General Chair Maria Gini   Univ. of Minnesota, USA Program Co-Chairs Wei-Min Shen   ISI/Univ. of So. Calif., USA Carme Torras   CSIC-UPC, Barcelona, Spain Hideo Yuasa   Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Steering Committee Chair Franz Groen   Univ. of Amsterdam,   The Netherlands Steering Committee Enrico Pagello   Univ. of Padua, Italy Ruediger Dillmann   Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany Tamio Arai   Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Anthony Stentz   Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA Important Dates Submission: extended to Oct 15, 2001 Acceptance: Nov 30, 2001 Camera-ready copy: Dec 21, 2001

The goal of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-7) is to exchange and stimulate research ideas that make future robots and systems more intelligent and autonomous. This conference emphasizes that intelligence should and could be best illustrated by systems that can directly sense and act in their own environment without demanding detailed supervisions from humans. As more and more robots are entering our daily life, researchers in IAS are facing increasingly many challenges in how to construct, control, and interact with such systems. IAS-7 will build upon past successes and provide an exciting environment for researchers to present and discuss their novel theoretical results, implementations, and applications. IAS-7 will be held in the beautiful city of Marina del Rey in California USA. Marina del Rey, overlooking the world's largest man-made yacht harbor, is one of the most desirable areas in the Los Angeles basin. The full diversity of the area's cultural and recreational activities are within easy reach. Average temperatures in March are between 10° and 20°. We warmly welcome all representatives from industry, government, and academia to join us in Marina del Rey in March 2002! Topics include but are not limited to: Autonomous robots Biologically inspired systems Robot vision Sensing and data fusion Multi-agent systems Planning and control architectures Distributed decision making Learning and adaptive systems Cooperative multi-robots Robot societies Human and robot skills Human-machine cooperation Humanoids Service robotics Healthcare and medical robots Robots in space and underwater Paper Submission Submit papers of not over 8 pages by October 15, 2001 electronically (follow instructions at http://ias7.cs.umn.edu) or in four copies to your Regional Program Co-Chair: Americas Europe/Africa Asia/Oceania Wei-Min Shen ISI/USC 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA shen@isi.edu tel:+1-310-448-8710 Carme Torras IRI (CSIC-UPC) Llorens i Artigues 4-6 08028-Barcelona Spain ctorras@iri.upc.es tel: +34-93-401.57.90 Hideo Yuasa Precision Eng., Univ. of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8656 Japan yuasa@prince.pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp tel: +81-3-5841-6447 Upon acceptance, authors will be requested to prepare a camera-ready copy. At least one full registration fee must accompany each final paper.