CRW'98

First International Workshop on Collective Robotics

La Cité des Sciences, Paris (France), July, 4- 5, 1998


Table of Contents

    Workshop Description

    Agents' World Context [updated]

    Important Dates

    Accepted Papers

    Workshop Schedule [new]

    Information on Registration and Accomodation [updated]

    Committees

    Submission / Camera-Ready Instructions


Last updated : June 10, 1998 


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

CRW is an attempt to foster DAI and intelligent robotics research by examining a wide range of technologies devoted to Collective Robotics.

Multiple-robot systems are becoming more and more significant in industrial, commercial and scientific applications. The number of robots currently being used in industrial projects is increasing fast. The rate of scientific and industrial development made way for the use of robots in many fields. However, until recently, most of the multiple-robot systems have been "fixed" systems without autonomously moving elements, and the design of such systems is generally approached with a central (hierarchical) controller in mind.

On the other hand, there is extensive research carried out simultaneously in many different research areas on autonomous mobile robots, and an increasing interest in this approach due to its applicability to various tasks such as space missions, operations in hazardous environments, or military operations. Problems that are being investigated include spatial coordination (such as path planning or obstacle avoidance), social organization (swarm-like colonies of robots, teamwork, cooperation techniques, etc.), innovative designs for autonomous robots and many more. All these researches can be grouped under the generic term Collective Robotics.

The main purpose of this interdisciplinary workshop is to emphasize the relationship between Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life and Robotics researches dedicated to (or which can be applied to) Collective Robotics. As a standard problem, Robotic Soccer will be highlighted, since the workshop is shared between ICMAS'98 (Third International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems) and PARIS'98 (the Robotic Soccer World Cups).

The tentative list of relevant subjects is (without being restricted to) :

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AGENTS' WORLD CONTEXT

CRW'98 is a key component of a comprehensive gathering of researchers interested in multi-agent systems in numerous settings. CRW'98 will be held simultaneously and on site with seven other international events (one conference, five workshops and one competition), namely :


The eight events of Agents' World will be held over 5 full days (July 3-4-6-7-8, 1998). A tutorial programme is offered the first day (July 3, 1998). More detailed information about Agent's World is available at : http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/AgentsWorld.

Updated [29/05/98]: the list of Agents'World tutorials and invited speakers is available.


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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission to CRW
February   6,  1998
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection 
March   23,   1998
Deadline for camera-ready version
April   20,   1998
Beginning of the Workshop
July 4, 1998 (tentative)

 

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PROCEEDINGS - ACCEPTED PAPERS


The workshop proceedings will be available on-site for all the registered participants. The publisher is Springer-Verlag, in a "Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence" volume (#1456). The 13 following papers have been accepted for publication in this volume and for presentation at the workshop:

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SCHEDULE (tentative)

Saturday 4

14:00 Welcome

14:10
Application of AOP for modeling a flexible manufacturing cell
Lucatero, Sanchez, Castillo
14:35
Designing Organized Agents for Cooperation with Real Time Constraints
Occello, Demazeau, Baeijs
15:00
A Multi-Agent-System based on Heterogeneous Robots
Birk, Belpaeme

15:25 Coffee Break

15:45

Cirta: An emergentist methodology to design and evaluate collective behaviours in robots' colonies
Labbani-Igbida, Muller, Bourjault
16:10
Collective search by mobile robots using Alpha-beta coordination
Goldsmith, Robinett
16:35
Exhaustive Geographic Search with Mobile Robots Along Space-filling curves
Spires, Goldsmith

Sunday 5


14:00
How much should an agent know what other agents are doing in a cooperative team
Ye
14:25
Tasking robots multimodal interfaces: the "Coach Metaphor"
Julia
14:50
A Knowledge-level Approach for Building Human-machine Cooperative Environment
Takeda

15:15 Coffee break

15:35
Communication in domains with unreliable, single-channel, low-bandwidth communication
Stone, Veloso
16:00
Rectangles and Circles: Towards Realistic Simulation of Robots Playing Soccer
Magnin
16:25
Decision Trees and Rule Induction in Simulated Soccer Agents

Letia, Joldos, Petrescu, Cenan, Zaiu, Andreica
16:50
March: a Flexible Multi-Agent Architecture, Applied to Autnomous Football Player Robots
Rocher, Duhaut

17:15 Closing

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INFORMATION

Update [10/06/98]: Information about grants and child care facilities is available.

