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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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RSS-2015 Workshop on Combining AI Reasoning and Cognitive Science
with Robotics<br>
16 July 2015, Rome, Italy<br>
URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cogrobo.sabanciuniv.edu/?page_id=869">http://cogrobo.sabanciuniv.edu/?page_id=869</a><br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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Submission deadline: May 8, 2015<br>
Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2015<br>
Submission of camera ready copies: May 29, 2015<br>
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION<br>
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Successful deployment of robots in our society requires these
systems to deal with high complexity and wide variability of their
surroundings to perform typical everyday tasks in public spaces. As
interaction with humans increases, so does the demand for
sophisticated robotic capabilities associated with high-level
cognitive functions. Combining results from the traditional robotics
discipline (e.g., related to navigation, manipulation, perception,
motion planning) with those from AI and cognitive science (e.g.,
planning, spatial/temporal reasoning, diagnosis, learning, natural
language understanding) is thus essential for robotics. These
synergies also benefit AI (e.g., as observed in recent advances in
hybrid planning and spatial reasoning) and cognitive science (e.g.,
as observed in recent studies combining human and robot participants
and the ongoing discussion in the HRI community on how humans
perceive robots).<br>
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With these motivations, the workshop aims<br>
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* to provide an informal platform for researchers to discuss the
challenges and benefits of combining AI reasoning and cognitive
science with robotics in various application areas such as service
robotics, industrial robotics, medical robotics, etc.;<br>
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* to exchange ideas about the future research directions that
involve such synergies, considering all aspects of the theory and
implementation of robotic systems in these applications.<br>
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We invite submissions of research papers from all researchers and
practitioners interested in integration of AI and cognitive science
with robotics.<br>
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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS<br>
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Gregory Dudek, McGill University, Canada<br>
Fredrik Heintz, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden<br>
Benjamin Kuipers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA<br>
Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany<br>
Helge Ritter, University of Bielefeld, Germany<br>
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<br>
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Potential participants are invited to submit either<br>
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- a regular paper of 6 pages (i.e., a technical paper for
describing technically sound, innovative ideas; an application
paper, where the emphasis is on its impact on the robotic
application domain; a system/tool paper, where the emphasis is on
its novelty, practicality, usability and availability), or<br>
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- a short paper of 2 pages (i.e., a position paper describing
specific questions and issues that the participants feel should be
addressed; a demo paper describing a demonstration of a robotic
application, system or tool; a technical communication aimed at
describing recent developments and new projects).<br>
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All papers will be presented during the workshop.<br>
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Submissions are accepted in PDF format only, using the RSS
formatting guidelines. The workshop contributions will be
published electronically.<br>
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Please upload submissions to EasyChair at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aicogscirobo2015">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aicogscirobo2015</a><br>
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br>
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Patrick Beeson, TRACLabs Inc., USA<br>
Esra Erdem, Sabanci University, Turkey<br>
Volkan Patoglu, Sabanci University, Turkey<br>
Ron Petrick, University of Edinburgh, UK<br>
Michael Spranger, Sony CSL, Japan
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