[robocup-athome] Call For Papers: Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems; Special Issue on "Domestic Service Robots in the Real World"

[Tijn van der Zant]

Dear all,

We are glad to announce the call for papers of Journal of Intelligent
and Robotic Systems with a Special Issue on "Domestic Service Robots in
the Real World". This special issue is a special event in the 5 year
history of RoboCup at Home. It shows that we are doing scientifically
relevant work (which our community already knew, but now gets
acknowledged). It is accompanied by a workshop.
The details can be found on the RoboCup at Home home page
(www.robocupathome.org) and the flyer can be downloaded from:
http://www.robocupathome.org/documents/CFPSpecialIssue.pdf
The text of the call is repeated below.
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    Call For Papers

*Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Special Issue on "Domestic Service Robots in the Real World"*

This special issue focuses on a broad spectrum of domestic service
robots that operate in the real-world in home environments. The robots
are fully autonomous and use intuitive interfaces such as language,
gestures and visual displays to communicate with people. The home
environment is defined as 'any place where people live in their daily
lives', which can include, for example, a living room, a kitchen or a
garden. Special attention is being paid to submissions where the robot
capabilities are validated in a real-world setting such as the
RoboCup at Home benchmark or during long lasting experiments in the
real-world. The focus will also be on different modes of natural
interaction with humans, real-world high-level cognition, manipulation
of domestic objects, useful applications, cost-effectiveness of the
solution (computational and financial resources used by the robot), the
effect of appearance on acceptance and more.

The topics are related, but not limited, to all the aspects required for
a robot to operate in a home environment with a long-term focus on
applicability, such as:
- cooperative human-robot interaction,
- cooperative human-robot task solving,
- manipulation of domestic objects such as doors, kitchen utensils,
glasses, etc.,
- navigation in home environments,
- high-level cognition for robots in domestic environments,
- applications for domestic service robots,
- benchmarking domestic service robots,
- long lasting robotic experiments in domestic environments,
- acceptance of robots in households.
Submissions addressing practical applications using international
benchmarks and/or in-field experimental testing are strongly encouraged.

*Related workshop: SIMPAR*
Guest editors are also organizing the SIMPAR Workshop on "Domestic
Service Robots in the Real World" (http://www.simpar.org/) as an
opportunity to present and discuss research on the above topics. The
workshop will be held on November 15th, 2010, and the deadline for paper
submission is October 1st, 2010. Workshop participation is not mandatory
to submit articles to this special issue

*Guest Editors:*
Luca Iocchi, Università di Roma ''La Sapienza''
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile
Tijn van der Zant, Robot Cognition Laboratory, INSERM
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Important dates:*
19 June 2010: Call for Papers
1 September 2010: Expression of Interest
1 October 2010: Opening paper submission
1 December 2010: Closing Paper Submission
1 March 2011: Paper Acceptance Announcements
15 April 2011: Camera-ready Paper Submission
July/August 2011: Expected Publication

*Electronic submission & review process:*
Letters of intent are not compulsory. However, the authors are strongly
encouraged to inform Professor Javier Ruiz-del-Solar of their intention
to submit a paper.

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Best regards,

The @Home Execs.
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