Message from the General Co-Chairs

ICARA has a very brief history. It started off in 2000 as an International Symposium on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ISARA 2000) which was held in Singapore in conjunction with the Singapore Robotic Games (SRG). A total of 16 papers were presented. The phenomenal growth of the conference can be judged from the fact that for ICARA 2004, 98 papers were received of which 79 were accepted and will be presented at the conference in parallel oral sessions, posters sessions and a special session on Humanoid Robots. Several people and organisations need to be thanked and acknowledged for their contribution to the success of the conference. We wish to thank all the authors for their contribution, our sponsors for the financial and technical support and all the members of the organising committee for their tireless efforts. Thanks to all the paper reviewers for doing a thorough and timely job. Special thanks to Prof. Kim Jong-Hwan and Prof. Mel Siegel for accepting our invitation to come and deliver the keynote addresses.