Final CFP: European Workshop on Learning

Rejected message: sent to koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu by JOHNDE(a)DAI.ED.AC.UK follows. Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------Final Call for Papers ------------------------------- European Workshop on Learning Robots 1998 (EWLR-7) - Edinburgh, 20 July 1998 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ** This message is sent to several mailing lists - apologies if you receive it more than once. ** The workshop has a frequently updated WWW page with additional information on travel, accommodation, etc, at http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/conferences/ewlr7/ ---- 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 ------------ 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 ----- 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 ----------------- * 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, Universite 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. * Hendrik Van Brussel, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. * 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 --------------- * 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 ---------------------- 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(a)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 addresses) and affiliation of authors. Publication ----------- 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 --------------------------------- 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 -------------- 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 ---------- 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(a)dai.ed.ac.uk cyrano(a)arti.vub.ac.be ---- ** The workshop has a frequently updated WWW page with additional information inc. travel, accomodation, etc, at http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/conferences/ewlr7/ ----