General Chair

Tiziana Margaria
(Univ. Potsdam, D)

Program Chairs

Jens Knoop
(TU Vienna, A)

Dietmar Schreiner
(TU Vienna, A)

Program Committee

Jose Maria Canas Plaza (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos)
Markus Bader (Vienna Univ. of Techn.)
Karl M. Göschka (Vienna Univ. of Techn.)
Vincent Hugel (Univ. de Versailles)
Jens Knoop (Vienna Univ. of Techn.)
Gerald Steinbauer (Graz Univ. of Techn.)
Dietmar Schreiner (Vienna Univ. of Techn.)
Stefan Tasse (TU Dortmund Univ.)
Markus Vincze (Vienna Univ. of Techn.)
Arnoud Visser (Univ. of Amsterdam)
Franz Wotawa (Graz Univ. of Techn.)

Deadlines:

Submission: September 2, 2011
Notification: September 12, 2011
Camera-ready copy: October 2, 2011
Early Registr.: September 30, 2011

Organizer

Vienna University of Technology,
Institute of Computer Languages

Sponsor

1st International ISoLA Workshop on

Software Aspects of Robotic Systems

http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/isola2011

The development of autonomous robotic systems has experienced a remarkable boost within the last years. Away from stationary manufacturing units, current robots have grown up into autonomous, mobile systems that not only interact with real world environments, but also fulfill mission critical tasks in collaboration with human individuals on a reliable basis. Typical fields of application are unmanned vehicles for exploration but also for transportation, reconnaissance and search-and-rescue in hazardous environments, and ambient assisted living for elderly or disabled people.

Hence, algorithms in cognition, computer vision, and locomotion have become hot-spots of research and development. In addition, modern concepts like evolutionary and bio-inspired design have entered the stage to tackle open issues in robotics and to cope with domain specific properties like inherent indeterminism.

The back-side of this boost is an even larger increase in complexity of modern robotic systems. Numerous actuators and sensors have to be controlled simultaneously. Complex actions have to be performed via timed parallel execution of multiple instruction streams on distinct electronic control units. Autonomy, especially long term autonomy as required by deep-sea or space exploration missions, necessitates features of fault-tolerance, error recovery, or at least well-defined fallbacks. Due to the physical interaction of robots with the real world, safety violations are extremely harmful, in the worst-case they might lead to severe damage and even to casualties.

The goal of this Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are interested in the software aspect of robotic systems. Topics of interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to): robot programming, languages and compilation techniques, real-time and fault tolerance, dependability, software architectures, computer vision, cognitive robotics, multi-robot-coordination, simulation, bio-inspired algorithms, Machine-Learning.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers on basic as much as applied research, which are not being considered in another forum. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 15 pages in the final camera-ready format.

Accepted papers are planned to be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg). Selected papers will appear in the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg).