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<H3 ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://dive.iyte.edu.tr/11ICIC-SS-SRS/RobotSoft.html">Call For Papers</A></H3>
<H3 ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://www.ic-ic.org/2011/SpecialSession.htm">Special Session on Smart Robotics Systems</A> (SRS)</H3>
<H5 ALIGN=CENTER>International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2011)</H5>
<H5 ALIGN=CENTER>11-14 August 2011, Zhengzhou/China</H5>
<H5 ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://www.ic-ic.org/2011/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.ic-ic.org/2011/</A></H5>
<H4>Organisers</H4>
<A HREF="mailto:borakumova@iyte.edu.tr">Bora İ Kumova</A>; İzmir Institute of Technology/Turkey<BR>
<A HREF="mailto:yasserfarouk@gmail.com">Yasser FO Mohammad</A>; Electrical Engineering Department; Assiut University/Egypt<BR>
Assistance: Savaş Takan; İzmir Institute of Technology/Turkey
<H4>Objective</H4>
The objective of the special session is to inspire new research and development directions by discussing advanced techniques for facilitating smarter robotics software.<BR>
<H4>Topics</H4>
Any work related to smart behaviours in robotics software is welcome. Especially papers that utilise
AI techniques for robotics applications or operating systems:<BR>
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<LI>Cognitive architectures
<LI>Planning
<LI>Learning
<LI>Reasoning
<LI>Soft computing techniques in Robotics
<LI>Computational intelligence (hybrid soft computing)
<LI>Distributed Robotics Architectures and OSs
<LI>Parallelism in Robot OS
<LI>On-board interaction
<LI>Programming languages for Robotics Applications
<LI>Task level languages
<LI>Simulators or emulators
<LI>Software for specific robotic architectures
<LI>Software for miniature robots
<LI>Adjustable autonomy support
<LI>Software engineering techniques
<LI>Semantic web for robots
<LI>Co-operative architectures
<LI>Cloud-based OS for Robots
<LI>Common sense applications in robotics
<LI>Open-source robotics software and libraries
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<H4>Submission</H4>
Please submit full papers in LNAI format and in compliance with the <A HREF="http://www.ic-ic.org/2011/SpecialSession.htm">main conference rules</A>. Make sure to select the special session "Smart Robotics Systems" in the on-line <A HREF="http://www.ic-ic.org/icg/"> submission system</A>. Due date: 30.03.11. Please see "Important Dates" at the main conference site for the remaining schedule.<BR>
<H4>Publication</H4>
Each submitted paper will be evaluated by at least 3 referees. The first 4-6 ranked papers will be accepted for presentation. Registered papers will be published in the main conference proceedings.<BR>
<H4>Programme committee</H4>
<A HREF="http://robotik.dfki-bremen.de/de/mitarbeiter/listenansicht.html?tx_wecstaffdirectory_pi1%5Bcurstaff%5D=1403&cHash=218c043464d67782821fa9c5a23c9611">Philipp A Baer</A>; German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence/Germany<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=69">John Dolan</A>; Carnegie Mellon University/USA<BR>
<A HREF="http://robotik.dfki-bremen.de/en/staff/listview.html?tx_wecstaffdirectory_pi1%5Bcurstaff%5D=35&cHash=19e38a8ed96ca708b95c6cf67b82e804">Michele Folgheraiter</A>; German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence/Germany<BR>
<A HREF="http://hhhuang.homelinux.com/index-e.html">Huang-Hsuan Huang</A>; Ritsumeikan University/Japan<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.iyte.edu.tr/~borakumova">Bora İ Kumova</A>; İzmir Institute of Technology/Turkey<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yasser">Yasser FO Mohammad</A>; Assiut University/Egypt<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okada.s/index_e.html">Shogo Okada</A>; Kyoto University/Japan<BR>
<A HREF="http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda">Rodrigo Ventura</A>; Technical University of Lisbon/Portugal<BR>
<A HREF="http://quasar.inf.elte.hu">Istenes Zoltán</A>; Eötvös Loránd University/Hungary<BR>
<A HREF="http://zsv.web.elte.hu">Viktória Zsók</A>; Eötvös Loránd University/Hungary<BR>
<H4>Other information</H4>
For any further information, please visit the web site of the main conference: <A HREF="http://www.ic-ic.org/2011/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.ic-ic.org/2011/</A>
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