-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] 1st CFP: HYCAS 2009 @ IJCAI-09: Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems Datum: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:21:46 +0100 Von: Nils T Siebel nts@ks.informatik.uni-kiel.de Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

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HYCAS 2009

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HYBRID CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

Integrating Learning, Deliberation and Reactive Control

Held in conjunction with IJCAI-09 in Pasadena, California in July 2009

http://www.hycas.org/

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Call for Papers

Objectives

High-level control for Autonomous Systems (e.g. robots) is concerned with selecting the next action the system should perform. Known paradigms for this action selection problem are learning, deliberation, reactive control schemes or combinations of these, i.e. hybrid approaches.

These paradigms have been known for over two decades, and in today's applications often combinations of learning, deliberation, and reactive control are used. Usually these combinations are used in an ad-hoc or even unconscious fashion. Although there is a number of proposed architectures and huge body of literature, the issue of combining learning, reactive and deliberative control never has been intensively investigated.

With this workshop we wish to bring together researchers from different areas who concentrate on combinations of learning, planning, and/or reactive schemes for decision making and the control of autonomous systems. The workshop is open to all members of the AI and Robotics community. We would specifically like to encourage students to participate.

Relevant Topics

The questions to be addressed in this workshop are:

* How can learning, deliberation and/or reactive control be combined such that the methods can benefit from each other – e.g. by using a common representation? * What are the challenging domains demanding for hybrid control? * What are its successful applications?

Papers are invited on all aspects of hybrid methods for the control of autonomous systems, including, but not limited to:

* Decision Making * Modelling of Domains, Capabilities/Affordances and Robot Behaviours * Agent Learning * Cognitive Robotics * Behaviour-based Robotics and Emergent Control * Developmental and Epigenetic Robotics * Architectures and Architectural Patterns

Important Dates

* March 6 2009: Paper Submission * April 17 2009: Notification of paper acceptance * May 8 2009: Camera ready paper submission * May 15 2009: Early registration deadline * July 11, 12 or 13 2009 (tba): Workshop

Authors of selected articles will be invited to submit an extended version of their workshop paper to a special issue of an international journal on robotics and automation.

Workshop Chairs

Nils T Siebel Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany

Gerald Steinbauer Graz University of Technology, Austria

Alexander Ferrein RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Josef Pauli University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Programme Committee

Alexander Ferrein Alfredo Gabaldon Fredrik Heintz Christian Igel Yohannes Kassahun Tim Kovacs Gerhard K Kraetzschmar Gerhard Lakemeyer Ales Leonardis Pedro U Lima Daniele Nardi Josef Pauli Jan Peters Daniel Polani Martin Riedmiller Juergen Schmidhuber Nils T Siebel Gerald Steinbauer Ron Sun Marc Toussaint Hans Utz Markus Vincze

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More information on the workshop website: http://www.hycas.org/

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Nils T Siebel Cognitive Systems Group Institute of Computer Science Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel Olshausenstr. 40 24098 Kiel, Germany.

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