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Uncertain Reasoning Workshop II (URWS II):
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Uncertainty in Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems
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Workshop at
25th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI2002)
September 16-20, 2002, Aachen, Germany
The ability to reason with uncertain information is an indispensable
requirement for modeling intelligent behavior in a complex and dynamic
environment. This is why uncertain reasoning has become a major research
topic of AI with many important applications. Especially the challenges of
cognitive robotics and intelligent agent systems have recently increased
the demand for appropriate, powerful, and efficient formalisms and
methodologies to deal with uncertainty, for instance, in sensor
interpretation, environment modeling, spatial reasoning, planning and
decision making, self-localization, and motion control.
This workshop is intended to provide a forum to present and discuss new
approaches and perspectives to dealing with uncertainty in robotics and
multi-agent systems. Like its predecessor "Workshop on Uncertainty in AI" at
KI'2001, its aim is to bring together researchers from different communities
to improve understanding and cross-fertilization, this time between the area
of uncertainty in artificial intelligence on the one hand, and the areas of
robotics and multi-agent systems on the other hand.
The main focus of the meeting is on uncertainty in robotics and multi-agent
systems related to the following topics:
* formalisms for reasoning under uncertainty
(probabilistic, possibilistic, ...),
* qualitative versus numerical representations,
* revision and update of uncertain knowledge,
* sensor uncertainty and fusion,
* environment modeling under uncertainty,
* approximate localization and motion-control,
* action and planning under uncertainty,
* user/actor modeling under uncertainty
(prediction, argumentation, negotiation),
* ...
Some perspectives of interest are:
* theoretical foundations,
* new methods, systems, and implementations,
* algorithms and complexity,
* real-life applications,
* open problems and future challenges.
Researchers from the area of uncertainty in AI as well as researchers from
robotics and multi-agent systems are invited to participate in the workshop.
SUBMISSION
For the workshop, we invite full papers on - but not limited to - the themes
listed above. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages (excluding title
page and references) of standard LaTeX 12pt article format. Work reported
should not have appeared elsewhere.
We strongly encourage electronic submission of papers in postscript or pdf
format. To submit a paper electronically, send an email message to Thomas
Lukasiewicz (see email addresses below) that includes the following
information:
* paper title (plain text),
* author names (plain text),
* surface mail and email address of contact author (plain text),
* a short abstract including keywords (plain text),
* paper body (postscript or pdf format).
Authors unable to submit papers electronically should send the above four
items by email and three copies of the complete paper by surface mail to
Thomas Lukasiewicz (at the address in Rome, see below).
The proceedings will be published as technical report, which will be
available at the workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: June 17, 2002
Acceptance decision by: July 17, 2002
Camera ready copy due: August 17, 2002
REGISTRATION
Please note that registration for the KI2002 conference is a necessary
condition for participating in the workshop.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Fachbereich Informatik
Lehrgebiet Praktische Informatik VIII
FernUniversität Hagen
P.O. Box 940
D-58084 Hagen, Germany
E-Mail: gabriele.kern-isberner@fernuni-hagen.de
Thomas Lukasiewicz
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica,
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Via Salaria 113
00198 Roma, Italy
Email: thomas.lukasiewicz@dis.uniroma1.it
Institut für Informationssysteme
Technische Universität Wien
Favoritenstraße 9-11
A-1040 Wien, Austria
Email: thomas.lukasiewicz@kr.tuwien.ac.at
Emil Weydert
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85
D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Email: weydert@mpi-sb.mpg.de
WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Wolfram Burgard, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Dieter Fox, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Joachim Hertzberg, Fraunhofer AIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Manfred Jaeger, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany
Rudolf Kruse, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany
Jérôme Lang, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Daniele Nardi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Bernhard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Maurice Pagnucco, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Fiora Pirri, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Alessandro Saffiotti, Örebro University, Sweden
FURTHER and UPDATED INFORMATION
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/lukasiew/urws-2002.html
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