Patterns in Reactive Programs

Abstract

This is the fourth in a series of workshops dedicated to the topic of cognitive robotics.The workshop series began in 1998 as part of the AAAI Fall symposium series, continued in Berlin in 2000 where it was co-located with ECAI 2000, and crossed the ocean again in 2002 where it took place in Edmonton, Canada and was co-located with AAAI 2002.This year, we are back in Europe again and the workshop is co-located with ECAI 2004.Cognitive robotics is concerned with endowing robots and software agents with higher level cognitive functions that enable them to reason, act and perceive in changing, incompletely known, and unpredictable environments.Such robots must, for example, be able to reason about goals, actions, when to perceive and what to look for, the cognitive states of other agents, time, collaborative task execution, etc.In short, cognitive robotics is concerned with integrating reasoning, perception and action with a uniform theoretical and implementation framework.Traditionally, research in cognitive robotics has emphasized logical formalism as the main representational and reasoning tool and previous workshops have focused specifically on these approaches.We are now seeing more attempts at integrating results from the area with physical robotic systems.Due to this trend, we feel that it is beneficial to the workshop participants and the community at large to widen the scope of the workshop somewhat, not only in the call for papers but also in inviting participants from the robotics and cognitive science communities to serve on the program committee and participate in this years workshop.We hope this is a trend that will continue in future workshops.