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[Call for Participation] LACORO 2023 – Latin American Summer,School on Cognitive Robotics
by Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero 15 Aug '22

15 Aug '22

Dear All, We are excited to announce the 2nd Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO), which aims at making cutting-edge knowledge on Artificial Intelligence for Robotics Applications accessible in the Southern Hemisphere. Our aims are: - to build a sustainable community of students and researchers in the area of Artificial Intelligence for Robotics, particularly Cognitive Inspired Aspects of AI. - to foster intercultural student collaboration within and outside the Americas. Format: LACORO will include cutting-edge lectures and tutorials on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and aspects of Human Cognition. Moreover, we will host tutorial and mentoring sessions for both scientific topics and other aspects of the academic research world. Date and Location: LACORO will be held in-person from the 3rd to 6th of January, 2023 at the Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), Santiago, Chile. Applications: Please visit our website, where you can find more information regarding costs, travel, lodging, along with an application form. If you have any questions about the school or the application process, please contact the organizing committee: lacoro(a)innovacionyrobotica.com Best regards from the organizing committee, -- Dr. rer. nat. Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero https://nicolas-navarro-guerrero.github.io/

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Call for participation in IROS2022 Workshop on “Evaluating Motion Planning Performance: Metrics, Tools, Datasets, and Experimental Design”
by Carlos Andres Quintero Peña 05 Aug '22

05 Aug '22

Dear RoboCup@home community, We are excited to announce the inaugural workshop on “Evaluating Motion Planning Performance: Metrics, Tools, Datasets, and Experimental Design” at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (IROS) 2022. The workshop will focus on state of the art motion planning evaluations, trends, and problems. We are inviting researchers and practitioners in robotics and AI to contribute relevant submissions. The workshop will host leaders in academia and industry as invited speakers. We are pleased to welcome broader participation and engagement within the robotics and AI communities. The workshop will be hybrid wherein we will support participation for those who join us at IROS 2022 in Kyoto as well as virtual attendance. We are exploring options for streaming the event as well as archiving relevant resources. Please feel free to share our cordial invitation to your colleagues at the RoboCup community to submit contributions, participate, or attend the workshop. If you have questions, see our website (https://motion-planning-workshop.kavrakilab.org/) or contact us at motionplanningworkshop(a)gmail.com. Looking forward to seeing you at the workshop! Carlos Quintero Peña On behalf of the organizers: Constantinos Chamzas, Rice University Dr. Zachary Kingston, Rice University Dr. Khen Elimelech, Rice University Dr. Wil Thomason, Rice University Carlos Quintero-Peña, Rice University Dr. Rahul Shome, Rice University Professor Lydia Kavraki, Rice University

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IROS2022 Interactive Service Robot Competition in Cyberspace
by Tetsunari Inamura 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

======================================================= **** Call for Participation ***** IROS2022 Interactive Service Robot Competition in Cyberspace October 24 to 25, 2022 (Hybrid: Kyoto, JAPAN / Online) https://sites.google.com/view/robocup-athome-sim/competition-at-iros2022 ======================================================= This competition evaluates how well intelligent robots can engage in natural and friendly communication with users and achieve various support behaviors in daily-life environments. The competition is designed based on the SIGVerse simulator, which enables robots to make embodied and social interactions in virtual reality (VR) environments. Competitors submit their software of service robots on AWS (Amazon Web Service). Human test subjects in the real space interact with a robot in the virtual space to evaluate the interactive support ability. One of the competition tasks is a Vision-Language Navigation task to be solved by a human. In other words, the robot needs to explain clearly to the human how to get to the destination, and the competition setting aims to connect the XAI and HRI research. Furthermore, by discussing and examining the fusion and interface between robotics and the metaverse, digital twin, and cyber-physical systems that have been attracting attention in recent years, we believe that this event will provide a valuable opportunity to explore the direction of further development in robotics research. *** Competition website: https://iros2022.org/program/competition/#toggle-id-2 https://sites.google.com/view/robocup-athome-sim/competition-at-iros2022 *** Important dates: Aug. 10, 2022 Deadline for submission of qualification material Aug. 24, 2022 Qualification announcement Oct. 24-25,2022 Competition *** Rulebook (tentaive): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jor8UZXW6xFtBZmMvmZmJlUWtryMW7rQ/view *** Qualification Material Submission (mandatory): The team MUST send an email to the organizers (robocup.at.home.simulation[at]gmail.com) to participate in the qualification process for the competition. Due to the space limitation of the competition venue, the organizers will select excellent teams that have enough skill and knowledge to develop interactive service robots. The number of team members may be limited depending on the available space. Please fill in the following information and attach a Team Description Paper (TDP): - Team Name: - Country: - Affiliation: - Participation style: on-site or virtual (remote) - Number of team members: - Team Leader Name: - Contact information (E-mail): - Link to a team website: - Rank in previous competitions: - Link to a team video (optional): Important notes: Only one team leader can be specified per team. Only one contact email can be specified per team. *** Instructions for TDP: Team Description Paper (TDP) is a scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while also including the following: - Group’s research focus and interests. - Innovative technology and scientific contribution - Brief, general description of the system when solving a task - Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot’s software (e.g. include MoveIt/YOLO) Maximum length is 8 pages (including figures and citations). Please use a free format and limit yourself to 8 pages. The language for the TDP, its graphics, tables, images, and all additional content must be English. Content in other languages must be translated. *** Selection criteria Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria: - Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions, - re-usability by the HRI community, applicability in both virtual/real worlds) - Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable content, open-source software and other contributions) - Relevant scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and open-source software) - Novelty of approach - Performance in previous related competitions (optional) - Team Video (optional) *** Registration: Participants who come to Kyoto/Japan need to register for the IROS conference. https://iros2022.org/registrationvisa/registration/ If you prefer to participate remotely, the registration fee will not be required. This competition will be held jointly with RoboCup Japan Open 2022. The qualified teams are recommended to register for the RoboCup Japan Open. The teams that have never participated in the RoboCup Japan Open before are FREE OF CHARGE. Registration for the RoboCup Japan Open will be announced on the competition website. *** SIGVerse - software platform for the virtual space: All the tasks in the competition will be performed based on the SIGVerse platform. Please check the details of the SIGVerse system at http://www.sigverse.org/wiki/en/. This is an open-source platform distributed at Github https://github.com/RoboCupatHomeSim including sample programs (template source codes) of each task. Tutorials and install documents are included in the above Rulebook. With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in IROS2022, Organizers: Tetsunari Inamura, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Yoshiaki Mizuchi, Tamagawa University, Japan Please feel free to email to inamura(a)nii.ac.jp if you have any questions. ------------------------------------------------ Tetsunari Inamura (Associate Professor) National Institute of Informatics, JAPAN The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, JAPAN TEL : +81-3-4212-2518 FAX : +81-3-4212-2035 URL : http://researchmap.jp/inamura/?lang=english Email : inamura(a)nii.ac.jp

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Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open
by Comunicação RoboCup 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open The event will be held in São Bernardo do Campo - São Paulo, Brazil, from october 17 to 22. Remote Participation is available in Simulation Leagues. Registrations are now open for teams all over the world.To participate, the teams must register until july 31, on the website: www.cbrobotica.org . The registration fee is US$ 170 per team or US$100 in simulation leagues. ============== Important Dates: ============== Pre-Registration Deadline: *July 31* TDP Submission: Check each league's schedule on the website or contact the league's chair by e-mail Early Registration:* September 1 to 23* Registration: *September 24 to October 9* If you have any doubt about the pre-registration or registration process, please contact organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org ======= Leagues ======= RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D RoboCup Small Size Soccer (SSL) RoboCup Humanoid League RoboCup Standard Platform League RoboCup @Home RoboCupJunior RoboCup Brazil Flying Robots Trial League IEEE Humanoid Racing IEEE Open IEEE Standard Educational Kit IEEE Very Small Size Soccer 3x3 and 5x5 -- Patrícia Vergara Comunicação RoboCup Brasil (11) 9.8686-4993 www.robocup.org.br

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Robot Design Survey
by Eva Jahn 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

