RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII

This book constitutes the eight official archival publication devoted to RoboCup. It documents the achivements presented at the RoboCup 2004 Symposium, held in Lisbon, Portugal in June/July 2004 in conjunction with the RoboCup Competition.The 36 revised full papers and 26 revised short papers presented together with 2 award winning papers and an introductory overview went through two rounds of reviewing and post-symposium improvements and were selected from 118 paper submissions.The book is a valuable source of reference and inspiration for R & D professionals active or interested in robotics, distributed artificial intelligence, and it is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community.