The Eighth European Workshop on Learning Robots will take place
at EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland, on Saturday 18th September,
immediately after the
European Conference on Artificial Life 1999 (ECAL'99). There will
also be an intensive workshop on behaviour based robotics run by Dario
Floreano and Ronald Arkin, also at EPFL, from September 8-10; details will follow.
Robot Learning is an area of interest to many different scientific
fields such as Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life,
Neuroscience, and Cognitive Science. The main goal of EWLR-8 is to bring together
researchers of different scientific fields working on or interested in
Robot Learning. EWLR is an interdisciplinary workshop
and aims to stimulate an exchange of ideas across the different fields.
EWLR has good foundations to achieve this ambitious goal. The European
Machine Learning and Robotics community has already organised a series
of seven successful workshops: Vienna (1993), Torino (1994), Heraklion
(1995), Karlsruhe (1995), Bari (1996), Brighton
(1997), and
Edinburgh (1998) , incorporating researchers from various fields
over the years.
Scope
We invite the submission of papers on any area of learning and adaptive
robotics. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
- Learning and adaptation in robot control
- Evolutionary robotics
- Reinforcement learning
- Connectionist approaches to robot learning
- Learning from interaction with humans
- Learning by observation, imitation, and cooperation
- Learning in multi-robot systems
- Industrial applications of robot learning
- Hardware issues in learning robots including Evolvable Hardware
- Robot learning and cognition
- Biologically inspired learning
- Robot learners as models in psychology or biology
- Machine learning techniques applied to robot problems
- Robot implementations of human motor learning mechanisms
- Sensory calibration and map building
- Bayesian and other probabilistic approaches to robot learning
- Learning of world and action models
The EWLRs focus on - but are *not* restricted to - European research.
Submission information
Papers may be submitted by email, ftp or as hardcopy. Electronic
submission is encouraged. Submitted papers (max 10 A4 pages, two
columns, single-spaced, body text size 10 pt, LaTeX files available at
the workshop's WWW page) should be in postscript format (try using
'gzip' and 'uuencode' to reduce the size, and check whether the size
of the file you are sending is within the size limits of your
e-mailer).
- Email submissions should be sent to jlw@cs.bham.ac.uk .
- Ftp submissions should be made to ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk. Login in as anonymous. Put papers in the directory pub/workshops/ewlr8/incoming/ .
- Alternatively, 5 hard-copies of the paper should be submitted to Jeremy Wyatt, at the address below.
All submissions must REACH the chair by the deadline. Papers should
include full contact details (including email addresses) and
affiliation of authors.
You can download the EWLR LaTeX style file. Decompressed and de-archived versions of these files are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/authors/J.L.Wyatt/ewlr8/ .
Publication
All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the
workshop, which will be available at the workshop. As for the last two
years, we aim to publish a selection of the best papers in a book (the
publisher in 1997 was Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in AI).
A programme is now
available.
The workshop will take place at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Lausanne). The address is Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne, CH - 1015, Lausanne. The venue is Room 202 in the
Informatique building. It's marked IN on this map
Registration
The workshop is open to all interested people. Registration will take
place on Saturday morning, before the workshop starts. The
registration fee includes admission, proceedings, and
coffee/tea/biscuits etc during coffee breaks. In order to register,
email ewlr8@cs.bham.ac.uk with your name, affiliation and
contact information (including email address), preferably before
September 1st 1999. You can use this
form . You do not need to send money in advance, payment will be
handled during registration. We will not be able to accept credit
cards. We will still admit people even if they haven't registered in
advance, but we might have to mail the proceedings to them after the
workshop if there aren't any spare ones left (we will have some
extras).
The registration fee has now been fixed at 70 Swiss Francs.
Travel & Accommodation
We have compiled a list of useful information to help you plan your trip and your accommodation.