-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: The 2nd Int'l Workshop on Mobility and Communication for Cooperation and Coordination (MC3) Datum: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:15:40 -0400 Von: Danilo Tardioli dantard@UNIZAR.ES Antwort an: Danilo Tardioli dantard@UNIZAR.ES An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

============== CALL FOR PAPERS ===============

The 2nd Int'l Workshop on Mobility and Communication for Cooperation and Coordination (MC3) Montevideo, Uruguay, November 25, 2013 http://mc3-2013.hds.utc.fr/

Hosted at the 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) 2013

Scope and Objectives of MC3 --------------------------------------

The constant progress of both wireless technologies and robotics is rapidly leading to the convergence of these two fields towards the definition of a new discipline, wireless networked robotics (WNR), tackling multi-robot systems that can exploit the presence of a network medium for information sharing, interaction, and cooperation.

In the past, communication and control have often been seen as two independent components of a robotic system, with the robot being passive with respect to networking and active in relation to other sensory-motor choices. Similarly, in networking, control actions other than communications are seen as external to the network device, and modeled as passive aspects of the system. Only limited work has addressed the inclusion of control mechanisms inside the classical ISO/OSI stack or through cross-layering approaches (mainly for energy consumption and mobility control).

However, in WNR, adopting this differentiation between control and communication does not allow to fully exploit the capabilities of the system, since it directly impacts on the quality and reliability of robots' information flows.

Networking and control need to be put in closed loop with each other} in order to fully unleash the power of a multi-robot system in terms of coordination and cooperative behaviors. In particular, controlled mobility can be play an important role supporting networking, and, in turn, boosting information sharing and robot to robot interactions. Similarly, networking parameters and policies need to continually adapt to the needs and constraints of the tasks the robots are engaged in.

The MC3 workshop aims to address these issues, focusing on the investigation of the mutual interplay and adaptation between control and communication in networked systems featuring the presence of (heterogeneous) multiple mobile robots and sensors. The workshop will provide a contribution laying the pathway towards the information-centric design of cooperative, autonomous and self-organized robotic networks.

Topics of Interest ----------------------

The workshop aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design and implementation of architectures, algorithms, and protocols for current and future applications of Wireless Networked Robotics, with an emphasis on the use of mobility. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of this discipline. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Communication and motion-aware protocols for coordination and the cooperation of heterogeneous devices * Novel communication approaches for multi-robot wireless communications in different scenarios: aerial, aquatic, and terrestrial * Novel network stack or cross-layer architectures that include robot motion and control as network primitives * Intelligent use of controlled mobility to support and to be supported by networking * Cognitive radio and its applications to wireless networked robotics * Cooperative networking for cooperative task execution in multi-robot systems * Machine learning and bio-inspired approaches for wireless networked robotics * Use cases, novel applications, and testbeds for wireless networked robotics

Venue ----- MC3 will be part of ICAR, the 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics which be held at the School of Engineering of the Universidad de la República del Uruguay, in Montevideo, on November 25-29, 2013. This is the second edition of the MC3 workshop. In 2012 it was organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC), in Maui, Hawaii. The long-term objective is to keep organizing the MC3 workshop every year at a different conference, alternating between networking and robotics conferences.

Paper Submission ------------------------ The deadline for paper submission is October 5, 2013. The maximum length for a paper is 8 pages in the IEEE format. Papers will be reviewed by three reviewers according to a single blind peer process. Papers, in PDF format need to be submitted to the following e-mail address, using 'MC3' as subject: mc3.icar@gmail.com. Please refer to the website http://mc3-2013.hds.utc.fr/ for the full information about paper format and submission procedure.

Important Dates --------------------- * Paper submission: October 5, 2013 * Notification to authors: October 21, 2013 * Camera-ready version: November 3, 2013

Organizing Committee ----------------------------- * Enrico Natalizio, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France enrico.natalizio@hds.utc.fr * Gianni A. Di Caro, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland gianni@idsia.ch * Danilo Tardioli, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain dantard@unizar.es

Program Committee (in progress) -------------------------- * Luís Almeida, Universidade do Porto, Portugal * Isabelle Fantoni, CNRS, France * Mario Gerla, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA * Domenico Giustiniano, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland * Valeria Loscrì, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France * Sabato Manfredi, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy * Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France * Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash University, Australia * Vito Trianni, Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNR, Italy * Evsen Yanmaz, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

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