<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Due to many requests, the paper submission deadline for the AAAI-13 Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems is extended to <b>15 April 2013</b>. Please find below the CfP with the updated timeline.</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr">The AAAI-13 Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Systems</div><div dir="ltr">July 14-15, 2013</div>
<div dir="ltr">Bellevue, Washington, USA</div><div dir="ltr">URL: <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/gdk/irs/">http://people.csail.mit.edu/gdk/irs/</a></div><div dir="ltr">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">
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.</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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 <a href="mailto:irs.aaai2013.ws@gmail.com">irs.aaai2013.ws@gmail.com</a>.</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- Workshop Description --</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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.</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- Important Dates --</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Submit manuscripts by: April 15, 2013</div><div dir="ltr">Acceptance notification: April 29, 2013</div><div dir="ltr">
Camera-ready submission: May 9, 2013</div><div dir="ltr">Workshop: July 14-15, 2013</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- Organizing Committee --</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Byron Boots, University of Washington</div>
<div dir="ltr">Nick Hawes, University of Birmingham</div><div dir="ltr">Todd Hester, University of Texas at Austin</div><div dir="ltr">George Konidaris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div><div dir="ltr">Tekin Meriçli, Boğaziçi University</div>
<div dir="ltr">Lorenzo Riano, University of California, Berkeley</div><div dir="ltr">Benjamin Rosman, University of Edinburgh</div><div dir="ltr">Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Tekin Mericli, MSCS<br>Ph.D. Candidate<br>Artificial Intelligence Laboratory<br>Department of Computer Engineering<br>
Bogazici University<br>Istanbul, Turkey<br><br>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:tekin.mericli@boun.edu.tr" target="_blank">tekin.mericli@boun.edu.tr</a><br>WWW: <a href="http://tekin.mericli.com" target="_blank">http://tekin.mericli.com</a><br>
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