-Institution: Each university or research institute may only qualify one team. If a team is affiliated with more than one institution, the unbound affiliation counts. Teams infringing this rule will be ignored in the ordered list of qualified teams. False statement results in penalty. 3. Plagiarism-Penalty: If a team commits plagiarism, the team and its members will be banned from participation for this and next year's RoboCup. The term plagiarism comprises any use of external knowledge without proper referencing, i.e. copying or using the thoughts, ideas, texts or language in general and presenting them as their own. This applies for Team Description Papers as well as logfiles, team code and binaries. All kinds of licenses and copyright have to be respected. This applies for the qualification process as well as the RoboCup tournaments. Please be aware that when a team is found guilty of committing plagiarism it is disqualified and banned at any time. This may also be in the middle of the tournament. 4. No-Show-Penalty: If a team qualifies for RoboCup 2013, but is not able to participate, it has to cancel its participation before the deadline in order to give the next-ranked team the chance to take its place. If there are reasons for delays in registration the team has to let OC know so that a reaction in time is possible. If a team fails to observe this rule ('no-show'), the team and its members will be banned for next RoboCup competitions. 5. Academic-Fairness-Rule: If any team breaches general academic fairness in any other way, it has to face penalties as well. 6. Automatic-Qualification-Rules: The top three teams from last RoboCup (i.e. Helios, WrightEagle and Marlik), and the OC (i.e. Aijun Bai, Jo?o Alberto Fabro and Karl Tuyls) team(s) (if any) are automatically qualified (after pre-registering their teams and submitting appropriate materials). The remaining teams will be selected through the qualification process. Pre-Registration ---------------- All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the deadline (31 January 2013). To pre-register, send an E-Mail to aijunbai at gmail.com with the subject '2013 Pre-registration TeamName'. The E-Mail should contain the following information: 1. Team-Name: 2. Country: 3. Affiliation: 4. Team-Leader: 5. Team Members: 6. Contact E-Mail: 7. Base-Team: 8. Dependencies: You should receive a confirmation e-mail for your pre-registration. Affiliation is the team's organization, institute or university. Dependencies should include all dependencies of your team binaries from the standard repositories (we will set these up before hands, so every team binary should be executable at the tournament). Under Base-Team each team using another team as base for their agents, has to specify this team. Please note that you have to provide correct and full information and giving false or incomplete statement will be penalized with banning of the team and its members. Please be aware that with respect to gentlemanly play, we will NOT allow any team name changes from the pre-registration to the competition in RoboCup 2013. If a team has based its agent on external code or libraries published under certain licenses or copyright, it has to observe the according rules. In most cases this will be the GNU General Public License, i.e. a proper disclaimer has to be included in Team Description Paper and source code and the source code has to be submitted as well. After official RoboCup competitions the binaries will be published, i.e. the rules of the corresponding license have to be respected as well. For GPL this also implies publishing the code. Qualification Materials ----------------------- All teams who wish to qualify need to send their qualification materials by the deadline (15 February 2013). To send the qualification materials, send an E-Mail to aijunbai at gmail.com with the subject '2013 Qualification Materials TeamName'. The E-Mail should contain the following information and files: 1. Team-Name: 2. Country: 3. Affiliation: 4. Team-Leader: 5. Team Members: 6. Contact E-Mail: 7. Base-Team: 8. Dependencies: Attachment Files: 9. Team Description Paper ('TDP_TeamName.pdf') 10. Team Binary (and also source code depending on the base code license) 11. Logfiles (compressed in a single file ('Logfiles_TeamName.tar.gz') 12. Appendix ('Appendix_TeamName.pdf') In order to participate in qualification, a team has to send as attachments a Team Description paper, the team current binary as well as logfiles showing the team's game play quality and a separate appendix to the TDP describing the logfiles. The deadline for submission is February 15th, 2013. Team Description Paper ---------------------- Each team has to submit a team description paper (in English) describing the focus and ideas as well as recent advancements implemented in the team. This paper must have a length of 4 to 6 pages in Springer LNCS style and has to be submitted as PDF (to be named 'TDP_TeamName.pdf'). Please note: A team can only be qualified if the quality of its TDP is appropriate! The Team Description Paper (TDP) should comprise, among other things: the scientific focus of the team; team's current efforts; progress since last TDP/competition; team base code and description how the team is different from the base code; originality of the team's approach; results (team results or ideally results achieved using the team's main scientific contribution(s)); related work (at least 5 and ideally more than 10 references comparing the work with related work developed by other teams). Please be aware that the TDP has to describe the team's very own scientific efforts and explicitly illustrate whether a team has used external knowledge (ideas, code, agent base or the like) to build upon. If a team did use knowledge not evolved by this team, the own achievements have to be outlined in contrast to this. This also applies if one or more team members have switched from another team or a new team is created on the base of another even though the involved persons have not changed. If external knowledge is used but not referenced, explained and differentiated from in the TDP, the team and its members will be penalized with banning for this and next year's RoboCup. Team Binary/Source Code ----------------------- Teams should send an attachment with a working binary. Depending on the base code license teams should also provide the team's complete source code. Team binary or source code should be compressed in a single file named ('Binary_TeamName.tar.gz' or 'Source_TeamName.tar.gz'). Logfiles and Appendix --------------------- In order to assess the team's performance and evaluate its scientific efforts in the context of game play, teams have to submit 8 logfiles against one or more teams of last year's RoboCup (http://www.socsim.robocup.org/files/2D/binary/RoboCup2012/) and 2 logfiles against the latest agent2d (http://sourceforge.jp/projects/rctools/downloads/55186/agent2d-3.1.1.tar.gz/ or later). Logfiles comprise both rcg and rcl in version 5 (server::game_log_version = 5) generated with compression (server::game_log_compression = 1 and server::text_log_compression = 1) on using the most recent version of the Soccer Server. These logfiles have to prove that the team is competitive enough to participate and demonstrate the team's characteristics. It is expected that specific scenes from these logfiles are referenced from within a separate appendix (to be named 'Appendix_TeamName.pdf', consisting of entries in the following form: ; additional graphics are allowed) accompanying the TDP, linking research with implementation and game play. Due to the size of logfiles, it is recommended to store your files online and send only the link(s). Qualification Results ----------------------- The TDPs and logfiles of all teams will be peer reviewed by experts in 2D RoboCup Simulation League nominated by the OC. The reviewers will evaluate the qualification materials and rank the teams. The ranks will be averaged into a global ranking and the top teams on that ranking will be qualified for the RoboCup 2D simulation competition. Qualification results will be announced on March 1th 2013. Please notice that the submitted materials of all qualified teams will be made publicly available during the announcement of qualification results. Appendix -------- A.1 Explanations to General Rule 1 "If a team is situated in more than one country, the bound location counts." General rule 1 defines an upper bound of 6 teams from the same country. If 6 qualified teams already originate from country A and there is a team XY originating from country A as well as country B, team XY is not allowed to participate in RoboCup despite the fact that the quota for country B may not be reached. A.2 Explanations to General Rule 2 "If a team is affiliated with more than one institution, the unbound affiliation counts." General rule 2 defines that only one team per institute may participate in RoboCup. However, if a team XY is affiliated with institution A as well as institution B and there is already a team affiliated with A, the team XY may participate. 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Kind regards, Sander van Dijk -------------------- Call for Participation 3D Competition, RoboCup 2013 Soccer Simulation League June 24-30, 2013 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) http://www.robocup2013.org/ The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D Competition provides a great opportunity to experiment with humanoid robots without the need for investing in robot hardware. It facilitates experimenting with different learning and optimization techniques by providing a simulated environment. We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2013 Soccer Simulation League, 3D competition, which will take place Jun 24-30, 2013, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. If you are interested in participating, please pre-register your team and follow the procedure as outlined below. Schedule -------------- Team Pre-Registration Deadline: *January 31, 2013 - 23:59 UTC* Team Qualification Material Submission Deadline: February 15, 2013 - 23:59 UTC Qualified Teams Announcement: March 1, 2013 Pre-Registration ---------------------- All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the deadline (31 January 2013). To pre-register, send an E-Mail to* sgvandijk+3dreg at gmail.com * with the subject '*2013 Pre-registration TEAM_NAME*'. The E-Mail should contain the following information: 1. Team-Name: 2. Team-Leader: 3. E-Mail: 4. Country: 5. Affiliation: 6. Number of team members: You should receive a confirmation E-Mail for your pre-registration within a few days of submission. Qualification ------------------ Qualification is based on a team's current performance, previous achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions to the RoboCup community in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list and development of the simulator. In RoboCup 2013, up to 28 teams will participate in the 3D competitions. The top three teams from RoboCup 2012 (UT Austin Villa, RoboCanes and Bold Hearts) are automatically qualified after pre-registering their teams and submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP). The other 25 teams will be selected through a qualification process. The qualification deadline is *15 Feb 2013*. The OC does not accept qualification materials from teams who have not been pre-registered by the pre-registration deadline. Qualification material consists of: *1. Team Description Paper (TDP)* The TDP should describe your research focus and ideas implemented in the team. It should clearly describe your own work and your contributions in addition to explicitly specifying what you have used from others' efforts (including, but not limited to, any source code released by other teams or their scientific work). In qualification, teams must be judged based on their own work, so failing to acknowledge the work of others could result in an immediate disqualification. The length of the TDP has to be at least four (4) pages and should not exceed twelve (12) pages in Springer LNCS Style:http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Please submit the TDP only as a PDF document, with the name of your team in the filename, i.e. *teamname_TDP.pdf*. *2. A list of contributions* to previous RoboCup Symposia and your team's achievements in RoboCup events of previous years. Please do not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. You may include a TDP, if you presented a talk about your team at the Symposium. If you are new to the RoboCup 3D community, you may also include references to relevant research done by your team that shows its potential. Please submit the contribution list as a PDF document, with the name of your team in the filename, i.e. *teamname_list.pdf*. *3. Binary* All teams should submit a working binary of their team. The OC will use these binaries to play 11 vs 11 matches, under the rules and with the simulator used during the 2012 competitions held in Mexico. These rules can be found at: http://hedayat.fedorapeople.org/misc/rc2012rules-v1.0.pdf Submitted binaries should adhere to the following: - Two scripts should be included: a start up script, called start.sh, to run a full team of agents and a kill script, called kill.sh, to fully kill all agents of the team. The requirements and examples of these scripts can be found at the rules page given above. - All necessary external libraries should be included and be used locally by the binary. The OC will not make an effort to install extra libraries on the qualification systems. - The binaries should not create any output, be it through standard output or to files. - No graphical (debugging) interface should be used. - The binary should be compiled for *64 bit* systems and should work on a modern GNU/Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu 12.10. You mayalso send 32 bit binaries, but it is your responsibility to make sure that it runs correctly on 64 bit distributions. You can assume that basic 32 bit libraries (e.g. libc) are installed on the 64 bit OS. To summarize: the binary should run out of the box on a standard, clean, headless system in a restricted sand box environment with the simulation server (possibly) running on a different machine. The OC will not try to fix errors. When a binary fails to run, the respective team will be notified and will have to resubmit their material, before the deadline of *15 Feb 2013*. Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name, create a tarball name *teamname.tar.bz2* and E-Mail it to sgvandijk+3dqual at gmail.com with the subject: '*2013 Qualification TEAM_NAME*'. If everything went well you will receive a confirmation. If you did not receive any confirmation within two (2) days, please contact the Organizing Committee. If you encounter any problem sending your qualification material please don't hesitate to contact the OC. Teams will be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in this E-Mail. Also, the following general qualification limitations will be considered: - One-Third-Rule: The so called One-Third-Rule rule states that only up to 1/3 of the participants of a competition may be from the same country. - One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule: The One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule states that only one team from each university or research institute is allowed to participate in a competition. Note that it is okay for different teams from the same institute to participate in different competitions, e.g. 2D and 3D soccer. Good luck, Sander van Dijk On Behalf of Organizing Committee RoboCup 2013 Soccer Simulation 3D -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jla at ua.pt Thu Jan 24 06:10:42 2013 From: jla at ua.pt (Jose Luis Azevedo) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:10:42 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2013: Middle-Size League - Call for Participation (Reminder - DL: 28/1) Message-ID: Dear all, Please note that the pre-registration for the 2013 RoboCup Middle-Size League competition closes in 4 days (January 28th). Best regards, Jos? Lu?s Azevedo *********************************************************************************** Call for Participation RoboCup 2013 Middle Size League June 24-30, 2013 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) http://www.robocup2013.org/ *********************************************************************************** We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2013 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2013 MSL competitions. 1) Pre-registration -------------------------- For the pre-registration please send a mail to rc-msl-oc at lists.robocup.org containing the following data: - team name - URL of the team?s home page - name of team leader - e-mail address of team or team leader - affiliation - country - link to qualification material 2) Qualification material ---------------------------------- Besides the pre-registration please prepare the following qualification material: - list of five RoboCup related scientific publications - overview of the performance in past events - a Team Description Paper describing the most innovative contributions or scientific results (The TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) - a qualification video (the maximum duration of the video is 1 minute) - an overview of the contributions to the MSL community - a mechanical and electrical description together with a software flow chart (please include size and weight of the robots) The details regarding the qualification material are contained in the rules and regulations document. Please read it thoroughly. The qualification material should be placed on a dedicated web page on the team's home page. Please include the link to the qualification material on the pre-registration information. 3) Deadline ---------------- - Deadline for submission: *** January 28, 2013 *** - Announcement of qualified teams: *** February 18, 2013 *** 4) Rules ------------ The rules and regulations for the RoboCup 2013 Middle Size League will be published at http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League The updated rules and regulations will be released by December 31, 2012,at the latest. 5) Publication -------------------- Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the qualification material of the qualified teams will be made publicly available. Teams applying for participation therefore grant the right of publication of their qualification material to the MSL league. 6) Plagiarism -------------------- Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code and ideas (see ?http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/plagiarism_FAQ.html? for a more detailed description) is not tolerated in the RoboCup community. The teams and team members that plagiarize other peoples' work and present it as their own will be disqualified. For a first offense, the team and team members will be banned from RoboCup competition for two years (usually the current and next year). Harsher penalties will be applied to repeat offenders or extremely serious cases of plagiarism. A team may be disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even after the competition has started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any expenses related to their disqualification. We hope to welcome you all in Eindhoven. With kind regards, The 2013 RoboCup MSL Organizing and Technical committees. -- ******************************************************************** Jose Luis Azevedo University of Aveiro Dep. of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal Tlf. +351.234 370500 / Fax. +351.234 370545 (jla at ua.pt) ******************************************************************** From aijunbai at gmail.com Tue Jan 29 05:52:39 2013 From: aijunbai at gmail.com (Aijun Bai) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:52:39 +0800 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Reminder: January 31, Pre-registration deadline for RoboCup 2D Competition Message-ID: ==============Apologies for duplicate messages =============== Dear all, Please note that the pre-registration closes in 2 days (January 31). Below you can find the detailed instructions for pre-registering your teams, as well as for submitting your qualification materals. Please pre-register your teams ASAP. Thanks. Best Regards, Aijun Bai ===================== Call for Participation Soccer Simulation League - 2D Simulation Competition, RoboCup 2013 June 24-30, 2013 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)http://www.robocup2013.org/ Introduction ------------ The RoboCup 2D Simulated Soccer League is the oldest of the RoboCup Soccer Simulation Leagues. It is based on the RoboCup Soccer Simulator that enables two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robots plus an autonomous coach agent to play a game of soccer with very realistic rules and game play. Due to its stability the RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a very good research and educational tool for multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning. We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2013 Soccer Simulation League, 2D competition, which will take place Jun 24-30, 2013, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. To pre-register all teams have to provide a Team Description Paper and in case they are based on another team under a license they have to publish the agent source code. The teams will also have to provide a binary file and annotated logfiles showing the team game play quality. Schedule -------- Team Pre-Registration Deadline: *January 31, 2013 - 23:59 UTC* Materials Submission Deadline: *February 15, 2013 - 23:59 UTC* Qualification Notification: *March 1, 2013 - 23:59 UTC* QualificationMarch 1, 2013 - 23:59 UTC -------------- In RoboCup 2013 up to 24 teams will be allowed to participate in the 2D Simulation competitions. Qualification is based on the quality of the TDP, the team's current performance based annotated logfiles sent. Previous achievements in RoboCup and scientific contributions to the RoboCup community in past years are also relevant for qualification. There are several general rules on which the qualification processes as well as the tournaments are based: 1. One-Fourth-Rule: Only one fourth of the participating teams may be from the same country. With 24 places in RoboCup 2013 only 6 teams per country are allowed. If a team is situated in more than one country, the bound location counts. Teams infringing this rule will be ignored in the ordered list of qualified teams. False statement results in penalty. See Appendix A.1 for further explanations. 2. One-Team-Per-Research-Institution: Each university or research institute may only qualify one team. If a team is affiliated with more than one institution, the unbound affiliation counts. Teams infringing this rule will be ignored in the ordered list of qualified teams. False statement results in penalty. 3. Plagiarism-Penalty: If a team commits plagiarism, the team and its members will be banned from participation for this and next year's RoboCup. The term plagiarism comprises any use of external knowledge without proper referencing, i.e. copying or using the thoughts, ideas, texts or language in general and presenting them as their own. This applies for Team Description Papers as well as logfiles, team code and binaries. All kinds of licenses and copyright have to be respected. This applies for the qualification process as well as the RoboCup tournaments. Please be aware that when a team is found guilty of committing plagiarism it is disqualified and banned at any time. This may also be in the middle of the tournament. 4. No-Show-Penalty: If a team qualifies for RoboCup 2013, but is not able to participate, it has to cancel its participation before the deadline in order to give the next-ranked team the chance to take its place. If there are reasons for delays in registration the team has to let OC know so that a reaction in time is possible. If a team fails to observe this rule ('no-show'), the team and its members will be banned for next RoboCup competitions. 5. Academic-Fairness-Rule: If any team breaches general academic fairness in any other way, it has to face penalties as well. 6. Automatic-Qualification-Rules: The top three teams from last RoboCup (i.e. Helios, WrightEagle and Marlik), and the OC (i.e. Aijun Bai, Jo?o Alberto Fabro and Karl Tuyls) team(s) (if any) are automatically qualified (after pre-registering their teams and submitting appropriate materials). The remaining teams will be selected through the qualification process. Pre-Registration ---------------- All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the deadline (31 January 2013). To pre-register, send an E-Mail to aijunbai at gmail.com with the subject '2013 Pre-registration TeamName'. The E-Mail should contain the following information: 1. Team-Name: 2. Country: 3. Affiliation: 4. Team-Leader: 5. Team Members: 6. Contact E-Mail: 7. Base-Team: 8. Dependencies: You should receive a confirmation e-mail for your pre-registration. Affiliation is the team's organization, institute or university. Dependencies should include all dependencies of your team binaries from the standard repositories (we will set these up before hands, so every team binary should be executable at the tournament). Under Base-Team each team using another team as base for their agents, has to specify this team. Please note that you have to provide correct and full information and giving false or incomplete statement will be penalized with banning of the team and its members. Please be aware that with respect to gentlemanly play, we will NOT allow any team name changes from the pre-registration to the competition in RoboCup 2013. If a team has based its agent on external code or libraries published under certain licenses or copyright, it has to observe the according rules. In most cases this will be the GNU General Public License, i.e. a proper disclaimer has to be included in Team Description Paper and source code and the source code has to be submitted as well. After official RoboCup competitions the binaries will be published, i.e. the rules of the corresponding license have to be respected as well. For GPL this also implies publishing the code. Qualification Materials ----------------------- All teams who wish to qualify need to send their qualification materials by the deadline (15 February 2013). To send the qualification materials, send an E-Mail to aijunbai at gmail.com with the subject '2013 Qualification Materials TeamName'. The E-Mail should contain the following information and files: 1. Team-Name: 2. Country: 3. Affiliation: 4. Team-Leader: 5. Team Members: 6. Contact E-Mail: 7. Base-Team: 8. Dependencies: Attachment Files: 9. Team Description Paper ('TDP_TeamName.pdf') 10. Team Binary (and also source code depending on the base code license) 11. Logfiles (compressed in a single file ('Logfiles_TeamName.tar.gz') 12. Appendix ('Appendix_TeamName.pdf') In order to participate in qualification, a team has to send as attachments a Team Description paper, the team current binary as well as logfiles showing the team's game play quality and a separate appendix to the TDP describing the logfiles. The deadline for submission is February 15th, 2013. Team Description Paper ---------------------- Each team has to submit a team description paper (in English) describing the focus and ideas as well as recent advancements implemented in the team. This paper must have a length of 4 to 6 pages in Springer LNCS style and has to be submitted as PDF (to be named 'TDP_TeamName.pdf'). Please note: A team can only be qualified if the quality of its TDP is appropriate! The Team Description Paper (TDP) should comprise, among other things: the scientific focus of the team; team's current efforts; progress since last TDP/competition; team base code and description how the team is different from the base code; originality of the team's approach; results (team results or ideally results achieved using the team's main scientific contribution(s)); related work (at least 5 and ideally more than 10 references comparing the work with related work developed by other teams). Please be aware that the TDP has to describe the team's very own scientific efforts and explicitly illustrate whether a team has used external knowledge (ideas, code, agent base or the like) to build upon. If a team did use knowledge not evolved by this team, the own achievements have to be outlined in contrast to this. This also applies if one or more team members have switched from another team or a new team is created on the base of another even though the involved persons have not changed. If external knowledge is used but not referenced, explained and differentiated from in the TDP, the team and its members will be penalized with banning for this and next year's RoboCup. Team Binary/Source Code ----------------------- Teams should send an attachment with a working binary. Depending on the base code license teams should also provide the team's complete source code. Team binary or source code should be compressed in a single file named ('Binary_TeamName.tar.gz' or 'Source_TeamName.tar.gz'). Logfiles and Appendix --------------------- In order to assess the team's performance and evaluate its scientific efforts in the context of game play, teams have to submit 8 logfiles against one or more teams of last year's RoboCup (http://www.socsim.robocup.org/files/2D/binary/RoboCup2012/) and 2 logfiles against the latest agent2d (http://sourceforge.jp/projects/rctools/downloads/55186/agent2d-3.1.1.tar.gz/ or later). Logfiles comprise both rcg and rcl in version 5 (server::game_log_version = 5) generated with compression (server::game_log_compression = 1 and server::text_log_compression = 1) on using the most recent version of the Soccer Server. These logfiles have to prove that the team is competitive enough to participate and demonstrate the team's characteristics. It is expected that specific scenes from these logfiles are referenced from within a separate appendix (to be named 'Appendix_TeamName.pdf', consisting of entries in the following form: ; additional graphics are allowed) accompanying the TDP, linking research with implementation and game play. Due to the size of logfiles, it is recommended to store your files online and send only the link(s). Qualification Results ----------------------- The TDPs and logfiles of all teams will be peer reviewed by experts in 2D RoboCup Simulation League nominated by the OC. The reviewers will evaluate the qualification materials and rank the teams. The ranks will be averaged into a global ranking and the top teams on that ranking will be qualified for the RoboCup 2D simulation competition. Qualification results will be announced on March 1th 2013. Please notice that the submitted materials of all qualified teams will be made publicly available during the announcement of qualification results. Appendix -------- A.1 Explanations to General Rule 1 "If a team is situated in more than one country, the bound location counts." General rule 1 defines an upper bound of 6 teams from the same country. If 6 qualified teams already originate from country A and there is a team XY originating from country A as well as country B, team XY is not allowed to participate in RoboCup despite the fact that the quota for country B may not be reached. A.2 Explanations to General Rule 2 "If a team is affiliated with more than one institution, the unbound affiliation counts." General rule 2 defines that only one team per institute may participate in RoboCup. However, if a team XY is affiliated with institution A as well as institution B and there is already a team affiliated with A, the team XY may participate. Best Regards, Aijun Bai On Behalf of Organizing Committees 2D Competition, Soccer Simulation League RoboCup 2013 - Eindhoven -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nowak at locomotec.com Wed Jan 30 11:36:17 2013 From: nowak at locomotec.com (Walter Nowak) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:36:17 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Call for Participation: RoboCup@Work at RoboCup 2013 Message-ID: <51094C01.3050700@locomotec.com> Call for Participation RoboCup at Work Competition, June 24-30, 2013 (Eindhoven) http://www.robocupatwork.org/ RoboCup at Work is a new competition in RoboCup that targets the use of robots in work-related scenarios. RoboCup at Work aims to foster research and development that enables use of innovative mobile robots equipped with advanced manipulators for current and future industrial applications, where robots cooperate with human workers for complex tasks ranging from manufacturing, automation, and parts handling up to general logistics. The main scientific scope of the new league is on scalable and robust mobile manipulation inspired by real-world industrial challenges, including navigation, object recognition, manipulation, and planning. Information about the registration and qualification process for RoboCup 2013: Schedule: --------- Feb 15, 2013 : Deadline for pre-registration April 01, 2013 : Deadline for qualification material (Team Description Paper) April 15, 2013 : Notification of acceptence May 31, 2013 : Deadline for team registration June 24-30, 2013 : RoboCup at Work competition Pre-registration ---------------- Send an informal email stating your intent to participate to the Technical Committee: rc-work-tc at lists.robocup.org Qualification: -------------- Every team intending to participate has to submit a Team Description Paper (TDP) via email to the Technical Committee: rc-work-tc at lists.robocup.org The TDP should at least contain the following information in the author/title section of the paper: - Name of the team (title) - Team members (authors), including the team leader - Link to the team web site (if available) - Contact information The body of the TDP should contain information on the following: - focus of research/research interest - description of the hardware, including an image of the robot(s) - description of the software, esp. the functional and software architectures - innovative technology (if any) - reusability of the system or parts thereof - applicability and relevance to industrial tasks The length of the TDP is limited to 3 pages. Please use the same Springer LNAI format used in the RoboCup Symposium submissions: http://www.springer.com/series/1244 The evaluation criteria will include relevant scientific contribution and publications, professional quality of robot and software, novelty of approach as well as relevance to industry. Best Regards, The 2013 RoboCup at Work Organizing and Technical Committees From rprocha at isr.uc.pt Mon Feb 4 08:05:27 2013 From: rprocha at isr.uc.pt (Rui Paulo Rocha) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 13:05:27 -0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 2nd CfP Robotica 2013 - 13th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions Message-ID: <006701ce02d8$4fcd01f0$ef6705d0$@isr.uc.pt> (Apologies for cross-posting.) ***** EXTENDED PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 12, 2013 ***** ========================= *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ========================= Robotica 2013 - 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions http://www.dem.isel.pt/robotica2013/ April 24-25, 2013 Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Sponsored by: - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society - Portuguese Robotics Society The 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions is an international scientific meeting in the field of autonomous robotics and related areas, which will take place in conjunction with the 13th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup Local Event. The conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 24-25, 2013. Lisbon is the capital of Portugal, one of the oldest cities in the world with a pleasant subtropical-Mediterranean climate. The conference has been growing continuously for the past decade and is nowadays a truly international forum attracting quality research papers from worldwide. Its technical program is the result of a thorough review process. Due to its growing prestige and impact, the conference proceedings will be indexed in IEEExplore and the conference has also already confirmed for this 13th edition a **Special Issue of selected extended papers in the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems** from Springer, indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge (IF=0.83). == Important Dates == Submission of full-length papers: *Feb. 12, 2013* <-- EXTENDED DEADLINE Notification of acceptance: Mar. 7, 2013 Camera-ready papers: Mar. 15, 2013 Early registration deadline: Mar. 22, 2013 Conference: Apr. 24, 2013 All dead-lines are 23:59 GMT. == Topics == Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots; Artificial Intelligence; Autonomous Robotic Systems; Computer Vision and Image Processing; Control Architectures and Programming; Cooperative Perception; Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation; Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping; Educational Robotics; Entertainment Robots; Evolutionary Robotics; Humanoid Robotics; Human-Robot Interaction; Localization, Mapping, and Navigation; Locomotion and Actuation Systems; Multi-Robot Coordination; Multi-Robot Systems; Planning, Reasoning and Modeling; Recognition and Tracking; Robot Learning; Robotic Competitions; Robotic Simulation; Sensors and Sensor Integration; Swarm Robotics; Underwater Robotics. == Submission Guidelines == Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=robotica2013 ) Six pages in the standard IEEE format are allowed for each paper, including figures. Papers must be written in English following the standard IEEE guidelines. (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) Reviewing for Robotica 2013 will be *double blind* so authors must remove their names from the submitted papers and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. Three program committee members will be assigned to review each paper. Acceptance will be based on the paper's significance, technical quality, clarity, relevance and originality. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Selected, extended papers will be published in a Special Issue from the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems from Springer, indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge (IF=0.83). Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors should register at the Conference and present the paper. Welcome and look forward to seeing you in Robotica 2013! Kind Regards, Jo?o Calado, ISEL, Portugal Luis Paulo Reis, University of Minho, Portugal Rui P. Rocha, ISR-University of Coimbra, Portugal (Co-Chairs of the 13th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions) From Ulrich-Karras at t-online.de Tue Feb 5 11:53:46 2013 From: Ulrich-Karras at t-online.de (Ulrich-Karras at t-online.de) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:53:46 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Call for Participation RoboCup 2013 Message-ID: <1U2lmE-1he4yO0@fwd12.aul.t-online.de> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ROBOCUP 2013 LOGISTICS LEAGUE SPONSORED BY FESTO JUNE 24 - 30, 2013 (EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS) HTTP://WWW.ROBOCUP2013.ORG [1] The steady increase in worldwide transport tasks asks for improved autonomous solutions. Following the RoboCup spirit the Logistics league?s objective is to enable scientific work in order to achieve a flexible solution of material and informational flow within industrial production using self-organising Robots. This next evolution of Automated Guided Vehicles calls for new technologies to overcome present non feasibilities. At present, the competition envisages a kind of hardware-in-the-loop simulation method, i.e. there is a flexible simulated production hall with integrated real mobile robot systems having the task to create an efficient material flow to provide a high rate of product deliveries in due time. We want to invite interested teams to submit their qualification material and participate in the LLSF at RoboCup 2013. 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URL: From nunolau at ua.pt Fri Feb 8 06:58:25 2013 From: nunolau at ua.pt (Nuno Lau) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 11:58:25 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] CFP: IROBOT'2013 - 6th International Thematic Track on Intelligent Robotics Message-ID: <3653D822BBE359419CF44AD777DF8B4538D8EC67@SEQUOIA.ua.pt> * Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * ---------------------------------------------------------------- IROBOT'2013 CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Thematic Track on Intelligent Robotics To be held at EPIA 2013, September 9-13, 2013, Angra do Hero?smo, Azores, Portugal http://www.epia2013.uac.pt/ irobot.epia2013 at gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- The EPIA Conferences are the major International event on Artificial Intelligence organized in Portugal, under the auspices of APPIA - Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (http://www.appia.pt). Its purpose is to discuss and promote research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related disciplines. Aspects covered range from theoretical and foundational issues to applications interesting researchers, engineers and practitioners. The conference is structured as a set of Thematic Tracks. Conference Proceedings includes a book published by Springer and a local proceedings volume. ## Important Dates 15 Mar-2013: Paper Submission Deadline 30 Apr-2013: Author Notification/Registration Open 31 May-2013: Deadline for Final Camera-Ready 9-13 Oct-2013: EPIA'2013 Conference ## IROBOT Description IROBOT'2013 poses itself as a follow-up on the previous 5 International Thematic Tracks/Workshops on Intelligent Robotics held at EPIA since 2005. As in previous editions, its main purpose is to bring together researchers, engineers and other professionals interested in the application of AI techniques in real/simulated robotics to discuss current work and future directions. Each edition tries to promote a focal debate theme. Robotics, from the point of view of AI, has been an important application field, from which AI has also gained. Namely the dynamic and unforeseen nature of the environment, especially for mobile robots, has fostered research in these aspects of AI. Together with the developments in Robotics Research, the use of Robotics in industry has changed a lot in recent years. New paradigms and approaches for industrial robotics have emerged namely for mobile robots localization and navigation in unstructured environments. Industries have to produce items that are increasingly customized by the client and in short lots. Hence, the classical paradigm of a robotic manipulator performing a repetitive task is changing to flexible, adaptable and mobile robots that can recognize the task and the environment and adapt their behaviours accordingly. The adaptation and application of AI techniques to industrial robotics will constitute the focal theme of the IROBOT'2013 thematic track. This topic will be the subject of a panel discussion led by well-known researchers with vast experience in robotics and their different applications. ## Topics of Interest The Workshop will be structured around the following themes: - AI Planning for robotics - Autonomous vehicles - Cognitive robotics - Computer vision and object recognition - Coordination in robotics - Evolutionary robotics and reactive intelligence - Human-robots interaction - Humanoid robotics - Intelligent buildings and warehouses - Intelligent transportation systems - Learning and adaptation in robotics - Mobile robots localization and navigation - Modelling and simulating complex robots - Multi-Robot systems - Field Robots - Real-time reactivity - Robot behaviour engineering - Robotic surveillance - Sensor fusion This topics' list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the topics, and authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in the thematic track main subject. ## Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. Scientific or technical articles describing state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms, systems, environments, problems or applications relevant to the area of Intelligent Industrial Robotics may be submitted. Papers discussing application transfer from simulated to real robots and papers showing socially useful robotic applications generated by participations in robotic competitions are also welcome. Although the main focus is on industrial robots, there will be space for reporting research in AI applied to other types of robots. Submissions must follow the guidelines specified in the EPIA'2013 site. The Springer LNCS format must be used (instructions in http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html/). The length of submitted full papers must not exceed 12 pages. Authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. Paper submissions will be made in PDF format, through the submission page available in the EPIA'2013 website. Demonstrations should be submitted by means of an extended abstract up to 4 pages. This abstract should include a detailed description and a link to a short video of the proposed demonstration. Three program committee members will be assigned to review each paper. Acceptance will be based on the paper's significance, technical quality, clarity, relevance and originality. Accepted papers, must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors should register at the Conference. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. ## Workshop Organizing Committee Nuno Lau (University of Aveiro) Ant?nio Paulo Moreira (University of Porto) Carlos Cardeira (University of Lisbon) ## Program Committee Alexandre da Silva Sim?es, UNESP, Brazil Anibal Ollero, University of Seville, Spain Anna Helena Costa, EPUSP, Brazil Andr? Marcato, Universidade Federal de Ju?z de Fora, Brazil Andr? Scolari, Univ. Federal da Bahia, Brazil Ang?lica Mu?oz, INAOE, Mexico Ant?nio Jos? Neves, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Ant?nio Paulo Moreira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Armando J. Pinho, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Armando Sousa, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Augusto Loureiro da Costa, UFBA, Brazil Axel Hessler, TU Berlin, Germany Carlos Cardeira, Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal Carlos Carreto, Instituto Polit?cnico da Guarda, Portugal C?sar Analide, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK Fernando Os?rio, Universidade S?o Paulo/SC, Brazil Flavio Tonidandel, C.Univ.FEI, Brazil Fumiya Iida, ETHZ, Switzerland Guy Theraulaz, CRCA, France Jorge Dias, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Jos? Luis Gordillo, Tecnol?gico de Monterrey, Mexico Luis Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Luis Moreno, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain Luis Mota, ISCTE, Portugal Luis Paulo Reis, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Luis Seabra Lopes, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marco Dorigo, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Nicolas Jouandeau, Universit? Paris 8, France Nuno Lau, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Paulo Gon?alves, Inst.Pol. Castelo Branco, Portugal Paulo Oliveira, Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Reinaldo Bianchi, Centro Universit?rio da FEI, S?o Paulo, Brazil Saeed Shiry Ghidary, Amirkabir University, Iran Sanem Sariel Talay, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Stephen Balakirsky, Nat. Inst. Stand. & Techn., USA Urbano Nunes, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Xiaoping Chen, Univ. Science and Technology, China ## Contacts General: irobot.epia2013 at gmail.com Nuno Lau Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Electr?nica, Telecomunica??es e Inform?tica IEETA - Instituto de Engenharia Electr?nica e Telem?tica de Aveiro Campus Universit?rio Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Phone: +351 234 370500, Fax: +351 234 370545, http://www.ieeta.pt/~lau; Email: nunolau at ua.pt Ant?nio Paulo G. M. Moreira FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal Phone: +351 22 508 14 00, Fax : +351 22 508 14 40, http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~amoreira ; Email: amoreira at fe.up.pt Carlos Cardeira IST - Instituto Superior T?cnico IDMEC - Instituto de Engenharia Mec?nica Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 1049-001 LISBOA, Portugal Phone: +351 21 841 73 51Fax: +351 21 841 96 34, http://www1.dem.ist.utl.pt/cardeira/; Email: carlos.cardeira at ist.utl.pt From pal at isr.ist.utl.pt Sat Feb 9 10:47:10 2013 From: pal at isr.ist.utl.pt (Pedro U. Lima) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 15:47:10 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Call for Papers: ERF2013 2nd Workshop on Robot Competitions: Benchmarking, Technology Transfer, and Education Message-ID: <793A2C3A-3A73-4A3E-B417-8CE37642CDA5@isr.ist.utl.pt> (apologies for duplicates) ========================= *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ========================= 2nd Workshop on Robot Competitions: Benchmarking, Technology Transfer, and Education European Robotics Forum 2013, 20 March, Lyon https://sites.google.com/site/erf2013robocompworkshop/ Robot competitions, such as the DARPA Grand Challenge, RoboCup, IEEE ICRA Robot Challenge, ELROB, SAUC-E and IEEE/RSJ IROS 2012 competitions have recently emerged as a complementary approach to advanced robotics R&D. These competitions often use grand challenges, require the integration of robotic systems and benchmark results on a common reference test bed (e.g., a urban driving scenario, the NIST USaR arena, RoboCup at Home). One can find outdoor and indoor challenge scenarios. Many competitions focus on research problems, others enforce educational aspects. All of them are excellent vehicles for disseminating the relevance of robotics research and education to the general public, and especially young people. Some pose long-term challenges and have developed well-established principles for research progress through annual rule updates, while others challenge teams to tackle a difficult large-scale problem, which is, in principle, solvable by a suitable integration of the state of the art. Frequently, innovative approaches are developed along the way and - ideally - part of the resulting technology is transferred to real world applications. In this workshop our overall aim is to discuss and compare how different robot competitions and participating researchers pursue their research objectives, and learn lessons to improve the competitions, with the objective of fostering research advances in intelligent (multi-)robot systems, by providing challenging and imaginative scenarios, test beds and benchmarking methods and tools. This workshop will be organized jointly by the EURATHLON and RoCKIn EC FP7 Coordinated Actions, and follows a first edition of this Workshop organized during the latest IEEE/RSJ IROS Conference, that took place in Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2012. We solicit the submission of short papers on robot competitions, to be selected for presentation during the workshop (only three/four papers will be selected for oral presentation, as the workshop program includes also four invited talks). Topics include, but are not limited to: ? Aerial robot competitions ? Autonomous driving competitions ? 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Papers must contain original, previously unpublished contributions on AI theory, methods, or applications. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee, and can be accepted either for plenary or poster presentation. All accepted papers are included in the conference proceedings published by IOS press. Submissions must be at most 10 pages long following the IOS formatting instructions available at http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/ Paper submission will be handled through the EasyChair system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scai20130 Invited Speakers ---------------- Danica Kragic, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Paul Davidsson, Malm? University, Sweden Important Dates --------------- Submission site open: June 1, 2013 Paper submission deadline: July 13, 2013 Notification: September 1, 2013 Camera ready papers due: September 15, 2013 Organizers ---------- Finn V. 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As in previous editions, the objectives are: to facilitate the dissemination of new ideas and experiences, to strengthen the links among the different research groups involved, to promote knowledge transfer between recent researchers and consolidated groups, and to help spread new developments to society. To achieve the proposed objectives, authors are requested to send original unpublished works, which describe relevant research about topics related to Artificial Intelligence from all points of view: formal, methodological, technical or applied. Works can be submitted in Spanish or English in LNCS format (Springer). CAEPIA'13 will use a double blind-review process. The authors will remove their names from the submitted papers and must take responsibility for the originality of the work and send it in the proper format. CAEPIA will also be open to pre-doctoral work, and there will be a special call for this type of work through the Doctoral Consortium. This event is specially designed for the interaction between PhD students and senior researchers. Besides original and pre-doctoral papers, this edition of CAEPIA will include, for the first time, a special session on outstanding papers (key works) already published in journals or forums of renowned reputation. Finally, various independent conferences will take place under the scope of CAEPIA. Such conferences (ASMas, FINO, LFSCI, MAEB, SICO, TAMIDA) will keep their own program committee and will distribute their respective CFPs. TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS - CAEPIA papers (Main track): Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 10 pages and must be formatted according to LNCS guidelines. The submitted paper will represent original research, with solid, well-founded or demonstrable results on any of the conference topics. Accepted papers will be assigned a 15- or 20-minutes slot for oral presentation at the conference. - Pre-doctoral papers: We encourage the submissions of preliminary works from PhD students. These works will be presented in special sessions at the conference. The objective is to foster a fruitful debate between the candidate and the audience. The length of these papers should not exceed 4 pages and will be orally presented during 15 minutes. The authors of accepted papers as pre-doctoral work will enjoy special benefits to attend the conference. - Already published outstanding papers (Key works): Recent works published in journals or forums of renowned reputation, during the period 2011-2013. The aim is to spread them among a wide audience from the AI community, giving the members of the community a chance to be exposed to works with which they are not familiarized and to foster interdisciplinarity. Papers must be submitted in a one-page format, with a clear reference to the previous published paper. Accepted contributions will be assigned a 15-minutes slot in a joint session of all the conferences conforming this edition of CAEPIA. IMPORTANT DATES (a) CAEPIA Papers (Main track): *Submission of papers: April 15, 2013 *Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 20, 2013 *Camera-ready copy due: June 15, 2013 *Technical sessions: September 17-20, 2013 CAEPIA'13 papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee which will be supervised by an area chair. (b) Pre-doctoral papers (Doctoral Consortium): *Submission of papers: June 30, 2013 *Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 31, 2013 *Camera-ready copy due: September 1, 2013 (c) Already published outstanding papers (Key works): *Submission of papers: May 1, 2013 *Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 31, 2013 *Camera-ready copy due: June 15, 2013 PLENARY TALKS CAEPIA'13 will offer plenary talks given by outstanding researchers in different areas. They will be scheduled in a joint session with all the conferences participating in the CAEPIA multiconference. SUBMISSION Submission of papers to CAEPIA'13 requires a previous registration in: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caepia2013 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the two volumes of CAEPIA proceedings that will be given to all CAEPIA attendees. The two volumes will be as follows: - One volume published by Springer-Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI), which will contain a selection of the best papers accepted by the Program Committee. In order to be included in this volume papers should be submitted in English. - One volume published by the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence that will contain all the accepted CAEPIA papers not included in the previous volume, abstracts of keynote works and Doctoral Consortium papers. This volume will be included in the CEDI 2013 proceedings and will be edited exclusively in USB pen drive format. Authors of the papers accepted for the LNAI volume will be invited to prepare extended versions for submission to special issues of JCR ranked international journals. PRIZES AEPIA will acknowledge the dedication of the participants in CAEPIA'13 with three awards: best CAEPIA (main track) paper, best pre-doctoral work and best reviewer. TOPICS CAEPIA 2013 is organized around eleven content areas or main tracks, each one managed by an area chair. Topics are open and any work related to AI research and its applications is welcome. However, for guidance, the next topics per area are included below: MACHINE LEARNING Active Learning Case-based Reasoning Structured Learning Multi-Task Learning Unsupervised, Semi-Supervised and Partially Supervised Learning Online Learning Reinforcement Learning Relational Learning Cost-Sensitive Learning Classification Kernel Methods Data Mining Feature Selection/Construction Data Streams AI APPLICATIONS AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY TOPICS AI Applications Philosophical and Ethical Issues AI Integration in other Scientific Fields User Models Security and Privacy Validation and Verification FUZZY SYSTEMS Aggregation Functions Fuzzy Logic Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems Fuzzy Technologies Decision Making with Fuzzy Information UNCERTAINTY IN AI Approximate Reasoning Bayesian Networks Decision/Utility Theory Exact and Approximate Probabilistic Inference Modeling, Inference, Learning and Decision Making under Uncertainty Preference Elicitation Probabilistic Graphical Models METAHEURISTICS Bioinspired Algorithms Dynamic Problems and with Uncertainty Evolutionary Algorithms Metaheuristics Multiobjective Algorithms Parallel Algorithms NATURAL-LANGUAGE PROCESSING Syntactic Analysis and Grammatical Inference Text Classification and Subjects Automatic Abstract Generation Lexical Disambiguation of Words Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics Text Mining Natural Language Modeling Natural Language Processing Multilingual Language Processing Speech Recognition Question Answering Machine Translation KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION, REASONING AND LOGIC Action, Change and Causality Computational Argumentation Automated Reasoning Knowledge Representation Computational Logic Description Logics and Ontologies Preferences and Beliefs Logic Programming Case-Based Reasoning Model-Based Reasoning Qualitative Reasoning Spatial and Temporal Reasoning Diagnosis and Abductive Reasoning Nonmonotonic Reasoning Knowledge Representation CONTRAINTS, SEARCH AND PLANNING AI in Planning Games Constraint Optimization Constraint Satisfaction Dynamic Programming Heuristic Search Hierarchical Task Networks Markov Decision Processes Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) Real Time Planning Satisfiability Scheduling Theoretical Foundations of Planning ROBOTICS AND VISION Behavior and Control Human-Robot Interaction Localization, State Estimation Sensor Networks Robotics Cognitive Robotics Multi-Robot Systems Vision and Perception MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS Adaptation and self-organization Agent-Based Architectures and Programming Agent-Based Simulation and Emergent Behavior Agent Communication Languages Agreement Technologies (coordination, negotiation, argumentation, rules, confidence) Methodologies and Infrastructures (platforms, tools, environment) Social, Organizing and Institutional Approximations INTELLIGENT WEB AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Digital Libraries Information Extraction Information Integration Information Retrieval Recommender Systems Semantic web Social Networks Web mining Web 2.0 ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: Chair: Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, U. A Coru?a SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chair: Concha Bielza, U. Polit?cnica de Madrid Co-chair: Antonio Salmer?n, U. Almer?a AREA CHAIRS Enrique Alba, U. M?laga (Metaheuristics) Emilio Corchado, U. Salamanca (AI Applications and Multidisciplinary Topics -TTIA-) Ismael Garc?a Varea, U. Castilla la Mancha (Natural-Language Processing) Lluis God?, IIIA-CSIC (Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Logic) Francisco Herrera, U. Granada (Fuzzy Systems) Juan Huete, U. Granada (Intelligent Web and Information Retrieval) Pedro Larra?aga, U. Polit?cnica de Madrid (Machine Learning) Pedro Meseguer, IIIA-CSIC (Constraints, Search and Planning) Seraf?n Moral, U. Granada (Uncertainty in AI) Sascha Ossowski, U. Rey Juan Carlos (Multiagent Systems) Filiberto Pl?, U. Jaume I (Robotics and Vision) Jos? 