From Benjamin.Kloepper at hni.uni-paderborn.de Sat Oct 6 10:17:03 2007 From: Benjamin.Kloepper at hni.uni-paderborn.de (Benjamin Kloepper) Date: Fri Oct 12 13:37:07 2007 Subject: [DevRob] WG: 7th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium - Deadline Extension: November 2, 2007 References: <3E0DD508EB40E7488E0E318B0A6986330132F6@hermes.hni.uni-paderborn.de> <3E0DD508EB40E7488E0E318B0A6986333DFAAC@hermes.hni.uni-paderborn.de> Message-ID: <3E0DD508EB40E7488E0E318B0A6986333DFAB1@hermes.hni.uni-paderborn.de> ================================================================================== The new deadline for submission is November 2, 2007. Call for Papers: 7th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium: Self-Optimizing Mechatronic Systems: Design the Future http://www.hni.upb.de/en/symposium2008 Mechatronics and Self-optimization Mechatronics and Self-optimization The integration of mechanical engineering and information technology results in extensive potentials. This is expressed by the term ?mechatronics?. This term refers to the symbiotic cooperation of mechanics, electronics, control engineering and software technology, in order to improve the behavior of a technical system. Future mechatronical systems encompass subsystems with inherent partial intelligence due to integrated micro processors. The behavior of the complete system will be characterized by communication and cooperation of intelligent subsystems. From the information technology point of view it is a distributed system of cooperating agents. This establishes fascinating possibilities for the design of mechatronical products of tomorrow. The term Self-optimization characterizes this perspective: Self-optimization of a technical system is the endogenous adaption of objectives as reaction to changing influences and the resulting autonomous adjustment of parameters or structure and consequently of the system?s behavior. Thus Self-optimization is substantially beyond the well-known control and adaptation strategies; Self-optimization enables systems to act with inherent ?intelligence?, to react independently and flexibly to changing operation conditions. Challenges on the way to tomorrow?s technical systems While there are many application examples of mechatronics, the potential of Self-optimization in mechanical engineering appears only in rough outlines. It obviously needs fantasy to define machines with inherent partial intelligence. Substantial preconditions for the accomplishment of this challenge are the scientific exploration and an adequate presentation for engineering issues of the paradigm of Self-optimization. The second challenge is the development of a methodology to design self-optimizing mechanical systems. As outstanding characteristic designers cannot anticipate The topics of interest for the 7th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium the following computer science related topics include: * Adaptive Control and Self-optimization * ?Intelligent Movement? of Multi-Body Systems * Multi-Objective Optimization and Optimization under Consideration of Uncertainty * Current Developments in Sensor and Actuators * New Technologies in Domain Spanning Desing * Intelligent Agents in Engineering Applications * Safety and Dependability * Prevention of Product Piracy The papers should address the area of mechanical engineering and related areas like automotive, aircraft construction, medical engineering, robotics, etc. Paper Submission: Details about the Full Paper submission will be available on http://www.hni.upb.de/symposium2008 . Nov 2, 2007: submission deadline Nov 23, 2007: acceptance notification Dec 17, 2007: final paper deadline Organizers Prof. Dr.-Ing. J?rgen Gausemeier Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Franz-J. Rammig Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wilhelm Sch?fer Program Committee Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. A. Albers, Universit?t Karlsruhe Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Anderl, TU Darmstadt Prof. Dr.-Ing. Prof. h.c. T. Bertram, Universit?t Dortmund Dr.-Ing. T. B?rnchen, Alfons Haar Maschinenbau GmbH Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. M. Broy, TU M?nchen Prof. Dr. ir. H. v. Brussel, Katholische Universit?t Leuven Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Dudziak, FH Bochum Prof. Dr.-Ing. K. Feldmann, Universit?t Erlangen Dr.-Ing. M. Hahn, iXtronics GmbH Prof. K. Kim, PhD, University of California at Irvine Prof. Dr. H. Kopetz, TU Wien Prof. Dr. I. H. Kr?ger, University of California at San Diego Dr.-Ing. R. Lachmayer Prof. Dr.-Ing. U. Lindemann, TU M?nchen Dipl.-Ing. E. Mertens, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe PD Dr.-Ing. S. M?hringer, M?hringer Anlagenbau GmbH Prof. Dr. C. Pereira, Universit?t Porto Alegre, Brasilien Prof. Dr.-Ing. U. R?ckert, Universit?t Paderborn Prof. Dr. R. Scheidl, Universit?t Linz Dr. H.-P. Sch?ner, DaimlerChrysler AG Dr.-Ing. J. Schuller, Audi AG Prof. Dr. T. Tamai, University of Tokyo, Japan Prof. M. Tomizuka, PhD, University of California at Berkeley Prof. Dr.-Ing. E. G. Welp, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum Prof. W. Wolf, PhD, Princeton University Contact Dipl.-Inf.Sebastian Pook Heinz Nixdorf Institut, University of Paderborn E-Mail: Sebastian.Pook@hni.upb.de Phone: +49 (0) 5251/60 62 61 Fax : +49 (0)5251/60 62 68 Dipl.-Wirt.Inf. Benjamin Kl?pper Heinz Nixdorf Institut, University of Paderborn E-Mail: kloepper@hni.upb.de Phone: +49 (0) 5251/60 62 61 Fax : +49 (0)5251/60 62 68 From py at csl.sony.fr Thu Oct 25 06:49:27 2007 From: py at csl.sony.fr (Pierre-Yves Oudeyer) Date: Thu Oct 25 06:49:22 2007 Subject: [DevRob] [urgent] INRIA postdoc proposal in developmental robotics Message-ID: <472074B7.5010702@csl.sony.fr> Dear colleagues, as part of the creation of a developmental/epigenetic robotics group in INRIA Bordeaux, an open postdoc position has just become available. This position would last one year, start in december or january, be located in Bordeaux and supervised by myself. There are four possible topics: 1) development of advanced curiosity-driven learning algorithms and experiments on robots, 2) development of techniques for achieving naturally and intuitively joint attention between a robot and a human, 3) modeling of developmental mechanisms for language acquisition in robots and human, 4) user/human factor studies in entertainment-robot teaching/taming interactions. The constraint is that candidatures must be done ASAP. Candidates are expected to have already produced international level publications in relevant journals and conferences during their PhD, and are also expected to have had a significant experience of practical computational experiments in robotics, machine learning or interaction design (except for the user studies prosposal). Potential interested candidates can send me an email for further information, Best regards, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer http://www.csl.sony.fr/~py email: py@csl.sony.fr