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Subject: Re: [Networked Robots] from Roderich Gross: CFP: ANTS 2012 -
Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:01:51 +0900
From: Seong-Lyun Kim <sl...@yonsei.ac.kr>
To: is...@cs.umn.edu

Dear Volkan,

I would be appreciated if you distribute the final CFP (with online
submission site), the
the networked-robots mailing list.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Seong-Lyun Kim <http://hertz.yonsei.ac.kr/p_01.htm>
Professor, School of EEE
Yonsei Univ., Seoul, Korea

===============================================

Call for Papers

Special Issue on "Machine and Robotic Networking"

IEEE Network Magazine

===============================================

The advances in communication networking technologies have been very
successful in academia, industry and consumer markets. ï¿½Being connectedï¿½
becomes an essential part of our daily life. Recently, we have been also
observing that the communication distance between transmitters and
receivers shrinks in many commercial applications. This includes
sensor/RFID networks, WiFi and near field communication (NFC) devices.
Such shortened distance is mostly caused by the high volume of data
demand of users. One other reason is that the modern communications is
not any more for human-to-human (H2H) information exchange only but also
for machine-to-machine (M2M) or machine-to-human (M2H). The
inter-machine distance will be gradually decreasing in many upcoming
applications. This trend adds complexity to the communication protocols
with very high node density and unpredictable interference in particular
in wireless networks.

The machine in M2M or M2H refers to various devices from remote metering
modules to vehicles or small networked robots with communication
functions embedded. M2M applications and use cases currently under
consideration by ETSI, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and IEEE are mainly focused on
stationary nodes (machines) or at least control of node mobility is out
of scope of M2M applications. However, the controllable node
mobility willconstitute a core part of M2M communications. Robotic
networks will belong to this class of M2M, where the position of nodes
can be changed to meet the needs of M2M applications.

Independently, in the automatic control and robotics community, there
has been special interest in connecting multiple robots for effectively
achieving the common mission of a group of autonomous robots. This area
is known as networked robotics. The main background of this approach is
that connecting robots with less intelligence would be more beneficial
than a single isolated robot with full intelligence. In particular,
there have been a group of researchers focusing on the behaviours of
small animals to mimic their grouping patterns such as group navigation
and communications.

This special issue is dedicated to fundamentals and applications in the
machine and robotic networks. The main emphasis is to introduce and to
open new research horizon to the networking researchers. Those who are
currently investigating protocols for inter-machine data exchange or
designing a group of networked machines (including robots) are potential
authors for this special issue. The comprehensive survey and forecasting
of this inter-disciplinary area with deep insight on research challenges
and business opportunities are also seriously considered.

The special issue encourages authors to submit their papers on the
specific areas, which are not strictly limited to the followings, though:

ï¿½Networking protocol design for machine and robotic networks

ï¿½Distributed algorithm design for machine and robotic networks

ï¿½Resource management for machine and robotic networks

ï¿½Networked robots with special emphasis on networking and distributed
computing

ï¿½Capacity issues in machine and robotic networks

ï¿½Mobility issues in machine and robotic networks

ï¿½Cognitive machine and robotic networks

ï¿½Bio-inspired networking in robotics

ï¿½Design and application issues in M2M and networked robots

ï¿½Business models and use cases for M2M and networked robots

The interested authors are expected to submit their papers confirming to
the guidelines of /IEEE Network
Magazine/,<http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/pub_guidelines.html>http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html
according
to the following schedule:

Paper submission will be handled electronically through EDAS
(http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=10905).

ï¿½Paper submissions: October 15, 2011

ï¿½Notifications to authors: January 15, 2012

ï¿½Final manuscripts: March 1, 2012

ï¿½Publication of special issue: May 2012

*Guest Editors*

Seong-Lyun Kim

Yonsei University, Korea

sl...@yonsei.ac.kr <mailto:sl...@yonsei.ac.kr>

Dapeng Oliver Wu

University of Florida, USA

w...@ece.ufl.edu <mailto:w...@ece.ufl.edu>

Klaus Schilling

Julius-Maximilians-University Wï¿½rzburg, Germany

sc...@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de <mailto:sc...@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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