Welcome Message
It is my pleasure to welcome you to RiiSS 2013 – IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space. RiiSS 2013 is being hosted by IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2013, in Singapore. This is the third RiiSS workshop after the first one was successfully held in Nashville in 2009 and the second one in Paris in 2011.
RiiSS2013 will bring together scientists, engineers and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of robot intelligence within the context of informationally structured space. Recently, the emerging synthesis of information technology (IT), network technology (NT), and robot technology (RT) is one of the most promising approaches to realize a safe, secure, and comfortable society for the next generation. Human-centered systems require, in particular, sophisticated physical and information services, which are based on sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent artifacts. Information resources and the accessibility within an environment are essential for people and for robots. The environment surrounding people and robots should have a structured platform for gathering, storing, transforming, and providing information. Such an environment is called informationally structured space. The intelligent computing for the design and use of the informationally structured space should be discussed from various points of view at the same time. An intelligent robot can be an interface connecting between people and informationally structured space to search and provide information. Computational intelligence plays an important role in dealing with perception, action, decision-making, planning, adaptation, and learning of robots in the informationally structured space.
RiiSS is the result of time and involvement of many people. We are grateful to the authors for their interest in this workshop and submitting their work. We would like to acknowledge many reviewers who volunteered and dedicated their valuable time and effort to assure the quality of the papers.
This workshop was originally planned when we started the Robotics Task Force of the Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee (ISATC) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE/CIS) back in 2007. In fact, most of the Technical Program Committee members are from the Task Force. We would like to thank them for their long-term support to make this workshop a reality and a success.
RiiSS 2013 is very honored to have Prof. Tetsuya Ogata, Waseda University as a keynote speaker. Prof. Tetsuya is one of distinguished researchers on the intelligent space based on dynamical systems approach for human-robot interaction.
We sincerely hope that you will find this workshop inspiring and informative for you future research activities.
Honghai Liu
Naoyuki Kubota
Program Chairs, RiiSS2013