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Sun, 08 Mar 1998 00:00
CFP: European Workshop on Learning Robots
Author: John Demiris
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 00:00
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---------------------------- Call for Papers -------------------------------
European Workshop on Learning Robots 1998 (EWLR-7) - Edinburgh, 20 July 1998
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** The workshop has a frequently updated WWW page with additional information
on travel, accommodation, etc, at
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/conferences/ewlr7/
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The seventh European Workshop on Learning Robots will take place at the
Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh in
Scotland, on the 20th of July 1998, immediately before the International
Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (SIRS-98).
Introduction
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Robot Learning is an area of interest to many different scientific fields
such as Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Neuroscience,
and Cognitive Science. The main goal of EWLR-7 is to bring together
researchers of different scientific fields working on or interested in
Robot Learning. EWLR envisages to be an interdisciplinary workshop
and aims to stimulate an exchange of ideas across the different fields.
EWLR has good foundations to achieve this ambitious goal. The European
Machine Learning and Robotics community has already organised a series of
six successful workshops (Vienna (1993), Torino (1994), Heraklion (1995),
Karlsruhe (1995), Bari (1996), Brighton (1997)) incorporating researchers
from various fields over the years.
Scope
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Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
* Learning and Adaptation in robot control
* Reinforcement learning
* Robot implementations of human motor learning mechanisms
* Evolutionary learning in robots
* Connectionist approaches to robot learning
* Machine learning techniques applied to robot problems
* Learning from interaction with humans
* Learning by observation, imitation, and cooperation
* Learning in multi-robot systems
* Industrial applications of robot learning
* Hardware issues in learning robots including Evolware
* Robot-Learning and cognition
The EWLRs focus on - but are *not* restricted to - European research.
Program Committee
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* Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan.
* Luc Berthouze, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan.
* Daniel Bullock, Cognitive and Neural Systems Department, Boston
University, USA.
* Thomas Christaller, GMD, Germany.
* Kerstin Dautenhahn, Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK.
* Edwin De Jong, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, VUB, Belgium.
* Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, Universit� Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
* Ruediger Dillmann, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany.
* Philippe Gaussier, Neurocybernetics group, ETIS, ENSEA, France.
* John Hallam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of
Edinburgh, UK.
* Gillian Hayes, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of
Edinburgh, UK.
* Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan.
* Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, IIIA, CSIC, Spain.
* Henrik Lund, Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark.
* Stefan Schaal, University of Southern California and ERATO / Japan Science
and Technology Corporation.
* Patrick van der Smagt, Institute of Robotics and System Dynamics, German
Aerospace Research.
* Jun Tani, Sony Computer Science Lab, Tokyo, Japan.
* Sebastian Thrun, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
* Carme Torras, Institut de Robotica i Informatica Industrial, UPC, Spain.
* Jeremy Wyatt, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK.
Important Dates
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* May 1, deadline for submission of papers.
* June 2, notification of acceptance/rejection.
* July 3, deadline for submission of final manuscripts.
* July 20, workshop in Edinburgh.
Submission information
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Electronic submission is encouraged. Submitted papers (max 10 A4 pages,
two columns, single-spaced, body text size 10 pt, LaTeX files available
at the workshop's WWW page) should be in postscript format (try using
'gzip' and 'uuencode' to reduce the size, and check whether the size of
the file you are sending is within the size limits of your e-mailer),
and should be sent to ewlr7@dai.ed.ac.uk
Alternatively, 5 hard-copies of the paper should be submitted to REACH the
chair by the deadline.
Papers should include full contact details (including email address)
and affiliation of authors.
Publication
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All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the workshop,
which will be available at the workshop. Similar to last year, we aim to
publish a selection of the best papers in a book (last year's publisher
was Springer-Verlag, LNAI).
Facilities available at the venue
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The audio-visual equipment available at the venue includes overhead
projectors, slide projectors, and barco projector connected to video player
(PAL/NTSC), to UNIX colour X-terminal (connected to the Internet for live
demos if needed), and to PC machines running MS-Windows. The venue is next
to the Mobile Robots Research Laboratory, where standard RWI and Khepera
robots are available for live demonstrations if authors are interested. Sun
and Intel-based workstations are also available, and all possible technical
support will be given to people that would be interested in bringing along
their own robots for demonstrations.
EWLR-8 in 1999
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In addition to this call for papers for EWLR-7, proposals are invited
for the organisation of EWLR-8. Please send submissions to the
organisers, who will collect them and present them during EWLR-7 for
selection from the attendees. Since this is the second time that the
workshop is being organised in the UK, proposals from other parts of
Europe are particularly welcome.