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Please pre-register your teams ASAP. > > Thanks. > > Best Regards, > Aijun Bai > > ===================== > > Call for Participation > Soccer Simulation League - 2D Simulation Competition, RoboCup 2013 > June 24-30, 2013 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) > http://www.robocup2013.org/ > > > Introduction > ------------ > The RoboCup 2D Simulated Soccer League is the oldest of the RoboCup Soccer Simulation Leagues. It is based on the RoboCup Soccer Simulator that enables two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robots plus an autonomous coach agent to play a game of soccer with very realistic rules and game play. Due to its stability the RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a very good research and educational tool for multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning. > We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2013 Soccer Simulation League, 2D competition, which will take place Jun 24-30, 2013, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. To pre-register all teams have to provide a Team Description Paper and in case they are based on another team under a license they have to publish the agent source code. The teams will also have to provide a binary file and annotated logfiles showing the team game play quality. > > > Schedule > -------- > Team Pre-Registration Deadline: January 31, 2013 - 23:59 UTC > Materials Submission Deadline: February 15, 2013 - 23:59 UTC > Qualification Notification: March 1, 2013 - 23:59 UTC > > > QualificationMarch 1, 2013 - 23:59 UTC > -------------- > In RoboCup 2013 up to 24 teams will be allowed to participate in the 2D Simulation competitions. Qualification is based on the quality of the TDP, the team's current performance based annotated logfiles sent. Previous achievements in RoboCup and scientific contributions to the RoboCup community in past years are also relevant for qualification. > There are several general rules on which the qualification processes as well as the tournaments are based: > 1. One-Fourth-Rule: Only one fourth of the participating teams may be from the same country. With 24 places in RoboCup 2013 only 6 teams per country are allowed. If a team is situated in more than one country, the bound location counts. Teams infringing this rule will be ignored in the ordered list of qualified teams. False statement results in penalty. See Appendix A.1 for further explanations. > 2. One-Team-Per-Research-Institution: > Each university or research institute may only qualify one team. If a team is affiliated with more than one institution, the unbound affiliation counts. Teams infringing this rule will be ignored in the ordered list of qualified teams. False statement results in penalty. > 3. Plagiarism-Penalty: > If a team commits plagiarism, the team and its members will be banned from participation for this and next year's RoboCup. The term plagiarism comprises any use of external knowledge without proper referencing, i.e. copying or using the thoughts, ideas, texts or language in general and presenting them as their own. This applies for Team Description Papers as well as logfiles, team code and binaries. All kinds of licenses and copyright have to be respected. This applies for the qualification process as well as the RoboCup tournaments. Please be aware that when a team is found guilty of committing plagiarism it is disqualified and banned at any time. This may also be in the middle of the tournament. > 4. No-Show-Penalty: > If a team qualifies for RoboCup 2013, but is not able to participate, it has to cancel its participation before the deadline in order to give the next-ranked team the chance to take its place. If there are reasons for delays in registration the team has to let OC know so that a reaction in time is possible. If a team fails to observe this rule ('no-show'), the team and its members will be banned for next RoboCup competitions. > 5. Academic-Fairness-Rule: > If any team breaches general academic fairness in any other way, it has to face penalties as well. > 6. Automatic-Qualification-Rules: > The top three teams from last RoboCup (i.e. Helios, WrightEagle and Marlik), and the OC (i.e. Aijun Bai, Jo?o Alberto Fabro and Karl Tuyls) team(s) (if any) are automatically qualified (after pre-registering their teams and submitting appropriate materials). The remaining teams will be selected through the qualification process. > > > Pre-Registration > ---------------- > All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the deadline (31 January 2013). To pre-register, send an E-Mail to aijunbai at gmail.comwith the subject '2013 Pre-registration TeamName'. The E-Mail should contain the following information: > 1. Team-Name: > 2. Country: > 3. Affiliation: > 4. Team-Leader: > 5. Team Members: > 6. Contact E-Mail: > 7. Base-Team: > 8. Dependencies: > You should receive a confirmation e-mail for your pre-registration. > Affiliation is the team's organization, institute or university. Dependencies should include all dependencies of your team binaries from the standard repositories (we will set these up before hands, so every team binary should be executable at the tournament). Under Base-Team each team using another team as base for their agents, has to specify this team. Please note that you have to provide correct and full information and giving false or incomplete statement will be penalized with banning of the team and its members. Please be aware that with respect to gentlemanly play, we will NOT allow any team name changes from the pre-registration to the competition in RoboCup 2013. > If a team has based its agent on external code or libraries published under certain licenses or copyright, it has to observe the according rules. In most cases this will be the GNU General Public License, i.e. a proper disclaimer has to be included in Team Description Paper and source code and the source code has to be submitted as well. After official RoboCup competitions the binaries will be published, i.e. the rules of the corresponding license have to be respected as well. For GPL this also implies publishing the code. > > > Qualification Materials > ----------------------- > All teams who wish to qualify need to send their qualification materials by the deadline (15 February 2013). To send the qualification materials, send an E-Mail to aijunbai at gmail.com with the subject '2013 Qualification Materials TeamName'. The E-Mail should contain the following information and files: > 1. Team-Name: > 2. Country: > 3. Affiliation: > 4. Team-Leader: > 5. Team Members: > 6. Contact E-Mail: > 7. Base-Team: > 8. Dependencies: > Attachment Files: > 9. Team Description Paper ('TDP_TeamName.pdf') > 10. Team Binary (and also source code depending on the base code license) > 11. Logfiles (compressed in a single file ('Logfiles_TeamName.tar.gz') > 12. Appendix ('Appendix_TeamName.pdf') > In order to participate in qualification, a team has to send as attachments a Team Description paper, the team current binary as well as logfiles showing the team's game play quality and a separate appendix to the TDP describing the logfiles. The deadline for submission is February 15th, 2013. > > > Team Description Paper > ---------------------- > Each team has to submit a team description paper (in English) describing the focus and ideas as well as recent advancements implemented in the team. This paper must have a length of 4 to 6 pages in Springer LNCS style and has to be submitted as PDF (to be named 'TDP_TeamName.pdf'). Please note: A team can only be qualified if the quality of its TDP is appropriate! > The Team Description Paper (TDP) should comprise, among other things: the scientific focus of the team; team's current efforts; progress since last TDP/competition; team base code and description how the team is different from the base code; originality of the team's approach; results (team results or ideally results achieved using the team's main scientific contribution(s)); related work (at least 5 and ideally more than 10 references comparing the work with related work developed by other teams). > Please be aware that the TDP has to describe the team's very own scientific efforts and explicitly illustrate whether a team has used external knowledge (ideas, code, agent base or the like) to build upon. If a team did use knowledge not evolved by this team, the own achievements have to be outlined in contrast to this. This also applies if one or more team members have switched from another team or a new team is created on the base of another even though the involved persons have not changed. If external knowledge is used but not referenced, explained and differentiated from in the TDP, the team and its members will be penalized with banning for this and next year's RoboCup. > > > Team Binary/Source Code > ----------------------- > Teams should send an attachment with a working binary. Depending on the base code license teams should also provide the team's complete source code. Team binary or source code should be compressed in a single file named ('Binary_TeamName.tar.gz' or 'Source_TeamName.tar.gz'). > > > Logfiles and Appendix > --------------------- > In order to assess the team's performance and evaluate its scientific efforts in the context of game play, teams have to submit 8 logfiles against one or more teams of last year's RoboCup ( http://www.socsim.robocup.org/files/2D/binary/RoboCup2012/) and 2 logfiles against the latest agent2d ( http://sourceforge.jp/projects/rctools/downloads/55186/agent2d-3.1.1.tar.gz/or later). Logfiles comprise both rcg and rcl in version 5 (server::game_log_version = 5) generated with compression (server::game_log_compression = 1 and server::text_log_compression = 1) on using the most recent version of the Soccer Server. These logfiles have to prove that the team is competitive enough to participate and demonstrate the team's characteristics. It is expected that specific scenes from these logfiles are referenced from within a separate appendix (to be named 'Appendix_TeamName.pdf', consisting of entries in the following form: ; additional graphics are allowed) accompanying the TDP, linking research with implementation and game play. Due to the size of logfiles, it is recommended to store your files online and send only the link(s). > > > Qualification Results > ----------------------- > The TDPs and logfiles of all teams will be peer reviewed by experts in 2D RoboCup Simulation League nominated by the OC. The reviewers will evaluate the qualification materials and rank the teams. The ranks will be averaged into a global ranking and the top teams on that ranking will be qualified for the RoboCup 2D simulation competition. Qualification results will be announced on March 1th 2013. Please notice that the submitted materials of all qualified teams will be made publicly available during the announcement of qualification results. > > > Appendix > -------- > A.1 Explanations to General Rule 1 > "If a team is situated in more than one country, the bound location counts." General rule 1 defines an upper bound of 6 teams from the same country. If 6 qualified teams already originate from country A and there is a team XY originating from country A as well as country B, team XY is not allowed to participate in RoboCup despite the fact that the quota for country B may not be reached. > A.2 Explanations to General Rule 2 > "If a team is affiliated with more than one institution, the unbound affiliation counts." General rule 2 defines that only one team per institute may participate in RoboCup. However, if a team XY is affiliated with institution A as well as institution B and there is already a team affiliated with A, the team XY may participate. > > > Best Regards, > Aijun Bai > > > On Behalf of Organizing Committees > 2D Competition, Soccer Simulation League > RoboCup 2013 - Eindhoven > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From d.polani at herts.ac.uk Thu Feb 14 20:30:58 2013 From: d.polani at herts.ac.uk (Daniel Polani) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:30:58 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Research Fellow in Agent Learning/Adaptation Algorithms Message-ID: <20765.36818.258702.615116@thelma.stca.herts.ac.uk> RESEARCH FELLOW IN AGENT LEARNING/ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS ------------------------------------------------------------------ Adaptive Systems Research Group (http://adapsys.feis.herts.ac.uk/) School of Computer Science University of Hertfordshire, UK (www.herts.ac.uk) Research Fellowship in Agent/Robot Learning Algorithms Salary per annum: UH6 - 25,504-30,424 GBP pa (depending on qualifications and experience) Contact for informal inquiries: Dr. Daniel Polani (E-mail: d.polani at herts.ac.uk) PROJECT AND REQUIREMENTS ------------------------ A Research Fellow post is available in the EU Framework VII funded project CORBYS (Cognitive Control Framework for Robotic Systems). As a part of a European project, this full-time research post will allow the postholder to pursue research into novel methods for self-motivated behaviour generation, behaviour anticipation, intentionality and initiative detection, based on principled information-theoretic approaches, in the context of robotic agents. The CORBYS consortium consists of several European partners in Germany, UK, Belgium, Spain, Norway and Slovenia. The University of Hertfordshire team is involved in the development of novel algorithms for above tasks. The development of the algorithms and software as well as learning and adaptation algorithms suitable to run on physical robots, based on previous research expertise by the project team, forms a central part in the research. Applicants for the post should have a strong postgraduate degree (MSc or PhD) in a quantitative research-oriented discipline, such as computer science, mathematics or physics. The post requires strong mathematical background, with emphasis on the areas of probabilistic modeling, information theory and/or stochastic control. Excellent programming skills are essential. It is desirable for applicants to have experience in robot learning, machine learning, or related areas; experience with robotic software development and relevant frameworks such as ROS are a plus. Applicants will have a high degree of motivation and, at the same time the ability to work both independently and in collaboration with the other investigators in the group and the project consortium in an exciting and ambitious research project. FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------- The postholder will be a member of the Adaptive Systems Research Group (http://adapsys.feis.herts.ac.uk/) at the University of Hertfordshire in the School of Computer Science which includes more than 30 research staff members (postdocs and PhD students). The Adaptive Systems Research Group is an enthusiastic, vibrant and highly innovative multidisciplinary research group with an excellent international research track record, which includes work on principled mathematical methods to construct biologically inspired models for Artificial Intelligence, cognitive embodied systems and Artificial Life. Research in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire has been recognized as excellent by the latest Research Assessment Exercise, with 55% of the research submitted being rated as world leading or internationally excellent. The University of Hertfordshire itself ranks 27th in England for post-2008 RAE-funding in Computer Science and Informatics. The university is located in Hatfield, less than 25 minutes by train from London Kings Cross and with convenient access to Stansted, Luton and Heathrow airports and, via St. Albans Thameslink, also to Gatwick airport. The position is full-time. The work will be based at University of Hertfordshire and may include short stays at European partner institutions. The position is based on a fixed-term contract ending on 31. January 2015. The position is to be filled as soon as possible. CONTACT AND APPLICATION ----------------------- All formal applications must be made via the Human Resources Department at University of Hertfordshire: http://web-apps.herts.ac.uk/uhweb/apps/hr/research-vacancies.cfm The above website will allow potential applications to find out more information about the post, including a detailed job and person specification. Please consult this website in order to evaluate your suitability for the post. Note that under current UKBA regulations, the University is unlikely to be able to get a work permit in respect of this post. We can therefore only accept applications from people who will have the right to work in the UK for at least one year from the date of appointment. For other informal inquiries related to the post please contact Dr. Daniel Polani (d.polani at herts.ac.uk). Closing date: 12. March 2013 ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Daniel Polani Reader in Artificial Life Adaptive Systems Research Group The University of Hertfordshire, School of Computer Science College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, United Kingdom URL: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqdp1 E-mail: d.polani at herts.ac.uk Fax: +44-1707-284-303 Tel: +44-1707-284-380 From udo.frese at dfki.de Fri Feb 15 08:05:54 2013 From: udo.frese at dfki.de (Udo Frese) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:05:54 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Robot Vision Message-ID: <511E32B2.40104@dfki.de> CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Real-Time Image Processing Special Issue on Robot Vision Guest Editors: Udo Frese (University of Bremen) Heiko Hirschmueller (German Aerospace Center, DLR) The special issue focuses on real-time vision for robots. Original theoretical as well as practical contributions are of interest. Papers addressing specific scenarios and applications are welcome if they provide lessons learned beyond this one scenario. Relevant topics for this special issue include but are not limited to - real-time stereo matching - real-time localization (visual odometry, optical flow, localization w.r.t. a map) - real-time object recognition for robotics - real-time object or feature tracking - real-time interpretation and integration of RGBD-data - real-time fusion of vision with other sensors - real-time visual perception / action cycle - real-time vision for human-robot interaction - vision based navigation and path planning - visual servoing - vision in RoboCup - implementations on the GPU, FPGA or embedded systems for all of the above - benchmarks for all of the above - real-world applications of all of the above Dates Papers submission 15 April 2013 First review by 1 September 2013 Second review by 15 December 2013 Camera ready papers by 15 February, 2014 (note: papers are reviewed as soon as they are submitted and appear online soon after they are accepted). More information at http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/cfp_Robot_Vision_UF_revised.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1341511-0 Contact ufrese at informatik.uni-bremen.de , heiko.hirschmueller at dlr.de From Mary-Anne at themagiclab.org Fri Feb 15 15:20:09 2013 From: Mary-Anne at themagiclab.org (Mary-Anne Williams) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:20:09 +1100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Commonsense-2013 Extended Deadline (Abstracts due Feb. 27; Full papers due March 3) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *Eleventh International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning* We invite submissions for presentation at Commonsense-2013, to be held in Cyprus, May 27-29, 2013. Important Dates (NEW!) * February 27, 2013: Title and Abstract (~200 words) due * March 3, 2013: Submissions (full papers) * April 10, 2013: Acceptances * April 28, 2013: Deadline for submitting final paper * May 27-29, 2013: Symposium (Please note that these dates are preliminary and are subject to change.) Information http://www.commonsensereasoning.org/2013/ Purpose Endowing computers with common sense is one of the major long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence research. One approach to this problem is to formalize commonsense reasoning using representations based on formal logic or other formal theories such as algebraic representations. The challenges to creating such a formalization include the accumulation of large amounts of knowledge about our everyday world, the representation of this knowledge in suitable formal languages, the integration of different representations in a coherent way, and the development of reasoning methods that use these representations. A decade ago, commonsense reasoning was considered visionary and long term, but it is now considered highly relevant for current applications, such as robotic systems that can interact with humans in open environments, and information extraction systems that use commonsense knowledge together with corpus-based learning to interpret natural language texts. Commonsense-2013 will have a special track on commonsense reasoning in natural language understanding, including topics such as: speech acts, dialog, text comprehension, synthesizing large corpus NLP techniques with commonsense reasoning, textual entailment, and natural logic. As before, papers that describe applications in which logic-based commonsense reasoning has made a contribution and which can help shape our research agendas in the future are encouraged. Topics of interest at the symposium include, but are not limited to: * Formal representations, reasoning, and algorithms, for specific commonsense domains including: + time, change, action, and causality + geometric space + commonsense physical reasoning + commonsense biological reasoning (of plants, animals and humans) + mental states and propositional attitudes, such as knowledge, belief, intention, desire, emotion + interactions among multiple agents and social relations + law and legal reasoning * Preformal analysis of original aspects of these domains * Applications of commonsense reasoning to specific tasks including: + cognitive robotics (action and perception) + logic-based planning + natural language processing, machine reading, understanding narrative structure, textual entailment, query answering + web search and web-based services + Semantic Web + computer vision + computer-aided instruction + home automation + assistive technologies + biomedical informatics; integrating and mapping biomedical ontologies * Relations among object-level theories, such as abstraction and contextualization * Methods of deductive and plausible reasoning that are applicable to commonsense domains and problems, including: + answer set programming + heuristic and approximate reasoning + nonmonotonic reasoning + belief revision + probabilistic reasoning * Meta-theorems about commonsense theories and techniques such as: + metalogical theorems such as completeness theorems + computational complexity * Methods for creating commonsense knowledge bases, including: + statistical and corpus-based machine learning techniques + crowd sourcing + hand crafting microtheories + combinations of the above techniques * Relation of other fields, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, game theory, and economics to formal theories of commonsense knowledge. The symposium aims to bring together researchers who are interested in the formalization and automation of commonsense reasoning. We aim for rigorous and concrete paper submissions. While mathematical logic is expected to be the primary lingua franca of the symposium, we also welcome papers using a rigorous but not logic-based representation of commonsense domains. Technical papers offering new results in the area are especially welcome; object-level theories are of particular interest. We also welcome demos of practical systems that make use of commonsense reasoning. In addition, survey papers, papers studying the relationship between different approaches, and papers on methodological issues such as theory evaluation, are also encouraged. Submissions The text of papers submitted (excluding references) should be at most 6 pages long, in either AAAI or IJCAI format. Full submission information may be found at the conference website: http://www.commonsensereasoning.org/ Chairs Questions may be directed to the chairs: Conference Chair * Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (antonis at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs * Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus (loizos at ouc.ac.cy) * Charlie Ortiz, Nuance Communications Inc, California ( charles.ortiz at nuance.com) * Benjamin Johnston, University of Technology, Sydney ( johnston at it.uts.edu.au) ------ Professor Mary-Anne Williams Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab Associate Dean (Research and Development) Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney * Research and Development Office Building 2 Level 7 Room 7092 *P.O. 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia Phone: + 61 2 9514 2663 (Gunasmin) Facsimile: + 61 2 9514 2868 http://themagiclab.org/Mary-Anne. * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gstein at ist.tugraz.at Sun Feb 17 10:53:35 2013 From: gstein at ist.tugraz.at (Gerald Steinbauer) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:53:35 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 2nd CFP - IEEE AFRICON 2013 - Special Session on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa Message-ID: <5120FCFF.50304@ist.tugraz.at> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Call for Papers for the IEEE AFRICON 2013 Special Session on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information =================== IEEE AFRICON is the premier biennial event of the IEEE in Africa. This flagship conference provides a platform for academics and industry professionals to share ideas and present their latest research. Co-sponsored by the IEEE Region 8 and the IEEE South Africa Section, Africon 2013 will be hosted in the wonderful island of Mauritius from 9 ? 12 September 2013. We are happy to announce the Special Track on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa (RAIA). Robotics and Artificial Intelligence research in the African context has not yet reached its full potential. Since the last edition of this special track at 2011 AFRICON, the African researchers in the field of AI and robotics are much better connected, for instance, through initiatives such as the AFRON network. With this special track, we intend to bring together the African Robotics and AI community and discuss the various aspects of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in the African context. Both cutting-edge fields may become drivers for Africa industry and have a great potential for education and the development of human resources. With this special session, besides sharing actual research results, we are interested in building a vibrant and sustainable research community by connecting people who are active in both fields. Further, the focus of this special session is on Robotics and AI in education. We are interested in robotics and AI initiatives in Africa and want to invite interested researcher from Africa and all over the world to contribute to this aspect. In particular, we intend to address the following: * Current research results from African researchers in the fields. * Robotics and AI in education that could make an impact for Africa. * Robotics competitions relevant in the African context (e.g. RoboCup Junior or IEEE Robocomp). * The role of open source in development of Robotics and AI in Africa. * The role of Robotics and AI for the economic development in the context of 21st century production and manufacturing in Africa (automation, mining industries, etc.) * Successful robotics and AI co-operation projects between African institutions and institutions in the rest of the world Important Dates =============== * Paper submission: February 28, 2013 * Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2013 * Camera-ready copy due: June 30, 2013 * Technical Session: September 9 ? 13, 2013 Submission Details ================== Prospective authors are invited to electronically submit full papers of their work in English (6 pages, ~4500 words, in pdf format), following the instructions available on the web site. Accepted papers will be published in an IEEE proceedings volume that will be indexed by EI and IEEE Xplore, and will be available at the time of the conference. For further information visit main conference website at: * http://africon2013.org. Further detail about the RAIA Special Track will be made available soon. Session Chairs ============== Alexander Ferrein, FH Aachen, Germany Gerald Steinbauer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Billy Okal, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany From A.Visser at uva.nl Mon Feb 18 04:37:09 2013 From: A.Visser at uva.nl (Visser, A.) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:37:09 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 3rd Call for Papers: RoboCup Symposium 2013 - deadline March 1 Message-ID: <0963669047ECDE4B9EF137DF26A5E250241F64FC@MBX04.uva.nl> Dear all, The deadline for submission to the RoboCup International Symposium 2013 is approaching fast: ******************************************************************** Call for Papers RoboCup International Symposium 2013 Eindhoven, The Netherlands July 1st, 2012 http://www.robocup2013.org/ ******************************************************************** OVERVIEW 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 at Home, RoboCup at Work and RoboCupJunior). Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and educational activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. 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. SUBMISSION 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. 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 (http://www.springer.com/series/1244) and must be electronically submitted through the symposium web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2013 All contributions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a blind review process. NEW TRACK 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. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full papers: March 1, 2013 * Notification to authors: April 14, 2013 * Submission of camera-ready copies: April 29, 2013 * RoboCup 2013 Symposium: July 1st, 2013 SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS * Sven Behnke, University of Bonn * Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University * Arnoud Visser, Universiteit van Amsterdam * Rong Xiong, Zhejiang University AREAS OF INTEREST * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile and humanoid robots - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robotic system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators * Perception and Action - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robotic Cognition and Learning - world modeling - localization, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - reinforcement learning - complex motor skill acquisition - motion and sensor model learning * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Human-Robot Interaction - human-robot interfaces - speech synthesis and natural language generation - visualization - emotion recognition - human's intent cognition - affect detection and synthesis - robot response to external disturbances - safety and dependability * Education and Edutainment - Robotics and Artificial Intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications - disaster rescue information systems - search and rescue robots - robotic surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home Regards on behalf of the symposium co-chairs Manuala Veloso, Rong Xiong, Sven Behnke and Arnoud Visser Email: robocupsymposium2013 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:48:36 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] deadline extention: RoboCup Symposium 2013 - new deadline March 22 Message-ID: <0963669047ECDE4B9EF137DF26A5E250292A6E3C@MBX04.uva.nl> Dear all, We have decided to extend the deadline for submission to the RoboCup International Symposium 2013 with three weeks: ******************************************************************** Call for Papers RoboCup International Symposium 2013 Eindhoven, The Netherlands July 1st, 2012 http://www.robocup2013.org/ ******************************************************************** OVERVIEW 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 at Home, RoboCup at Work and RoboCupJunior). Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and educational activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. 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. SUBMISSION 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. 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 (http://www.springer.com/series/1244) and must be electronically submitted through the symposium web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2013 All contributions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a blind review process. NEW TRACK 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. We would like to have up to three open-source projects submission from each league. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full papers: March 22, 2013 * Notification to authors: April 28, 2013 * Submission of camera-ready copies: May 15, 2013 * RoboCup 2013 Symposium: July 1st, 2013 SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS * Sven Behnke, University of Bonn * Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University * Arnoud Visser, Universiteit van Amsterdam * Rong Xiong, Zhejiang University AREAS OF INTEREST * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile and humanoid robots - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robotic system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators * Perception and Action - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robotic Cognition and Learning - world modeling - localization, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - reinforcement learning - complex motor skill acquisition - motion and sensor model learning * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Human-Robot Interaction - human-robot interfaces - speech synthesis and natural language generation - visualization - emotion recognition - human's intent cognition - affect detection and synthesis - robot response to external disturbances - safety and dependability * Education and Edutainment - Robotics and Artificial Intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications - disaster rescue information systems - search and rescue robots - robotic surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home Regards on behalf of the symposium co-chairs Manuala Veloso, Rong Xiong, Sven Behnke and Arnoud Visser Email: robocupsymposium2013 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Here is the proof: > http://youtu.be/DWtYl0afOxk > > The video was made at the recent RoboCup workshop RoBOW'13.1 > http://robow.de > You can find the list of participating teams in the comments of the video. > > Enjoy! > - Heinrich > _______________________________________________ > robocup-worldwide mailing list > robocup-worldwide at cc.gatech.edu > https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/robocup-worldwide > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sara Iatauro "What you do in life, echoes in eternity" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pal at isr.ist.utl.pt Tue Feb 26 06:25:14 2013 From: pal at isr.ist.utl.pt (Pedro U. Lima) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:25:14 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Call for Papers: ERF2013 2nd Workshop on Robot Competitions: Benchmarking, Technology Transfer, and Education Message-ID: <517597BA-629C-4154-B917-EF64A2AD6C2F@isr.ist.utl.pt> (apologies for duplicates) ========================= *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ========================= 2nd Workshop on Robot Competitions: Benchmarking, Technology Transfer, and Education European Robotics Forum 2013, 20 March, Lyon https://sites.google.com/site/erf2013robocompworkshop/ Robot competitions, such as the DARPA Grand Challenge, RoboCup, IEEE ICRA Robot Challenge, ELROB, SAUC-E and IEEE/RSJ IROS 2012 competitions have recently emerged as a complementary approach to advanced robotics R&D. These competitions often use grand challenges, require the integration of robotic systems and benchmark results on a common reference test bed (e.g., a urban driving scenario, the NIST USaR arena, RoboCup at Home). One can find outdoor and indoor challenge scenarios. Many competitions focus on research problems, others enforce educational aspects. All of them are excellent vehicles for disseminating the relevance of robotics research and education to the general public, and especially young people. Some pose long-term challenges and have developed well-established principles for research progress through annual rule updates, while others challenge teams to tackle a difficult large-scale problem, which is, in principle, solvable by a suitable integration of the state of the art. Frequently, innovative approaches are developed along the way and - ideally - part of the resulting technology is transferred to real world applications. In this workshop our overall aim is to discuss and compare how different robot competitions and participating researchers pursue their research objectives, and learn lessons to improve the competitions, with the objective of fostering research advances in intelligent (multi-)robot systems, by providing challenging and imaginative scenarios, test beds and benchmarking methods and tools. This workshop will be organized jointly by the EURATHLON and RoCKIn EC FP7 Coordinated Actions, and follows a first edition of this Workshop organized during the latest IEEE/RSJ IROS Conference, that took place in Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2012. We solicit the submission of short papers on robot competitions, to be selected for presentation during the workshop (only three/four papers will be selected for oral presentation, as the workshop program includes also four invited talks). Topics include, but are not limited to: ? Aerial robot competitions ? Autonomous driving competitions ? Benchmarking through robot competitions ? Competition test beds ? Domestic robots competitions ? Field robot competitions ? Position papers on robot competitions ? Robot Soccer competitions ? Underwater Autonomous Vehicle competitions Submission Guidelines Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format to Lyn Haigh until March 4. Four pages in the standard IEEE format are allowed for each paper, including figures. Papers must be written in English following the standard IEEE guidelines. All accepted papers will be made publicly available in the Workshop web pages. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jacky at cs.umanitoba.ca Wed Feb 27 03:03:14 2013 From: jacky at cs.umanitoba.ca (Jacky Baltes) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:03:14 -0500 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Fwd: [RiTA2013] Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <00f501ce14c0$68320cf0$389626d0$@org> References: <00f501ce14c0$68320cf0$389626d0$@org> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: RiTA2013 Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:59 AM Subject: [RiTA2013] Call for Papers To: jacky at cs.umanitoba.ca *R**i**TA2013* *The 2nd International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 2013* *December 18 - 20, 2013 in Denver, USA* *www.rita2013.org***** * * *Call for Papers* ** *Welcome to RiTA2013* The 2nd International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA2013) will take place in Denver, USA on December 18 - 20, 2013. The 15th International Robot Olympiad (IRO) will be held in conjunction with the conference. We invite scientists, engineers, educators and students to submit contributions to the conference to discuss robot intelligence technology and applications. The intelligence technology (IT) features thinking and feeling robots that are recognized as an enabler for many human capacities. IT makes artificial creatures smarter. You will discover incremental innovation of IT at RiTA2013 in Denver.**** Denver is the capital of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is located in the South Platte River valley on the western edge of the high plains just east of the front range of the Rocky Mountains. Denver offers quick, easy access to the state?s biggest attraction, the Rocky Mountains, where a wealth of national and state parks, national forests and scenic areas fill your senses. Gold rush mountain towns and ski resorts are great places to spend a day shopping, exploring and taking in the amazing scenery. **** ** ** *Conference Scope* Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:**** * ** **Cognitive intelligence*: Multi-criteria decision making, Task scheduling, Memory management, Fuzzy reasoning, Neural network, Robot-learning system, Reasoning strategies, Brain models / cognitive science**** * ** **Social intelligence: *Human-robot interaction, Human-machine interface/ integration, Teleoperation/ telerobotics/ haptics, Human biology and biomechanics, Markets and computational societies**** * ** **Behavioral intelligence: *Kinematics/dynamics/control, Task/motion/trajectory planning, Mobile/ humanoid/ micro/ nano robotics, Neuroscience based control, Neurobotics, CPG-based control, Physiologic signals integrated robot control**** * ** **Ambient intelligence: *Sensor integration/fusion/perception, Multisensor data fusion, Navigation/ SLAM/ localization, Distributed intelligent algorithms and techniques**** * ** **Collective intelligence: *Multi-robot systems, Cellular/distributed/cooperating robotics, Learning and hybrid systems, Human knowledge discovery, modeling and system, Swam intelligence**** * ** **Genetic intelligence*: Computational intelligence, Evolutionary algorithm, Evolutionary robotics, Mimetic algorithm, Immune algorithm**** * ** **Applications*: Intelligent agents, Computer vision, Virtual reality, Augmented reality, Signal processing, Military, Surveillance, Medicine, Pattern recognition, Face recognition, Finger print recognition, Finance and marketing, Stock market, Education, Emerging applications, etc.**** * * *Important Dates* * ** Invited Session Proposal: June 30, 2013* * ** Contributed paper submission: July 30, 2013* * ** Acceptance notification: September 30, 2013* * ** Final paper submission: October 20, 2013* ** ** *Papers Submission and Publication* Papers should be submitted through the conference web site. Papers will be presented in two types of sessions; interactive and oral. The submitted papers are subject to a rigorous peer review by at least two referees for their technical and practical contributions. All of accepted and presented papers will be published in the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing of Springer. **** ** ** *Call for Interactive Sessions* There will be an interactive session held at the conference, according to demanding opportunity for in-depth discussions and instant feedback. Authors are encouraged to submit their late-breaking results related to all aspects of robot intelligence technology and applications. Paper format is the same as the regular paper template. When submitting papers for interactive session, authors should choose one among the three different media types of videos, posters, exhibition or demonstration to contribute to the interactive session. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. **** ** ** *Call for Invited Sessions* We invite you to organize a special session relating to your research fields or region. The invited session consists of at least five papers on the area. The session organizer invites professionals in the field or region, to solicit papers and organize the session program at its own discretion. You can take a chance to announce your research area in public and discuss a specific topic with experts.**** ** ** *Call for Tutorials & Workshops* Tutorials and workshops provide short intensifying lectures to researchers or public. Proposals for tutorials and workshops that address topics related to the conference topics are welcome to be submitted by *June 30, 2013*. A proposal shall include the tutorial title, 500 words abstract, a brief statement of purpose, contact information with a photo.**** ** ** *Conference Organizers * General Co-Chairs: Jong-Hwan Kim, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Korea**** Eric T. Matson, Purdue Univ., USA**** Program Co-Chairs: Fakhri Karray, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada**** Peter Xu, Auckland Univ., New Zealand**** Hyun Myung, KAIST, Korea**** Organizing Chairs: Jun Jo, Griffith Univ., Australia**** Jacky (Hansjorg) Baltes, Univ. of Manitoba, Canada** *Organized by*** International Robot Olympiad Committee **** Ameribotics**** * * *Technically co-sponsored by * Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology**** Korea Robot Soccer Association **** Springer**** * * *RiTA2013 Secretariat* Seoul 121-040, KOREA**** Tel: +82 2 717-3280 Email: info at rita2013.org Website: www.rita2013.org **** ** ** If you wish to remove your email from the mailing list, contact the secretariat. **** -- Prof. Jacky Baltes, EITC E2-402 Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2 VoIP: +1 (310) 961-2209, Fax: +1 (204) 474-7609 Email: jacky (AT) cs.umanitoba.ca http://aalab.cs.umanitoba.ca Skype: jacky.baltes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Ulrich-Karras at t-online.de Wed Feb 27 07:39:45 2013 From: Ulrich-Karras at t-online.de (Ulrich-Karras at t-online.de) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:39:45 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Second Call for Participation Message-ID: <1UAgIT-0U0FrE0@fwd15.aul.t-online.de> SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ROBOCUP 2013 LOGISTICS LEAGUE SPONSORED BY FESTO JUNE 24 - 30, 2013 (EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS) HTTP://WWW.ROBOCUP2013.ORG [1] We have extended the deadlines for qualifikation and pre-registration. 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URL: From steinbauer at ist.tugraz.at Thu Feb 28 10:34:21 2013 From: steinbauer at ist.tugraz.at (Gerald Steinbauer) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:34:21 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Deadline Extended - IEEE AFRICON 2013 - Special Session on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa Message-ID: <512F78FD.3080002@ist.tugraz.at> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENDED Call for Papers for the IEEE AFRICON 2013 Special Session on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information =================== IEEE AFRICON is the premier biennial event of the IEEE in Africa. This flagship conference provides a platform for academics and industry professionals to share ideas and present their latest research. Co-sponsored by the IEEE Region 8 and the IEEE South Africa Section, Africon 2013 will be hosted in the wonderful island of Mauritius from 9 ? 12 September 2013. We are happy to announce the Special Track on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa (RAIA). Robotics and Artificial Intelligence research in the African context has not yet reached its full potential. Since the last edition of this special track at 2011 AFRICON, the African researchers in the field of AI and robotics are much better connected, for instance, through initiatives such as the AFRON network. With this special track, we intend to bring together the African Robotics and AI community and discuss the various aspects of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in the African context. Both cutting-edge fields may become drivers for Africa industry and have a great potential for education and the development of human resources. With this special session, besides sharing actual research results, we are interested in building a vibrant and sustainable research community by connecting people who are active in both fields. Further, the focus of this special session is on Robotics and AI in education. We are interested in robotics and AI initiatives in Africa and want to invite interested researcher from Africa and all over the world to contribute to this aspect. In particular, we intend to address the following: * Current research results from African researchers in the fields. * Robotics and AI in education that could make an impact for Africa. * Robotics competitions relevant in the African context (e.g. RoboCup Junior or IEEE Robocomp). * The role of open source in development of Robotics and AI in Africa. * The role of Robotics and AI for the economic development in the context of 21st century production and manufacturing in Africa (automation, mining industries, etc.) * Successful robotics and AI co-operation projects between African institutions and institutions in the rest of the world Important Dates =============== * Paper submission: March 31, 2013 (new) * Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2013 * Camera-ready copy due: June 30, 2013 * Technical Session: September 9 ? 13, 2013 Submission Details ================== Prospective authors are invited to electronically submit full papers of their work in English (6 pages, ~4500 words, in pdf format), following the instructions available on the web site. Accepted papers will be published in an IEEE proceedings volume that will be indexed by EI and IEEE Xplore, and will be available at the time of the conference. For further information visit main conference website at: * http://africon2013.org. Further detail about the RAIA Special Track will be made available soon. Session Chairs ============== Alexander Ferrein, FH Aachen, Germany Gerald Steinbauer, Graz University of Technology, Austria Billy Okal, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany From aijunbai at gmail.com Mon Mar 4 21:00:53 2013 From: aijunbai at gmail.com (Aijun Bai) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:00:53 +0800 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Qualification Results - 2D Simulation Competition, RoboCup 2013 Message-ID: Dear all, We have finished the qualification process for RoboCup 2013 Soccer Simulation 2D League. The following 24 teams are qualified (or conditionally qualified): *Rank* *Team-Name* *Country* *Decision* 1 HELIOS2013 Japan Qualified 2 WrightEagle China Qualified 3 GPR2D Brazil Qualified 4 Gliders2013 Australia Qualified 5 YuShan2013 China Qualified 6 GDUT_TiJi2013 China Qualified 7 FC Portugal 2D Portugal Qualified 8 ITAndroids Brazil Qualified 9 UBC Thunderbots Canada Qualified 10 FC-Perspolis Iran Qualified 11 Oxsy Romania Qualified 12 Axiom Iran Qualified 13 CSU_Yunlu China Qualified 14 AUT Masterminds Iran Qualified 15 Cyrus Iran Qualified 16 Ri-one Japan Qualified 17 Warthog Robotics Brazil Qualified 18 Nexus2D Iran Qualified 19 Damash Iran Qualified 20 LegenDary Iran Qualified 21 UT Austin Villa USA Qualified 22 HfutEngine2013 China Conditionally Qualified 23 Daredevils Egypt Conditionally Qualified 24 AUA2D China Conditionally Qualified Some notes on the qualification process: - All TDPs and other materials were analyzed by an evaluation committee composed by 4 experts on the Simulation 2D League. The logfiles, appendixes, binaries and source codes (if needed) were mostly used to confirm information available on TDPs and decide ties between teams. - It is necessary to qualify 7 Iran teams (although more than 1/4 of the total) in order to have 24 teams qualified. - HfutEngine2013, Daredevils and AUA2D are conditionally qualified and will be fully qualified if they deliver an improved version of TDP and the missing materials (if any) by the deadline (March 15), or will be disqualified. - All submitted materials of qualified teams can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jxzarcj5uv4tiiv/n7RyV-lWa4?m . Currently materials of conditionally qualified teams are not included and will be placed here later if qualified. Finally we would like to congratulate all teams which have qualified and we hope that teams who didn't will try to improve this year and participate next year. 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October 27 - 29th October, 2013 Deadline for submission of FULL PAPERS, applications for SPECIAL SESSIONS and ROBOTIC DEMONSTRATIONS: 3rd of July, 2013 Download the call for papers: http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/html/files/CallForPappersICSR2013Call1.pdf Proceedings to be published in Springer Verlag LNAI/LNCS ================================================================ SUMMARY: The International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) brings together researchers and practitioners working on the issues of interaction between humans and robots and on the integration of robots into our society. As in previous years there will be an overall theme for the conference, this year it will be "Companionship". ================================================================ PAPER SUBMISSION: ICSR 2013 invites the submission of full papers from researchers, at any stage in their career, that contain significant findings and advances in all fields of social robotics. We are particularly interested in work that addresses or supports this years conference theme in topics of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments - Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities - Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life - Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive robots - Personal robots for the home - Social acceptance and impact in the society - Robot ethics in human society - Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding - Control architectures for social robotics - Socially appealing design methodologies - Safety in robots working in human spaces - Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots - Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming All contributions will be fully peer reviewed and the proceedings will be published with Springer-Verlag as part of their LNAI/LNCS series. Formatting and submission details will be available here: http://www.icsr2013.org.uk/paper.php DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 3/7/13 ================================================================= SPECIAL SESSION: ICSR 2013 also invites applications for special sessions, whereby a focussed topic in the area of social robotics can be discussed at the conference and represented in the proceedings by approximately 6 papers. For expressions of interest please contact conference organisers sec.icsr at gmail.com DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 3/7/13 ================================================================= EXHIBITION: Participants who would like to exhibit their interactive demonstrations at the conference site please prepare 1 page summary about the demonstration and email sec.icsr at gmail.com. Exhibition booths will be allocated to demonstrations approved by the ICSR2013 organizing committee. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 3/7/13 ================================================================= WORKSHOP: Participants are invited to hold a full/half day workshop on 27 October 2013 on a topic relevant to social robotics and the general theme 'Companionship'. Outlines of intended workshops are to be submitted by 6 September 2013. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 6/9/13 ================================================================= ROBOT DESIGN COMPETITION: There will be a competition to draw creative ideas on industrial designs in social or service robotics. Prizes will be awarded to the shortlisted designs. Full details will be posted on the website later in the year. ================================================================= Conference Chair Guido Herrmann University of Bristol Alois Knoll Technische Universit?t M?nchen Program Chairs Martin Pearson Bristol Robotics Laboratory Peter Ford Dominey Inserm - Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute Workshop Chairs Ute Leonards, University of Bristol Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology, Sydney Standing Committee: Shuzhi Sam Ge, National University of Singapore and UESTC. Oussama Khatib, Stanford University. Maj Mataric, University of SouthCalifornia. Haizhou Li, A*Star. Jong-Hwan Kim, KAIST. Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. 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URL: From pstone at cs.utexas.edu Sun Mar 10 21:31:56 2013 From: pstone at cs.utexas.edu (Peter Stone) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:31:56 -0500 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] postdoc opportunity - UT Austin Message-ID: <6647.1362965516@messi.cs.utexas.edu> ********************************************************************* DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, USA POSITION: Post-doctoral fellow and research educator on "Intelligent Robotics" CONTACT: Prof. Peter Stone The University of Texas at Austin 2317 Speedway, Stop D9500 Austin, TX 78712-1757 USA Austin, Texas 78712-0233 U.S.A. pstone at cs.utexas.edu Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellow/research educator position of two years, possibly renewable for additional years, in the Department of Computer Sciences in the Learning Agents Research Group headed by Prof. Peter Stone (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone). Primary responsibilities include performing cutting-edge research in collaboration with faculty and Ph.D. students, teaching a research-based undergraduate course, and helping to manage a fast-paced undergraduate research laboratory. The research will focus on developing robust, adaptive, interactive intelligent robots in an indoor environment. Specifically, the goal is to demonstrate that a team of robots can persist over an extended period of time in a dynamic, uncertain environment. QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field. Experience in robotics is essential. Experience in machine learning, multiagent systems, and/or human-robot interaction is preferable, as is experience programming in ROS. Past teaching experience will also be beneficial. TO APPLY: Applicants should send by email to pstone at cs.utexas.edu - a curriculum vitae - names of two references with contact information - a two-page summary of past research and relevant qualifications - a personal Web page, if available, where further details can be found This position is to start in August 2013 or at any agreed date. Applications will be reviewed as they are received. ********************************************************************* From Benjamin.Johnston at uts.edu.au Tue Mar 12 07:04:11 2013 From: Benjamin.Johnston at uts.edu.au (Benjamin Johnston) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:04:11 +1100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 3 x PhD scholarships in social robotics and "Smarter Planet" technologies at the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia Message-ID: <09911769238232418DA5233E7212886BFB81976AEB@MAILBOXCLUSTER2.adsroot.uts.edu.au> At the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), you can challenge yourself by undertaking PhD studies in artificial intelligence. In this role, you will explore some of the deepest problems of intelligence yet see your work make a real difference in practical systems. The IBM-UTS Smarter Planet Project is offering three scholarships to Australian or international candidates. The scholarship is paid as a tax-exempt $24,653 annual stipend to help cover your living expenses for a maximum of 3.5 years. Tuition fees for successful Australian candidates will be covered by the Research Training Scheme. International candidates may be eligible for an International Research Scholarship that covers tuition fees. These scholarships will support PhD research projects that address real world problems using software, intelligent robots, and connected environments. The objective of the IBM-UTS Smarter Planet Project is to develop novel approaches to constructing intelligent systems that engage seamlessly with users and enable new forms of social interaction. Projects may involve artificial intelligence, formal logic, computational law, cognitive science, data analytics, social computing, robotics and the internet of things. A PhD is rewarding like no ordinary job. You will help create the future at the same time as developing your research skills and preparing you for the next phase of your career. You will work in the vibrant Innovation and Enterprise Research Laboratory (the "magic lab") with access to state-of-the-art technologies, including Australia's only PR2 robot. The research environment is stimulating but relaxed and your colleagues will be highly motivated and skilled researchers. In addition, you will have the opportunity to work with senior research leaders in IBM. We are looking for motivated, resourceful and imaginative people to join us. Normally a Masters or high Honours degree in a relevant field of science, IT or engineering is required but in rare circumstances exceptional candidates without such qualifications are admitted. You do not need to have any specialized knowledge or experience but a high level of skill in software engineering is expected. The position is located at the UTS's Broadway campus, just minutes walk from Central Station and Chinatown. To apply: Send an email with your resume, cover letter and academic transcript to phd at themagiclab.org. Applications Close: April 2, 2013 For more information please email phd at themagiclab.org. CRICOS Provider No: 00099F UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. 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From nunolau at ua.pt Tue Mar 12 09:55:26 2013 From: nunolau at ua.pt (Nuno Lau) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:55:26 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 2nd CfP IROBOT'2013 - 6th International Thematic Track on Intelligent Robotics Message-ID: <3653D822BBE359419CF44AD777DF8B4538D95F8F@SEQUOIA.ua.pt> ---------------------------------------------------------------- IROBOT'2013 CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Thematic Track on Intelligent Robotics To be held at EPIA 2013, September 9-13, 2013, Angra do Hero?smo, Azores, Portugal http://www.epia2013.uac.pt/ irobot.epia2013 at gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- The EPIA Conferences are the major International event on Artificial Intelligence organized in Portugal, under the auspices of APPIA - Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (http://www.appia.pt). Its purpose is to discuss and promote research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related disciplines. Aspects covered range from theoretical and foundational issues to applications interesting researchers, engineers and practitioners. The conference is structured as a set of Thematic Tracks. Conference Proceedings includes a book published by Springer (LNCS Series) and a local proceedings volume. ## Important Dates 15 Mar-2013: Paper Submission Deadline 30 Apr-2013: Author Notification/Registration Open 31 May-2013: Deadline for Final Camera-Ready 9-13 Oct-2013: EPIA'2013 Conference ## IROBOT Description IROBOT'2013 poses itself as a follow-up on the previous 5 International Thematic Tracks/Workshops on Intelligent Robotics held at EPIA since 2005. As in previous editions, its main purpose is to bring together researchers, engineers and other professionals interested in the application of AI techniques in real/simulated robotics to discuss current work and future directions. Each edition tries to promote a focal debate theme. Robotics, from the point of view of AI, has been an important application field, from which AI has also gained. Namely the dynamic and unforeseen nature of the environment, especially for mobile robots, has fostered research in these aspects of AI. Together with the developments in Robotics Research, the use of Robotics in industry has changed a lot in recent years. New paradigms and approaches for industrial robotics have emerged namely for mobile robots localization and navigation in unstructured environments. Industries have to produce items that are increasingly customized by the client and in short lots. Hence, the classical paradigm of a robotic manipulator performing a repetitive task is changing to flexible, adaptable and mobile robots that can recognize the task and the environment and adapt their behaviours accordingly. The adaptation and application of AI techniques to industrial robotics will constitute the focal theme of the IROBOT'2013 thematic track. This topic will be the subject of a panel discussion led by well-known researchers with vast experience in robotics and their different applications. ## Topics of Interest The Workshop will be structured around the following themes: - AI Planning for robotics - Autonomous vehicles - Cognitive robotics - Computer vision and object recognition - Coordination in robotics - Evolutionary robotics and reactive intelligence - Human-robots interaction - Humanoid robotics - Intelligent buildings and warehouses - Intelligent transportation systems - Learning and adaptation in robotics - Mobile robots localization and navigation - Modelling and simulating complex robots - Multi-Robot systems - Field Robots - Real-time reactivity - Robot behaviour engineering - Robotic surveillance - Sensor fusion This topics' list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the topics, and authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in the thematic track main subject. ## Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. Scientific or technical articles describing state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms, systems, environments, problems or applications relevant to the area of Intelligent Industrial Robotics may be submitted. Papers discussing application transfer from simulated to real robots and papers showing socially useful robotic applications generated by participations in robotic competitions are also welcome. Although the main focus is on industrial robots, there will be space for reporting research in AI applied to other types of robots. Submissions must follow the guidelines specified in the EPIA'2013 site. The Springer LNCS format must be used (instructions in http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html/). The length of submitted full papers must not exceed 12 pages. Authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. Paper submissions will be made in PDF format, through the submission page available in the EPIA'2013 website. Demonstrations should be submitted by means of an extended abstract up to 4 pages. This abstract should include a detailed description and a link to a short video of the proposed demonstration. Three program committee members will be assigned to review each paper. Acceptance will be based on the paper's significance, technical quality, clarity, relevance and originality. Accepted papers, must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors should register at the Conference. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. ## Workshop Organizing Committee Nuno Lau (University of Aveiro) Ant?nio Paulo Moreira (University of Porto) Carlos Cardeira (University of Lisbon) ## Program Committee Alexandre da Silva Sim?es, UNESP, Brazil Anibal Ollero, University of Seville, Spain Anna Helena Costa, EPUSP, Brazil Andr? Marcato, Universidade Federal de Ju?z de Fora, Brazil Andr? Scolari, Univ. Federal da Bahia, Brazil Ang?lica Mu?oz, INAOE, Mexico Ant?nio Jos? Neves, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Ant?nio Paulo Moreira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Armando J. Pinho, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Armando Sousa, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Augusto Loureiro da Costa, UFBA, Brazil Axel Hessler, TU Berlin, Germany Carlos Cardeira, Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal Carlos Carreto, Instituto Polit?cnico da Guarda, Portugal C?sar Analide, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK Fernando Os?rio, Universidade S?o Paulo/SC, Brazil Flavio Tonidandel, C.Univ.FEI, Brazil Fumiya Iida, ETHZ, Switzerland Guy Theraulaz, CRCA, France Jorge Dias, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Jos? Luis Gordillo, Tecnol?gico de Monterrey, Mexico Josemar Rodrigues de Souza, Universidade Estadual da Bahia, Brazil Kai Arras, University of Freiburg, Germany Luis Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Luis Moreno, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain Luis Mota, ISCTE, Portugal Luis Paulo Reis, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Luis Seabra Lopes, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marco Dorigo, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Nicolas Jouandeau, Universit? Paris 8, France Nuno Lau, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Paulo Gon?alves, Inst.Pol. Castelo Branco, Portugal Paulo Oliveira, Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Reinaldo Bianchi, Centro Universit?rio da FEI, S?o Paulo, Brazil Saeed Shiry Ghidary, Amirkabir University, Iran Sanem Sariel Talay, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Stephen Balakirsky, Nat. Inst. Stand. & Techn., USA Urbano Nunes, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Xiaoping Chen, Univ. Science and Technology, China ## Contacts General: irobot.epia2013 at gmail.com Nuno Lau Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Electr?nica, Telecomunica??es e Inform?tica IEETA - Instituto de Engenharia Electr?nica e Telem?tica de Aveiro Campus Universit?rio Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Phone: +351 234 370500, Fax: +351 234 370545, http://www.ieeta.pt/~lau; Email: nunolau at ua.pt Ant?nio Paulo G. M. Moreira FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal Phone: +351 22 508 14 00, Fax : +351 22 508 14 40, http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~amoreira ; Email: amoreira at fe.up.pt Carlos Cardeira IST - Instituto Superior T?cnico IDMEC - Instituto de Engenharia Mec?nica Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 1049-001 LISBOA, Portugal Phone: +351 21 841 73 51Fax: +351 21 841 96 34, http://www1.dem.ist.utl.pt/cardeira/; Email: carlos.cardeira at ist.utl.pt From chair at robocup2013.org Tue Mar 12 17:07:16 2013 From: chair at robocup2013.org (Roel Merry) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:07:16 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven, the Netherlands [Newsletter #2] Message-ID: <001401ce1f65$9446d0f0$bcd472d0$@robocup2013.org> cid:image001.jpg at 01CE1F67.BF4C6330 CONTENTS 1. Preface 2. Registration 3. VISA 4. Cargo 5. Accommodations 6. Important dates 7. Contact 1. Preface In this second newsletter from the local organization for the RoboCup World Championships 2013 we would like to give you somewhat more information regarding the registration, the updated website, the VISA procedure, shipment of your robots and the possibilities for accommodations during RoboCup 2013. The website for RoboCup 2013 ( www.robocup2013.org) got a major update. The biggest changes to the website are the accessibility and the addition of social media such as Facebook ( www.facebook.com/RoboCup2013) and Twitter (@RoboCup2013 twitter.com/robocup2013) With the new format we hope that you will find the required information easier and faster and that it allows you to stay up to date regarding the news and information of and related to RoboCup 2013. The preparations and organization is proceeding rapidly. We are working hard to make RoboCup 2013 an unforgettable and enjoyable event. Good luck with the preparations for the world championships. We hope that together with you we can make it an event to remember. 2. Registration Also for RoboCup 2013 a web-based system is used, regonline. Only qualified teams can register. Please wait until your league qualifies the teams, so your team will be available in regonline. There is a registration code necessary, which we will send to the team leaders of the qualified teams. Registration proceeds separately for each qualified team and for the team leader and team members. When registering a team, you need to include the information for a ?point of contact? for the team. Please note, though, that the person serving as point of contact is not registered at that time, but only the team is registered. In addition to registering your team, all team leaders and team members need to register as Faculty/Staff or Student participants. a. Payment Credit card payments are immediately validated, therefore we strongly recommend payment by credit card. The other available method of payment takes time. No registration is considered complete until full payment is received. b. Invitation letter The participants from the countries requiring visas will need an invitation letter. The invitation letter will be sent by email to the participants, at our very earliest convenience after the registration is complete. Please wait patiently for the payment to be complete. If you still have questions, please email to visa at robocup2013.org. c. Major Leagues registration Qualified teams are organized by league. No major team can register after May 31, 2013. Team members can only register after their team registration is complete. Early registration 1 March ? 30 April 2013 Team: 600 EUR Faculty/staff: 380 EUR Student: 270 EUR Individual*: 380 EUR Regular registration 1 May ? 31 May 2013 Team: 700 EUR Faculty/staff: 430 EUR Student: 320 EUR Individual*: 430 EUR Late/onsite registration 1 June 2013 ? 30 June 2013 Team: not available Faculty/staff: 480 EUR Student: 370 EUR Individual*: 480 EUR * Major Individual ? Faculty who do not have teams, but want to register for the competition can register as a non-participant. No prior registration of a team is required in these cases. These participants are invited to all social events, but may not enter team areas and do not receive a RoboCup-2013 certificate. We strongly encourage everyone to register as early as possible. Please avoid on-site registration, as we may be forced to reject on-site registrations due to space limitations. Nobody will be admitted to the site and to the team areas before being fully registered and all payments have been received. There will be no exceptions. Long waiting hours may be incurred at the on-site registration. d. Junior Leagues registration ? Before you can register your junior team, the team must be qualified. Please contact your RoboCupJunior national representative for all questions concerning qualification. ? Junior teams must have at least two team members in order to register. Junior teams must consist of minimum of two team members. ? We strongly recommend teams to register all team students at once. The system does not allow you to add only one team student to your existing registration. Adding more team student(s) later without two extra students will not be possible ? Parents or other mentors need to register as Junior Parent/Chaperone for permission to enter the site at any time, to be admitted to certain restricted areas, and to participate in social events. ? Parents accompanying their children, who want to visit the site only during hours for public access and only in areas open to the public, do not need to register. Early registration 1 March ? 31 May 2013 Team: 120 EUR Mentor: 120 EUR Student: 100 EUR Junior parent / Chaperone: 120 EUR Late/onsite registration 1 June 2013 ? RoboCup 2013 Team: not available Mentor: 220 EUR Student: 200 EUR Junior parent / Chaperone: 220 EUR We strongly encourage everyone to register as early as possible. Please avoid on-site registration, as we may be forced to reject on-site registrations due to space limitations. Nobody will be admitted to the site and to the team areas before being fully registered and all payments have been received. There will be no exceptions. Long waiting hours may be incurred at the on-site registration. e. Registration as Symposium Only participant It is possible for both faculty and students to register as Symposium Only participants. Invitation letters to Symposium Only participants are issued to those with accepted publications therein, only. On the registration web site, choose ?Symposium Only Faculty/Staff? or ?Symposium Only Student?. Fees Symposium Only: ? Faculty/staff: 250 EUR ? Student: 150 EUR All registered team members are automatically admitted to the Symposium. Team members do not need to register separately for the symposium. On the website ( www.robocup2013.org) you can find more information including the payment methods and visa and cancellation policy. More details regarding visa are also included further on in this newsletter. 