CfP SIMPAR 2010 Conference

Call for Papers

           2nd International Conference on
         SIMULATION, MODELING and PROGRAMMING
          for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (SIMPAR 2010)

       Darmstadt (Germany), November 15-18, 2010

               http://www.simpar.org
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The objective of the International Conference on Simulation,
Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR) is
to offer a unique forum for the next generation of methodologies
and tools for robot development and to bring together researchers
from academia and industry to identify and solve the key issues
necessary to ease the development of increasingly complex robot software,
and to boost a smooth shifting of results from simulated to real applications.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

     * 3D robot simulation
     * Reliability, scalability and validation of robot simulation
     * Simulated sensors and actuators
     * Offline simulation of robot design
     * Online simulation with realtime constraints
     * Simulation with software/hardware in the loop
     * Middleware for robotics
     * Modeling framework for robots and environments
     * Testing and validation of robot software
     * Standardization for robotic services
     * Communication infrastructures in distributed robotics
     * Interaction between sensor networks and robots
     * Human robot interaction and collaboration
     * Multirobot systems

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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission of papers:    June 1, 2010
Proposals for tutorials/workshops:    June 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance:          July 19, 2010
Submission of camera-ready papers: August 20, 2010

Conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series.
Workshop proceedings will be published online with ISBN number.
A special issue of the Journal of Software Engineering
for Robotics related to the conference will be planned.

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       General Chair
O. von Stryk (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

       International Program Co-Chairs
S. Balakirsky (NIST, USA)
N. Ando (AIST, Japan)
M. Reggiani (University of Padua, Italy)

      International Steering Committee
M. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)
L. Parker (University of Tennessee, USA)
T. Arai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
X.P. Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)
H. Bruyninckx (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
E. Pagello (University of Padua, Italy)

       Award Chair
Itsuki Noda (AIST, Japan)
       Local Chair
T. Hemker (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
       Tutorial Chair
D. Brugali (University of Bergamo, Italy)
       Workshop Chair
E. Menegatti (University of Padua, Italy)
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More details can be found at http://www.simpar.org
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RoboCup 2010 3D Soccer Simulation League

Call for Participation

           RoboCup 2010 3D Soccer Simulation League

                June 19 - June 25, 2010 (Singapore)
                    http://www.robocup2010.org/

Hereby I would like to give you information about the registration and
qualification process for the RoboCup 2010 3D Soccer Simulation League.


Schedule
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Team pre-registration deadline: 31 Jan 2010 (23:59 UTC)
Team qualification deadline: 15 Feb 2010 (23:59 UTC)
Qualified teams will be announced: 1 Mar 2010

Early registration: 1 Mar - 31 Mar 2010
Regular registration: 1 Apr - 30 Apr 2010
Late registration: After 1 May


Pre-Registration
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All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register, before the deadline at
31 Jan 2010. To pre-register, send an E-Mail to sgvandijk at gmail.com with the
subject 'Pre-registration TEAM_NAME'. The E-Mail should contain the
following information:

 1. Team-Name:
 2. Team-Leader:
 3. E-Mail:
 4. Country:
 5. Affiliation:
 6. Number of team members:


Qualification
--------

Qualification is based on a team's current performance,
previous achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions to the
RoboCup community in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list
and development of the simulator.

In RoboCup 2010, up to 28 teams will participate in the 3D competitions. The
top three teams from RoboCup 2009 (SEU RedSun, Bold Hearts and
LsuAmoyNQ) are automatically qualified after pre-registering their teams and
submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP). The other 25 teams
will be selected through a qualification process.

The qualification deadline is 15 Feb 2010. The OC does not accept
qualification materials from teams who have not been pre-registered by the
pre-registration deadline. Qualification material consists of:

1. Team Description Paper (TDP)
The TDP should describe your research focus and ideas implemented in the
team. The length of the TDP has to be at least four (4) pages and should not
exceed twelve (12) pages in Springer LNCS Style:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Please submit
the TDP only as a PDF document with the name of your team
like teamname_TDP.pdf.

2. A list of contributions to previous RoboCup Symposia and your team's
achievements in RoboCup events of previous years. Please do not include TDPs
that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. You may include a TDP, if
you presented a talk about your team at the Symposium. If you are new to the
RoboCup 3D community, you may also include references to relevant research
done by your team that shows its potential. Please submit the contribution
list as a PDF document with the name of your team, like teamname_list.pdf.

