[alife] CFP: (Extended deadline) 2nd Int'l Workshop on Mobility and Communication for Cooperation and Coordination (MC3)

[Gianni Di Caro]

                 The 2nd Int'l Workshop on Mobility and
           Communication for Cooperation and Coordination (MC3)
                  Montevideo, Uruguay, November 25, 2013
                        http://mc3-2013.hds.utc.fr/

               In conjunction with the 16th International
              Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) 2013


Scope and Objectives of MC3
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The constant progress of both wireless technologies and robotics is
rapidly leading to the convergence of these two fields towards the
definition of a new discipline, wireless networked robotics (WNR),
tackling multi-robot systems that can exploit the presence of a
network medium for information sharing, interaction, and cooperation.

In the past, communication and control have often been seen as two
independent components of a robotic system, with the robot being
passive with respect to networking and active in relation to other
sensory-motor choices. Similarly, in networking, control actions other
than communications are seen as external to the network device, and
modeled as passive aspects of the system. Only limited work has
addressed the inclusion of control mechanisms inside the classical
ISO/OSI stack or through cross-layering approaches (mainly for energy
consumption and mobility control).

However, in WNR, adopting this differentiation between control and
communication does not allow to fully exploit the capabilities of the
system, since it directly impacts on the quality and reliability of
robots' information flows.

Networking and control need to be put in closed loop with each other}
in order to fully unleash the power of a multi-robot system in terms
of coordination and cooperative behaviors. In particular, controlled
mobility can be play an important role supporting networking, and, in
turn, boosting information sharing and robot to robot interactions.
Similarly, networking parameters and policies need to continually
adapt to the needs and constraints of the tasks the robots are engaged
in.

The MC3 workshop aims to address these issues, focusing on the
investigation of the mutual interplay and adaptation between control
and communication in networked systems featuring the presence of
(heterogeneous) multiple mobile robots and sensors. The workshop will
provide a contribution laying the pathway towards the
information-centric design of cooperative, autonomous and
self-organized robotic networks.


Topics of Interest
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The workshop aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on
the design and implementation of architectures, algorithms, and
protocols for current and future applications of Wireless Networked
Robotics, with an emphasis on the use of mobility. Original,
unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of this
discipline. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Communication and motion-aware protocols for coordination and the
   cooperation of heterogeneous devices
* Novel communication approaches for multi-robot wireless
   communications in different scenarios: aerial, aquatic, and 
terrestrial
* Novel network stack or cross-layer architectures that include robot
   motion and control as network primitives
* Intelligent use of controlled mobility to support and to be
   supported by networking
* Cognitive radio and its applications to wireless networked robotics
* Cooperative networking for cooperative task execution in 
multi-robot systems
* Machine learning and bio-inspired approaches for wireless 
networked robotics
* Use cases, novel applications, and testbeds for wireless networked 
robotics


Venue
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MC3 will be part of ICAR, the 16th International Conference on
Advanced Robotics which be held at the School of Engineering of the
Universidad de la República del Uruguay, in Montevideo, on November
25-29, 2013. This is the second edition of the MC3 workshop. In 2012
it was organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference
on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC), in Maui, Hawaii.
The long-term objective is to keep organizing the MC3 workshop every
year at a different conference, alternating between networking and
robotics conferences.


Paper Submission
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The deadline for paper submission is October 5, 2013. The maximum
length for a paper is 8 pages in the IEEE format. Papers will be
reviewed by three reviewers according to a single blind peer process.
Papers, in PDF format need to be submitted to the following e-mail
address, using 'MC3' as subject: mc3.icar at gmail.com. Please refer to
the website http://mc3-2013.hds.utc.fr/ for the full information about
paper format and submission procedure.


Important Dates
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* Paper submission (Extended): October 15, 2013
* Notification to authors: October 21, 2013
* Camera-ready version: November 3, 2013


Organizing Committee
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* Enrico Natalizio, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
   enrico.natalizio at hds.utc.fr
* Gianni A. Di Caro, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
   gianni at idsia.ch
* Danilo Tardioli, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain
   dantard at unizar.es


Program Committee
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* Luis Almeida, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
* Isabelle Fantoni, CNRS, France
* Mario Gerla, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
* Domenico Giustiniano, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland
* Michal Kudelski, IDSIA, Switzerland
* Valeria Loscri', Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France
* Sabato Manfredi, Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
* Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France
* Alessandro Saffiotti, Orebro University, Sweden
* Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash University, Australia
* Vito Trianni, Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNR, Italy
* Evsen Yanmaz, University of Klagenfurt, Austria