text_combined: gal kaminka zltzcsbiuacil apologies receive multiple copies message please distribute colleagues interest parties appropriate dear colleague reminder call papers special issue annals math artificial intelligence journal amai multirobot coverage search exploration httpwwwcsbiuacilgalkamaispecial please see details deadline august 15 2007 research multi robot area coverage search exploration receiving consistent attention recent years due increasing number realworld applications vacuuming lawn mowing demining surveillance search rescue operations mapping planetary exploration etc applications require area interest covered robots sensors endeffectors various purposes use multiple robots potentially provides redundancy offers opportunities increasing efficiency problem multi robot area coverage imposes great challenges researchers robotics ai area special issue explore new research frontiers emerge new applications identified new technologies robots introduced special issue follows footsteps highly successful 2001 amai special issue coverage seek highquality papers reporting innovative work coverage search exploration related areas research focus algorithmic analytical approaches heuristic approaches supported analysis empirical evidence submissions extending previously published conference papers acceptable long extensions clearly explained following potential topics interest completecoverage path planning group robots known unknown environments multiple robot coordination area coverage exploration andor search issues tradeoff tasks teams members team members decide performs task faulttolerance robustness multi robot area coverage performance metrics coverage exploration search use heterogeneous teams combining different vehicles endeffectors sensors novel applications coverage exploration search effect task complexity environment design cooperative capabilities multirobot systems communications aspects robots multi robot area coverage repeated coverage patrolling online search path navigation important dates august 15 2007 deadline paper submission november 15 2007 notification submission papers electronic submissions pdf postscript zipped postscript form strongly encouraged expedite review publication process please email submission guest editors addresses submission message use subject amai submission manuscripts include title page containing title paper full names affiliations complete postal electronic addresses phone fax numbers abstract keywords contacting author clearly identified please use latex article class default values 12pt font single column singleline spacing guest editors dr gal kaminka computer science department bar ilan university ramat gan 52900 israel phone 972 3 531 7607 fax 972 3 736 0498 email zltzcsbiuacil dr amir shapiro department mechanical engineering ben gurion university negev pobox 653 beer sheva 84105 israel phone 972 8 647 7165 fax 972 8 647 2813 email boyfmcpzbguacil gal kaminka phd httpwwwcsbiuacilgalk assistant professor computer science dept bar ilan university see invisible impossible death engineering problem bart kosko fuzzy thinking life engineering task gal kaminka fri 08 aug 2008 035316 0300 uai cfp special issue multirobot coverage search exploration reminder