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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: #222222; background: white;">Dear RoboCuppers,</span><!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: #222222; background: white;">On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to announce an extension of the deadline for the paper submission to </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: red; background: white;">April 10, 2018</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: #222222; background: white;">. </span><!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: #222222; background: white;">Please check the RoboCup 2018 website (<a href="http://www.robocup2018.org/?page=call-for-papers&lang=en">http://www.robocup2018.org/?page=call-for-papers&lang=en</a> ) for more details.</span><!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: 15.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif; color: #333333;">IMPORTANT DATES</span></strong></span><!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 21.6pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;">* Notification to authors: <s>May 5, 2018</s> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: red;">May 11, 2018</span><!-- o ignored --></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; margin-left: 0cm; text-indent: -18.0pt; line-height: 21.6pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;">* Submission of camera-ready copies: <s>May 19, 2018</s> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: red;">May 25, 2018</span><!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hope to see in Montréal this coming June.</span><!-- o ignored --></p>
Dirk Holz, Katie Genter, Maarouf Saad, Oskar von Stryk</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginalBody;"> RoboCup International Symposium 2018<br /> Call for Papers<br /> <br /> OVERVIEW<br /> <br /> The 22nd Annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction<br /> with RoboCup 2018. The Symposium is a primary venue for presentation and<br /> discussion of scientific contributions to a variety of research areas<br /> related to all RoboCup divisions (RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup at<br /> Home, RoboCup at Work, and RoboCup Junior). Its scope includes, but is not<br /> restricted to, research and educational activities in robotics and<br /> artificial intelligence.<br /> <br /> Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the Symposium offers a unique venue for<br /> exploring both theory and practice in wide spectrum of research fields. The<br /> experimental, interactive, and benchmark character of the RoboCup initiative<br /> presents an opportunity to disseminate novel ideas and promising<br /> technologies, rapidly adopted and field-tested by a large, and still<br /> growing, community.<br /> <br /> <br /> SUBMISSION<br /> <br /> We solicit submissions of papers reporting high-quality, original research<br /> with relevance to robotics and artificial intelligence; topics of interest<br /> include, but are not limited to, the AREAS OF INTEREST listed below.<br /> Researchers in these areas, even if not actively participating in RoboCup<br /> teams, are urged to submit their work. We welcome both papers describing<br /> real- world research and papers reporting theoretical results, as well as<br /> combinations thereof. We also encourage the submission of high-quality<br /> overview articles for any field related to the general scope of RoboCup.<br /> <br /> The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium are published and<br /> archived within the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence<br /> (LNAI) series. <br /> Submitted papers are limited to 12 pages formatted according to the LNAI<br /> requirements (</span><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/1244"><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginalBody;">http://www.springer.com/series/1244</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginalBody;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginalBody;">) and must be<br /> electronically submitted through the symposium website:<br /> </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2018"><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginalBody;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2018</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginalBody;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginalBody;">.<br /> <br /> All contributions are peer-reviewed by a number of reviewers, and evaluated<br /> by members of the senior program committee.<br /> <br /> <br /> DEVELOPMENT TRACK<br /> <br /> To encourage open-source release of hardware and software components, a<br /> special track on open-source development will be part of the 2018 RoboCup<br /> International Symposium. Contributions to this track are limited to eight<br /> pages, formatted according to LNAI requirements. Contributions should<br /> include evidence of impact of the released component on the RoboCup<br /> community. Review of these contributions will be based on technical<br /> contribution and benefit to the RoboCup community.<br /> <br /> <br /> IMPORTANT DATES<br /> <br /> * Submission of full papers: <span style="color: red;">April 10, 2018</span><br /> * Notification to authors: <span style="color: red;">May 11, 2018</span><br /> * Submission of camera-ready copies<span style="color: red;">: May 25, 2018</span><br /> * RoboCup 2018 Symposium: 22 June 2018<br /> <br /> <br /> AREAS OF INTEREST<br /> <br /> * Robot Hardware and Software<br /> - mobile robotics<br /> - humanoid robotics<br /> - sensors and actuators<br /> - embedded and mobile devices<br /> - robot construction and new materials<br /> - robotic system integration<br /> - robot software architectures<br /> - robot programming environments and languages<br /> - real-time and concurrent programming<br /> - robot simulators<br /> <br /> * Perception and Action<br /> - 3D perception<br /> - distributed sensor integration<br /> - sensor noise filtering<br /> - real-time image processing and pattern recognition<br /> - motion and sensor models<br /> - sensory-motor control<br /> - robot kinematics and dynamics<br /> - high-dimensional motion control<br /> <br /> * Robot Cognition and Learning<br /> - world modeling and knowledge representation<br /> - learning from demonstration and imitation<br /> - localization, navigation, and mapping<br /> - planning and reasoning<br /> - decision making under uncertainty<br /> - reinforcement learning<br /> - complex motor skill acquisition<br /> - motion and sensor model learning<br /> <br /> * Multi-Robot Systems<br /> - team coordination methods<br /> - communication protocols<br /> - learning and adaptive systems<br /> - teamwork and heterogeneous agents<br /> - dynamic resource allocation<br /> - adjustable autonomy<br /> <br /> * Human-Robot Interaction<br /> - human-robot interfaces<br /> - speech synthesis and natural language generation<br /> - visualization<br /> - emotion recognition<br /> - understanding human intent<br /> - affect detection and synthesis<br /> - robot response to external disturbances<br /> - safety and dependability<br /> <br /> * Education and Edutainment<br /> - robotics and artificial intelligence education<br /> - educational robotics<br /> - robot kits and programming tools<br /> - robotic entertainment<br /> <br /> * Applications and Benchmarking<br /> - search and rescue robots<br /> - robotic surveillance<br /> - service and social robots<br /> - robots at home<br /> - performance metrics</span><!-- o ignored --></p>
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