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27 October 2010
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1/2 cup brown sugar
Apple Pie Pizza 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
OCT 27, 2010 10:16A.M. 21-oz. can apple pie filling
1/2 cup raisins or dried currants, if desired
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 12” round pizza pan or 13x9”
cake pan and set aside.
Combine cake mix, 1 cup oats, cheese, and 1/2 cup butter in large bowl
and mix until crumbly. Reserve 1 cup of these crumbs. Add egg to
remaining crumbs and mix until combined. Press into greased pan and
bake at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes.
To reserved crumbs, add 1/4 cup oats, 2 Tbsp. butter, walnuts, brown
sugar, and cinnamon and mix well.
1 pkg. two layer spice cake mix

1 cup quick oats
1/2 cup shredded colby cheese
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1/4 cup quick oats
2 Tbsp. butter, softened
1 cup chopped walnuts
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Remove crust from oven and spread with apple pie filling. Sprinkle with
raisins or currants, if using, then top with reserved crumb mixture.
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- 2 cups all-purpose flour
Bake 15-25 minutes longer until crumbs are golden brown. Serve warm - 1/3 cup light brown sugar
with vanilla ice cream.
- 1/3 cup sugar
12 servings
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup milk
- 1/2 cup butter — melted and cooled

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Chocolate Chip Muffin

OCT 27, 2010 10:15A.M. Preheat oven to 400 F. and grease up twelve muffincups.
In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugars, baking powder, and salt. In
another bowl, stir together milk, eggs, butter, and vanilla until blended.
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Butter naan ,soup

OCT 27, 2010 10:14A.M.
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Make a well in center of dry ingredients; add milk mixture and stir just to
combine. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
Butter naan( Without Tandoor)
Spoon batter into muffin cups; bake 15-20 minutes, or until a knife
inserted in center of one muffin comes out clean. Removemuffin tin to Ingredients
wire rack; cool 5 minutes and remove from tins to finish cooling.
500 gms Maida
Do not use a mixer and do not over mix. 20 gms Fresh yeast
1-1/2 tsp Sugar
2 tbsp Fresh curd
25 gms Butter, ghee or margarine
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Directions
Thoroughly sieve the flour.
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Mix sugar and yeast in 1 teacup of warm water till the yeast gets POUR IN YOUR BOWL AND SERVE HOT.
dissolved. Cover the mixture for 5-7 minutes until froth appears in it. VERY SIMPLE
Pour this liquid into the mixture of flour, curd, ghee and salt. Add some
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heat upside down.
Apply a little quantity of water onone side of naan and attach the wet
side around the inner wall of the pressure cooker. Keep it until the
brownish spots appear. You can put 3 to 4 naans at a time.
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Naans are ready to serve.
Mango Lassi is the perfect cooler on a hot day. You can add extra Tips on Reducing Cholesterol
sweetness to it (if you like) with sugar or honey. If you’re making it for OCT 27, 2010 10:13A.M.
kids and want to avoid the sugar, use unsweetenedfruit juice or pulp.
This recipe makes 4 glasses of lassi.
Ingredients:
3 glasses of yogurt (use a glass you will serve the lassi in, to measure)
1 glass of crushed ice (measure as above)
1 glass ripe mango pieces or pulp
Sugar to taste/unsweetened fruit juice or pulp
1 tsp slivered almonds for each glass
A dollop of thick cream for each glass (optional)
Preparation:
Put the yogurt, mango, ice and sugar/juice/pulp in a blender and blend
till smooth.
Pour out into glasses, top with a dollop of cream each and slivered
almonds and
serve. Reducing Cholesterol Take two tablespoons of honey, three teaspoons of
cinnamon powder and mix in 16 ounces of tea, when given to a
cholesterol patient, reduces the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10%
INGREDIENTS: within 2 hours. Pure honey is also sometimes used with food to check
cholesterol.
1/2 KG MUTTON BONES
1/2 KG CHICKEN (CUT INTO PIECES)
4 GLASSES OF WATER *Tips on Reducing Cholesterol*
4 -5 PEPPERS *What should I eat?
2-3 CLOVES
2-3 CARDAMOMS *Enjoy foods low in saturated fat, *trans* fat and cholesterol, including:
1/2 TSP CUMIN SEEDS
1/2 TSP GARLIC/GINGER PASTE - Fruits and vegetables
A PINCH TUMERIC POWDER - High-fiber foods
SALT & PEPPER TO TASTE - Fat-free or low-fat milk and dairy products
METHOD:
PUT ALL THE INGREDIENTS IN A PAN WITH WATER.

