[alife] The IJCAI-09 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space - Call for Abstracts

Christos Ampatzis campatzis at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 02:29:42 PST 2009


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Apologies for multiple postings.
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The Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency (ESA-ACT) and the
Artificial Intelligence
Group of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA-JPL)
will be organising a workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space at
IJCAI-09 in Pasadena,
California. We invite your high quality submissions to this workshop.


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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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The IJCAI-09 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space
Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-09)
Pasadena, California, U.S.A., 17-18 July 2009
Workshop website: http://www.congrex.nl/09c17/
Conference website: http://ijcai-09.org/
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Important Dates
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* Submission deadline: 01.03.09
* Notification of acceptance: 13.04.09
* Full paper submission: 22.05.09
* Workshop: 17-18.07.09


Brief description
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Artificial Intelligence has been playing a key role in many areas related,
directly or
indirectly, to space missions. As new findings appear and new concepts are
introduced
by the active AI community, their impact on space science in general needs
to be assessed.
This need will be addressed at the workshop AI in Space, co-organized by the
Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency and the Artificial
Intelligence
Group of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.

The aim of the workshop is to:

    * Briefly summarize the up-to-date contributions from different fields
of AI to space science and applications;
    * Indicate how recent AI findings can be utilized in space exploration,
often introducing connections between space science and other disciplines;
    * Identify new areas of AI which could be of use in space exploration;

Participation and submission to the workshop is not limited to space
engineers,
but is encouraged for scientists involved in both space-related and
non-space related
research. The topics covered will be of particular interest to scientists
involved in
space engineering and in the various fields related to Artificial
Intelligence research.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together AI experts and space engineers,
stimulating the
exchange of ideas between the two groups. The former can provide with new
tools, and the
latter with expertise and hands-on experience on space applications.

This workshop is the follow-up to the workshop "Artificial Intelligence In
Space",
held at IJCAI-07, Hyderabad, India, which was co-organised by the Advanced
Concepts Team,
together with the Artificial Intelligence group of JPL and the Department of
Computer
Science of the University of Texas at El Paso.


Call for Abstracts
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The workshop will place emphasis on AI topics, which already are, or may be
of particular interest in the future from the space applications point of
view.
Suggested topics include the following, but should not be viewed as being
exclusive:

    * Emerging AI fields such as Artificial Life or Swarm Intelligence;
    * AI methods for intelligent interfaces and presentation of data;
    * Autonomous decision making and control;
    * AI methods for data analysis;
    * AI methods for design automation and support;
    * AI search and optimization methods;
    * AI methods for monitoring and diagnosis.


Submission Instructions
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Paper abstracts (maximum 5000 characters in length) will be accepted
electronically through
the official online submission form (
http://www.congrex.nl/09c17/submission.asp).

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is March 1, 2009. The workshop
organisers will
announce acceptance/rejection decision by April 13, 2009, including
recommendation for
oral or poster presentation. Authors of all poster papers will be invited to
present
a five-minute overview presentation during the regular session.

Accepted papers should be then developed into full-length papers to be
submitted by May 22, 2009.
(exact format and instructions will appear on the conference website).

Official ESA Proceedings will be published in electronic format and
delivered to
the particants in the weeks following the workshop event.
ESA proceedings are diffused to libraries and databases for scientific
dissemination.


Organising Committee
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* Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA (steve.chien at jpl.nasa.gov)
* Christos Ampatzis, Advanced Concepts Team, ESA (christos.ampatzis at esa.int)
* Marek Rucinski, Advanced Concepts Team, ESA (marek.rucinski at esa.int)
* Dario Izzo, Advanced Concepts Team, ESA (dario.izzo at esa.int)


Programme Committee
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* Anders Lyhne Christensen
Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação, Instituto Superior de
Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Lisbon

* Roderich Gross
Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

*Michèle R. Lavagna
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Milano

* Slawomir Jaroslaw Nasuto
Cybernetic Intelligence Research Group, School of Systems Engineering,
University of Reading

* Jason Noble
School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton

* Georgios Yannakakis
IT-University of Copenhagen, Center for Computer Games Research

* Alessandro Donati
European Space Operations Centre, ESA

* Robert Morris
Ames Research Center, NASA

* Debra Schreckenghost
NASA Johnson Space Center/Metrica/TRACLabs

*Ashit Talukder
Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA

* David Thompson
Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA


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