PLENARY ADDRESSES

Prof. Hugh Durrant-Whyte, ACFR/CAS, Univ. of 

Sydney, Australia 

Prof. Henrik Christensen, CAS, Royal Institute of 

Technology, Sweden 

Dr. Martin Buehler, Boston Dynamics, USA 

Dr. James Albus, NIST, USA 

Selected papers from both PerMIS/SSRR will be 

published in a special issue of the Journal of Field 

Robotics (www.journalfieldrobotics.org). 

SUBMISSION INFORMATION 

Prospective authors are requested to either send a draft paper 

(maximum 8 pages) or an extended abstract for review. All 

submissions must be written in English, starting with a succinct 

statement of the problem, the results achieved their significance 

and a comparison with previous work. Invited Sessions are 

welcomed as well. 

Electronic submission (PDF, Word) is required. Please submit to:

PerMIS@cme.nist.gov 

Phone: (301) 975-3235 

Call for Papers 

PerMIS’06 

Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems

August 21-23, 2006 

http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/PerMIS_2006 

Held in conjunction with the IEEE Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) Conference 

 General Chair: Elena Messina, NIST 

Honorary Chair: Alexander Meystel 

Program Chair: Raj Madhavan, ORNL/NIST 

SCHEDULE & RELATED EVENTS 

May 1, 2006 Submission of full papers and 

invited sessions 

June 9, 2006 Notification of acceptance 

July 21, 2006 Final Papers due 

August 21-23 PerMIS 2006 

August 22-24 IEEE SSRR 2006 

The IEEE Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics 

Conference will be co-located with PerMIS to 

share plenary presentations, robot 

demonstrations, technology exhibits, and social 

events. For more information, see the website: 

http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/ssrr2006 

August 21 Responder/Robot Event 

All attendees are invited to observe Urban Search 

and Rescue (US&R) and bomb-disposal robot 

assessment exercises at a local fire and rescue 

training facility. See the SSRR website for 

details. 

WORKSHOP LOCATION 

The workshop will be held at the National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, in 

Gaithersburg, Maryland, approximately 20 miles 

from Washington, D.C.

In the sixth workshop in a series targeted at defining measures 

and methodologies of evaluating performance of intelligent 

systems, we will focus on applications of performance measures 

to practical problems in commercial, industrial, homeland 

security, and military applications. Topic areas include, but are 

not limited to:

• Defining and measuring aspects of a system: 

- The level of autonomy 

- Human-robot interaction 

- Collaboration 

• Evaluating components within intelligent systems 

- Sensing and perception 

- Knowledge representation, world models, ontologies 

- Planning and control 

- Learning and adapting 

- Reasoning 

• Infrastructural support for performance evaluation 

- Testbeds and competitions for intercomparisons 

- Instrumentation and other measurement tools 

- Simulation and modeling support 

• Technology readiness measures for intelligent systems 

• Applied performance measures, e.g., 

- Intelligent transportation systems 

- Emergency response robots (search and rescue, bomb 

disposal) 

- Homeland security systems 

- De-mining robots 

- Defense robotics 

- Command and control 

- Hazardous environments (e.g., nuclear remediation) 

- Industrial and manufacturing systems 

- Space robotics 

- Assistive devices