[alife] [EXTENDED DEADLINE 01/04/09] The IJCAI-09 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space - Call for Abstracts

Christos Ampatzis campatzis at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 06:35:45 PST 2009


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Apologies for multiple postings.

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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 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 - UPDATED

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* Submission deadline: 01.04.09

* Notification of acceptance: 30.04.09

* Full paper submission: 06.07.09

* Workshop: 17-18.07.09



Brief description

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Intelligent machines, programs, or agents, are systems that adapt, learn or
perceive their environment and take actions which maximize their chances of
success. The design of intelligent systems for operation in known and
predictable environments or under a well-defined set of conditions is a
demanding task that has been widely addressed in the past decades. However,
existing machine intelligence has not been extensively tried and tested in
highly unpredictable and hazardous environments, as space. Arguably,
successful operation in space is a far more challenging endeavour than
operation in, e.g., controlled robotic arenas. Similarly, space applications
may need novel programming paradigms, far more flexible and adaptive than
conventional computing.



Two keywords in our quest for designing artificially intelligent entities
are autonomy and adaptivity. Spacecrafts, satellites, rovers and other
machines need to be able to autonomously make decisions, to quickly process
and categorise vast amounts of incoming data, monitor their health status,
detect and self-heal faults. Machines need to learn to adapt fast to growing
user demands, to interact in more complex ways with other machines and
humans, and new algorithms need to emerge to tackle the complexity of
real-world problems. The research field of Artificial Intelligence with its
many flavours can significantly contribute to this goal. From solutions
inspired by the behaviour of social animals, to imitating how the human
brain functions during decision-making; from robust optimisation algorithms
to natural language interfaces for human-computer interactions; from
efficient control algorithms to data mining and knowledge discovery,
advances in AI research can be applied to space related problems.



In order to briefly summarize the up-to-date contributions from different
fields of AI to space science and applications, to indicate how recent AI
findings can be utilized and to identify new areas of AI which could be of
use in space exploration, the Advanced Concepts Team of ESA and the
Artificial Intelligence Group of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab will be
organising a workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space at IJCAI-09 in
Pasadena, California, on July 17-18, 2009. IJCAI is the largest AI
conference in the world.



Submission to the workshop is encouraged for scientists involved in both
space-related and non-space related research. The topics covered in this
workshop 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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Abstracts will be accepted electronically through the official online
submission form (http://www.congrex.nl/09c17/submission.asp).



The extended deadline for receipt of abstracts is April 1, 2009. The
workshop organisers will announce acceptance/rejection decision by April 30,
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 July 6, 2009. (exact format and instructions will appear on the
conference website).



Official ESA Proceedings will be published in electronic format and
delivered to the participants 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



* Iain D. Couzin

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University



* 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



* Nicola Policella

European Space Operations Centre, ESA



* Debra Schreckenghost

NASA Johnson Space Center/Metrica/TRACLabs



*Ashit Talukder

Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA



* David Thompson

Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA


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