3. Binary
This year, to be better able to judge the performance of a team, all teams
should submit a working binary instead of a logfile. The OC will use these
binaries to play 3 vs 3 matches, under the rules and with the simulator used
during the 2009 competitions held in Graz. These rules can be found at:

http://www.robocup2009.org/125-0-rules

<http://www.robocup2009.org/125-0-rules>Submitted binaries should adhere to
the following:

- Two scripts should be included: a start up script, called start.sh, to run
a full team of agents and a kill script, called kill.sh, to fully kill all
agents of the team. The requirements and examples of these scripts can be
found at the rules page given above.
- All necessary external libraries should be included and be used locally by
the binary. The OC will not take an effort to install extra libraries on the
qualification systems.
- The binaries should not create any output, be it through standard output
or to files.
- No graphical (debugging) interface should be used.
- The binary should be compiled for 32 bit systems and should work on a
modern Linux distribution (e.g. Ubuntu 9.10).

To summarize: the binary should run out of the box on a standard, clean,
headless system in a restricted sand box environment with the simulation
server (possibly) running on a different machine. The OC will not try to fix
errors. When a binary fails to run, the respective team will be notified and
will have to resubmit their material, before the deadline of 15 Feb 2010.

Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team
name, create a tarball (preferably .tar.bz2) and upload it to the the ftp
server below. Also E-Mail me for confirmation with the subject:
Qualification, 3D: TEAM_NAME. If everything went well you will receive a
confirmation. If you did not receive any confirmation within two (2) days,
please contact the Organizing Committee.

ftp server: ftp.martenvdsanden.net
user: anonymous at martenvdsanden.net
Upload to the 'incoming' directory.

If you encounter any problem when uploading to the server please don't
hesitate to contact the OC, we will arrange for another solution.

Teams will be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in
this E-Mail. Also, the following general qualification limitations will be
considered:

- One-Third-Rule: The so called One-Third-Rule rule states that only up to
1/3 of the participants of a competition may be from the same country.
- One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule: The One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule states that
only one team from each university or research institute is allowed to
participate in a competition. Note that it is okay for different teams from
the same institute to participate in different competitions, e.g. 2D soccer
and 3D development.

Good luck!

Sander van Dijk
Chair Organizing Committee
Soccer Simulation League
RoboCup 2010 Singapore

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW)

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (new date): 29 March 2010 --


IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010 
Freiburg, Germany, 27 – 29 July 2010
(http://www.web3dw-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2010)
Freiburg, Germany 26 – 31 July 2010 
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Conference background and goals
This conference addresses important topics of today like education, health, corporate image and make customers feel at home at your internet site. 
Virtual reality already proved its superiority in involving the user. Indeed, medical, defense, architecture and even the car industry managed to increase learning effects and sensation.
 
* Format of the Conference 
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).
 
* Best Papers
Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.
 
* Types of submissions 
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. 
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
 
* Themes related to educational or edutainment web3DW, are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: 
 
- Web3D in education, health and energy
- Innovative 3D graphics applications for Web/Multimedia in industry, science, medicine, and education
- Geometric Modeling
- Methods for modeling and rendering complex geometry, structure and behaviors
- Virtual Reality
- Graphical User Interface
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer (Educational) Games
- User-interface paradigms and interaction methods for real-time 3D graphics and virtual environments
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computational Geometry
- Natural Phenomena Modeling 
- GPU and Graphics Systems
- Data Representation 
- Data Transformation
- Data Modeling
- Scientific Visualization
- Information Visualization
- Visualization Algorithms
- Software Visualization 
- Terrain Visualization
- Flow Visualization 
- Interactive 3D graphics and immersive systems
- High-performance 3D graphics
- Animated humanoids (avatars)
 
* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (new date): 29 March 2010
- Notification to Authors (new date): 30 April 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (new date): Until 24 May 2010
- Late Registration (new date): After 24 May 2010
- Conference: Freiburg, Germany, 27 – 29 July 2010
 
* Conference Location 
The conference will be held in Freiburg, Germany. 
 
* Secretariat 
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal 
E-mail: secretariat@web3DW-conf.org
Web site: http://www.web3dw-conf.org/
 
* Program Committee 
WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010 Program Chair
Tomaz Amon, Amnim, Center for Scientific Visualization, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
General MCCSIS 2010 Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands 
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Dirk Ifenthaler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
 
Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.web3D-conf.org/committees.asp