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Sponsors:	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Audience:	Researchers, representatives from industry and government working on robotics, automation, and other intelligent systems.
Format:	Workshop with plenary sessions and technical sessions.
Purpose:	To share ideas and results and to advance the state of intelligent systems technologies by defining performance measures.
Topics:	Performance metrics, intelligent systems, autonomy levels, human-robot interaction, sensing, knowledge representation, planning, control, learning, adapting, testbeds, instrumentation and other infrastructure for measurement of performance, simulation and modeling support, defense robotics, homeland security systems, industrial and manufacturing systems, space robotics, medical robotics, assistive devices.
Registration Contact:	Angela Ellis , NIST, phone: 301-975-3881, email: angela.ellis@nist.gov
Technical Contact:	Elena Messina, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, phone: 301-975-3510, fax: 301-990-9688, email: elena.messina@nist.gov Raj Madhavan, NIST, phone: 301-975-2865, fax: 301-990-9688, email: raj.madhavan@nist.gov
Website:	http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/PerMIS_2009/
Registration:	On-Line Registration
Accommodations:	Room blocks have been reserved at the following hotels: Hilton Washington DC/Gaithersburg Hotel 620 Perry Parkway Gaithersburg, MD 20877 Rate: $139.00 per night plus 13% tax. Phone: 301-977-8900 Wyndham Garden Hotel 805 Russell Avenue Gaithersburg, MD 20879 Rate: $99.00 per night plus 13% tax Phone: 301-670-0008 Please contact the hotel directly. To make your reservation, mention that you are attending the "NIST/PerMIS Workshop". Reservations must be received by August 31, 2009. After this date, the rooms will be released for general sale at the prevailing rates of the hotel.