Dear RoboCup community, I do research on robot design and sympathy for some years now. My interest arose from RoboCup, where I conducted several surveys in Magdeburg at German Open and at the RoboCup World Cup 2016 in Leipzig. Currently, I am starting a survey for my PhD, which aims to uncover likability trends in the design evaluation of robots. The survey is quadrilingual and includes a colorful selection of robots with linked background information. For the evaluation I need as much data as possible and would like to invite you to participate. As a result the taste of future users should be revealed and for this the comparison between experts and non-experts is also very important. You are welcome to forward the link below to the survey with the text outside the community as well. *_Can service robots support us in our everyday lives and what should they look like?_* This is the question addressed by the Robot Design and Sympathy study. Whether you have direct experience with service robots or not, you are invited to rate a colourful selection of robot models. Please take 15-20 minutes to participate in the online survey. https://www.soscisurvey.de/roboterdesign/?q=LXX&r=TG16 <https://www.soscisurvey.de/roboterdesign/?q=LXX&r=TG16> Thank you for your support! Eva Theresa Jahn, M.A.: Studied communication psychology at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, research assistant at TUM, MIRMI - Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence. You can also find more information at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eva-Jahn-2 <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eva-Jahn-2> Best regards, Eva Theresa Jahn

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Call for Papers
by Nuno Lau 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Dear RoboCuppers; Please consider submitting your paper to this year's symposium! Call for papers RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-papers/ 17 July 2022 Bangkok, Thailand (hybrid setting) The 25th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium is planned to be held in person in Bangkok, Thailand, with remote participation options for both presenters and attendees. In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, there is the development track encouraging reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of full papers: 17 April 2022 Notification to authors: 5 June 2022 Submission of camera-ready copies: 26 June 2022 RoboCup Symposium 2022: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup on 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022). Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf: https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-… TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning * Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning * Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction DEVELOPMENT TRACK To encourage open-source release of hardware and software systems, the RoboCup International Symposium has included a development track in recent years. In 2021, we expand the scope of this track to include datasets and benchmarks. We encourage the submission of papers describing open-source hardware and software, tools and frameworks that facilitate development of robotics hardware and software, datasets that enable new robotic capabilities, as well as benchmarks that establish reproducible test beds and performance metrics to advance research. If applicable, contributions to the special track should include evidence of the released system or dataset, and highlight past, ongoing, and/or potential future impacts on the RoboCup community. A review of these contributions will be based on technical merit and benefits to the RoboCup community and the research topics listed above. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego CONTACT robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org<mailto:robocupsymposium2022@easychair.org>

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[CFP] IROS 2022 Special Session on Computational Advances in Human-Robot Interaction
by Zhao Han 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

IROS 2022 Special Session on Computational Advances in Human-Robot Interaction https://ai-hri.github.io/2022-IROS-SS/ Note: All manuscripts will undergo the same peer review and decision process as all other IROS2022 regular papers and, if accepted, will be published in the proceedings. The goal of this special session is for the groups of researchers at the intersection of AI and HRI to have a dedicated session to meet and facilitate a collaborative forum for discussion of current efforts in robotic and AI systems, and especially conducting interdisciplinary research in this community. The overarching themes of the contributing papers are the technological advances that improve humans’ experience and interactions with robots. As robots increasingly enter our society and encounter humans, the human element is important to consider when developing robot technologies. Through this special session, we will focus on technical research being done in the field of interactive robotics. Topics including but not limited to Artificial intelligence, robot learning, collaborative manipulation, social navigation, human intent modeling, social robotics, shared autonomy, linguistic robotics, robot ethics, inclusive robotics, assistive robotics, explainable AI, trust in robotics Submission Process As is the case for regular papers, the submission deadline for special session papers is March 1, 2022. The submission can be either a RA-L with IROS option paper or an IROS only paper. After your special session paper is submitted, please send your submission ID to the principal special session organizers: Zhao Han <zhaohan(a)mines.edu>, Shelly Bagchi <shelly.bagchi(a)nist.gov>, Daniel Hernández García <d.hernandez_garcia(a)hw.ac.uk>. All manuscripts will undergo the same peer review and decision process as all other IROS2022 regular papers and, if accepted, will be published in the proceedings. The submission details are the same as the IROS 2022 submission process<https://iros2022.org/call-for-papers/>. Organizers * Zhao Han <zhaohan(a)mines.edu>, Colorado School of Mines, USA * Shelly Bagchi <shelly.bagchi(a)nist.gov>, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA * Daniel Hernández García <d.hernandez_garcia(a)hw.ac.uk>, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Jason R. Wilson <jrw(a)fandm.edu>, Franklin & Marshall College, USA * Reuth Mirsky <reuthde(a)gmail.com>, Bar-Ilan University, Israel * Megan Zimmerman <megan.zimmerman(a)nist.gov>, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA --- Zhao Han, Ph.D. (he/him) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Computer Science, Brown Hall, 280M Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA zhaohanphd.com<https://zhaohanphd.com/> | @hanzhao<https://twitter.com/hanzhao> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhaohan-robotics/>

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[CFP] IROS 2022 Special Session on Computational Advances in Human-Robot Interaction
by Zhao Han 14 Feb '22

14 Feb '22

IROS 2022 Special Session on Computational Advances in Human-Robot Interaction Note: All manuscripts will undergo the same peer review and decision process as all other IROS2022 regular papers and, if accepted, will be published in the proceedings. The goal of this special session is for the groups of researchers at the intersection of AI and HRI to have a dedicated session to meet and facilitate a collaborative forum for discussion of current efforts in robotic and AI systems, and especially conducting interdisciplinary research in this community. The overarching themes of the contributing papers are the technological advances that improve humans’ experience and interactions with robots. As robots increasingly enter our society and encounter humans, the human element is important to consider when developing robot technologies. Through this special session, we will focus on technical research being done in the field of interactive robotics. Topics including but not limited to Artificial intelligence, robot learning, collaborative manipulation, social navigation, human intent modeling, social robotics, shared autonomy, linguistic robotics, robot ethics, inclusive robotics, assistive robotics, explainable AI, trust in robotics Submission Process As is the case for regular papers, the submission deadline for special session papers is March 1, 2022. The submission can be either a RA-L with IROS option paper or an IROS only paper. After your special session paper is submitted, please send your submission ID to the principal special session organizers: Zhao Han <zhaohan(a)mines.edu>, Shelly Bagchi <shelly.bagchi(a)nist.gov>, Daniel Hernández García <d.hernandez_garcia(a)hw.ac.uk>. All manuscripts will undergo the same peer review and decision process as all other IROS2022 regular papers and, if accepted, will be published in the proceedings. The submission details are the same as the IROS 2022 submission process<https://iros2022.org/call-for-papers/>. Organizers * Zhao Han <zhaohan(a)mines.edu>, Colorado School of Mines, USA * Shelly Bagchi <shelly.bagchi(a)nist.gov>, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA * Daniel Hernández García <d.hernandez_garcia(a)hw.ac.uk>, Heriot-Watt University, UK * Jason R. Wilson <jrw(a)fandm.edu>, Franklin & Marshall College, USA * Reuth Mirsky <reuthde(a)gmail.com>, Bar-Ilan University, Israel * Megan Zimmerman <megan.zimmerman(a)nist.gov>, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

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[CFP] 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC 2022), Joint with SweCog 2022
by Alessandro Saffiotti 21 Jan '22