Organisers
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Chair Co-Chair
John Demiris Andreas Birk
Dept. of Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
University of Edinburgh Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Brussels, Belgium
johnde@dai.ed.ac.uk cyrano@arti.vub.ac.be
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** The workshop has a frequently updated WWW page with additional information
on travel, accomodation, etc, at
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/conferences/ewlr7/
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Int'l Conf on Information Fusion - July 97, USA
Author: fusion
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 00:00
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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The 1998 International Conference on
Multisource-Multisensor Information Fusion
(http://www.zaptron.com)
July 6-9, 1998
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Sponsored by
National Science Foundation
Office of Naval Research of the US Navy
US Army Research Office
in cooperation with
IEEE Signal Processing Society
ZAPTRON SYSTEMS, INC.
University of Georgia
Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech
National Supercomputing Center for Energy & Environment
The First International Conference on Sensor Information Fusion (FUSION'98)
will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 6 - 9, 1998, concurrently
with the 1998 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems
and Technology (CISST'98). All aspects of sensor data fusion techniques
and systems are included in FUSION'98. All accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. Keynote speeches and
plenary talks will be offered by internationally known researchers.
The official FUSION'98 web site is at
http://www.zaptron.com/
SCOPE: All aspects of data and information fusion, see web site.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: see web site for detailed instructions
Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their
draft paper (4 to 5 pages) to a session chair (address given
on web site) by the due date. E-mail and Fax submissions are
acceptable. Papers must not have been peviously published or
currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 20, 1998 (extended): Draft papers (5-page) due
April 3, 1998 (Friday): Notification of acceptance
May 22, 1998 (Friday): Camera-Ready papers & Preregistration due
July 6 - 9, 1998: FUSION'98 Conference
All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference.
Honorary Chairman:
Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh, UC-Berkeley, CA, UA
GENERAL CHAIR:
Dr. Dongping (Daniel) Zhu, Zaptron Systems, Inc. CA, USA
Tel: (408) 732-7779 Fax: (408)490-2729, E-mail: dan@zaptron.com
GENERAL CO-CHAIR:
Dr. Rabinder Madan, Office of Naval Research, US Navy
VICE CHAIR (Conference Contact Person):
Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia
Steering Committee Chairman
Dr. X. Rong Li, University of New Orleans, USA
PROGRAM CHAIR:
Michael Falco, Northrup Grumman, Melbourne, FL, USA;
TECHCHNICAL CHAIR
Dr. Douglas J. Kewley, Defense Department, Australia
PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Dr. Belur V. Dasarathy, Dynetics, Inc. Huntsville, AL, USA;
STEERING COMMITTEE:
Prof. Jake K. Aggarwal, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Dr. Alain Apprio, ONERA, Chatillon, France
Dr. Radhakisan S. Baheti, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA 22230,
USA
Mr. Mark Bedworth, Defence Evaluation & Research Agency, UK
Dr. Chee-Yee Chong, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, USA
Dr. Richard W. Conners, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, VA, USA
Dr. Oliver E. Drummond, Culver City, CA 90230, USA
Dr. Alfonso Farina, ALENIA, Italy
Dr. I. R. Goodman, SPAWAR Systems Center, USA
Prof. Gui-Rong Guo, National University of Defense Technology, PRC
Prof. Masatoshi Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Ivan Kadar, Northrop Grumman, Advanced Systems, Bethpage, N.Y.
Prof. Rudolf Kruse, Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
Prof. James Llinas, State University of NY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Prof. Daniel McMichael, Ctr for Sensor Signal & Info Proce, Australia
Dr. Shozo Mori, Raytheon TI Systems, San Jose CA 95126, USA
Dr. Ronald P. Mahler, Lockheed-Martin, Engan, MN 55121, USA
Dr. Bill A. Sander, Army Research Office, NC, USA
Prof. Tzvetan A. Semerdjiev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Prof. Pramod K Varshney, Sycacuse University, USA
Mr. Franklin E. White, Space & Naval Warfare System Center, San Diego, CA,
USA
ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
Dr. Lynn Abbott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Dr. Shui M. Cheung, FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City, USA
Dr. Yaakov Bar-Shalom, University of Conneticut, USA
Dr. Jerry Mendel, University of Southern California, Los Angles, CA USA
Dr. Enrique H. Ruspini, Stanford Research Institute International, CA, USA
Professor Zhongtuo Wang, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
Mr. Franklin E. White, Space & Naval Warfare System Center, San Diego, CA,
USA
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (about 50 members, see web site)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Dr. Yaakov Bar-Shalom, University of Connecticut, CT, USA
Dr. Enrique H. Ruspini, Standord Research Institute International, CA,
USA
Mr. Colin Johnson, Editor, Electrical Engineering Times, OR, USA
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