RoboCup 2011 - Istanbul

RoboCup International Symposium 2011
İstanbul, Turkey
July 5-11, 2011
http://www.robocup2011.org/

Overview

The 15th annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup 2011. The Symposium represents the core meeting for presentation and discussion of scientific contributions to a variety of research areas related to all RoboCup divisions (RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home, and RoboCupJunior). Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and educational activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the symposium offers a unique venue for exploring various and intimate connections of theory and practice across a wide spectrum of research fields. The experimental, interactive, and benchmark character of the RoboCup initiative presents the opportunity to disseminate novel ideas and promising technologies, which are rapidly adopted and field-tested by a large (and still growing) community.

Submission

We solicit submissions of papers reporting on high-quality, original research with relevance to the areas mentioned below. All researchers working in these areas, even if not actively participating in RoboCup teams, are urged to submit their work. Both papers describing real-world research and papers reporting theoretical results, as well as combinations thereof, are welcome. We also encourage the submission of high-quality overview articles for any field related to the general scope of RoboCup.

The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium are published and archived within the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Submitted papers are limited to 12 pages formatted according to the LNAI requirements and must be electronically submitted through the symposium web site. All contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers using a blind review process.

In order to make the paper evaluation as fair as possible, the symposium committee will follow a double-blinded, anonymous reviewing process. Consequently, authors should NOT include any obvious information like URL's or email addresses unveiling their respective identities within the submitted manuscript. References to own publications should be blanked out or left void.

The online submission system for the Robocup 2011 Symposium can be accessed through the link below

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocup2011

Important Dates

Submission of full papers: Feb 27, 2011 (hard deadline, GMT - 10)
Notification to authors: Apr 10, 2011
Submission of camera-ready copies: May 8, 2011
RoboCup 2011 Symposium: July 11, 2011

Areas of Interest

Robot Hardware and Software mobile and humanoid robots sensors and actuators embedded and mobile devices robot construction and new materials robotic system integration robot software architectures robot programming environments and languages real-time and concurrent programming robot simulators	Perception and Action distributed sensor integration sensor noise filtering real-time image processing and pattern recognition motion and sensor models sensory-motor control robot kinematics and dynamics high-dimensional motion control
Robotic Cognition and Learning world modeling localization, navigation, and mapping planning and reasoning decision making under uncertainty reinforcement learning complex motor skill acquisition motion and sensor model learning	Multi-Robot Systems team coordination methods communication protocols learning and adaptive systems teamwork and heterogeneous agents dynamic resource allocation adjustable autonomy
Human-Robot Interaction human-robot interfaces speech synthesis and natural language generation visualization	Education and Edutainment Robotics and Artificial Intelligence education educational robotics robot kits and programming tools robotic entertainment
Applications disaster rescue information systems search and rescue robots robotic surveillance service and social robots robots at home