COVER THE PAN & BOWL OVER LOW HEAT FOR 2 - 3 HOURS
TILL HALF THE WATER IS LEFT AND DESIREABLE STOCK IS
OBTAINED.
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- High-fat processed meats like sausage, bologna, salami and hot dogs
- Fatty red meats that aren’t trimmed
- Duck and goose meat
- Solid fats like shortening, soft margarine andlard
- Fried foods
*What are some cooking tips for me?*
- Use a rack to drain off fat when you broil, roast or bake.
- Don’t baste with drippings; use wine, fruit juice or marinade.
- Broil instead of pan-frying.
- Cut all the fat you can see off of any meat you cook, and take all the skin
off chicken and turkey.
- Use a vegetable oil spray to brown or sauté foods.
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- Omega-3 containing fish like salmon, trout and haddock

- Lean red meats and poultry without skin
- Beans and peas
- Nuts and seeds in limited amounts
- Unsaturated vegetable oils like canola, olive, safflower and sunflower
oils in limited amounts
*What should I limit?*
- Whole milk, cream and ice cream

- Butter, egg yolks and cheese, and foods made with them
- Organ meats like liver, sweetbreads, kidney and brain
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- Serve smaller portions of dishes that have some fat, and serve bigger
portions of no-fat dishes like pasta, rice, beans and vegetables.
- Make recipes or egg dishes with egg whites, not yolks.
- Instead of regular cheese, use low-fat cottage cheese, part fat-free milk
mozzarella, and other low-fat and nonfat cheeses.
- Use low-fat cookbooks and recipes.
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Defence News
OCT 27, 2010 09:09A.M.
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National Breast Cancer

Awareness Month
OCT 27, 2010 09:14A.M.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM), when

public service groups, medical professionals, government agencies and
others work to promote awareness of the disease. Promoting awareness
involves education about prevention and treatments, fundraising efforts
to help find cures, and support for survivors and those dealing directly
with the disease. Breast cancer is the fifth deadliest form of cancer
worldwide, and on this 25th anniversary of NBCAM, the organization
that started it wants to remind women everywhere to practice regular
breast self-exams and to schedule regular visits and annual From Navy
mammograms with their health care provider. (22 photos total)
• USA reportedly prepping a $2 billion military aid package for

Pakistan, even as Foreign Policy magazine openly wonders if
there’s any way to fix the country, and India has concerns of its
own. China’s Xinhuahas its own slant.
• iCD Research: The Israeli defense sector is expected to grow at a

3% compound annual growth rate, reaching $15.8 billion by 2015;
defense spending is expected to focus on procurement of missile
defense systems, fighter aircraft, submarines and armored vehicles.
• US Coast Guard releases their v5.0 Blueprint for Continuous

Improvement in acquisition and contracting.
• Iris Independent Research offers their KC-X competition white

paper, “9 Secrets of the Tanker War.” One entirely unsurprising
conclusion: KC-X is it; there will be no KC-Y and KC-Z as planned.
• Playing hardball: Sen. Jim Webb [D-VA] is holding up DoD civilian

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Henan province on October 12, 2010. An increasing taste for Western- • Australian DSTO and Thales Australia working on a fiber optic
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the first time since the Soviet army left the country in 1989.
• Never say die: Phase II of a $100 million Armed Forces Reserve

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• HawkerBeechcraft laying off another 350 workers.
• US Army expects to save $100 million and improve email function The particular model in these shots is still in prototyping mode. As such,
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the DISA-managed Microsoft Exchange 2010 service. seen on the Xperia devices), and is said to be rather buggy. We’re digging
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• Lockheed Martin snags $66 million in task orders to provide

