Artificial Intelligence Journal Special Issue on RoboCup Artificial Intelligence will feature a special issue on RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Soccer Initiative. RoboCup is an attempt to promote AI and robotics research by providing a common task for evaluation of various theories, algorithms, and agent architectures. In order for robots (both physical robots and software agents) to play a soccer game reasonably well, a wide range of technologies need to be integrated and a number of technical breakthrough must be accomplished. The range of technologies spans both AI and robotics research, including design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, machine learning, real-time reasoning and planning, intelligent robotics, sensor-fusion, and so forth. Details of RoboCup are available from RoboCup official home page. In this special issue, we solicit high quality scientific contributions related to RoboCup. Papers must clearly identify scientific significance. Analysis on the applicability of approaches outside of soccer domain will add significance to papers. Papers which only describe robot teams will not be accepted. It is very important that the paper attempt to make a contribution to field(s) outside the RoboCup community. Papers on intelligent commentary system, educational issues using RoboCup, and other related issues can be considered if they are clearly linked with RoboCup. A partial list of possible topics are: Multi-agent architecture Real-time planning Learning Agent modeling Intelligent robotics Collective robotics Vision system as a part of complete agent Teamwork planing and contingency planning Intelligent 3D visualization Automatic commentary system Educational and engineering infrastructure other related topics. Papers will be strictly reviewed by the review committee for this specific issue. Please note that a substantial number of reviewers outside of RoboCup community will participate in the review process, in order to maximize scientific quality and utility of the publication. Five harcopies of submissions shall be sent to: Hiroaki Kitano (AI Journal, Guest Editor) Sony Computer Science Laboratory 3-14-13 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa Tokyo 141 Japan. kitano@csl.sony.co.jp The deadline for submission is February 1, 1998.
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