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                       CALL FOR PAPERS
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  9th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and
   Factory  Automation; September 16-19, 2003, Lisbon, Portugal

           TRACK on Intelligent Robots and Systems

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Conference web site:  http://www.uninova.pt/etfa2003
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Scope. Intelligent robots and intelligent embedded systems are spreading 
from the factory floor to human leaving environments, such as museums, 
hospitals and homes. These new generation robotic systems promise to
revolutionize the relation between people and technology. 
This ETFA'2003 track on Intelligent Robots and Systems aims to gather 
researchers reporting recent results in the  development of robots 
actually deployed for real-world applications, robot prototypes, 
intelligent embedded systems, applications of artificial intelligence, 
cognitive science and signal processing in robotics, and usability
studies. Researchers are especially encouraged to submit papers 
emphasizing the integration of different robotic capabilities in a 
single robotic system.

Therefore, the topics of the track include:

- intelligent robot assistants
- intelligent embedded systems
- perception, control and manipulation
     for intelligent robots and systems
- reasoning under uncertainty
- planning and failure recovery
- robot learning
- human-robot interaction
- robot vision
- natural language grounding
- integrated intelligence
- cognitive robotics
- usability studies


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SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Papers are to be submitted electronically. For further details,
please consult the conference web pages.

AUTHOR'S SCHEDULE
Deadline for submission of full papers:             April 30, 2003
Notification of papers acceptance:                   June  8, 2003
Final manuscripts due:                                July 8, 2003

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TRACK CHAIRS

Luis Seabra Lopes, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Antoni Grau, Tech. Univ. of Catalonia, Spain
Hyung Suck Cho, KAIST, South Korea

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TRACK PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Hideki Asoh, AIST, Japan
Mark Bedau, Reed College, Oregon, USA
Johan Boss, University of Edimburgh, UK
Francesc Serratosa, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain
François Michaud, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada
Marnix Nuttin, KULeuven, Belgium
Mathias Quoy, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France
Isabel Ribeiro, IST, Portugal
Alessandro Saffiotti, Orebro University, Sweden
Alberto Sanfeliu, UPC-CSIC, Spain
José Santos-Vítor, IST, Portugal
Kerstin Severinson Eklundh, KTH-Stocholm, Sweden
Jochen J. Steil, University of  Bielefeld, Germany
Antonio Teixeira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Jianwei Zhang, University of Hamburg, Germany