21 Jan '22

CALL FOR PAPERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AIC 2022: 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition Joint with SweCog 2022: the conference of the Swedish Cognitive Science Society ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden 15-17 June 2022 Submission deadline: 18th March 2022 Workshop website: https://aic20.aass.oru.se About AIC 2022 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AIC 2022 is the 8th international appointment of the International Workshop Series AIC on "Artificial Intelligence and Cognition". The AIC series started in 2013, stemming from the need of creating an international scientific forum for the discussion and the presentation of the theoretical and applied research developments in the field of cognitively inspired Artificial Intelligence. In this spirit, the AIC 2022 workshop aims at putting together researchers coming from different domains (e.g., artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, philosophy, social sciences, etc.) working on the interdisciplinary field of cognitively inspired artificial systems. AIC 2022 will take place in the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS) at Örebro University, Sweden, 15-17 June 2022, joint with SweCog 2022, the conference of the Swedish Cognitive Science Society. Submission Guidelines ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS Authors. All papers must present original work that is not currently under review. We welcome the following types of contributions: + Full research papers (8 to 14 pages) + Short research papers (4 to 7 pages) + Extended abstracts of recently published journal papers (1 to 2 pages) Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aic20200 Important Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + Full research papers: ++ March 18th, 2022: Paper submission ++ April 25th, 2022: Notification of acceptance + Short papers or extended abstracts: ++ April 29th, 2022: Paper submission ++ May 9th, 2022: Notification of acceptance List of Topics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + Knowledge Representation and Cognition (e.g. Neural Networks models, Conceptual Spaces, Ontologies and representation of common sense) + Cognitive Architectures (e.g. SOAR, ACT-R) and Cognitive modelling for Artificial Systems + B.I.C.A. (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) and systems + Cognitive Robotics + Human-Robot Interaction + Evaluation of cognitively driven AI systems compared with other AI approaches + Cognition and Semantic Web + Methodological open questions on AI and Cognition + Automated reasoning: deductive, probabilistic, diagnostic, causal and analogical inference + Historical and theoretical relation among Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence + Knowledge discovery and acquisition + Modelling of human learning and knowledge acquisition in complex domains + Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing & Understanding + Logic and Reasoning + Evolutionary Computation + Spatial Cognition and Computation + Cognitively inspired Machine Learning + Computational Theories of Learning + Computational Creativity + Cognitive and the Moving Imag + Computational Models of Narrative Understanding (Visuo-Auditory Narrativity, Perception, Cognitive Film Studies) + Decision Support Systems Venue ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The conference is supposed to be held physically in Örebro University with the opportunity to attend online. However, this may change due to the Covid-19 restrictions. Organizing committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + Alessandro Saffiotti, Örebro University, Sweden + Amy Loutfi, Örebro University, Sweden + Antonio Lieto, University of Turin, Italy + Hadi Banaee, Örebro University, Sweden Contact ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More information can be found on the workshop website: https://aic20.aass.oru.se All questions about submissions should be emailed to: hadi.banaee(a)oru.se SweCog website: http://www.swecog.se Twitter: https://twitter.com/aic_swecog

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[RoboCup 2022 Thailand] RoboCup Participation Survey
by fengkpsc 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

[Sorry for multiple emails] Dear AT-Home-Community, As the RoboCup 2022 planning is underway, On the behalf of RoboCup 2022 Thailand Organizing Team, I would like to ask all teams to fill out the following participation survey. RoboCup Participation Survey https://forms.gle/FKJMMRaqWK6rSPLq9 Deadline for submission is January 30th. Thank you, KANJANAPAN LOC -- Asst.Prof.Dr. Kanjanapan Sukvichai Deputy Head of the integrated innovation and artificial intelligence center Dept. of Electrical Engineering Kasetsart University

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Participation Survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand
by fengkpsc 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

Happy new year RoboCuppers! On the behalf of RoboCup 2022 Thailand Organizing Team, I would like to take a survey for preparing RoboCup. Please help us response to the questions and give us feedbacks for your concern about RoboCup 2022 in Bangkok. Here is the survey link: https://forms.gle/GGWps2aAKaEXT7289 Thank you, KANJANAPAN -- Asst.Prof.Dr. Kanjanapan Sukvichai Deputy Head of the integrated innovation and artificial intelligence center Dept. of Electrical Engineering Kasetsart University

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[@Home2022] First Call for Participation (Deadline extended)
by Mauricio Matamoros 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

Online version: https://athome.robocup.org/2022-cfp1-all/ ========================================================================= *First Call for Participation* RoboCup@Home 2022 (DSPL · OPL · SSPL) Summer 2022 (Bangkok, Thailand) https://athome.robocup.org/ https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior). The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots’ abilities and performance in a realistic home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration. This page describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for RoboCup@Home 2022. Important dates: Oct. 31, 2021 Publication of the Call for Participation *Dec. 12, 2021* *EXTENDED Deadline for submission of qualification material.* *(Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website).* Jan. 10, 2022 Qualification announcement Jan. 30, 2022 Deadline for Participation Confirmation The qualification procedure consists of the following steps: Step 1) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory) The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Organizing Committee (oc[at] robocupathome.org) to participate in the qualification process for the RoboCup@Home 2022 event. Please fill in the following information: Team Name: League: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ] Country: Affiliation: Team Leader Name: Contact information (E-mail): Rank in local tournaments: Link to a team video: Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts: Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official template. The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2022-Qualification] (YourTeamName) Considerations: - Only one platform can be specified per team. - Only one team leader can be specified per team. - Only one team video url can be specified per team. - Only one contact email can be specified per team. - All the publications and software to be evaluated for qualification ***MUST*** be in the team’s website. - The email must be encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character set. ***** Deadline EXTENDED: Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021 23:59 GMT ****** Step 2) Participation confirmation (mandatory) All qualified teams ***MUST*** send an email to the Organizing Committee (oc[at]robocupathome.org) to confirm (or cancel) their participation in the RoboCup@Home 2022 event. Confirming attendance implies that the team has sufficient resources to register, and commits to attend to the event. To confirm participation, please fill in the following information: Team Name: League: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ] Country: Hereby [Team Name] of [Country] [confirms | forfeits] participation in the the RoboCup@Home [League]. The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2022-Confirmation] (YourTeamName) *Remark: *Qualified teams who miss the participation confirmation will be disqualified automatically and the participation slots freed for the Second Call for Participation. ***** Deadline: Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022 23:59 GMT ****** Step 3) Robot Acquisition (Standard Platform Leagues): Qualified Teams must contact the supplier as soon as the Qualification Notification arrives to start the acquisition procedure. Teams selected to receive Standard-Platform robots have to make an agreement with the supplier in compliance with the supplier’s instructions. The suppliers are not allowed to sell, export, lease and/or ship their products to natural or legal persons and to entities and countries which are subject to international sanctions or prohibitions. Since Selection Committee cannot answer this issue, please ask the supplier directly. *Remark:* Failing to acquire a Standard-Platform will void the qualification of the SSPL/DSPL. It won’t not possible for SSPL/DSPL to change to OPL. Instructions for the Qualification Material Instructions for the Team Video: In order to proof a running hardware, each team has to provide a qualification video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, the video must show the robot(s) successfully solving a task involving the integration of at least 5 different abilities, such as: environmental reasoning, high-level task planning, human-robot interaction, localization, manipulation, object recognition, people recognition, etc. *Remarks:* - The shown task execution must look continuous, smooth, and robust. - When speeding-up video, the speed factor must be indicated. - The language spoken and shown in the video must be English. When using any other languages, translations must be included. - We strongly suggest upload videos to Youtube. - Videos sent will be uploaded/displayed in the league’s youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkdCpT0xrFMMt-_N8wSVew/playlists” <http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkdCpT0xrFMMt-_N8wSVew/playlists> - *Standard Platforms Only:* Teams are allowed to use any robot in their Team Video. However, the use of the standard robot is advised. *HINT:* It is strongly advised to show your robot(s) smoothly and accurately solving any of the Stage II tests of the 2018, 2019, and 2020 rulebooks. *Copyright note:*When sending videos for qualification, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup Federation to copy, modify, distribute, upload, publish, and use the multimedia material to promote the event and the league at convenience. Instructions for the TDP The TDP is an 8-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including also the following: - TDP - Group’s research focus and interests. - Innovative technology and scientific contribution - Please specify when your research is being used by other teams or research groups - Please specify when you are using software from other teams - Brief, general description of the system when solving a [domestic] task (applicability in the real world) - The impact of your research must be clearly visible - Maximum length is *8 pages* (including figures and citations) - Annex - Photo(s) of the robot - Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot’s software (e.g. include MoveIt/YOLO) - Brief, compact description of all external computing devices, if any - Brief, compact description of the robot’s hardware (OPL Only) - Please mark with an asterisk home-made software solutions - Annex should be appended after the References - There is no page limit for annex, but a maximum of one page is strongly encouraged - TDP length is *****8 pages + annex***** (any submissions over this length will be disqualified). - *DSPL and SSPL:* The robot depicted in the TDP or Team Video must be the league’s standard one. For the TDP, please use the Springer LNAI format <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> used in the RoboCup Symposium submissions and limit yourself to 8 pages without altering margins or spacing (including references but excluding the annex). You may download a template for the TDP from here <https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/TDPTemplate>. *Remark: *The language for the TDP, its graphics, tables, images, and all additional content must be English. Content in other languages must be translated. *Copyright note:*All TDPs sent for qualification may be made publicly available in the RoboCup @Home Wiki for further reference. On submitting, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup Federation to copy, distribute, upload, publish, and use the manuscript to promote the event and the league at convenience. ***** Exceeding the number of pages will automatically void your application *****. Instructions for the Web site While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader audience, including: - Photos of the robot(s) - Videos of the robot(s) - Description of the approaches and information on scientific achievements - Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download) - Link to repositories with software for the community - Team members - Previous participation in RoboCup - Participation and rankings in local RoboCup tournaments *Remark: *No IP addresses will be accepted as website. *Remark: *Only documented active software repositories are considered as contributions to the league. It must be clear and straightforward to other teams how to use your software. Qualification and evaluation criteria: In this first Call for Participation, up to 8 teams per league can be assigned a participation slot. In order to qualify, a team must meet the minimum selection requirements approved by the Executive Committee. However, meeting the minimum requirements won’t automatically grant a participation slot. Only the top 8 teams meeting the selection criterion will qualify for participation. Rejections are strongly advised to improve their qualification materials and apply in the second CFP. Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria: - Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions, re-usability by the league, applicability in real world) - Performance in local tournaments and previous competitions. - Qualification Video (number of demonstrated abilities, integration, difficulty of the task, applicability in real world) - Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable content, open-source software and other contributions) - Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and open-source software) - Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home) We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall system. With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in Bangkok, The 2022 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees

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AtHome2022 - First Call for Participation
by Mauricio Matamoros 31 Oct '21

31 Oct '21

Online version: https://athome.robocup.org/2022-cfp1-all/ ==================================================================== First Call for Participation RoboCup@Home 2022 (DSPL · OPL · SSPL) Summer 2022 (Bangkok, Thailand) RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior). The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots’ abilities and performance in a realistic home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration. This page describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for RoboCup@Home 2022. Important dates: Oct. 31, 2021 Publication of the Call for Participation Nov. 28, 2021 Deadline for submission of qualification material. (Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website). Jan. 10, 2022 Qualification announcement Jan. 30, 2022 Deadline for Participation Confirmation The qualification procedure consists of the following steps: ****Step 1) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory)**** The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Organizing Committee (oc [at]robocupathome.org) to participate in the qualification process for the RoboCup@Home 2022 event. Please fill in the following information: Team Name: League: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ] Country: Affiliation: Team Leader Name: Contact information (E-mail): Rank in local tournaments: Link to a team video: Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts: Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official template. The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2022-Qualification](YourTeamName) Considerations: · Only one platform can be specified per team. Only one team leader · can be specified per team. · Only one team video url can be specified per team. · Only one contact email can be specified per team. · All the publications and software to be evaluated for qualification ***MUST*** be in the team’s website. · The email must be encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character set. **** Deadline: Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021 23:59 GMT ***** ****Step 2) Participation confirmation (mandatory)**** All qualified teams ***MUST*** send an email to the Organizing Committee (oc[at]robocupathome.org) to confirm (or cancel) their participation in the RoboCup@Home 2022 event. Confirming attendance implies that the team has sufficient resources to register, and commits to attend to the event. To confirm participation, please fill in the following information: Team Name: League: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ] Country: Hereby [Team Name] of [Country] [confirms | forfeits] participation in the the RoboCup@Home [League]. The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2022-Confirmation] (YourTeamName) Remark: Qualified teams who miss the participation confirmation will be disqualified automatically and the participation slots freed for the Second Call for Participation. **** Deadline: Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022 23:59 GMT ***** ****Step 3) Robot Acquisition (Standard Platform Leagues):**** Qualified Teams must contact the supplier as soon as the Qualification Notification arrives to start the acquisition procedure. Teams selected to receive Standard-Platform robots have to make an agreement with the supplier in compliance with the supplier’s instructions. The suppliers are not allowed to sell, export, lease and/or ship their products to natural or legal persons and to entities and countries which are subject to international sanctions or prohibitions. Since Selection Committee cannot answer this issue, please ask the supplier directly. Remark: Failing to acquire a Standard-Platform will void the qualification of the SSPL/DSPL. It won’t not possible for SSPL/DSPL to change to OPL. ****Instructions for the Qualification Material**** ***Instructions for the Team Video:*** In order to proof a running hardware, each team has to provide a qualification video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, the video must show the robot(s) successfully solving a task involving the integration of at least 5 different abilities, such as: environmental reasoning, high-level task planning, human-robot interaction, localization, manipulation, object recognition, people recognition, etc. Remarks: · The shown task execution must look continuous, smooth, and robust. · When speeding-up video, the speed factor must be indicated. · The language spoken and shown in the video must be English. · When using any other languages, translations must be included. · We strongly suggest upload videos to Youtube. · Videos sent will be uploaded/displayed in the league’s youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkdCpT0xrFMMt-_N8wSVew/playlists” · Standard Platforms Only: Teams are allowed to use any robot in their Team Video. However, the use of the standard robot is advised. HINT: It is strongly advised to show your robot(s) smoothly and accurately solving any of the Stage II tests of the 2018, 2019, and 2020 rulebooks. Copyright note:When sending videos for qualification, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup Federation to copy, modify, distribute, upload, publish, and use the multimedia material to promote the event and the league at convenience. ***Instructions for the TDP*** The TDP is an 8-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including also the following: · TDP · Group’s research focus and interests. · Innovative technology and scientific contribution · Please specify when your research is being used by other teams or research groups · Please specify when you are using software from other teams · Brief, general description of the system when solving a [domestic] task (applicability in the real world) · The impact of your research must be clearly visible · Maximum length is 8 pages (including figures and citations) · Annex · Photo(s) of the robot · Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot’s software (e.g. include MoveIt/YOLO) · Brief, compact description of all external computing devices, if any · Brief, compact description of the robot’s hardware (OPL Only) · Please mark with an asterisk home-made software solutions Annex should be appended after the References · There is no page limit for annex, but a maximum of one page is strongly encouraged · TDP length is ****8 pages + annex**** (any submissions over this length will be disqualified). · DSPL and SSPL: The robot depicted in the TDP or Team Video must be the league’s standard one. For the TDP, please use the Springer LNAI format used in the RoboCup Symposium submissions and limit yourself to 8 pages without altering margins or spacing (including references but excluding the annex). You may download a template for the TDP from here. Remark: The language for the TDP, its graphics, tables, images, and all additional content must be English. Content in other languages must be translated. Copyright note: All TDPs sent for qualification may be made publicly available in the RoboCup @Home Wiki for further reference. On submitting, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup Federation to copy, distribute, upload, publish, and use the manuscript to promote the event and the league at convenience. ***** Exceeding the number of pages will automatically void your application *****. ***Instructions for the Web site*** While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader audience, including: · Photos of the robot(s) · Videos of the robot(s) · Description of the approaches and information on scientific achievements · Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download) · Link to repositories with software for the community · Team members · Previous participation in RoboCups · Participation and rankings in local RoboCup tournaments Remark: No IP addresses will be accepted as website. Remark: Only documented active software repositories are considered as contributions to the league. It must be clear and straightforward to other teams how to use your software. ***Qualification and evaluation criteria:*** In this first Call for Participation, up to 8 teams per league can be assigned a participation slot. In order to qualify, a team must meet the minimum selection requirements approved by the Executive Committee. However, meeting the minimum requirements won’t automatically grant a participation slot. Only the top 8 teams meeting the selection criterion will qualify for participation. Rejections are strongly advised to improve their qualification materials and apply in the second CFP. Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria: · Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions, re-usability by the league, applicability in real world) · Performance in local tournaments and previous competitions. · Qualification Video (number of demonstrated abilities, integration, difficulty of the task, applicability in real world) · Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable content, open-source software and other contributions) · Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and open-source software) · Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home) We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall system. With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in Bangkok, The 2022 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees

