IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems
	September, 22-26, 2008, Nice, France
Home Call For Papers Committees Authors area Grants Program: overview, preliminary Presentation rules, room equipment Registration Conference location, travel Accomodations Social events, local info Sponsors Awards Exhibition Special events, keynotes Special sessions Poster session Workshops/Tutorials INRIA Technical tour Meetings rooms and schedule Related events Students activities RAS jobs (external link) Contacts	Sections: ORGANIZING COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ASSOCIATE EDITORS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Raja Chatila (LAAS) Jean-Pierre Merlet (INRIA) Program Committee chair: Christian Laugier (INRIA) a meeting of the co-chairs and program chair Procedure followed by the Program Committee the committee have considered the list of papers with a mean raking of at least 4 (LISTE A: 292 papers) and at most 2 (LISTE C: 173 papers), considering the notes of the AE and reviewers among these 465 papers there was 168 which presented discrepancies (LISTE B) the program committee meeting has been held at ICRA, 19-20 May the first day of the meeting was devoted to examine the papers of LISTE B by all Committee members and to determine papers that should be rejected (mostly because of double submission). At the end of this first day roughly 500 papers were either accepted or rejected the second day of the meeting was devoted to examining the remaining papers. Groups of at least 2 Committee members have examined all papers and have provided an overall ranking. the end of this second day was devoted to consolidate the results provided by the groups Honorary chairs: Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University) George Giralt (LAAS) Tzyh Jong Tarn (Washington University) Local Arrangment chair: David Daney (INRIA) Finance co-chairs: C.S. George Lee (Purdue University) Yves Papegay (INRIA) the finance chairs going to a budget discussion Secretariat: Monique Simonetti (INRIA) Daniele Herzog (INRIA) Secretariat program chair: Elisabeth Beaujard (INRIA) Laetitia Libralato (INRIA) Awards Committee chair Patrick Rives (INRIA) a meeting of the Awards Committee Exhibition chairs : Erwin Prassler (Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg) Nicola Tomatis (Bluebotics) Publicity chair Tom C. Henderson (University of Utah) Publication chair Alonzo Kelly (CMU, Robotics Institute) Special events chair, Erika Ottaviano (University of Cassino) Special sessions chairs, Ezio Malis (INRIA) Yoshi Nakamura (Tokyo University) the management of a special session Video chairs Marcelo H. Ang (NUS) Oussama Khatib (Stanford University) the preparation of a video with an UAV Webmaster: David Daney (INRIA) Workshop/Tutorial chairs Rachid Alami (LAAS) Roland Siegwart (ETHZ) a typical workshop Last session chair: Geraldo Silveira (INRIA) INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Regional chairs America: Seth Hutchinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Gregory Dudek (McGill University) Asia/Oceania: Hugh Durrant-Whyte (Australian Centre for Field Robotics) Sukhan Lee (Sungkyunkwan University) Europe: Antonio Bicchi (University of Pisa) Alicia Casals (UPC Barcelona) Japan: Tamio Arai (Tokyo University) Hajime Asama (Tokyo University) ASSOCIATE EDITORS The List of Associate Editors