Call for Papers

http://www.robocup2003.org/

Purpose and Scope

The 7th RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction and immediately after the RoboCup 2003 Competitions and Demonstrations as the core meeting for the presentation of scientific contributions in areas of relevance to RoboCup. Its scope is encompasses, but is not restricted to the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Education.

Among the topics of interests are:

Multi-Agent Systems	Multi-Robot Systems
Sensor-Motor Control	Vision and Image-Processing
Self-localization and Navigation	Planning, Reasoning, and Modeling
Learning and Adaptive Systems	Cooperation and Collaboration
Simulation and Visualization	Realtime and Concurrent Programming
Embedded and Mobile Hardware	Non-conventional actuation systems, especially artificial muuscles
Next generation sensors for robots	Mobile Robots and Humanoids
Search and Rescue Robots	Robotics and Science Education
Adjustable Autonomy	Adversarial Planning
Disaster rescue information systems	System integraiton and Software-Engineering
Computer and Robotic Entertainment	Speech Synthesis and Natural Language Generation
Distributed Sensor Fusion	Omnidirectional Vision
Dynamic Resource Allocation/Heterogeneous Agents	Smart Materials
Fuel Cell Batteries	New Devices and Materials for Robots

Submission

We solicit submissions of papers reporting on high quality, original work with relevance to the areas described above. The RoboCup Symposium includes but is not limited to these areas. Due to its interdisciplinary nature and the exploration of various and intimate connections of theory and practice of a wide spectrum of different fields, it provides an excellent opportunity to introduce novel ideas and approaches and spread them amongst various scientific disciplines. The experimental, interactive and benchmark character of the RoboCup tournament creates the opportunity to present, learn and evaluate novel ideas and approaches with significant potential; if promising, they are then rapidly adopted and field-tested by a large (and still strongly growing) community.

In particular, we would like to urge also people not actively participating in RoboCup to submit their work on above or related topics, as the RoboCup project provides a uniquely powerful, effective and visible platform for rapid evaluation and dissemination of successful scientific and technological approaches.

Both papers describing real-world research and papers dealing with strong theoretical results are welcome, as well as combinations thereof. We also encourage the submission of high-quality overview articles for any field related to the general scope of RoboCup, especially the ones listed above. The proceedings of RoboCup are published within the Springer LNAI-series. All submissions to the International Symposium enter the selection process for the RoboCup "Scientific Challenge Award", which recognizes outstanding research within a field related to the scope of the Symposium.

Submission format and instructions

Submitted papers should follow the Springer LNAI format, and are limited to 16 pages. Instructions for formatting can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

We strongly encourage electronic submissions per the electronic instructions. Instructions on the electronics submission process go to:

Electronic Submissions

The electronic submission process requires a postscript or pdf file of the full paper, and the separate submission of an abstract. Authors who cannot submit their papers electronically should contact the program chairs for instructions on submitting hard copies. All submission materials are due: now extended to midnight EST Feb 23, 2003 .

Important dates

Feb 23, 2003	Submission deadline
May 1	Notification of acceptance
May 15	Camera-ready copies due
July 2-9	International RoboCup Competitions and Demonstrations
July 10-11	International RoboCup Symposium

Conference Co-Chairs

Daniel Polani	d.polani@herts.ac.uk	Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Andrea Bonarini	bonarini@elet.polimi.it	Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Brett Browning	brettb@cs.cmu.edu	The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kazuo Yoshida	yoshida@sd.keio.ac.jp	Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University, Japan