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KR 2021: Final Call for Participation (Online event, free registration until Friday, October 15)
by Thanh Dinh 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2021) November 3-12, 2021 - Virtual https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/ *** Registration is free but mandatory (deadline: October 15, 2021) *** Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) is a well-established and lively field of research. In KR, a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KR has contributed to the theory and practice of various areas in AI, including automated planning and natural language understanding, and to fields beyond AI, including databases, verification, software engineering, and robotics. In recent years, KR has contributed also to new and emerging fields, including the semantic web, computational biology, cyber security, and the development of software agents. The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge. CONFERENCE FORMAT AND REGISTRATION KR 2021 will be organized as a virtual conference and welcomes all researchers interested in KR to participate! We are happy to announce that participation is *free*. The deadline for registering is October 15, 2021. Information about how to register for the main conference and associated events can be found at: https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/page/registration There will be also be a limited-capacity *live gathering* in Rome to watch the conference and exchange with other participants. For details, consult: https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/page/live_gathering_in_rome The list of papers accepted at the main conference and the Doctoral Consortium can also be found on the conference webpage. INVITED TALKS Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) > The Logic of Graph Neural Networks Jochen Renz (Australian National University, Australia) > Spatial and Physical Reasoning: From Angry Birds to Open World AI Uli Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) > Description Logic and OWL: A Tale of Discoveries, Design Choices, Challenges, and Lessons Learnt (Great Moments in KR) Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT, USA) > Reverse Engineering Human Cognitive Development: What Do We Start With, and How Do We Learn The Rest? Francesca Toni (Imperial College, UK) > The Interactionist View of Reasoning for Explainable AI TRACKS & SPECIAL SESSIONS * Applications and Systems Track * Recent Published Research Track * Special Session: KR and Machine Learning * Special Session: KR and Robotics * Special Session: Diversity and Inclusion WORKSHOPS * Explainable Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (XLoKR) * Computational Machine Ethics (CME) * Knowledge Representation for Hybrid and Compositional AI (KRHCAI) * Ontology Uses and Contribution to Artificial Intelligence (OnUCAI) * Second-Order Quantifier Elimination and Related Topics (SOQE) * Semantics-Powered Health Data Analytics (SEPDA) TUTORIALS * Answer Set Programming: From Theory to Practice by Roland Kaminski, Javier Romero, Torsten Schaub & Philipp Wanko * Belief Revision and Judgment Aggregation in Ontologies by Jake Chandler and Richard Booth * Completeness, Recall, and Negation in Open-World Knowledge Bases by Simon Razniewski, Hiba Arnaout, Shrestha Ghosh & Fabian M. Suchanek * Complex Event Recognition and Forecasting by Elias Alevizos and Alexander Artikis * KR&R Meets Cyber-Physical Systems: Formalization, Behavior, Trustworthiness by Marcello Balduccini, Edward Griffor & Tran Cao Son * Planning with multi-agent, flexible, temporal, epistemic & contingent (MAFTEC) aspects by Aurélie Beynier, Frédéric Maris & Francois Schwarzentruber * Proof-Theoretic Approaches to Logical Argumentation by Ofer Arieli & Christian Strasser * Solving equations in modal and description logics by Philippe Balbiani CO-LOCATED EVENTS * NMR 2021 (20th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning) CONFERENCE CHAIRS General: * Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) Program: * Meghyn Bienvenu (CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France) * Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Applications and Systems Track: * Martin Gebser (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) * Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Recently Published Research Track: * Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas at Austin, USA) * Pierre Marquis (Artois University & Institut Universitaire de France, France) Special Session on KR & Machine Learning: * Vaishak Belle (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Luc de Raedt (KU Leuven, Belgium) Special Session on KR & Robotics: * Alessandro Saffioti (University of Örebro, Sweden) * Mary-Anne Williams (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Workshop and Tutorials: * Markus Kroetzsch (TU Dresden, Germany) * Yongmei Liu (Sun Yat-sen University, China) Doctoral Consortium: * Jens Classen (Simon Fraser University) * Magdalena Ortiz (TU Vienna, Austria) Local Organization: * Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza University, Italy) * Son Tran (New Mexico State University, USA) * Long Tran-Thanh (University of Warwick, UK) * Thanh Van Dinh (East Asia University of Technology, Vietnam) Virtual Conference Arrangements: * Stefan Borgwardt (TU Dresden, Germany) * Marco Console (Sapienza University Italy) * Long Tran-Thanh (University of Warwick, UK) Sponsorship: * Kuldeep S. Meel (NUS, Singapore) * Zeynep G. Saribatur (TU Wien, Austria) Publicity: * Thanh Van Dinh (East Asia University of Technology, Vietnam) * Paolo Felli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Diversity and Inclusion: * Magdalena Ortiz (TU Vienna, Austria) * Maria Vanina Martinez (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) * Marco Maratea (University of Genova, Italy)

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KR 2021: Call for Participation (Deadline to register: October 15)
by Thanh Dinh 27 Sep '21

27 Sep '21

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2021) November 3-12, 2021 - Virtual https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/ *** Registration is free but mandatory (deadline: October 15, 2021) *** Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) is a well-established and lively field of research. In KR, a fundamental assumption is that an agent's knowledge is explicitly represented in a declarative form, suitable for processing by dedicated reasoning engines. This assumption, that much of what an agent deals with is knowledge-based, is common in many modern intelligent systems. Consequently, KR has contributed to the theory and practice of various areas in AI, including automated planning and natural language understanding, and to fields beyond AI, including databases, verification, software engineering, and robotics. In recent years, KR has contributed also to new and emerging fields, including the semantic web, computational biology, cyber security, and the development of software agents. The KR conference series is the leading forum for timely in-depth presentation of progress in the theory and principles underlying the representation and computational management of knowledge. CONFERENCE FORMAT AND REGISTRATION KR 2021 will be organized as a virtual conference and welcomes all researchers interested in KR to participate! We are happy to announce that participation is *free*. The deadline for registering is October 15, 2021. Information about how to register for the main conference and associated events can be found at: https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/page/registration There will be also be a limited-capacity *live gathering* in Rome to watch the conference and exchange with other participants. For details, consult: https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/page/live_gathering_in_rome The list of papers accepted at the main conference and the Doctoral Consortium can also be found on the conference webpage. INVITED SPEAKERS * Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) * Jochen Renz (Australian National University, Australia) * Uli Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) * Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT, USA) * Francesca Toni (Imperial College, UK) TRACKS & SPECIAL SESSIONS * Applications and Systems Track * Recent Published Research Track * Special Session: KR and Machine Learning * Special Session: KR and Robotics * Special Session: Diversity and Inclusion WORKSHOPS * Explainable Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (XLoKR) * Computational Machine Ethics (CME) * Knowledge Representation for Hybrid and Compositional AI (KRHCAI) * Ontology Uses and Contribution to Artificial Intelligence (OnUCAI) * Second-Order Quantifier Elimination and Related Topics (SOQE) * Semantics-Powered Health Data Analytics (SEPDA) TUTORIALS * Answer Set Programming: From Theory to Practice by Roland Kaminski, Javier Romero, Torsten Schaub & Philipp Wanko * Belief Revision and Judgment Aggregation in Ontologies by Jake Chandler and Richard Booth * Completeness, Recall, and Negation in Open-World Knowledge Bases by Simon Razniewski, Hiba Arnaout, Shrestha Ghosh & Fabian M. Suchanek * Complex Event Recognition and Forecasting by Elias Alevizos and Alexander Artikis * KR&R Meets Cyber-Physical Systems: Formalization, Behavior, Trustworthiness by Marcello Balduccini, Edward Griffor & Tran Cao Son * Planning with multi-agent, flexible, temporal, epistemic & contingent (MAFTEC) aspects by Aurélie Beynier, Frédéric Maris & Francois Schwarzentruber * Proof-Theoretic Approaches to Logical Argumentation by Ofer Arieli & Christian Strasser * Solving equations in modal and description logics by Philippe Balbiani CO-LOCATED EVENTS * NMR 2021 (20th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning) CONFERENCE CHAIRS General: * Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) Program: * Meghyn Bienvenu (CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France) * Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Applications and Systems Track: * Martin Gebser (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) * Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Recently Published Research Track: * Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas at Austin, USA) * Pierre Marquis (Artois University & Institut Universitaire de France, France) Special Session on KR & Machine Learning: * Vaishak Belle (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Luc de Raedt (KU Leuven, Belgium) Special Session on KR & Robotics: * Alessandro Saffioti (University of Örebro, Sweden) * Mary-Anne Williams (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Workshop and Tutorials: * Markus Kroetzsch (TU Dresden, Germany) * Yongmei Liu (Sun Yat-sen University, China) Doctoral Consortium: * Jens Classen (Simon Fraser University) * Magdalena Ortiz (TU Vienna, Austria) Local Organization: * Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza University, Italy) * Son Tran (New Mexico State University, USA) * Long Tran-Thanh (University of Warwick, UK) * Thanh Van Dinh (East Asia University of Technology, Vietnam) Virtual Conference Arrangements: * Stefan Borgwardt (TU Dresden, Germany) * Marco Console (Sapienza University Italy) * Long Tran-Thanh (University of Warwick, UK) Sponsorship: * Kuldeep S. Meel (NUS, Singapore) * Zeynep G. Saribatur (TU Wien, Austria) Publicity: * Thanh Van Dinh (East Asia University of Technology, Vietnam) * Paolo Felli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Diversity and Inclusion: * Magdalena Ortiz (TU Vienna, Austria) * Maria Vanina Martinez (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) * Marco Maratea (University of Genova, Italy)