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WEAPON AND TECHNOLOGY
72X (AAS-72X) on first trail

flight
YOUNGESTER OCT 27, 2010 09:03A.M.
PlayStation Phone
OCT 27, 2010 09:06A.M.
From Fighter Planes
ADS North America announced at the Association of the U.S. Army

annual convention that its Armed Aerial Scout 72X (AAS-72X) industry
It’s hard to believe that what we’re looking at is real — but we assure you, team is preparing for the first flight of one of three company-funded
the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you’ve long been Technical Demonstration Aircraft (TDA).
waiting for. As we reported back in August, the device you see is headed
into the market soon, likely boasting Android 3.0 (aka Gingerbread),
along with a custom Sony Marketplace which will allow you to purchase
and download games designed for the new platform. The device snapped The EADS North America-led industry team, comprised of Lockheed
up top (and in our gallery below) is sporting a 1GHz Qualcomm Martin, Eurocopter and American Eurocopter, is developing three AAS-
MSM8655 (a chip similar to the one found in the G2, but 200MHz 72X aircraft to demonstrate the total capability of the aircraft with a
faster), 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and the screen is in the range of 3.7 fully-integrated Mission Equipment Package (MEP). The initial flight of
to 4.1 inches. Looking almost identical to the mockup we hit you with the first demonstrator aircraft is scheduled to occur in December.
this summer, the handset does indeed have a long touchpad in the center
which is apparently multitouch, and you can see in the photos that it’s
still bearing those familiar PlayStation shoulder buttons. For Sony buffs,
you’ll be interested to know that there’s no Memory Stick slot here, but “First flight is a key milestone that moves us down the technical path to
there is support for microSD cards.
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demonstrating the capabilities of the aircraft and reflects our

commitment to our Army customer and this important warfighting
requirement,” said Sean O’Keefe, CEO of EADS North America.
In July 2009, the AAS-72X industry team conducted a series of New low grade Block III Apache
successful high/hot test flights that achieved all test objectives including OCT 27, 2010 08:56A.M.
flight endurance with a 2,300-pound simulated MEP.
Since that time other advancements on the program include the

development of the MEP Systems Integration Laboratory at Lockheed
Martin’s Orlando, Fla. facility.
“Lockheed Martin is making significant progress in the maturation of the

AAS-72X state-of-the-art MEP,” said Bob Gunning, Lockheed Martin
Missiles and Fire Control vice president of Fire Control programs. “We
are leveraging our expertise from other combat-proven rotary- and fixed-
wing programs to develop the lowest risk MEP. The first flight in
December marks a significant milestone in our path towards flying a
production prototype.”
From Fighter Planes
As a highly capable helicopter for the Armed Aerial Scout mission, the
AAS-72X combines twin-engine safety, high and hot operating The U.S. Army has formally entered a low-rate production phase for its
performance and a large cabin for true multi-role capability. The AAS- AH-64D Apache Block III helicopter — a next generation attack aircraft
72X is derived from the same family of aircraft as the UH-72A Lakota with increased power, lift, maneuverability, communication with
Light Utility Helicopter, offering a low-risk evolution of the U.S. Army’s unmanned systems and hard-landing ability, service officials said.
newest rotary-wing aircraft, which is widely considered one of the most
successful acquisition programs in the service’s history.
The Army’s Oct. 22 contract with Boeing covers production of 51 Block

III helicopters, with the first one slated to arrive in October of next year.
Production of the AAS-72X would take place at the Columbus, Miss.
helicopter center of excellence operated by EADS North America’s
subsidiary American Eurocopter, where the UH-72A currently is
assembled for the U.S. Army. EADS North America has delivered more “In November of last year, we completed our force development test and
than 100 UH-72As on time and within budget. evaluation and a Limited User Test,” said Col. Shane Openshaw, project
manager for Apache helicopters. “Both showed the system was
operationally effective and suitable and that we are on the right path
with the Block III program.”
EADS North America is the North American operation of EADS, a global
leader in aerospace, defense and related services. As a leader in all
sectors of defense and homeland security, EADS North America and its
parent company, EADS, contribute over $11 billion to the U.S. economy “Our number-one project focus is to support the warfighter and make
annually and support more than 200,000 American jobs through its sure those in the fight get the best capability. They are performing an
network of suppliers and services. Operating in 17 states, EADS North important mission. The Block III will be one of those important game-
America offers a broad array of advanced solutions to its customers in changing capabilities,” Openshaw said.
the commercial, homeland security, aerospace and defense markets.
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The Block III Apache features a 701D engine, composite rotor blades,
improved networking and communications avionics, Rotorcraft Drive
System of the 21st Century — known as RDS-21 — Face Gear
Transmission and High Performance Shock Strut advanced landing gear.
The RDS-21 improves efficiency because the transmission combines the

output torque of two engines into a single power torque transmission,
and the High Performance Shock Strut advanced landing gear gives the
aircraft hard landing abilities at a D-model empty weight of 12,800-
pounds, service officials explained.
In addition, the Apache Block III will include level-4 manned-unmanned From Fighter Planes
teaming — technology which will allow aircraft pilots to control the
sensor payloads of nearby unmanned aircraft systems while viewing
their live, real-time video feeds.
Hungry India is expected to hand out a raft of military deals worth

