Several special tracks included a significant number of presentations. Zdravko Markov and Larry Holder, was the most extensive, with 18 papers presented of the 35 submitted. The conference continues by Vasile Rus, was the second largest. The last few years have seen a significant reception. This year's conference received version for publication consideration A best paper award was presented to Jeffrey A. Coble, Diane J. Cook, and The program included a general session Lawrence B. Holder of the University with many excellent papers spanning of Texas at Arlington for their paper titled a broad range of AI research areas "Structure Discovery in Sequentially and covering traditional topics such as Connected Data."

Robotics is a remarkable domain that may be successfully employed in the classroom both to motivate students to tackle hard AI topics and to provide students experience applying AI representations and algorithms to real-world problems. This article uses two example robotics problems to illustrate these themes. We show how the robot obstacle-detection problem can motivate learning neural networks and Bayesian networks. We also show how the robot-localization problem can motivate learning how to build complete solutions based on particle filtering. Since these lessons can be replicated on many low-cost robot platforms they are accessible to a broad population of AI students. We hope that by outlining our educational exercises and providing pointers to additional resources we can help reduce the effort expended by other educators. We believe that expanding handson active learning to additional AI classrooms provides value both to the students and to the future of the field itself.

From a computer science and artificial intelligence perspective, robotics often appears as a collection of disjoint, sometimes antagonistic subfields. The lack of a coherent and unified presentation of the field negatively affects teaching, especially to undergraduates. This article presents an alternative synthesis of the various subfields of AI robotics and shows how these traditional subfields fit into the whole. Finally, it presents a curriculum based on these ideas.

These workshops, although quite specialized, have covered areas of great interest for the conference delegates, namely: "Multiagent System Robotics" (MARS), "Biosignal Processing and Classification" (BPC), and "Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing" (ANNIIP). In the program of this conference for publication in the proceedings were included oral presentations (full and for presentation at the conference; papers and short papers) and posters, of these, 166 papers were organized in three simultaneous selected for oral presentation (67 full tracks: "Intelligent Control Systems papers and 99 short papers) and 63 papers and Optimization," "Robotics and Automation," were accepted for poster presentation. Furthermore, less than 60 percent, and the full paper (ICINCO 2005) was held in Barcelona ICINCO 2005 included acceptance ratio was 17 percent.

Although the Lego RCX's has helped guide Sony's own choice of Hitachi H8 microcontroller lists at 16 megahertz next-generation AIBO features and software and 32 kilobytes of memory, the overhead support. As for two-legged platforms, the University of the firmware and interpreter yield of Freiburg has already prototyped a about 10 kilobytes and 500 hertz throughput soccer team of Robosapiens running from for a typical user--slightly better with alternative handheld computers.

The program committee selected the paper "Learning to Win: Case-Based Plan Selection in a Real-Time Strategy Game" by David W. Aha (Naval Research Laboratory), The second day featured reasoning research. This report describes the conference in detail. David Aha noted the need Derek Bridge, the University College to enhance the theoretical foundations Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR) Cork, and Craig Knoblock, the of CBR. College Dublin) stressed the fact that meeting on case-based reasoning ICCBR-05 received 74 paper submissions in recent years we have focused on (CBR). Of these, the program committee needed with respect to experience highlighting the most significant selected 26 for poster presentations modeling and reuse.

To learn about the upcoming DC '06, visit the 2006 web site. The Organizing and Review Committee would like to thank Keri Harvey, Carol Hamilton, and Colleen Boyce at AAAI for managing submissions, notifications, and awards and for handling the local arrangements. The consortium is consistently appreciative. Ph.D. students in AI presented their researchers were involved in One student and to give students the opportunity commented, "The DC was an invaluable to establish contacts with experience for me--for many reasons, each other and with more senior refirst but primarily because it was my

Robotics projects coupled with agent-oriented trends in artificial intelligence education have the potential to make introductory AI courses at liberal arts schools the gateway for a large new generation of AI practitioners. However, this vision's achievement requires programming libraries and low-cost platforms that are readily accessible to undergraduates and easily maintainable by instructors at sites with few dedicated resources. This article presents and evaluates one contribution toward implementing this vision: the RCXLisp library. The library was designed to support programming of the Lego Mindstorms platform in AI courses with the goal of using introductory robotics to motivate undergraduates' understanding of AI concepts within the agent-design paradigm. The library's evaluation reflects four years of student feedback on its use in a liberal-arts AI course whose audience covers a wide variety of majors. To help establish a context for judging RCXLisp's effectiveness this article also provides a sketch of the Mindstormsbased laboratory in which the library is used.

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