CALL FOR PAPERS
                       (See extended deadlines below)



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               SOFT COMPUTING APPLICATIONS IN MOBILE ROBOTICS



                          A Special Session of the

                      2004 International Conference on
                 Computational Science and its Applications
                                (ICCSA 2004)
                         http://iccsa2004.unipg.it/



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



                               Session Chair:

                               Benjoe Juliano
                            Juliano@csuChico.edu

                http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~juliano/ICCSA/



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
    - search-and-rescue (or similar area-coverage applications)

you are encouraged to submit a paper title and a short (a few sentences) 
abstract by December 20, 2003 to express interest in participating.


Send submissions/proposals/inquiries to

                             DR. BENJOE JULIANO
                            Juliano@csuChico.edu
                       Department of Computer Science
                     California State University, Chico
                            Chico, CA 95929-0410
                                   U.S.A.


Please take note of the following important dates:

   December 20, 2003 - Title and short abstract submission deadline.
   January  15, 2004 - Full paper submission deadline.
   February 10, 2004 - Notification of acceptance.
   February 25, 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.