3. VISA You can apply for a short stay visa at the Dutch embassy or consulate in your country 3 months before the competitions start. Make sure that you include the following documents in your application: * Valid passport (travel document) * Letter of invitation. RoboCup2013 only sends out a letter of invitation after your registration is complete, i.e. after you paid the registration fees. * Evidence showing that you have sufficient means of support for your stay in the Netherlands, transit journey, and/or return journey. This means showing you have at least ?34,- per person per day at your disposal for the duration of your visa (for example by means of bank statements, traveller?s cheques or cash). * Documents showing you have adequate medical travel insurance. * Proof of reservations for the journey. * Documents which make the return to your country of origin or country of continuous residence plausible. Such as an employer?s statement, records of children attending school, proof of ownership of your own house and/or other immovable property. * Two passport photographs. Please note: An embassy or consulate may always ask you for extra documents or items. Please note: To speed up the visa-requests, the Dutch embassies prefer teams to make a group appointment for all the team-members. For more information, see the brochure of the Immigration and Naturalisation service of the Dutch Government or the website of the Dutch government. An overview of the countries for which a visum is required is included on the website www.robocup2013.org/visa-information. 4. Cargo For RoboCup 2013, every team is free to select its own company for shipment of the robots. The 24th and 25th of June between 09.00 and 12.00, your goods can be delivered to the address below: RoboCup 2013 Theo Koomenlaan 1 5644 HZ Eindhoven The Netherlands Please note: Every team is responsible for receiving their own goods at the venue. RoboCup 2013 will not receive or store any goods. Please note: The RoboCup 2013 organization is not responsible for calamities, disputes or claims concerning direct agreements between competing teams in RoboCup 2013 and any shipper. The organization recommends MOL logistics as a possible shipment company. You can find more information regarding shipment through MOL logistics in this document ( link), which is also linked on the website. 5. Acommodations Below you can find an overview of accommodations in several price categories. The listed accommodations offer special prices during RoboCup 2013. Reservations have to be made by the teams themselves. For the RoboCupJunior teams there is besides the listed accommodations an additional option in the form of a Junior camping, of which you can find the details using this on the website under ?Participants? ? ?Junior Camping?. Name Travel distance Price range Van der Valk Hotel Eindhoven**** 1 km ??? Hampshire Hotel Parkzicht*** 2.3 km ?? 3BE Backpackers Bed & Breakfast Eindhoven 2.4 km ? Mercure Hotel Eindhoven**** 2.6 km ?? Sandton Hotel City Centre***? 2.7 km ?? Park Plaza Eindhoven****? 3 km ??? Hotel Auberge Nassau**? 3.8 km ?? Benno*? 3.8 km ? Hotel la Reine ? 3.8 km ?? Boutiquehotel Lumi?re Hampshire Classic***? 4 km ?? Crown Inn***? 4 km ?? Best Western Premier Art Hotel Eindhoven****? 4 km ??? Queen***? 4 km ?? Hampshire Eden Crown Hotel****? 4.5 km ??? Pullman Eindhoven Cocagne****? 4.5 km ??? Holiday Inn****? 5 km ??? Campanile*** 6.2 km ?? Novotel*** 8.5 km ?? NH Conference Centre Koningshof 8.5 km ?? NH Best 12.5 km ?? Carlton de Brug 13 km ?? Besides the above accommodations there are also a number of holiday parcs in the proximity of Eindhoven at which you can book a bungalow for a group of people. Using the following link you can find an overview of the bungalow parcs around Eindhoven in Google maps 6. Important dates In the tables below you can find the important dates of the senior competitions, the junior competitions and the symposium. a. Senior leagues Competitions June 27 ? 30 Demonstration games and setup June 26 Setup June 24 ? 25 Late registration June 1 ? 23 Regular registration(1) May 1 ? 31 Early registration deadline March 1 ? April 30 Deadline for completion of qualification in each RoboCup league(2) March 15 Team Pre-Registration Deadline(2) February 15 (1) No team registration accepted after May 31. (2) Pre-registration and qualification deadlines may vary for some leagues. b. Junior leagues Junior workshop at symposium July 1 Competitions June 27 ? 30 Setup June 26 Late registration June 1 ? 23 Registration(1) April 1 - May 31 Pre-registration by national or regional representatives March 1 - May 4 Release of team allocations (quota for each country/region) February 28 Submission of placeholder applications by regional representatives January 28 ? February 20 (1) No team registration accepted after May 31. c. Symposium ? Extended deadline! Symposium July 1 Submission of camera-ready copies May 15 Notification to authors April 28 Submission of full papers March 22 7. Contact For questions regarding RoboCup 2013, please contact one of the mail addresses below. General: info at robocup2013.org Chairs: chair at robocup2013.org Competitions: competitions at robocup2013.org Towards the 2013 competitions we will send regular newsletters to keep you informed regarding the organization and details that are important for the various leagues and teams. We hope to welcome you all at the Genneper Parcs in Eindhoven! On behalf of the RoboCup 2013 organization. Best regards, Roel Merry & Ren? van de Molengraft (co-chairs RoboCup 2013) cid:image002.jpg at 01CE1F67.BF4C6330 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven, the Netherlands [Newsletter #2].pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 248608 bytes Desc: not available URL: From gdk at csail.mit.edu Tue Mar 12 17:23:46 2013 From: gdk at csail.mit.edu (George Konidaris) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:23:46 -0400 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] CFP: AAAI Workshop in Intelligent Robotic Systems Message-ID: <513F9CE2.80500@csail.mit.edu> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The AAAI-13 Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems July 14-15, 2013 Bellevue, Washington, USA URL: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gdk/irs/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite contributions describing research aimed at developing intelligent robot systems, with an emphasis on complete systems that integrate AI techniques to achieve intelligent behavior. Papers that provide a high-level overview of existing work or summarize the results of an extended research program along these lines are most welcome, as are papers that integrate two usually distinct areas of research. Interested participants may submit either full-length papers (up to 6 pages in AAAI format) or short papers/extended abstracts (2 pages) in PDF format to irs.aaai2013.ws at gmail.com. -- Workshop Description -- Robots have long been imagined as mechanical workers, operating alongside us in our daily lives. However, if robots are to leave the confines of highly structured laboratory environments, and succeed at unstructured, everyday tasks, they will require substantial intelligence and dexterity. The problem of designing complete, intelligent robotic systems presents us with the opportunity to develop fully fledged agents that interact with the real world, and the challenge of coping with the complexity and uncertainty that such interaction entails. However, the field of AI has fragmented into many challenging subfields that require and often reward isolation and specialization. Consequently, there is a lack of mainstream AI venues for publishing integrative research that combines techniques from multiple different fields to achieve a working robot system capable of complex behavior, addresses the technical challenges that such integration efforts present, and investigates the important research questions posed by such complex systems. Such research speaks to the original impulse behind AI, creates an immensely rich source of research questions that address real-world problems, and should be considered a valid endeavor in its own right. In order to encourage the integration of various research streams from AI, robotics, and other relevant disciplines, this workshop aims to bring together a diverse and multidisciplinary group of researchers interested in designing intelligent robotic systems. The workshop will fall over two days, and include a poster session, discussion sessions, and invited talks in addition to the paper sessions. -- Important Dates -- Submit manuscripts by: April 3, 2013 Acceptance notification: April 19, 2013 Camera-ready submission: May 9, 2013 Workshop: July 14-15, 2013 -- Organizing Committee -- Byron Boots, University of Washington Nick Hawes, University of Birmingham Todd Hester, University of Texas at Austin George Konidaris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tekin Meri?li, Bo?azi?i University Lorenzo Riano, University of California, Berkeley Benjamin Rosman, University of Edinburgh Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- George Konidaris Postdoctoral Associate, MIT CSAIL http://people.csail.mit.edu/gdk From nunolau at ua.pt Mon Mar 18 06:40:46 2013 From: nunolau at ua.pt (Nuno Lau) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:40:46 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] CfP IROBOT'2013: Extended Submission Deadline (April 5, 2013) Message-ID: <3653D822BBE359419CF44AD777DF8B4538D99774@SEQUOIA.ua.pt> Dear colleague, The paper submission deadline of IROBOT'2013 has been extended to April 5, 2013. You can find the updated Call for Papers below. Please forward this CfP within your research group and to interested colleagues. Best regards, Nuno Lau, Ant?nio Paulo Moreira and Carlos Cardeira ----- **** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement **** ---------------------------------------------------------------- IROBOT'2013 CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Thematic Track on Intelligent Robotics To be held at EPIA 2013, September 9-13, 2013, Angra do Hero?smo, Azores, Portugal http://www.epia2013.uac.pt/ irobot.epia2013 at gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- The EPIA Conferences are the major International event on Artificial Intelligence organized in Portugal, under the auspices of APPIA - Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (http://www.appia.pt). Its purpose is to discuss and promote research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related disciplines. Aspects covered range from theoretical and foundational issues to applications interesting researchers, engineers and practitioners. The conference is structured as a set of Thematic Tracks. Conference Proceedings includes a book published by Springer (LNCS Series) and a local proceedings volume. ## Important Dates *** April 5, 2013 : EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline *** May 10, 2013: Author Notification/Registration Open May 31, 2013: Deadline for Camera-Ready Version Oct 9-13, 2013: EPIA'2013 Conference ## IROBOT Description IROBOT'2013 poses itself as a follow-up on the previous 5 International Thematic Tracks/Workshops on Intelligent Robotics held at EPIA since 2005. As in previous editions, its main purpose is to bring together researchers, engineers and other professionals interested in the application of AI techniques in real/simulated robotics to discuss current work and future directions. Each edition tries to promote a focal debate theme. Robotics, from the point of view of AI, has been an important application field, from which AI has also gained. Namely the dynamic and unforeseen nature of the environment, especially for mobile robots, has fostered research in these aspects of AI. Together with the developments in Robotics Research, the use of Robotics in industry has changed a lot in recent years. New paradigms and approaches for industrial robotics have emerged namely for mobile robots localization and navigation in unstructured environments. Industries have to produce items that are increasingly customized by the client and in short lots. Hence, the classical paradigm of a robotic manipulator performing a repetitive task is changing to flexible, adaptable and mobile robots that can recognize the task and the environment and adapt their behaviours accordingly. The adaptation and application of AI techniques to industrial robotics will constitute the focal theme of the IROBOT'2013 thematic track. This topic will be the subject of a panel discussion led by well-known researchers with vast experience in robotics and their different applications. ## Topics of Interest The Workshop will be structured around the following themes: - AI Planning for robotics - Autonomous vehicles - Cognitive robotics - Computer vision and object recognition - Coordination in robotics - Evolutionary robotics and reactive intelligence - Human-robots interaction - Humanoid robotics - Intelligent buildings and warehouses - Intelligent transportation systems - Learning and adaptation in robotics - Mobile robots localization and navigation - Modelling and simulating complex robots - Multi-Robot systems - Field Robots - Real-time reactivity - Robot behaviour engineering - Robotic surveillance - Sensor fusion This topics' list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the topics, and authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in the thematic track main subject. ## Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. Scientific or technical articles describing state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms, systems, environments, problems or applications relevant to the area of Intelligent Industrial Robotics may be submitted. Papers discussing application transfer from simulated to real robots and papers showing socially useful robotic applications generated by participations in robotic competitions are also welcome. Although the main focus is on industrial robots, there will be space for reporting research in AI applied to other types of robots. Submissions must follow the guidelines specified in the EPIA'2013 site. The Springer LNCS format must be used (instructions in http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html/). The length of submitted full papers must not exceed 12 pages. Authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. Paper submissions will be made in PDF format, through the submission page available in the EPIA'2013 website. Demonstrations should be submitted by means of an extended abstract up to 4 pages. This abstract should include a detailed description and a link to a short video of the proposed demonstration. Three program committee members will be assigned to review each paper. Acceptance will be based on the paper's significance, technical quality, clarity, relevance and originality. Accepted papers, must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors should register at the Conference. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. ## Workshop Organizing Committee Nuno Lau (University of Aveiro) Ant?nio Paulo Moreira (University of Porto) Carlos Cardeira (University of Lisbon) ## Program Committee Alexandre da Silva Sim?es, UNESP, Brazil Anibal Ollero, University of Seville, Spain Anna Helena Costa, EPUSP, Brazil Andr? Marcato, Universidade Federal de Ju?z de Fora, Brazil Andr? Scolari, Univ. Federal da Bahia, Brazil Ang?lica Mu?oz, INAOE, Mexico Ant?nio Jos? Neves, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Ant?nio Paulo Moreira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Armando J. Pinho, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Armando Sousa, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Augusto Loureiro da Costa, UFBA, Brazil Axel Hessler, TU Berlin, Germany Carlos Cardeira, Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal Carlos Carreto, Instituto Polit?cnico da Guarda, Portugal C?sar Analide, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK Fernando Os?rio, Universidade S?o Paulo/SC, Brazil Flavio Tonidandel, C.Univ.FEI, Brazil Fumiya Iida, ETHZ, Switzerland Guy Theraulaz, CRCA, France Jorge Dias, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Jos? Luis Gordillo, Tecnol?gico de Monterrey, Mexico Josemar Rodrigues de Souza, Universidade Estadual da Bahia, Brazil Kai Arras, University of Freiburg, Germany Luis Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Luis Moreno, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain Luis Mota, ISCTE, Portugal Luis Paulo Reis, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Luis Seabra Lopes, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marco Dorigo, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Nicolas Jouandeau, Universit? Paris 8, France Nuno Lau, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Paulo Gon?alves, Inst.Pol. Castelo Branco, Portugal Paulo Oliveira, Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Reinaldo Bianchi, Centro Universit?rio da FEI, S?o Paulo, Brazil Saeed Shiry Ghidary, Amirkabir University, Iran Sanem Sariel Talay, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Stephen Balakirsky, Nat. Inst. Stand. & Techn., USA Urbano Nunes, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Xiaoping Chen, Univ. Science and Technology, China ## Contacts General: irobot.epia2013 at gmail.com Nuno Lau Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Electr?nica, Telecomunica??es e Inform?tica IEETA - Instituto de Engenharia Electr?nica e Telem?tica de Aveiro Campus Universit?rio Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Phone: +351 234 370500, Fax: +351 234 370545, http://www.ieeta.pt/~lau; Email: nunolau at ua.pt Ant?nio Paulo G. M. Moreira FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal Phone: +351 22 508 14 00, Fax : +351 22 508 14 40, http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~amoreira ; Email: amoreira at fe.up.pt Carlos Cardeira IST - Instituto Superior T?cnico IDMEC - Instituto de Engenharia Mec?nica Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 1049-001 LISBOA, Portugal Phone: +351 21 841 73 51Fax: +351 21 841 96 34, http://www1.dem.ist.utl.pt/cardeira/; Email: carlos.cardeira at ist.utl.pt From A.Visser at uva.nl Mon Mar 18 08:42:37 2013 From: A.Visser at uva.nl (Visser, A.) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:42:37 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Last CfP: RoboCup Symposium 2013 - deadline Friday, March 22 Message-ID: <0963669047ECDE4B9EF137DF26A5E250292DDCAF@MBX04.uva.nl> Dear all, This is a kind reminder that the deadline for a submission to the RoboCup Symposium is this Friday: ******************************************************************** Call for Papers RoboCup International Symposium 2013 Eindhoven, The Netherlands July 1st, 2012 http://www.robocup2013.org/ ******************************************************************** OVERVIEW 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 at Home, RoboCup at Work and RoboCupJunior). Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and educational activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. 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. SUBMISSION 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. 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 (http://www.springer.com/series/1244) and must be electronically submitted through the symposium web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2013 All contributions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a blind review process. NEW TRACK 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. We would like to have up to three open-source projects submission from each league. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full papers: March 22, 2013 * Notification to authors: April 28, 2013 * Submission of camera-ready copies: May 15, 2013 * RoboCup 2013 Symposium: July 1st, 2013 SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS * Sven Behnke, University of Bonn * Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University * Arnoud Visser, Universiteit van Amsterdam * Rong Xiong, Zhejiang University AREAS OF INTEREST * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile and humanoid robots - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robotic system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators * Perception and Action - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robotic Cognition and Learning - world modeling - localization, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - reinforcement learning - complex motor skill acquisition - motion and sensor model learning * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Human-Robot Interaction - human-robot interfaces - speech synthesis and natural language generation - visualization - emotion recognition - human's intent cognition - affect detection and synthesis - robot response to external disturbances - safety and dependability * Education and Edutainment - Robotics and Artificial Intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications - disaster rescue information systems - search and rescue robots - robotic surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home Regards on behalf of the symposium co-chairs Manuala Veloso, Rong Xiong, Sven Behnke and Arnoud Visser Email: robocupsymposium2013 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asdm at fi.upm.es Mon Mar 18 13:40:54 2013 From: asdm at fi.upm.es (Advanced Statistics and Data Mining Summer School) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:40:54 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Eighth Summer School on Advanced Statistics and Data Mining (Madrid, June 24th - July 5th, 2013) Message-ID: <514751A6.1090400@fi.upm.es> Dear colleagues, The Technical University of Madrid (UPM) will once more organize the summer school on 'Advanced Statistics and Data Mining' in Madrid between June 24th and July 5th. This year's programme comprises 12 courses divided into 2 weeks. Attendees may register in each course independently. Early registration is now *OPEN*. Extended information on course programmes, price, venue, accommodation and transport is available at the school's website: http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/ASDM Please, send this information to your colleagues, students, and whoever may find it interesting. Best regards, Pedro Larra?aga, Concha Bielza and Pedro L. L?pez-Cruz. -- The coordinators of the school. *** List of courses and brief description *** * Week 1 (June 24th - June 28th, 2013) * 1st session: 9:30 - 12:30 Course 1: Bayesian networks (15 h) Basics of Bayesian networks. Inference in Bayesian networks. Learning Bayesian networks from data. Real applications. Course 2: Statistical inference (15 h) Introduction. Some basic statistical test. Multiple testing. Introduction to bootstrap methods. Introduction to Robust Statistics. 2nd session: 13:30 - 16:30 Course 3: Supervised pattern recognition (15 h) Introduction. Assessing the performance of supervised classification algorithms. Preprocessing. Classification techniques. Combining multiple classifiers. Comparing supervised classification algorithms. Course 4: Multivariate data analysis (15 h) Introduction. Data examination. Principal component analysis. Factor Analysis. Multidimensional scaling. Correspondence analysis. Tensor analysis. Multivariate Analysis of Variance. Canonical Correlation Analysis. Latent Class Analysis. 3rd session: 17:00 - 20:00 Course 5: Neural networks (15 h) Introduction. Perceptrons. Training algorithms. Accelerating convergence. Useful tricks for MLPs. Deep networks. Practical data modelling with neural networks. Course 6: Feature Subset Selection (15 h) Introduction. Filter approaches. Wrapper methods. Embedded methods. Drawbacks and future strands. Practical session. * Week 2 (July 1st - July 5th, 2013) * 1st session: 9:30 - 12:30 Course 7: Time series analysis (15 h) Introduction. Probability models to time series. Regression and Fourier analysis. Forecasting and Data mining. Course 8: Hidden Markov Models (15 h) Introduction. Discrete Hidden Markov Models. Basic algorithms for Hidden Markov Models. Semicontinuous Hidden Markov Models. Continuous Hidden Markov Models. Unit selection and clustering. Speaker and Environment Adaptation for HMMs. Other applications of HMMs. 2nd session: 13:30 - 16:30 Course 9: Bayesian classifiers (15 h) Discrete predictors. Gaussian Bayesian networks-based classifiers. Other Bayesian classifiers. Bayesian classifiers for: positive and unlabeled data, semi-supervised learning, data streams, temporal data. Course 10: Unsupervised pattern recognition (15 h) Introduction. Prototype-based clustering. Density-based clustering. Graph-based clustering. Cluster evaluation. Miscellanea. 3rd session: 17:00 - 20:00 Course 11: Support vector machines, regularization and convex optimization (15 h) Introduction. SVM models. SVM learning algorithms. Convex non differentiable optimization. Course 12: Hot topics in intelligent data analysis (15 h) Multi-label and multi-dimensional classification. Multi-dimensional classification and multi-output regression. Advanced Clustering. Partially supervised classification with uncertain class labels. Directional statistics. Spatial point processes. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From antonio.salmeron at ual.es Thu Mar 21 11:31:10 2013 From: antonio.salmeron at ual.es (Antonio Salmeron) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:31:10 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Final CFP: CAEPIA 2013 Message-ID: <11F3D4C5-D8F8-4FE9-ABEB-3D9EF6FDBECB@ual.es> Final Call for Papers CAEPIA'13 XV Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) September 17-20, 2013 MADRID, SPAIN http://caepia13.aepia.org/ PRESENTATION The Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) is a biennial forum open to worldwide researchers to present and discuss their last scientific and technological advances in Artificial Intelligence. The 15th edition, CAEPIA'13, will be held in Madrid, Spain, from the 17th to the 20th of September, 2013, within the Spanish Congress on Informatics (CEDI 2013). As in previous editions, the objectives are: to facilitate the dissemination of new ideas and experiences, to strengthen the links among the different research groups involved, to promote knowledge transfer between recent researchers and consolidated groups, and to help spread new developments to society. To achieve the proposed objectives, authors are requested to send original unpublished works, which describe relevant research about topics related to Artificial Intelligence from all points of view: formal, methodological, technical or applied. Works can be submitted in Spanish or English in LNCS format (Springer). CAEPIA'13 will use a double blind-review process. The authors will remove their names from the submitted papers and must take responsibility for the originality of the work and send it in the proper format. CAEPIA will also be open to pre-doctoral work, and there will be a special call for this type of work through the Doctoral Consortium. This event is specially designed for the interaction between PhD students and senior researchers. Besides original and pre-doctoral papers, this edition of CAEPIA will include, for the first time, a special session on outstanding papers (key works) already published in journals or forums of renowned reputation. Finally, various independent conferences will take place under the scope of CAEPIA. Such conferences (ASMas, FINO, LFSCI, MAEB, SICO, TAMIDA) will keep their own program committee and will distribute their respective CFPs. TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS - CAEPIA papers (Main track): Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 10 pages and must be formatted according to LNCS guidelines. The submitted paper will represent original research, with solid, well-founded or demonstrable results on any of the conference topics. Accepted papers will be assigned a 15- or 20-minutes slot for oral presentation at the conference. - Pre-doctoral papers: We encourage the submissions of preliminary works from PhD students. These works will be presented in special sessions at the conference. The objective is to foster a fruitful debate between the candidate and the audience. The length of these papers should not exceed 4 pages and will be orally presented during 15 minutes. The authors of accepted papers as pre-doctoral work will enjoy special benefits to attend the conference. - Already published outstanding papers (Key works): Recent works published in journals or forums of renowned reputation, during the period 2011-2013. The aim is to spread them among a wide audience from the AI community, giving the members of the community a chance to be exposed to works with which they are not familiarized and to foster interdisciplinarity. Papers must be submitted in a one-page format, with a clear reference to the previous published paper. Accepted contributions will be assigned a 15-minutes slot in a joint session of all the conferences conforming this edition of CAEPIA. IMPORTANT DATES (a) CAEPIA Papers (Main track): *Submission of papers: April 15, 2013 *Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 20, 2013 *Camera-ready copy due: June 15, 2013 *Technical sessions: September 17-20, 2013 CAEPIA'13 papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee which will be supervised by an area chair. (b) Pre-doctoral papers (Doctoral Consortium): *Submission of papers: May 30, 2013 *Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 10, 2013 *Camera-ready copy due: June 20, 2013 (c) Already published outstanding papers (Key works): *Submission of papers: May 30, 2013 *Notification to authors: June 15, 2013 PLENARY TALKS CAEPIA'13 will offer plenary talks given by outstanding researchers in different areas. They will be scheduled in a joint session with all the conferences participating in the CAEPIA multiconference. SUBMISSION Submission of papers to CAEPIA'13 requires a previous registration in: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caepia2013 PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the two volumes of CAEPIA proceedings that will be given to all CAEPIA attendees. The two volumes will be as follows: - One volume published by Springer-Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNAI), which will contain a selection of the best papers accepted by the Program Committee. In order to be included in this volume papers should be submitted in English. - One volume published by the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence that will contain all the accepted CAEPIA papers not included in the previous volume, abstracts of keynote works and Doctoral Consortium papers. This volume will be included in the CEDI 2013 proceedings and will be edited exclusively in USB pen drive format. Authors of the papers accepted for the LNAI volume will be invited to prepare extended versions for submission to special issues of JCR ranked international journals. PRIZES AEPIA will acknowledge the dedication of the participants in CAEPIA'13 with three awards: best CAEPIA (main track) paper, best pre-doctoral work and best reviewer. TOPICS CAEPIA 2013 is organized around eleven content areas or main tracks, each one managed by an area chair. Topics are open and any work related to AI research and its applications is welcome. However, for guidance, the next topics per area are included below: MACHINE LEARNING Active Learning Case-based Reasoning Structured Learning Multi-Task Learning Unsupervised, Semi-Supervised and Partially Supervised Learning Online Learning Reinforcement Learning Relational Learning Cost-Sensitive Learning Classification Kernel Methods Data Mining Feature Selection/Construction Data Streams AI APPLICATIONS AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY TOPICS AI Applications Philosophical and Ethical Issues AI Integration in other Scientific Fields User Models Security and Privacy Validation and Verification FUZZY SYSTEMS Aggregation Functions Fuzzy Logic Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems Fuzzy Technologies Decision Making with Fuzzy Information UNCERTAINTY IN AI Approximate Reasoning Bayesian Networks Decision/Utility Theory Exact and Approximate Probabilistic Inference Modeling, Inference, Learning and Decision Making under Uncertainty Preference Elicitation Probabilistic Graphical Models METAHEURISTICS Bioinspired Algorithms Dynamic Problems and with Uncertainty Evolutionary Algorithms Metaheuristics Multiobjective Algorithms Parallel Algorithms NATURAL-LANGUAGE PROCESSING Syntactic Analysis and Grammatical Inference Text Classification and Subjects Automatic Abstract Generation Lexical Disambiguation of Words Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics Text Mining Natural Language Modeling Natural Language Processing Multilingual Language Processing Speech Recognition Question Answering Machine Translation KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION, REASONING AND LOGIC Action, Change and Causality Computational Argumentation Automated Reasoning Knowledge Representation Computational Logic Description Logics and Ontologies Preferences and Beliefs Logic Programming Case-Based Reasoning Model-Based Reasoning Qualitative Reasoning Spatial and Temporal Reasoning Diagnosis and Abductive Reasoning Nonmonotonic Reasoning Knowledge Representation CONTRAINTS, SEARCH AND PLANNING AI in Planning Games Constraint Optimization Constraint Satisfaction Dynamic Programming Heuristic Search Hierarchical Task Networks Markov Decision Processes Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) Real Time Planning Satisfiability Scheduling Theoretical Foundations of Planning ROBOTICS AND VISION Behavior and Control Human-Robot Interaction Localization, State Estimation Sensor Networks Robotics Cognitive Robotics Multi-Robot Systems Vision and Perception MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS Adaptation and self-organization Agent-Based Architectures and Programming Agent-Based Simulation and Emergent Behavior Agent Communication Languages Agreement Technologies (coordination, negotiation, argumentation, rules, confidence) Methodologies and Infrastructures (platforms, tools, environment) Social, Organizing and Institutional Approximations INTELLIGENT WEB AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Digital Libraries Information Extraction Information Integration Information Retrieval Recommender Systems Semantic web Social Networks Web mining Web 2.0 ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE: Chair: Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, U. A Coru?a SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chair: Concha Bielza, U. Polit?cnica de Madrid Co-chair: Antonio Salmer?n, U. Almer?a AREA CHAIRS Enrique Alba, U. M?laga (Metaheuristics) Emilio Corchado, U. Salamanca (AI Applications and Multidisciplinary Topics -TTIA-) Ismael Garc?a Varea, U. Castilla la Mancha (Natural-Language Processing) Lluis God?, IIIA-CSIC (Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Logic) Francisco Herrera, U. Granada (Fuzzy Systems) Juan Huete, U. Granada (Intelligent Web and Information Retrieval) Pedro Larra?aga, U. Polit?cnica de Madrid (Machine Learning) Pedro Meseguer, IIIA-CSIC (Constraints, Search and Planning) Seraf?n Moral, U. Granada (Uncertainty in AI) Sascha Ossowski, U. Rey Juan Carlos (Multiagent Systems) Filiberto Pl?, U. Jaume I (Robotics and Vision) Jos? 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Submitted papers are limited to 12 pages (regular papers) or 8 pages (new track papers) formatted according to the LNAI requirements (http://www.springer.com/series/1244) and must be electronically submitted through the symposium web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2013 All contributions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a blind review process. We would like to have submissions from each league. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full papers: March 29, 2013 * Notification to authors: May 3, 2013 * Submission of camera-ready copies: May 15, 2013 * RoboCup 2013 Symposium: July 1st, 2013 Regards on behalf of the symposium co-chairs Manuala Veloso, Rong Xiong, Sven Behnke and Arnoud Visser Email: robocupsymposium2013 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The following 24 teams are qualified (or > conditionally qualified): > > *Rank* *Team-Name* *Country* *Decision* 1 HELIOS2013 Japan Qualified > 2 WrightEagle China Qualified 3 GPR2D Brazil Qualified 4 Gliders2013 > Australia Qualified 5 YuShan2013 China Qualified 6 GDUT_TiJi2013 China > Qualified 7 FC Portugal 2D Portugal Qualified 8 ITAndroids Brazil > Qualified 9 UBC Thunderbots Canada Qualified 10 FC-Perspolis Iran > Qualified 11 Oxsy Romania Qualified 12 Axiom Iran Qualified 13 > CSU_Yunlu China Qualified 14 AUT Masterminds Iran Qualified 15 Cyrus > Iran Qualified 16 Ri-one Japan Qualified 17 Warthog Robotics Brazil > Qualified 18 Nexus2D Iran Qualified 19 Damash Iran Qualified 20 > LegenDary Iran Qualified 21 UT Austin Villa USA Qualified 22 > HfutEngine2013 China Conditionally Qualified 23 Daredevils Egypt Conditionally > Qualified 24 AUA2D China Conditionally Qualified > Some notes on the qualification process: > > - All TDPs and other materials were analyzed by an evaluation committee > composed by 4 experts on the Simulation 2D League. The logfiles, > appendixes, binaries and source codes (if needed) were mostly used to > confirm information available on TDPs and decide ties between teams. > > - It is necessary to qualify 7 Iran teams (although more than 1/4 of the > total) in order to have 24 teams qualified. > > - HfutEngine2013, Daredevils and AUA2D are conditionally qualified and > will be fully qualified if they deliver an improved version of TDP and the > missing materials (if any) by the deadline (March 15), or will be > disqualified. > > - All submitted materials of qualified teams can be found at > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jxzarcj5uv4tiiv/n7RyV-lWa4?m . Currently > materials of conditionally qualified teams are not included and will be > placed here later if qualified. > > Finally we would like to congratulate all teams which have qualified and > we hope that teams who didn't will try to improve this year and > participate next year. 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It is a strongly moderated list for: Conference announcements ML-related career opportunities Journal special issues Other *important* ML-related announcements If you would like to subscribe, please visit the enrollment page: https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/ml-worldwide Best regards, Tucker -- Tucker Balch Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech 678.523.8685 mobile 404.751.0132 fax http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~tucker From tekin.mericli at boun.edu.tr Wed Mar 27 06:12:55 2013 From: tekin.mericli at boun.edu.tr (Tekin Mericli) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:12:55 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Reminder: CfP for the AAAI-13 Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems Message-ID: Dear all, This is a kind reminder that the deadline for submitting your contributions to the AAAI-13 Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems is approaching fast: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The AAAI-13 Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems July 14-15, 2013 Bellevue, Washington, USA URL: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gdk/irs/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite contributions describing research aimed at developing intelligent robot systems, with an emphasis on complete systems that integrate AI techniques to achieve intelligent behavior. Papers that provide a high-level overview of existing work or summarize the results of an extended research program along these lines are most welcome, as are papers that integrate two usually distinct areas of research. Interested participants may submit either full-length papers (up to 6 pages in AAAI format) or short papers/extended abstracts (2 pages) in PDF format to irs.aaai2013.ws at gmail.com. -- Workshop Description -- Robots have long been imagined as mechanical workers, operating alongside us in our daily lives. However, if robots are to leave the confines of highly structured laboratory environments, and succeed at unstructured, everyday tasks, they will require substantial intelligence and dexterity. The problem of designing complete, intelligent robotic systems presents us with the opportunity to develop fully fledged agents that interact with the real world, and the challenge of coping with the complexity and uncertainty that such interaction entails. However, the field of AI has fragmented into many challenging subfields that require and often reward isolation and specialization. Consequently, there is a lack of mainstream AI venues for publishing integrative research that combines techniques from multiple different fields to achieve a working robot system capable of complex behavior, addresses the technical challenges that such integration efforts present, and investigates the important research questions posed by such complex systems. Such research speaks to the original impulse behind AI, creates an immensely rich source of research questions that address real-world problems, and should be considered a valid endeavor in its own right. In order to encourage the integration of various research streams from AI, robotics, and other relevant disciplines, this workshop aims to bring together a diverse and multidisciplinary group of researchers interested in designing intelligent robotic systems. The workshop will fall over two days, and include a poster session, discussion sessions, and invited talks in addition to the paper sessions. -- Important Dates -- Submit manuscripts by: April 3, 2013 Acceptance notification: April 19, 2013 Camera-ready submission: May 9, 2013 Workshop: July 14-15, 2013 -- Organizing Committee -- Byron Boots, University of Washington Nick Hawes, University of Birmingham Todd Hester, University of Texas at Austin George Konidaris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tekin Meri?li, Bo?azi?i University Lorenzo Riano, University of California, Berkeley Benjamin Rosman, University of Edinburgh Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Tekin Mericli, MSCS Ph.D. Candidate Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Department of Computer Engineering Bogazici University Istanbul, Turkey E-Mail: tekin.mericli at boun.edu.tr WWW: http://tekin.mericli.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From randelli at dis.uniroma1.it Thu Mar 28 13:46:02 2013 From: randelli at dis.uniroma1.it (Gabriele Randelli) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:46:02 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Announcing RoCKIn Camp 2013 Message-ID: <515481DA.2040001@dis.uniroma1.it> [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ===================== RoCKIn Camp 2013 Eindhoven June 28th-July 1st ===================== RoCKIn is short for Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics is an EU-funded Coordinated Action aiming at the promotion of research and education through competitions (http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu). The RoCKIn Camp 2013 aims at facilitating the entry of new teams in the RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work competitions that will be arranged by RoCKIn in 2014 and 2015. RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work take inspiration from the corresponding RoboCup leagues, but they will focus on benchmarking robotic systems and networked robots. Both competitions require basic navigation capabilities with no restrictions on the mobile platform, advanced perception, manipulation and human-robot interaction. RoCKIn at Home focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a real home environment, while the tasks to be performed RoboCup at Work target an industrial automation scenario. The RoCKIn Camp 2013 will take place in 2013 during RoboCup2013 in Eindhoven. The goal is to enable members of potentially new teams to gather experience about the current status of RoboCup at Home and RoboCup at Work competitions and to get an introduction to the new RoCKIn competitions. The activities planned in the four days of the RoCKIn Camp 2013 include lectures, experience on the field by attending parts of the competition, possibly contributing to the evaluation within the RoboCup at Home and RoboCup at Work, and the participation in the RoboCup Symposium on July 1st, 2013. Students and researchers who have an interest in entering the RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at work competitions, are invited to apply for the RoCKIn Camp 2013. Admission to the RoCKIn Camp 2013 is limited to 16 participants. Applications include a curriculum vitae of the applicant, a description of ongoing research related to service robotics, and of the resources available (esp. robots) to the applicant. Further details are specified on the website (see below). Selection criteria include applicant?s motivation and capability for successfully entering the competitions. The cost of travel, accommodation (in double rooms), access to the RoboCup 2013 venue and symposium, and a social event for the selected candidates will be covered by RoCKIn. Applications can be submitted via: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/rockin Application deadline: April 7th, 2013 Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2013 In case of further questions, please contact Gabriele Randelli at randelli at dis.uniroma1.it. -- Gabriele Randelli Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Rome, Italy Tel: +39 06 7727 4063 Web: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~randelli E-mail: randelli at dis.uniroma1.it From nunolau at ua.pt Tue Apr 2 13:07:22 2013 From: nunolau at ua.pt (Nuno Lau) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:07:22 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] IROBOT'2013: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <3653D822BBE359419CF44AD777DF8B4538DA2D8C@SEQUOIA.ua.pt> **** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement **** ---------------------------------------------------------------- IROBOT'2013 CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Thematic Track on Intelligent Robotics To be held at EPIA 2013, September 9-13, 2013, Angra do Hero?smo, Azores, Portugal http://www.epia2013.uac.pt/ irobot.epia2013 at gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- The EPIA Conferences are the major International event on Artificial Intelligence organized in Portugal, under the auspices of APPIA - Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (http://www.appia.pt). Its purpose is to discuss and promote research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related disciplines. Aspects covered range from theoretical and foundational issues to applications interesting researchers, engineers and practitioners. The conference is structured as a set of Thematic Tracks. Conference Proceedings includes a book published by Springer (LNCS Series) and a local proceedings volume. ## Important Dates *** April 5, 2013 : EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline *** May 10, 2013: Author Notification/Registration Open May 31, 2013: Deadline for Camera-Ready Version Oct 9-13, 2013: EPIA'2013 Conference ## IROBOT Description IROBOT'2013 poses itself as a follow-up on the previous 5 International Thematic Tracks/Workshops on Intelligent Robotics held at EPIA since 2005. As in previous editions, its main purpose is to bring together researchers, engineers and other professionals interested in the application of AI techniques in real/simulated robotics to discuss current work and future directions. Each edition tries to promote a focal debate theme. Robotics, from the point of view of AI, has been an important application field, from which AI has also gained. Namely the dynamic and unforeseen nature of the environment, especially for mobile robots, has fostered research in these aspects of AI. Together with the developments in Robotics Research, the use of Robotics in industry has changed a lot in recent years. New paradigms and approaches for industrial robotics have emerged namely for mobile robots localization and navigation in unstructured environments. Industries have to produce items that are increasingly customized by the client and in short lots. Hence, the classical paradigm of a robotic manipulator performing a repetitive task is changing to flexible, adaptable and mobile robots that can recognize the task and the environment and adapt their behaviours accordingly. The adaptation and application of AI techniques to industrial robotics will constitute the focal theme of the IROBOT'2013 thematic track. This topic will be the subject of a panel discussion led by well-known researchers with vast experience in robotics and their different applications. ## Topics of Interest The Workshop will be structured around the following themes: - AI Planning for robotics - Autonomous vehicles - Cognitive robotics - Computer vision and object recognition - Coordination in robotics - Evolutionary robotics and reactive intelligence - Human-robots interaction - Humanoid robotics - Intelligent buildings and warehouses - Intelligent transportation systems - Learning and adaptation in robotics - Mobile robots localization and navigation - Modelling and simulating complex robots - Multi-Robot systems - Field Robots - Real-time reactivity - Robot behaviour engineering - Robotic surveillance - Sensor fusion This topics' list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the topics, and authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in the thematic track main subject. ## Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. Scientific or technical articles describing state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms, systems, environments, problems or applications relevant to the area of Intelligent Industrial Robotics may be submitted. Papers discussing application transfer from simulated to real robots and papers showing socially useful robotic applications generated by participations in robotic competitions are also welcome. Although the main focus is on industrial robots, there will be space for reporting research in AI applied to other types of robots. Submissions must follow the guidelines specified in the EPIA'2013 site. The Springer LNCS format must be used (instructions in http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html/). The length of submitted full papers must not exceed 12 pages. Authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. Paper submissions will be made in PDF format, through the submission page available in the EPIA'2013 website. Demonstrations should be submitted by means of an extended abstract up to 4 pages. This abstract should include a detailed description and a link to a short video of the proposed demonstration. Three program committee members will be assigned to review each paper. Acceptance will be based on the paper's significance, technical quality, clarity, relevance and originality. Accepted papers, must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors should register at the Conference. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. ## Workshop Organizing Committee Nuno Lau (University of Aveiro) Ant?nio Paulo Moreira (University of Porto) Carlos Cardeira (University of Lisbon) ## Program Committee Alexandre da Silva Sim?es, UNESP, Brazil Anibal Ollero, University of Seville, Spain Anna Helena Costa, EPUSP, Brazil Andr? Marcato, Universidade Federal de Ju?z de Fora, Brazil Andr? Scolari, Univ. Federal da Bahia, Brazil Ang?lica Mu?oz, INAOE, Mexico Ant?nio Jos? Neves, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Ant?nio Paulo Moreira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Armando J. Pinho, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Armando Sousa, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Augusto Loureiro da Costa, UFBA, Brazil Axel Hessler, TU Berlin, Germany Carlos Cardeira, Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal Carlos Carreto, Instituto Polit?cnico da Guarda, Portugal C?sar Analide, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK Fernando Os?rio, Universidade S?o Paulo/SC, Brazil Flavio Tonidandel, C.Univ.FEI, Brazil Fumiya Iida, ETHZ, Switzerland Guy Theraulaz, CRCA, France Jorge Dias, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Jos? Luis Gordillo, Tecnol?gico de Monterrey, Mexico Josemar Rodrigues de Souza, Universidade Estadual da Bahia, Brazil Kai Arras, University of Freiburg, Germany Luis Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Luis Moreno, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain Luis Mota, ISCTE, Portugal Luis Paulo Reis, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Luis Seabra Lopes, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marco Dorigo, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Nicolas Jouandeau, Universit? Paris 8, France Nuno Lau, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Paulo Gon?alves, Inst.Pol. Castelo Branco, Portugal Paulo Oliveira, Instituto Superior T?cnico, Portugal Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Reinaldo Bianchi, Centro Universit?rio da FEI, S?o Paulo, Brazil Saeed Shiry Ghidary, Amirkabir University, Iran Sanem Sariel Talay, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Stephen Balakirsky, Nat. Inst. Stand. & Techn., USA Urbano Nunes, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Xiaoping Chen, Univ. Science and Technology, China ## Contacts General: irobot.epia2013 at gmail.com Nuno Lau Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Electr?nica, Telecomunica??es e Inform?tica IEETA - Instituto de Engenharia Electr?nica e Telem?tica de Aveiro Campus Universit?rio Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Phone: +351 234 370500, Fax: +351 234 370545, http://www.ieeta.pt/~lau; Email: nunolau at ua.pt Ant?nio Paulo G. M. Moreira FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal Phone: +351 22 508 14 00, Fax : +351 22 508 14 40, http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~amoreira ; Email: amoreira at fe.up.pt Carlos Cardeira IST - Instituto Superior T?cnico IDMEC - Instituto de Engenharia Mec?nica Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 1049-001 LISBOA, Portugal Phone: +351 21 841 73 51Fax: +351 21 841 96 34, http://www1.dem.ist.utl.pt/cardeira/; Email: carlos.cardeira at ist.utl.pt From tekin.mericli at boun.edu.tr Tue Apr 2 17:37:04 2013 From: tekin.mericli at boun.edu.tr (Tekin Mericli) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 00:37:04 +0300 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Deadline Extension: AAAI-13 Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems Message-ID: Dear all, Due to many requests, the paper submission deadline for the AAAI-13 Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems is extended to *15 April 2013*. Please find below the CfP with the updated timeline. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The AAAI-13 Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems July 14-15, 2013 Bellevue, Washington, USA URL: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gdk/irs/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite contributions describing research aimed at developing intelligent robot systems, with an emphasis on complete systems that integrate AI techniques to achieve intelligent behavior. Papers that provide a high-level overview of existing work or summarize the results of an extended research program along these lines are most welcome, as are papers that integrate two usually distinct areas of research. Interested participants may submit either full-length papers (up to 6 pages in AAAI format) or short papers/extended abstracts (2 pages) in PDF format to irs.aaai2013.ws at gmail.com. -- Workshop Description -- Robots have long been imagined as mechanical workers, operating alongside us in our daily lives. However, if robots are to leave the confines of highly structured laboratory environments, and succeed at unstructured, everyday tasks, they will require substantial intelligence and dexterity. The problem of designing complete, intelligent robotic systems presents us with the opportunity to develop fully fledged agents that interact with the real world, and the challenge of coping with the complexity and uncertainty that such interaction entails. However, the field of AI has fragmented into many challenging subfields that require and often reward isolation and specialization. Consequently, there is a lack of mainstream AI venues for publishing integrative research that combines techniques from multiple different fields to achieve a working robot system capable of complex behavior, addresses the technical challenges that such integration efforts present, and investigates the important research questions posed by such complex systems. Such research speaks to the original impulse behind AI, creates an immensely rich source of research questions that address real-world problems, and should be considered a valid endeavor in its own right. In order to encourage the integration of various research streams from AI, robotics, and other relevant disciplines, this workshop aims to bring together a diverse and multidisciplinary group of researchers interested in designing intelligent robotic systems. The workshop will fall over two days, and include a poster session, discussion sessions, and invited talks in addition to the paper sessions. -- Important Dates -- Submit manuscripts by: April 15, 2013 Acceptance notification: April 29, 2013 Camera-ready submission: May 9, 2013 Workshop: July 14-15, 2013 -- Organizing Committee -- Byron Boots, University of Washington Nick Hawes, University of Birmingham Todd Hester, University of Texas at Austin George Konidaris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tekin Meri?li, Bo?azi?i University Lorenzo Riano, University of California, Berkeley Benjamin Rosman, University of Edinburgh Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Tekin Mericli, MSCS Ph.D. Candidate Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Department of Computer Engineering Bogazici University Istanbul, Turkey E-Mail: tekin.mericli at boun.edu.tr WWW: http://tekin.mericli.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From randelli at dis.uniroma1.it Sat Apr 6 20:26:33 2013 From: randelli at dis.uniroma1.it (Gabriele Randelli) Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 02:26:33 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Announcing RoCKIn Camp 2013 (deadline extended) Message-ID: <5160BD39.4010400@dis.uniroma1.it> [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] Deadline extended to April 15th 2013! CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ================================= RoCKIn Camp 2013 Eindhoven June 28th-July 1st ================================= RoCKIn is short for Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics is an EU-funded Coordinated Action aiming at the promotion of research and education through competitions (http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu). The RoCKIn Camp 2013 aims at facilitating the entry of new teams in the RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work competitions that will be arranged by RoCKIn in 2014 and 2015. RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work take inspiration from the corresponding RoboCup leagues, but they will focus on benchmarking robotic systems and networked robots. Both competitions require basic navigation capabilities with no restrictions on the mobile platform, advanced perception, manipulation and human-robot interaction. RoCKIn at Home focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a real home environment, while the tasks to be performed RoboCup at Work target an industrial automation scenario. The RoCKIn Camp 2013 will take place in 2013 during RoboCup2013 in Eindhoven. The goal is to enable members of potentially new teams to gather experience about the current status of RoboCup at Home and RoboCup at Work competitions and to get an introduction to the new RoCKIn competitions. The activities planned in the four days of the RoCKIn Camp 2013 include lectures, experience on the field by attending parts of the competition, possibly contributing to the evaluation within the RoboCup at Home and RoboCup at Work, and the participation in the RoboCup Symposium on July 1st, 2013. Students and researchers who have an interest in entering the RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at work competitions, are invited to apply for the RoCKIn Camp 2013. Admission to the RoCKIn Camp 2013 is limited to 16 participants. Applications include a curriculum vitae of the applicant, a description of ongoing research related to service robotics, and of the resources available (esp. robots) to the applicant. Further details are specified on the website (see below). Selection criteria include applicant?s motivation and capability for successfully entering the competitions. The cost of travel, accommodation (in double rooms), access to the RoboCup 2013 venue and symposium, and a social event for the selected candidates will be covered by RoCKIn. Applications can be submitted via: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/rockin Application deadline: April 15th, 2013 Notification of acceptance: April 22nd, 2013 In case of further questions, please contact Gabriele Randelli at randelli at dis.uniroma1.it. -- Gabriele Randelli Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Rome, Italy Tel: +39 06 7727 4063 Web: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~randelli E-mail: randelli at dis.uniroma1.it From jruizd at ing.uchile.cl Sun Apr 7 17:39:31 2013 From: jruizd at ing.uchile.cl (Javier Ruiz-del-Solar) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 18:39:31 -0300 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Special Issue on "Advances in Domestic Service Robots in the Real World" - JINT (Springer) In-Reply-To: <1836.1276402230@figo.cs.utexas.edu> References: <29417.1274880721@figo.cs.utexas.edu> <1836.1276402230@figo.cs.utexas.edu> Message-ID: <0D065570-9DE1-4426-9061-685B20AC2505@ing.uchile.cl> Third Call for Papers Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems Special Issue on "Advances in Domestic Service Robots in the Real World" This special issue focuses on a broad spectrum of domestic service robots that operate in the real-world in home environments. The robots are fully autonomous and use intuitive interfaces such as language, gestures and visual displays to communicate with people. The home environment is defined as 'any place where people live in their daily lives', which can include, for example, a living room, a kitchen or a garden. Special attention is being paid to submissions where the robot capabilities are validated in a real-world setting such as the RoboCup at Home benchmark or during long lasting experiments in the real- world. The focus will also be on different modes of natural interaction with humans, semantic perception and mapping in domestic environments, recognition and manipulation of domestic objects, cost- effectiveness of the solution (computational and financial resources used by the robot), modeling and search in unknown daily life environments, such as homes, restaurants, and shopping centers, the effect of appearance on acceptance and more. The topics are related, but not limited, to all the aspects required for a robot to operate in daily life environments with a long-term focus on applicability, such as: - cooperative human-robot interaction and task solving, - semantic perception and mapping in domestic environments, - manipulation of domestic objects such as doors, kitchen utensils, glasses, etc., - modeling and search in unknown daily life environments, such as homes, restaurants, and shopping centers, - high-level cognition for robots in domestic environments, - benchmarking domestic service robots, - long lasting robotic experiments in domestic environments, - acceptance of robots in households. Submissions addressing practical applications using international benchmarks and/or in-field experimental testing are strongly encouraged. Guest Editors: Luca Iocchi, Universit? di Roma ''La Sapienza'', Luca.Iocchi at dis.uniroma1.it Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, jruizd at ing.uchile.cl Tijn van der Zant, University of Groningen, tijn at ieee.org Important dates: 1 April 2013: Opening paper submission 20 May 2013: Closing Paper Submission 1 August 2013: Paper Acceptance Announcements 31 August 2013: Camera-ready Paper Submission 2014: Expected Publication -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More information at http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/cfp_Robot_Vision_UF_revised2.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1387509-0 Contact ufrese at informatik.uni-bremen.de , heiko.hirschmueller at dlr.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mary-Anne at themagiclab.org Sat Apr 13 02:45:25 2013 From: Mary-Anne at themagiclab.org (Mary-Anne Williams) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:45:25 +1000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] IJCAI-13 ROBOT COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION Message-ID: IJCAI-13 ROBOT COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION *Call for Participation* Competition IJCAI-13 will host a Robot Competition to help raise awareness of robotics in the AI community and to identify robotics problems that AI can help to address. The competition will take place at IJCAI -13 in Beijing and it is open to all intelligent robots. There will be four prizes on offer for real-time robot demonstrations in the following categories: physical skills (e.g. manipulation and motion), social skills (e.g. human-robot interaction,multi-robot collaboration, theory of mind), service tasks (e.g. general-purpose service, cleaning the house, cocktail waiter, security guard) and open (e.g. incredibly awesome applications). The key criteria are as follows: - Innovation - what new value or potential impact does the demonstrated capability bring; - Significance - quality of new AI/Robotics research questions it addresses or exposes; - Technical Quality - how well is the demonstration accomplished; - Understandability - quality of the demonstration presentation. Each demonstration is expected to be performed in an arena (like a living room) and required to be completed in less than 10 minutes with synchronous presentation/commendatory, followed by a 10 minute Q&A. If you are interested in participating in the IJCAI Robot Competition, please complete the registration form below, and send it to the jianmin at ustc.edu.cn by Friday May 10, 2013. Entry Team Name: Country: Affiliations: Contact Details including email address: Team Description including link to website if there is one: Robot Description including link to website if there is one: Task/Skill Description of the robot skill/task you will attempt, the AI problems you will address, your general approach, photo/video(s) of the robot(s) not more than 2 pages. Successful teams will be notified by May 20 if they can be accommodated at the IJCAI-13 venue. Exhibition A robot exhibition will be held together with the 2013 IJCAI Robot Competition. The Robot Exhibition is designed to provide a unique opportunity for universities and companies to bring your robots and show them at the exhibit area, which is open to the conference participants and the public. If you are interested in participating in the IJCAI Robot Exhibition, please send the registration form tojianmin at ustc.edu.cn by Friday May 20, 2013. Xiaoping Chen and Mary-Anne Williams Chairs, the 2013 IJCAI Robot Competition and Exhibition ------ Professor Mary-Anne Williams Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab Associate Dean (Research and Development) Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney * Research and Development Office Building 2 Level 7 Room 7092 *P.O. 