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We are both fans of watching animated stories. Every evening, before or after d- ner, we always sit in front of the television and watch the animation program, which is originally produced and shown for children. We find ourselves becoming younger while immerged in the interesting plot of the animation: how the princess is first killed and then rescued, how the little rat defeats the big cat, etc. But what we have found in those animation programs are not only interesting plots, but also a big chance for the application of computer science and artificial intelligence techniques. As is well known, the cost of producing animated movies is very high, even with the use of computer graphics techniques. Turning a story in text form into an animated movie is a long and complicated procedure. We came to the c- clusion that many parts of this process could be automated by using artificial - telligence techniques. It is actually a challenge and test for machine intelligence. So we decided to explore the possibility of a full life cycle automation of c- puter animation generation. By full life cycle we mean the generation process of computer animation from a children s story in natural language text form to the final animated movie. It is of course a task of immense difficulty. However, we decided to try our best and to see how far we could go.

Computer animation --- Artificial intelligence --- Photography --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Computer animation. --- Artificial intelligence. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Animation, Computer --- Computer-assisted filmmaking --- Computer-generated animation --- Computer science. --- Computer graphics. --- Image processing. --- Computer Science. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Computer Graphics. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Animation (Cinematography) --- Computer graphics --- Computer vision. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Machine vision --- Vision, Computer --- Image processing --- Pattern recognition systems --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Engineering graphics --- Digital techniques --- Optical data processing. --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Optical equipment

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This special issue collects a subset of the papers presented at the Joint Chinese- German Workshop on Cognitive Systems, held March 7-11, 2005, at Fudan U- versity,inShanghai,the city that neversleepsandchangesdaily.Justas itis not easy to keeptrack of Shanghai's growthand modernisation,it is hardto keep up with research on the new transdiscipline of cognitive systems, which is emerging from computer science, the neurosciences, computational linguistics, neurolo- cal networks and the new philosophy of mind. The workshop served to present the current state of the art in these ?elds and brought together researchersfrom Fudan University and Jiao Tong University, both in Shanghai, China, and from Saarland University, Germany. The WorkshoponCognitiveSystems was the lastin a seriesof events to mark the longstanding collaboration between the three universities, which includes numerous joint projects, exchange of researchers and research visits, as well as formal joint cooperation agreements, treatises and joint Ph.D. and student exchangeprogrammesinthe ?elds ofcomputer science,arti?cialintelligence and in computational linguistics. Well before 1995 there were several exchange visits between Ruqian Lu and J¨ org Siekmann to Shanghai, Beijing and Saarbru ¨cken/Kaiserslautern. In 1995, formalcooperationstartedwith a visit to Shanghai by Jorg ¨ Siekmann, Xiaorong Huang and Hans Uszkoreit. The visit resulted in the joint project Applied C- nese Natural Language Generation on the automatic generation of Chinese, - glish and German languages for weather reports and for stock exchange news.

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Design of cognitive systems for assistance to people poses a major challenge to the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. The Cognitive Systems for Cognitive Assistance (CoSy) project was organized to address the issues of: theoretical progress on design of cognitive systems; methods for implementation of systems; and, empirical studies to further understand the use and interaction with such systems. To study, design and deploy cognitive systems there is a need to considers aspects of systems design, embodiment, perception, planning and error recovery, spatial insertion, knowledge acquisition and machine learning, dialog design and human robot interaction and systems integration. The CoSy project addressed all of these aspects over a period of four years and across two different domains of application - exploration of space and task/knowledge acquisition for manipulation. The present volume documents the results of the CoSy project. The CoSy project was funded by the European Commission as part of the Cognitive Systems Program within the 6th Framework Program.

Artificial intelligence --- Multilingual computing --- Internet searching --- Intelligence artificielle --- Recherche sur Internet --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Artificial intelligence -- Congresses. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Internet searching -- Congresses. --- Multilingual computing -- Congresses. --- Computer Science --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering --- Information Technology --- Artificial Intelligence --- Searching the Internet --- Web searching --- World Wide Web searching --- Computer science. --- Neurosciences. --- Data mining. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computational linguistics. --- Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Computational Linguistics. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. --- Automatic language processing --- Language and languages --- Language data processing --- Linguistics --- Natural language processing (Linguistics) --- Applied linguistics --- Cross-language information retrieval --- Mathematical linguistics --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Database searching --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Informatics --- Science --- Data processing --- Electronic information resource searching --- Computational linguistics --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Application software. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software