Spatial Cognition 2012 (SC 2012) will bring together researchers
working on spatial cognition, biological inspired systems, spatial
learning, communication, robotics, and perception. The conference is
single-track and the final program will be the result of a selective
review process. The program will include invited talks as well as oral
and poster presentations of refereed papers. The main conference will
be preceded by one day of workshops and tutorials. Every effort is
being made to keep conference expenses affordable, particularly for
student attendees. All papers presented at the conference will be
published by Springer.


Important Dates
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Paper Submission: February 1, 2012, 23:59:59 PST
Paper Notification: April 17, 2012
Conference Dates: August 31 - September 3, 2012


Conference Location
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Abbey "Kloster Seeon" in Germany, south-east of Munich


Submissions
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Papers containing original and unpublished work are solicited in all areas of spatial cognition, including (but not limited to) the following:

* Spatial development
* Spatial education
* Spatial learning
* Spatial language and communication
* Spatial problem solving and reasoning
* Spatial assistance systems and applications
* Geospatial information systems
* Representations and processing of spatial information
* Biology-inspired agents
* Robotic and human localization, navigation, way finding
* Mapping and exploration
* Motion and path planning
* Robot perception
* Estimation and learning for robotic Systems
* Human-Robot Interaction


Paper Format
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Submission instructions and a LaTeX template will be at http://www.spatial-cognition.de/sc2012.



Organizing Committee
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Program Chairs
Kerstin Schill, University of Bremen
Cyrill Stachniss, University of Freiburg
David Uttal, Northwestern University

Workshop Chair
Udo Frese, University of Bremen

Local Arrangements Chair
Carsten Rachuy, University of Bremen

Publication Chair
Gian Diego Tipaldi, University of Freiburg

Publicity Chairs
Carsten Rachuy, University of Bremen
Cyrill Stachniss, University of Freiburg

Area Chairs
John Bateman, University of Bremen
Giorgio Grisetti, La Sapienza Rome
Mary Hegarty, UC Santa Barbara
Alycia Hund, Illinois State University
Alexander Klippel, Pennsylvania State University
Achim Lilienthal, Örebro University
Hanspeter Mallot, University of Tübingen
Terry Regier, UC Berkeley
Stefan Woelfl, University of Freiburg