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