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[CFP] AI LA Panel on “HRI in Healthcare”
by Ross Mead 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

Call for Participation: AI LA Panel on “HRI in Healthcare” *********************************************************************** AI LA Special Interest Group: Human-Robot Interaction in Healthcare September 27, 2021 @ 7pm-8pm Pacific (Virtual) https://ailacommunity.notion.site/Special-Interest-Group-Public-24345a418ce… *********************************************************************** *** FREE REGISTRATION *** https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkfuigrjooGtc0MVCl7EWM5ogCPV8QjJ… *** OVERVIEW *** In this panel, we will discuss the AI-driven technological advances in human-robot interaction (HRI) and their applications in healthcare. Our panelists represent robotics companies paving the way for robots in our everyday lives. How will we unlock the potential of healthcare robots to improve our quality of life? *** PANELISTS *** * Mike Dooley, Co-founder and CEO at Labrador Systems * Jillian Greczek, Senior Software Engineer at Catalia Health * Dr. Stefan Scherer, CTO at Embodied * Moderator: Dr. Ross Mead, Founder and CEO at Semio, and Vice President at AI LA *** CONTACT *** For more information, contact the AI LA Executive Board: * Todd Terrazas, AI LA (todd(a)joinai.la) * Dr. Ross Mead, Semio (ross(a)semio.ai) *** ABOUT *** AI LA is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to catalyze innovation through education, conversation, and collaboration. Since 2016, we have facilitated community events related to AI and its applications to education, environmental sustainability, healthcare, life sciences, the ethical and fair use of technology, and more! Learn more at https://joinai.la! -- Ross Mead, PhD Founder and CEO ross(a)semio.ai +1 (618) 696-2600 <https://semio.ai>

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International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC 2022)
by SARIKA JAIN 16 Sep '21

16 Sep '21

Dear Sir/Madam International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC 2022) May 17-19, 2022, Georgia Southern University (Armstrong Campus), Savannah, Georgia, United States Paper Submission: Oct 30, 2021 Web: https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/ ********************************************************** ** Publication and Indexing ** All accepted and presented papers will be included in proceedings published in the Springer LNEE series (already approved). Selected papers (extended versions) will be reviewed for possible double publication in SCIE/SCOPUS/WoS indexed journals.. Indexing: ISIC Proceedings in Springer LNEE will be made available to the following indexing services: Scopus, Scimago Journal & Country Rank, and Google Scholar; and will also be submitted to dblp computer science bibliography for inclusion. ** Topics ** Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Semantic Web Engineering; Ontology-based Data Access; Explainability and Interpretability; Natural Language Understanding; Multimodal and Multilingual Access; Machine to Machine Communications and Interoperability; Knowledge Extraction and Ontology Learning from the Web; Multimodal and Multilingual Approach to Computing; Computational Paradigms and Computational Intelligence; Intelligent Computing and Applications, Case Studies and Tools; Contributions of Semantic Web Technologies (SWT) to the Society; Cyber-Physical Systems; Knowledge representation and Engineering; Security Issues in Semantic Web; Applications, Opportunities, Challenges; Reasoning and Intelligent Processing (Semantic Search Paradigms, Semantic Web Mining, Semantic Sentiment Analysis, Semantic Web Services, Visualization, Query Answering, Semantic Information Access); Mapping Knowledge bases; Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Global Epidemics; Human-Computer Interaction; Data Analytics; Social Networks; Distributed and Mobile Systems; Computational Linguistics; Large Scale and Complex Information Management; Any other related topic... ** Tracks ** The submissions are divided into three tracks, namely the Research Track, the Trends and Perspectives Track, and the Applications and Deployment Track. The contributors are advised to choose the track that best suits their work. 1. The Research Track: The Research Track incorporates papers that present novel work contributing significantly to the advancement of Semantic Intelligence. The submissions should list the research gaps and research contributions filling the said gaps. A section comparing the results of the research with existing benchmarks is highly desirable. 2. The Trends and Perspectives Track: The Trends and Perspectives Track explores the state of the art in the mentioned disciplines. 3. The Applications and Deployment Track: The Applications and Deployment Track accepts papers showcasing the latest advancements and applications of semantic intelligence. Once any technology or methodology originates from the research community, its challenges and benefits are explored by its concrete usage in a practical setting. The application of any research in real-world use cases sets the stage for its visibility. The Applications and Deployment Track is exactly for this purpose. This track seeks submission for applied semantic intelligence. The submissions should list the benefits; the presented application reaps from SITs. In addition to the real-world, the Applications and Deployment Track also welcomes Resources such as the vocabularies, datasets, evaluation benchmarks, and software. ** Submission Guidelines ** Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isic2022. Submitted papers must follow the guidelines and templates provided by Springer: Springer LNEE Guidelines and Templates: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen…. Every paper will be assessed by the track chair and reviewed by at least three program committee members. The review process will be Single-Blind review. Submissions in all tracks must be in English with the following page length (pages of around 400 words each): * Full papers (12-16 pages including references) * Short papers (6-8 pages including references) ** Chairs ** General Chairs: - Sarika Jain, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India - Sven Groppe, University of Lübeck, Germany Organizing Chairs: - Atef Mohamed (Shalan), Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing, Georgia Southern University, United States - Hossain Shahriar, Associate Professor, Institute for Cybersecurity Workforce Development, Marietta, GA 30060, United States ** Important Dates ** Workshop Proposals: Oct 10, 2021 Workshop Proposals Notifications: Oct 20, 2021 Full length Papers in all tracks of main conference: Oct 30, 2021 Paper notifications in all tracks of main conference: Dec 15, 2021 Workshop papers submission: Dec 30, 2022 Workshop papers notifications: Jan 20, 2022 Main Conference: May 17-19, 2022 ** Previous Editions ** ISIC 2021 has been held successfully in Hybrid mode at Delhi, India during Feb 25-27, 2020. The proceedings of ISIC 2021 are already indexed by Scopus, DBLP, and Google Scholar. ** Contact * If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact any one of the following along with your contact details and the issue: Sarika Jain, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India, jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in. Sven Groppe, University of Lübeck, Germany, groppe(a)ifis.uni-luebeck.de. Atef Mohamed (Shalan), Georgia Southern University, United States, amohamed(a)georgiasouthern.edu. Best Regards Conference Committee - ISIC 2022

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LAST CALL - RoboCup Brazil Open
by Comunicação RoboCup 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hi teams, Last days to sign up for RoboCup Brazil Open! Do not leave to the last minute! The event will be online, streamed live on our youtube channels. Already registered? Did you check if everyone on the team is registered correctly? If you have any questions, please send it to us by email at organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org ! *Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open* *The event will be virtual, with the same categories of RoboCup Federation* RoboCup Brazil launches the RoboCup Brazil Open, a virtual event with the same categories of the Robocup WorldWide. Registrations are now open for teams from all over the world. All the categories have been adapted and will happen in a fully remote format, using simulators, challenges and submission of articles written by the teams. Our goal is to disseminate the studies and technologies developed by universities in the field of robotics and IA. The event will happen in October 11th-15th, and will be broadcast through lives on the RoboCup Brazil Youtube channel. *Categories:* RoboCup Open Flying Robot Trial League Small Size Soccer Humanoid League Standard Plataform League (SPL) Simulation 2D Simulation 3D RoboCup at@Home IEEE Humanoid Robot Racing (HRR) IEEE Open IEEE Standard Educational Kit (SEK) IEEE Very Small Size Soccer RoboCup Junior Soccer Open RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Open * Registration* To participate, you and your team must register by september 15th, on the website: www.cbrobotica.org . The registration fee is US$ 50 per team. *RoboCup Brasil is a non-profit civil association, organized by volunteer professors and researchers. The association holds the Brazilian Robotics Olympiad, the Brazilian Robotics Competition and the National Robotics Show.-- Patrícia VergaraComunicação RoboCup Brasil(11) 9.8686-4993www.robocup.org.br <http://www.robocup.org.br>*

