ICCSA 2004: Soft Computing Applications in Mobile Robotics

                                 ICCSA 2004


               SOFT COMPUTING APPLICATIONS IN MOBILE ROBOTICS


                          A Special Session of the

                      2004 International Conference on
                 Computational Science and its Applications
                                (ICCSA 2004)


                            S. Maria degli Angeli
                                Assisi, Italy
                           May 14 - May 17, 2004


                               Session Chair:

                               Benjoe Juliano
                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]



This session focuses on various applications of soft computing in the
area
of mobile robotics. Ongoing work combining fuzzy logic, neural networks,

genetic algorithms, etc. to solve problems in cooperation, search and
rescue, and others will be highlighted. Of particular interest will be
applications to groups of coordinated, cooperating mobile robots
subjected
to unknown, dynamic environments.

If you or someone you know are engaged in soft computing-related
empirical
and theoretical studies aimed at solving challenges in mobile robotics,
including (but not limited to) the areas of

    - data-acquisition and information-processing mechanisms underlying
      cognitive abilities like perception, recognition, information
      storage and information retrieval
    - learning and acquisition of approximate models of the surrounding
      environment
    - cooperative (or collaborative) problem solving
    - cooperative (or collaborative) target sensing and identification
    - on-the-fly behavior modification

with possible applications (including, but  not limited) to multi-agent

    - decision analysis
    - dynamic systems modeling & diagnosis
    - intelligent control
    - machine vision
    - signal processing
    - system identification

you are encouraged to submit a short (few lines) abstract for a paper by

December 15, 2003.


Send submissions/proposals/inquiries to

                             Dr. Benjoe Juliano
                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
                       Department of Computer Science
                     California State University, Chico
                            Chico, CA 95929-0410
                                   U.S.A.


Please take note of the following important dates:

   December 15, 2003- Abstract submission deadline.
   December 31, 2003- Full paper submission deadline.
   February 1, 2004 - Notification of acceptance.
   February 15, 2004- Camera-ready papers and pre-registration due.
   May 14-17, 2004  - ICCSA 2004 in S. Maria degli Angeli, Assisi,
Italy.


Full papers must be submitted by December 31, 2003 in order to be
considered
for publication in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS),
Springer-Verlag. Submitted papers must be formatted according to the
rules
of LNCS (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).  Every
paper
will be refereed by at least two independent reviewers.


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