IranOpen RoboCup Competitions

23/12/2014

CALL FOR PAPERS:

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The 5th Joint Conference of AI & Robotics/ 7th Robocup Iranopen International Symposium will be held on April 12, 2015 in Qazvin in conjunction with RoboCup IranOpen 2015. The RoboCup IranOpen is an annual international robotics competition that has been held every year since 2005 and now attracts teams from many countries, including the USA, Japan, Korea, Germany, The Netherlands, and Mexico. The Symposium was introduced later to provide a parallel forum for presentation and discussion of scientific contributions in all research and education sub-fields of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Due to its interdisciplinary nature and intimate connections of theory and practice, it offers an excellent venue to introduce new techniques to/from various scientific disciplines and identify important new trends and challenges in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Participants (speakers and attendees) in the Symposium are welcome to attend and/or participate in the robot competition events, but they are not required to do so.

We are pleased to invite submissions of papers presenting original high-quality research in AI and Robotics. We welcome papers describing applied and/or theoretical research, as well as innovative educational experiences. Submitted papers can be in English or Farsi and are limited to 7 pages using the IEEE formatting for papers in English and the format available in the Symposium's website for papers in Farsi. All papers must be electronically submitted on the Symposium's website (http://symp2015-iranopen.ir). Submissions must include the manuscript PDF file excluding the author(s) information section attached and the source doc file of the entire manuscript including the author(s) information section. All contributions will be blind-reviewed by at least two reviewers. We are in the process of seeking final approval to have the accepted papers indexed by IEEE Xplore.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

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- Professor Linda S. Milor, Georgia Tech

- Professor Matthew T. Mason, Carnegie Mellon University

- Professor Timothy W. Bretl, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

- Professor Kevin M. Lynch, Northwestern University

Important Dates:

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- Submission of papers: January 05, 2015

- Notification of authors: February 19, 2015

- Submission of camera-ready papers: March 14, 2015

- Date of Symposium/Conference: April 12, 2015

Major Topics include, but are not limited to the following:

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- Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive modeling and human interaction
Entertainment
Fuzzy logic and neural networks
Genetic and evolutionary algorithms
Knowledge representation, planning, modeling and reasoning
Machine learning and data mining
Multi-disciplinary AI
Probabilistic reasoning
Self-adaptive software engineering
Uncertainty in AI

- Robot hardware and software
Embedded and mobile hardware
Mobile and humanoid robots
Real-time and concurrent programming
Robot simulators

- Sensory processing and control
Computer vision and perception
Image processing
Self-localization and navigation
Sensor-motor control
World modeling

The Symposium is organized by Qazvin Islamic Azad University (QIAU) and the Iranian RoboCup National Committee. The members of the program committee are:

- Prof. Mohammad Reza Meybodi, AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

- Prof. Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

- Prof. Karim Faez, AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

- Dr. Mansour Jamzad, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

- Dr. Eslam Nazemi, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

- Dr. Saeed Shiry, AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

- Dr. AliReza MohammadShahry, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

- Dr. Maziar Palhang, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

- Dr. Abolfazl Torghi Haghighat, Qazvin Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

- Dr. Mahdi Dehghan, AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran