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You are cordially invited to attend Second Robotic International Summer-school in Dubrovnik. Please forward this invitation also to the PhD, and post-doc students and researchers in the area of robotics, AI, and autonomous systems. Thank you! ************************************************************************ Second Robotic International Summer-School Robots as Intelligent Systems Working in the Outer World RISS-WOW 2013 to be held at Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 17th until the 22nd of June 2013 * <http://www.roboschool.fsb.hr> http://www.roboschool.fsb.hr * ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ *** ABOUT RISS-WoW 2013 *** ************************************************************************ RISS-WOW 2013 is the second Robotic International Summer-School which will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia from the 17th until the 22nd of June 2013. The topic of this Summer-school edition is "Robots as Intelligent Social Systems Working in the Outer World" presented by internationally renowned lecturers. The Summer-School is distinguished by two additional sessions: a panel session organized as a round table discussion forum to help facilitate ideas between lecturers and students about the issues related with the Summer-school topic, and the PhD students poster session on the topic of "Robots as Intelligent Social Systems", with the best poster award by FESTO. We are inviting PhD and Post-doc students and researchers in the area of robotics, AI, and autonomous systems to apply for attendance. The participation is going to be guaranteed for 80 PhD and Post-doc students and researchers from all around the World with assigned 2 ECTS credits for attendance. The emphasis of the Summer-school RISS-WOW 2013 is on the robot agent cognitive capabilities and social intelligence needed for working in multi-robot teams and collectives with humans in dynamic unpredictable environments. To manifest such capabilities, robots need to recognize and "understand" the surrounding World and its relations. Inter-robot interaction and collaboration can be performed through different multi-agent collaboration and negotiation mechanisms. For human-robot interaction, we need above all cognitive robotics and social intelligence which will endow robots in showing necessary social characteristics and thus easier associate with humans in human-robot teams. Such a robot behavior is of particular importance in service robotics scenarios (e.g., robots as human assistants). Despite impressive examples of sensori-motor skills in the present-day robots and some examples of social interactions of robots with other robots or people, reaching human-like social intelligence still remains a big challenge. The scope of the RISS-WOW 2013 Summer-school is, therefore, to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the formerly mentioned topics in robotics. Conceptual frameworks and concrete FP7-ICT research projects will be presented in order to illustrate some of the latest results in the field. Furthermore, to enable networking, we provide: every day two long coffee breaks (30 minutes each); a lunchtime program of 1 hour and 20 minutes that leaves plenty time for chatting, evening social events: cocktail, dinner, city tour, and Summer-school's page on Facebook and Twitter. More info about the Summer-school on <http://www.roboschool.fsb.hr> http://www.roboschool.fsb.hr ************************************************************************ *** IMPORTANT DATES*** ************************************************************************ Deadline for pre-registration: 24 February 2013 Deadline for early registration: 10 March 2013 Grant request deadline: 1 March 2013 Grant notification: 15 May 2013 Poster-paper submission deadline: 29 March 2013 Poster-paper notification: 1 May 2013 Teaching materials due: 1 May 2013 Summer school: 17 - 22 June 2013 ************************************************************************ *** CONTACT *** ************************************************************************ For all matters concerning the technical program of RISS-WoW 2013, please contact Summer-school Organizers: Bojan Jerbić, University of Zagreb, Croatia: <mailto:bojan.jer...@fsb.hr> bojan.jer...@fsb.hr Marin Lujak, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain: <mailto:marin.lu...@urjc.es> marin.lu...@urjc.es ************************************************************************
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