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CFP: RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021)
by Asad Norouzi 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

*Apologies for duplicate messages* ============== Call for Participation =============== *RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021)* 25-29 November 2021 https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/participation.html RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 Aichi Japan (RCAP 2021) will be held at Aichi Sky Expo (Aichi International Convention & Exhibition Center), November 25-29, 2021. RCAP 2021 will be held in a hybrid ON-SITE and VIRTUAL format. Due to the current uncertainties of Covid-19, ON-SITE competitions will only open to participants from Japan. - ON-SITE Competitions: Participants from Japan. - VIRTUAL Competitions: Participants from all over the world. *LEAGUES:* Virtual Competitions are open to participants from all over the world, with most of the leagues of RoboCup 2021 Worldwide. For details of leagues, please refer to: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/leagues.html *REGISTRATION:* All teams are required to pre-register through the online form: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/registration.html *IMPORTANT DATES:* - Deadline for pre-registration (both online and virtual competitions): 30 September 2021 - Announcement of qualified teams: 14 October 2021 - Deadline for registration: 4 November 2021 *REGISTRATION FEES:* The registration fee is waived for all Japanese teams/members. The registration fee for teams to participate in virtual competitions (except teams from Japan): - Major Team Registration Fee: Waived - Major Staff/Students: USD60/person - Junior Team Registration Fee: Waived - Junior Students/Mentors: USD40/person *SYMPOSIUM:* https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/symposium.html *CONTACT:* For inquiries please contact us via the hereunder email addresses: - Aichi Local Organizing Committee (General Enquiries, On-site competitions): - rcap2021(a)intergroup.co.jp - RCAP Office (Registration fees and payments, Virtual competitions): - office(a)robocupap.org For more information please visit our official website at https://2021 .robocupap.org/eng/index.html We look forward to welcoming you to RCAP 2021 Aichi Japan! Best Regards, RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Office, RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021) Organizing Committee ____________________________________

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Call for KR 2021 Student Scholarship Applications
by Đinh Văn Thành 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

****************************************** Call for KR 2021 Student Scholarship Applications ****************************************** We are delighted to announce funding for KR 2021 student support. The purpose is to enable students to participate in the conference. To be eligible, you must be registered as a full-time student at a higher education institution (e.g. university). *You can submit your application at the following link:* ************** https://www.isurvey.soton.ac.uk/41031 ************** ** *Please submit your application by 6^th September 2021 via this form. We will notify you of our decision by 8^th September 2021.* In allocating awards, we will prioritise students who are listed as authors of a long or short paper accepted for KR 2021. Please note that attending the conference is a requirement for being supported. In addition, by participating in the student scholarship program, students are expected to support the conference as student volunteers: You may be asked to support the conference in various ways, e.g., to help with running a particular session. Due to NSF requirements, successful US applicants are also asked to participate in the Doctoral Consortium (DC) either as a presenter or as an attendee, with no obligation to have a paper accepted at the DC. US applicants are also asked to write a short report on their attendance at KR. If your application is successful, you will receive a code that you can then use upon registration as a conference fee waiver. Please wait to register for the conference until our notification. We will not reimburse already made payments. For any question, feel free to contact us at KR21virtual+registration(a)gmail.com <mailto:KR21virtual+registration@gmail.com> or contact Long Tran-Thanh directly at long.tran-thanh(a)warwick.ac.uk <mailto:long.tran-thanh@warwick.ac.uk>. Thank you, Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, US Long Tran-Thanh,University of Warwick, UK On the behalf of the KR 2021 organising committee.

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RoboCup Brazil Open
by Comunicação RoboCup 23 Jul '21

23 Jul '21

Hi teams, *Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open* *The event will be virtual, with the same categories of RoboCup Federation* RoboCup Brazil launches the RoboCup Brazil Open, a virtual event with the same categories of the Robocup WorldWide. Registrations are now open for teams from all over the world. All the categories have been adapted and will happen in a fully remote format, using simulators, challenges and submission of articles written by the teams. Our goal is to disseminate the studies and technologies developed by universities in the field of robotics and IA. The event will happen in October 11th-15th, and will be broadcast through lives on the RoboCup Brazil Youtube channel. In 2020, more than 700 students from Latin American attended the event. *Categories:* RoboCup Open Flying Robot Trial League Small Size Soccer Humanoid League Standard Plataform League (SPL) Simulation 2D Simulation 3D RoboCup at@Home IEEE Humanoid Robot Racing (HRR) IEEE Open IEEE Standard Educational Kit (SEK) IEEE Very Small Size Soccer RoboCup Junior Soccer Open RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Open * Registration* To participate, you and your team must register by August 30th, on the website: www.cbrobotica.org . The registration fee is US$ 50 per team. *RoboCup Brasil is a non-profit civil association, organized by volunteer professors and researchers. The association holds the Brazilian Robotics Olympiad, the Brazilian Robotics Competition and the National Robotics Show.* -- Patrícia Vergara Comunicação RoboCup Brasil +55 (11) 9.8686-4993 www.robocup.org.br

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[CFP] Call for Participation - RoboCup Brazil Open - @Home Virtual 2021
by Fagner Pimentel 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

*Call for Participation* RoboCup Brazil Open - @Home Virtual 2021 *October 11 – October 15, 2021* (Online) http://www.cbrobotica.org/ *Important dates:* - Jul. 30, 2021 Deadline for submission of qualification material and preregistration. (Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website). - Aug. 15, 2021 Qualification announcement - Aug 30, 2021 Robot model reception *Committee members:* - Executive Committee: "Plinio Thomaz Aquino Jr." < plinio.aquino(a)fei.edu.br> - Technical Committee: "Fagner Pimentel <fpimentel(a)fei.edu.br>" - Organizing Committee: "Ana Patricia Magalhaes < anapatriciamagalhaes(a)gmail.com>" - Organizing Committee: "Rodrigo Techi <techicrodrigo(a)gmail.com>" RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions. The 2021 edition of the RoboCup Brazil Open will again be virtual. All categories will have new challenges, adapted so that you and your team can participate from anywhere in the world, broadcast live on our Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/competicaobrasileiraderobotica). The RoboCup Brazil Open @Home Virtual competition aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots’ abilities and performance in a virtual home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Navigation and Mapping in virtual environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration. *This year we will have 4 slots (with the possibility of more) for teams outside Brazil to participate. * This page describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for RoboCup Brazil Open @Home 2021. The qualification procedure consists of two simple steps: *Step 1) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory)* The team *MUST* send an email to the @home committee (see above) to participate in the qualification process for the RoboCup Brazil Open @Home 2021 event. Please fill in the following information: Team Name: Country: Affiliation: Team Leader Name: Contact information (E-mail): Link to a team video: Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts: Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official template (http://www.cbrobotica.org/index.php/papers-tdps/). The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2021-Qualification] (YourTeamName) Considerations: - Only one platform can be specified per team. - Only one team leader can be specified per team. - Only one team video url can be specified per team. - Only one contact email can be specified per team. ***** *Deadline: Sunday, July 30, 2021 23:59 BRT* ****** *Step 2) Robot Model Submission:* Qualified teams ***MUST*** send the robot model to be used during the competition via email to the @home committee (see above). Please follow the template below: Team Name: Country: Affiliation: Virtual robot model attached to the email based on the official simulator. The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2021-RModel] (YourTeamName) The Technical Committee will inspect the robot models to verify they are compatible with the simulator and that all sensing and actuation is performed at component level and not bypassed by reading the variables of simulator such as position, pixel collision, etcetera. ***** *Deadline: Sunday, August 30, 2021 23:59 BRT* ****** *Instructions for the Qualification Material and Instructions for the Team Video:* In order to proof a running virtual robot model, each team has to provide a qualification video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, the video must show the robot(s) successfully solving a task involving the following abilities robust full-stack navigation (navigation, self localization, online mapping and collision avoidance), object manipulation, and object recognition. *Remarks:* - The shown task execution must look continuous, smooth, and robust. - When speeding-up video, the speed factor must be indicated. - The language spoken and shown in the video must be English. When using any other languages, translations must be included. - We strongly suggest upload videos to Youtube. *Copyright note:*When sending videos for qualification, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup Brazil Open @Home and the RoboCup Brasil to copy, modify, distribute, upload, publish, and use the multimedia material to promote the event and the league at convenience. *Instructions for the TDP* The TDP is a 6-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including also the following: - TDP - Group’s research focus and interests. - Innovative technology and scientific contribution - Please specify when your research is being used by other teams or research groups - Please specify when you are using software from other teams - Brief, general description of the system when solving a [domestic] task (portability to the real world) - The impact of your research must be clearly visible - Maximum length is *6 pages* (including figures and citations) - TDP length is *****6 pages***** (submissions over this hard limit will be discarded). *Remark: *The language for the TDP, its graphics, tables, images, and all additional content must be English. Content in other languages must be translated. *Copyright note:*All TDPs sent for qualification may be made publicly available in the RoboCup Brazil Open @Home Wiki for further reference. On submitting, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup Brazil Open @Home and the RoboCup Brasil to copy, distribute, upload, publish, and use the manuscript to promote the event and the league at convenience. ***** Exceeding the number of pages will automatically void your application *****. *Instructions for the Web site* While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader audience, including: - Photos of the virtual and/or real robot(s) - Videos of the virtual and/or real robot(s) - Description of the approaches and information on scientific achievements - Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download) - Link to repositories with software for the community - Team members - Previous participation in RoboCup - Participation and rankings in local RoboCup tournaments *Remark: *No IP addresses will be accepted as website. *Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria:* - Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions, re-usability by the league, applicability in real world) - Performance in local tournaments and previous competitions. - Qualification Video (number of demonstrated abilities, integration, difficulty of the task, portability to the real world) - Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable content, open-source software and other contributions) - Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and open-source software) - Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home) We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall system. On behalf of RoboCup Brazil Open @Home Virtual Competition 2021 Organizing Committee. -- Fagner de Assis Moura Pimentel Ph.D. candidate at FEI University Center.