billions of dollars during an upcoming rush of presidential visits from
the United States, France and Russia. The biggest-ticket item is the
In a collaborative effort with its industry partner Boeing, the Army plans scheduled signing of an estimated 30 billion-dollar stealth fighter co-
to build as many as 10 new aircraft every month by 2014. production agreement when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits
in late December 2010.
“Keeping Soldiers in the forefront of what we do every day is our

program’s model - Soldiers first. That is our attitude,” said Tommy Filler, Medvedev’s trip will follow those of President Barack Obama and
acting vice president, Boeing Apache and AH-6 Programs. President Nicolas Sarkozy, both of whom will be pushing existing US and
French tenders for lucrative military contracts.
Fuelling India’s drive into the international arms market are growing
concerns over China’s military strength and its expanding sphere of
regional influence.
Indian Defence Market for US -

RUSSIA - FRACE “China would like to have a foothold in South Asia and we have to reflect
on this reality,” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned in
OCT 27, 2010 07:24A.M. September. “There is a new assertiveness among the Chinese. It is
difficult to tell which way it will go. So it’s important to be prepared,”
Singh said. India and China fought a brief but bloody war in 1962 and
border disputes remain unresolved despite many rounds of talks and
improved economic ties. “China is becoming more of an issue in India,” .
The staggered visits by the presidents of three top military powers come
as India’s defence sector is about to embark described as “one of the
largest procurement cycles in the world.”
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Between now and 2016, India is expected to spend 112 billion dollars on ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
capital defence acquisitions, which will in turn create opportunities for
domestic industry worth 30 billion dollars. “These visits are driven by Call for book chapter
the opportunity of profiteering,” said Alex Neill, an analyst with Britain’s
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think-tank. “There is a global contributors in a forthcoming
financial depression and the US and Russian interests in selling to the
Indian military sector are driven by the commercial opportunity IGI book about robotic
available,” .
prototyping
OCT 27, 2010 07:07A.M.
“Indian procurement is a slow process, and while Indian officials keep

saying that decisions are close, often massive delays occur,” he added. US
firms are hoping to pick up 10-12 billion dollars in contracts or
assurances during Obama’s trip in early November, including India’s
purchase of 10 Boeing military transport planes for around 5.8 billion
dollars. European aerospace giant EADS, which makes the Eurofighter,
is competing with five other aeronautical firms from the US, Russia,
France and Sweden to sell 126 fighter jets to India for 12 billion dollars
next year. “President Sarkozy’s visit (in December) will definitely help
European companies which are doing business here,” Marie-Agnes Veve,
CEO of the Indian arm of EADS unit Eurocopter, told AFP in New Delhi.
EADS is looking to sell 197 helicopters worth 600 million dollars to

India, while France hopes to clinch a 2.1-billion dollar deal to upgrade
India’s Mirage-2000 jets. Medvedev’s visit will be capped by the From Robotics and Automation
scheduled signing of the pact to co-produce 250-300 stealth war jets by
2020. Moscow-based analysts say the project has come as a life-saver to
Russia’s cash-strapped armament companies. “Russia needs the Indian
money like it needs air to accelerate the production of fighter jets for its Robots have been widely used for many industrial applications, such as
own military,” said Ruslan Pukhov, head of the Moscow-based Centre for manufacturing, electronics assembly, food processing, underground oil
Analysis of Strategies and Technologies. mining, aerospace exploration, disease diagnosis and clinical surgery.
Prototyping is an important activity in engineering. Prototyping a design
helps in determining system parameters, ranges and in structuring
better system. Robotics is one of the industrial design fields in which
prototyping is crucial for improved functionality. Robotic systems are
diverse in their working principles, implementation and applications.
Furthermore, newly emerging technologies in the areas of computer
vision, wireless communication, micro and nanotechnologies have
enabled the emergence of robotic systems for new applications. Thus, we
perceive a need for an edited collection of chapters in the field of robotic
prototyping and its applications.
Prototyping of Robotic Systems: Applications of Design and

