CALL FOR PAPER AND PARTICIPATION
       
                                ***  CogRob2002 ***
                    The Third International Cognitive Robotics Workshop


                                July 28 and/or 29, 2002
                               Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

                        http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/cogrob2002


                             Held in conjunction with AAAI-02
                       National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                                 July 28 - August 1, 2002
                                Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
                                   http://www.aaai.org



Workshop Description and Call for Papers:
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Research in robotics has traditionally emphasized low-level sensing
and control tasks including sensory processing, path planning, and
manipulator design and control.  In contrast, research in *cognitive
robotics* is concerned with endowing robots and software agents
with higher level cognitive functions that enable them to reason, act
and perceive in changing, incompletely known, and unpredictable
environments. Such robots must, for example, be able to reason about
goals, actions, when to perceive and what to look for, the cognitive
states of other agents, time, collaborative task execution, etc. In
short, cognitive robotics is concerned with integrating reasoning,
perception and action within a uniform theoretical and implementation
framework.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers involved in all
aspects of the theory and implementation of cognitive robots, to
discuss current work and future directions. While all aspects of
cognitive robotics are of interest to the workshop, we especially
welcome discussions and demonstrations of implemented systems.

CogRob2002 follows the very successful AAAI Fall Symposium 1998 on
Cognitive Robotics (http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~cogrob98/) 
held in Orlando and the Second International Cognitive Robotics
Workshop (http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/LuFG/cogrob2000/)
held in conjunction with ECAI-2000 in Berlin.

Call for Participation
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Potential participants are invited to submit either a technical paper
(extended abstract), an overview paper on their ongoing research, a
position paper, a statement of interest, or a description of an
implemented system that the authors are willing to demonstrate at the
workshop.  Papers should be no longer than 7 pages with a font
size of at least 10 points.  Others wishing to attend should submit a
1-2 page description of their work or interest in this area
(including a short list of related publications).  This may include
specific questions and issues that they feel should be addressed.
Proposals of panels on specific issues are also welcome.

Authors who would like to participate in systems demonstrations
(either live, simulated, or video-taped) should indicate their
audio-visual and/or computer needs at the time of submission.

Papers submitted to this workshop are not considered to be archival
publications.  Working notes will be distributed at the workshop, but
no archival publication will be produced.  Hence, authors may submit
papers that are under review elsewhere, or that will be published
elsewhere, including KR2002 and AAAI-2002

All submissions must arrive by MARCH 15, 2002. Electronic submissions are
preferred and should be sent to 
   cogrob02@ksl.stanford.edu
Papers must be in postscript.

General Contact Information:
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Workshop URL:  http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/cogrob2002

For mailing information and other administrative details including
submission of papers, reviews and final copies, please contact
    cogrob02@ksl.stanford.edu.

For technical information about the workshop please contact
   Chitta Baral: chitta@asu.edu
   Sheila McIlraith:  sam@ksl.stanford.edu

For general information about the workshop venue, hotels, and 
travel information please see the AAAI-2002 Web Site.
   http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2002/aaai02.html

Important Dates:
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March 15, 2002:  Deadline for Submission
April 19, 2002:  Notification of Acceptance
May 3, 2002:  Camera Ready Papers Due
TBD:    Deadline for workshop registration of invited participants
TBD:    Deadline for general workshop registration
July 28 (possibly 29):  CogRob2002 Workshop
July 30 - August 1:  AAAI'02 Conference

Program Committee:
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Eyal Amir, U.C. Berkeley, USA
Chitta Baral (Co-chair), Arizona State University, USA
Patrick Doherty, Linkoping University, Sweden
Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA
Malik Ghallab, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Kurt Konolige, SRI, USA
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen University of Technology, Germany
Sheila McIlraith (Co-chair), Stanford University, USA   
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Daniele Nardi, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Bernard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Germany
Illah Nourbakhsh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Maurice Pagnucco, University of New South Wales, Australia
Murray Shanahan, Imperial College, UK
Sebastian Thrun, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Son Tran New Mexico State University, USA
Paulo Traverso, Institute for Scientific and Technological Research, Italy