Preliminary Workshop Program

The workshop is scheduled for 1.5 days

August 23: 9:00 - 18:30
August 24: 9:00 - 13:45

Preliminary Workshop Proceedings: [pdf], [pdf.zip]

The following is a preliminary program and subject to change.

Monday, August 23

8:45 - 9:00 Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:30 Paper Session I (Session Chair: Patrick Doherty)

9:00 - 9:30 Specifying Failure and Progress Conditions in a Behavior-Based Robot Programming System
F. Kabanza, K.B. Lamine
9:30 - 10:00 Robel: Synthesizing and Controlling Complex Robust Robot Behaviors
B. Morisset, G. Infante, M. Ghallab, F. Ingrand
10:00 - 10:30 Patterns in Reactive Programs
P. Haslum

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk: Erik Sandewall

"The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things"

12:00 - 13:30 Paper Session II (Session Chair: Fiora Pirri)

12:00 - 12:30 Decision Theoretic Planning for Playing Table Soccer
M. Tacke, T. Weigel, B. Nebel
12:30 - 13:00 On-line Decision Theoretic Golog for Unpredictable Domains
A. Ferrein, C. Fritz, G. Lakemeyer
13:00 - 13:30 Learning Partially Observable Action Models
E. Amir

13:30 -15:30 Lunch

15:30 - 17:30 Paper Session III (Session Chair: A. P. del Pobil)

15:30 - 16:00 Building Polygonal Maps from Laser Range Data
J. Latecki, R. Lakaemper, X. Sun, D. Wolter
16:00 - 16:30 Hierarchical Voronoi-based Route Graph Representations for Planning, Spatial Reasoning and Communication
J. O. Wallgrun
16:30 - 17:00 Schematized Maps for Robot Guidance
D. Wolter, K-F Richter
17:00 - 17:30

How can I, robot, pick up that object with my hand
A. Morales, P.J. Sanz, A.P. del Pobil

17:30 - 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 - 19:00 Panel Discussion (Moderator: Michael Thielscher)

Competitive and Evaluative Frameworks for Cognitive Robotics Research

20:30 - ?? Workshop Dinner

Tuesday, August 24

8:45 - 9:00 Middle Remarks
9:00 - 10:30 Paper Session IV (Session Chair: Gerhard Lakemeyer)

9:00 - 9:30 On Ability to Automatically Execute Agent Programs with Sensing
S. Sardina, G. DeGiacomo, Y. Lesperance, H. Levesque
9:30 - 10:00 Have Another Look: On Failures and Recovery in Perceptual Anchoring
M. Broxvall, S. Coradeschi, L. Karlsson, A. Saffiotti
10:00 - 10:30 Flexible Interval Planning in Concurrent Temporal Golog
A. Finzi, F. Pirri

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Paper Session V (Session Chair: E. Amir)

11:00 - 11:30 Imitation and Social Learning for Synthetic Characters
D. Buchsbaum, B. Blumberg, C. Breazeal
11:30 - 12:00 On Reasoning and Planning in Real-Time: An LDS-Based Approach
M. Asker, J. Malec
12:00 - 12:30 Exploiting Qualitative Spatial Neighborhoods in the Situation Calculus
F. Dylla, R. Moratz

12:30 - 13:30 Panel Discussion (Moderator: Patrick Doherty)

On the Future of Cognitive Robotics: Where are We Now, Where are We Heading?

13:30 - 13:45 Closing Remarks