IWANN Special Session SS06.
(SOCIAL) COGNITIVE ROBOTICS

Motivation and Objectives

The Special Session on "(Social) Cognitive Robotics", in the framework of IWANN 2009 will provide a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts and practitioners together to exchange their experience in all aspects of Social and Cognitive Robotics, especially those concerned with applications, methods, techniques and tools for perception, attention, anticipation or planning of internal 'mental' states.
Autonomous systems are usually defined as systems capable of generating their own laws or norms. Cognitive robotics can be described as a research area devoted to endowing robots, a special case of autonomous system, with high-level cognitive capacities in order to complete complex tasks in complex environments. Social Robotics, on the other hand, is about the study of robots that are able to interact and communicate between themselves, with humans, and with the environment, within the social and cultural structure attached to its role.
Hence, social and cognitive robotics share common interests about designing computational tools and algorithms to achieve robot's behavior adaptation to its complex environment when situated in daily activities. Norms generated by the autonomous system must be adapted to social norms attached to its environment. Some norms for this environment can be determined from the activity daily life patterns of an user, needs for disabled people,...
The session intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of of Social and Cognitive Robotics, discuss and debate the major issues, and showcase the latest systems.

Organizers.

Cecilio Angulo (web). Automatic Control Department,
Knowledge Engineering Research Group, Technical University of Catalonia
Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain.

Authors information.

The proceedings will include all the presented communications to the conference (tutorials, oral, special sessions and posters). As in previous editions of IWANN, it is being arranged the publication of the proceedings with Springer-Verlag on Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and the book will be available on-site. It is also foreseen the publication of an extended version of selected papers in a special issue of the Neurocomputing journal (Elsevier).

Authors must prepare original manuscripts which should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer-Verlag format. Author guidelines may be otained at Springer website.
Submission will be accomplished through the Section CALL FOR PAPERS/SUBMISSIONS, in PDF format.