Implementation will aim to cover the design, implementation of various
robotic systems and their applications, from complicated industrial
robots to state-of-the-art nanorobots for surgical applications, as well as
robotic systems for educational purposes. The new trends and most
recent research frontiers in robotic prototyping and its applications will
also be covered.
We would like to cordially invite you to contribute a chapter on an

appropriate topic of your choice. You may refer to the following URL for
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more details about the proposal of this book: ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
http://igi- 1st Call for Doctoral Mentoring

global.com/AuthorsEditors/AuthorEditorResources/CallForBookChapters/CallForChapterDetails.aspx?CallForContentId=0ffd1a37-
0ffd1a37-6a1f-4377-85fb-2808e2268495
Program: AAMAS 2011
Should you accept this invitation, we would like to kindly ask that, on or OCT 27, 2010 07:06A.M.
before November 15, 2010, you submit via e-mail a 2-3 page chapter
proposal to us (xxiong@bridgeport.edu and sobh@bridgeport.edu) for
review that explains and outlines the scope of your proposed chapter.
Should your proposal be accepted, you will be notified by November 29,
2010, and given until March 1, 2011, to submit your chapter. It will then
be sent for double-blind peer review. This book is scheduled to be
published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the
“Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference),
“Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,”
and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional
information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
This publication is anticipated to be released in early 2012.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact

us. We appreciate your consideration of this invitation and hope to hear
from you soon!
Best wishes, From Robotics and Automation
Tarek Sobh, Ph.D., P.E., CMfgE

Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Computer Science
Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research and AAMAS 2011: Call for Doctoral Mentoring Program
Dean, School of Engineering
University of Bridgeport 10th International Conference on
221 University Avenue Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems
Bridgeport, CT 06604, U.S.A.
Office: +1 (203) 576-4116 Taipei, Taiwan May 2-6, 2011
Fax: +1 (203)576-4766 http://www.aamas2011.tw/index.html
Email: sobh@bridgeport.edu
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Xingguo Xiong, Ph.D. AAMAS 2011 will include a doctoral mentoring program, intended for
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD students in advanced stages of their research. This program will
Department of Electrical Engineering provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with
School of Engineering established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their
University of Bridgeport work and to get advice on managing their careers.
Bridgeport, CT 06604 Specifically, the goals of the program are:
Tel: 203-576-4760 o To match each student with an establish researcher in the community
Email: xxiong@bridgeport.edu (who will act as a mentor). The mentor will interact closely with the
student, will provide feedback on research, help form new contacts,
Editors etc.
o To allow students an opportunity to present their work to a friendly
audience of other students as well as mentors.
o To provide students with contacts and professional networking
opportunities.
o The doctoral mentoring program will consist of opportunities for
interactions between mentors and their mentorees prior to the
conference, as well as a one day doctoral symposium, which will likely
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be held one day prior to the workshops. ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
Submission Requirements 1st Call for Demos: AAMAS 201

OCT 27, 2010 07:05A.M.
We encourage submissions from PhD students at advanced stages of
their
research within the Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems field.
Based on the submissions, the organizing committee will select a group
of students that will be invited to participate in the program.
Participants will be expected to take active part in all doctoral
mentoring program activities.
Each submission should include a set of documents from the students,
and a recommendation letter from the advisor. The submission package
should include:
1. A two-page extended abstract of the student’s thesis (in the AAMAS

submission format)
2. A personal research statement (one page)
3. A short (2-page) resume (CV)
4. A recommendation letter from the advisor.
From Robotics and Automation
Submissions of the first three items should be sent in electronic form
(PDF), to the doctoral mentoring chairs (Kobi Gal <kobig@bgu.ac.il>
and Adrian Pearce <adrianrp@unimelb.edu.au>), by January 2nd, 2011.
***** CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for DEMOnstrations at AAMAS 2011
In addition, the dissertation advisor should send the last item (a *****
letter of recommendation) by e-mail directly to the doctoral mentoring
chairs. The letter should address the expected benefit of attending http://agents.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/aamas11-demos/
(to the student), the significance of the research, and the expected
date for thesis submission. This letter can be sent in either plain
text or PDF format. The student’s name must be clearly pointed out in DESCRIPTION
the letter.
The goal of the AAMAS DEMOs track is to provide opportunities for
Important Dates participants
from academia and/or industry to present their latest developments in
o January 2, 2011: Submission package due agent-based software and/or robotic systems. Interactive systems and
o February 1: Acceptance notifications novel
o March 12: Camera-ready copy due applications are particularly welcome. Student researchers are
encouraged to
submit. A “Best Demo” will be selected and awarded by the committee.
Accepted DEMO submitters will be expected to present a poster and live

demonstration by at least one author at the conference in Taipei.
Examples of demos include but are not limited to:

