[ros-users] CFP IEEE Africon 2011 Special Session on Robotics and AI

[Ken Conley]

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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Billy Okal <b.okal at jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> May I draw your attention to the following;
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> First Call for Papers for the
> IEEE AFRICON 2011 Special Session on Robotics and Artificial
> Intelligence in Africa
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> General Information
> ===================
>
> The IEEE Region 8 AFRICON celebrates their 10th anniversary and was held
> before in Kenya, the Ivory Coast, Swaziland, South Afrika, Botswana, and
> Namibia. This time it will take place in Livingstone, Zambia. See
> http://www.africon2011.co.za for further details. We are happy to
> announce the special track on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
> research at the AFRICON 2011
>
> Robotics and Artificial Intelligence research in the African context has
> not yet reached its full potential. During this special session, we
> intend to bring the African Robotics and AI community together and
> discuss the various aspects of robotics and artificial intelligence in
> the African context. Both are cutting-edge fields and well-established
> in industrialized countries. However, they seem to be under-represented
> in Africa, despite their great potential for capacity building and
> education.  With this special session, we aim at bringing together
> interested researchers who are active in both fields and connect them
> with each other. Further, the focus of this special session is on
> robotics and AI in education and we want to invite interested researcher
> from all over the world to contribute to this aspect.
>
> In particular, we intend to address the following:
>
>  * Current research results from African researchers in the fields.
>  * Robotics and AI in education that could make an impact for Africa.
>  * Robotics competitions relevant in the African context (e.g. Robocup
>   Junior or IEEE Robocomp).
>  * The role of open source in development of Robotics and AI in Africa.
>  * The role of Robotics and AI for the economic development in the context
>   of 21st century production and manufacturing in Africa (Automation,
>   Mining industries, etc.)
>  * Successful robotics and AI co-operation projects between African
>   institutions and institutions in the rest of the world.
>
>
> Important Dates
> ===============
>
>  * Paper submission: March 31, 2011
>  * Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2011
>  * Camera-ready copy due: June 30, 2011
>  * Technical Session: September 13 – 15, 2011
>
>
> Submission Details
> ==================
>
> Prospective authors are invited to electronically submit full papers of
> their work in English (6 pages, ~4500 words, in pdf format), following
> the instructions available on the web site. Accepted papers will be
> published in an IEEE proceedings volume that will be indexed by EI and
> IEEE Xplore, and will be available at the time of the conference.
>
> For further information visit the session’s website at:
>  * http://www.africon2011.co.za/info/specialsessions?id=5
> and the main conferene website at:
>  * http://www.africon2011.co.za/
>
> Further submission info is given here:
>  * http://ieee-ies.org///submit-cgi-bin/authorlogin.pl?event=AFRICON11
>
>
> Session Chairs
> ==============
>
> Alexander Ferrein, University of Cape Town, South Africa
> Thomas Meyer, CSIR-Meraka Institute, South Africa
> Billy Okal, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Billy,Alexander,Thomas
>
>
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