ERCIM News No.53, April 2003, Contents

	ERCIM News No. 53, April 2003 - Contents
	KEYNOTE
	by Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Luxembourg Minister for Culture, Higher Education and Research
	JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS
	Close Cooperation among Researchers strengthens the Role of Europe in IT by Michael Krapp
	News from the W3C
	Euro-Legal by Heather Weaver, CLRC
	Extending Digital Libraries towards Multi-Disciplinary Communities by Tom Gross and Wido Wirsam
	RESET - A Roadmap for European Research in Smartcard Technologies by Olivier Trebucq and Bruno Cucinelli
	Special Theme: COGNITIVE SYSTEMS
	Cognitive Systems: Towards an Integration of Symbolic and Sensor-Motor Intelligence? by Cristiano Castelfranchi
	The Many Faces of Behavior by Torbjørn Dahl
	IDA, a Software Agent Cognitive System by Stan Franklin
	IndiGolog: A Programming Language for Cognitive Agents by Yves Lespérance and Hector J. Levesque
	From Isolated Components to Cognitive Systems by Christian Balkenius
	Cognitive (Vision) Systems by Henrik Christensen
	Retrieval of Images based on Visual Content: A Biologically Inspired Multi-Agent Architecture by Socrates Dimitriadis, Kostas Marias and Stelios Orphanoudakis
	Modelling the 'Homunculus' by András Lörincz
	The Cogitoid: Towards a Computational Model of the Mind by Jirí Wiedermann and Martin Beran
	Emergence of Representations through Interactions of a Robot with the Real World by Nicolas P. Rougier and Frédéric Alexandre
	Causal Structures in Embodied Systems by George Kampis and László Gulyás
	Swarm-Bots: Swarm of Mobile Robots able to Self-Assemble and Self-Organize by Stefano Nolfi, Jean-Louis Denebourg, Dario Floreano, Luca Gambardella, Francesco Mondada and Marco Dorigo
	Cognitive Soccer Robots by Alessandro Farinelli, Giorgio Grisetti, Luca Iocchi and Daniele Nardi
	3APL - A Programming Language for Cognitive Agents by Mehdi Dastani, Frank Dignum and John-Jules Meyer
	Environment Representations for Cognitive Robot Companions by Ben Kröse
	Towards Tele-Presence: Combining Ambient Awareness, Augmented Reality and Autonomous Robots by Pieter Jonker and Jurjen Caarls
	The RoboCare Project: Multi-Agent Systems for the Care of the Elderly by Amedeo Cesta and Federico Pecora
	Robots and Girls - A Promising Alliance by Monika Müllerburg and Ulrike Petersen
	Man and Machine by Brian R. Duffy
	Enhancing Non Player Characters in Computer Games using Psychological Models by Brian Mac Namee and Pádraig Cunningham
	Understanding and Interpreting the Activities of Experts: Towards a Cognitive Vision Methodology by Stelios Orphanoudakis, Antonis Argyros and Markus Vincze
	Intelligent Traffic Light Control by Marco Wiering
	R&D AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
	"What did the others do?" - Recommending by Visualising Fellow Travellers by Åsa Rudström and Petra Fagerberg
	Digital Image Processing in Art Conservation by Barbara Zitová and Jan Flusser
	A Real-Time Infrared Tracking System for Virtual Environments by Maxim Foursa
	Content-based Retrieval Services in Peer-to-Peer Systems using Taxonomies by Yannis Tzitzikas and Carlo Meghini
	Geometric Numerical Methods for Continuum Dynamics by Jason Frank
	Surface Reconstruction - Triangulating Scattered Points by Géza Kós
	PROXiTV: A Multimedia Distribution Infrastructure by Éric Fleury and Isabelle Guérin Lassous
	VTT inaugurated Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Centre 'Micronova' by Pia-Maria Linden-Linna
	EVENTS
	For conference announcements, see:
	Calendar of Events and Conferences related to IT and Applied Mathematics
	IN BRIEF
	SZTAKI's System Development Department won first prize of the 'Agentcities Technology Competition and Exhibition' CLRC providing providing HPCx high performance computing service for UK academic research CWI - Paul Vitányi has been appointed CWI Fellow INRIA - 70 post-doctoral positions available in 2003

ERCIM News No. 53, April 2003 - Contents