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Our paper “Spatiotemporal Anomaly Detection in Gas Monitoring Sensor Networks” is currently being presented at the European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN’08) in Bologna, Italy. In this paper, we use Bayesian Networks as a means for unsupervised learning and anomaly (event) detection in gas monitoring sensor networks for underground coal mines. We show that the Bayesian Network model can learn cyclical baselines for gas concentrations, and by this reduce false alarms usually caused by flatline thresholds. You can check out the details here.

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The ProMAS workshop series aims to address the theoretical and practical programming issues related to developing and deploying multi-agent systems. In particular, ProMAS aims to address how multi-agent systems designs or specifications can be effectively implemented. The main areas of interest of the ProMAS workshop concern the development and programming of Multi-Agent Systems, ranging from tools, (new) agent and organizational programming concepts to semantics and formal verification. Paper submission deadline: February 1st, Workshop date 12th/13th May on AAMAS 2008. For details, see the ProMAS 2008 webpage.

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The scope of development and learning covered by this conference includes perceptual, cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals, artificial systems and robots. Investigations of the biological and computational mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our understanding of the working of the whole range of mental capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems. The International Conference on Development and Learning strives to bring together researchers in neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics and other related areas to encourage understanding and cross-fertilization of the latest ideas and results from the different disciplines. Full papers are due March 14. ICDL 2008 takes place Aug 9th-12 in Monterey, California. For details see http://www.icdl08.org/.

Two post-doctoral jobs are open at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense working on biologically based robotics. Closing date for applications is 28 January 2008. The first post is related to a project on active sonars, the second is associated with a project studying the principles underpinning the use of hair sensors in three animal groups.

A postdoctoral position is available for an inventive Mechanical Engineer to spearhead a team designing and building a new type of robot composed of soft materials. The work will be carried out in a new multidisciplinary facility (the Advanced Technologies Laboratory, ATL) at Tufts University in Medford, part of the greater Boston area in Massachusetts, USA. More information is available at: http://ase.tufts.edu/bdl.

Finally, a postdoctoral research position is available immediately in the Distributed Robotics Laboratory at CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA USA (PI Prof. Daniela Rus, groups.csail.mit.edu/drl). Interested applicants should send a CV(with a brief research statement) and a list of references by email to Marcia Davidson.

Artificial life investigates the fundamental properties of living systems through simulating and synthesizing biological entities and processes in artificial media. Papers are welcome in all areas of the field, including Synthesis and origin of life, self-organization, self-replication, artificial chemistries, Evolution and adaptation, evolutionary dynamics, evolutionary games, coevolution, major evolutionary transitions, levels of selection, ecosystems, Unconventional and biologically inspired computing, Bio-inspired robots and embodied cognition, autonomous agents, evolutionary robotics, information in Complex Systems and Artificial Life, … .
All authors are encouraged to explain how their work sheds light on the
fundamental properties of living systems and makes progress on the important
open questions identified at previous meetings.

Several artificial life themes have been proposed as live research topics around which conference sessions may organise. See here for details.

The conference will be held in Winchester, paper submission is 29 February, conference date is 5-8 August, 2008.

The 2008 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference will bring together researchers working on algorithmic or mathematical foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analysis of robotic systems. High quality, original papers are solicited in all areas of robotics. The final program will be the result of a highly selective review process designed to include the best work of its kind in every category. The conference will be single track to allow attendees an opportunity to experience the best research in all areas of robotics. The program will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. The main conference (June 25-27, 2008) will be followed by one day of workshops. RSS2008 is held in Zurich, Switzerland. Paper submission deadline is an January 15. See www.roboticsconference.org.

To solve complex, real-world problems, AI systems often must integrate component technologies, such as planning, reasoning, language, dialogue, perception, goal-driven action, and learning. Prototypical examples of such integrated systems include software agents, autonomous robots, robots that interact with humans, intelligent tutoring systems, and virtual characters. The Integrated Intelligence track welcomes submissions on issues that arise in the design and construction of such systems, and with clear evidence for the efficacy of the integrated system. The dates for this AAAI-08 special track are: Abstract Submission Deadline: January 25, Paper Submission Deadline: January 30, Author Notification Deadline: April 1. AAAI-8 takes place in Chicago, Illinois, July 13–17, 2008. For details, see the AAAI-08 web page.