[agents] CfP: IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on HART - Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork

[Virginia Dignum - TBM]

Call for Papers
IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on HART - Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork
Publication: January/February 2012
Submissions due for review: 31 July 2011

Teamwork has become a widely accepted metaphor for describing the nature of multi-robot and multi-agent cooperation. The notion of teamwork involves some notion of communication, shared knowledge, goals, and activities that function as the glue that binds team members together. By virtue of a largely reusable explicit formal model of shared intentions, team members attempt to manage general responsibilities and commitments to each other in a coherent fashion that both enhances performance and facilitates recovery when unanticipated problems arise. For software agents and robots to participate in teamwork alongside people in carrying out complex real-world tasks, they must have some of the capabilities that enable natural and effective teamwork among groups of people. Just as important, developers of such systems need tools and methodologies to assure that such systems will work together reliably and safely, even when they are designed independently.

This IEEE Intelligent Systems special issue seeks innovative contributions to theories, methods, and tools in support of mixed groups of humans, agents and robots working together in teams. Multidisciplinary research—combining findings from fields such as computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, anthropology, social psychology, ergonomics, robotics, organizational psychology, and human technology interaction to address the problem of HART—is strongly encouraged. This issue is expected to provide an integrated and synthesized view of the current state of the art, identify key challenges and opportunities for future studies, and promote community-building among researchers and practitioners in this field.

Guest Editors
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Ph.D., Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Pensacola, FL USA
Email: jbradshaw at ihmc.us<mailto:jbradshaw at ihmc.us>
URL: http://www.ihmc.us/groups/jbradshaw

Virginia Dignum, Ph.D., Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Email: M.V.Dignum at tudelft.nl<mailto:M.V.Dignum at tudelft.nl>
URL: http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=b0ae91c9-9b2e-4bf2-8431-3d1c11d7ee28&lang=en

Catholijn M. Jonker, Ph.D., Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Email: C.M.jonker at tudelft.nl<mailto:C.M.jonker at tudelft.nl>
URL: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&id=112

Maarten Sierhuis, Ph.D., Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Menlo Park, CA
Email: Maarten.Sierhuis at parc.com<mailto:Maarten.Sierhuis at parc.com>
URL: http://www.parc.com/about/people/2478/maarten-sierhuis.html

Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be 3,000 to 5,400 words (counting a standard figure or table as 200 words) and should follow the style and presentation guidelines of the IEEE Intelligent Systems (see www.computer.org/intelligent/author<http://www.computer.org/intelligent/author> for details). The manuscripts should not have been published or be currently submitted for publication elsewhere. As an alternative, you may submit a brief abstract of one to three paragraphs describing your contributions and including one or two references to your publications. From a selection of these short submissions, we will assemble an article giving readers a broad perspective on the variety of research taking place in this community.

Questions and Submissions
For general information about the special issue, contact Virginia Dignum, Catholijn Jonker, Maarten Sierhuis, or Jeff Bradshaw. Make sure your message includes the keyword “HART” in the subject line, or it may be missed. For general author guidelines, see www.computer.org/intelligent/author
. For submission details, see intelligent at computer.org
.

To submit an article: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sw-cs (select “Special Issue on HART”).



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Dr. Virginia Dignum
Section ICT, Department Technology, Policy and Management
Delft University of Technology
tel: +31-15-2788064
email: M.V.Dignum at tudelft.nl<mailto:M.V.Dignum at tudelft.nl>
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