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia Phone: + 61 2 9514 2663 (Gunasmin) Facsimile: + 61 2 9514 2868 Faculty: CodeX Stanford University Web: http://TheMagicLab.org/Mary-Anne -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chair at robocup2013.org Sun Apr 28 04:48:20 2013 From: chair at robocup2013.org (Roel Merry) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:48:20 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven, the Netherlands [Newsletter #3] In-Reply-To: <000001ce43ec$c5016970$4f043c50$@robocup2013.org> References: <000001ce43ec$c5016970$4f043c50$@robocup2013.org> Message-ID: <000301ce43ed$23d2c9d0$6b785d70$@robocup2013.org> cid:image001.jpg at 01CE1F67.BF4C6330 CONTENTS 1. Preface 2. Registration 3. Letter of invitation 4. Schedule Major 5. Schedule Junior 6. Important dates 7. Contact 1. Preface This is the third newsletter form the local organization of RoboCup 2013 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In this newsletter an update of the registration, the letter of invitation and the Major and Junior schedules is given. For other topics, e.g. cargo, VISA, accommodations, please visit the website for RoboCup 2013 ( www.robocup2013.org). The overview of accommodations has been updated with holiday parks in the vicinity of Eindhoven besides the Junior Camping and hotels/hostels. The event is only 2 months away and the organization is proceeding ever more rapidly. We are working hard with a large and enthusiastic team to make RoboCup 2013 a competition that brings fun, excitement and technical highlights for both the participants and the public. You can also follow us on Twitter (@RoboCup2013 twitter.com/robocup2013) and Facebook ( www.facebook.com/RoboCup2013). 2. Registration The early registration deadline for the Major competitions (April 30) is approaching rapidly. So, if you want to benefit from the reduced early registration fees, make sure you registered before this date. The Junior pre-registration deadline by regional/national representatives (May 4) is also almost due. Early registration for Junior teams is still possible until May 31. For both Major and Junior teams, please make sure to register your teams before May 31 as no team registration is possible anymore afterwards. For more information regarding registration, see www.robocup2013.org/registration/?lang=en 3. Letter of invitation The participants from the countries requiring visas will need an invitation letter. The invitation letter will be sent by email to the participants after the registration is complete. The wire transfer for the registration fees is known to take some time. The letters of invitation will be sent afterwards. So, please wait patiently for the payment to be complete. If you encounter difficulties or have questions, please email to visa at robocup2013.org. 4. Schedule Major The schedule for the Major competitions and the symposium is given in the overview below. The Major schedule can be viewed and downloaded from the website. cid:image003.png at 01CE43FC.24FD1B30 5. Schedule Junior The schedule for the Junior competitions and the symposium is given in the overview below. The Junior schedule can be viewed and downloaded from the website. cid:image004.png at 01CE43FC.24FD1B30 6. Important dates In the tables below you can find the important dates of the senior competitions, the junior competitions and the symposium. a. Senior leagues Competitions June 27 ? 30 Demonstration games and setup June 26 Setup June 24 ? 25 Late registration June 1 ? 23 Regular registration(1) May 1 ? 31 Early registration deadline March 1 ? April 30 Deadline for completion of qualification in each RoboCup league(2) March 15 Team Pre-Registration Deadline(2) February 15 (1) No team registration accepted after May 31. (2) Pre-registration and qualification deadlines may vary for some leagues. b. Junior leagues Junior workshop at symposium July 1 Competitions June 27 ? 30 Setup June 26 Late registration June 1 ? 23 Registration(1) April 1 - May 31 Pre-registration by national or regional representatives March 1 - May 4 Release of team allocations (quota for each country/region) February 28 Submission of placeholder applications by regional representatives January 28 ? February 20 (1) No team registration accepted after May 31. c. Symposium Symposium July 1 Submission of camera-ready copies May 15 Notification to authors May 3 Submission of full papers March 22 7. Contact For questions regarding RoboCup 2013, please contact one of the mail addresses below. General: info at robocup2013.org Chairs: chair at robocup2013.org Competitions: competitions at robocup2013.org Good luck with the preparations and we hope to welcome you all at the Genneper Parcs in Eindhoven. On behalf of the RoboCup 2013 organization. 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Name: RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven, the Netherlands [Newsletter #3].pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 383751 bytes Desc: not available URL: From paolo.viappiani at gmail.com Thu May 2 11:28:17 2013 From: paolo.viappiani at gmail.com (Paolo Viappiani) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:28:17 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] ADT 2013 - Final Call for Papers - Extended deadlines: May, 10 (abstract); May, 19 (papers) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would like to highlight this forthcoming conference deadline. note: works on decision-theoretic artificial intelligence, including planning and sequential decision-making, or works on robotic systems making using of decision/utility theory are welcome (and as well works on POMDPs, active learning systems, etc). best, Paolo Viappiani ----- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (new *extended* dates) please note that two types of submissions are possible: 1) submission for proceedings 2) submission without proceedings (for work published or under review elsewhere) ============================================================= ADT 2013 Third International Conference on ALGORITHMIC DECISION THEORY Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 13-15, 2013 www.adt2013.org ============================================================== The International Research Group on Algorithmic Decision Theory in collaboration with the European working group on preferences is proud to announce the Third International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2013). ADT seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners coming from diverse areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Database Systems, Operations Research, Decision Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Game Theory, Multiagent systems, Computational Social Choice, and Theoretical Computer Science in order to improve the theory and practice of modern decision support and automation systems. The contemporary theory and practice of decision theory and decision analysis must account for the presence of massive databases containing data extracted from the web or via data mining, combinatorial structures, partial and/or uncertain information, and distributed, possibly interoperating decision makers, and the existence of masses of potential users on the web. Such problems arise in various real-world decision making problems such as electronic commerce, and recommender systems, network optimization (communication, transport, energy), risk assessment and management, e-government. ADT provides a multi-disciplinary forum for sharing knowledge in this area with a special focus on algorithmic issues in Decision Theory. The two first International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2009, 2011) brought together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas of computer science, economics, and operations research from around the globe, with proceedings published in LNAI 5783 and LNAI 6992. ADT 2013 seeks to continue this tradition and invites technical research papers on the following areas: - Algorithmic Challenges to Modern Decision Support and Automation - Uncertainty and Robustness in Decision Making - Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and optimization - Collective Decision Making - Preferences in Reasoning and Decision Making - Decision Theoretic Artificial Intelligence - Learning and Knowledge Extraction for Decision Support More specifically contributions to the conference are sought in the following topics: Preference Modeling and Aggregation; Multiobjective optimization; Planning and Sequential Decision Making under uncertainty; Robustness in Decision Making; Computational Social Choice; Compact Representation of Preferences; Preference Elicitation, Queries in Data Bases; Universal Languages for Preferences; Efficient Algorithms for Decision Making and Support; Multi-Agent Systems; Algorithmic Game Theory ; Communication Complexity; Argumentation and Explanation in Decision Support; Preferences and Policies Learning; Knowledge Extraction; Algorithm Tuning; Recommender Systems; Decision Support Systems. The ADT 2013 Program Committee invites submissions of technical research papers that will be reviewed based on the standard criteria of clarity, relevance, significance, originality, and soundness. These papers are expected to convey substantial technical contributions to the field, or to describe case studies and deployed applications, all placed in the context of existing work. Important dates: ----------------- Title and abstract submission: May 10, 2013; (new date) Paper submission: May 19, 2013 (new date) Notification: around June 7, 2013 (will be extended accordingly to the new submission deadline) Final version June 28, 2013; ADT'13: November 13-15, 2013; Submission Details: ------------------- Two types of submission are proposed: - Submission for proceedings: Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of Algorithmic Decision Theory. Papers must be at most 12 pages long in the LNCS format. The proceedings of ADT 2013 will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Papers will be accepted for either oral or poster presentation, or both. However, no distinction will be made between accepted papers in the conference proceedings. - Submission without proceedings: Submission are invited on significant recent results on Algorithmic Decision Theory. Papers must be at most 12 pages long. They will not appear in the proceedings and can be submitted elsewhere. Selected papers in this category will be accepted for either oral or poster presentation, or both. In any case, at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission. Papers must be submitted via the Easychair system (see the conference web page for details). Location: --------- Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Organization Committee: ------------------------------------------ Marc Pirlot (U. of Mons), Yves De Smet (U. Libre of Brussels), Patrice Perny (U. of Pierre et Marie Curie, PC Chair), Alexis Tsouki?s (CNRS - U. Paris Dauphine), Paolo Viappiani (CNRS - U. of Pierre et Marie Curie). Program Committee (Chair : Patrice Perny, UPMC) : ------------------------------------ Leila Amgoud (Universit? Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Craig Boutilier (University of Toronto) Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University) Paolo Ciaccia (University of Bologna) Matthias Ehrgott (The University of Auckland) H?l?ne Fargier (Universit? Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky) Michel Grabisch (Universit? Paris I) Franck Hsu (Fordham University, NYC) Eyke Huellermeier (University of Marburg) Ulrich Junker Werner Kiessling (University of Augsburg) Christian Klamler (University of Graz) Jer?me Lang (Universit? Paris Dauphine) Thierry Marchant (Universiteit Gent) Nicolas Maudet (Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) Thomas Nielsen (Aalborg University) Wlodzimierz Ogryczak (Warsaw University of Technology) Sasa Pekec (Duke University) Patrice Perny (Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) Marc Pirlot (Universit? de Mons) David Rios (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) Fred Roberts (Rutgers University) Francesca Rossi (University of Padova) Scott Sanner (NICTA) Arkadii Slinko (The University of Auckland) Roman Slowinski (Poznan University of Technology) Olivier Spanjaard (Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) Alexis Tsoukias (Universit? Paris Dauphine) Kristen Brent Venable (Tulane University and IHMC) Paolo Viappiani (CNRS - Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) Toby Walsh (NICTA and UNSW) Nic Wilson (4C, UCC, Cork) Michael Wooldridge (University of Oxford) -- ********************************************************************************* Paolo Viappiani, PhD, CNRS researcher CNRS-LIP6 laboratory - Universit? 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Levent Akin) Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 19:58:57 +0300 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] National Committee Assembly @ RoboCup 2013 Message-ID: Dear RoboCup 2013 participants, I'm writing to let you know that, like every year, we will have a National Committee Assembly this year in Eindhoven. The meeting will be on Thursday, June 27, 2013 from 2-4pm. I will write again to let you know once the details, including location, are confirmed. Many of you are already represented by national committees, as indicated on the RoboCup webpage at http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/national-committees/ In that case, your representative has already been invited to the meeting. If you are from a country that is not represented, I encourage you to get together with any other participants from your country to form a National Committee. The procedure for forming National Committees is included at the bottom of this message. Please let me know if you or someone else from your nation is planning to attend this year's meeting. Best Regards, Levent On behalf of RoboCup Trustees RoboCup National Committees =========================== Any nation, group of nations, or nation-sized region (henceforth "region") with significant past and current RoboCup participation is invited to form a "RoboCup National Committee." The purposes of these committees are to 1) Promote RoboCup within your region 2) Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens 3) Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited 4) Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition 5) Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in your region These are local events smaller than regional "open" competitions, which should also be run with national committee participation, but must be approved by the trustees. For each such local event and open, national committees may at some time in the future be asked to collect a standard RoboCup Federation registration fee from participants and send the resulting funds to the federation (details to be announced if/when this policy goes into effect). The national committee is also expected to send a report following each event summarizing the participation and organization of the event, including how many people and teams participated, from where, etc. If there are many local events in a given year, they can be grouped together into a single annual report. Each national committee should have a single chair who serves as the main point of contact with the RoboCup trustees for questions that are relevant to the region. There should be representation on the committee from all of the different RoboCup leagues in which your region is active (including RoboCupJunior). If not already established, we encourage the national committees to initiate formation of all aspects of RoboCup activities, including RoboCupRescue, RoboCupJunior, and RoboCupAtHome. To form a committee, please get together with all of the participants from your region. Once the list of committee members is prepared, please contact the RoboCup trustees to let us know: 1) The members and affiliations of the committee. 2) The names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the teams represented by the committee (hopefully all the teams from your region). 3) The URL of your current webpage, if it already exists (see http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/national-committees/ for some examples) The Trustees will then check that all the represented teams agree to be represented in this way, and then link the committee to the RoboCup website. -- =================================================================== H.Levent Akin [] To acquire knowledge and Dean [] communicate it to others Faculty of Engineering [] has been the ambition, Bogazici University [] pleasure, and business of 34342 Bebek-Istanbul [] my life. TURKEY [] -William Harvey [] Phone: +90 (212) 359 6401 [] Fax: +90 (212) 265 8488 [] E-Mail:akin at boun.edu.tr [] URL:http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~akin [] From jobs at intelligent-autonomous-systems.de Sun May 5 12:35:51 2013 From: jobs at intelligent-autonomous-systems.de (Jan Peters @ IAS TU Darmstadt) Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 18:35:51 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Robotics & Machine Learning Positions @ TU Darmstadt Message-ID: Open Robotics & Machine Learning Positions ====================================== The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab (IAS) at the Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) is seeking for several highly qualified postdoctoral researchers as well as talented Ph.D. students with strong interests in one or more of the following research topics: * Machine Learning for Robotics (especially Reinforcement Learning, Imitation, and Model Learning) * Tactile Exploration, Robot Grasping and Manipulation * Interaction Learning, Intent Modeling and Inference * Whole-body Contacts in Humanoid Robotics * Robot Control, Learning for Control * Robot Table Tennis Outstanding students and researchers from the areas of robotics and robotics-related areas including machine learning, control engineering or computer vision are welcome to apply. The candidates are expected to conduct independent research and at the same time contribute to ongoing projects in the areas listed above. Successful candidates can furthermore be given the opportunity to work with undergraduate, M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. *** PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS: PLEASE MEET JAN PETERS *** *** AT ICRA IF YOU ATTEND *** Due to IAS' strong ties to the Max Planck Institutes for Intelligent Systems and Biological Cybernetics, the University of Southern California, as well as to the Honda Research Institute, there will be ample opportunities of collaboration with these institutes. POSITION REQUIREMENTS Ph.D. position applicants need to have a Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Robotics, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics & Optimization, Math and Physics) and have exhibited their ability to perform research in either robotics or machine learning. A successful Post-doc applicant should have a strong robotics and/or machine learning background with a track record of top-tier research publications, including relevant conferences (e.g., RSS, ICRA, IROS or ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, NIPS, AISTATS) and journals (e.g., AURO, TRo, IJRR or JMLR, MLJ, Neural Computation) . A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering (or another field clearly related to robotics and/or machine learning) as well as strong organizational and coordination skills are a must. Expertise in working with real robot systems is a big plus for all applicants. HOW TO APPLY? All complete applications submitted through our online application system found at http://www.ias.tu-darmstadt.de/Jobs/Application will be considered. There is no fixed deadline: the positions will be filled as soon as possible. Ph.D. applicants should provide at least a research statement, a PDF with their CV, degrees, and grade-sheets, and two references who are willing to write a recommendation letter. PostDoc applicants require three references and, in addition, should provide their top three publications. Please ensure to include a link to your research web-site as well as your date of availability. Applicants are encouraged to contact Jan Peters, Marc Deisenroth, Heni Ben Amor and Gerhard Neumann during the upcoming ICRA, R:SS or ICML conferences. Candidates giving a presentation at one of these conferences are invited to send a corresponding note to us. MORE INFORMATION? VISIT: http://www.ias.tu-darmstadt.de/Jobs/InformationForApplicants From jruizd at ing.uchile.cl Tue May 7 11:07:38 2013 From: jruizd at ing.uchile.cl (Javier Ruiz-del-Solar) Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 11:07:38 -0400 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] CFP ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ================================================================= CFP: ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics ================================================================= == Dates: November 25-29, 2013 == Location: Montevideo, Uruguay == Submission deadline: 30 June 2013 == Website: http://www.icar2013.org =============================================================== The 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2013, will be held at ?Facultad de Ingenier?a? of the ?Universidad de la Rep?blica? in Montevideo, Uruguay, November 25-29th, 2013. ICAR 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The technical program of ICAR 2013 will consist of plenary talks, workshops, oral presentations and interactive sessions. Submitted papers should describe original work in the form of theoretical modeling, design, experimental validation, or case studies from all areas of robotics focusing in particular on new emerging paradigms and application areas including but not limited to: Robotics Vision Cognitive Robotics Robotics Architectures Mobile Robots Humanoid Robots Self-Localization and Navigation Spatial Cognition Human-Robot Interaction Multi-Robot Systems Search and Rescue Robots Learning and Adaptation Cooperation and Competition Adversarial Planning Robot Operating Systems Simulation and Visualization Robotic Swarms Biologically-Inspired Robots Embedded and Mobile Hardware Robotic Entertainment Robot Soccer Unmanned Aerial Robots Underwater Robotics Systems Educational Robotics Rehabilitation Robotics ================ Important Dates ================ Submissions Due: 30 June 2013 Notifications: 30 August 2013 Camera-Ready: 20 September 2013 ICAR 2013 Conference: 25-29 November 2013 ================= Paper Submission ================= Original technical paper contributions are solicited for presentation at ICAR 2013. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore conference proceedings. Submission should be 6 to 8 pages following IEEE Xplore formats found at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will be done via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icar2013 Submitted paper should not be currently under review by another conference or journal. At least one of the authors of the accepted paper will need to present the work at the conference. Please refer to the paper submission page at www.icar2013.org for further details. ================ Special Journal Issue ================ Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems (JINT). Selection of these papers will be based on the originality, significance, and clarity of the work. Extended papers will be subject to the same peer-review process required by JINT before acceptance for publication. ================ Invited Speakers ================ Ronald Arkin, Georgia Tech http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~arkin/ Ousamma Khatib, Stanford University http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ok/ Bruno Siciliano, University of Napoli http://wpage.unina.it/sicilian/ Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver http://www.engr.du.edu/kvalavanis/ Richard Volpe, JPL http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Richard_Volpe/ ===================== Conference Committees ===================== General Chair Alfredo Weitzenfeld, University of South Florida, USA Program Chair Javier Ruiz del Solar, University of Chile, Chile Publications Chair Alejandra Barrera, ITAM, Mexico Local Chair Gonzalo Tejera, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Finance Chair Facundo Benavides, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Steering Committee Chair Paolo Fiorini, University of Verona, Italy ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Javier Ruiz-del-Solar Professor Universidad de Chile Department of Electrical Engineering Av. Tupper 2007, 837-0451 Santiago, Chile Ph. +56-2-2977 1000 & +56-2-2978 4207 Fax +56-2-6720162 Email: jruizd at ing.uchile.cl WWW: http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~jruizd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Thomas.Roefer at dfki.de Mon May 13 06:53:15 2013 From: Thomas.Roefer at dfki.de (=?windows-1252?Q?Thomas_R=F6fer?=) Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 12:53:15 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] KI 2013: Workshop on Visual and Spatial Cognition References: <5190AE99.1060702@hs-harz.de> Message-ID: <561D5C12-EA9E-4AA0-9857-BB079DB2544F@dfki.de> KI 2013: Workshop on Visual and Spatial Cognition - Call for Papers - KIK ? KI & Kognition Workshop Series Description of Workshop Topic and Goal The ability to process spatial information is crucial for various tasks as diverse as navigation, planning, and managing abstract concepts. Research issues in spatial cognition range from the investigation of human spatial cognition to mobile robot navigation. Much of that research effort, however, has been experimental, putting little stress on precise models of the involved representations and processes. Obviously, spatial cognition is closely related to visual cognition of places and scenes in general. Different visualization techniques and reasoning formalisms serve to analyze spatial cognition processes. They can be used to achieve a more general cognitive model. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Robotics, Geographic Information Science, and related areas to foster a multi-disciplinary exchange between research in visual and spatial cognition. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Spatial and temporal reasoning and cognition * Psychological studies of human visual and spatial cognition * Cognitive architectures/computational cognitive models of spatial reasoning * Cognitive systems interacting with their environment and with humans * Perception-based representation of high-level cognitive concepts * Novel techniques in spatial cognition, e.g., eye tracking, fMRI, etc. * Object and scene recognition * Human-computer interaction and cognitive robotics This workshop continues a series of successful workshops initiated by the Special Interest Group "Cognition" in the GI (German Informatics Society) and will be held in conjunction with KI 2013 in Koblenz. List of Important Dates * Submission deadline: July 1st, 2013 * Notification: August 16th, 2013 * Camera-ready copy: August 31th, 2013 * Workshop: September September 17th, 2013 Submission and Contribution Format: The workshop will be held in English, in order to attract an international audience. Each presenter is required to submit a short paper (4-8 pages) on the presented topic formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines (). The agenda will leave enough room for discussions. So each talk will be followed by a discussion period of 10 minutes. Papers are subject to regular peer review and subsequent publication within the workshop proceedings. Submissions should be sent as pdf file to . Organizers Marco Ragni University of Freiburg ragni at cognition.uni-freiburg.de http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/members/ragni Michael Raschke University of Stuttgart (VIS) michael.raschke at vis.uni-stuttgart.de http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiterInnen/michael-raschke.html Frieder Stolzenburg (contact person) Harz University of Applied Sciences fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de http://fstolzenburg.hs-harz.de/ Program Committee Thomas Barkowsky, U Bremen Michael Burch, U Stuttgart Lewis Chuang, MPI f?r Kybernetik Christian Freksa, U Bremen Reinhard Moratz, U Maine Bernhard Nebel, U Freiburg Thomas R?fer, DFKI Bremen Ute Schmid, U Bamberg Workshop homepage: -- Prof. Dr. Frieder Stolzenburg Hochschule Harz (Harz University of Applied Sciences) FB Automatisierung und Informatik (Automation & Computer Sciences Dep.) Friedrichstr. 57-59 D-38855 Wernigerode (Germany) Raum (Office): 2.008 Tel: +49 3943 659-333 Fax: +49 3943 659-399 Skype: fstolzenburg E-Mail: fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de WWW: http://fstolzenburg.hs-harz.de/ From d.polani at herts.ac.uk Mon May 13 11:14:08 2013 From: d.polani at herts.ac.uk (Daniel Polani) Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 16:14:08 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] PhD Studentships in Information Processing of Autonomous Agents and Agent Collectives Message-ID: <20881.832.952980.634946@gargle.gargle.HOWL> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// PhD Studentships Available on INFORMATION PROCESSING AND SELF-ORGANIZATION OF AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND AGENT COLLECTIVES Adaptive Systems Research Group School of Computer Science University of Hertfordshire, UK ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// PhD studentships are available in the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire the principles behind information processing in adaptive, self-organizing agent systems including discovery and emergence of novel and increasingly complex behaviours. We use mathematical methods, especially a number of recent techniques based on Shannon's information theory, to describe, understand or construct such systems in the context of AI/robotics with special attention to biological relevance. Questions of interest and possible research directions include, but are not limited to: - information-theoretic approaches towards a mathematically founded understanding of information processing and the perception-action loop in agents; fundamental quantitative constraints governing the interaction between an agent and its environment - autonomous discovery and generation of "meaningful" behaviour patterns and composite behaviours - principled and theoretically grounded pathways towards a systematic way to autonomous generation of increasingly complex strategies in individual agents and agent collectives The prospective candidates should have a keen interest in contributing to a new and highly dynamic research area and a strong background in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics or another relevant computational discipline. In particular, they should demonstrate excellent programming skills in one or more major computer languages. A mathematical/numerical background would be desirable, ideally including probability theory and data modelling/neural network techniques. The envisaged research will take place in the vibrant and enthusiastic research environment of the Adaptive Systems Research Group in the School of Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire which offers a large number of specialized and interdisciplinary seminars as well as general training opportunities. Research in Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire has been recognized as excellent by the latest Research Assessment Exercise, with 55% of the research submitted being rated as world leading or internationally excellent. The University of Hertfordshire is located in Hatfield, Hertfordshire UK which is considered the "northern green belt" of London. Hatfield is close to London (less than 25 minutes by express train to Kings Cross), has convenient access to Stansted, Luton and Heathrow airports and is not far from the historic town of St. Albans. Successful candidates are eligible for a research studentship award from the University (which includes approximately GBP 13,600 per annum bursary and the payment of the standard UK/EU student fees). Applicants from outside the UK or EU are eligible, but will have to pay half of the overseas fees out of their bursary. Information about the current tuition fees can be found at http://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/fees-and-funding/postgraduate/home.cfm Contact for informal inquiries on the research topic: Dr. Daniel Polani (E-mail: d.polani at herts.ac.uk) Application forms are available from http://homepages.stca.herts.ac.uk/~comqvs/ApplicationFormUHStudentship.doc and should be returned to Mrs Lorraine Nicholls, Research Student Administrator, STRI University of Hertfordshire College Lane Hatfield AL10 9AB Hertfordshire UK Tel: 01707 286083 Email: l.nicholls at herts.ac.uk. Applications should also include two references and transcripts of previous academic degrees. The shortlisting process will begin on 7. June 2013. From Mary-Anne at themagiclab.org Fri May 17 23:07:22 2013 From: Mary-Anne at themagiclab.org (Mary-Anne Williams) Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 13:07:22 +1000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] FINAL CALL: IJCAI 2013 VIDEO COMPETITION (DEADLINE EXTENSION) Message-ID: FINAL CALL: IJCAI 2013 VIDEO COMPETITION (DEADLINE EXTENSION) *IMPORTANT: Deadline extended to 2013-05-26 due to requests from contributors.* We are pleased to present the final call for videos to the upcoming IJCAI 2013 Video Competition. In the spirit of earlier AI Video Competitions, the intention is to provide researchers with a forum for demonstrating how exciting and interesting artificial intelligence can be. The results of the competition will be presented at the IJCAI 2013 conference (August 3-9, 2013, in Beijing, China), where the best videos will be given an award. All accepted videos will also be made available online. Video Contents A wide range of videos related to artificial intelligence can be submitted to the competition, varying along a number of distinct dimensions. The topic of a video might for example be a general or specific area of AI, the work of a particular researcher or group (yourselves or others), or a concrete application that depends on one or several AI techniques and that may be based entirely on software or partly on hardware. A video may concern work with different levels of maturity, from introducing something new and interesting, through describing known but ongoing research, to summarizing a mature area or application and showing its impact on society. The intended audience of a video can be students learning about a topic in a classroom, researchers interesting in learning more about subfields outside their own, or the general public. Specific Awards In keeping with the above, several distinct awards will be given. The following categories are envisioned, but are subject to change depending on the submissions received. - Best long video (up to 5 minutes) - Best short video (up to 1 minute) - Best application video (demonstrating a particular use of AI) - Most entertaining video (illustrating AI in an amusing or interesting way) - Most educational video (for students learning about a topic) - Most societally beneficial video (showing the public what AI can do and does for them) - Best autonomous robotics video (showing advances in robotics, including social aspects of robotics and human-robot interaction) In all cases, keeping the viewer interested and engaged is essential. The best videos of earlier AI video competitions have often achieved this through the use of humor, background music, and movies / animations. To ensure that the videos are comprehensible to a wide audience, they must be narrated or subtitled in English. Requirements The following criteria must be satisfied by all videos participating in the competition. - The video must be relevant to the area of Artificial Intelligence. - The video must be submitted in a widely supported encoding and container format. For example, MPEG-2, Xvid or H.264 encoding in an AVI or MKV container could be used. We reserve the right to recode videos before making them available online. - The authors must hold the copyright for all materials used, such as music, video, sounds and images, or have explicit written permission from the copyright holders to use and distribute this material. - The video must not be offensive and must not advertise or promote commercial products. Review Process After the submission deadline, all submitted videos satisfying the requirements stated above will be reviewed by the video competition program committee (to be announced) according to the following criteria. - Excitement: How interesting and exciting is the actual technology, research area, application, or other work being presented? - Educational content: To what extent can other AI researchers, students, or the general public can learn about artificial intelligence from the video? - Entertainment value: How entertaining and captivating is the video to watch? - Presentation quality: How well is the video produced, what is the quality of the narration and soundtrack, etc.? The best videos will be nominated for awards, and the winners decided by the committee will be revealed at a ceremony at IJCAI 2013. Submissions All submissions to the video competition are handled through EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcaivc2013. In addition to standard information such as the entry's title, the names of the authors and their contact information, the following information must be submitted as a .txt file: 1. A link (URL) to a location where the video file can be downloaded by the program committee. This location should preferably be protected by a password, which should then be submitted here as well. 2. A one-or two-paragraph description of the submission. Key Dates - Submission of videos: May 26, 2013 - Notification of acceptance and award nominations: June 20, 2013 - Final version and signed distribution license due: June 30, 2013 Program Committee Alberto Finzi Alessandro Saffiotti Andreas Herzig Charles Ortiz Danica Kragic Daniele Magazzeni Daniele Nardi Enrico Giunchiglia Esra Erdem Froduald Kabanza Gerhard Lakemeyer Hector Geffner Karen Myers Luc De Raedt Malik Ghallab Malte Helmert Mark Boddy Mary-Anne Williams Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Renata Wasserman Sven Koenig Xiaoping Chen Xinyu Wu Yili Fu Further Information For further information about the competition, please contact the competition chairs (Patrick Doherty and Jonas Kvarnstr?m) at videos at ijcai13.org. ------ Professor Mary-Anne Williams Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab Associate Dean (Research and Development) Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney * Research and Development Office Building 2 Level 7 Room 7092 *P.O. 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia Phone: + 61 2 9514 2663 (Gunasmin) Facsimile: + 61 2 9514 2868 Faculty: CodeX Stanford University Web: http://TheMagicLab.org/Mary-Anne -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jruizd at ing.uchile.cl Mon May 20 15:21:01 2013 From: jruizd at ing.uchile.cl (Javier Ruiz-del-Solar) Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 15:21:01 -0400 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Special Issue on "Advances in Domestic Service Robots in the Real World" - JINT (Springer) In-Reply-To: <1836.1276402230@figo.cs.utexas.edu> References: <29417.1274880721@figo.cs.utexas.edu> <1836.1276402230@figo.cs.utexas.edu> Message-ID: <2D04E527-D85F-4B94-AD5C-259892DB8B53@ing.uchile.cl> Deadline extension: 25 May 2013 Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems Special Issue on "Advances in Domestic Service Robots in the Real World" This special issue focuses on a broad spectrum of domestic service robots that operate in the real-world in home environments. The robots are fully autonomous and use intuitive interfaces such as language, gestures and visual displays to communicate with people. The home environment is defined as 'any place where people live in their daily lives', which can include, for example, a living room, a kitchen or a garden. Special attention is being paid to submissions where the robot capabilities are validated in a real-world setting such as the RoboCup at Home benchmark or during long lasting experiments in the real- world. The focus will also be on different modes of natural interaction with humans, semantic perception and mapping in domestic environments, recognition and manipulation of domestic objects, cost- effectiveness of the solution (computational and financial resources used by the robot), modeling and search in unknown daily life environments, such as homes, restaurants, and shopping centers, the effect of appearance on acceptance and more. The topics are related, but not limited, to all the aspects required for a robot to operate in daily life environments with a long-term focus on applicability, such as: - cooperative human-robot interaction and task solving, - semantic perception and mapping in domestic environments, - manipulation of domestic objects such as doors, kitchen utensils, glasses, etc., - modeling and search in unknown daily life environments, such as homes, restaurants, and shopping centers, - high-level cognition for robots in domestic environments, - benchmarking domestic service robots, - long lasting robotic experiments in domestic environments, - acceptance of robots in households. Submissions addressing practical applications using international benchmarks and/or in-field experimental testing are strongly encouraged. Guest Editors: Luca Iocchi, Universit? di Roma ''La Sapienza'', Luca.Iocchi at dis.uniroma1.it Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, jruizd at ing.uchile.cl Tijn van der Zant, University of Groningen, tijn at ieee.org Important dates: 1 April 2013: Opening paper submission 25 May 2013: Closing Paper Submission 1 August 2013: Paper Acceptance Announcements 31 August 2013: Camera-ready Paper Submission 2014: Expected Publication -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asdm at fi.upm.es Wed May 22 05:12:50 2013 From: asdm at fi.upm.es (Advanced Statistics and Data Mining Summerschool) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:12:50 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Summer School on Advanced Statistics and Data Mining (Madrid) - Early registration deadline Message-ID: <519C8C12.7020402@fi.upm.es> Dear colleagues, We would like to remind you that the early registration period for the summer school on 'Advanced Statistics and Data Mining' will finish on the 1st of june. The summer school will be organized by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) between June 24th and July 5th. This year's programme comprises 12 courses divided into 2 weeks. Attendees may register in each course independently. Early registration is now OPEN. Extended information on course programmes, price, venue, accommodation and transport is available at the school's website: http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/ASDM Please, send this information to your colleagues, students, and whoever may find it interesting. Best regards, Pedro Larranaga, Concha Bielza and Pedro L. Lopez-Cruz. -- The coordinators of the school. *** List of courses and brief description *** * Week 1 (June 24th - June 28th, 2013) * 1st session: 9:30 - 12:30 Course 1: Bayesian networks (15 h) Basics of Bayesian networks. Inference in Bayesian networks. Learning Bayesian networks from data. Real applications. Course 2: Statistical inference (15 h) Introduction. Some basic statistical test. Multiple testing. Introduction to bootstrap methods. Introduction to Robust Statistics. 2nd session: 13:30 - 16:30 Course 3: Supervised pattern recognition (15 h) Introduction. Assessing the performance of supervised classification algorithms. Preprocessing. Classification techniques. Combining multiple classifiers. Comparing supervised classification algorithms. Course 4: Multivariate data analysis (15 h) Introduction. Data examination. Principal component analysis. Factor Analysis. Multidimensional scaling. Correspondence analysis. Tensor analysis. Multivariate Analysis of Variance. Canonical Correlation Analysis. Latent Class Analysis. 3rd session: 17:00 - 20:00 Course 5: Neural networks (15 h) Introduction. Perceptrons. Training algorithms. Accelerating convergence. Useful tricks for MLPs. Deep networks. Practical data modelling with neural networks. Course 6: Feature Subset Selection (15 h) Introduction. Filter approaches. Wrapper methods. Embedded methods. Drawbacks and future strands. Practical session. * Week 2 (July 1st - July 5th, 2013) * 1st session: 9:30 - 12:30 Course 7: Time series analysis (15 h) Introduction. Probability models to time series. Regression and Fourier analysis. Forecasting and Data mining. Course 8: Hidden Markov Models (15 h) Introduction. Discrete Hidden Markov Models. Basic algorithms for Hidden Markov Models. Semicontinuous Hidden Markov Models. Continuous Hidden Markov Models. Unit selection and clustering. Speaker and Environment Adaptation for HMMs. Other applications of HMMs. 2nd session: 13:30 - 16:30 Course 9: Bayesian classifiers (15 h) Discrete predictors. Gaussian Bayesian networks-based classifiers. Other Bayesian classifiers. Bayesian classifiers for: positive and unlabeled data, semi-supervised learning, data streams, temporal data. Course 10: Unsupervised pattern recognition (15 h) Introduction. Prototype-based clustering. Density-based clustering. Graph-based clustering. Cluster evaluation. Miscellanea. 3rd session: 17:00 - 20:00 Course 11: Support vector machines, regularization and convex optimization (15 h) Introduction. SVM models. SVM learning algorithms. Convex non differentiable optimization. Course 12: Hot topics in intelligent data analysis (15 h) Multi-label and multi-dimensional classification. Multi-dimensional classification and multi-output regression. Advanced Clustering. Partially supervised classification with uncertain class labels. Directional statistics. Spatial point processes. From chair at robocup2013.org Tue May 28 18:22:17 2013 From: chair at robocup2013.org (Chair RoboCup 2013) Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 22:22:17 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven, the Netherlands [Newsletter #4] In-Reply-To: <009601ce5bef$57d4fa90$077eefb0$@robocup2013.org> References: <009601ce5bef$57d4fa90$077eefb0$@robocup2013.org> Message-ID: <309F3D0B03FD4240AFCD2723A3E825337E3B84@XSERVER20B.campus.tue.nl> [cid:image002.jpg at 01CE5BFF.352999F0] CONTENTS 1. Preface 2. Update on cargo delivery 3. About Eindhoven 4. Introducing two RoboCup 2013 sponsors: a. ASML b. MathWorks 5. Important dates 6. Promote RoboCup 2013 7. RoboCup 2013 mascots 8. Contact 1. Preface Hopefully your final developments and preparations for RoboCup 2013 are well on its way and will allow you to play attractive and winning games, both from a scientific and competition perspective. We are looking forward to seeing your innovations and achievements. To help you to get the best result out of RoboCup 2013 we are working hard with a big team to prepare everything you need. In this fourth newsletter we would like to inform you about the updated schedule for cargo delivery, the city of Eindhoven, two of our main sponsors and ways you can promote RoboCup 2013 in your school, university or company. Finally, be aware that the deadline for team registration is approaching fast. 2. Update on cargo delivery To allow all teams to receive their robots as soon as possible after they arrive at the venue, we have enlarged the periods in which the cargo can be received on Monday and Tuesday to 9 ? 17 hr. Please note that every team is still responsible for receiving their own goods at the venue. RoboCup 2013 will not receive or store any goods. You can find the Major and Junior schedules on our website using the links below. On the website you can also download a PDF version of the schedule. Major schedule: http://www.robocup2013.org/major-leagues-schedule/ Junior schedule: http://www.robocup2013.org/junior-leagues-schedule/ 3. About Eindhoven Eindhoven is unmistakably the most adventurous city in the south of The Netherlands. The country?s fifth-largest city offers everything you need to make life enjoyable! A bustling city center with a huge variety of shops, numerous bars, pubs and restaurants, welcoming terraces, a lively nightlife, an overflowing events calendar and art and culture of the highest quality! But Eindhoven also has a rich historical background. Let Eindhoven surprise you? Walking through the streets of Eindhoven you will see a young, modern city. But looks can be deceiving? Eindhoven is in fact one of the oldest cities in The Netherlands and has a very interesting history! It received city rights back in 1232. A lively cigar and textile industry developed along the Dommel river. In the Villa park (city center) you can still see the imposing villas and mansions built by industrialists who settled here. The creation of the light-bulb in 1891 by Philips and the first DAF truck a little later was the beginning of the development and flourishing of the city. Traces of this industrial history can still be found when visiting Eindhoven. Since then Eindhoven has grown to become one of the most prominent cities of Europe in the fields of technology, knowledge and design. Many top-class international high-tech companies are now located in Eindhoven. The Technical University, Fontys High Schools and the Design Academy continue to attract students from all over the world. Modern architecture also found their place in Eindhoven. Some must-sees in Eindhoven: ? Stratumseind This 225 meter long street has the most bars and other nightlife possibilities from Eindhoven. The venue De Effenaar at the Dommelstraat is also worth your visit. ? Philips stadium The Philips stadium is the home base of soccer club PSV. ? Van Abbemuseum The Van Abbemuseum is one of the leading museums for modern and contemporary art. The impressive collection includes works of Picasso, Chagall, Kandinsky, El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Mondriaan and Appel. ? DAF-Museum You can see here the first cars developed by DAF. ? Sint Catharinakerk This church is designed by the famous architect Pierre Cuypers, he also designed the Rijksmuseum and the train station Centraal Station in Amsterdam. ? Evoluon The Evoluon is well known. This ?flying saucer? used to be a museum, but nowadays it is a convention center. ? Shopping in Eindhoven Besides the shopping streets in the inner city of Eindhoven, the indoor shopping centers De Heuvelgalerie and the Piazza Centre offer you the ultimate shopping experience. Source: www.vvveindhoven.nl 4. Introducing two RoboCup 2013 sponsors In this section we would like to introduce to you two of our sponsors for RoboCup 2013, ASML and MathWorks. These two sponsors will also be present at the event. If you want to find out more about job opportunities or technical possibilities, pay them a visit. a. ASML For engineers who think ahead ASML is a successful high-tech company headquartered in the Netherlands, which manufactures complex lithography machines that chip manufacturers use to produce integrated circuits. The steady progress of the world?s technological evolution through smaller, faster, smarter, more energy-efficient yet more affordable chips is to a large extent the result of technological breakthroughs at ASML. In the space of almost thirty years we have grown from nothing into a multinational with 55 locations in 16 countries and annual sales of 5.6 billion Euros in 2011. Behind ASML?s technological breakthroughs are engineers who think ahead. The people who work at ASML include some of the most creative minds in physics, mathematics, chemistry, mechatronics, optics, mechanical engineering, software engineering, and computer science. And, because ASML spends more than half a billion Euros per year on R&D, our people have the freedom and the resources to push the boundaries of known technology. They work in close-knit, multidisciplinary teams and each day they listen to, learn from and exchange ideas with each other. The ideal environment for growth With such a diverse technology culture, generous R&D budget, and a collective determination to create, develop and perfect entirely new technologies ASML represents the ideal environment for professional development and personal growth. If you have an unbridled passion for technology and want to be part of a team that tries out new ideas each day and constantly searches for better, more accurate, and faster ways of doing things, then visit www.asml.com/careers and send us your application. b. MathWorks MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software. MATLAB, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a graphical environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multi-domain dynamic and embedded systems. Engineers and scientists worldwide rely on these product families to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and development in automotive, aerospace, electronics, financial services, biotech-pharmaceutical, and other industries. MathWorks products are also fundamental teaching and research tools in the world?s universities and learning institutions. Student competitions bridge classroom theory with hands-on learning of industry practices and technologies and are important vehicles for educating the engineers of tomorrow. RoboCup is an excellent example of project-based learning for which MATLAB and Simulink are already used extensively. MathWorks wants to show the student teams, the universities and the visitors the capabilities offered by its software and explore the possibility to apply them wider and more efficiently to the design of new robot technology. MathWorks also sees it as a social responsibility to contribute to society by stimulating our next generation to become interested in technology. The company mission is to accelerate the pace of science and technology. All RoboCup teams get complementary licenses for MATLAB, Simulink and other useful software that they offer and that you can use for preparing: http://www.mathworks.nl/academia/student-competitions/robocup/resources.html 5. Important dates In the tables below you can find the important dates of the major competitions, the junior competitions and the symposium. Team registration for both the major and junior leagues is possible until May 31. If you have not yet registered your team, make sure not to miss this deadline. a. Major leagues Competitions June 27 ? 30 Demonstration games and setup June 26 Setup June 24 ? 25 Late registration June 1 ? 23 Regular registration(1) May 1 ? 31 Early registration deadline March 1 ? April 30 Deadline for completion of qualification in each RoboCup league(2) March 15 Team Pre-Registration Deadline(2) February 15 (1) No team registration accepted after May 31. (2) Pre-registration and qualification deadlines may vary for some leagues. b. Junior leagues Junior workshop at symposium July 1 Competitions June 27 ? 30 Setup June 26 Late registration June 1 ? 23 Registration(1) April 1 - May 31 Pre-registration by national or regional representatives March 1 - May 4 Release of team allocations (quota for each country/region) February 28 Submission of placeholder applications by regional representatives January 28 ? February 20 (1) No team registration accepted after May 31. c. Symposium The symposium will take place on July 1 in the auditorium of the Eindhoven University of Technology (www.tue.nl). Besides the oral and poster presentations, there will be two invited speakers, Raffaelo d'Andrea (ETH) and Chad Jenkins (Brown Univ). 6. Promote RoboCup 2013 Your help is crucial in promoting and maximizing public engagement for RoboCup 2013. You can do this by following us on twitter and/or liking us on facebook. Don't hesitate to share RoboCup-related content with us through these social media. Furthermore, we are looking for your stories to publish on the RoboCup 2013 website. How is your team preparing for the tournament? Did you participate in regional RoboCup events? Did you demonstrate your robots at a special occasion? Let us know! Send your story, if possible with some pictures or a video, to website at robocup2013.org Promoting RoboCup at your institution is another way to make more people aware of the upcoming event. We have created a short video that you can share on your website or show during classes. The video file, and some other materials to promote RoboCup, can be downloaded here. 7. RoboCup 2013 mascots With less than five weeks until RoboCup 2013 we would like to introduce all participants to a very special family of robot mascots. Most of you are familiar already with the yellow/orange robot that appears on our posters, website and in the header of this newsletter. Recently, it has been named Robot Robin in a Facebook poll. 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Name: RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven, the Netherlands [Newsletter #4].pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 318009 bytes Desc: RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven, the Netherlands [Newsletter #4].pdf URL: From jruizd at ing.uchile.cl Thu May 30 06:27:12 2013 From: jruizd at ing.uchile.cl (Javier Ruiz-del-Solar) Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 06:27:12 -0400 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 3rd CFP: ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics In-Reply-To: References: , , , Message-ID: <5A3909D3-675B-4420-9766-76CADE056A82@ing.uchile.cl> Apologies for multiple postings ================================================================= 3rd CFP: ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics ================================================================= == Dates: November 25-29, 2013 == Location: Montevideo, Uruguay == Submission deadline: 30 June 2013 == Website: http://www.icar2013.org =============================================================== The 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2013, will be held at ?Facultad de Ingenieria? of the ?Universidad de la Republica? in Montevideo, Uruguay, November 25-29th, 2013. ICAR 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The technical program of ICAR 2013 will consist of plenary talks, workshops, oral presentations and interactive sessions. Submitted papers should describe original work in the form of theoretical modeling, design, experimental validation, or case studies from all areas of robotics focusing in particular on new emerging paradigms and application areas including but not limited to: Robotics Vision Cognitive Robotics Robotics Architectures Mobile Robots Humanoid Robots Self-Localization and Navigation Spatial Cognition Human-Robot Interaction Multi-Robot Systems Search and Rescue Robots Learning and Adaptation Cooperation and Competition Adversarial Planning Robot Operating Systems Simulation and Visualization Robotic Swarms Biologically-Inspired Robots Embedded and Mobile Hardware Robotic Entertainment Robot Soccer Unmanned Aerial Robots Underwater Robotics Systems Educational Robotics Rehabilitation Robotics ================ Important Dates ================ Submissions Due: 30 June 2013 Notifications: 30 August 2013 Camera-Ready: 20 September 2013 ICAR 2013 Conference: 25-29 November 2013 ================= Paper Submission ================= Original technical paper contributions are solicited for presentation at ICAR 2013. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore conference proceedings. Submission should be 6 to 8 pages following IEEE Xplore formats found at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will be done via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icar2013 Submitted paper should not be currently under review by another conference or journal. At least one of the authors of the accepted paper will need to present the work at the conference. Please refer to the paper submission page at www.icar2013.org for further details. ================= Workshops and Tutorials ================= Proposals for the organization of workshops and tutorials are solicited for ICAR 2013 that address advanced topics in robotics. Workshops should be focused on active areas of research in order to provide an informal forum for participants to exchange new ideas and new directions in developing research. Tutorials should provide self- contained descriptions of established research topics. The primary criteria for selection are anticipated level of interest, impact, novelty or creativity, and technical background of presenters. See the "Workshops and Tutorials" section under "Submissions" at www.icar2013.org for further details. Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be submitted via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icar2013 ================ Special Journal Issue ================ Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems (JINT). Selection of these papers will be based on the originality, significance, and clarity of the work. Extended papers will be subject to the same peer-review process required by JINT before acceptance for publication. ================ Invited Speakers ================ Ronald Arkin, Georgia Tech http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~arkin/ Ousamma Khatib, Stanford University http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ok/ Bruno Siciliano, University of Napoli http://wpage.unina.it/sicilian/ Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver http://www.engr.du.edu/kvalavanis/ Richard Volpe, JPL http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Richard_Volpe/ ===================== Conference Committees ===================== General Chair Alfredo Weitzenfeld, University of South Florida, USA Program Chair Javier Ruiz del Solar, University of Chile, Chile Publications Chair Alejandra Barrera, ITAM, Mexico Local Chair Gonzalo Tejera, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Finance Chair Facundo Benavides, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Steering Committee Chair Paolo Fiorini, University of Verona, Italy ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Javier Ruiz-del-Solar Professor Universidad de Chile Department of Electrical Engineering Av. Tupper 2007, 837-0451 Santiago, Chile Ph. +56-2-2977 1000 & +56-2-2978 4207 Fax +56-2-6720162 Email: jruizd at ing.uchile.cl WWW: http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~jruizd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chair at robocup2013.org Sun Jun 9 14:14:41 2013 From: chair at robocup2013.org (Chair RoboCup 2013) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 18:14:41 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven, the Netherlands [Newsletter #5] In-Reply-To: <001501ce653b$6b8f1ca0$42ad55e0$@robocup2013.org> References: <001501ce653b$6b8f1ca0$42ad55e0$@robocup2013.org> Message-ID: <309F3D0B03FD4240AFCD2723A3E825337ED7CE@XSERVER20B.campus.tue.nl> [cid:image002.jpg at 01CE654A.E1FF18E0] CONTENTS 1. Preface 2. Risk & damages and photograph & video release forms 3. Opening ceremonies 4. Route to the venue 5. Introducing sponsors 6. Contact 1. Preface This is the last newsletter before RoboCup 2013. The final preparations have started and the construction of the venue is also already in progress. We are really looking forward to the event and to welcome you all to RoboCup 2013 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In this newsletter we would like to inform you regarding the risk & damages and the photograph and video release forms that should be signed before entering the venue. Besides this, you can find information about the opening ceremony for RoboCupJunior and the way to get to the venue. Finally, we would like to introduce more of our sponsors to you. Did you know that next to the venue De Tongelreep, one of the largest swimming centers in Europe, is located? For all participants of RoboCup 2013 we arranged an entrance fee of only 2 euro?s. So if you like to swim, don?t forget your swimwear! 2. Risk & damages and photograph & video release forms On the RoboCup 2013 website you can find an important document regarding (1) a notice on the risk of bodily or personal injury and/or property loss or damage and (2) a photograph and videotape release form. This document should be signed by all major and junior participants before entering the venue. To avoid delays in the registration process we kindly ask you to print and sign the two documents before the event and to bring the signed documents while registering. Note: Participants that are under 18 years old should have both documents signed by a parent or guardian. You can download the form on http://www.robocup2013.org/notice-to-participants/ or directly using this link. 3. Opening ceremonies On the 26th of June RoboCup 2013 will be opened with a spectacular show with dance, music and (high) voltage. For the senior participants the opening ceremony will take place at 16:00 hr followed by a drink. This year we will also have an opening ceremony for RoboCupJunior. This ceremony will be held on June 26 at 21:00 hr after the RoboCupJunior venue closes. Make sure you don?t miss this festive start of RoboCup 2013! You can find the Major and Junior schedules on our website using the links below. On the website you can also download a PDF version of the schedules. Major schedule: http://www.robocup2013.org/major-leagues-schedule/ Junior schedule: http://www.robocup2013.org/junior-leagues-schedule/ 4. Route to the venue Below you can find various ways of transport to the venue: RoboCup 2013 Antoon Coolenlaan 3 5644 RX Eindhoven Public Transport You can plan your journey by public transport at http://9292.nl/en, also for the journey from and to the hotels. With this site you can find how late the busses and trains depart and the prices of the trips. If you want to use public transport during your stay you can consider the OV-chip card. It is possible to travel cheaper by putting credit on the card. More information about the OV-chip card can be found here: http://www.ov-chipkaart.nl/aanvragen/welkekaartpastbiju/toeristen/. Airport Schiphol Amsterdam You can go easily with the train from Airport Schiphol Amsterdam to Eindhoven central station. Tickets can be bought in the machines a floor above the platforms but it is also possible to use the OV-chipcard for this trip (same price). >From Schiphol Amsterdam direct trains to Eindhoven depart every 30 minutes (16 and 46 minutes past the hour). Also, every 30 minutes a train departs that requires 1 change (every hour and 30 minutes past the hour); first take the train to Nijmegen, change at Utrecht to the train to Maastricht. The travel time takes approximately 1:30 hours. PAY ATTENTION: If you arrive after the 27th of June and for your journey back, there is work scheduled on the track between Eindhoven and Amsterdam from June 27 till July 11. There are two options: travel via Breda or travel on the normal track and take a bus between ?s-Hertogenbosch and Zaltbommel. Look at http://9292.nl/en for your best option. Unlike the say on the website, travelling with Fyra is surcharge-free during the proceedings. Airport Eindhoven >From Airport Eindhoven you can travel by bus to train station Eindhoven. You can take bus 401, which departs every 10 minutes during the day. Get out at Eindhoven station, terminus of the bus line. Train station Eindhoven If you participate in the Junior competitions you have to take from Eindhoven central station bus 17 and get off at the bus stop ?Eindhoven, Zwemcentrum Tongelreep?. If you participate in the Major competitions you can take bus 7, 170, 171 or 172, 184 and get off at the bus stop ?Eindhoven, Theo Koomenlaan?. You can use the OV-chip card for this trip, or buy a ticket in the bus (this is more expensive). On both bus stops information will be provided for the walking routes. Car When coming from the A58, A2 or A67 get onto the N2 road. When on the N2, take exit 33 ?Waalre/Valkenswaard?. After taking the exit, keep following signs for ?Genneper Parken?. After about 500 meters go left at the first traffic lights. For the senior competition you go left again after the water tower (Willem Elsschotlaan) and at the T-junction again to the left. This will lead you to the Indoor Sports Centre. You can only use the parking space next to the Indoor Sport Centre on Monday and Thursday, the other days you have to use the parking space at the swimming Centre. For the junior competition you have to stay on the Antoon Coolenlaan. You will see a big parking lot on your left. Taxi It is also possible to book a taxi from the airport/station to the venue. Click here: http://www.schiphol.nl/Travellers/ToFromSchiphol.htm for more information about taxis at Schiphol and click here: http://www.eindhovenairport.com/en/accessibility/by-taxi/ for more information about taxis at Eindhoven airport. The taxis at the central station in Eindhoven can be found next to the busses or at the centrum side of the station. [cid:image004.png at 01CE654A.E1FF18E0] 5. Introducing sponsors Accenture With a Technology Lab at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven and leading clients such as Philips and ASML, Accenture is an active member of this innovative hotspot. Accenture wants to fuel enthusiasm for robotics and stimulate high-tech initiatives to register for the Innovation Awards through www.innovation-awards.nl. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 261,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, more info on www.accenture.nl. Aldebaran Robotics Founded in 2005 by Bruno Maisonnier and now established in France, the US and China, ALDEBARAN ROBOTICS designs, produces and sells humanoid robots in order to contribute to humankind's well-being. There are currently over 3,500 units of the first NAO robot operating within schools and universities in over 70 countries worldwide to serve teaching and research. ALDEBARAN ROBOTICS has a team of more than 280 people, 40% of whom are engineers and doctors, involved in developing and producing its robots." Festo Festo Didactic is the world-leading equipment and solution provider for industrial education. We design and implement learning laboratories, educational equipment and programs that train people to perform in highly dynamic and complex industrial environments. Our goal is to maximize the learning success in educational institutions and industrial companies around the globe. Focal Focal Meditech is manufacturer and supplier of healthcare robotics serving the autonomy of handicapped persons. This type of robotics make activities like object manipulation, independent eating or drinking possible or support weak human arm function when lifting objects. Prominent products are wheelchair born robotmanipulator Jaco, mealtime robot MySpoon and Focal's dynamic arm supports like Darwing or McArm (under development). A specific type of healthcare robotics is social robotics- robots that aim at social interaction and contact e.g. for persons with dementia. A well- known robot in this domain is robotseal Paro which also is distributed by Focal. All these applications will be shown at the booth of Focal. In addition, handicapped persons will demonstrate their use of Jaco and a Paro playground is present. High Tech Campus Turning technology into business. High Tech Campus Eindhoven is an R&D ecosystem of more than 120 companies and institutes, and some 8,000 researchers, developers and entrepreneurs, who together are working on developing the technologies and products of tomorrow. The preferred work approach at the Campus is Open Innovation; Campus companies share knowledge, skills and R&D facilities in order to achieve faster, better and more customer-oriented innovation. (www.hightechcampus.com) KMWE KMWE is a supplier for the Hightech Industry and Aerospace. KMWE is specialized in the High Mix, Low Volume and High Complexity machining of critical components and the assembly of mechatronic Systems. KMWE is a located in Eindhoven, Malaysia and Turkey. Almost 60 years of experience, an international supplier network, over 300 employees and a continuous drive for Excellence enable us to meet the high demands of our customers. Maxon Motor Maxon Motor is the world leading supplier of high-precision drives and systems and proud sponsor of RoboCup 2013! Robots are capable of performing tasks and assisting people that (other) people are incapable of, they are improving life and creating opportunities to new application areas which move mankind forward. Supporting innovation and future applications of robotics is important to society and to us. Nobleo Nobleo is a consultancy and engineering company providing high-end expertise and job opportunities. Nobleo stands for ?noblesse oblige?, which we translate to ?talent is an obligation?, an obligation to perform. The Nobleo employees belong to the top experts in their fields. Oc? Oc? is part of the Canon Group, one of the best known brands in the world. It is active in the areas of Graphic Arts and Document Services. By creating better digital printing systems for technical drawing offices, company printrooms and commercial printers. Or developing more effective ways for people to manage their business critical documents. Our R&D organization is internationally recognized for creating winning technologies, product concepts and software in digital printing and document management. It employs over 2,000 people on 9 global sites. For more information visit http://ocecareers.com. PhenomWorld Phenom: Engineered in Eindhoven, exported to China, Japan, etc. - Fast, Outstanding. SEM imaging and analysis. Phenom desktop SEM systems give direct access to high-resolution and high-quality imaging and analysis required in a large variety of applications. An affordable, flexible and fast tool enabling engineers, technicians and educational professionals to investigate micron and submicron structures. Phenom: See sharp, discover more. ROBOTIS ROBOTIS is the world?s leading supplier of modular robotic actuators and educational platforms. Since 1999, ROBOTIS has developed innovative products for academic research and STEM education. In 2013, ROBOTIS is launching the DYNANMIXEL PRO - targeted for the full-scale, professional service robot market. ROBOTIS is the co-developer of the open-source humanoid DARwIn-OP and a member of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Track A: Team THOR. Segula Technologies Nederland Segula is a strong player in the field of engineering, consulting and associated services. The company is a project organization working for industries (OEM) in amongst others automotive, healthcare and high-tech components & systems industry. Segula Technologies guides its clients throughout the full life cycle of the product, from initial design to operational maintenance. www.segula.nl. TURTLE-5k The TURTLE-5k is a low cost soccer robot similar to the 2012 world champion of TechUnited (TU/e). It was redesigned by a consortium of 4 (industrial) partners who mainly focused on getting the cost price as low as possible. The original world champion costs per robot approximately ?26.000,- (cost price). This new robot will make it easier for new teams to enter the competition of the Middle-size League. 6. Contact For questions regarding RoboCup 2013, please contact one of the mail addresses below. General: info at robocup2013.org Chairs: chair at robocup2013.org Competitions: competitions at robocup2013.org See you all in a couple of weeks at the Genneper Parcs in Eindhoven. On behalf of the RoboCup 2013 organization. Best regards, Roel Merry & Ren? van de Molengraft (co-chairs RoboCup 2013) [cid:image005.jpg at 01CE654A.E1FF18E0] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 19261 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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July 26th, 2013 University of Bonn, Germany * Abstract: The development of humanoid robots able to play soccer is a fundamental challenge problem for robotics and AI. Since the start of the humanoid league in 2002, there have been lots of improvements in humanoid soccer robots hardware and software. This is partially due to the introduction of standard platforms (Nao, DARwIn-OP, NimbRo-OP) and competitions for complex simulated robots (3D Simulation). The objective of the school is to give students deep insights into the currently leading approaches to bipedal locomotion, dynamic motion generation, environment perception, tactics, and team play. Lectures by leading experts will provide the necessary theoretical background for hands-on exercises with humanoid soccer robots. * The program is based on three pillars: -Theory: Ranging from biomechanics, over compliant actuation, control of balance during walking and dynamic motion, robot state estimation, perception of the game situation, behavior control architectures, motion planning, and multi-agent systems. -Case studies: Successful humanoid soccer systems like the Standard Platform League team B-Humanand the Humanoid League team NimbRo TeenSize will be presented. -Practical exercises: A soccer field and real humanoid soccer robots (NimbRo-OP, Darwin-OP, Nao) will be provided for hands-on experience. Participants are also encouraged to bring their own robots. * Speakers: -Armin Hornung, University of Freiburg -Moritz Maus, TU Darmstadt -Christian Ott, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen -Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire -Thomas R?fer, DFKI/University of Bremen -Nikos G. Tsagarakis, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova -Pierre-Brice Wieber, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes * Organizers: -Jacky Baltes, University of Manitoba -Sven Behnke, University of Bonn * Registration: The number of participants is limited. The deadline for advance registration is July 8th. For more information and registration please visit: http://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/Humanoid_Soccer_School * Acknowledgment: The school is supported by The RoboCup Federation. From fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de Wed Jun 12 04:44:19 2013 From: fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de (Frieder Stolzenburg) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:44:19 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] KI 2013: Workshop on Visual and Spatial Cognition - 2nd CfP Message-ID: <51B834E3.1040706@hs-harz.de> KI 2013: Workshop on Visual and Spatial Cognition - 2nd Call for Papers - KIK ? KI & Kognition Workshop Series Description of Workshop Topic and Goal The ability to process spatial information is crucial for various tasks as diverse as navigation, planning, and managing abstract concepts. Research issues in spatial cognition range from the investigation of human spatial cognition to mobile robot navigation. Much of that research effort, however, has been experimental, putting little stress on precise models of the involved representations and processes. Obviously, spatial cognition is closely related to visual cognition of places and scenes in general. Different visualization techniques and reasoning formalisms serve to analyze spatial cognition processes. They can be used to achieve a more general cognitive model. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Robotics, Geographic Information Science, and related areas to foster a multi-disciplinary exchange between research in visual and spatial cognition. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Spatial and temporal reasoning and cognition * Psychological studies of human visual and spatial cognition * Cognitive architectures/computational cognitive models of spatial reasoning * Cognitive systems interacting with their environment and with humans * Perception-based representation of high-level cognitive concepts * Novel techniques in spatial cognition, e.g., eye tracking, fMRI, etc. * Object and scene recognition * Human-computer interaction and cognitive robotics This workshop continues a series of successful workshops initiated by the Special Interest Group "Cognition" in the GI (German Informatics Society) and will be held in conjunction with KI 2013 in Koblenz. List of Important Dates * Submission deadline: July 1st, 2013 * Notification: August 16th, 2013 * Camera-ready copy: August 31th, 2013 * Workshop: September September 17th, 2013 Submission and Contribution Format: The workshop will be held in English, in order to attract an international audience. Each presenter is required to submit a short paper (4-8 pages) on the presented topic formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines (). The agenda will leave enough room for discussions. So each talk will be followed by a discussion period of 10 minutes. Papers are subject to regular peer review and subsequent publication within the workshop proceedings. Submissions should be sent as pdf file to . Organizers Marco Ragni University of Freiburg ragni at cognition.uni-freiburg.de http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/members/ragni Michael Raschke University of Stuttgart (VIS) michael.raschke at vis.uni-stuttgart.de http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiterInnen/michael-raschke.html Frieder Stolzenburg (contact person) Harz University of Applied Sciences fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de http://fstolzenburg.hs-harz.de/ Program Committee Thomas Barkowsky, U Bremen Michael Burch, U Stuttgart Lewis Chuang, MPI f?r Kybernetik Christian Freksa, U Bremen Reinhard Moratz, U Maine Bernhard Nebel, U Freiburg Thomas R?fer, DFKI Bremen Ute Schmid, U Bamberg Workshop homepage: -- Prof. Dr. Frieder Stolzenburg Hochschule Harz (Harz University of Applied Sciences) FB Automatisierung und Informatik (Automation & Computer Sciences Dep.) Friedrichstr. 57-59 D-38855 Wernigerode (Germany) Raum (Office): 2.008 Tel: +49 3943 659-333 Fax: +49 3943 659-399 Skype: fstolzenburg E-Mail: fstolzenburg at hs-harz.de WWW: http://fstolzenburg.hs-harz.de/ From jruizd at ing.uchile.cl Wed Jun 26 11:56:51 2013 From: jruizd at ing.uchile.cl (Javier Ruiz-del-Solar) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:56:51 -0400 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Extended Deadline: ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics In-Reply-To: References: , , , , Message-ID: <84C561BC-F6AB-4CB5-B570-C282987EC898@ing.uchile.cl> Apologies for multiple postings ================================================================= Extended Deadline: ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics ================================================================= == Dates: November 25-29, 2013 == Location: Montevideo, Uruguay == Submission deadline: 14 July 2013 (New Deadline) == Website: http://www.icar2013.org =============================================================== The 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2013, will be held at ?Facultad de Ingenieria? of the ?Universidad de la Republica? in Montevideo, Uruguay, November 25-29th, 2013. ICAR 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The technical program of ICAR 2013 will consist of plenary talks, workshops, oral presentations and interactive sessions. Submitted papers should describe original work in the form of theoretical modeling, design, experimental validation, or case studies from all areas of robotics focusing in particular on new emerging paradigms and application areas including but not limited to: Robotics Vision Cognitive Robotics Robotics Architectures Mobile Robots Humanoid Robots Self-Localization and Navigation Spatial Cognition Human-Robot Interaction Multi-Robot Systems Search and Rescue Robots Learning and Adaptation Cooperation and Competition Adversarial Planning Robot Operating Systems Simulation and Visualization Robotic Swarms Biologically-Inspired Robots Embedded and Mobile Hardware Robotic Entertainment Robot Soccer Unmanned Aerial Robots Underwater Robotics Systems Educational Robotics Rehabilitation Robotics ================ Important Dates ================ Submissions Due: 14 July 2013 (New Deadline) Notifications: 30 August 2013 Camera-Ready: 20 September 2013 ICAR 2013 Conference: 25-29 November 2013 ================= Paper Submission ================= Original technical paper contributions are solicited for presentation at ICAR 2013. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore conference proceedings. Submission should be 6 to 8 pages following IEEE Xplore formats found at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will be done via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icar2013 Submitted paper should not be currently under review by another conference or journal. At least one of the authors of the accepted paper will need to present the work at the conference. Please refer to the paper submission page at www.icar2013.org for further details. ================= Workshops and Tutorials ================= Proposals for the organization of workshops and tutorials are solicited for ICAR 2013 that address advanced topics in robotics. Workshops should be focused on active areas of research in order to provide an informal forum for participants to exchange new ideas and new directions in developing research. Tutorials should provide self- contained descriptions of established research topics. The primary criteria for selection are anticipated level of interest, impact, novelty or creativity, and technical background of presenters. See the "Workshops and Tutorials" section under "Submissions" at www.icar2013.org for further details. Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be submitted via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icar2013 ================ Special Journal Issue ================ Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems (JINT). Selection of these papers will be based on the originality, significance, and clarity of the work. Extended papers will be subject to the same peer-review process required by JINT before acceptance for publication. ================ Invited Speakers ================ Ronald Arkin, Georgia Tech http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~arkin/ Ousamma Khatib, Stanford University http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ok/ Bruno Siciliano, University of Napoli http://wpage.unina.it/sicilian/ Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver http://www.engr.du.edu/kvalavanis/ Richard Volpe, JPL http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Richard_Volpe/ ===================== Conference Committees ===================== General Chair Alfredo Weitzenfeld, University of South Florida, USA Program Chair Javier Ruiz del Solar, University of Chile, Chile Publications Chair Alejandra Barrera, ITAM, Mexico Local Chair Gonzalo Tejera, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Finance Chair Facundo Benavides, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Steering Committee Chair Paolo Fiorini, University of Verona, Italy ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Javier Ruiz-del-Solar Professor Universidad de Chile Department of Electrical Engineering Av. Tupper 2007, 837-0451 Santiago, Chile Ph. +56-2-2977 1000 & +56-2-2978 4207 Fax +56-2-6720162 Email: jruizd at ing.uchile.cl WWW: http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~jruizd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From akin at boun.edu.tr Thu Jun 27 11:12:36 2013 From: akin at boun.edu.tr (H. Levent Akin) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:12:36 +0300 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] How to Form a RoboCup National Committee Message-ID: Dear RoboCuppers, If you are from a country/region that does not already have a National Committee (seehttp://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/national-committees/), and you are interested in forming a RoboCup National Committee, the information about how to do so is given below. Best Regards Peter, Daniel, and Levent On Behalf of Trustees ========================================================================= RoboCup National Committees =========================== A RoboCup "National" Committee consists of representatives from any nation or region with significant past and current RoboCup participation. The purposes of these committees are to 1) Promote RoboCup within your region 2) Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens 3) Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited 4) Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition 5) Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in your region. These are local events smaller than regional "open" competitions, which should also be run with RoboCup National Committee participation, but must be approved by the trustees. For each such local event and open, RoboCup National Committees may at some time in the future be asked to collect a standard RoboCup Federation registration fee from participants and send the resulting funds to the Federation (details to be announced if/when this policy goes into effect). The RoboCup National Committee is also expected to send a report following each event summarizing the participation and organization of the event, including how many people and teams participated, from where, etc. If there are many local events in a given year, they can be grouped together into a single annual report. Each RoboCup National Committee should have a single chair who serves as the main point of contact with the RoboCup trustees for questions that are relevant to the region. There should be representation on the committee from all of the different RoboCup leagues in which your region is active (including RoboCupJunior). If not already established, we encourage the RoboCup National Committees to initiate formation of all aspects of RoboCup activities, including RoboCupRescue, RoboCupJunior, and RoboCupAtHome. To form a RoboCup National Committee, please get together with all of the participants from your region. Once the list of committee members is prepared, please contact the RoboCup trustees to let us know: 1) The members and affiliations of the committee. 2) The names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the teams represented by the committee (hopefully all the teams from your region). 3) The URL of your current webpage, if it already exists (see http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/national-committees/ for some examples) The Trustees will then check that all the represented teams agree to be represented in this way, and then link the committee to the RoboCup website. -- =================================================================== H.Levent Akin [] To acquire knowledge and Dean [] communicate it to others Faculty of Engineering [] has been the ambition, Bogazici University [] pleasure, and business of 34342 Bebek-Istanbul [] my life. TURKEY [] -William Harvey [] Phone: +90 (212) 359 6401 [] Fax: +90 (212) 265 8488 [] E-Mail:akin at boun.edu.tr [] URL:http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~akin [] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gstein at ist.tugraz.at Thu Jul 4 04:57:26 2013 From: gstein at ist.tugraz.at (Gerald Steinbauer) Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:57:26 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] =?utf-8?q?Rescue_Robotics_Camp_2013_=E2=80=93?= =?utf-8?q?_Going_3D?= Message-ID: <51D538F6.6060408@ist.tugraz.at> Rescue Robotics Camp 2013 ? Going 3D Oct 21-23, 2013 Link?ping, Sweden http://www.ist.tugraz.at/ssrr13 collocated with IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013) The Rescue Robotics Camp 2013 is based on a long tradition of providing state-of-the-art techniques in rescue robotics to young researcher and students participating in competition such as RoboCup. The camp focuses on a sound understanding of the techniques by the participants, as well as the development of open source software modules based on ROS that the participants can immediately reuse in their daily work. The main theme of the 2013 edition is * perception and navigation in challenging 3D environments*. These topics are on the one hand vibrant research areas and on the other hand crucial capabilities for rescue robots. Lecturers * Sachin Chitta, Willow Garage, USA * Andreas N?chter, Universit?t W?rzburg, Germany * Simon Lacroix, LAAS/CNRS, France * Fran?ois Pomerleau, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland * Johannes Pellenz, Bundeswehr, Germany (t.b.c). * Stefan Kohlbrecher, TU Darmstadt, Germany (t.b.c.) Topics * 3D Perception * 3D Mapping * Exploration * Path Planning and Navigation in 3D Environments * Software Architectures for Rescue Robots Program The program is balanced between lectures, reports from practitioners and practical lab work. There will be separate tracks for beginners and advanced participants SSRR 2013 The camp will be collocated with the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics. In order to allow the participants a close interaction with the rescue robotics research community a reduced fee for the SSRR 2013 will be granted. Participation Interested participants are re-quested to submit an application via email to ssrr13 at ist.tugraz.at with: * a curriculum vitae * a one-page motivation letter * list of up to 5 publications Important Dates * August 31 Applications due * September 7 Notification of Acceptance * September 30 Camp Registration due Organizers * Gerald Steinbauer, TU Graz, Austria * Ivana Kruijff-Korbayov?, DFKI, Germany * Francis Colas, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland * Johannes Maurer, TU Graz, Austria * Andreas Kolling, Link?ping University, Sweden * Johannes Pellenz, Bundeswehr, Germany * Tomoichi Takahashi, Meijo University, Japan Sponsors The camp is supported by: * NIFTI EU Project, * RoboCup Federation * AIICS * Link?ping University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: call-camp.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 377126 bytes Desc: not available URL: From raymond.sheh at robolit.com Fri Jul 5 16:34:26 2013 From: raymond.sheh at robolit.com (Raymond Sheh) Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 22:34:26 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Advanced Call for Participation - The Response Robotics Summer School 2013 Message-ID: <51D72DD2.8060902@robolit.com> ===================================== The Response Robotics Summer School 2013 9-13 September 2013 Perth, Western Australia http://www.responserobotics.org/ ===================================== ADVANCED CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Response Robotics Summer School is a hands-on summer school for graduate students and early career researchers on the challenges and Best-in-Class solutions for Response Robotics, with a focus on the challenges posed by EOD and remote handling for response applications. This event is a collaboration between the Curtin University of Technology Department of Computing and the Western Australia Police Bomb Response Unit. It is run in conjunction with the Bomb Response Technology Seminar, an event for Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) responders and equipment manufacturers from around Australia, the region, and the world. This intensive five-day educational and development summer school is the successor to the IEEE-RAS Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics Summer School, held in September 2012 in Alanya, Turkey, and is an outreach activity of the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Methods for Response Robots program. It has been established by members of the SSRR research community, including members of the Organising Committee of the International RoboCupRescue Robot League, to better address the rapidly growing need for effective robotic solutions in emergency response scenarios. This event is open to all researchers interested in a broad understanding of the SSRR field, coupled with in-depth knowledge of specific topics of great current relevance. We welcome participants from both within and outside the RoboCupRescue Robot League community, as well as participants from Australia and abroad. In particular, we encourage participants to bring their prototypical implementations of solutions to challenges within this domain. There will be opportunities to demonstrate these solutions both to other participants as well as to responders, and to evaluate and compare these solutions to those currently in deployment within the framework of the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Methods for Response Robots. This is an advanced call for participation and provides a summary of this event. Further details will be made available in the near future. Please visit the website at http://www.responserobotics.org/ and send email to info at responserobotics.org if you have any further questions or if you would like to be added to the low volume Response Robotics Summer School announcements mailing list. In addition to academic researchers, responders and students, we also welcome representatives of industry and government, including manufacturers, research companies and other organisations that wish to participate within the framework of the academic and responder programs and/or who wish to share and demonstrate their capabilities during the exercises and take advantage of the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Methods for Response Robots. Please contact us at info at responserobotics.org to discuss possible arrangements. DATES and REGISTRATION: The main summer school runs from Monday the 9th to Friday the 13th of September, 2013. Early discounted registration will open in July 2013 with full price registration commencing in August. This event is capacity limited so we encourage participants to register early. STRUCTURE: The event will open on Monday and Tuesday with academic presentations focusing on the research challenges and current developments in response robotics. Participants will gain a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in crucial areas of research and deployed capabilities, as well as the experiences and needs of the end users. Participants of the Response Robotics Summer School will join attendees of the Bomb Response Technology Seminar on Wednesday for joint seminars on topics of common interest, followed by preparations for the practical sessions. The event will close on Thursday and Friday with joint practical exercises. Participants of the Response Robotics Summer School will work alongside attendees of the Bomb Response Technology Seminar, deploying both commercial and prototypical robotic solutions within the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Method for Response Robots apparatuses and operational scenarios at the Western Australia Police Bomb Response Unit's training and test facilities. Through these joint exercises, participants will be able to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges of the field, identify gaps for further research, test and refine their prototypical implementations, and share their developments with the wider research and responder community. TOPICS: The scope of the Response Robotics Summer School covers topics as diverse as locomotion, sensors, mapping, mobile dexterous manipulation, operator interfaces, autonomous behaviours, high fidelity simulators, end user experiences and requirements, and standard test methods. It will teach Best-in-Class robotic capabilities demonstrated in the international RoboCupRescue Robot League, and introduce researchers to other emerging technologies and approaches. In particular the event will focus on technologies that address clear needs of the responder community, using the framework of the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Methods for Response Robots as the common language that allows researchers, responders, manufacturers, test administrators, and government agencies to communicate and advance the state of the art. Please consult the website closer to the registration date and/or subscribe to the mailing list for updated information. VENUE: This event will be held at a Western Australia Police Bomb Response Unit facility, close to Perth in Western Australia. It will be equipped with the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Methods for Response Robots, on which the RoboCupRescue Robot League competition is based, and within which researchers, responders, and industry, are encouraged to test, demonstrate, and compare their capabilities. Further details will be made available shortly. TRAVEL: Perth International Airport may be easily reached with regular direct services from many hubs within Oceania, Asia and the Middle East, and via scheduled connecting flights from elsewhere. Further information about ground transportation and hotel arrangements will be made available shortly so please consult the website closer to the registration date and/or subscribe to the mailing list for updated information. September is also a terrific time of year to visit and tour Western Australia, when the weather is pleasant and the wildflowers are in bloom. Visit http://www.westernaustralia.com/ for further details about travelling to, and touring within, Western Australia. COST: Participants will be charged a nominal registration fee; details will be made available in the near future. Early discounted registrations will open in July; full price registration will open in August. ORGANISERS: General Chair: - Raymond Sheh, US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Robolit LLC, Department of Computing at Curtin University of Technology (Sep. 2013) Co-Chairs: - Bill Collidge, Western Australia Police Bomb Response Unit - Haldun Komsuoglu, Robolit LLC - Mihai Lazarescu, Department of Computing at Curtin University of Technology Advisory Committee: - Adam Jacoff, NIST We look forward to seeing you in Perth! -- Dr. Raymond Sheh raymond.sheh at robolit.com Associate Intelligent Systems Division, Engineering Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8230, USA Research Scientist Robolit LLC 1829 Pine Street, Suite 404, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA From jruizd at ing.uchile.cl Sun Jul 7 19:01:51 2013 From: jruizd at ing.uchile.cl (Javier Ruiz-del-Solar) Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 19:01:51 -0400 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Reminder: ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics In-Reply-To: References: , , , , Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ================================================================= Extended Deadline: ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics ================================================================= == Dates: November 25-29, 2013 == Location: Montevideo, Uruguay == Submission deadline: 14 July 2013 (New Deadline) == Website: http://www.icar2013.org =============================================================== The 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2013, will be held at ?Facultad de Ingenieria? of the ?Universidad de la Republica? in Montevideo, Uruguay, November 25-29th, 2013. ICAR 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The technical program of ICAR 2013 will consist of plenary talks, workshops, oral presentations and interactive sessions. Submitted papers should describe original work in the form of theoretical modeling, design, experimental validation, or case studies from all areas of robotics focusing in particular on new emerging paradigms and application areas including but not limited to: Robotics Vision Cognitive Robotics Robotics Architectures Mobile Robots Humanoid Robots Self-Localization and Navigation Spatial Cognition Human-Robot Interaction Multi-Robot Systems Search and Rescue Robots Learning and Adaptation Cooperation and Competition Adversarial Planning Robot Operating Systems Simulation and Visualization Robotic Swarms Biologically-Inspired Robots Embedded and Mobile Hardware Robotic Entertainment Robot Soccer Unmanned Aerial Robots Underwater Robotics Systems Educational Robotics Rehabilitation Robotics ================ Important Dates ================ Submissions Due: 14 July 2013 (New Deadline) Notifications: 30 August 2013 Camera-Ready: 20 September 2013 ICAR 2013 Conference: 25-29 November 2013 ================= Paper Submission ================= Original technical paper contributions are solicited for presentation at ICAR 2013. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore conference proceedings. Submission should be 6 to 8 pages following IEEE Xplore formats found at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will be done via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icar2013 Submitted paper should not be currently under review by another conference or journal. At least one of the authors of the accepted paper will need to present the work at the conference. Please refer to the paper submission page at www.icar2013.org for further details. ================= Workshops and Tutorials ================= Proposals for the organization of workshops and tutorials are solicited for ICAR 2013 that address advanced topics in robotics. Workshops should be focused on active areas of research in order to provide an informal forum for participants to exchange new ideas and new directions in developing research. Tutorials should provide self- contained descriptions of established research topics. The primary criteria for selection are anticipated level of interest, impact, novelty or creativity, and technical background of presenters. See the "Workshops and Tutorials" section under "Submissions" at www.icar2013.org for further details. Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be submitted via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icar2013 ================ Special Journal Issue ================ Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems (JINT). Selection of these papers will be based on the originality, significance, and clarity of the work. Extended papers will be subject to the same peer-review process required by JINT before acceptance for publication. ================ Invited Speakers ================ Ronald Arkin, Georgia Tech http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~arkin/ Ousamma Khatib, Stanford University http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ok/ Bruno Siciliano, University of Napoli http://wpage.unina.it/sicilian/ Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver http://www.engr.du.edu/kvalavanis/ Richard Volpe, JPL http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Richard_Volpe/ ===================== Conference Committees ===================== General Chair Alfredo Weitzenfeld, University of South Florida, USA Program Chair Javier Ruiz del Solar, University of Chile, Chile Publications Chair Alejandra Barrera, ITAM, Mexico Local Chair Gonzalo Tejera, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Finance Chair Facundo Benavides, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Steering Committee Chair Paolo Fiorini, University of Verona, Italy ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Javier Ruiz-del-Solar Professor Universidad de Chile Department of Electrical Engineering Av. Tupper 2007, 837-0451 Santiago, Chile Ph. +56-2-2977 1000 & +56-2-2978 4207 Fax +56-2-6720162 Email: jruizd at ing.uchile.cl WWW: http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~jruizd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mmv at cs.cmu.edu Mon Jul 8 13:30:52 2013 From: mmv at cs.cmu.edu (Manuela Veloso) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 13:30:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [robocup-worldwide] CFP: AI Journal special issue on AI and Robotics Message-ID: <51891.128.237.126.101.1373304652.squirrel@webmail-beta.cs.cmu.edu> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ====================================================================== Artificial Intelligence Journal Special issue on: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics http://aass.oru.se/Agora/AIJ2014/ ====================================================================== The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics were strongly connected in the early days of AI, but have since diverged. One of the early goals of AI consisted of building complete intelligent robots. Such a goal however has shown to be quite challenging, and AI and robotics researchers have isolated its many distinct facets and focused on making progress on each facet separately. With the advancements in both fields, there is now a renewed interest in bringing the two disciplines together towards the development of fully integrated intelligent robots. Robotics has matured enormously in the last two decades: common robotic platforms are now available, together with reliable techniques and shared tools to solve basic perception, navigation, and manipulation tasks. There is a growing consensus that the next quantum leap in robotics will come by adding capabilities which lay at the core of AI research, including task planning, knowledge representation, learning, and human-robot interaction. Symetrically, AI researchers are now showing substantial interest in embedding their algorithmic techniques in robotic platforms that can perceive, reason and act in real physical environments, including terrestrial, aerial, and underwater. This special issue on "AI and Robotics" aims at providing a venue for the two communities to share their findings and goals and report such successful integrated efforts. Such a venue is particularly critical to foster a much needed conceptual integration, cross fertilization, and dialogue. We hope that this special issue will be the first of a series of special issues on this theme, with the desired outcome of building a community of AI and Robotics researchers working across their traditional boundaries towards an ultimately shared scientific goal. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS We solicit original contributions, which report novel and mature inter-disciplinary work in the integration of AI and Robotics techniques. Submissions will be peer reviewed for scientific value and presentation quality, according to the standard criteria of the Artificial Intelligence journal. Relevance to the topic of this special issue will be of paramount importance. We encourage papers which contain a mixture of strong theory and sound experimental validation on real robotic systems. Results in simulation should clearly show a path towards encapsulating in a situated robot. Papers that clearly show the added value of using existing AI techniques in robotic systems are welcome, as are papers that push the state of the art of AI techniques in order to make them applicable to robotic systems. Papers should clearly present contributions that enable AI and Robotics researchers to build upon each other's work. We do NOT encourage papers that focus just purely on robotics or on AI, with little attention to their integration. SUBMISSION PROCESS Authors should prepare and submit manuscripts according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/ Submission length should not exceed 25 pages in the submission format (single column). Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. GUEST EDITORS [To reach the SI editors: aij at aass.oru.se] * Alessandro Saffiotti (contact editor) AASS Cognitive Robotic Systems Laboratory University of Orebro, Sweden * Kanna Rajan Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Moss Landing, CA, USA * Manuela Veloso Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA SCHEDULE Jul 31, 2013: Submission deadline Oct 31, 2013: Notification sent to authors Dec 6, 2013: Revised versions due Jan 31, 2014: Camera ready versions due Spring, 2014: Expected publication date ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Up-to-date information about this Special Issue will be posted on the web site: http://aass.oru.se/Agora/AIJ2014/ _______________________________________________ robotics-worldwide mailing list robotics-worldwide at usc.edu http://duerer.usc.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/robotics-worldwide -- Manuela M. Veloso Herbert A. Simon Professor Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv From jorge.dias at kustar.ac.ae Wed Jul 10 08:26:20 2013 From: jorge.dias at kustar.ac.ae (Jorge Manuel Miranda Dias) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:26:20 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Young Researchers and Lab Engineers to support Robotics Institute from Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi - UAE) Message-ID: <31F1578A-A3C1-4416-94B4-0285A1B9CACC@kustar.ac.ae> Khalifa University Employment ? Young Researchers and Lab Engineers to support Robotics Institute from Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi - UAE) The Khalifa University Robotics Institute (KURI) has a number of job opportunities, at Research level and Lab support level, in the area of robotics. These positions offer the opportunity to join a vibrant and expanding robotics research group and the Robotics Competitions team (http://www.kustar.ac.ae/research/ra/kuri/robotics_institute.aspx). The candidates should have experience in international recognized Robotic Competitions with Aerial Robotics or Ground vehicles or Marine Robotics. Khalifa University Khalifa University (KU) of Science, Technology and Research is a new, multi-cultural, co-educational institution supported by the government of Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (http://www.kustar.ac.ae/). Degrees are offered at Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral levels in the main Engineering disciplines, including Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. KUSTAR has a grand vision to be recognized as one of the leading universities in the world. It is committed to attracting, developing and retaining a diverse workforce that strengthens the University's leadership in research and education. Highly competitive, tax free, salary and benefits will be offered to successful candidates. Main Duties: The successful candidates will pursue research in Robotics and support Robotic Competitions. They will have the opportunity to initiate and lead projects and work in interdisciplinary teams. Required Qualifications: Applicants must have a PhD or MSc degree and a proven ability to do excellent scientific research in Robotics. Please apply your CV, including a list of publications, and motivation letter at (http://www.kustar.ac.ae/) in the option "Careers" for "Posdoc" (PhD) or "Lab Engineers" (MSc). Dr. Jorge Manuel Miranda Dias Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research (KUSTAR) P.O. Box: 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE T : +971-(0)2-5018556 F : +971-(0)2-4472442 E : jorge.dias at kustar.ac.ae From mmv at cs.cmu.edu Wed Jul 10 08:35:48 2013 From: mmv at cs.cmu.edu (Manuela Veloso) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:35:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [robocup-worldwide] [Fwd: [robotics-worldwide] Announcing the 2013 AFRON Design Challenge] Message-ID: <55210.128.237.197.132.1373459748.squirrel@webmail-beta.cs.cmu.edu> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [robotics-worldwide] Announcing the 2013 AFRON Design Challenge From: "G. Ayorkor Korsah" Date: Mon, July 8, 2013 10:41 pm To: robotics-worldwide at usc.edu Cc: "Ayorkor Korsah" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear all, We are very excited to announce the next phase of the AFRON Ultra Affordable Educational Robot Project. With support from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, the 2013 Design Challenge will focus on robot enhancements, software, and teaching plans. Details are below, and on the web at http://www.robotics-africa.org/2013-design-challenge. We look forward to your participation! Best regards, Ayorkor Korsah & Ken Goldberg co-Founders, African Robotics Network --------------------------------------------------------- Announcing: *The Ultra Affordable Educational Robot Project** **2013 Design Challenge: Robot Enhancements, Software, and Teaching Plans** * /Sponsored by:// //The African Robotics Network (AFRON) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society// / /*Goal*//* */ Robots excite people of all ages. Their physical behavior often inspires primary and secondary student interest in computers, science, math, and engineering more broadly. However, existing platforms are often too expensive for students. This project aims to collaboratively create an Ultra-Affordable Robot (an order of magnitude less expensive than existing products) to inspire young people around the world. The 2012 Design Challenge (http://www.robotics-africa.org/2012-design-challenge) emphasized an ultra-low-cost robot hardware platform in three categories: tethered, roaming, and all-in-one. The winning designs were all highly creative, and the Grand Prize in the tethered category went to Lollybot, a brilliant design by Tom Tilley of Thailand, costing just under 10 USD and incorporating two functional Lollipops. Starting with a generic dual-shock game controller, Lollybot can be built using commonly available tools anywhere in the world. In the 2013 Design Challenge, our goal is to create incentives for designers to select any of the winning designs from 2012 and work on enhancements in one or more of 3 categories: 1) hardware 2) software, or 3) curriculum. This year, we are placing a special emphasis on Lollybot, encouraging next steps in the 3 categories: 1) enhance the Lollybot hardware design, simplifying assembly, increasing robustness, adding useful features, 2) extend and improve the open-source software for Lollybot, and 3) create exciting lesson plans using the Lollybot. In addition, there is a special ?community challenge? for participants who organize a robotics workshop for students using one of the winning designs, with or without enhancements. /*Competition Categories*//* *//* */1) Hardware enhancements Propose design enhancements to make the chosen robot more effective, robust, re-usable, and even easier to assemble or manufacture. For example, possible design enhancements for the Lollybot include: ? Improved robustness (particularly of wheels and bumpers) to allow for more reliable behavior ? Ability to design and switch in and out different sensor circuits, such as the current line sensor circuit. ? Ability to control the robot with an old feature phone, a Raspberry Pi, or other low-cost computing platform 2) Software enhancements Further open-source software development to add functionality to the chosen robot, and more importantly, make it easy for high school students with no prior programming experience to learn how to program new behaviors for the robot. For Lollybot, this could include, for example, a drag-and-drop programming interface, or a software interface to introduce basic features of JavaScript for programming the robot. 3) Curriculum Outline 20+ hours of educational activity using the chosen robot. The educational value could come from the process of assembling the robot and from programming it. However, at least 15 hours of the curriculum should be re-usable, meaning that it can be used with an already-assembled robot. This ensures that learning continues after the robot is assembled for the first time. The lesson plans can assume a basic age-appropriate science and math background, but should not assume any background in robotics or prior experience programming or using tools such as a soldering iron -- it should help students learn what they need to know. 4) Community challenge Build one of the winning designs in collaboration with students (primary, secondary or early college), documenting the process and the learning experience for the students. /*Prizes*//* */ Each category attracts a grand prize of $500, and a runner-up prize of $250. A single entry can win in more than one category. Additionally, there will be ?honorable mentions? for other creative submissions. /*Eligibility*//* */ The competition is open to individuals, teams of individuals, or institutions from anywhere in the world. We welcome submissions from hobbyists and students, in addition to professionals. For the community challenge, entries are particularly encouraged from participants working with students in Africa. /*Submission Deadline*//* */ 18th September 2013. Winners will be announced by the end of October 2013 /*What to submit, and how*//* */ Create one HTML webpage with the following information: 1. A high-level description of your hardware enhancements, software enhancements, curriculum and/or student workshop. 2. For hardware enhancements, include: a. A list of parts, their sources (include URLs if applicable), availability, and prices. ? Note that your parts list should be complete, including things like required adhesive, screws etc. ? Note that salvaged parts are allowed, if these salvaged parts are commonly available in your particular context. Think of this list of parts as the starting point if someone in a similar context to you wanted to reproduce your robot. ? Your parts list should include any consumables (e.g. batteries) and their associated cost and replacement frequency. This is a caution to think of sustainability. b. A list of tools/equipment needed to create the robot, and estimated prices c. Relevant drawings with dimensions. d. Step-by-step instructions for creating your robot e. A description of any experiments conducted f. Pictures and videos of your robot in action 3. For software, include: a. A link to documentation (a ?user guide?) for your software b. If relevant, screenshots of your software c. A link to the open-source software. 4. For curriculum, include: a. The target age range / level (e.g. primary school ? approximately below age 12, junior high or middle school ? approximately between ages 12 and 14, and senior high school ? approximately between ages 14 and 18) b. The learning goals c. Materials needed d. Activities 5. For the community challenge (student workshops), include: a. The robot that was used b. Information about participants (number, age range, location) c. Sources of parts for robot-building d. Description of activities e. Description of outcomes f. Pictures and/or video Please share with us your intent to participate via this form (http://bit.ly/participate-afron-2013-challenge). When you are done, you can then make your final submission via the submission form (http://bit.ly/submit-afron-2013-challenge), which asks for your name, contact information, and the URL of your webpage. Note that by participating in this competition, you agree to have your designs or curriculum published on the Internet (and attributed to you, of course). /*Criteria*//* */ Hardware enhancements will be assessed using the following criteria: ? Robustness & effectiveness ? Cost (try to stay below 20 USD, excluding computing) ? Versatility ? Ease of assembly Software will be assessed using the following criteria: ? Effectiveness ? Ease of use ? Quality of documentation Curricula will be assessed using the following criteria: ? Clarity ? Potential to help students learn ? Potential to engage students? interest The community challenge will be assessed using the following criteria: ? Completeness of documentation of the experience ? Creativity ? Student impact /*About AFRON*//* */ The African Robotics Network (AFRON) is a community of institutions, organizations and individuals engaged in robotics in Africa. AFRON seeks to promote communication and collaborations that will enhance robotics-related education, research, and industry on the continent. Since it launched May 2012, AFRON has 380 regular and affiliated members from 51 countries around the world. Web: http://www.robotics-africa.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AfricanRoboticsNetwork -- G. Ayorkor Korsah, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Robotics Ashesi University College 1 University Avenue, Berekuso E/R | PMB CT 3, Cantonments | Accra, Ghana Phone: +233 30 261 0330 Ext. 1029 _______________________________________________ robotics-worldwide mailing list robotics-worldwide at usc.edu http://duerer.usc.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/robotics-worldwide -- Manuela M. Veloso Herbert A. Simon Professor Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv From jruizd at ing.uchile.cl Thu Jul 11 16:47:20 2013 From: jruizd at ing.uchile.cl (Javier Ruiz-del-Solar) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:47:20 -0400 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] New Extended Deadline: ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics In-Reply-To: References: , , , , Message-ID: <53287F91-7A2C-4472-89CA-E61B267297B0@ing.uchile.cl> Due to various requests we are extending the submission deadline for ICAR 2013 to July 29th, 2013. This will be the final submission deadline. ================================================================= Extended Deadline: ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics ================================================================= == Dates: November 25-29, 2013 == Location: Montevideo, Uruguay == Submission deadline: 29 July 2013 (Hard Deadline) == Website: http://www.icar2013.org =============================================================== The 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2013, will be held at ?Facultad de Ingenieria? of the ?Universidad de la Republica? in Montevideo, Uruguay, November 25-29th, 2013. ICAR 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The technical program of ICAR 2013 will consist of plenary talks, workshops, oral presentations and interactive sessions. Submitted papers should describe original work in the form of theoretical modeling, design, experimental validation, or case studies from all areas of robotics focusing in particular on new emerging paradigms and application areas including but not limited to: Robotics Vision Cognitive Robotics Robotics Architectures Mobile Robots Humanoid Robots Self-Localization and Navigation Spatial Cognition Human-Robot Interaction Multi-Robot Systems Search and Rescue Robots Learning and Adaptation Cooperation and Competition Adversarial Planning Robot Operating Systems Simulation and Visualization Robotic Swarms Biologically-Inspired Robots Embedded and Mobile Hardware Robotic Entertainment Robot Soccer Unmanned Aerial Robots Underwater Robotics Systems Educational Robotics Rehabilitation Robotics ================ Important Dates ================ Submissions Due: 14 July 2013 (New Deadline) Notifications: 30 August 2013 Camera-Ready: 20 September 2013 ICAR 2013 Conference: 25-29 November 2013 ================= Paper Submission ================= Original technical paper contributions are solicited for presentation at ICAR 2013. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore conference proceedings. Submission should be 6 to 8 pages following IEEE Xplore formats found at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper submission will be done via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icar2013 Submitted paper should not be currently under review by another conference or journal. At least one of the authors of the accepted paper will need to present the work at the conference. Please refer to the paper submission page at www.icar2013.org for further details. ================= Workshops and Tutorials ================= Proposals for the organization of workshops and tutorials are solicited for ICAR 2013 that address advanced topics in robotics. Workshops should be focused on active areas of research in order to provide an informal forum for participants to exchange new ideas and new directions in developing research. Tutorials should provide self- contained descriptions of established research topics. The primary criteria for selection are anticipated level of interest, impact, novelty or creativity, and technical background of presenters. See the "Workshops and Tutorials" section under "Submissions" at www.icar2013.org for further details. Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be submitted via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icar2013 ================ Special Journal Issue ================ Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotics Systems (JINT). Selection of these papers will be based on the originality, significance, and clarity of the work. Extended papers will be subject to the same peer-review process required by JINT before acceptance for publication. ================ Invited Speakers ================ Ronald Arkin, Georgia Tech http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~arkin/ Ousamma Khatib, Stanford University http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ok/ Bruno Siciliano, University of Napoli http://wpage.unina.it/sicilian/ Kimon Valavanis, University of Denver http://www.engr.du.edu/kvalavanis/ Richard Volpe, JPL http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Richard_Volpe/ ===================== Conference Committees ===================== General Chair Alfredo Weitzenfeld, University of South Florida, USA Program Chair Javier Ruiz del Solar, University of Chile, Chile Publications Chair Alejandra Barrera, ITAM, Mexico Local Chair Gonzalo Tejera, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Finance Chair Facundo Benavides, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay Steering Committee Chair Paolo Fiorini, University of Verona, Italy ============================================================== ----------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Executive Director Advanced Mining Technology Center - AMTC Universidad de Chile Av. Tupper 2007, 837-0451 Santiago, Chile Ph. +56-2-2977 1000 & +56-2-2978 4207 Fax +56-2-6720162 Email: jruizdelsolar at amtc.cl; jruizd at ing.uchile.cl WWW: http://www.amtc.cl/ WWW: http://www.cec.uchile.cl/~jruizd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From raymond.sheh at robolit.com Sat Jul 13 11:37:31 2013 From: raymond.sheh at robolit.com (Raymond Sheh) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:37:31 -0400 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] The Response Robotics Summer School 2013 - Registrations Open! Message-ID: <51E1743B.1030901@robolit.com> ===================================== The Response Robotics Summer School 2013 9-13 September 2013 Perth, Western Australia http://www.responserobotics.org/ ===================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - REGISTRATIONS OPEN! The Response Robotics Summer School (RRSS) is a hands-on summer school on the challenges and Best-in-Class solutions for Response Robotics, with a focus on the challenges posed by Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) and remote handling for response applications. This event is a collaboration between the Curtin University of Technology Department of Computing, the Western Australia Police Bomb Response Unit, the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Methods for Response Robots development effort, the RoboCup Federation through the RoboCupRescue Robot League, and Robolit LLC. It is run in conjunction with the Bomb Response Technology Seminar (BRTS), an event for EOD responders and equipment manufacturers from around Australia, the region, and the world. The event is primarily aimed at PhD and masters students, final year undergraduate project students and early career researchers. We welcome participants from both within and outside the RoboCupRescue Robot League community, as well as participants from Australia and abroad. We particularly welcome participants who are interested in and/or intending to participate in the RoboCupRescue Robot League competitions. We also welcome representatives of industry and government, including manufacturers, research companies and other organisations that wish to participate within the framework of the academic and responder programs and/or who wish to share and demonstrate their capabilities during the exercises and take advantage of the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Methods for Response Robots. Likewise, we welcome interested members of the community who are working on solving these challenges outside of academic and industrial research settings. This intensive five-day summer school is the latest in a long line of summer schools and teaching camps that started with the original Rescue Robotics Camp in Rome in 2004 and most continued most recently with the IEEE-RAS Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics Summer School 2012 in Alanya, Turkey. It is an outreach activity of the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Methods for Response Robots program and has been established by members of the SSRR research community, including members of the Organising Committee of the International RoboCupRescue Robot League, to better address the rapidly growing need for effective robotic solutions in emergency response scenarios. We encourage participants to bring their prototypical implementations of solutions to challenges within this domain. There will be opportunities to demonstrate these solutions both to other participants as well as to responders, and to evaluate and compare these solutions to those currently in deployment within the framework of the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Methods for Response Robots. Please visit the website at http://www.responserobotics.org/ or send email to info at responserobotics.org if you have any further questions or if you would like to be added to the low volume Response Robotics Summer School announcements mailing list. DATES and REGISTRATION: The summer school runs from Monday the 9th to Friday the 13th of September, 2013. Registrations are now open! Attendees should visit the website, http://www.responserobotics.org/ , for registration details. Registration prices increase in August and close at the end of August. Admission to the summer school is competitive and decided by the Organising Committee. Please see the website for registration instructions and further details. Due to the nature of the facilities at which this event will be held, all participants must be registered in advance. There will be no on-site registrations available. This event is capacity limited so we encourage participants to register early! REGISTRATION FEE WAIVERS: Attendees are encouraged to bring highly relevant, working implementations of their research to demonstrate to the attendees of the RRSS and BRTS, within the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Methods for Response Robots. Demonstrations sought include, but are not limited to, novel sensing, artificial intelligence, mobility, manipulation, mechanisms and user interfaces, that address gaps in current response robot capabilities. A small number of registration fee waivers will be granted to students and researchers from academic institutions who bring such demonstrations, eligibility for which will be decided by the Organising Committee. Please contact us at info at responserobotics.org to discuss eligibility and arrangements for the demonstration. Applications for these waivers will close on the 9th of August. Attendees from non-academic sectors are also encouraged to bring demonstrations of highly relevant technologies. Please contact us to make arrangements. STRUCTURE: The event will open on Monday and Tuesday with academic presentations focusing on the research challenges and current developments in response robotics. Participants will gain a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in crucial areas of research and deployed capabilities, as well as the experiences and needs of the end users. Participants of the RRSS will join attendees of the BRTS on Wednesday for joint seminars on topics of common interest, followed by preparations for the practical sessions. The event will continue on Thursday and Friday with joint practical exercises. Participants of the RRSS will work alongside attendees of the BRTS, deploying both commercial and prototypical robotic solutions within the DHS-NIST-ASTM International Standard Test Method for Response Robots apparatuses and operational scenarios at the Western Australia Police Bomb Response Unit's training and test facilities. Through these joint exercises, participants will be able to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges of the field, identify gaps for further research, test and refine their prototypical implementations, and share their developments with the wider research and responder community. Please visit http://www.responserobotics.org/ for the latest information on topics and speakers. VENUE AND TRAVEL: The lecture component of this event will be held at the Western Australia Police Bomb Response Unit facility in Maylands and the practical exercises will be conducted at the Police Training Facility in Gosnells, both close to Perth in Western Australia. Perth International Airport may be easily reached with regular direct services from many hubs within Oceania, Asia and the Middle East, and via scheduled connecting flights from elsewhere. Further information about ground transportation and hotel arrangements will be made available shortly so please consult the website closer to the registration date and/or subscribe to the mailing list for updated information. OTHER EVENTS: The RRSS is one of a set of inter-related summer schools, teaching camps, conferences, competitions and evaluation exercises, held around the world throughout the year, that aim to focus research efforts into Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics. Participants with a particular interest in 3D mapping, path planning and software architectures, as applied to this domain, are invited to also consider the Rescue Robotics Camp 2013, co-located with the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013), to be held in Linkoping, Sweden, from the 21st to the 23rd of October. Please see the website for a list of other events. ORGANISERS: General Chair: - Raymond Sheh, US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Robolit LLC, Department of Computing at Curtin University of Technology (from September 2013) Co-Chairs: - Bill Collidge, Western Australia Police Bomb Response Unit - Haldun Komsuoglu, Robolit LLC - Mihai Lazarescu, Department of Computing at Curtin University of Technology Advisory Committee: - Adam Jacoff, NIST We look forward to seeing you in Perth! -- Dr. Raymond Sheh raymond.sheh at robolit.com Associate Intelligent Systems Division, Engineering Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8230, USA Research Scientist Robolit LLC 1829 Pine Street, Suite 404, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA From nmmayer at gmail.com Fri Jul 19 05:32:44 2013 From: nmmayer at gmail.com (N. Michael Mayer) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:32:44 +0800 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] CACS International Automatic Control Conference 2013 Message-ID: The 2013 CACS International Automatic Control Conference will be held at the beautiful Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan during Dec. 2-4, 2013. This conference aims to provide a broad international forum for researchers, engineers, and professionals working in the areas of automatic control, robotics and machine learning to discuss and exchange their findings, ideas, and views. The conference will focus on both the theoretical aspects and the applications in the fields of automatic control and connected topics as listed below: TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Adaptive & Optimal Control Biological Systems Fuzzy Systems Guidance and Flight Control Hybrid Systems Image Processing and Control Intelligent Automation Intelligent Control Intelligent Robots Linear Systems Manufacturing System Mechatronic Systems Motion Control Neural Networks Nonlinear Systems Power Electronics Robust Control Servo Control Signal Processing Smart Manufacturing Stochastic Systems System Identification System Modelling and Simulations AWARDS All accepted papers of CACS 2013 will be considered for the following awards: Best Paper on Theory, Best Paper on Applications, Best Student Paper. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of contributed paper due August 1, 2013 Notification of acceptance September 15, 2013 Final paper submission due October 15, 2013 Conference early registration due October 15, 2013 WEBPAGE http://cacs2013.ccu.edu.tw SPONSORS IEEE, SICE (Japan), ICROS (Korea) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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With the advancements in both fields, there is now a renewed interest in bringing the two disciplines together towards the development of fully integrated intelligent robots. Robotics has matured enormously in the last two decades: common robotic platforms are now available, together with reliable techniques and shared tools to solve basic perception, navigation, and manipulation tasks. There is a growing consensus that the next quantum leap in robotics will come by adding capabilities which lay at the core of AI research, including task planning, knowledge representation, learning, and human-robot interaction. Symetrically, AI researchers are now showing substantial interest in embedding their algorithmic techniques in robotic platforms that can perceive, reason and act in real physical environments, including terrestrial, aerial, and underwater. This special issue on "AI and Robotics" aims at providing a venue for the two communities to share their findings and goals and report such successful integrated efforts. Such a venue is particularly critical to foster a much needed conceptual integration, cross fertilization, and dialogue. We hope that this special issue will be the first of a series of special issues on this theme, with the desired outcome of building a community of AI and Robotics researchers working across their traditional boundaries towards an ultimately shared scientific goal. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS We solicit original contributions, which report novel and mature inter-disciplinary work in the integration of AI and Robotics techniques. Submissions will be peer reviewed for scientific value and presentation quality, according to the standard criteria of the Artificial Intelligence journal. Relevance to the topic of this special issue will be of paramount importance. We encourage papers which contain a mixture of strong theory and sound experimental validation on real robotic systems. Results in simulation should clearly show a path towards encapsulating in a situated robot. Papers that clearly show the added value of using existing AI techniques in robotic systems are welcome, as are papers that push the state of the art of AI techniques in order to make them applicable to robotic systems. Papers should clearly present contributions that enable AI and Robotics researchers to build upon each other's work. We do NOT encourage papers that focus just purely on robotics or on AI, with little attention to their integration. SUBMISSION PROCESS Authors should prepare and submit manuscripts according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/ Make sure to select "Special Issue: AI and Robotics" as article type in the submission process. There will be a 25 page limit on the final version (about 12,000 words) so initial submissions should not be longer than that. Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The submission deadline below is firm. GUEST EDITORS (contact email: aij at aass.oru.se) * Alessandro Saffiotti (contact editor) AASS Cognitive Robotic Systems Laboratory University of Orebro, Sweden * Kanna Rajan Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Moss Landing, CA, USA * Manuela Veloso Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA SCHEDULE Sep 6, 2013: Submission deadline ** NEW ** Dec 20, 2013: Notification sent to authors Spring, 2014: Expected publication date ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Up-to-date information about this Special Issue will be posted on the web site: http://aass.oru.se/Agora/AIJ2014 -- Manuela M. Veloso Herbert A. Simon Professor Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv From ijars at intechopen.com Wed Jul 24 09:24:22 2013 From: ijars at intechopen.com (=?utf-8?Q?International=20Journal=20of=20Advanced=20Robotic=20Systems?=) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:24:22 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] =?utf-8?q?=5BCFP=5D_International_Journal_of_?= =?utf-8?q?Advanced_Robotic_Systems?= Message-ID: www.intechopen.com View this email in your browser (http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=d2c39b36c3700cb319caf1167&id=2fadc52b1b&e=7d2ddf276b) International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems ** Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Robotics Researchers, We would like to inform you that the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (http://www.intechopen.com/journals/author/international_journal_of_advanced_robotic_systems/about) (IJARS) is now open for submissions on an ongoing basis. To submit your research paper, click on the following link: http://www.editorialmanager.com/ijars/ The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles covering all aspects of research within robotics and is the only ISI-indexed Open Access journal in the field up-to-date. In the past three years, its ISI-index has grown to reach 0.821 Impact Factor value in 2013. IJARS includes topics related to sub-areas of robotics research you can submit your paper to, managed by subject-related Topic Editors and Editorial Boards. To view our topics open for submission, learn more about the journal and browse through our latest published papers, click here (http://www.intechopen.com/journals/author/international_journal_of_advanced_robotic_systems/about) . For any further questions or queries you might have, feel free to contact us at any time and we will be happy to answer as soon as possible. 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URL: From mmv at cs.cmu.edu Thu Jul 25 20:05:54 2013 From: mmv at cs.cmu.edu (Manuela Veloso) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:05:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Postdoctoral position - CMU Message-ID: <61782.67.232.160.146.1374797154.squirrel@webmail-beta.cs.cmu.edu> Postdoctoral position open at Carnegie Mellon University CORAL research lab www.cs.cmu.edu/~coral Working with Professor Manuela Veloso The position will include working on algorithmic guarantees for robot safety within a Darpa-funded project, involving real ground, and possibly aerial, mobile robot platforms of at least two types. The project requires the integration with other researchers within CMU and with other universities and laboratories. The candidate needs to have a PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or Electrical and Computer Engineering, and be ready to start September - October 2013. Concrete experience with real robots is required. Qualified applicants should respond by e-mail as soon as possible and at most until August 15, 2013, to Prof. Manuela Veloso (mmv at cs.cmu.edu) with a cover letter explaining the experience with real robots, and the CV, including the names of three references. The position will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal for one additional year. Carnegie Mellon University is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer. -- Manuela M. Veloso Herbert A. Simon Professor Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv From nmmayer at gmail.com Mon Jul 29 00:46:06 2013 From: nmmayer at gmail.com (N. Michael Mayer) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:46:06 +0800 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Deadline extended: CACS International Automatic Control Conference 2013 Message-ID: Dear all, Please note the new, extended deadlines: Proposals for organized sessions till Aug. 15th 2013 Submission of contributed paper due Sept. 1st. 2013 Notification of acceptance Sept. 30th, 2013 The 2013 CACS International Automatic Control Conference will be held at Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan during Dec. 2-4, 2013. The conference will focus on both the theoretical aspects and the applications in the fields of automatic control and connected topics. WEBPAGE http://cacs2013.ccu.edu.tw SPONSORS IEEE, SICE (Japan), ICROS (Korea) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pal at isr.ist.utl.pt Fri Aug 2 04:19:36 2013 From: pal at isr.ist.utl.pt (Pedro U. Lima) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 09:19:36 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Research Engineer grant in EU projects at ISR/IST, Lisbon Message-ID: <11210A35-8680-495C-8F35-0E59E7B3C31E@isr.ist.utl.pt> The Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), a unit of the Laboratory of Robotics and Systems Engineering in Science located at Instituto Superior T?cnico (IST), U. Lisbon, Portugal has currently available 1 (one) research engineer grant. We are seeking highly motivated researchers to integrate the research team for the EU projects, coordinated by ISR/IST: - RoCKIn ("Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics" - http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu) and - MOnarCH ("Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals" - http://monarch-fp7.eu). The successful candidate will be developing work mainly focused on, but not limited to,: * the extension of ISR/IST networked robot system to be used in the MOnarCH project, currently composed of 10 IP cameras and several heterogeneous robots, to include new sensors and robots; * the installation and set up of test bed for bechmarking of domestic robots, that will be similar to the one used in the RoCKIn at Home competitions. * the support activities to all the experiments and field trials to be carried out within the MOnarCH project, including the installation of equipment at some of the partners. The successful candidate is expected to have at least a MSc in electrical engineering or related field, with experience in one (or more) of the following areas: * Mechatronics (electronic PCB design, CAD, electronic hardware programming, microcontrollers, ?), * Real-time programming, * Networked robot systems programming. The grant has a duration of 12 months, eventually renewable. It is expected to start on September 2013 and will include accident insurance and social security contributions. The grantee will work with the Intelligent Robots and Systems group at ISR/IST (http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/labs/irsgroup/), and will also have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with all the other partners of both projects. Applications should be sent to info at monarch-fp7.eu and must include * a detailed CV, including a list of publications, * a brief statement about research interests, engineering skills and past experience, and motivation to join the project, and * the name and contact of 2 references. Applications will be open until September 15, 2013. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These topics are on the one hand vibrant research areas and on the other hand crucial capabilities for rescue robots. Lecturers * Sachin Chitta, Willow Garage, USA * Andreas N?chter, Universit?t W?rzburg, Germany * Simon Lacroix, LAAS/CNRS, France * Fran?ois Pomerleau, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland * Johannes Pellenz, Bundeswehr, Germany (t.b.c). * Stefan Kohlbrecher, TU Darmstadt, Germany (t.b.c.) Topics * 3D Perception * 3D Mapping * Exploration * Path Planning and Navigation in 3D Environments * Software Architectures for Rescue Robots Program The program is balanced between lectures, reports from practitioners and practical lab work. There will be separate tracks for beginners and advanced participants SSRR 2013 The camp will be collocated with the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics. In order to allow the participants a close interaction with the rescue robotics research community a reduced fee for the SSRR 2013 will be granted. Participation The participation is free of charge. Interested participants are requested to submit an application via email to ssrr13 at ist.tugraz.at with: * a curriculum vitae * a one-page motivation letter * list of up to 5 publications Important Dates * August 31 Applications due * September 7 Notification of Acceptance * September 30 Camp Registration due Organizers * Gerald Steinbauer, TU Graz, Austria * Ivana Kruijff-Korbayov?, DFKI, Germany * Francis Colas, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland * Johannes Maurer, TU Graz, Austria * Andreas Kolling, Link?ping University, Sweden * Johannes Pellenz, Bundeswehr, Germany * Tomoichi Takahashi, Meijo University, Japan Sponsors The camp is supported by: * NIFTI EU Project, * RoboCup Federation * AIICS * Link?ping University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Works should focus on the theme of service robotics or related technologies, which include (but is not limited to) the following topics: - Machine learning, intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, cognitive development, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, reinforcement learning, fuzzy sets - Computer vision, image processing, object segmentation and recognition, face recognition, camera calibration - Feedback control, digital control, control theory - Embedded systems - Real time systems - Digital signal processing - Object manipulation and action planning - Innovations in mechanical design and materials - Mobile robotics, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), sensor fusion - Legged locomotion, biped walking - Unmanned aerial vehicles - Unmanned underwater vehicles - Humanoids - Ethics and the social implications of the advance of service robotics - Robotics applications and case studies All submitted papers must be *at most 4 pages long (including references)*, and be written *in English *following strictly this style: http://brasero.ufsm.br/template.rar Submit your paper at http://brasero.ufsm.br/papers - Deadline: *16 Aug 2013 11:59:59pm BRT* - Acceptance/rejection notification: 27 Aug 2013 The best works will be selected for poster and oral presentations during the event. 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Bipedal standard or open platforms (Nao, DARwIn-OP, NimbRo-OP) make soccer robots accessible to many research groups, advanced 3D simulation games make the investigation of team play with complex humanoid robots possible, and soccer games for larger robots are a step towards playing with humans. The ultimate goal of this initiative is to develop a team of humanoid soccer players - i.e. robots with human-like awareness of the game situation, motion skills, and cooperation abilities. This poses a unique set of challenges to robotics, AI, and other fields. Objective: The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the RoboCup and FIRA communities, as well as other researchers interested in the subject. The full- day program will consist of several invited talks, contributed presentations, and a panel discussion. Call for papers: We solicit submissions of original, previously unpublished research papers, optionally accompanied by a video. Papers should be up to 6 pages in length, formatted according to IEEE conference layout (two-column). Accepted papers and videos will be available online. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design of humanoid robots * Bipedal locomotion * Dynamic full-body motions * Control architectures * Motion and action planning * Perception of the game situation * Team coordination * Skill and strategy learning * 3D simulation of humanoid robots Important dates: * Paper submission: August 31st, 2013 * Acceptance notification: September 15th, 2013 * Final paper: September 30th, 2013 * Workshop day: October 15th, 2013 Further information and paper submission: http://www.humanoidsoccer.org/ws13 Kind regards, the workshop organizers: * Sven Behnke, University of Bonn * Daniel D. Lee, University of Pennsylvania * Klaus Dorer, Hochschule Offenburg * Subramanian Ramamoorthy, University of Edinburgh From scarpin at ucmerced.edu Sun Aug 25 18:03:20 2013 From: scarpin at ucmerced.edu (Stefano Carpin) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:03:20 -0700 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Postdoc opening - University of California, Merced Message-ID: <521A7F28.2040008@ucmerced.edu> The robotics group at UC Merced has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral position. The project topic is "Rapid multirobot deployment" and the objective is to design and analyze algorithms to deploy large teams of robots in partially known environments under various constraints (e.g., time, probability of success, different sensor payloads or mobility, etc.) The position is funded by a contract from the Army Research Lab as part of the MAST CTA. The appointment is for one year. Qualifications: the successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field. Candidates with previous experience in robotics, in particular with multi-robot systems, strong programming skills and excellent publication record are encouraged to apply. Applications must be submitted online at: http://jobs.ucmerced.edu/n/academic/position.jsf?positionId=4841 -- Stefano Carpin, PhD Associate Professor School of Engineering University of California, Merced http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/scarpin/ http://robotics.ucmerced.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From D.Diochnos at ed.ac.uk Tue Aug 27 05:08:41 2013 From: D.Diochnos at ed.ac.uk (Dimitris Diochnos) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:08:41 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] ISAIM 2014: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <87EC27EB-48E8-4B69-B8E9-F4D720AA4EEF@ed.ac.uk> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Thirteenth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS ISAIM 2014 http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/ January 6-8, 2014 Fort Lauderdale, Florida PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2013 The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM) is a biennial meeting that fosters interactions between mathematics, theoretical computer science, and artificial intelligence. This is the thirteenth Symposium in the series, which is sponsored by the journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence and by Florida Atlantic University. We seek submissions of recent results, with a particular emphasis on the foundations of AI and mathematical methods used in AI. Papers describing applications are also encouraged, but the focus should be on principled lessons learned from the development of the application. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for scientific exchange. The three-day Symposium includes invited speakers, presentations of technical papers, and special topic sessions. The Symposium takes place at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. Please visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/Venue for more information about the venue. SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS: o Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions -Organized by Endre Boros, Rutgers University, and Yves Crama, University of Li?ge o Mathematical Theories of Natural Language Processing -Organized by Andr?s Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences o Theory of Machine Learning -Organized by Lev Reyzin, University of Illinois at Chicago o Proposals for organizing additional special sessions can be sent to the chairs for consideration by September 15, 2013. INVITED SPEAKERS: o Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin o Csaba Szepesv?ri, University of Alberta PAPER SUBMISSION: Paper submission will be electronic via the submission link on the Paper Submission page of the Symposium website (http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/). Papers must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given there. The submission deadline is October 15, 2013 (11:59 PM PDT). Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by November 15, 2013. Final versions of accepted papers, for inclusion in the conference electronic proceedings, are due by December 15, 2013. Work that has already been published as of the ISAIM submission deadline should not be submitted to ISAIM unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. However, the ISAIM web site proceedings are not archival, so papers submitted to ISAIM can be under review at the time of submission and can be submitted elsewhere after ISAIM. Authors of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be invited to submit full versions of their papers for inclusion in a special volume of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, published by Springer. Those invited submissions will be subject to refereeing at the usual standards of the journal, and authors will receive more details with the acceptance notice. Papers must of course be new and unpublished to be considered for the special volume. Any questions regarding paper submission should be sent to the program committee chairs at the email address . IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: October 15, 2013 Notification: November 15, 2013 Final version due: December 15, 2013 Workshop: January 6-8, 2014, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida ORGANIZERS: o General Chair: Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa o Conference Chair: Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University o Program Committee Chairs: Lisa Hellerstein, Polytechnic Institute of NYU Gy?rgy Tur?n, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged o Publicity Chair: Dimitrios I. Diochnos, University of Edinburgh PROGRAM COMMITTEE: St?phane Airiau University of Amsterdam Endre Boros Rutgers University Arthur Choi University of California Los Angeles Berthe Choueiry University of Nebraska-Lincoln Yves Crama University of Li?ge Marek Druzdzel University of Pittsburgh Roni Khardon Tufts University Richard Korf University of California Los Angeles Loizos Michael Open University of Cyprus Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales Barnab?s P?czos Carnegie Mellon University Francesca Rossi University of Padova Bart Selman Cornell University Rocco Servedio Columbia University Hans-Ulrich Simon Ruhr-University Bochum Stefan Szeider Vienna University of Technology Bal?zs Sz?r?nyi University of Szeged Miros?aw (Mirek) Truszczy?ski University of Kentucky Frank Wolter University of Liverpool Stefan Woltran Vienna University of Technology Neil Yorke-Smith American University of Beirut Send inquiries and requests to isaim2014 at cs DOT uic DOT edu. Visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/. Join isaim at googlegroups.com to receive announcements related to ISAIM. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From mmv at cs.cmu.edu Tue Aug 27 14:33:16 2013 From: mmv at cs.cmu.edu (Manuela Veloso) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:33:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Last CFP: AIJ special issue on "AI and Robotics" Message-ID: <31961.69.38.252.85.1377628396.squirrel@webmail-beta.cs.cmu.edu> Please note: the submission deadline is 10 days ahead and firm. ====================================================================== Artificial Intelligence Journal Special issue on: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ====================================================================== The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics were strongly connected in the early days of AI, but have since diverged. One of the early goals of AI consisted of building complete intelligent robots. Such a goal however has shown to be quite challenging, and AI and robotics researchers have isolated its many distinct facets and focused on making progress on each facet separately. With the advancements in both fields, there is now a renewed interest in bringing the two disciplines together towards the development of fully integrated intelligent robots. Robotics has matured enormously in the last two decades: common robotic platforms are now available, together with reliable techniques and shared tools to solve basic perception, navigation, and manipulation tasks. There is a growing consensus that the next quantum leap in robotics will come by adding capabilities which lay at the core of AI research, including task planning, knowledge representation, learning, and human-robot interaction. Symetrically, AI researchers are now showing substantial interest in embedding their algorithmic techniques in robotic platforms that can perceive, reason and act in real physical environments, including terrestrial, aerial, and underwater. This special issue on "AI and Robotics" aims at providing a venue for the two communities to share their findings and goals and report such successful integrated efforts. Such a venue is particularly critical to foster a much needed conceptual integration, cross fertilization, and dialogue. We hope that this special issue will be the first of a series of special issues on this theme, with the desired outcome of building a community of AI and Robotics researchers working across their traditional boundaries towards an ultimately shared scientific goal. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS We solicit original contributions, which report novel and mature inter-disciplinary work in the integration of AI and Robotics techniques. Submissions will be peer reviewed for scientific value and presentation quality, according to the standard criteria of the Artificial Intelligence journal. Relevance to the topic of this special issue will be of paramount importance. We encourage papers which contain a mixture of strong theory and sound experimental validation on real robotic systems. Results in simulation should clearly show a path towards encapsulating in a situated robot. Papers that clearly show the added value of using existing AI techniques in robotic systems are welcome, as are papers that push the state of the art of AI techniques in order to make them applicable to robotic systems. Papers should clearly present contributions that enable AI and Robotics researchers to build upon each other's work. We do NOT encourage papers that focus just purely on robotics or on AI, with little attention to their integration. SUBMISSION PROCESS Authors should prepare and submit manuscripts according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/ Make sure to select "Special Issue: AI and Robotics" as article type in the submission process. There will be a 25 page limit on the final version (about 12,000 words) so initial submissions should not be longer than that. In LaTeX, you can produce a format similar to the final one using "\documentclass[final,3p,times]{elsarticle}" in the preamble. The page count does not include references and figures. Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The submission deadline below is firm. GUEST EDITORS (contact email: aij at aass.oru.se) * Alessandro Saffiotti (contact editor) AASS Cognitive Robotic Systems Laboratory University of Orebro, Sweden * Kanna Rajan Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Moss Landing, CA, USA * Manuela Veloso Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA SCHEDULE Sep 6, 2013: Submission deadline Dec 20, 2013: Notification sent to authors Spring, 2014: Expected publication date ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Up-to-date information about this Special Issue will be posted on the web site: http://aass.oru.se/Agora/AIJ2014 ====================================================================== -- Manuela M. Veloso Herbert A. Simon Professor Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv From steinbauer at ist.tugraz.at Wed Aug 28 07:24:13 2013 From: steinbauer at ist.tugraz.at (Gerald Steinbauer) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:24:13 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Final Call - Rescue Robotics Camp 2013 - Going 3D Message-ID: <521DDDDD.4080807@ist.tugraz.at> !! Application Deadline extended after SSRR 2013 Notification - September 8 !! Rescue Robotics Camp 2013 ? Going 3D Oct 21-23, 2013 Link?ping, Sweden http://www.ist.tugraz.at/ssrr13 collocated with IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013) The Rescue Robotics Camp 2013 is based on a long tradition of providing state-of-the-art techniques in rescue robotics to young researcher and students participating in competition such as RoboCup. The camp focuses on a sound understanding of the techniques by the participants, as well as the development of open source software modules based on ROS that the participants can immediately reuse in their daily work. The main theme of the 2013 edition is * perception and navigation in challenging 3D environments*. These topics are on the one hand vibrant research areas and on the other hand crucial capabilities for rescue robots. Lecturers * Sachin Chitta, Willow Garage, USA * Andreas N?chter, Universit?t W?rzburg, Germany * Simon Lacroix, LAAS/CNRS, France * Fran?ois Pomerleau, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland * Johannes Pellenz, Bundeswehr, Germany (t.b.c). * Stefan Kohlbrecher, TU Darmstadt, Germany (t.b.c.) Topics * 3D Perception * 3D Mapping * Exploration * Path Planning and Navigation in 3D Environments * Software Architectures for Rescue Robots Program The program is balanced between lectures, reports from practitioners and practical lab work. There will be separate tracks for beginners and advanced participants SSRR 2013 The camp will be collocated with the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics. In order to allow the participants a close interaction with the rescue robotics research community a reduced fee for the SSRR 2013 will be granted. Participation The participation is free of charge. Interested participants are requested to submit an application via email to ssrr13 at ist.tugraz.at with: * a curriculum vitae * a one-page motivation letter * list of up to 5 publications Important Dates * September 8 Applications due * September 10 Notification of Acceptance * September 30 Camp Registration due Organizers * Gerald Steinbauer, TU Graz, Austria * Ivana Kruijff-Korbayov?, DFKI, Germany * Francis Colas, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland * Johannes Maurer, TU Graz, Austria * Andreas Kolling, Link?ping University, Sweden * Johannes Pellenz, Bundeswehr, Germany * Tomoichi Takahashi, Meijo University, Japan Sponsors The camp is supported by: * NIFTI EU Project, * RoboCup Federation * AIICS * Link?ping University From behnke at cs.uni-bonn.de Fri Aug 30 14:08:09 2013 From: behnke at cs.uni-bonn.de (Sven Behnke) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:08:09 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 2nd Call for Papers: The 8th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots @ Humanoids 2013 Message-ID: <5220DF89.10707@cs.uni-bonn.de> ============================================================================== The 8th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots October 15th 2013, Atlanta, GA http://www.humanoidsoccer.org/ws13 ============================================================================== * Motivation: Humanoid soccer has seen impressive progress in recent years. Bipedal standard or open platforms (Nao, DARwIn-OP, NimbRo-OP) make soccer robots accessible to many research groups, advanced 3D simulation games make the investigation of team play with complex humanoid robots possible, and soccer games for larger robots are a step towards playing with humans. The ultimate goal of this initiative is to develop a team of humanoid soccer players - i.e. robots with human-like awareness of the game situation, motion skills, and cooperation abilities. This poses a unique set of challenges to robotics, AI, and other fields. * Objective: The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the RoboCup and FIRA communities, as well as other researchers interested in the subject. The full- day program will consist of several invited talks, contributed presentations, and a panel discussion. * Call for papers: We solicit submissions of original, previously unpublished research papers, optionally accompanied by a video. Papers should be up to 6 pages in length, formatted according to IEEE conference layout (two-column). Accepted papers and videos will be available online. * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Design of humanoid robots - Bipedal locomotion - Dynamic full-body motions - Control architectures - Motion and action planning - Perception of the game situation - Team coordination - Skill and strategy learning - 3D simulation of humanoid robots * Important dates: - Paper submission (extended): September 15th, 2013 - Acceptance notification: September 22nd, 2013 - Final paper: October 7th, 2013 - Workshop day: October 15th, 2013 * Further information and paper submission: http://www.humanoidsoccer.org/ws13 Kind regards, the workshop organizers: - Sven Behnke, University of Bonn - Daniel D. Lee, University of Pennsylvania - Klaus Dorer, Hochschule Offenburg - Subramanian Ramamoorthy, University of Edinburgh From robotssavage at gmail.com Mon Sep 9 16:18:06 2013 From: robotssavage at gmail.com (Jesus Savage) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 15:18:06 -0500 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] WORKSHOP ON ROBOCUP@HOME LEAGUE Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ON ROBOCUP at HOME LEAGUE ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics Montevideo, Uruguay, November 25th, 2013 * ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - ICAR 2013 General Chair: Alfredo Weitzenfeld (USF) - Workshop Chairs: Jesus Savage (UNAM), L. Enrique Sucar (INAOE) ** INTRODUCTION* The RoboCup at Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the *RoboCup* initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots' abilities and performance in a realistic non-standardized home environment setting. The aim of this workshop is to get together researchers and students participating or interested in RoboCup at Home or in general in Service Robots to discuss advances in the field and foster collaboration among the different groups. * TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to): Human-Robot-Interaction Robot Cooperation Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions Object Manipulation Adaptive Behaviors Behavior Integration Ambient Intelligence Standardization and System Integration Robot Architectures People detection, recognition and tracking Voice recognition in noisy environments Papers should be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese, maximum 6 pages, following the standard IEEE format for conferences including title, abstract, tables, figures, and references. Short papers, maximum 2 pages, reporting preliminary work in theoretical, empirical and applied research related to the topics of the conference are also welcome. The papers will be reviewed at least by two experts in the field for giving feedback to authors about their work quality and improvements. Paper should be prepared following IEEE standard format available at: * http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php* *Important dates:* - Manuscript submission deadline: September 30th, 2013 - Review results: October 20th, 2013 - Final version upload: October 31st, 2013 - Workshop: November 25th, 2013 Send your manuscript to robotssavage at gmail.com For more information: http://biorobotics.fi-p.unam.mx/isymposium/icar-2013-workshop-home -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From s.sadeghnejad at aut.ac.ir Wed Sep 18 09:34:47 2013 From: s.sadeghnejad at aut.ac.ir (soroush sadeghnejad) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:04:47 +0330 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Second Amirkabir Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Festival Message-ID: ****************** Apologies for duplicate messages ****************** ########################### Call For Participation ########################## Second Amirkabir Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Festival October 13-16, 2012 Tehran, Iran *http://autfair2013.aut.ac.ir* #################### ARAIF2013 ##################### Second Amirkabir Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Festival (ARAIF2013) is going to be held on 29th October to 2nd November 2013 at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran (* http://autfair2013.aut.ac.ir*). This interesting international event contains three different parts. 1- Fourth International Amirkabir Robotic Competition. (AUTCUP2013) 2- Second Amirkabir Artificial Intelligence Competition. (AAIC2013) 3- Second Industrial and Scientific Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Congress. (ARAIC2013) For the fourth year, Amirkabir Robotic Competition (AUTCup2013) is going to be one of the major and interesting parts of this festival. It contains 10 different leagues. 1- Real Rescue Robots (Flying & Ground Robots) 2- Medical Robots 3- Urban Robots 4- Humanoid Robots 5- Service Delivery Robots 6- @Work Robots 7- Industrial Robots 8- Deminer Robots 9- Small Size Robots 10- Warehouse Robots The Committee of international AUTCup2013 wants to invite you to participate in this competition and hopes this would be a very memorable start for our academic cooperation in Robotics and AI. Please visit our official website (*http://autfair2013.aut.ac.ir*) and do not forget to pre-register your team before October 2nd! 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(AUTCUP2013) 2- Second Amirkabir Artificial Intelligence Competition. (AAIC2013) 3- Second Industrial and Scientific Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Congress. (ARAIC2013) For the fourth year, Amirkabir Robotic Competition (AUTCup2013) is going to be one of the major and interesting parts of this festival. It contains 10 different leagues. 1- Real Rescue Robots (Flying & Ground Robots) 2- Medical Robots 3- Urban Robots 4- Humanoid Robots 5- Service Delivery Robots 6- @Work Robots 7- Industrial Robots 8- Deminer Robots 9- Small Size Robots 10- Warehouse Robots The Committee of international AUTCup2013 wants to invite you to participate in this competition and hopes this would be a very memorable start for our academic cooperation in Robotics and AI. Please visit our official website (*http://araif2013.aut.ac.ir *) and do not forget to pre-register your team before October 2nd! 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URL: From D.Diochnos at ed.ac.uk Thu Sep 19 07:58:52 2013 From: D.Diochnos at ed.ac.uk (Dimitris Diochnos) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:58:52 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] ISAIM 2014: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: <819FE36B-10B3-44B7-9B26-BB3A177F33FD@ed.ac.uk> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Thirteenth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS ISAIM 2014 http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/ January 6-8, 2014 Fort Lauderdale, Florida PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2013 The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM) is a biennial meeting that fosters interactions between mathematics, theoretical computer science, and artificial intelligence. This is the thirteenth Symposium in the series, which is sponsored by the journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence and by Florida Atlantic University. We seek submissions of recent results, with a particular emphasis on the foundations of AI and mathematical methods used in AI. Papers describing applications are also encouraged, but the focus should be on principled lessons learned from the development of the application. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for scientific exchange. The three-day Symposium includes invited speakers, presentations of technical papers, and special topic sessions. The Symposium takes place at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. Please visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/Venue for more information about the venue. SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS: o Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions -Organized by Endre Boros, Rutgers University, and Yves Crama, University of Li?ge o Mathematical Theories of Natural Language Processing -Organized by Andr?s Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences o Theory of Machine Learning -Organized by Lev Reyzin, University of Illinois at Chicago o Proposals for organizing additional special sessions can be sent to the chairs for consideration by September 15, 2013. INVITED SPEAKERS: o Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin o Csaba Szepesv?ri, University of Alberta PAPER SUBMISSION: Paper submission will be electronic via the submission link on the Paper Submission page of the Symposium website (http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/). Papers must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given there. The submission deadline is October 15, 2013 (11:59 PM PDT). Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by November 15, 2013. Final versions of accepted papers, for inclusion in the conference electronic proceedings, are due by December 15, 2013. Work that has already been published as of the ISAIM submission deadline should not be submitted to ISAIM unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. However, the ISAIM web site proceedings are not archival, so papers submitted to ISAIM can be under review at the time of submission and can be submitted elsewhere after ISAIM. Authors of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be invited to submit full versions of their papers for inclusion in a special volume of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, published by Springer. Those invited submissions will be subject to refereeing at the usual standards of the journal, and authors will receive more details with the acceptance notice. Papers must of course be new and unpublished to be considered for the special volume. Any questions regarding paper submission should be sent to the program committee chairs at the email address . IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: October 15, 2013 Notification: November 15, 2013 Final version due: December 15, 2013 Workshop: January 6-8, 2014, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida ORGANIZERS: o General Chair: Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa o Conference Chair: Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University o Program Committee Chairs: Lisa Hellerstein, Polytechnic Institute of NYU Gy?rgy Tur?n, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged o Publicity Chair: Dimitrios I. Diochnos, University of Edinburgh PROGRAM COMMITTEE: St?phane Airiau University of Amsterdam Endre Boros Rutgers University Arthur Choi University of California Los Angeles Berthe Choueiry University of Nebraska-Lincoln Yves Crama University of Li?ge Marek Druzdzel University of Pittsburgh Roni Khardon Tufts University Richard Korf University of California Los Angeles Loizos Michael Open University of Cyprus Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales Barnab?s P?czos Carnegie Mellon University Francesca Rossi University of Padova Bart Selman Cornell University Rocco Servedio Columbia University Hans-Ulrich Simon Ruhr-University Bochum Stefan Szeider Vienna University of Technology Bal?zs Sz?r?nyi University of Szeged Miros?aw (Mirek) Truszczy?ski University of Kentucky Frank Wolter University of Liverpool Stefan Woltran Vienna University of Technology Neil Yorke-Smith American University of Beirut Send inquiries and requests to isaim2014 at cs DOT uic DOT edu. Visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/. Join isaim at googlegroups.com to receive announcements related to ISAIM. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From nardi at dis.uniroma1.it Tue Sep 24 04:44:28 2013 From: nardi at dis.uniroma1.it (Daniele Nardi) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:44:28 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] PhD School on AI and Robotics Message-ID: <524150EC.3000600@dis.uniroma1.it> ====================================================================== First ?rebro Winter School on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ?rebro University, ?rebro, Sweden December 9-13, 2013 ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SYNOPSIS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics were strongly connected in the early days of AI, but have since diverged. Today, and with few exceptions, they are regarded as separate fields, with separate communities and scientific traditions. Typical graduate student curricula concentrate on AI or on robotics, but rarely on both. Students in one area are seldom aware of the concepts, methods, and achievements in the other one. This separation is often exacerbated by the barriers among traditional academic disciplines. Despite this separation, many now feel that the two fields ought to be brought together towards the development of fully integrated intelligent robots. In particular, there is a growing consensus in the robotics community that the next quantum leap in robotics will come by incorporating capabilities which lay at the core of AI, like knowledge representation and reasoning, action planning, learning and adaptation, and human-robot interaction. This Winter School aims at filling this educational gap, and creating the next generation of researchers who will realize integrated intelligent robots. These researchers should be familiar with the methods in the two fields, and should be able to work across their traditional boundaries. They should combine theoretical insights from both areas with practical understanding of physical robotic systems. As an example, one such researcher might push the state of the art in semantic maps in robotics by leveraging the rich tradition on knowledge representation in AI. This Winter School will provide graduate students in AI and in Robotics a unique training and human experience. Students will be exposed to technologies at the forefront of research in AI and in Robotics, and will apply some of these through exercises on real robots. They will have the opportunity to discuss their research work with top level scholars as well as other students, and to extend their networks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FORMAT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The School will run for one week, Monday to Friday, December 9-13, and will offer a mixture of traditional lectures and innovative features, including: o Students will be given an opportunity to present their experience and research topic to everyone. o There will be two day-long sessions on specific topics, complemented by hands-on exercises on real robots. o There will be a final round table with a selection of international scientists, open to the students, to discuss the integration of AI and Robotics. Students will be assigned preparatory work to be done before the school. This will ensure that all students are sufficiently familiar with basic tools (e.g., ROS, the Robot Operating System) and theories needed to fully leverage lectures and the exercises. Assignments will be made in groups that mix students from different backgrounds. Ample room will be provided during the School for group discussions, interactions between students and teachers, and social activities. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- o Automated Constraint-based Planning and Execution for the Real World Full day session with hands-on exercises Teachers: - Dr Kanna Rajan, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Inst (MBARI), California - Dr Frederic Py, MBARI, California - Dr Federico Pecora, University of Orebro, Sweden o Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics Full day session with hands-on exercises Teachers: - Prof Daniele Nardi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy - Dr Guglielmo Gemignani, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy o Robots and the Internet Teacher: Dr Moritz Tenorth, University of Bremen, Germany o Towards Focused Reasoning in Robotics Teacher: Prof Joachim Hertzberg, University of Osnabruck, Germany o Robots with Humans Teacher: Dr Rachid Alami, LAAS/CNRS Toulouse, France o Artificial Cognition and Robotics Teacher: Prof David Vernon, University of Skovde, Sweden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENDANCE AND APPLICATIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PhD students from any institution in any part of the world can apply to the School. Applications by motivated early-stage postdocs are also welcome. Applicants are not expected to have any specific previous experience in the above topics, but they are expected to have a strong background in robotics or in artificial intelligence, along with the curiosity and drive in exploring the integration between the two. Applications by women and minorities are strongly encouraged. The total number of participants is limited to 30. To apply for admission, send the following material as a single ZIP file: - a full CV, specifying the start date of the PhD - a 1/2 page description of the PhD thesis topic - a recommendation letter by the PhD advisor - a transcript of records of the BSc and MSc courses - a motivation letter: what do you expect to gain from the school, and what experience you will bring to the school, not to exceed 1 page Applications must be received by October 25, 2013. Late applications will not be processed. Admission decisions will be mailed on November 4, 2013. Quality and motivation of the applicant will be the main selection criteria; field, gender, and geographical balance will be considered all other things being equal. There is no registration fee. Admitted students will be offered accommodation in shared rooms, course material, lunches and social dinner. All other costs, including transportation, will need to be covered by the student or her/his sponsor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORSHIP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This School is fully supported by Orebro University, Sweden, through a special strategic grant. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- o Chair: Alessandro Saffiotti, Orebro University, Orebro, Sweden o Advisory committee: Joachim Hertzberg, University of Osnabruck, Germany Daniele Nardi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Kanna Rajan, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, California o Secretariat: Monica Wettler, Orebro University, Orebro, Sweden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 25, 2013: Deadline for applying to the school (strict) Nov 4, 2013: Admission decisions mailed Dec 9, 2013: School starts Dec 14, 2013: School ends ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCHOOL HOMEPAGE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://aass.oru.se/Agora/Lucia2013/ ====================================================================== -- Daniele Nardi Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale "A. Ruberti" "Sapienza" Universita' di Roma Via Ariosto 25, 00185 ROMA, Italy tel. +39-06-77274113, fax +39-06-77274106 http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~nardi email: nardi at dis.uniroma1.it From mhnsrdhrn at gmail.com Tue Sep 24 17:28:45 2013 From: mhnsrdhrn at gmail.com (Mohan Sridharan) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:28:45 -0500 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] CFP: AAAI 2014 Spring Symposium on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics Message-ID: ***************************************************** Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2014 ***************************************************** SCHEDULE Paper submission: October 8, 2013 Notification: November 8, 2013 Symposium: March 24-26, 2014 at Stanford University, USA ***************************************************** Robots and agents deployed in homes, offices and other complex domains are faced with the formidable challenge of representing, revising and reasoning with incomplete domain knowledge acquired from sensor inputs and human feedback. Although many algorithms have been developed for qualitatively or quantitatively representing and reasoning with knowledge, the research community is fragmented, with separate vocabularies that are increasingly making it difficult for these researchers to communicate with each other. For instance, the rich body of research in knowledge representation using logical reasoning paradigms provides appealing commonsense reasoning capabilities, but does not support probabilistic modeling of the considerable uncertainty in sensing and acting on robots. In parallel, robotics researchers are developing sophisticated probabilistic algorithms that elegantly model the uncertainty in sensing and acting on robots, but it is difficult to use such algorithms to represent and reason with commonsense knowledge. Furthermore, algorithms developed to combine logical and probabilistic reasoning do not provide the desired expressiveness for commonsense reasoning and/or do not fully support the uncertainty modeling capabilities required in robotics. The objective of this symposium is to promote a deeper understanding of recent breakthroughs and challenges in the logical reasoning and probabilistic reasoning communities. We seek to encourage collaborative efforts towards building knowledge representation and reasoning architectures that support qualitative and quantitative descriptions of knowledge and uncertainty. ***************************************************** TOPICS We are interested in efforts that integrate, or motivate an integration of, logic-based and probabilistic algorithms for knowledge representation and/or commonsense reasoning on one or more robots or agents in different application domains. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Knowledge acquisition and representation. * Combining symbolic and probabilistic representations. * Reasoning about uncertainty. * Reasoning with incomplete knowledge. * Interactive and cooperative decision-making. * Learning and symbol grounding. * Commonsense reasoning. We also encourage the submission of papers that ground these topics in research areas such as robot vision, human-robot (and multirobot) collaboration, and robot planning. ***************************************************** FORMAT & SUBMISSIONS The symposium will consist of paper and poster presentations, invited talks, breakout sessions, and demos. Interested participants may submit: (1) regular papers (8 pages in the AAAI format); or (2) poster papers (4 pages in AAAI format) at the following web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=krr2014 For more information about the symposium: http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~smohan/krr_aaai14/ If your research is primarily in qualitative representations for robots, please consider submitting your paper to a parallel symposium: http://strands-project.eu/qualitative-representations-for-robots.html ***************************************************** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mohan Sridharan Texas Tech University, USA mohan.sridharan at ttu.edu Fangkai Yang The University of Texas at Austin, USA fkyang at cs.utexas.edu Subramanian Ramamoorthy The University of Edinburgh, UK s.ramamoorthy at ed.ac.uk Volkan Patoglu Sabanci University, Turkey vpatoglu at sabanciuniv.edu Esra Erdem Sabanci University, Turkey esraerdem at sabanciuniv.edu ***************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mmv at cs.cmu.edu Fri Sep 27 04:33:34 2013 From: mmv at cs.cmu.edu (Manuela Veloso) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 04:33:34 -0400 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Fwd: [robotics-worldwide] [meetings] Call for Papers ICAPS 2014 Robotics track In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <524542DE.10404@cs.cmu.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [robotics-worldwide] [meetings] Call for Papers ICAPS 2014 Robotics track Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:02:19 +0200 From: F?lix Ingrand Reply-To: F?lix Ingrand , Leslie Kaelbling To: robotics-worldwide at usc.edu Following the success of the PlanRob Workshop at ICAPS 2013 in Roma ( http://icaps13.icaps-conference.org/technical-program/workshop-program/planning-and-robotics-planrob/ ), the ICAPS 2014 chairs have decided to run a Robotics track as part of the ICAPS 2014 main conference. ICAPS 2014 is part of the ICAPS conference series. ICAPS is the premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent planning and scheduling technology. The main goal of this Robotics track is to present research at the intersection of the Robotics and "Planning and Scheduling" fields. This includes, but is not limited to: - combined task and motion/manipulation planning - planning for perception - multi-robot planning and coordination - interleaved planning and execution - planning in dynamic environments - planning for human robot interaction - planning for partially observable and stochastic domains - acquisition of planning models for robotics - integration of planning on robots - learning action and task models - planning in open domains We also want to emphasize the importance of work that has been deployed on a physical robot. We think this track is a good opportunity to reunite the fields of planning and robotics, and that it will be significantly beneficial to both fields. The PC currently includes (more participants to be confirmed): Rachid Alami, LAAS-CNRS, France Patrick Doherty, Link?pings universitet, Sweden Alberto Finzi, Federico II University, Italy Malik Ghallab, LAAS-CNRS, France Joachim Hertzberg, University of Osnabrueck, Germany David Hsu, National University of Singapore Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen University of Technology, Germany Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford University Tomas Lozano-Perez, MIT, USA Andrea Orlandini, ISTC-CNR, Italy Joelle Pineau, McGill University, Canada Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley, USA Alessandro Saffiotti, ?rebro University, Sweden Florent Teichteil-K?nigsbuch, ONERA, France Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA The time table will be the same as for the main track: Abstract: October 29, 2013 Full Paper Submission: November 5, 2013 Notification: December 20, 2013 Authors will be allowed to submit two types of papers. Full papers can be up to 8 pages long (plus one more page only for references), while short papers can be up to 4 pages long (plus one more page only for references). Submissions must be in the AAAI format. For more information, see the submission instructions on ICAPS 2014 Web site: http://icaps14.icaps-conference.org/ The proceedings will be published by AAAI Press. All accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings and will be presented orally at the conference (full papers will be allocated more time). Questions on the ICAPS 2014 Robotics track should be sent to: felix at laas.fr and lpk at csail.mit.edu PS: The 2013 PlanRob workshop organizers also plan to submit a proposal for a followup at ICAPS 2014. Hence, the Robotics track and the PlanRob workshop should make two complementary Robotics events at ICAPS 2014. -- Leslie and Felix _______________________________________________ robotics-worldwide mailing list robotics-worldwide at usc.edu http://duerer.usc.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/robotics-worldwide -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mmv at cs.cmu.edu Sat Sep 28 10:39:29 2013 From: mmv at cs.cmu.edu (Manuela Veloso) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:39:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [robocup-worldwide] [Fwd: AAAI-14 Workshop Proposals: November 1] Message-ID: <57757.85.247.193.90.1380379169.squirrel@webmail-beta.cs.cmu.edu> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: AAAI-14 Workshop Proposals: November 1 From: "AAAI-Members" Date: Sat, September 28, 2013 2:53 am To: mmv at cs.cmu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.) __ Dear AAAI Members, We invite you to submit a proposal for the AAAI-14 Workshop Program, to be held Sunday and Monday, July 27-28, at the Quebec Convention Centre, Quebec City, Canada. The deadline for submission of a workshop proposal is Friday, November 1, 2013. Included below is the full Call for Proposals, which is also available at http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/ws14.php. If you have any questions regarding the program, please contact the workshop cochairs, Eric Eaton and Weng-Keen Wong at aaai14ws at gmail.com, or feel free to send your inquiries to AAAI at aaai14 at aaai.org. We look forward to seeing you next July for the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence! Regards, Carol Hamilton Executive Director, AAAI ************** Call for Proposals Workshops at the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14) July 27-28, 2014 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Timetable for Organizers November 1, 2013: Proposals for Workshops Due December 6, 2013: Decisions Sent to Organizers January 8, 2014: Workshop CFP Due at AAAI April 10, 2014: Workshop Submissions Due to Organizers May 1, 2014: Notifications Sent to Authors May 1, 2014: List of Participants Due at AAAI May 15, 2014: Final Workshop Papers Due at AAAI The AAAI-14 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14). Workshops are scheduled to be held at the beginning of the conference, July 27-28, 2014. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss issues with a selected focus - providing an informal setting for active exchange among researchers, developers and users on topics of current interest. Members of all segments of the AI community are encouraged to submit proposals. To foster interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshops will be kept small, with 25-50 participants. Attendance is limited to active participants only. The format of workshops will be determined by their organizers, who are encouraged to leave ample time for general discussion. Workshops will typically be one full day in length, although half-day and two-day proposals will be considered. Proposal Content Proposals for workshops should be about two (2) pages in length, and should contain the following: * A description of the workshop topic. Identify the specific issues on which the workshop will focus. * A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time. * A brief description of the proposed workshop format, regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. * An indication as to whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day, one, or two-day meeting. * The names and full contact information (email and postal addresses, fax and telephone numbers) of the organizing committee ? three or four people knowledgeable in the field-and short descriptions of their relevant expertise. (Please specify main contact.) Strong proposals include organizers who bring differing perspectives to the workshop topic and who are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. * A list of potential attendees. Workshops are an excellent forum for exploring emerging approaches and task areas, for bridging the gaps between AI and other fields or between subfields of AI, for elucidating the results of exploratory research, or for critiquing existing approaches. Because workshops are intended for focused exploration of special topics, topics that are already the subject of regular meetings are not appropriate. Workshop Organization Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: Producing a call for participation. The Call is due January 8, 2014. This Call will be posted on the AAAI web site. Organizers are responsible for additional publicity such as distributing the Call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the AAAI community. Organizers are encouraged to maintain their own web site with updated information about the workshop. Selecting participants. Workshop attendance is by invitation of the organizers. Selection of attendees will be made by the organizers on the basis of submissions due April 10, 2014. Workshop organizers will need to provide AAAI with a preliminary list of the participants by May 1, 2014. Coordinating the production of the workshop notes. AAAI coordinates the collection, production, and distribution of the technical reports or working notes for the workshops. Workshop papers and abstracts must be received by AAAI no later than May 15, 2014, and volumes are limited to a total of 200 pages. Workshop organizers who want to publish the papers from their workshop (or significant portions of it) will have the opportunity to do so through the AAAI Press. The Press (which retains the right of first refusal to publish) will furnish details of its program to interested organizers and authors. AAAI will provide logistical support, and meeting places for the workshops, and will determine the dates and times of the workshops. AAAI reserves the right to drop any workshop if the organizers miss the above deadlines. Workshops are not to be used as a vehicle for marketing products. A reduced workshop registration fee will be offered to AAAI-14 technical program registrants. Proposal Submission Workshop proposals should be submitted to the workshop cochairs at aaai14ws at gmail.com as soon as possible and must be received no later than November 1, 2013. PDF format is preferred. Organizers will be notified of the committee's decision by December 6, 2013. Please address inquiries concerning workshop submissions to aaai14ws at gmail.com. 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Simon Professor Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv From s.sadeghnejad at aut.ac.ir Tue Oct 1 07:09:41 2013 From: s.sadeghnejad at aut.ac.ir (soroush sadeghnejad) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 14:39:41 +0330 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Last call for participation "Second Amirkabir Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Festival" Message-ID: Dear RoboCup Teams This is a reminder that the deadline for pre-registration is approaching quickly. Best, Soroush ########################### Last Call For Participation ########################## Second Amirkabir Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Festival October 29 - November 2, 2013 Tehran, Iran *http://araif2013.aut.ac.ir* #################### ARAIF2013 ##################### Second Amirkabir Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Festival (ARAIF2013) is going to be held on 29th October to 2nd November 2013 at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran (* http://araif2013.aut.ac.ir*). This interesting international event contains three different parts. 1- Fourth International Amirkabir Robotic Competition. (AUTCUP2013) 2- Second Amirkabir Artificial Intelligence Competition. (AAIC2013) 3- Second Industrial and Scientific Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Congress. (ARAIC2013) For the fourth year, Amirkabir Robotic Competition (AUTCup2013) is going to be one of the major and interesting parts of this festival. It contains 10 different leagues. 