<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Robocup Teams,<div class=""> Attached is the call for papers for the upcoming 2016 Robocup Symposium.</div><div class="">Please feel free to share this with anyone who may be interested in</div><div class="">submitting a paper to the conference.</div><div class="">Manuscripts need to be submitted electronically to:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2016" class="">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2016</a></div><div class="">by the March 11, 2016 deadline.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">********************************************************************</div><div class="">Deadline for submission *** March 11, 2016 ***</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">********************************************************************</div><div class="">Call for Papers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RoboCup International Symposium 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Leipzig, Germany</div><div class="">July 4, 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.robocup2016.org/" class="">http://www.robocup2016.org/</a></div><div class="">robocupsymposium2016(at)<a href="http://easychair.org" class="">easychair.org</a></div><div class="">********************************************************************</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">OVERVIEW</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The 20th Annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in</div><div class="">conjunction with RoboCup 2016. The Symposium is a primary venue for</div><div class="">presentation and discussion of scientific contributions to a variety</div><div class="">of research areas related to all RoboCup divisions (RoboCup Soccer,</div><div class="">RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup at Home, RoboCup at Work, and RoboCup</div><div class="">Junior). Its scope includes, but is not restricted to, research and</div><div class="">educational activities in robotics and artificial intelligence.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the Symposium offers a unique</div><div class="">venue for exploring both theory and practice in wide spectrum of</div><div class="">research fields. The experimental, interactive, and benchmark</div><div class="">character of the RoboCup initiative presents an opportunity to</div><div class="">disseminate novel ideas and promising technologies, rapidly adopted</div><div class="">and field-tested by a large, and still growing, community.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SUBMISSION</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We solicit submissions of papers reporting high-quality, original</div><div class="">research with relevance to the areas mentioned below. Researchers in</div><div class="">these areas, even if not actively participating in RoboCup teams, are</div><div class="">urged to submit their work. We welcome both papers describing real-</div><div class="">world research and papers reporting theoretical results, as well as</div><div class="">combinations thereof. We also encourage the submission of high-</div><div class="">quality overview articles for any field related to the general scope</div><div class="">of RoboCup.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium are published</div><div class="">and archived within the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial</div><div class="">Intelligence (LNAI) series. Submitted papers are limited to 12 pages</div><div class="">formatted according to the LNAI requirements</div><div class="">(<a href="http://www.springer.com/series/1244" class="">http://www.springer.com/series/1244</a>) and must be electronically</div><div class="">submitted through the symposium web site:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2016" class="">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2016</a></div><div class="">All contributions are peer-reviewed by a number of reviewers, and evaluated</div><div class="">by members of the senior program committee.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">DEVELOPMENT TRACK</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To encourage open-source release of hardware and software components,</div><div class="">a special track on open-source development will be part of the 2016</div><div class="">RoboCup International Symposium. Contributions to this track are</div><div class="">limited to eight pages, formatted according to LNAI requirements.</div><div class="">Contributions should include evidence of impact of the released</div><div class="">component on the RoboCup community. Review of these contributions</div><div class="">will be based on technical contribution and benefit to the RoboCup</div><div class="">community.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IMPORTANT DATES</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Submission of full papers: March 11, 2016</div><div class="">* Notification to authors: April 29, 2016.</div><div class="">* Submission of camera-ready copies: May 13, 2016.</div><div class="">* RoboCup 2016 Symposium: July 4, 2016.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Sven Behnke, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany</div><div class="">* Daniel Lee, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA</div><div class="">* Sanem Sariel, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey</div><div class="">* Raymond Sheh, Curtin University, Perth, Australia</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AREAS OF INTEREST</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Robot Hardware and Software</div><div class="">- mobile robotics</div><div class="">- humanoid robotics</div><div class="">- sensors and actuators</div><div class="">- embedded and mobile devices</div><div class="">- robot construction and new materials</div><div class="">- robotic system integration</div><div class="">- robot software architectures</div><div class="">- robot programming environments and languages</div><div class="">- real-time and concurrent programming</div><div class="">- robot simulators</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Perception and Action</div><div class="">- 3D perception</div><div class="">- distributed sensor integration</div><div class="">- sensor noise filtering</div><div class="">- real-time image processing and pattern recognition</div><div class="">- motion and sensor models</div><div class="">- sensory-motor control</div><div class="">- robot kinematics and dynamics</div><div class="">- high-dimensional motion control</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Robot Cognition and Learning</div><div class="">- world modeling and knowledge representation</div><div class="">- learning from demonstration and imitation</div><div class="">- localization, navigation, and mapping</div><div class="">- planning and reasoning</div><div class="">- decision making under uncertainty</div><div class="">- reinforcement learning</div><div class="">- complex motor skill acquisition</div><div class="">- motion and sensor model learning</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Multi-Robot Systems</div><div class="">- team coordination methods</div><div class="">- communication protocols</div><div class="">- learning and adaptive systems</div><div class="">- teamwork and heterogeneous agents</div><div class="">- dynamic resource allocation</div><div class="">- adjustable autonomy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Human-Robot Interaction</div><div class="">- human-robot interfaces</div><div class="">- speech synthesis and natural language generation</div><div class="">- visualization</div><div class="">- emotion recognition</div><div class="">- understanding human intent</div><div class="">- affect detection and synthesis</div><div class="">- robot response to external disturbances</div><div class="">- safety and dependability</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Education and Edutainment</div><div class="">- robotics and artificial intelligence education</div><div class="">- educational robotics</div><div class="">- robot kits and programming tools</div><div class="">- robotic entertainment</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Applications and Benchmarking</div><div class="">- search and rescue robots</div><div class="">- robotic surveillance</div><div class="">- service and social robots</div><div class="">- robots at home</div><div class="">- performance metrics</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>