[PlanetKR] CFP: PRACTICAL COGNITIVE AGENTS and ROBOTS

[Mary-Anne Williams]

  *International Symposium on PRACTICAL COGNITIVE AGENTS and ROBOTS

*                     --- Celebrating 50 Years of Artificial 
Intelligence  ---

                                         CALL FOR PAPERS
                             http://agents.csse.uwa.edu.au/pcar/
                        *Paper Submission: September 30, 2006 *
                         27- 28 November, 2006 (Perth, Australia)

*INVITED SPEAKERS:

Masahiro Fujita *- /General Manager, Chief Distinguished Researcher, 
Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, Information Technologies 
Laboratories, Sony Corporation/, /Japan. Technical leader of Sony's 
entertainment robot AIBOand humanoid QRIO.
/
*Patrick Doherty* - /Professor of Computer Science, Department of 
Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, and  Director 
for LinkLab, a Center for Future Aviation Systems, which is a joint 
venture between Saab Aero Systems and Linköping University./

Mobile autonomous robots can perform complex tasks in unstructured and 
dynamic environments. Advances in autonomous mobile robotics over the 
last decade have been extraordinary, and the potential for future 
scientific breakthroughs and applications is breathtaking. However, a 
number of bottlenecks to future advancement have been identified such as 
building robots that know what they are doing, and that can adapt to 
changing conditions and requirements.

This symposium seeks to move the research frontier by focusing on the 
scientific bottlenecks, namely equipping robots with more knowledge 
about internal representations and the external world, as well as 
developing an awareness of oneself and others.
 
he symposium aims at soliciting leading edge research ideas and results 
from practical research on implementing knowledge representation and 
high-level reasoning into mobile autonomous robots. Papers on autonomous 
agents and robots in general are all welcome, but the following areas 
are highly encouraged,

* Grounding representations to sensorimotor experiences
* Integrating knowledge representation into behaviour based robots
* Inter-robot and human-robot interaction  and  communication
* Inter-robot and human-robot cooperation and collaboration
* How to build robots that know what they are doing
* Semantic Web or agent applications for robots
* Cognitive Robotics
* Robot world modeling
* Robot perception
* Intelligent robotic applications

Come and join the celebration of 50 years research in Artificial 
Intelligence!

*PUBLICATION of PAPERS *

Accepted papers will be published by the University of Western Australia 
Press and available on CDs with an ISBN 1-74052-131-5, and will be 
included in the *ACM Digital Library*. Slected best papers will be to 
invited to submit to a Special Issue of the *Journal of Autonomous 
Agents and Multi-agent Systems* (JAAMAS) edited by the symposium chairs 
and scheduled for publication in late 2008.

*
SYMPOSIUM and PROGRAM CHAIRS *

*Xiaoping Chen* - The University of Science and Technology of China
*Wei Liu* - The University of Western Australia
*Mary-Anne Williams* - The University of Technology Sydney

*SYMPOSIUM WEBSITE*: http://agents.csse.uwa.edu.au/pcar/

*IMPORTANT DATES*:
*Paper Submission: Sep 30 2006 *
Notification of Acceptance: Oct 30 2006
Camera Ready Submission: Nov 6 2006
Symposium dates and location: 27- 28 Nov, 2006 (Perth, Australia)

*PROGRAM COMMITTEE:*
Eyal Amir, University of Illonois, USA
Christian Balkenius, Lund University Cognitive Science, Seweden
Salem Benferhat, Universite d'Artois, France
Thomas Braunl, University of Western Australia, Australia
Gerhard Brewka, University of Liepzig, Germany
Stephan Chalup, University of Newcastle, Australia
Tony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK
Gamini Dissanayake, University of Technology, Sydney
Patrick Doherty, University of Linkoping, Sweden
James Harland, University of Western Australia, Australia
Anthony Hunter, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Benjamin Johnson, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Alankar Karol, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen University of Technology, Germany
Jerome Lang, CNRS, France
Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Aarati Martino, Google Inc, USA
John McCarthy, Stanford University, USA
Thomas Meyer, University of NSW, Australia
Leora Morgenstern, IBM Research, USA
Daniele Nardi, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Timothy Oates, University of Maryland, USA
Maurice Pagnucco, University of NSW, Australia
Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras, Greece
Massimo Picardi, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Fiora Pirri, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
David Poole, University of British Columbia, Canda
Michael Quinlan, University of Newcastle, Australia
Mark Reynolds, University of Western Australia, Australia
Thomas Rofer, University of Bremen, Germany
Andrew Solomon, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Christopher Stanton, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Dan Stronger, University of Texas, USA
Ubbo Visser, University of Bremen, Germany
Chenghong Wang, National Nature Science Foundation of China, China
Guo Wei, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA
Michael Wise, University of Western Australia, Australia
Kui Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hongbin Zha, Peking University, China
Bo Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

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Professor Mary-Anne Williams
    Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory
    Faculty of Information Technology
    University of Technology, Sydney
    Sydney NSW 2007 Australia
    http://www.innovation.it.uts.edu.au/Mary-Anne

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