1- Real Rescue Robots (Flying & Ground Robots) 2- Medical Robots 3- Urban Robots 4- Humanoid Robots (Humanoid & NAO) 5- Service Delivery Robots 6- @Work Robots 7- Industrial Robots 8- Deminer Robots 9- Small Size Robots 10- Warehouse Robots The Committee of international AUTCup2013 wants to invite you to participate in this competition and hopes this would be a very memorable start for our academic cooperation in Robotics and AI. Please visit our official website (*http://araif2013.aut.ac.ir*) and do not forget to pre-register your team before October 2nd! Please feel free to contact me for any further information about the competition, registration, travel support, visa and international affairs. Good luck with your research and hope to see you all in IRAN Soroush Sadeghnejad On behalf of Technical Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Although many algorithms have been developed for qualitatively or quantitatively representing and reasoning with knowledge, the research community is fragmented, with separate vocabularies that are increasingly making it difficult for these researchers to communicate with each other. For instance, the rich body of research in knowledge representation using logical reasoning paradigms provides appealing commonsense reasoning capabilities, but does not support probabilistic modeling of the considerable uncertainty in sensing and acting on robots. In parallel, robotics researchers are developing sophisticated probabilistic algorithms that elegantly model the uncertainty in sensing and acting on robots, but it is difficult to use such algorithms to represent and reason with commonsense knowledge. Furthermore, algorithms developed to combine logical and probabilistic reasoning do not provide the desired expressiveness for commonsense reasoning and/or do not fully support the uncertainty modeling capabilities required in robotics. The objective of this symposium is to promote a deeper understanding of recent breakthroughs and challenges in the logical reasoning and probabilistic reasoning communities. We seek to encourage collaborative efforts towards building knowledge representation and reasoning architectures that support qualitative and quantitative descriptions of knowledge and uncertainty. ***************************************************** TOPICS We are interested in efforts that integrate, or motivate an integration of, logic-based and probabilistic algorithms for knowledge representation and/or commonsense reasoning on one or more robots or agents in different application domains. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Knowledge acquisition and representation. * Combining symbolic and probabilistic representations. * Reasoning about uncertainty. * Reasoning with incomplete knowledge. * Interactive and cooperative decision-making. * Learning and symbol grounding. * Commonsense reasoning. We also encourage the submission of papers that ground these topics in research areas such as robot vision, human-robot (and multirobot) collaboration, and robot planning. ***************************************************** FORMAT & SUBMISSIONS The symposium will consist of paper and poster presentations, invited talks, breakout sessions, and demos. Interested participants may submit: (1) regular papers (8 pages in the AAAI format); or (2) poster papers (4 pages in AAAI format). Papers may describe novel research or provide an overview of existing research. Papers may be submitted at the following web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=krr2014 For more information about the symposium: http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~smohan/krr_aaai14/ If your research is primarily in qualitative representations for robots, please consider submitting your paper to a parallel symposium: http://strands-project.eu/qualitative-representations-for-robots.html ***************************************************** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mohan Sridharan Texas Tech University, USA mohan.sridharan at ttu.edu Fangkai Yang The University of Texas at Austin, USA fkyang at cs.utexas.edu Subramanian Ramamoorthy The University of Edinburgh, UK s.ramamoorthy at ed.ac.uk Volkan Patoglu Sabanci University, Turkey vpatoglu at sabanciuniv.edu Esra Erdem Sabanci University, Turkey esraerdem at sabanciuniv.edu ***************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ansgar.bredenfeld at dr-bredenfeld.de Sun Oct 6 16:42:10 2013 From: ansgar.bredenfeld at dr-bredenfeld.de (Ansgar Bredenfeld) Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:42:10 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoboCup German Open 2014: Call for Participation Message-ID: <5251CB22.6000503@dr-bredenfeld.de> RoboCup German Open 2014 Call for Participation http://www.robocupgermanopen.de 3 ? 5 April 2014 MESSE MAGDEBURG, Germany The RoboCup German Open 2014 will be the 13th open RoboCup competition held in Germany. The event will take place in Magdeburg at MESSE MAGDEBURG. -- RoboCup Major Leagues (International teams) ---------------------- Competitions are offered in the following leagues: - RoboCupSoccer Standard Platform League - RoboCupSoccer Humanoid League (Kid-Size) - RoboCupSoccer Simulation 3D League - RoboCupRescue Robot League - RoboCup @Home League - Logistics League (sponsored by Festo) - RoboCup @Work Demonstration The registration deadline is *** 15 December 2013 ***. Visit http://www.robocupgermanopen.de to register your RoboCup Major League team. Details on the registration (fee, accommodation, rules) are available on the web site. Booking of blocked accommodation with special rates is possible after your registration. The Major Leagues Organising Committee: - Thomas R?fer (Standard Platform League) - Sven Behnke (Humanoid League) - Klaus Dorer, Stefan Glaser (Soccer Simulation 3D League) - S?ren Schwertfeger, Adam Jacoff (Rescue Robot League) - Paul Pl?ger, Dirk Holz (RoboCup @Home League) - Ulrich Karras (Logistics League) - Walter Nowak (RoboCup @Work Demonstration) -- RoboCup Junior (German teams only) ------------------------------- The German RoboCup Junior qualification for RoboCup 2014 is done in two steps. German teams qualify in five local tournaments in Berlin, Hannover, Mannheim, Sankt Augustin and V?hringen for the 14th German RoboCup Junior Championship which is held within the RoboCup German Open. The best Junior teams will qualify for RoboCup 2014 in Brasil. -- Important dates ------------------------------------------------- 15.10.2013 Registration opens 15.12.2013 Registration deadline RoboCup Major teams 15.02.2014 Major League team member names due 01.03.2014 Registration fee due 01.04.2014 Set-Up day Major League teams 02.04.2014 Set-Up day Major League teams 03.04.2014 Competition day (open to public) 04.04.2014 Competition day (open to public) 05.04.2014 Competition day, finals (open to public) Please contact info at robocupgermanopen.de for any questions. See you all again at the 13th RoboCup German Open 2014! Best regards, Ansgar Bredenfeld (Chair RoboCup German Open) RoboCup German Open is organized on behalf of the German RoboCup Committee by Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg and Dr. Bredenfeld UG. Co-operation partners of the technology event are the University of Magdeburg and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. We thank the following companies which already committed their support: HARTING KGaA MICRO-EPSILON MESSTECHNIK GmbH & Co. KG National Instruments Germany GmbH PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KG regiocom GmbH From april.l.foster at gmail.com Sun Oct 6 20:45:44 2013 From: april.l.foster at gmail.com (April Foster) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 20:45:44 -0400 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Fwd: 1st Workshop on Developments in RoboCup Leagues (WDRL) - CALL FOR PAPERS In-Reply-To: <88355119-3A9B-492C-B401-B860ADD6E675@gmail.com> References: <88355119-3A9B-492C-B401-B860ADD6E675@gmail.com> Message-ID: [We apologize for multiple copies] *********************************************************************************** 1ST WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPMENTS IN ROBOCUP LEAGUES (WDTL) November, 25th, 2014 ? Montevideo, Uruguay http://www.robocup.org.br/wdrl2013 Submission deadline: October, 21st, 2014 *********************************************************************************** SCOPE RoboCup was founded in 1997 with the main goal of ?developing by 2050 a Robot Soccer team capable of winning against the human team champion of the FIFA World Cup?. In the next years, RoboCup proposed several soccer platforms that have been established as standard platforms for robotics research. This domain demonstrated the capability of capturing key aspects of complex real world problems, stimulating the development of a wide range of technologies, including the design of electrical-mechanical-computational integrated techniques for autonomous robots. After more than 15 years of RoboCup, nowadays robot soccer represents only a part of the available platforms. RoboCup encompasses more than 15 major leagues that, in addition to Soccer, cover Rescue (Robots and Simulation), @Home (assistive robots in home environments), Festo Logistics League and @Work (Industrial environments), as well as RoboCupJunior leagues for kids. These domains offer a wide range of platforms for researchers with the potential to speed up the developments in the mobile robotics field. This workshop aims to discuss the advances of the electrical, mechanical and computational aspects of robotics based on RoboCup platforms. TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop aims to present the state-of-the-art concerning Robotics and Artificial Intelligence developments based on RoboCup leagues platforms. All papers are required to demonstrate strong relationship with RoboCup platforms. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - RoboCup Soccer - RoboCup Rescue - RoboCup Junior - Mobile and humanoid robots - Robots for RoboCup real and simulated leagues - Electronics, sensors and embedded devices - Mechanics, materials and mechanisms - Software, environments, programming and languages - Robot cognition, learning, planning and reasoning - Localization, navigation and mapping - Motors, sensors and environment modeling - Robot kinematics and dynamics - Robot perception, reasoning and action - Multi-robot systems - Human-robot interaction - Robotics in education and entertainment - Algorithms and techniques extension for novel applications (*) Specific contributions on RoboCup at home are encouraged to be submitted to the RoboCup at home workshop in ICAR. ORGANIZATION Chairs: - Esther Luna Colombini, UNESP/FEI, Brazil - Alexandre da Silva Sim?es, UNESP, Brazil - Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy Co-chairs: - Flavio Tonidandel, FEI, Brazil - Reinaldo Augusto da Costa Bianchi, FEI, Brazil - Luiz Celiberto Jr., FEI, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Alexandre da Silva Sim?es, UNESP, Brazil - Andrique Amorim, Col. N.S.F?tima, Brazil - Angelo Gurzoni Junior, USP, Brazil - Antonio Padilha, UnB, Brazil - Carmen Faria, UFES, Brazil - Cristiane Pelisolli Cabral, SMED-POA, Brazil - Eduardo Bento Pereira, UFSJ, Brazil - Erivelton Nepomuceno, UFSJ, Brazil - Esther Luna Colombini, UNESP/FEI, Brazil - Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy - Felipe Nascimento Martins, IFES, Brazil - Fernando Sobreira, UNIFOR, Brazil - Flavio Tonidandel, FEI, Brazil - Guilherme Sousa Bastos, UNIFEI, Brazil - Jo?o Alberto Fabro, UTFPR, Brazil - Josemar Rodrigues de Souza, UNEB, Brazil - Luiz Celiberto Jr., FEI, Brazil - Luiz Marcos Garcia Gon?alves, UFRN, Brazil - Marco Sim?es, UNEB, Brazil - Marcos Vallim, UTFPR, Brazil - Reinaldo Augusto da Costa Bianchi, FEI, Brazil - Rog?rio Gon?alves, UFU, Brazil - Roseli Francelin Romero, USP-SC, Brazil - Silvia Silva da Costa Botelho, FURG, Brazil - Tiago Pereira do Nascimento, UFPB, Brazil SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS - Publication policy: Papers accepted for publication will be published in WDLR proceedings with ISBN by RoboCup Brazil. PDF containing the full paper contributions will be published in a proceedings booklet at the workshop site. - Style: Papers should be submitted in PDF format with no passwords or encryption. Authors are asked to provide manuscripts in english using exclusively the workshop style, available in the website in MS-Word and LaTeX. Papers submitted in discordance with provided styles or language will be rejected. Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages and should not be shorter than 5 pages. Papers are allowed to include authors information (not blind review policy). - Submission: Papers should be submitted by e-mail to wdrl2013 at robocup.org.br until the midnight of the deadline (Pacific time). TUTORIAL The co-alocated Tutorial on RoboCup Leagues aims to present RoboCup leagues platforms - simulated and real robots - for undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers. Topics include: RoboCup goals and history; RoboCup main leagues overview; Rules, goals, key challenges and ongoing research; Case study: typical evolution of RoboCup leagues in electrical, mechanical and computational aspects; The next steps in RoboCup: research tendencies for the next years. Speakers: Alexandre da Silva Sim?es (UNESP, Brazil), Esther Luna Colombini (UNESP/FEI, Brazil), Daniele Nardi (Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy). IMPORTANT DATES - Full Paper Submission: October 21st, 2013 - Acceptance Notification: October 25th, 2013 - Final Paper Submission: November 1st, 2013 - Workshop and Tutorial Day: November 25th, 2013 VENUE WRLD 2013 and tutorial will take place with the 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) in the School of Engineering, Universidad de la Republica del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay. Website: http://www.icar2013.org CONTACT For further questions, please contact: wdrl2013 at robocup.org.br -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From april.l.foster at gmail.com Tue Oct 8 20:51:03 2013 From: april.l.foster at gmail.com (April Foster) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 20:51:03 -0400 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] [Date correction] 1st Workshop on Developments in RoboCup Leagues (WDRL) - CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: [We apologize for multiple copies] *********************************************************************************** 1ST WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPMENTS IN ROBOCUP LEAGUES (WDTL) November, 25th, 2013 ? Montevideo, Uruguay http://www.robocup.org.br/wdrl2013 Submission deadline: October, 21st, 2013 *********************************************************************************** SCOPE RoboCup was founded in 1997 with the main goal of ?developing by 2050 a Robot Soccer team capable of winning against the human team champion of the FIFA World Cup?. In the next years, RoboCup proposed several soccer platforms that have been established as standard platforms for robotics research. This domain demonstrated the capability of capturing key aspects of complex real world problems, stimulating the developmentof a wide range of technologies, including the design of electrical-mechanical-computational integrated techniques for autonomous robots. After more than 15 years of RoboCup, nowadays robot soccer represents only a part of the available platforms. RoboCup encompasses more than 15 major leagues that, in addition to Soccer, cover Rescue (Robots and Simulation), @Home (assistive robots in home environments), Festo Logistics League and @Work (Industrial environments), as well as RoboCupJunior leagues for kids. These domains offer a wide range of platforms for researchers with the potential to speed up the developments in the mobile robotics field. Thisworkshop aims to discuss the advances of the electrical, mechanical and computational aspects of robotics based on RoboCup platforms. TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop aims to present the state-of-the-art concerning Robotics and Artificial Intelligence developmentsbased on RoboCup leagues platforms. All papers are required to demonstrate strong relationship with RoboCup platforms. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - RoboCup Soccer - RoboCup Rescue - RoboCup Junior - Mobile and humanoid robots - Robots for RoboCup real and simulated leagues - Electronics, sensors and embedded devices - Mechanics, materials and mechanisms - Software, environments, programming and languages - Robot cognition, learning, planning and reasoning - Localization, navigation and mapping - Motors, sensors and environment modeling - Robot kinematics and dynamics - Robot perception, reasoning and action - Multi-robot systems - Human-robot interaction - Robotics in education and entertainment - Algorithms and techniques extension for novel applications (*) Specific contributions on RoboCup at home are encouraged to be submitted to the RoboCup at home workshopin ICAR. ORGANIZATION Chairs: - Esther Luna Colombini, UNESP/FEI, Brazil - Alexandre da Silva Sim?es, UNESP, Brazil - Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy Co-chairs: - Flavio Tonidandel, FEI, Brazil - Reinaldo Augusto da Costa Bianchi, FEI, Brazil - Luiz Celiberto Jr., FEI, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Alexandre da Silva Sim?es, UNESP, Brazil - Andrique Amorim, Col. N.S.F?tima, Brazil - Angelo Gurzoni Junior, USP, Brazil - Antonio Padilha, UnB, Brazil - Carmen Faria, UFES, Brazil - Cristiane Pelisolli Cabral, SMED-POA, Brazil - Eduardo Bento Pereira, UFSJ, Brazil - Erivelton Nepomuceno, UFSJ, Brazil - Esther Luna Colombini, UNESP/FEI, Brazil - Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy - Felipe Nascimento Martins, IFES, Brazil - Fernando Sobreira, UNIFOR, Brazil - Flavio Tonidandel, FEI, Brazil - Guilherme Sousa Bastos, UNIFEI, Brazil - Jo?o Alberto Fabro, UTFPR, Brazil - Josemar Rodrigues de Souza, UNEB, Brazil - Luiz Celiberto Jr., FEI, Brazil - Luiz Marcos Garcia Gon?alves, UFRN, Brazil - Marco Sim?es, UNEB, Brazil - Marcos Vallim, UTFPR, Brazil - Reinaldo Augusto da Costa Bianchi, FEI, Brazil - Rog?rio Gon?alves, UFU, Brazil - Roseli Francelin Romero, USP-SC, Brazil - Silvia Silva da Costa Botelho, FURG, Brazil - Tiago Pereira do Nascimento, UFPB, Brazil SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS - Publication policy: Papers accepted for publication will be published in WDLR proceedings with ISBN by RoboCup Brazil. PDF containing the full paper contributions will be published in a proceedings booklet at theworkshop site. - Style: Papers should be submitted in PDF format with no passwords or encryption. Authors are asked to provide manuscripts in english using exclusively the workshop style, available in the website in MS-Word and LaTeX. Papers submitted in discordance with provided styles or language will be rejected. Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages and should not be shorter than 5 pages. Papers are allowed to include authors information (not blind review policy). - Submission: Papers should be submitted by e-mail to wdrl2013 at robocup.org.br until the midnight of the deadline (Pacific time). TUTORIAL The co-alocated Tutorial on RoboCup Leagues aims to present RoboCup leagues platforms - simulated and real robots - for undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers. Topics include: RoboCup goals and history; RoboCup main leagues overview; Rules, goals, key challenges and ongoing research; Case study: typical evolution of RoboCup leagues in electrical, mechanical and computational aspects; The next steps in RoboCup: research tendencies for the next years. Speakers: Alexandre da Silva Sim?es (UNESP, Brazil), Esther Luna Colombini (UNESP/FEI, Brazil), Daniele Nardi (Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy). IMPORTANT DATES - Full Paper Submission: October 21st, 2013 - Acceptance Notification: October 25th, 2013 - Final Paper Submission: November 1st, 2013 - Workshop and Tutorial Day: November 25th, 2013 VENUE WRLD 2013 and tutorial will take place with the 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) in the School of Engineering, Universidad de la Republica del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay. Website: http://www.icar2013.org CONTACT For further questions, please contact: wdrl2013 at robocup.org.br -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From savage at unam.mx Wed Oct 9 20:06:10 2013 From: savage at unam.mx (savage at unam.mx) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:06:10 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Deadline extension WORKSHOP ON ROBOCUP@HOME LEAGUE Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ON ROBOCUP at HOME LEAGUE ICAR 2013 - 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics Montevideo, Uruguay, November 25th, 2013 * ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - ICAR 2013 General Chair: Alfredo Weitzenfeld (USF) - Workshop Chairs: Jesus Savage (UNAM), L. Enrique Sucar (INAOE) ** INTRODUCTION* The RoboCup at Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the *RoboCup* initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots' abilities and performance in a realistic non-standardized home environment setting. The aim of this workshop is to get together researchers and students participating or interested in RoboCup at Home or in general in Service Robots to discuss advances in the field and foster collaboration among the different groups. * TOPICS OF INTEREST (but not limited to): Human-Robot-Interaction Robot Cooperation Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions Object Manipulation Adaptive Behaviors Behavior Integration Ambient Intelligence Standardization and System Integration Robot Architectures People detection, recognition and tracking Voice recognition in noisy environments Papers should be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese, maximum 6 pages, following the standard IEEE format for conferences including title, abstract, tables, figures, and references. Short papers, maximum 2 pages, reporting preliminary work in theoretical, empirical and applied research related to the topics of the conference are also welcome. The papers will be reviewed at least by two experts in the field for giving feedback to authors about their work quality and improvements. Paper should be prepared following IEEE standard format available at: * http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php* *Important dates:* - Manuscript submission deadline: October 15 th, 2013 (deadline extended) - Review results: October 20th, 2013 - Final version upload: October 31st, 2013 - Workshop: November 25th, 2013 Send your manuscript to robotssavage at gmail.com For more information: http://biorobotics.fi-p.unam.mx/isymposium/icar-2013-workshop-home From pal at isr.ist.utl.pt Sat Oct 12 05:29:34 2013 From: pal at isr.ist.utl.pt (Pedro U. Lima) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:29:34 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoCKIn Camp 2014 Message-ID: <01BCC2E2-8ABB-499E-9CF6-B87D30136FAD@isr.ist.utl.pt> RoCKIn is short for ?Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics? (http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu) and it is an EU-funded Coordination Action aimed at the promotion of research and education through competitions. The RoCKIn Camp 2014 aims at supporting the preparation of teams to participate in the RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work challenges, the competition events that will be organized by RoCKIn in 2014 and 2015. RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work take inspiration from the corresponding RoboCup leagues, but they will focus on benchmarking robotic systems and networked robots. Both challenges require basic navigation capabilities with no restrictions on the mobile platform, advance perception, manipulation and human-robot interaction. RoCKIn at Home focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a real home environment, while the tasks to be performed in RoCKIn at Work target an industrial automation scenario. The RoCKIn Camp 2014 will take place in Rome and is designed as a hands-on week long school, where teams acquire new capabilities and/or improve the performance of their systems in the competition tasks. The activities planned in the first four days of the RoCKIn Camp 2014 address the following topics: the robot platform and the basic software infrastructure, perception, manipulation and human robot interaction through speech. Each topic will include introductory lectures and practical sessions. The last day will be devoted to finalising a demonstration in the competition scenario. Students and researchers, who have an interest in entering the RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work competitions, are invited to apply for the RoCKIn Camp 2014. We accept application in two formats: ? Team applications (for teams of 2-3 people, not necessarily from the same university, but with an already established team). Team applicants are encourage to bring their robot to be used in the practical activities, but this is not a requirement. ? Individual applications by existing or prospective team members. For the practical sessions, participants will be arranged into teams. Accepted applicant teams will become RoCKIn Camp 2014 teams; individual participants may be joining existing teams with the goal of creating additional collaborations and opportunities. If needed, additional teams will be created from individual applicants. Each team will be assigned a specific task, applying modules and tools presented in the lectures. The selection will be based on the team submission material and will also consider formation of new teams. The expected audience will be up to 12 teams and up to 36 participants. All successful applicants will be offered: ? Accommodation in shared rooms (including breakfast, 6 nights) ? Lunch (5 days) and 1 social dinner ? Attendance to lectures and practical sessions In addition, the teams of 3 people that will carry a robot to be used in the practical sessions of the Camp are entitled to receive a travel support up to 1200 Euros, and the team of 3 people that plan to attend without a robot are entitled to support of 600 Euros. Intention to participate: 20th October 2013 To express your intention to participate send an email to alberto.pretto at dis.uniroma1.it, specifying team/individual names, affiliation and the number of team members. Application deadline: 20th November 2013 Applications should be submitted via http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/rockin. The application should include a 4-page technical report with IEEE Conference Style, describing: scientific background, research objectives, expected knowledge / performance improvement, team description (including previous experience, role and competence of team members). Notification of acceptance: 27th November 2013 For further questions contact Alberto Pretto: alberto.pretto at dis.unirom1.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From D.Diochnos at ed.ac.uk Mon Oct 14 14:05:33 2013 From: D.Diochnos at ed.ac.uk (Dimitris Diochnos) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:05:33 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] ISAIM 2014: Submission Deadline Extended Message-ID: <620DBA5F-49E9-4AFD-8ED4-B82B961F2DA3@ed.ac.uk> SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED Thirteenth International Symposium on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS ISAIM 2014 http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/ January 6-8, 2014 Fort Lauderdale, Florida NEW PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 22, 2013 The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM) is a biennial meeting that fosters interactions between mathematics, theoretical computer science, and artificial intelligence. This is the thirteenth Symposium in the series, which is sponsored by the journal Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence and by Florida Atlantic University. We seek submissions of recent results, with a particular emphasis on the foundations of AI and mathematical methods used in AI. Papers describing applications are also encouraged, but the focus should be on principled lessons learned from the development of the application. Traditionally, the Symposium attracts participants from a variety of disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for scientific exchange. The three-day Symposium includes invited speakers, presentations of technical papers, and special topic sessions. The Symposium takes place at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. Please visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/Venue for more information about the venue. SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS: o Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions -Organized by Endre Boros, Rutgers University, and Yves Crama, University of Li?ge o Computational Social Choice -Organized by Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, and Kristen Brent Venable, University of Padova o Mathematical Theories of Natural Language Processing -Organized by Andr?s Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences o Theory of Machine Learning -Organized by Lev Reyzin, University of Illinois at Chicago INVITED SPEAKERS: o Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin o Csaba Szepesv?ri, University of Alberta PAPER SUBMISSION: Paper submission will be electronic via the submission link on the Paper Submission page of the Symposium website (http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/). Papers must be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given there. The submission deadline is October 22, 2013 (11:59 PM PDT). Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by November 22, 2013. Final versions of accepted papers, for inclusion in the conference electronic proceedings, are due by December 15, 2013. Work that has already been published as of the ISAIM submission deadline should not be submitted to ISAIM unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. However, the ISAIM web site proceedings are not archival, so papers submitted to ISAIM can be under review at the time of submission and can be submitted elsewhere after ISAIM. Authors of a selected set of papers from the Symposium will be invited to submit full versions of their papers for inclusion in a special volume of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, published by Springer. Those invited submissions will be subject to refereeing at the usual standards of the journal, and authors will receive more details with the acceptance notice. Papers must of course be new and unpublished to be considered for the special volume. Any questions regarding paper submission should be sent to the program committee chairs at the email address . IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: October 22, 2013 Notification: November 22, 2013 Final version due: December 15, 2013 Workshop: January 6-8, 2014, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida ORGANIZERS: o General Chair: Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa o Conference Chair: Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University o Program Committee Chairs: Lisa Hellerstein, Polytechnic Institute of NYU Gy?rgy Tur?n, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged o Publicity Chair: Dimitrios I. Diochnos, University of Edinburgh PROGRAM COMMITTEE: St?phane Airiau University of Amsterdam Endre Boros Rutgers University Arthur Choi University of California Los Angeles Berthe Choueiry University of Nebraska-Lincoln Yves Crama University of Li?ge Marek Druzdzel University of Pittsburgh Roni Khardon Tufts University Richard Korf University of California Los Angeles Loizos Michael Open University of Cyprus Maurice Pagnucco University of New South Wales Barnab?s P?czos Carnegie Mellon University Francesca Rossi University of Padova Bart Selman Cornell University Rocco Servedio Columbia University Hans-Ulrich Simon Ruhr-University Bochum Stefan Szeider Vienna University of Technology Bal?zs Sz?r?nyi University of Szeged Miros?aw (Mirek) Truszczy?ski University of Kentucky Frank Wolter University of Liverpool Stefan Woltran Vienna University of Technology Neil Yorke-Smith American University of Beirut Send inquiries and requests to isaim2014 at cs DOT uic DOT edu. Visit http://www.cs.uic.edu/Isaim2014/. Join isaim at googlegroups.com to receive announcements related to ISAIM. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. From pal at isr.ist.utl.pt Tue Oct 15 05:51:18 2013 From: pal at isr.ist.utl.pt (Pedro U. Lima) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:51:18 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoCKIn Camp 2014 - Updated Call for Participation Message-ID: <662E8E76-588D-4751-AC4A-A90CD32015F2@isr.ist.utl.pt> RoCKIn Camp 2014 - Call For Applications Date: Jan 26-30, 2014 Location: Rome, Italy Website: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~rockin/ RoCKIn is short for "Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics" (http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu) and it is an EU-funded Coordination Action aimed at the promotion of research and education through competitions. The RoCKIn Camp 2014 aims at supporting the preparation of teams to participate in the RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work challenges, the competition events that will be organized by RoCKIn in 2014 and 2015. RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work take inspiration from the corresponding RoboCup leagues, but they will focus on benchmarking robotic systems and networked robots. Both challenges require basic navigation capabilities with no restrictions on the mobile platform, advance perception, manipulation and human-robot interaction. RoCKIn at Home focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a real home environment, while the tasks to be performed in RoCKIn at Work target an industrial automation scenario. The event is partially supported by the IEEE RAS-TEP program ( IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Technical Education Program - Summer Schools ) The RoCKIn Camp 2014 will take place from 26th to 30th January in Rome and is designed as a hands-on week long school, where teams acquire new capabilities and/or improve the performance of their systems in the competition tasks. The activities planned in the first four days of the RoCKIn Camp 2014 address the following topics: the robot platform and the basic software infrastructure, perception, manipulation and human robot interaction through speech. Each topic will include introductory lectures and practical sessions. The last day will be devoted to finalizing a demonstration in the competition scenario. Students and researchers, who have an interest in entering the RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work competitions, are invited to apply for the RoCKIn Camp 2014. We accept application in two formats: ? Team applications (for teams of 2-3 people, not necessarily from the same university, but with an already established team). Team applicants are encourage to bring their robot to be used in the practical activities, but this is not a requirement. ? Individual applications by existing or prospective team members. For the practical sessions, participants will be arranged into teams. Accepted applicant teams will become RoCKIn Camp 2014 teams; individual participants may be joining existing teams with the goal of creating additional collaborations and opportunities. If needed, additional teams will be created from individual applicants. Each team will be assigned a specific task, applying modules and tools presented in the lectures. The selection will be based on the team submission material and will also consider formation of new teams. The expected audience will be up to 12 teams and up to 36 participants. All successful applicants will be offered: ? Accommodation in shared rooms (including breakfast, 6 nights) ? Lunch (5 days) and 1 social dinner ? Attendance to lectures and practical sessions In addition, the teams of 3 people that will carry a robot to be used in the practical sessions of the Camp are entitled to receive a travel support up to 1200 Euros (per team), and the team of 3 people that plan to attend without a robot are entitled to support of 600 Euros (per team). * Important Dates ? Intention to participate: October 20th, 2013 ? Application deadline: November 20th, 2013 ? Notification of acceptance: November 27th, 2013 ? Event Date: January 26th-30th, 2014 (Rome, Italy) Intention to participate: October 20th, 2013 To express your intention to participate send an email to alberto.pretto at dis.uniroma1.it, specifying team/individual names, affiliation and the number of team members. For further information: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~rockin/intention Application deadline: November, 20th 2013 Applications should be submitted via http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/rockin. The application should include a 4-page technical report with IEEE Conference Style, describing: scientific background, research objectives, expected knowledge / performance improvement, team description (including previous experience, role and competence of team members). Notification of acceptance: November, 27th 2013 For further questions contact Alberto Pretto: alberto.pretto at dis.uniroma1.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From msimoes at uneb.br Tue Oct 22 13:12:09 2013 From: msimoes at uneb.br (=?UTF-8?Q?Marco_Sim=C3=B5es?=) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:12:09 -0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Fwd: [DEADLINE EXTENDED] 1st Workshop on Developments in RoboCup Leagues (WDRL) - CALL FOR PAPERS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Divulgando ... Desculpem eventuais duplicatas. *********************************************************************************** 1ST WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPMENTS IN ROBOCUP LEAGUES (WDTL) November, 25th, 2013 ? Montevideo, Uruguay http://www.robocup.org.br/wdrl2013 Submission deadline: October, 24th, 2013 *********************************************************************************** SCOPE RoboCup was founded in 1997 with the main goal of ?developing by 2050 a Robot Soccer team capable of winning against the human team champion of the FIFA World Cup?. In the next years, RoboCup proposed several soccer platforms that have been established as standard platforms for robotics research. This domain demonstrated the capability of capturing key aspects of complex real world problems, stimulating the development of a wide range of technologies, including the design of electrical-mechanical-computational integrated techniques for autonomous robots. After more than 15 years of RoboCup, nowadays robot soccer represents only a part of the available platforms. RoboCup encompasses more than 15 major leagues that, in addition to Soccer, cover Rescue (Robots and Simulation), @Home (assistive robots in home environments), Festo Logistics League and @Work (Industrial environments), as well as RoboCupJunior leagues for kids. These domains offer a wide range of platforms for researchers with the potential to speed up the developments in the mobile robotics field. This workshop aims to discuss the advances of the electrical, mechanical and computational aspects of robotics based on RoboCup platforms. TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop aims to present the state-of-the-art concerning Robotics and Artificial Intelligence developments based on RoboCup leagues platforms. All papers are required to demonstrate strong relationship with RoboCup platforms. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - RoboCup Soccer - RoboCup Rescue - RoboCup Junior - Mobile and humanoid robots - Robots for RoboCup real and simulated leagues - Electronics, sensors and embedded devices - Mechanics, materials and mechanisms - Software, environments, programming and languages - Robot cognition, learning, planning and reasoning - Localization, navigation and mapping - Motors, sensors and environment modeling - Robot kinematics and dynamics - Robot perception, reasoning and action - Multi-robot systems - Human-robot interaction - Robotics in education and entertainment - Algorithms and techniques extension for novel applications (*) Specific contributions on RoboCup at home are encouraged to be submitted to the RoboCup at home workshop in ICAR. ORGANIZATION Chairs: - Esther Luna Colombini, UNESP/FEI, Brazil - Alexandre da Silva Sim?es, UNESP, Brazil - Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy Co-chairs: - Flavio Tonidandel, FEI, Brazil - Reinaldo Augusto da Costa Bianchi, FEI, Brazil - Luiz Celiberto Jr., FEI, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Alexandre da Silva Sim?es, UNESP, Brazil - Andrique Amorim, Col. N.S.F?tima, Brazil - Angelo Gurzoni Junior, USP, Brazil - Antonio Padilha, UnB, Brazil - Carmen Faria, UFES, Brazil - Cristiane Pelisolli Cabral, SMED-POA, Brazil - Eduardo Bento Pereira, UFSJ, Brazil - Erivelton Nepomuceno, UFSJ, Brazil - Esther Luna Colombini, UNESP/FEI, Brazil - Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy - Felipe Nascimento Martins, IFES, Brazil - Fernando Sobreira, UNIFOR, Brazil - Flavio Tonidandel, FEI, Brazil - Guilherme Sousa Bastos, UNIFEI, Brazil - Jo?o Alberto Fabro, UTFPR, Brazil - Josemar Rodrigues de Souza, UNEB, Brazil - Luiz Celiberto Jr., FEI, Brazil - Luiz Marcos Garcia Gon?alves, UFRN, Brazil - Marco Sim?es, UNEB, Brazil - Marcos Vallim, UTFPR, Brazil - Reinaldo Augusto da Costa Bianchi, FEI, Brazil - Rog?rio Gon?alves, UFU, Brazil - Roseli Francelin Romero, USP-SC, Brazil - Silvia Silva da Costa Botelho, FURG, Brazil - Tiago Pereira do Nascimento, UFPB, Brazil SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS - Publication policy: Papers accepted for publication will be published in WDLR proceedings with ISBN by RoboCup Brazil. PDF containing the full paper contributions will be published in a proceedings booklet at the workshop site. - Style: Papers should be submitted in PDF format with no passwords or encryption. Authors are asked to provide manuscripts in english using exclusively the workshop style, available in the website in MS-Word and LaTeX. Papers submitted in discordance with provided styles or language will be rejected. Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages and should not be shorter than 5 pages. Papers are allowed to include authors information (not blind review policy). - Submission: Papers should be submitted by e-mail to wdrl2013 at robocup.org.br until the midnight of the deadline (Pacific time). TUTORIAL The co-alocated Tutorial on RoboCup Leagues aims to present RoboCup leagues platforms - simulated and real robots - for undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers. Topics include: RoboCup goals and history; RoboCup main leagues overview; Rules, goals, key challenges and ongoing research; Case study: typical evolution of RoboCup leagues in electrical, mechanical and computational aspects; The next steps in RoboCup: research tendencies for the next years. Speakers: Alexandre da Silva Sim?es (UNESP, Brazil), Esther Luna Colombini (UNESP/FEI, Brazil), Daniele Nardi (Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy). IMPORTANT DATES - Full Paper Submission: October 24th, 2013 (** EXTENDED DEADLINE) - Acceptance Notification: October 27th, 2013 - Final Paper Submission: November 1st, 2013 - Workshop and Tutorial Day: November 25th, 2013 VENUE WRLD 2013 and tutorial will take place with the 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) in the School of Engineering, Universidad de la Republica del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay. Website: http://www.icar2013.org CONTACT For further questions, please contact: wdrl2013 at robocup.org.br -- Marco Antonio Costa Sim?es Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/brt Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Mestre em Ci?ncia da Computa??o - UFPE Doutorando em Ci?ncia da Computa??o - UFBA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful candidate will be developing work mainly focused on, but not limited to, the design, development, and implementation of a high accuracy, robust and fault-tolerant, beyond state of the art, robot localization system to be used in the project demonstrations. The system builds upon the multi-sensor network environment at ISR, including fixed cameras, RFID systems, and robots with a variety of onboard sensors. The successful candidate is expected to have at least a MSc in Electrical Engineering or related field, with previous experience in the localization problem. The grant has the duration of 12 months, renewable up to 3 years, starting on December 2013. The grant value is 980EUR per month plus accident insurance and social security contributions. The grantee will work with the Intelligent Robots and Systems group at LARSyS (http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/labs/irsgroup/), and will also have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with all the other partners of both projects. Applications will be considered in the period 25 October-15 November, 2013. Applications should be sent to info at monarch-fp7.eu and should include: * a detailed CV, including a list of publications, * a brief statement about research interests, engineering skills and past experience, and motivation to join the project, and * the name and contact of 2 referees. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pal at isr.ist.utl.pt Fri Oct 25 13:52:34 2013 From: pal at isr.ist.utl.pt (Pedro U. Lima) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:52:34 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] PhD grant in EU project at ISR/IST, Lisbon Message-ID: <573CB4B5-C69F-40AA-AC12-0FA6CAC0AE18@isr.ist.utl.pt> PhD Scholarship in Localization Systems for Mixed Human-Robots Indoor Environments The EU project, coordinated by IST-ID, MOnarCH ("Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals" - http://monarch-fp7.eu) has currently available 1 (one) position for a PhD Researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering. We seek highly motivated researchers to integrate the project team, at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), a unit of the Laboratory of Robotics and Systems Engineering in Science (LARSyS) located at Instituto Superior T?cnico (IST), U. Lisbon, Portugal. The successful candidate will be developing work mainly focused on, but not limited to, the design, development, and implementation of a high accuracy, robust and fault-tolerant, beyond state of the art, robot localization system to be used in the project demonstrations. The system builds upon the multi-sensor network environment at ISR, including fixed cameras, RFID systems, and robots with a variety of onboard sensors. The successful candidate is expected to have at least a MSc in Electrical Engineering or related field, with previous experience in the localization problem. The grant has the duration of 12 months, renewable up to 3 years, starting on December 2013. The grant value is 980? per month plus accident insurance and social security contributions. The grantee will work with the Intelligent Robots and Systems group at LARSyS (http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/labs/irsgroup/), and will also have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with all the other partners of both projects. Applications will be considered in the period 25 October-15 November, 2013. Applications should be sent to info at monarch-fp7.eu and should include: * a detailed CV, including a list of publications, * a brief statement about research interests, engineering skills and past experience, and motivation to join the project, and * the name and contact of 2 referees. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emg at dei.unipd.it Mon Oct 28 16:49:26 2013 From: emg at dei.unipd.it (Emanuele Menegatti) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:49:26 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] [meetings] IAS Conference in 2014: Early Call for Papers Message-ID: <2BD30064-1BBD-46B5-8DC1-9F0F9F4F4C2F@dei.unipd.it> ======== I apologize for multiple posting ================ The 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems - 2014 July 15-19, 2014, Padova and Venice, Italy The University of Padova, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ============================================ Recent results confirm that robots, machines and systems are rapidly achieving intelligence and autonomy, mastering increasing capabilities in mobility and manipulation, sensing and perception, reasoning and decision making. The Series of International Conferences on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) founded in 1986 is one of the major events summarizing this trend. The aim of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems is to further witness the development of these technologies and to foster their adoptions in the industrial sector. The 13th IAS invites researchers, engineers and experts to submit high quality papers to disseminate, to share and to fruitfully discuss their last achievements and results. IAS will provide forum and workshops where participants could exchange their ideas and experiences in the research and industrial fields through high quality peer reviewed papers. After the successful IAS-12 Conference held in Korea with more than 300 participants, the 13th IAS will be held in Italy in July 2014. The main sessions of the 13th IAS Conference and Workshop will be held in the historical city of Padua, from July 15 to July 18, 2014, in one of the oldest universities in the world. The venue will be the beautiful Padua Conference Center and participants will enjoy an exciting social program. From the evening of July 18 till the evening of July 19 a Post-Conference Workshop celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Foundation of IAS-Society will be held in Venice city, at Telecom Italia Future Center, close to Rialto Bridge. On Saturday 19, Participants join a wonderful social event in the Special Fireworks Night of Venetian "Feast of the Redeemer". The organizing committee invites you to submit high quality papers, propose a workshop, organize a tutorial, participate in the conference and enjoy the rich cultural environment, the exciting social events and the beautiful locations of Padova and Venice. Important Dates: ======================================== Papers: - Final submission deadline: February 1, 2014 - Acceptance notification: April 1, 2014 ** Conference Proceedings will be published in Springer Series "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" indexed by ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink ** Workshops & Tutorials: - Final Submission Deadline: January 10, 2014 - Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2014 13th IAS - 2014 Conference: July 16-17-18, 2014 13th IAS - 2014 Workshops: July 15 & 18, 2014 Conference Scope and Topics: ========================================== Submissions of original scientific works are solicited in all areas of autonomous systems research. IAS-13 extends its scope to cover special sessions which highlight some major fields of interest. The tracks and special themes will be composed of, but not limited to: Underwater/Aerial Robots Agriculture Robot Space Robotics Biomimetic robotics Intelligent Transportation systems Networked robots Mobiligence Rescue Robots SWARM Intelligent Robot Domestic Personal Robots Visual servoing/Robot vision Medical/rehabilitation robotics Perception/learning Robotic mechanism and design Human-robot interface Distributed Robot Coordination Multi-agent systems Micro Robot Humanoids Service/life support robots Intelligent Security & Surveillance Systems IAS for manufacturing Professional Service Robots Haptics/teleoperation Motion Planning Navigation/localization Robot Simulations Organizing Committee Honorary Co-Chairs: Ruediger Dillmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Frans Groen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Steering Committee: Hajime Asama (University of Tokyo, Japan) Henrik Christensen (Georgia Tech, USA) Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Sukhan Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea) Enrico Pagello (University of Padova, Italy) Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich, Switzerland) General Chair: Emanuele Menegatti (University of Padova, Italy) Asia Regional PC Chair: Hiroaki Yamaguchi (Aiyama Gakuin Univeristy, Japan) Americas Regional PC Chair: Nathan Michael (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Europe/Africa Regional PC Chair: Karsten Berns (Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany) IAS-13 Secretariat: IT+Robotics srl Meeting Management Strada Prima 11, 35129 Padova (PD), Italy Tel. : +39 049 80 75 216 Fax. : +39 049 21 08 819 Email : ias-13 at it-robotics.it Web : http://www.it-robotics.it ------------------------------------------ Prof. Emanuele Menegatti, Ph.D. General Chair of "13th IAS Conference" in July 2014 http://www.ias-13.org Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory (IAS-Lab) Department of Information Engineering The University of Padua via g. gradenigo 6/A I-35131 Padova - ITALY Skype: emanuele.menegatti Phone: ++39 049 827 7651 Mobile: ++39 347 090 77 97 FAX: ++39 049 827 7799 http://www.dei.unipd.it/~emg ------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From katie at cs.utexas.edu Wed Oct 30 13:16:26 2013 From: katie at cs.utexas.edu (Katie Genter) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:16:26 -0500 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Call for Participation - RoboCup SPL Message-ID: Call for Applications for Participation RoboCup 2014 Standard Platform League www.tzi.de/spl Jo?o Pessoa, Brazil Saturday 19th through Friday 25th July 2014 www.robocup2014.org RoboCup is an international initiative that fosters research and education in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence through a variety of competitions (RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup at Home, RoboCupJunior) involving mostly multi-robot systems. RoboCup currently includes a number of different robot soccer leagues that focus on different research challenges. The Standard Platform League (SPL) is characterized by the use of an identical robot platform by all the teams. Participating researchers focus on algorithmic development for fully autonomous robots, i.e., robots that operate with no external control. The SPL at RoboCup 2014 will use any H21 or H25 version of the NAO humanoid robot manufactured by Aldebaran Robotics. The SPL robot soccer games at RoboCup 2014 will be played between teams of five robots on a 6m x 9m field. The RoboCup 2014 SPL will host three main competitions: a team competition (similar to the SPL competition in previous years), a drop-in player competition, and 2-3 technical challenges. The RoboCup 2014 SPL will be able to host 20 teams which will compete in all three competitions, as well as at least 4 teams that will compete in just the drop-in player competition and the technical challenges. All teams will be selected from the interested parties responding to this call. The full rules of RoboCup 2014 SPL are posted on the SPL website. A document detailing the possible technical challenges will be posted on the SPL website by November 8, 2013. Qualification ------------- All interested teams need to submit an up-to five pages original qualification document that includes: 1. the team name 2. a statement of commitment to participate in the RoboCup 2014 SPL 3. the leader(s), the constitution, and the affiliation(s) of the team. 4. number of each type of NAO used by the team (eg, intend to buy 6 H25 NAO v4s or currently have 5 H21 V3.3, etc) 5. preference and willingness to compete in all 3 SPL competitions or just the drop-in player competition and the technical challenges 6. a statement of the team's related research interests and planned activities 7. a summary of past relevant work and scientific publications The written material must be complemented by a link to a video (maximum 5 min long, uploaded on the team's web site or on some video server) that demonstrates the current status of the robotics research of the team. Videos of simulation contributions will also be accepted, only in case real robots are unavailable. If the candidates already have NAOs, the video should show the current state of their robot soccer performance. Preference will be given to teams that use real robots in their video. Pre-Qualification ------------- Teams that reached the quarter-finals at RoboCup 2013 will be pre-qualified for RoboCup 2014, if they submit the following original qualification document that includes:: 1. the team name 2. a statement of commitment to participate in the RoboCup 2014 SPL 3. the leader(s), the constitution, and the affiliation(s) of the team 4. number of each type of NAO used by the team (eg, intend to buy 6 H25 NAO v4s or currently have 5 H21 V3.3, etc) 5. preference and willingness to compete in all 3 SPL competitions or just the drop-in player competition and the technical challenges 6. a team research report describing their work for RoboCup 2013 If a joint 2013 team splits, only one team can be pre-qualified for 2014 (please, indicate which one). Submission and Evaluation ------------- All applications with the (pre-)qualification material must be submitted by *November 27, 2013*, by email to rc-spl-tc at lists.robocup.org. Applications must not be sent to personal SPL TC/OC email addresses and must not contain video attachments. Teams are encouraged to consider joint participation. Joint proposals will be judged on combined merit. Qualification decisions will be announced by December 12th, 2013. Robot Acquisition ------------- Aldebaran Robotics will have a special pricing package for teams participating in the RoboCup SPL Competition. Details will be announced on the SPL website soon. RoboCup 2014 Standard Platform League Technical and Organizing Committees -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.sadeghnejad at aut.ac.ir Fri Nov 8 12:37:06 2013 From: s.sadeghnejad at aut.ac.ir (soroush sadeghnejad) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 21:07:06 +0330 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 3rd International Spring School for Humanoid Soccer Robots 2014 Message-ID: Call for Participation ========================================================== *3rd International Spring School for Humanoid Soccer Robots 2014* (Project for Promoting RoboCup) arc.aut.ac.ir/Humanoid_Soccer_School ========================================================== April, 2014 Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran. * *Abstract* *----------------* The development of humanoid robots able to play soccer is a fundamental challenge problem for robotics and AI. Since the start of the humanoid league in 2002, there have been lots of improvements in humanoid soccer robots hardware and software. This is partially due to the introduction of standard platforms (Nao, DARwIn-OP, NimbRo-OP) and competitions for complex simulated robots (3D Simulation). The objective of the school is to give deep insights into the current state of the art for soccer playing humanoid robots. Amirkabir Robotic Institute and Mechanical Engineering Department of Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) are proud to host the 3rd International Spring School for Humanoid Robots 2014, a unique opportunity for everyone to learn the fundamentals and get involved in humanoid robots projects. * *Program* *-----------------* The spring school will highlight the most recent advances in humanoid robotics research. *1- Theory*: Many successful approaches in the areas of active balancing, compliant control, complex motion planning, biologically inspired approaches, team play, and human robot interaction. *2- Practical* *exercises*: A soccer field and real humanoid soccer robots (Darwin-OP, Nao) will be provided for hands-on experience. There will be sessions covering the basic theory and lab activities covering the practice of humanoid robotics. Lectures will be presented by well-known researchers from North America, Europe, and Asia. ** Social Activities* *-----------------------------* To facilitate informal interactions between participants, several social activities are planned. * *Organizers* *--------------------* - *Jacky Baltes*, University of Manitoba, Canada. Executive Committee Member of International RoboCup Federation in Humanoid Robot League - *Mohsen Bahrami*, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran. - *Saeed Shiry Ghidary*, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran. - *Soroush Sadeghnejad*, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran. Technical & Organization Committee Member of International RoboCup Federation in Humanoid Robot League * *Registration* *----------------------* The number of participants is limited. The deadline for advance registration is March 30th . For more information and registration please visit: **** arc.aut.ac.ir/Humanoid_Soccer_School**** * *Acknowledgment* *------------------------------* We gratefully acknowledge the support of the International RoboCup Federation. The Organization Committee of 3rd International Spring School for Humanoid Robots 2014 wants to invite you to participate in this school and hopes this would be a very memorable start for academic cooperation in Robotics and AI in the field of humanoid robotics. Please feel free to contact me for any further information about the school, registration, visa and international affairs. Good Luck with your research and hope to see you all in Iran. *Soroush Sadeghnejad* *On behalf of organization committee* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pal at isr.ist.utl.pt Tue Nov 12 04:43:41 2013 From: pal at isr.ist.utl.pt (Pedro U. Lima) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:43:41 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Research Engineer grant in EU projects at ISR/IST, Lisbon Message-ID: <50A87B58-C726-43D3-ABE6-86FCC1F243E1@isr.ist.utl.pt> The Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), a unit of the Laboratory of Robotics and Systems Engineering in Science located at Instituto Superior T?cnico (IST), U. Lisbon, Portugal has currently available 1 (one) research engineer grant. We are seeking highly motivated researchers to integrate the research team for the EU projects, coordinated by ISR/IST: - RoCKIn ("Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics" - http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu) and - MOnarCH ("Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals" - http://monarch-fp7.eu). The successful candidate will be developing work mainly focused on, but not limited to,: * the extension of ISR/IST networked robot system to be used in the MOnarCH project, currently composed of 10 IP cameras and several heterogeneous robots, to include new sensors and robots; * the installation and set up of test bed for bechmarking of domestic robots, that will be similar to the one used in the RoCKIn at Home competitions. * the support activities to all the experiments and field trials to be carried out within the MOnarCH project, including the installation of equipment at some of the partners. The successful candidate is expected to have at least a MSc in electrical engineering or related field, with experience in one (or more) of the following areas: * Mechatronics (electronic PCB design, CAD, electronic hardware programming, microcontrollers, ?), * Real-time programming, * Networked robot systems programming. The grant has a duration of 12 months, eventually renewable. It is expected to start on December 2013 / January 2014 and will include accident insurance and social security contributions. The grantee will work with the Intelligent Robots and Systems group at ISR/IST (http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/labs/irsgroup/), and will also have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with all the other partners of both projects. Applications should be sent to info at monarch-fp7.eu and must include * a detailed CV, including a list of publications, * a brief statement about research interests, engineering skills and past experience, and motivation to join the project, and * the name and contact of 2 references. Applications will be open until November 18, 2013. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pal at isr.ist.utl.pt Wed Nov 13 11:29:52 2013 From: pal at isr.ist.utl.pt (Pedro U. Lima) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:29:52 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Reminder: RoCKIn Camp 2014 - Call for Applications Message-ID: RoCKIn Camp 2014 - Call for Applications Event Date: Jan 26-30, 2014 Location: Rome, Italy Website: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~rockin/ RoCKIn is short for "Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics" (http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu) and it is an EU-funded Coordination Action aimed at the promotion of research and education through competitions. The RoCKIn Camp 2014 aims at supporting the preparation of teams to participate in the RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work challenges, the competition events that will be organized by RoCKIn in 2014 and 2015. RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work take inspiration from the corresponding RoboCup leagues, but they will focus on benchmarking robotic systems and networked robots. Both challenges require basic navigation capabilities with no restrictions on the mobile platform, advance perception, manipulation and human-robot interaction. RoCKIn at Home focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a real home environment, while the tasks to be performed in RoCKIn at Work target an industrial automation scenario. The event is partially supported by the IEEE RAS-TEP program ( IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Technical Education Program - Summer Schools ) The RoCKIn Camp 2014 will take place from 26th to 30th January in Rome and is designed as a hands-on week long school, where teams acquire new capabilities and/or improve the performance of their systems in the competition tasks. The activities planned in the first four days of the RoCKIn Camp 2014 address the following topics: the robot platform and the basic software infrastructure, perception, manipulation and human robot interaction through speech. Each topic will include introductory lectures and practical sessions. The last day will be devoted to finalizing a demonstration in the competition scenario. A preliminary program is available at: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~rockin/camp2014program Students and researchers, who have an interest in entering the RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work competitions, are invited to apply for the RoCKIn Camp 2014. We accept application in two formats: - Team applications (for teams of 3 people, not necessarily from the same university, but with an already established team). Team applicants are encourage to bring their robot to be used in the practical activities, but this is not a requirement. - Individual applications by existing or prospective team members. For the practical sessions, participants will be arranged into teams. Accepted applicant teams will become RoCKIn Camp 2014 teams; individual participants may be joining existing teams with the goal of creating additional collaborations and opportunities. If needed, additional teams will be created from individual applicants. Each team will be assigned a specific task, applying modules and tools presented in the lectures. The selection will be based on the team submission material and will also consider formation of new teams. The expected audience will be up to 12 teams and up to 36 participants. All successful applicants will be offered: - Accommodation in shared rooms (including breakfast, 6 nights) - Lunch (5 days) and 1 social dinner - Attendance to lectures and practical sessions In addition, the teams of 3 people that will carry a robot to be used in the practical sessions of the Camp are entitled to receive a travel support up to 1200 Euros (per team), and the team of 3 people that plan to attend without a robot are entitled to support of 600 Euros (per team). *** Important Dates - Application deadline: November 20th, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: November 27th, 2013 *** Applications should be submitted via http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/rockin Team applications should include: -For each member, a brief CV -A team description (pdf, maximum 4 pages) in IEEE Conference Style (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html), reporting: team name, affiliation, supervisor (optional), scientific background, research objectives, expected knowledge / performance improvement, team description (including previous experience, role and competence of team members) and, in case the team plans to bring its own robot, a brief description of this robot. Individual applications should include: - A brief CV of the applicant - A team formation plan (pdf, maximum 4 pages) in IEEE Conference Style (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html), reporting: applicant's scientific background, scientific objectives, expected knowledge acquisition and performance improvement from RoCKIn competitions, plan about the team formation, including details about the applicant's devised role. For further questions contact Alberto Pretto: alberto.pretto at dis.uniroma1.