Welcome to the Swarm Robotics Workshop SAB04

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Welcome to the Swarm Robotics Workshop _at_ SAB04

• Erol Sahin
• KOVAN Dept. of Computer Eng.
• Middle East Technical University
• 06531, Ankara, Turkey

William M. Spears Computer Science
Department University of Wyoming Laramie, WY,
82070, USA
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Editorial Board
- Thanks!

• Tucker Balch, Georgia Tech., GA, USA
• O. Burchan Bayazit, Washington Univ. at St.
  Louis, WA, USA
• Gerardo Beni, University of California at
  Riverside, CA, USA
• Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, Universite Libre de
  Bruxelles, Belgium
• Paolo Gaudiano, Icosystem Corp., MA, USA
• Alcherio Martinoli, EPFL, Switzerland, and
  Caltech, CA, USA
• David Payton,  HRL Labs, CA, USA
• Cem Unsal, Arris Group, CA, USA
• Alan Winfield,  University of West England, UK
• Joerg Seyfried, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH),
  Germany

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Short story of the workshop

• Idea During the editorialship of the Swarm
  Robotics Special Issue for the Autonomous Robots
  journal.
• February Proposal for the workshop OKed
• Initial field survey for interest looked good
• Contact Springer for LNCS - very interested
• 11 invited review papers 2 (out of 6) research
  papers.
• and here we are

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Some news

• Springer agreed to print the proceedings in their
  LNCS State-of-the-Art Series, to distinguish it
  from the many other proceedings.
• We are advised to have 15 pages on average per
  paper.
• August 15 Revised papers due
• August 30 Camera-ready papers with full latex
  source due

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Schedule - morning
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Schedule - afternoon
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Panel discussion

• What is/is not Swarm Robotics?
• What are the fundamental problems in Swarm
  Robotics?
• What are approaches that can be used to tackle
  these problems?
• What are the application domains?
• The first three talks are hoped to provide a
  background for these discussions.
• Let them simmer in your mind till the panel.

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IDEA Spill over discussion over beer
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enjoy the workshop!