Call for Papers
    The 4th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop
        http://www.ida.liu.se/~patdo/cogrob04/ 
            Co-Located with ECAI 2004
              August 23 and 24, 2004
               Valencia, Spain
               


Workshop Description
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Research in robotics has traditionally emphasized low-level sensing 
and control tasks including sensory processing, path planning, and 
manipulator design and control. In contrast, research in cognitive 
robotics is concerned with endowing robots and software agents with 
higher level cognitive functions that enable them to reason, act and 
perceive in changing, incompletely known, and unpredictable environments.
Such robots must, for example, be able to reason about goals, actions, 
when to perceive and what to look for, the cognitive states of other 
agents, time, collaborative task execution, etc. In short, cognitive 
robotics is concerned with integrating reasoning, perception and action 
with a uniform theoretical and implementation framework.  Combining 
results from the traditional robotics discipline with those from AI and
cognitive science has and will continue to be central to research in 
cognitive robotics.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers involved in all aspects 
of the theory and implementation of cognitive robotics, to discuss 
current work and future directions.  While all aspects of cognitive 
robotics are of interest to the workshop, we especially welcome 
discussions and demonstrations of implemented systems.

Submission Information
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Potential participants are invited to submit either
- a technical paper (extended abstract)
- an overview on their ongoing research,
- a position paper,
- a statement of interest,
- or a description of an implemented system that the authors are 
   willing to demonstrate at the workshop.

For the sake of uniformity, all technical papers should follow the ECAI 
2004 style guide and should be no longer than 5 pages in camera ready 
PDF format. Author names should be included. Please refer to the ECAI 
style guide for details. (See workshop homepage).

Others wishing to attend should submit a 1-2 page description of their 
work or interest in this area (including a short list of related 
publications). This may include specific questions and issues that 
they feel should be addressed. Proposals of panels on specific issues 
are also welcome.

Authors who would like to participate in systems demonstrations (either live, 
simulated, or video-taped) should indicate their audio-visual and/or computer
 needs at the time of submission.

If the quality of the submissions is sufficiently high, we may look into the 
possibility of publishing extended versions of selected articles in a special 
journal issue.

All submissions must arrive by May 10, 2004. Only electronic submissions will 
be accepted and all papers must be in PDF format.

All submissions should be sent to patdo@ida.liu.se


Important Dates
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Submission Deadline:			   May 10, 2004
Notification of Acceptance:		   May 26, 2004
Submission of camera ready copies:	   June 6, 2004 

Organizers:
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Patrick Doherty (Chair), patdo@ida.liu.se 
Gerhard Lakemeyer (Co-Chair), gerhard@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Angel P. del Pobil (Co-Chair), pobil@ieee.org

Program Committee
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Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA 
Michael Beetz, Munich University of Technology, Germany 
Henrik Christensen, Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden 
Patrick Doherty, Linkoping University, Sweden 
Malik Ghallab, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France 
Joachim Hertzberg, Fraunhofer Institute, AIS, Germany 
Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, Germany 
Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto, Canada
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands 
Nicola Muscettola, NASA Ames Research Center, USA 
Bernard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany  
Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia 
Fiora Pirri, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy 
Angel P. del Pobil, Jaume I University, Spain 
Alessandro Saffiotti, Orebro University, Sweden 
Erik Sandewall, Linkoping University, Sweden 
Alan C. Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory, Wash. D.C., USA 
Murray Shanahan, Imperial College, UK  
Michael Thielscher, Dresden University of Technology, Germany 
Brian Williams, CSAIL, MIT, USA