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pal at isr.ist.utl.pt Fri Nov 15 04:57:36 2013 From: pal at isr.ist.utl.pt (Pedro U. Lima) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:57:36 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Research Engineer grant in EU projects at ISR/IST, Lisbon - extended deadline Message-ID: The Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), a unit of the Laboratory of Robotics and Systems in Engineering and Science located at Instituto Superior T?cnico (IST), U. Lisbon, Portugal has currently available 1 (one) research engineer grant. We are seeking highly motivated researchers to integrate the research team for the EU projects, coordinated by ISR/IST: - RoCKIn ("Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive Systems and Robotics" - http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu) and - MOnarCH ("Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals" - http://monarch-fp7.eu). The successful candidate will be developing work mainly focused on, but not limited to,: * the extension of ISR/IST networked robot system to be used in the MOnarCH project, currently composed of 10 IP cameras and several heterogeneous robots, to include new sensors and robots; * the installation and set up of test bed for bechmarking of domestic robots, that will be similar to the one used in the RoCKIn at Home competitions. * the support activities to all the experiments and field trials to be carried out within the MOnarCH project, including the installation of equipment at some of the partners. The successful candidate is expected to have at least a MSc in electrical engineering or related field, with experience in one (or more) of the following areas: * Mechatronics (electronic PCB design, CAD, electronic hardware programming, microcontrollers, ?), * Real-time programming, * Networked robot systems programming. The grant has a duration of 12 months, eventually renewable. It is expected to start on December 2013 / January 2014 and will include accident insurance and social security contributions. The grantee will work with the Intelligent Robots and Systems group at ISR/IST (http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/labs/irsgroup/), and will also have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with all the other partners of both projects. Applications should be sent to info at monarch-fp7.eu and must include * a detailed CV, including a list of publications, * a brief statement about research interests, engineering skills and past experience, and motivation to join the project, and * the name and contact of 2 references. Applications will be open until December 2nd, 2013. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lagoudakis at intelligence.tuc.gr Mon Nov 18 06:48:23 2013 From: lagoudakis at intelligence.tuc.gr (Michail G. Lagoudakis) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:48:23 +0200 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Team Kouretes: Release of NAOKinematics Library Message-ID: <5289FE87.3070703@intelligence.tuc.gr> RoboCup SPL Team Kouretes is pleased to announce the public release of our stand-alone, complete NAO kinematics software library, which is made available from our Github repository: https://github.com/kouretes/NAOKinematics The C++ NAOKinematics library covers Aldebaran Robotics NAO versions H21 and H25, offers the following functions - forward kinematics - inverse kinematics (analytical, closed-form solution) - center-of-mass calculation and can be integrated into any existing C++ software architecture. Details about the Kouretes NAOKinematics library can be found in the following two documents: Kofinas N., Orfanoudakis E., Lagoudakis M.: Complete Analytical Inverse Kinematics for NAO, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ROBOTICA), Lisbon, Portugal, April 2013, pp. 1-6. http://www.nikofinas.com/Publications/Complete_Analytical_Inverse_Kinematics_for_NAO.pdf Kofinas N.: Forward and Inverse Kinematics for the NAO Humanoid Robot, Diploma Thesis, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, July 2012. http://www.nikofinas.com/Projects/KofinasThesis.pdf For questions and/or further information, please contact Nikolaos Kofinas at nikofinas at gmail.com . SPL Team Kouretes School of ECE Tech Univ of Crete Chania, Crete, GREECE www.kouretes.gr From chair at robocup2013.org Thu Nov 21 15:38:51 2013 From: chair at robocup2013.org (Chair RoboCup 2013) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:38:51 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven, the Netherlands [Final newsletter] In-Reply-To: <002a01cee6f8$e9eaf350$bdc0d9f0$@robocup2013.org> References: <002a01cee6f8$e9eaf350$bdc0d9f0$@robocup2013.org> Message-ID: <309F3D0B03FD4240AFCD2723A3E825330401EFE8@XSERVER20B.campus.tue.nl> [cid:image002.jpg at 01CE654A.E1FF18E0] Dear RoboCup Community, Almost five months have passed since RoboCup 2013. We hope you had a great time in Eindhoven! We want to share some interesting figures with you: ? Over 40,000 people visited the tournament. Among them was queen M?xima of the Netherlands. ? Exactly 112 journalists from 22 countries attended RoboCup 2013. They generated press coverage in 75 countries and by the world?s most well-known media and news-agencies, including BBC, AP, The Guardian, AFP, NBC and Reuters. The estimated number of people reached through media: 11 million in the Netherlands and at least 50 million worldwide. ? We had over 60,000 individual viewers of RoboCup TV and 80,000 visitors to the RoboCup website. ? Over 75 million tweets were posted about RoboCup 2013. ? In total we had 2661 participants from 45 countries. RoboCup 2013 would not have been possible without you! Some of you have asked where to find photos and videos. Therefore we would like to send you this collection of links: ? Photographer Albert van Breemen made a beautiful photo book of which hard-copies can be ordered here. The images from this book, and many other high-resolution images, can be downloaded from the RoboCup 2013 Flickr page. All content is free to use, but please add a reference to the name of the photographer (either Bart van Overbeeke or Albert van Breemen). ? As a local organizing committee we've also made a photo book of our own, digitally available here: cover, content. Day by day videos compilations were made by TU/e's 'innovation lab': ? Day 1: Major - Junior ? Day 2: Major - Junior ? Day 3: Major ? Day 4: Major They also made league by league compilations: Middle-Size, Small-Size, Standard-Platform and Humanoid Leagues, RoboCup at Home, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup at Work and Festo Logistics League All of the league compilations are put together in this video. A compilation of the Junior Finals can be found here. We would also like to point you at the videos by BotSport TV, mainly focusing on the humanoid leagues. The full RoboCup TV broadcast of the MSL final match can be found here. Make sure you've seen the goal at 0:46:25! The full broadcasts of the other finals can be found here: Festo Logistics League, Humanoid Adult-Size League, Humanoid Teen-Size League, Humanoid Kid-Size League, Standard Platform League and RoboCup at Work, Small-Size League Part 1 Part 2 Finally we would like to thank everybody for making RoboCup 2013 an unforgettable experience; we hope to meet you again in Brazil! Best regards, RoboCup 2013 Local Organizing Committee [cid:image005.jpg at 01CE654A.E1FF18E0] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 19261 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image005.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 10526 bytes Desc: image005.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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July 15-19, 2014, Padova and Venice, Italy Located at Universit? degli Studi di Padova, in Padova, and Telecom Future Centre in Venice CALL for PAPERS and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ============================================ Recent results confirm that robots, machines and systems are rapidly achieving intelligence and autonomy, mastering increasing capabilities in mobility and manipulation, sensing and perception, reasoning and decision making. The Series of International Conferences on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) founded in 1986 is one of the major events summarizing this trend. The aim of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems is to further witness the development of these technologies and to foster their adoptions in the industrial sector. The 13th IAS invites researchers, engineers and experts to submit high quality papers to disseminate, to share and to fruitfully discuss their last achievements and results. IAS will provide forum and workshops where participants could exchange their ideas and experiences in the research and industrial fields through high quality peer reviewed papers. After the successful IAS-12 Conference held in Korea with more than 300 participants, the 13th IAS will be held in Italy in July 2014. 2. Locations =============================== The main sessions of the 13th IAS Conference and Workshops will be held in the historical city of Padova, from July 15 to July 18, 2014, in one of the oldest universities in the world. The venue will be the Historical Main Hall of the University and the Padua Conference Center. Participants will enjoy a rich and exciting social program (e.g. the IAS Banquet will be held at the nice ancient "Villa dei Vescovi", in the Hills around Padua). From the evening of July 18 till the evening of July 19 a Post-Conference Workshop celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Foundation of IAS-Society will be held in Venice city, at Telecom Italia Future Center, close to Rialto Bridge, during the Annual Venetian "Feast of the Redeemer". In the evening of Saturday July 19, we will embark all Participants of the Workshop in a boat, cruising the Laguna in front of San Marco Square, to dine and watch the fantastic Fire-works show. The organizing committee invites you to submit high quality papers, propose a workshop, organize a tutorial, participate in the conference and enjoy the rich cultural environment, the exciting social events and the beautiful locations of Padova and Venice. 3. Important Dates: ======================================== Papers: - Final submission deadline: February 1, 2014 - Acceptance notification: April 1, 2014 ** Conference Proceedings will be published in Springer Series "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" indexed by ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink Workshops & Tutorials: - Final Submission Deadline: January 10, 2014 - Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2014 ========================================== 13th IAS - 2014 Conference in Padova: July 16-17-18, 2014 13th IAS - 2014 Workshops in Padova: July 15 & 18, 2014 13th IAS - 2014 Post-Workshop in Venice: 19 July 2014 4. Conference Scope and Topics: ========================================== Submissions of original scientific works are solicited in all areas of autonomous systems research. IAS-13 extends its scope to cover special sessions which highlight some major fields of interest. The tracks and special themes will be composed of, but not limited to: ? Underwater/Aerial Robots ? Agriculture Robots ? Space Robotics ? Biomimetic robotics ? Intelligent Transport Systems ? Networked robots ? Mobiligence ? Rescue Robots ? SWARM Intelligent Robots ? Domestic Personal Robots ? Visual Servoing/Robot vision ? Medical/rehabilitation robotics ? Perception/Learning ? Mechanism and Robot Design ? Human-Robot Interface ? Distributed Robot Coordination ? Multi-Agent Systems ? Micro-robot ? Humanoids ? Service/Life Support Robots ? Intelligent Security & Surveillance Systems ? IAS for Manufacturing ? Professional Service Robots ? Haptics/Teleoperation ? Motion Planning ? Navigation/Localization ? Robot Simulations 5. Organizing Committee ============================= Honorary Co-Chairs: ? Ruediger Dillmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Frans Groen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Steering Committee: ? Hajime Asama (University of Tokyo, Japan) Henrik Christensen (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Maria Gini (University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, USA) Sukhan Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea) Enrico Pagello (University of Padova, Italy) Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich, Switzerland) General Chair: Emanuele Menegatti (University of Padova, Italy) Asia Regional PC Chair: Hiroaki Yamaguchi (Aiyama Gakuin Univeristy, Japan) Americas Regional PC Chair: Nathan Michael (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Europe/Africa Regional PC Chair: Karsten Berns (Technische Universit?t Kaiserslautern, Germany) Workshop Co-Chairs: ? Jangmyung Lee (Pusan National University, Korea) Philippe Martinet (Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France) Marcus Strand (FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany) Tutorial Co-Chairs: ? Micheal Beetz (Bremem University, Germany) Rosario Sorbello (University of Palermo, Italy) Industrial Co-Chairs: ? Christian Eitzinger (Profactor GmbH, Austria) Reinhard Lafrenz (Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) Educational Chair: ? Andrea Bonarini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Award Co-Chairs: ? Marcelo Ang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Weidong Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Angel P. Del Pobil (University Jaume1, Spain) Publicity Chair: ? Alberto Pretto (Universit? di Roma ''La Sapienza'', Italy) Exhibition Chair: ? Stefano Tonello (IT+Robotics Srl, Italy) National Program Committee Chair: ? Luca Iocchi (Universit? di Roma ''La Sapienza'', Italy) Local Chair: ? Stefano Ghidoni (University of Padova, Italy) IAS-13 Secretariat: IT+Robotics srl Meeting Management Strada Prima 11, 35129 Padova (PD), Italy Tel. : +39 049 80 75 216 Fax. : +39 049 21 08 819 Email : ias-13 at it-robotics.it Web : http://www.it-robotics.it 6. Invited Speakers =================================== We are pleased to have a first list of prestigious invited speakers that already accepted to give a plenary talk. So far, they are: - Gary Bradski, Industrial Perception, OpenCV, USA - Eugenio Guglielmelli, "Campus Bio-Medico" University, Rome, Italy - Koh Hosoda, Osaka University, Japan - Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany - Cyrill Stachniss, University of Freiburg, Germany other prestigious Invited Speakers are expected to join soon. 7. Printable Call for paper to be distributed =================================== You can find a printable PDF file of the IAS-13 CFP, here. Please, pass the word to make IAS-13 a success! Print it and hang it on the bulletin boards of your lab & institution, send it to your colleagues, suggest your students to submit to IAS-13. You can also become friend of IAS-13 on FB: https://www.facebook.com/ias13padua or follow IAS-13 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ias13padua ------------------------------------------ Prof. Emanuele Menegatti, Ph.D. General Chair of "13th IAS Conference" in July 2014 http://www.ias-13.org Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory (IAS-Lab) Department of Information Engineering The University of Padua via g. gradenigo 6/A I-35131 Padova - ITALY Skype: emanuele.menegatti Phone: ++39 049 827 7651 Mobile: ++39 347 090 77 97 FAX: ++39 049 827 7799 http://www.dei.unipd.it/~emg ------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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D?but du message r?exp?di? : > Renvoy?-De : > De : TRTWR-RIE 2014 > Objet : CfP for TRTWR-RIE 2014 - spread the word > Date : 11 novembre 2013 10:28:38 > ? : Jean-Daniel Dessimoz > > Dear Jean-Daniel, > first we ?d like to thank you for your participation in the International Program Committee for the International workshop TRTWR & RIE 2014 Conference to be held in Padova (IT), July 18, 2014. > The submission of papers is now open at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trtwrrie2014 and the 1st Call for Papers is published. We would like to request that you disseminate the conference call that you can find at http://www.terecop.eu/TRTWR2014/CallForPapers.pdf through colleagues, communities you participate, researchers, students and also through mailing lists, conference calendars, institutional pages, etc. > Thanks again you for your cooperation and efforts towards a successful conference. > > Best regards, > > TRTWR&RIE 2014 Co-Chairs > Dimitris Alimisis, School of Pedagogical & Technological Education, GR > Grzegorz Granosik, Lodz University of Technology, PL > Michele Moro, Information Engineering Dept, Univ. of Padova, IT --- Prof. J.-D. Dessimoz, ing. et Dr ?s Sc. techn. 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URL: From d.polani at herts.ac.uk Tue Dec 3 17:02:57 2013 From: d.polani at herts.ac.uk (Daniel Polani) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 22:02:57 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Research Fellows in Agent Learning/Adaptation Algorithms for Robots Message-ID: <21150.21777.80004.927320@gargle.gargle.HOWL> --------------------------------------------------------- 2 Research Fellowships in Agent/Robot Learning Algorithms Salary per annum: UH6 - 25,504-30,424 GBP pa (depending on qualifications and experience) Adaptive Systems Research Group (http://adapsys.feis.herts.ac.uk/) School of Computer Science University of Hertfordshire, UK (www.herts.ac.uk) Contact for informal inquiries: Dr. Daniel Polani (E-mail: d.polani at herts.ac.uk) PROJECT AND REQUIREMENTS ------------------------ Two Research Fellow positions are available in the EU Framework VII funded project CORBYS (Cognitive Control Framework for Robotic Systems). As a part of a European project, this full-time research post will allow the postholders to pursue research into novel methods for self-motivated behaviour generation, behaviour anticipation, intentionality and initiative detection, based on principled information-theoretic and causality-detection approaches, in the context of robotic agents. The CORBYS consortium consists of several European partners in Germany, UK, Belgium, Spain, Norway and Slovenia. For above tasks, our team develops algorithms that operate following a novel class of principles to address above tasks. The research centers on the development of such algorithms, involving learning and adaptation, and developing and deploying corresponding software solutions on physical robots. Applicants for the positions should have a strong postgraduate degree (MSc or PhD) in a quantitative research-oriented discipline, examples would be computer science, mathematics or physics. Applicants should have strong mathematical background, ideally with emphasis on the areas of probabilistic modeling, information theory or stochastic control, alternatively, experience in robot control. Excellent programming skills are essential to the positions. Experience with robotic software development and relevant frameworks such as ROS, and/or running AI algorithms on real-world robots is a plus. Applicants will have a high degree of motivation and, at the same time the ability to work both independently and in collaboration with the other investigators in the group and the project consortium in an exciting, productive and ambitious research project. This project offers the unique opportunity to develop bridges between advanced and principled theoretical AI methods and state-of-the-art robotic devices in the context of conceptually novel approaches for the interaction between humans and robots. FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------- The postholders will be members of the Adaptive Systems Research Group (ASRG) (http://adapsys.feis.herts.ac.uk/) at the University of Hertfordshire in the School of Computer Science. The ASRG includes more than 30 research staff members (postdocs/PhD students). The ASRG is a very enthusiastic, vibrant and highly innovative multidisciplinary research group with an excellent international research track record and visibility, which includes relevant work on principled mathematical methods to construct biologically inspired models for Artificial Intelligence, cognitive embodied systems and Artificial Life. The University of Hertfordshire itself ranks 27th in England for post-2008 RAE-funding in Computer Science and Informatics. The university is located in Hatfield, less than 25 minutes by train from London Kings Cross and with convenient access to Stansted, Luton and Heathrow airports and, via St. Albans Thameslink, also to Gatwick airport. St. Albans, a charming English town is located nearby. The position is full-time. The work will be based at University of Hertfordshire and may include short stays at European partner institutions. The position is based on a fixed-term contract ending on 31. January 2015. The position is to be filled as soon as possible. CONTACT AND APPLICATION ----------------------- All formal applications must be made via the Human Resources Department at University of Hertfordshire: http://web-apps.herts.ac.uk/uhweb/apps/hr/research-vacancies.cfm The above website will allow potential applications to find out more information about the post, including a detailed job and person specification. Please consult this website in order to evaluate your suitability for the post. Note that under current UKBA regulations, the University is unlikely to be able to get a work permit in respect of this post. We can therefore only accept applications from people who will have the right to work in the UK for at least one year from the date of appointment. For other informal inquiries related to the post please contact Dr. Daniel Polani (d.polani at herts.ac.uk). Closing date: 20. December 2013 ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Daniel Polani Reader in Artificial Life Adaptive Systems Research Group The University of Hertfordshire, School of Computer Science College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, United Kingdom URL: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqdp1 E-mail: d.polani at herts.ac.uk Fax: +44-1707-284-303 Tel: +44-1707-284-380 From hild at informatik.hu-berlin.de Wed Dec 4 07:24:28 2013 From: hild at informatik.hu-berlin.de (Manfred Hild) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:24:28 +0100 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] [jobs] Five pre-doctoral and two post-doctoral fellowships (Edinburgh/Amsterdam/Barcelona/Trento/Brussels) Message-ID: <002f01cef0eb$c862ebf0$5928c3d0$@hu-berlin.de> The ESSENCE (Evolution of Shared SEmaNtics in Computational Environments, www.essence-network.eu) Marie Curie Initial Training Network is offering five Early-Stage Researcher (pre-doctoral) and two Experienced Researcher (post-doctoral) positions, to start in February 2014. The application deadline for these posts is 15th December 2013. This is a rare opportunity to be involved in a highly prestigious European training network for outstanding applicants in an emergent and important research area, led by internationally leading groups in their fields! ESSENCE conducts research and provides research training in various aspects of translating human capabilities for negotiating meaning to open computational environments such as the web, multi-robot systems, and sensor networks. The network will support 15 pre- and post-doctoral fellows who will work toward a set of different research projects within this overall theme, ranging from symbol grounding and ontological reasoning to game-theoretic models of communication and crowdsourcing. ESSENCE involves a top-quality consortium of internationally leading research institutions which will act as hosts for the following projects in the current recruitment round: Early-Stage Researchers (36 months): - Communication Planning (CISA, Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK) - Concept Convergence: Argumentation and Agreement over Meaning (IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain) - The Social Construction of Conceptual Space (ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Sociolinguistics and Network Games (ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Open-ended Robot Interaction (AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Early-Stage Researchers must, at the time of recruitment by the host organisation be in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers, and not yet have a doctoral degree. Experienced Researchers (24 months): - The ESSENCE Platform: Architecture (CISA, Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK) - The ESSENCE Challenge (Information Engineering and Computer Science, Universit? degli Studi di Trento, Italy) Experienced Researchers must (at the time of recruitment by the host organisation) be in possession of a doctoral degree, or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience, and have less than five years of full-time equivalent research experience (including time spent on doctoral research). For both categories, research experience is measured from the date when they obtained the degree which formally entitled them to embark on a doctorate. All positions are very competitively remunerated (significantly above the respective average national salaries/studentships for pre- and post-doctoral positions) and aimed at outstanding candidates. Please consult the individual descriptions of projects athttp://www.essence-network.eu/hiring for detailled salary information. Researchers can be of any nationality, though at the time of recruitment by the host organisation, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date. (Short stays such as holidays and/or compulsory national service are not taken into account.) The ESSENCE network aims to attract 40% females among the recruited researchers. Female applicants are explicitly encouraged to apply and treated preferentially whenever they are equally qualified as other male candidates. The ESSENCE network will encourage flexible working hours at each host institution and/or the opportunity to work part-time from home if necessary. ESSENCE will provide specific support for female researchers in terms of targeted training events and dedicated mentoring. All applicants are asked to pre-apply at http://www.essence-network.eu/hiring. Please contact Dr Michael Rovatsos (mrovatso at inf.ed.ac.uk) for informal enquiries. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From assadn at yahoo.com Sat Dec 7 06:37:58 2013 From: assadn at yahoo.com (Asad Norouzi) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 03:37:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [robocup-worldwide] [meetings] RoboCup IranOpen 2014: Call For Participation Message-ID: <1386416278.1722.YahooMailNeo@web122002.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> ++++++++++++++++++++++ Apologies for duplicate messages ++++++++++++++++++++ ###########################? Call For Participation ########################## ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? The 9th RoboCup IranOpen Competitions?????????? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? April 07-11, 2014?????????????????? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???? Tehran, Iran?????????????????? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ? http://2014.iranopen.ir ##########################? RoboCup IranOpen 2014 ######################## The 9th RoboCup IranOpen competitions will be held in April 07-11, 2014. Having had the experience of 8 years successful organization of these competitions, we look forward to an even more glorious event with more teams competing in this major robotics event from all over the world. Last year we, gladly, had 301 teams from China, Colombia, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Pakistan, Turkey,and United States. ? RoboCup IranOpen is an attempt to further promote AI and Robotics research. These competitions will provide a chance for all researchers to present and share their experiences and achievements. The RoboCup IranOpen 2014 competitions leagues are as follows: * RoboCup Soccer * Humanoid * Middle Size * Small Size * Standard Platform * Soccer 3D Simulation * Soccer 2D Simulation * RoboCupRescue * Rescue Robot * Rescue Simulation * RoboCup at Home * RoboCupJunior * Soccer A Open Weight * Soccer B Open Weight * Soccer B Light Weight * Rescue A Primary * Rescue A Secondary * Rescue B * CoSpace Rescue The RoboCup IranOpen 2014 competitions extra leagues which are not among the official RoboCup leagues: * Deminer Autonomous * Deminer Manual * Deminer Technical Challenge * Senior Demo * Junior Demo Primary * Junior Demo Secondary * IranOpenROV (Radio Operated Vehicles - underwater robots) * IranOpenUAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) Participation: All teams are required to pre-register through the online form available in the website. The pre-registered teams should then submit the relevant qualification materials. Last year 301 teams were qualified from 653 pre-registered teams. Important dates: * Pre-Registration: November 25, 2013 - January 06, 2014 * Submission of qualification materials: December 02, 2013 - January 06, 2014 * Qualification: January 06 - 20, 2014 * Registration: January 06 - 27, 2014 For further information please visit our official website at http://2014.iranopen.ir For inquiries please contact us via the hereunder email addresses: * General Inquiries: info at iranopen.ir * Registration: registration at iranopen.ir * Visa & International Affairs: visa at iranopen.ir * Travel Support: asadollah_norouzi at sp.edu.sg We are now on Google Plus! Please follow us here: https://plus.google.com/113211996972561870891 Regards On behalf of, Iranian RoboCup National Committee RoboCup IranOpen 2014 Organizing Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From s.sadeghnejad at aut.ac.ir Sat Dec 7 13:01:59 2013 From: s.sadeghnejad at aut.ac.ir (soroush sadeghnejad) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:31:59 +0330 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 3rd International Spring School for Humanoid Soccer Robots 2014 Message-ID: Dear all The 3rd International Spring School for Humanoid Soccer Robots 2014 will be held from 12th to 16th of April. Regards Soroush ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: soroush sadeghnejad Date: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:07 PM Subject: 3rd International Spring School for Humanoid Soccer Robots 2014 To: Call for Participation ========================================================== *3rd International Spring School for Humanoid Soccer Robots 2014* (Project for Promoting RoboCup) arc.aut.ac.ir/Humanoid_Soccer_School ========================================================== 12-16 April, 2014 Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran. * *Abstract* *----------------* The development of humanoid robots able to play soccer is a fundamental challenge problem for robotics and AI. Since the start of the humanoid league in 2002, there have been lots of improvements in humanoid soccer robots hardware and software. This is partially due to the introduction of standard platforms (Nao, DARwIn-OP, NimbRo-OP) and competitions for complex simulated robots (3D Simulation). The objective of the school is to give deep insights into the current state of the art for soccer playing humanoid robots. Amirkabir Robotic Institute and Mechanical Engineering Department of Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) are proud to host the 3rd International Spring School for Humanoid Robots 2014, a unique opportunity for everyone to learn the fundamentals and get involved in humanoid robots projects. * *Program* *-----------------* The spring school will highlight the most recent advances in humanoid robotics research. *1- Theory*: Many successful approaches in the areas of active balancing, compliant control, complex motion planning, biologically inspired approaches, team play, and human robot interaction. *2- Practical* *exercises*: A soccer field and real humanoid soccer robots (Darwin-OP, Nao) will be provided for hands-on experience. There will be sessions covering the basic theory and lab activities covering the practice of humanoid robotics. Lectures will be presented by well-known researchers from North America, Europe, and Asia. ** Social Activities* *-----------------------------* To facilitate informal interactions between participants, several social activities are planned. * *Organizers* *--------------------* - *Jacky Baltes*, University of Manitoba, Canada. Executive Committee Member of International RoboCup Federation in Humanoid Robot League - *Mohsen Bahrami*, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran. - *Saeed Shiry Ghidary*, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran. - *Soroush Sadeghnejad*, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran. Technical & Organization Committee Member of International RoboCup Federation in Humanoid Robot League * *Registration* *----------------------* The number of participants is limited. The deadline for advance registration is March 30th. For more information and registration please visit: ****arc.aut.ac.ir/Humanoid_Soccer_School**** * *Acknowledgment* *------------------------------* We gratefully acknowledge the support of the International RoboCup Federation. The Organization Committee of 3rd International Spring School for Humanoid Robots 2014 wants to invite you to participate in this school and hopes this would be a very memorable start for academic cooperation in Robotics and AI in the field of humanoid robotics. Please feel free to contact me for any further information about the school, registration, visa and international affairs. 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The event will take place in Magdeburg at MESSE MAGDEBURG. -- RoboCup Major Leagues (International teams) ---------------------- Competitions are offered in the following leagues: - RoboCupSoccer Standard Platform League - RoboCupSoccer Humanoid League (Kid-Size) - RoboCupSoccer Simulation 3D League - RoboCupRescue Robot League - RoboCup @Home League - Logistics League (sponsored by Festo) - RoboCup @Work Demonstration The registration deadline is *** 15 December 2013 ***. Visit https://robocupgermanopen.de/en/major/teaminfos to register your RoboCup Major League team. Details on the registration (fee, accommodation, rules) are available on the web site. Booking of blocked accommodation with special rates is possible after your registration. The Major Leagues Organising Committee: - Thomas R?fer (Standard Platform League) - Sven Behnke (Humanoid League) - Klaus Dorer, Stefan Glaser (Soccer Simulation 3D League) - S?ren Schwertfeger, Adam Jacoff (Rescue Robot League) - Paul Pl?ger, Dirk Holz (RoboCup @Home League) - Ulrich Karras (Logistics League) - Walter Nowak (RoboCup @Work Demonstration) -- Important dates ------------------------------------------------- 15.12.2013 Registration deadline RoboCup Major teams 15.02.2014 Major League team member names due 01.03.2014 Registration fee due 01.04.2014 Set-Up day Major League teams 02.04.2014 Set-Up day Major League teams 03.04.2014 Competition day (open to public) 04.04.2014 Competition day (open to public) 05.04.2014 Competition day, finals (open to public) Please contact info at robocupgermanopen.de for any questions. See you all again at the 13th RoboCup German Open 2014! Best regards, Ansgar Bredenfeld (Chair RoboCup German Open) From jla at ua.pt Mon Dec 9 17:48:58 2013 From: jla at ua.pt (Jose Luis Azevedo) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 22:48:58 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2014 - MSL Call for participation Message-ID: Dear all, Please find below the call for participation for the RoboCup 2014 MSL World Championships to be held in Jo?o Pessoa, Brazil (19-25 July, 2014). Best regards Jose Luis Azevedo Note for new teams or teams planning to renew their hardware: the TURTLE-5k consortium provides a low-cost base platform for RoboCup MSL. As of this season TURTLE-5k robots will be produced and sold at cost-price. More info via www.turtle5k.org' ****************************************************** Call for Participation RoboCup 2014 Middle Size League July 19-25, 2014 (Jo?o Pessoa, Brazil) http://www.robocup2014.org/ ****************************************************** We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2014 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2014 MSL competitions. 1) Pre-registration ********************* For the pre-registration please send an e-mail to rc-msl-oc at lists.robocup.org containing the following data: - team name - URL of the team?s home page - name of the team leader - e-mail address of team or team leader - affiliation - country - link to the qualification materials 2) Qualification materials ***************************** By the time of pre-registration, please have ready the following qualification materials: - list of five RoboCup related scientific publications - overview of the performance in past events - a Team Description Paper describing the most innovative contributions or scientific results (the TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) - a qualification video (the maximum duration of the video is 1 minute) - an overview of the contributions to the MSL community - a mechanical and electrical description together with a software flow chart (please include size and weight of the robots) The details regarding the qualification materials are contained in the rules and regulations document available at http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League. Please read it thoroughly. The qualification materials should be placed in a dedicated page of the team's web page. Please include the link to the qualification materials in the pre-registration information. 3) Important dates ********************* - Deadline for pre-registration and submission of the qualification materials: February 14, 2014 - Announcement of qualified teams: February 28, 2014 4) Rules ********** The rules and regulations for the RoboCup 2014 Middle Size League will be published at http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League The updated rules and regulations will be released by December 31, 2013, at the latest. 5) Publication **************** Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the qualification materials of the qualified teams will be made publicly available. Teams applying for participation therefore grant the right of publication of their qualification materials to the MSL league. 6) Plagiarism *************** Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code and ideas (see ? http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/plagiarism_FAQ.html? for a more detailed description) is not tolerated in the RoboCup community. The teams and team members that plagiarize other peoples' work and present it as their own will be disqualified. For a first offense, the team and team members will be banned from RoboCup competition for two years (usually the current and next year). Harsher penalties will be applied to repeat offenders or extremely serious cases of plagiarism. A team may be disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even after the competition has started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any expenses related to their disqualification. We hope to welcome you all in Jo?o Pessoa. With kind regards, The 2014 RoboCup MSL Organizing and Executive committees. -- ******************************************************************** Jose Luis Azevedo University of Aveiro Dep. of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal Tlf. +351.234 370500 / Fax. +351.234 370545 (jla at ua.pt) ******************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From afb at cc.gatech.edu Tue Dec 10 11:45:04 2013 From: afb at cc.gatech.edu (Bobick, Aaron) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:45:04 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] Robotics positions at Georgia Tech Message-ID: Robotics positions at Georgia Tech - School of Interactive Computing and Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM at GT). The School of Interactive Computing within the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions. Applications at all levels of seniority will be considered. Applicants must have an outstanding record of research, a sincere commitment to teaching, and interest in engaging in substantive interdisciplinary research. We are interested in faculty candidates in all areas of research within IC but a particular area of interest this year is Robotics. The School of IC includes 35 faculty members and 120 graduate students working in a wide range of research areas relating to the interface of computing and the world. The School is affiliated with the GVU Center and the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM at GT). Our degree programs include the College-wide Computer Science Ph.D., a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing, and a Ph.D. program in Robotics, joint with other schools on campus. Masters programs include Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction. For more information visit: http://ic.gatech.edu. Application materials should be submitted online. Questions regarding the status of an application can be addressed to recruiting-ic at cc.gatech.edu. Application materials should include a full academic CV, teaching and research statements, a list of at least three references with contact information and up to three publications. Applicants are encouraged to clearly identify in their cover letter the area(s) that best describe their research interests. Reviews of submitted applications begin November 1, 2013 and full consideration will be given to those who apply by January 15, 2014. We expect most hiring decisions will be made by May 1, 2014. Georgia Tech is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and under-represented minorities are strongly encouraged. Visit https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3410 For more information about the faculty openings, please feel free to contacts Prof. Aaron Bobick (afb at cc.gatech.edu) or Prof. Frank Dellaert (dellaert at cc.gatech.edu). -- Prof. Aaron Bobick School of Interactive Computing Georgia Institute of Technology 801 Atlantic Dr. Atlanta, GA 30332 M: 678-296-4685 afb at cc.gatech.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbianchi at fei.edu.br Thu Dec 12 11:46:18 2013 From: rbianchi at fei.edu.br (Reinaldo A. da C. Bianchi) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:46:18 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] =?iso-8859-1?q?CFP=3A_RoboCup_Symposium_2014_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?-_Jo=E3o_Pessoa=2C__Brazil=2E?= Message-ID: <6A836554-1014-4028-B5EF-6F6DB99F95F2@fei.edu.br> ******************************************************************** Call for Papers RoboCup International Symposium 2014 Jo?o Pessoa, Brazil July 25th, 2014 http://www.robocup2014.org/ ******************************************************************** OVERVIEW The 18th annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup 2014 (July 19-24). 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 at Home, RoboCup at Work and RoboCupJunior). Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and educational activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. 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. SUBMISSION 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. 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 (http://www.springer.com/series/1244) and must be electronically submitted through the symposium web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2014 All contributions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a blind review process. DEVELOPMENT TRACK To encourage open-source releases of hard and software components, a special track on open-source developments will be included in the 2014 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. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full papers: April 11th, 2014. * Notification to authors: May 23rd, 2014. * Submission of camera-ready copies: June 6th, 2014. * RoboCup 2014 Symposium: July 25th, 2014. SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS * H. Levent Akin, Bogazi?i University * Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi, FEI University * Subramanian Ramamoorthy, University of Edinburgh * Komei Sugiura, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology AREAS OF INTEREST * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile and humanoid robots - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robotic system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators * Perception and Action - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robotic Cognition and Learning - world modeling - localization, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - reinforcement learning - complex motor skill acquisition - motion and sensor model learning * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Human-Robot Interaction - human-robot interfaces - speech synthesis and natural language generation - visualization - emotion recognition - human's intent cognition - affect detection and synthesis - robot response to external disturbances - safety and dependability * Education and Edutainment - Robotics and Artificial Intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications - disaster rescue information systems - search and rescue robots - robotic surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home Regards on behalf of the symposium co-chairs. 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Details may be found on the workshop web site: http://swarmlab.unimaas.nl/ala2014/ Adaptive and Learning Agents, particularly those in a multi-agent setting are becoming more and more prominent as the sheer size and complexity of many real world systems grows How to adaptively control, coordinate and optimize such systems is an emerging multi-disciplinary research area at the intersection of Computer Science, Control theory, Economics, and Biology. The ALA workshop will focus on agent and multi-agent systems which employ learning or adaptation. The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems. It aims at bringing together not only scientists from different areas of computer science but also from different fields studying similar concepts (e.g., game theory, bio-inspired control, mechanism design). Research on adaptive agents in the area of robotics is encouraged. This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning approaches * Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent reasoning modules like negotiation, trust models, coordination, etc. * Supervised multi-agent learning * Reinforcement learning (single and multi-agent) * Planning (single and multi-agent) * Reasoning (single and multi-agent) * Distributed learning * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments * Evolution of agents in complex environments * Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent setting * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate * Learning to cooperate and collaborate * Learning trust and reputation * Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent coordination * Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination * Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and adaptive agents * Emergent behaviour in adaptive multi-agent systems * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems * Neuro-control in multi-agent systems * Bio-inspired multi-agent systems * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems to real world complex systems ******************************************************* Submission Details Papers can be submitted through Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ala20140 Submissions may be up to 8 pages in the ACM proceedings format (i.e., the same as AAMAS papers in the main conference track). Accepted work will be allocated time for oral presentation during the one day workshop. Papers accepted at the workshop will also be eligible for inclusion in a special issue published after the workshop. ******************************************************* * Submission Deadline: January 22, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: February 19, 2014 * Camera-ready copies: March 10, 2014 * Workshop: May 5 or 6, 2014 ******************************************************* From joydeep at cmu.edu Sun Dec 29 08:57:23 2013 From: joydeep at cmu.edu (Joydeep Biswas) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 08:57:23 -0500 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2014 Small Size League - Call for Participation Message-ID: ******************************************************************** Call for Participation RoboCup Small Size League Competition 2014 July 19-25, 2014 (Joao Pessoa, Brazil) http://www.robocup2014.org/ Small Size League Wiki http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Small_Size_League http://robocupssl.cpe.ku.ac.th/ ******************************************************************** Robocup is a competition domain designed to advance Robotics and AI research through a friendly competition. Small Size robot soccer is one of the Robocup league divisions, focused on the problem of intelligent multi-agent cooperation and control in a highly dynamic environment with a hybrid centralized/distributed system. Researchers and students are invited to participate in the RoboCup Small Size League competition 2014, in Brazil. To participate, teams must complete the qualification process, available on the League?s Wiki, at http://robocupssl.cpe.ku.ac.th/robocup2014:qualification, and summarized in this e-mail. IMPORTANT DATES ? Pre-Registration Deadline : January 31, 2014 ? Qualification Deadline : February 28, 2014 ? Qualification Announcement : March 15, 2014 ? Financial Support Confirmation Deadline : April 15, 2014 The qualification process consists of: 1. Pre-Registration Indicate participation intent by sending an email to the organizing committee(rc-ssl-oc at lists.robocup.org), containing the following: ? Team Name ? Country ? University ? Main contact name and Email ? Team Website (optional) The email subject should be: 2014 Participation Intent . 2. Submission of the Qualification Material: Teams are required to send the following qualification material to the organizing committee (rc-ssl-oc at lists.robocup.org): ? A Team Description Paper (TDP) in LNAI format ( http://www.springer.com/series/1244) ? A Team Video demonstrating the team capabilities The detailed requirements of the qualification material are posted on the League?s wiki, at http://robocupssl.cpe.ku.ac.th/robocup2014:qualification * (Special requirement for Top 8 teams from Robocup 2013) - Top 8 teams have to submit also an Extended Team Description Paper (ETDP) by April 15, 2014. Hope to see you at Robocup 2014. Best Regards, 2014 Robocup Small Size League Organizing and Technical Committees -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2014 Soccer Simulation League, 2D competition, which will take place Jun 20-24, 2014, in Joao Pessoa, Brazil. To pre-register all teams have to provide a Team Description Paper and in case they are based on another team under a license they have to publish the agent source code. The teams will also have to provide a binary file and annotated logfiles showing the team game play quality. Schedule -------- Team Pre-Registration Deadline: January 31, 2014(Friday) - 23:59 UTC Materials Submission Deadline: February 14, 2014(Friday) - 23:59 UTC Qualification Notification: March 3, 2014(Monday) - 23:59 UTC Qualification -------------- In RoboCup 2014 up to 24 teams will be allowed to participate in the 2D Simulation competitions. Qualification is based on the quality of the TDP, the team's current performance based annotated logfiles sent. Previous achievements in RoboCup and scientific contributions to the RoboCup community in past years are also relevant for qualification. There are several general rules on which the qualification processes as well as the tournaments are based: 1. One-Fourth-Rule: Only one fourth of the participating teams may be from the same country. With 24 places in RoboCup 2014 only 6 teams per country are allowed. If a team is situated in more than one country, the bound location counts. Teams infringing this rule will be ignored in the ordered list of qualified teams. False statement results in penalty. See Appendix A.1 for further explanations. 2. One-Team-Per-Research-Institution: Each university or research institute may only qualify one team. If a team is affiliated with more than one institution, the unbound affiliation counts. Teams infringing this rule will be ignored in the ordered list of qualified teams. False statement results in penalty. 3. Plagiarism-Penalty: If a team commits plagiarism, the team and its members will be banned from participation for this and next year's RoboCup. The term plagiarism comprises any use of external knowledge without proper referencing, i.e. copying or using the thoughts, ideas, texts or language in general and presenting them as their own. This applies for Team Description Papers as well as logfiles, team code and binaries. All kinds of licenses and copyright have to be respected. This applies for the qualification process as well as the RoboCup tournaments. Please be aware that when a team is found guilty of committing plagiarism it is disqualified and banned at any time. This may also be in the middle of the tournament. 4. No-Show-Penalty: If a team qualifies for RoboCup 2014, but is not able to participate, it has to cancel its participation before the deadline in order to give the next-ranked team the chance to take its place. If there are reasons for delays in registration the team has to let OC know so that a reaction in time is possible. If a team fails to observe this rule ('no-show'), the team and its members will be banned for next RoboCup competitions. 5. Academic-Fairness-Rule: If any team breaches general academic fairness in any other way, it has to face penalties as well. 6. Automatic-Qualification-Rules: The top three teams from last RoboCup (i.e. WrightEagle, Helios and YuShan), and the OC (i.e. Joao Alberto Fabro and Tomoharu Nakashima) team(s) (if any) are automatically qualified (after pre-registering their teams and submitting appropriate materials). The remaining teams will be selected through the qualification process. Pre-Registration ---------------- All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the deadline (31 January 2014). To pre-register, send an E-Mail to joaofabro at gmail.com with the subject '2014 Pre-registration TeamName'. The E-Mail should contain the following information: 1. Team-Name: 2. Country: 3. Affiliation: 4. Team-Leader: 5. Team Members: 6. Contact E-Mail: 7. Base-Team: 8. Dependencies: You should receive a confirmation e-mail for your pre-registration. Affiliation is the team's organization, institute or university. Dependencies should include all dependencies of your team binaries from the standard repositories (we will set these up before hands, so every team binary should be executable at the tournament). Under Base-Team each team using another team as base for their agents, has to specify this team. Please note that you have to provide correct and full information and giving false or incomplete statement will be penalized with banning of the team and its members. Please be aware that with respect to gentlemanly play, we will NOT allow any team name changes from the pre-registration to the competition in RoboCup 2014. If a team has based its agent on external code or libraries published under certain licenses or copyright, it has to observe the according rules. In most cases this will be the GNU General Public License, i.e. a proper disclaimer has to be included in Team Description Paper and source code and the source code has to be submitted as well. After official RoboCup competitions the binaries will be published, i.e. the rules of the corresponding license have to be respected as well. For GPL this also implies publishing the code. Qualification Materials ----------------------- All teams who wish to qualify need to send their qualification materials by the deadline (14 February 2014). To send the qualification materials, send an E-Mail to joaofabro at gmail.com with the subject '2014 Qualification Materials TeamName'. The E-Mail should contain the following information and files: 1. Team-Name: 2. Country: 3. Affiliation: 4. Team-Leader: 5. Team Members: 6. Contact E-Mail: 7. Base-Team: 8. Dependencies: Attachment Files: 9. Team Description Paper ('TDP_TeamName.pdf') 10. Team Binary (and also source code depending on the base code license) 11. Logfiles (compressed in a single file ('Logfiles_TeamName.tar.gz') 12. Appendix ('Appendix_TeamName.pdf') In order to participate in qualification, a team has to send as attachments a Team Description paper, the team current binary as well as logfiles showing the team's game play quality and a separate appendix to the TDP describing the logfiles. The deadline for submission is February 14th, 2014. Team Description Paper ---------------------- Each team has to submit a team description paper (in English) describing the focus and ideas as well as recent advancements implemented in the team. This paper must have a length of 4 to 6 pages in Springer LNCS style and has to be submitted as PDF (to be named 'TDP_TeamName.pdf'). Please note: A team can only be qualified if the quality of its TDP is appropriate! The Team Description Paper (TDP) should comprise, among other things: the scientific focus of the team; team's current efforts; progress since last TDP/competition; team base code and description how the team is different from the base code; originality of the team's approach; results (team results or ideally results achieved using the team's main scientific contribution(s)); related work (at least 5 and ideally more than 10 references comparing the work with related work developed by other teams). Please be aware that the TDP has to describe the team's very own scientific efforts and explicitly illustrate whether a team has used external knowledge (ideas, code, agent base or the like) to build upon. If a team did use knowledge not evolved by this team, the own achievements have to be outlined in contrast to this. This also applies if one or more team members have switched from another team or a new team is created on the base of another even though the involved persons have not changed. If external knowledge is used but not referenced, explained and differentiated from in the TDP, the team and its members will be penalized with banning for this and next year's RoboCup. Team Binary/Source Code ----------------------- Teams should send an attachment with a working binary. Depending on the base code license teams should also provide the team's complete source code. Team binary or source code should be compressed in a single file named ('Binary_TeamName.tar.gz' or 'Source_TeamName.tar.gz'). Logfiles and Appendix --------------------- In order to assess the team's performance and evaluate its scientific efforts in the context of game play, teams have to submit 8 logfiles against one or more teams of last year's RoboCup (http://www.socsim.robocup .org/files/2D/binary/RoboCup2013/) and 2 logfiles against the latest agent2d ( http://sourceforge.jp/projects/rctools/downloads/55186/agent2d-3.1.1.tar.gz/ or later). Logfiles comprise both rcg and rcl in version 5 (server::game_log_version = 5) generated with compression (server::game_log_compression = 1 and server::text_log_compression = 1) on using the most recent version of the Soccer Server. These logfiles have to prove that the team is competitive enough to participate and demonstrate the team's characteristics. It is expected that specific scenes from these logfiles are referenced from within a separate appendix (to be named 'Appendix_TeamName.pdf', consisting of entries in the following form: ; additional graphics are allowed) accompanying the TDP, linking research with implementation and game play. Due to the size of logfiles, it is recommended to store your files online and send only the link(s). Qualification Results ----------------------- The TDPs and logfiles of all teams will be peer reviewed by experts in 2D RoboCup Simulation League nominated by the OC. The reviewers will evaluate the qualification materials and rank the teams. The ranks will be averaged into a global ranking and the top teams on that ranking will be qualified for the RoboCup 2D simulation competition. Qualification results will be announced on March 3rd 2014. Please notice that the submitted materials of all qualified teams will be made publicly available during the announcement of qualification results. Appendix -------- A.1 Explanations to General Rule 1 "If a team is situated in more than one country, the bound location counts." General rule 1 defines an upper bound of 6 teams from the same country. If 6 qualified teams already originate from country A and there is a team XY originating from country A as well as country B, team XY is not allowed to participate in RoboCupdespite the fact that the quota for country B may not be reached. A.2 Explanations to General Rule 2 "If a team is affiliated with more than one institution, the unbound affiliation counts." General rule 2 defines that only one team per institute may participate in RoboCup. However, if a team XY is affiliated with institution A as well as institution B and there is already a team affiliated with A, the team XY may participate. 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Name: CFP_Robocup_2014_2D_Simulation.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 48104 bytes Desc: not available URL: From lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt Tue Dec 31 11:02:30 2013 From: lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt (Luis Paulo Reis) Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:02:30 +0000 Subject: [robocup-worldwide] 1st Call for Participation - RoboCup 2014 Soccer Simulation 3D Competition Message-ID: Call for Participation ########################################## RoboCup 2014 Soccer Simulation 3D League July 20-24, 2014 (Jo?o Pessoa, Brazil) http://www.robocup2014.org/ ########################################## The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D Competition provides a great opportunity to experiment with humanoid robots without the need for investing in robot hardware. It facilitates experimenting with different learning and optimization techniques by providing a simulated environment. Since the games are played with teams of 11 players, the league is also a very good environment for experimenting on multi-robot coordination methodologies. We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2014 Soccer Simulation League, 3D competition, which will take place July 20-24, 2014, in Jo?o Pessoa, Brazil. If you are interested in participating, please pre-register your team and follow the procedure as outlined below. ######## Schedule ######## Team Pre-Registration Deadline: *January 31, 2014 (23:59 UTC)* Team Qualification Materials Submission Deadline: February 14, 2014 (23:59 UTC) Qualified Teams Announcement: March 1, 2014 ################ Pre-Registration ################ All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the deadline (31 of January, 2014). To pre-register, send an E-Mail to *lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt (cc: msimoes at uneb.br ) *with the subject *'2014 3DSim Pre-registration TEAM_NAME'*. The E-Mail should contain the following information: 1. Team-Name: 2. Team-Leader: 3. E-Mail: 4. Country/ies: 5. Affiliation(s): 6. Number of team members: You should receive a confirmation E-Mail for your pre-registration within a few days of submission. ############# Qualification ############# Qualification is based on a team's current performance, previous achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions to the RoboCup community in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list and development of the simulator. In RoboCup 2014, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D simulation competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2013 (Apollo, UT Austin Villa and FC Portugal) are automatically qualified after pre-registering their teams and submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP). The other 21 teams will be selected through a qualification process. The qualification deadline is *14 February 2014*. The OC does not accept qualification materials from teams who have not been pre-registered by the pre-registration deadline. Qualification material consists of: *1. Team Description Paper (TDP)* The TDP should describe your research focus and ideas implemented in the team. It should clearly describe your own work and your contributions in addition to explicitly specifying what you have used from others' efforts (including, but not limited to, any source code released by other teams or their scientific work). In qualification, teams must be judged based on their own work, so failing to acknowledge the work of others could result in an immediate disqualification. The length of the TDP has to be at least four (4) pages and should not exceed twelve (12) pages in Springer LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Please submit the TDP only as a PDF document, with the name of your team in the filename, i.e. ?*teamname_TDP.pdf?*. *2. A List of Publications and Achievements* on previous RoboCup Symposia and in other relevant international journals and conferences. Please do not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. Please also include your team's achievements in RoboCup and related events of previous years. If you are new to the RoboCup 3D community, you may also include references to relevant research done by your team that shows its potential. Please submit the contribution list as a PDF document, with the name of your team in the filename, i.e. ?*teamname_list.pdf*. *3. Binary* All teams should submit a working binary of their team. The OC will use these binaries to play 11 vs 11 matches, under the rules and with the simulator used during the 2013 competitions held in Eindhoven ( http://www.robocup2013.org/3d-simulation-league/). These rules can be found at: http://homepages.herts.ac.uk/~sv08aav/RCSoccerSim3DRules2013.1.pdf Submitted binaries should adhere to the following: - Two scripts should be included: a start up script, called start.sh, to run a full team of agents and a kill script, called kill.sh, to fully kill all agents of the team. The requirements and examples of these scripts can be found at the rules page given above. - All necessary external libraries should be included and be used locally by the binary. The OC will not make an effort to install extra libraries on the qualification systems. - The binaries should not create any output, be it through standard output or to files and no graphical (debugging) interface should be used. - The binary should be compiled for *64 bit* systems and should work on a modern GNU/Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu 12.10. You may also send 32 bit binaries, but it is your responsibility to make sure that it runs correctly on 64 bit distributions. You can assume that basic 32 bit libraries (e.g. libc) are installed on the 64 bit OS. To summarize: the binary should run out of the box on a standard, clean, headless system in a restricted sand box environment with the simulation server (possibly) running on a different machine. The OC will not try to fix errors. When a binary fails to run, the respective team will be notified and will have to resubmit their material, before the deadline of *14 February, 2014*. Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name, create a tarball name *teamname.tgz* and E-Mail it to *lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt (cc: msimoes at uneb.br ) *with the subject: '*2014 3DSim Qualification TEAM_NAME*'. If everything went well you will receive a confirmation. If you did not receive any confirmation within two (2) days, please contact the Organizing Committee. Teams will be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in this E-Mail. Also, the following general qualification limitations will be considered: - One-Third-Rule: The so called One-Third-Rule rule states that only up to 1/3 of the participants of a competition may be from the same country. - One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule: The One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule states that only one team from each university or research institute is allowed to participate in a competition. Note that it is okay for different teams from the same institute to participate in different competitions, e.g. 2D and 3D soccer. If you encounter any problem sending you qualification materials please don't hesitate to contact the OC. Best Regards, Luis Paulo Reis & Marco Sim?es On Behalf of Organizing Committee RoboCup 2014 Soccer Simulation 3D -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luis Paulo Reis http://www3.dsi.uminho.pt/lpreis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associate Professor at University of Minho - DSI/School of Engineering University of Minho, Campus de Azur?m 4800-058 Guimar?es Member of the Directive Board of LIACC - Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab. President of the Portuguese Society for Robotics Tel. +351 253510312 / +351 919455251 / Fax: +351 253510300 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Don't close your eyes unless you can dream. Don't open your eyes unless you can believe!" ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: