***** Call for Papers *****

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2002 FIRA ROBOT WORLD CONGRESS
May 26 - 29, 2002 / COEX, Seoul, Korea / www.firacongress.net
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Come and Experience Robot and Human World Cup Games in Korea!

2002 FIRA ROBOT WORLD CONGRESS will be held along with 2002 FIRA
Robot World Cup. The 2002 FIRA Robot World Cup has been officially
selected as one of the cultural events of the 2002 FIFA World Cup
Korea. Please come and enjoy exciting moments with us.

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* Purpose and Scope
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2002 FIRA Robot World Congress welcomes paper submissions from
researchers, practitioners, and students worldwide to share the expertise
and technology of building intelligent robots including entertainment/
education/service/field/personal robots.

The Congress is aimed to bring together skilled researchers and
students from different backgrounds, such as robotics, sensor fusion,
intelligent control, communication, image processing, mechatronics,
computer technology, artificial life, etc., into an interdisciplinary field
for the development of intelligent, autonomous robots for the welfare
of humanbeings.

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* Important Dates
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- Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2002
- Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2002
- Camera-ready Manuscript Due: April 15, 2002

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* Topics of interest of this Congress include, but are not limited to:
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Related Areas;
Adaptive Systems, Artificial Life, Collective Behavior Emergence,
Distributed Sensing & Sensor Fusion, Environment Modeling,
Evolutionary Approach to Autonomous Agents, Human Robot Interface,
Intelligent Control, Learning Systems, Machine Vision for Robotic
Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Multiple Robotic Systems, Navigation
Systems, Robot Mechanism Design, Robot Soccer Simulation, Sensors
and Controls for AI

Robot Systems;
Entertainment/Education Robot, Field Robot, Humanoid Robot, Personal
Robot, Service Robot, Soccer Robot(HuroSot 2002, KheperaSot 2002,
MiroSot 2002, NaroSot 2002, QuadroSot 2002, RoboSot 2002, SimuroSot 2002)

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* The authors are encouraged to submit:
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- One copy of the extended abstract (800-1000 words) on A4 size page,
prepared in English, with (at the most) two pages of figures (if any).
The front page should contain the title of the paper, full name(s) and
address(es) of the author(s) and the appropriate academic field(s).
- The complete mailing address for the corresponding author
should be indicated on a separate sheet.
- All submitted papers will be refereed by peer reviewers.
- Selected papers will be published by peer journal.

Please send the abstracts to 2002 FIRA Robot World Congress Secretariat
on or before February 15, 2002. It is recommended to make submissions
via email to fira2002@fira.net.

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= General Chair (Hyung Suck Cho, KAIST)
= International Advisory Board (Fumio Harashima, TMIT /
Wook Hyun Kwon, Seoul Nat'l Univ. /
Arthur Sanderson, RPI /
Youngil Youm, POSTECH /
John Casti, Santa Fe Inst. /
Jong-Hwan Kim, KAIST)
= Steering Committee Chair (Marco Ceccarelli, Univ. of Cassino /
Rudiger Dillmann, Univ. of Karlsruhe)
= Program Chair (Ju-Jang Lee, KAIST)
- Regional Program Co- Chairs (America: C.S.George Lee, Purdue Univ. /
Asia: Masanori Sugisaka, Oita Univ. /
Europe: Peter Kopacek, Vienna Univ. of Tech.)
= Finance Chair (Bum-Jae You, KIST)
= Publicity Co-Chairs (Jang-Myung Lee, Pusan Nat'l Univ. /
Kyung-Hyun Choi, Cheju Nat'l Univ. /
Maria Gini, Univ. of Minnesota /
Liu Hong, Peking Univ.)
= Publication Chair (Woon Chul Ham, Chonbuk Nat'l Univ.)
= Tutorial and Workshop Chair (Dong-Soo Kwon, KAIST /
Sylvain Martel, MIT)
= Local Arrangement Chair (Kwee-Bo Sim, Chungang Univ.)
= Secretariat (Seul Jung, Chungnam Nat'l Univ.)

- HuroSot 2002 Co-Chairs (Jacky Baltes, Univ. of Auckland /
Thomas Braunl, Univ. of Western Australia)
- KheperaSot 2002 Chair (Joaquin Sitte, Queensland Univ. of Tech.)
- MiroSot 2002 Co-Chairs (Man-Wook Han, Vienna Univ. of Tech. /
Prahlad Vadakkepat, Nat'l Univ. of Singapore)
- NaroSot 2002 Chair (Sung Ho Kim, Yujin Robotics Co., Ltd.)
- QuadroSot 2002 Chair (Dimitar Stefanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
- RoboSot 2002 Chair (Kyung Chul Shin, Yujin Robotics Co., Ltd.)
- SimuroSot 2002 Co-Chairs (Hong Bingrong, Harbin Inst. of Tech. /
Jun Jo, Griffith Univ.)
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Organized by:
- Korea Robot Soccer Association (KRSA)

Supported by:
- Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)
- Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)
- Korean Society of Precision Engineering (KSPE)
- The Institute of Control, Automation and Systems Engineers, Korea (ICASE)
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)
- Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE)
- Micro-Robot Design Education Center (MRDEC)

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Any inquiry related to the Congress should be sent to
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2002 FIRA Robot World Congress Secretariat:
Ms. Jennie Kim, GENICOM Convention Service Co., Ltd.
Room #707, Daejeon Chamber of Commerce & Industry
1133 Dunsan-dong, So-gu, Daejeon 302-120, Korea
Tel: +82-42-472-7460 Fax: +82-42-472-7459
E-mail: fira2002@fira.net URL: http://www.firacongress.net