Deadline for paper submissions for this workshop is 30 June 2000. More
information about the workshop can be found at this web address:
http://www.gmd.gr.jp/JRL/events.html
Please direct inquiries to: isi-ws [at] gmd.gr.jp
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2000
Workshop on
AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS EXPLORING HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS
as part of the International NAISO Congress on Information Science
Innovations (ISI'2001), March 18th, 2001
at the American University of Dubai, U.A.E.
The depths of the oceans, the heats of volcanos, the cold of Antarctica, as
well as remote planets are getting more and more technically accessible.
Still, these areas are too wide or too dangerous to be explored by humans
directly. Thus we will be requested to send artificial scouts from which we
expect at least that they are coming back or transmitting relevant
information before they disintegrate. Furtheron these creatures will be
required to develop geographical abilities like for instance navigating a
second time exactly to a formerly discovered place or delivering
spatio-temporal models of various kinds.
Still, most of our exploring vehicles from today are relying on the
existence of permanent wireless connections, global positioning systems, or
local geographic maps. Under the ice of Antarctica and most other places
considered here, none of this infrastructure will be available. Therefore
actual exploration abilities are expected to be bundled with a real
enhancement of autonomy. This is what this workshop is about.
All presenters and audience submitting or exploiting fields like:
o On-line, life-long, or real-time adaptation/learning
o Spatio-temporal modeling (e.g. mapping, identification of dynamical
systems)
o Dynamical systems
o Motion control
o Sensor data fusion
o Navigation
working in applications addressing:
o Exploration (deep sea, volcanoes, planets, ...)
o Search
(Resources: manganese, oil, gas ... Lost & found: airplanes, ships, ...)
o Rescue (earthquake/landslide/flood disasters)
o Monitoring (environmental, geological, biological, ...)
o or other forms of autonomy in natural environments
or considering social aspects including:
o Information about currently unknown areas
o Emergency technologies
o Environmental monitoring
are very welcome.
Chair:
Uwe R. Zimmer
Program commitee:
Andreas Birk
Thomas Christaller
Holk Cruse
Walter J. Freeman
John Hallam
Hiroaki Kitano
Ulrich Nehmzow
Rolf Pfeifer
Noel Sharkey
Jun Tani
Roy M. Turner
Tamaki Ura
David Wettergreen
Deadline for manuscript submissions (6 pages max): June 30, 2000
Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2000
Delivery of full papers: November 30, 2000
Workshop: March 18th, 2001
Submission of papers (deadline: June 30, 2000):
- all papers need to be in English
- there is a maximum of six pages
- there is no restriction in the format of the papers for the manuscript
submission
Each submission should enclose:
- Authors names, affiliations, addresses
- Name of author to contact for correspondence
- E-mail address and fax # of contact author
- Topics which best describe the paper (max. 5 keywords)
and may be submitted either electronically (Acrobat pdf or compressed
Postscript ps.* only) to: isi-ws [at] gmd.gr.jp
or by mail (3 copies) to:
GMD ˆ Japan Research Laboratory
(ISI-workshop)
AIM Building 8F, 3-8-1,
Asano, Kokurakita-ku
Kitakyushu-city, 802-0001
Japan
Please send any inquiries regarding this workshop to: isi-ws [at] gmd.gr.jp,
whereas information regarding the hosting congress can be found at
http://www.icsc.ab.ca/isi2001.htm. Workshop website :
http://www.gmd.gr.jp/JRL/events.html