* Interactive agent-based software systems
* Agent-based simulation environments
* Innovative applications of agent-based systems or prototypes
(e.g., industrial, military, educational)
* Agent-based games
* Agent platforms and development environments
* Open-source software tools for agent-based system development
* Robotic systems (single- and multi-agent)
* Human-robot interactive systems
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* Virtual agents and interactive virtual environments * Significance and originality

* Relevance to AAMAS
The conference organizers aim to provide the following for each Demo: a * Maturity of the (deployed) system and readiness for demonstration
poster * Potential for public interaction
board, a monitor with a standard VGA connector, a power strip and a 5-6
foot Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted demos will be sent to
table for each demonstration. In addition, the organizers will make every the
attempt to provide at least partial support for transportation of corresponding author (see dates below). At least one author of each
extraordinary demo equipment, such as robots. accepted
demonstration is required to register and to attend the conference to give
the
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS demonstration.
Submissions accepted for the demonstration session will be advertised

on the IMPORTANT DATES
AAMAS website and in the conference booklet, which will contain
abstracts of * Submission deadline: January 10, 2011
all available Demos. Each Demo submission must consist of the * Notification of acceptance/rejection: February 7, 2011
following: * Camera-ready paper: February 21, 2011
1. Paper: A 2-page paper in which the authors describe the system to be

demonstrated. The paper should describe the application domain, the CONTACT INFORMATION
problem scenario, the technology used, the agent/multi-agent
techniques For more information, contact the Demos Chair:
involved, the innovations of the system, its live and interactive Prof Elizabeth Sklar
aspects, etc. Papers MUST BE PREPARED IN PDF format using the City University of New York, Brooklyn College
AAMAS http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~sklar
style (follow these instructions)). sklar @ sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu
2. Video: The paper must contain a URL linking to a demonstration

movie
no more than 5 minutes in length (QuickTime or YouTube format).
The movie must clearly show how the demo will be performed. ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
3. Contribution and Supervisor Endorsement (Student Projects Only): SKILLS CONFERENCE IN

A brief note from the student’s supervisor describing the student’s
individual contribution to the project, written on university letterhead MONTPELLIER IN 2011
and including the supervisor’s full name, title and email address. OCT 27, 2010 07:03A.M.
This should be attached as the 3rd page of the PDF Paper
submission (above).
Accepted Demos will have the 2-page papers included in the AAMAS
proceedings.
SELECTION PROCESS
The submission and selection processes for the AAMAS 2010 Demos will
be
separate from that of the main conference. Each submission will be
assessed by
the Demos Committee. The authors will receive a brief report with the
result of
the evaluation with the notification. The main evaluation criteria are:
* Presentation and technical quality
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From Robotics and Automation EuroMov, 700 Avenue du Pic Saint Loup - 34090 Montpellier, France
Tel: +33 467 415 767 / Fax: +33 467 415 704
benoit.bardy@univ-montp1.fr - www.benoit-bardy.eu
www.euromov.eu
The EuroMov center at Montpellier-1 University in the south of France –––––––––––––––––––––––––—
organizes a special conference in December 2011:
SKILLS is the international conference of the SKILLS European Project

(IST, Multimodal Interfaces, 2007-2011). It addresses fundamental and
translational issues related to the acquisition, storage, maintenance and ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
transfer of human skills using multimodal technologies such as virtual
and augmented realities, human-machine interfaces, interaction design, Applications to the Master’s in
and robotic systems. SKILLS aims at introducing a novel approach to
technology-assisted skill acquisition or rehabilitation based on enactive Robotics and Intelligent
and direct interaction between learner and technology. Perception-action
and cognitive accelerators embedded in specific training protocols are Systems
used at various stages of learning in several (real) trainee – (virtual) OCT 27, 2010 07:03A.M.
trainer situations.
In addition to keynote lectures, regular papers and posters, a large

portion of the conference will be devoted to the presentation of hands-on
demos illustrating the enactive approach to skill acquisition and transfer,
not limited to but including the three following domains: Sport &
Entertainement, Surgery & Rehabilitation, Industry & Manufacturing.
The two keynote speakers are J.A. Scott Kelso (Florida Atlantic
University, FL, USA) and Stefan Schaal (University of Southern
California, CA, USA).
The conference will be held at the CORUM International Convention

Center, December 15-16, 2011, in the beautiful city of Montpellier in the
Languedoc-Roussillon region.
Deadline for paper submission is June 15, 2011.

