From - Wed May 14 10:25:44 1997 Path: Radon.Stanford.EDU!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!hal.cs.duke.edu!news.cs.duke.edu!pankaj From: pankaj@news.cs.duke.edu (Pankaj Kumar Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: WAFR'98: CALL FOR PAPERS Date: 14 May 1997 03:42:25 GMT Organization: Duke - Department of Computer Science Lines: 89 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5lbcb1$26m$1@hal.cs.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: euclid.cs.duke.edu Xref: Radon.Stanford.EDU comp.theory:11820 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 2506 CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Workshop on the ALGORITHMIC FOUNDATIONS OF ROBOTICS (WAFR 98) March 4-6, 1998 Houston, TX Scope ----- Algorithms play a fundamental role in many aspects of robotics. WAFR aims at bringing together a group of about sixty researchers to discuss recent trends and important future directions of research on the algorithmic foundations of robotics. The format of the workshop consists of about 10 talks by key researchers in the field and about 20 contributed presentations in a single track. Topics to be covered include but are not limited to: * Holonomic motion planning * Grasping and Fixturing * Nonholonomic motion planning * Sensor based planning * Controllability and planning * Task level planning * Manipulation * Assembly planning Invited speakers include: ------------------------ * Bruce Donald, Cornell * Herbert Edelsbrunner, UIUC * Leo Guibas, Stanford * Joe Warren, Rice Submissions ----------- Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of a full paper by December 1st, 1997 to: Pankaj K. Agarwal Department Computer Science D207, LSRC Building Duke University Durham, NC 27706, USA pankaj@cs.duke.edu Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by January 15 1998. Camera-ready copies of the accepted papers are required by Feb 15th, 1998. These will be printed and distributed to the workshop participants. A selected subset of the papers will be published as a book after the workshop. Chairing Committee ------------------ * Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke (pankaj@cs.duke.edu) * Lydia Kavraki, Rice (kavraki@cs.rice.edu) * Matt Mason, Carnegie Mellon (matt_mason@cs.cmu.edu) Program Committee ----------------- * Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke * Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, INRIA * Karl-Friedrich Bohringer, Berkeley * John Canny, Berkeley * Greg Chirikjian, Johns Hopkins * Lydia Kavraki, Rice * Daniel Koditschek, Univ. of Michigan * Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford * Jean-Paul Laumond, LAAS * Matt Mason, Carnegie Mellon * Rajeev Motwani, Stanford * Mark Overmars, Utrecht * Jean Ponce, UIUC * Daniela Rus, Dartmouth * Russell Taylor, Johns Hopkins * Jeff Trinkle, Texas A&M For more information you can contact the chairing committee. For local arrangements see: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~kavraki/wafr98.html