Author  Instructions

Submissions must be high quality, original work with relevance to the areas described in the Call for Papers. The RoboCup Symposium includes but is not limited to the areas described in the CFP. 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.

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.

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 Feb 15, 2002.