Detailed information about the SKILLS conference (preliminary
program, flyers and posters, submission, registration, accommodation,
etc...) can be found at www.euromov.eu/skills
Applications to the Master’s in Naples are now open!
Detailed information about the SKILLS european project can be found at
www.skills-ip.eu All details and documentation needed to submit an application to the
Master’s degree course in Robotics and Intelligent Systems for the
Detailed information about the EuroMov center an be found at academic year 2010/2011 are available at
http://www.unina.it/studentididattica/postlaurea/master/dettagli.jsp?cont=313.
www.euromov.eu .
Please, refer to the call for applications in English at
http://allegati.unina.it/postlaurea/master/2010_11/I_2944_02_B_en.pdf.
We look forward to seeing you in Montpellier next year ! .
Benoit Bardy (General Chair), Julien Lagarde (Program Chair), Denis The deadline for submitting applications is set to 25 November 2010.
Mottet (Demos Chair) Up to 25 students will be admitted by qualification and interview (more
than 50 pre-applications have been received up today).
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––- Courses will be taught entirely in English and will start in early January.
The Master’s will be officially presented on 15 November 2010 from 9h

–––––––––––––––––––––––––— to 13h30 at our Faculty of Engineering, with the contributions by Dr.
Pr. Benoît G. Bardy
Movement to Health, Montpellier-1 University
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Jean-Paul Laumond, Research Director at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION

(member of the Advisory Board), the representatives of the 8 sponsoring
companies and the Scientific Board of the Master’s. The invitation will be Volz PhD Award - Call for
distributed in due course, and it will be possible to follow the event in
streaming on the web. Nomination
OCT 27, 2010 07:01A.M.
For further information, please refer to www.master-ris.unina.it, or
contact Ms. Daniela Passariello <master-ris@unina.it> who is in charge
of the Master’s Secretariat. She will be glad to assist potential applicants
for all logistics related to visa (for non-European citizens), local
accommodation and the like.
Thanks very much in advance for your kind attention and all the best for
now.
Bruno Siciliano
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prof bruno siciliano
ASME fellow, IEEE fellow, IFAC fellow
PRISMA lab, dipartimento di informatica e sistemistica
universita’ di napoli federico II
via claudio 21, 80125 napoli, italy
tel +39 081 7683179
mob +39 368605665
Call for nomination for Dick Volz Best US PhD Thesis in
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Robotics and Automation
email siciliano@unina.it
Background
skype bsiciliano
Prof. Dick Volz during his research career did excellent research on
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robotics and control, and was an excellent mentor to students and
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other researchers in robotics. He served on a number of national panels
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and was very active within the IEEE Robotics and Automation
http://www.eurobotics-project.eu
Society in a number of roles including serving as the society president
http://www.echord.info
during 2006-2007. Prof. Volz is a role model for scholarship and
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community engagement in the area of robotics. To honor his work and
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http://www.ieee-ras.org effort, and promote these values, the Dick Volz award has been organized
to be awarded to the best US Ph.D. thesis. Candidates will be considered
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about two years after graduation to allow for evaluation of the impact of
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the research in a broader perspective beyond the thesis.
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Candidates profile
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The candidates will be researchers in the field of robotics and
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automation having obtained their Ph.D. degree at any US institution
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during 2007, in any topic within robotics and automation.
Evaluation criteria
The criteria to evaluate the thesis research will be based both, on the
thesis quality, and also on the posterior results of any activity associated
with the thesis, such as: papers, articles, research projects etc.
Candidatures presentation
The candidates must send their applications to the address below before
end of October 2010.
Henrik I Christensen
RIM@GT, Georgia Tech
801 Atlantic Dr
Atlanta, Ga 30332-0280
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Email: hic@cc.gatech.edu ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION

