Advanced Robotics Journal Special Issue on RoboCup Guest Editors: Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ.) and Hajime Asama (RIKEN) Advanced Robotics will feature a special issue on RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Soccer Initiative. RoboCup is an attempt to promote robotics and AI research by providing a common task for evaluation of various performance, theories, algorithms, and robot architectures. In order for robots (mainly physical robots) 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 robotics and AI 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 (http://www.robocup.org/). In this special issue, we solicit high quality scientific contributions related to RoboCup of physical agent track. 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. A partial list of possible topics are: A new sensing and mechanical devices for RoboCup, Implementation of real-time and robust sensing, Realization of stable and high-speed robot control, Behavior learning for multi agent environment, Multi-agent architecture, Real-time planning, Cooperation in dynamic environments, Vision system as a part of complete agent, Educational and engineering infrastructure, Other related topics. Important Date Submission deadline: 15 December 1998 Notification of acceptance: 15 April 1999 Dead line for revision: 30 June 1999 Publication of special issue: Autumn 1999 (expected) Five hard copies of submissions shall be sent to: Minoru Asada (AR Journal, Co-Guest Editor) Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University Suita, Osaka 565, Japan. asada@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
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