Registration :

To register to Agents'World, please follow this link, download the registration form, and send it back to Wagons-Lits Evenements, the local organizer of the conference (by fax or surface mail, as indicated on the form).

Please note : If you participate in a RoboCup robotic team, please use the special registration form that can be downloaded from the RoboCup'98 registration page.

Accomodation :

A choice of hotel rooms and student accomodation is provided on the two registration forms and on the Agent's World homepage.


COMMITTEE

General Chair

Alexis Drogoul, University of Paris 6, France, Alexis.Drogoul@lip6.fr


Co-chairs

Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan, fukuda@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Milind Tambe,
University of Southern California, USA,
tambe@ISI.EDU


Program Committee

Hajime Asama, Riken Institute, Japan, asama@cel.riken.go.jp
Tucker Balch, Georgia Institute of technology, USA,
tucker@cc.gatech.edu
Magnus Boman,
Stockholm University, Sweden,
mab@dsv.su.se
Silvia Coradeschi, Linköping University, Sweden,
silco@ida.liu.se
Dominique Duhaut,
University of Versailles-St-Quentin, France,
ddu@robot.uvsq.fr
Christophe Dubreuil,
SWS-Lab CGI, IBM, France,
dubreuil.c@cgi.fr
Frederick Garcia,
Station Biometrie et I.A., INRA, France,
fgarcia@toulouse.inra.fr
Gal Kaminka,
University of South California, USA,
galk@isi.edu
Hiroaki Kitano, Sony CSL Tokyo, Japan,
kitano@csl.sony.co.jp
Stacy Marsella,
University of Southern California, USA,
marsella@isi.edu
Jean-Arcady Meyer, AnimatLab, ENS, France,
meyer@wotan.ens.fr
Robin Murphy,
Colorado School of Mines, USA,
rmurphy@mines.edu
Itsuki Noda,
Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan
noda@etl.go.jp,
Michel Occello,
IMAG, Univ. Grenoble II, France,
Michel.Occello@imag.fr
John Perram,
Odense University & AMROSE Ltd, Danmark,
jperram@dit.ou.dk
Peter Stone,
Carnegie-Mellon Univ., USA,
Peter_Stone@zico.prodigy.cs.cmu.edu
Walter Van de Velde,
Riverland Next Generation Res. Group , Belgium,
wvdv@riv.be
Barry Werger,
Brandeis University, USA,
barry@cs.brandeis.edu
Shin'ichi Yuta,
University of Tsukuba, Japan,
yuta@is.tsukuba.ac.jp
Jean-Daniel Zucker,
University of Paris 6, France,
Jean-Daniel.Zucker@lip6.fr

 

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SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practical work in the area of collective robotics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the ones listed above in the workshop description. Papers which describe ongoing research or provide an excellent survey of recent work are in particular welcome.
All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Papers accepted or under review by other conferences or journals are not acceptable, unless they are submitted to another Agents' World event (ICMAS'98, the Agents' World workshops, or the dedicated RoboCup and FIRA RWC Workshops).

Each submission includes the full paper (title, authors, abstract, text), and in addition a separate title page with the title, a 300-400 word abstract, a list of keywords, authors and affiliations (names, addresses, email addresses, telephone and fax numbers).

The paper should be formatted in A4 size using 10 point Times. Printing area should be 12.2 x 19.3 cm. The length of submitted paper must not exceed 12 pages including all figures, tables, and bibliography. All papers must be written in English. Papers not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review.

The instructions for camera-ready papers, as well as the corresponding style sheets (for either Latex or Microsoft® Word) can be found and downloaded from this page (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Papers must be submitted by electronic mail. The submission format can be either PostScript or Microsoft Word 6,7 for Windows or Macintosh, attached and encoded with UUencode or Binhex.It can be sent to one of the following adresses (please choose one depending on your location):

Europe and Africa
Alexis Drogoul, University of Paris 6
Alexis.Drogoul@lip6.fr

Pacific Rim and Asia
Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University
fukuda@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Americas
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
tambe@ISI.EDU

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