The application should include:
- A copy of the Ph.D. thesis in pdf format CFP: IROS 2011
- A document describing the effective results of the Ph. D., (patents, OCT 27, 2010 07:00A.M.
applications, developments, participation in scientific events,
publications, etc.), with clear indications of the relation to
the thesis
- A recommendation letter from the advisor
- A C.V. for the candidate
- An abstract of the Thesis, max 10 pages long, with clear indication
of the main contributions
Review procedure
A jury consisting of five members will evaluate the submissions. The
inaugural jury is composed of
Prof. John Hollerbach, Univ. of Utah
Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme, Univ. of Southern California
Prof. Seth Hutchinson, Univ. of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Prof. Vijay Kumar, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Prof. Henrik I Christensen, Georgia Tech. (Chair)
The jury will discuss the proposals based on the collected information:
the documentation presented, reviews, and scientific and technical
production. After their deliberation they will make the final decision
including a justification.
The award
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
There will be a single award. The winner will receive a check for $1000
(IROS)
and be invited to publish the thesis/work as part of the Springer STAR
September 25-30, 2011
series. The winner and the two runner ups will each receive a plaque with
San Francisco, CA, USA
the award information.
http://www.iros2011.org/
—
Henrik I. Christensen, Ph.D. - KUKA Chair of Robotics
CALL FOR PAPERS
Director - Robotics and Intelligent Machines @ Georgia Tech (RIM@GT)
Distinguished Professor - Interactive Computing, College of Computing
The 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and
Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Atlantic Dr #216, Atlanta, GA
Systems (IROS 2011) will be held in San Francisco, California, USA,
30332-0280, USA
during September 25-30, 2011. The theme of the conference will be
Phone: +1 404 889 2500, Email: hic@cc.gatech.eduhic@cc.gatech.edu>
URL: www.robotics.gatech.edu<http://www.robotics.gatech.edu> Human-Centered Robotics, and its format will feature innovations in the
form of interactive multimedia presentations and special-topic symposia
celebrating 50 years of robotics.
PAPERS
Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format. Six

pages in the standard IEEE format are allowed for each paper, including
figures. A maximum of two additional pages is permitted at extra charge.
Detailed instructions for paper submission using Paperplaza will be
available on the conference web site.
MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS
A selected number of papers will be carefully chosen by the program

committee for interactive multimedia presentation, in addition to a brief
talk during a regular session. Thus, authors of papers so selected will
gain opportunities to engage small groups of conference attendees at a
time, showing videos and slides, and intensely discussing their work with
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their peers. ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
50 YEARS OF ROBOTICS SYMPOSIA Workshop@Humanoids2010

OCT 27, 2010 06:59A.M.
The conference will feature 12 special symposia celebrating 50 years of
robotics. Each symposium will be associated with a subfield of robotics
and consist of six papers in the subfield that will be reviewed as regular
papers. We invite proposals for special symposia. Proposals for
organizing symposia should be submitted
through Paperplaza as “Invited Sessions”.
VIDEOS
Videos of 1.5 to 3 minutes illustrating new and exciting results are sought
for dedicated video sessions. Videos should be accompanied by an
extended abstract and should be submitted via the Paperplaza
submission site for the conference.
WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
Proposals for half-day or full-day tutorials and workshops should

include: statement of objectives, intended audience, list of speakers, and
list of topics. These should be submitted via the Paperplaza submission
site for the conference.
Call for participation at the Humanoids2010 workshop
EXHIBITS
Humanoids: What’s Next?
There will be an exhibition site at the conference. Further information

Tuesday, 7. Dec. 2010, 9:00 - 18:00
for prospective exhibitors will be available from the exhibits chair on the
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
conference web site.
http://i61www.ira.uka.de/users/asfour/Workshop-
IMPORTANT DATES
Humanoids2010/Humanoids2010.html
Feb 1, 2011 Special session proposals due

__________________________________________________________
Feb 15, 2011 Paper and video submissions due
_____________________
Feb 15, 2011 Workshop and tutorial proposals due
Mar 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance for workshops and tutorials
Speakers:
May 21, 2011 Notification of acceptance for papers and videos
__________
Jun 21, 2011 Final submission of papers and videos
Ron Arkin
What’s next indeed! Embedded ethics, deception, maintaining human
dignity, and intimacy perhaps?
Stefan Schaal
Machine Learning Challenges for Truly Autonomous Robots
Yoshihiko Nakamura
TbD
Jean-Paul Laumond
On embedded actions for humanoid robots
Kazuhito Yokoi
Does Cybernetic Human HRP-4C shoot to stardom
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Aude Billard
Controlling Humanoids during Physical Interaction with Humans: A
Learning Approach
Eiichi Yoshida
Humanoid motion: between reactive planning and extensive control
Giulio Sandini
TbD
Rüdiger Dillmann
TbD
____________________________
Looking forward to meeting you in Nashville
Tamim Asfour
Ales Ude
Kazuhito Yokoi
Rüdiger Dillmann
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