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ROBOTIS Giveaway Event Invitation + New Forum Site Announcement!
by ROBOTIS Support 13 Jul '21

13 Jul '21

Hello everyone, This is Andrew with the ROBOTIS Customer Support team, and ROBOTIS would like to invite you all to join our new *ROBOTIS community* forum page ( www.community.robotis.us <http://community.robotis.us/>). Based on your group's relevant interests, I thought it would be perfect to invite you all to join ROBOTIS for our first-ever “My Favorite Robot!” online giveaway and video sharing event <https://community.robotis.us/t/my-favorite-robot-video-sharing-contest-win-…> (Win Prizes). *Simple Rule to Participate:* *We just want to see your favorite robots (images or videos)*- from BattleBots, to Boston Dynamics, to your team's or personal project! 1. *Come and join* our online forum community.robotis.us 2. *Reply* to the giveaway thread with a video or/and image 3. *Short description* of your favorite robot to enter for a chance to win! 4. *Share* a link to your post with friends and family to get likes on the post the most likes will ultimately win! Grand prize includes $250 in Store Credit to our robotis.us online shop for state-of-the-art robot kits and hardware! Full details and rules for the competition event can be found here (Deadline: 7/31): https://community.robotis.us/t/my-favorite-robot-video-sharing-contest-win-… For any questions, feel free to contact us here or through the community page! PS If any researchers or professionals have a robot project and would like to showcase your work or applications, please reach out and we can consider interview opportunities with our team to promote you! Best regards, Andrew *ROBOTIS Technical Support / Customer Support* *(* *cs(a)robotis.com <cs(a)robotis.com>) * For general & technical support visit Community.Robotis.Us <http://community.robotis.us> *Leave us a Google Review here! <https://g.page/RobotisAmerica/review?rc> *Tell us how we're doing- what do you love, and what can we do better? Leave us a review or email our team! <http://www.robotis.us/> <https://twitter.com/ROBOTISAmerica> <https://www.facebook.com/RobotisAmerica/> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/3156709/> <https://www.youtube.com/robotisamerica> <https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/> <https://www.reddit.com/r/DYNAMIXEL/>

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[jobs] PhD position at King's College London on @Home
by Matteo Leonetti 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

[apologies for multiple posting, lots of emails, the usual] Hello, a PhD position is available at King's College London under my supervision, in the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) on Safe and Trusted AI. Deadline: 25 July 2021. The currently available project is this one: https://safeandtrustedai.org/project/service-robot-adaptation-to-users-with… but other topics can be discussed, as long as they align with my research in planning and learning for autonomous robots (https://sensiblerobots.leeds.ac.uk/research/) and the focus of the CDT https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-courses/safe-and-trusted-… . Please note that I just moved from Leeds to King's, so you'll still find references to Leeds (for instance in my web page above) here and there. The PhD is at King's. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to lead the migration of the LASR@Home team from Leeds to King's and the development towards RoboCup 2022. Feel free to contact me directly for any (related) inquiry. Best, -- Matteo Leonetti Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) King's College London

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Call for Applications: Doctoral Consortium of KR 2021 (deadline: June 30)
by Thanh Dinh 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

KR Doctoral Consortium Call for Applications November 3-12, 2021 Virtual (Originally: Hanoi, Vietnam) https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de The 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2021) invites PhD students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium program. 1) AIMS AND SCOPE The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a student mentoring program bringing together PhD students and senior researchers from the area of KR. The aims of the consortium are: * to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers; * to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas; * to support students with information and advice on academic, research, and industrial careers. The DC is intended for PhD students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience. Preference will be given to students satisfying these criteria, but well-motivated applications from students who are at earlier or later stages of their doctoral studies will still be considered. Accepted students will participate in several dedicated DC events, which are planned to include a lightning talk session, a poster session, a mentoring event, and a DC invited talk. Details will be announced in due time. Each student will be given ample time to present their work and therefore be able to fully benefit from direct feedback from the assigned senior researcher mentor and the wider KR conference audience. Note that due to the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic, KR 2021 and all of the DC events will take place online. 2) APPLICATION SUBMISSION Applications must be submitted through the EasyChair conference system (a link will be provided later). Each application must contain the following elements combined into a single PDF document: (1) Thesis summary. A description of the problem being addressed, your motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum and use the same style as for KR paper submissions. (2) Curriculum Vitae. A description of your background and relevant experience (research, education, employment), of two pages maximum. (3) Letter of recommendation. A letter from your thesis advisor that states that he/she supports your participation in the DC. (4) Optionally, a suggestion of up to 5 potential mentors with similar research interests, who could give good advice on technical aspects related to the work, and/or career opportunities. The selection process will consider the quality of the submitted proposal and the stage of the student's PhD project. Doctoral students who submit to the DC are permitted to have previously published their research, and are encouraged to submit papers to workshops associated to KR 2021. 3) IMPORTANT DATES Application deadline: June 30, 2021 Acceptance notification: July 21, 2021 Doctoral Consortium: November 3 - 12, 2021 For further information, please contact the DC chairs: Jens Classen, Simon Fraser University (jens_classen(a)sfu.ca) Magdalena Ortiz, TU Vienna (ortiz(a)kr.tuwien.ac.at)

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Call for Papers: Recently Published Research Track at KR 2021 (deadline: June 27)
by Thanh Dinh 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

Call for Papers *Recently Published Research Track* at the 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021) November 3-12, 2021, Virtual (originally: Hanoi, Vietnam) https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submission deadline: June 27, 2021, Notification: July 30, 2021 Conference: November 3-12, 2021 ------------------ The 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, KR 2021, invites submissions of abstracts of papers previously published in journals and conference proceedings for the Recently Published Research Track. The track is designed to provide a forum to discuss recent research on topics related to KR that may not be immediately familiar or easily accessible to the KR community. The track seeks papers that fall into one or both of the following two categories: 1) Papers that -- bridge KR to other areas of AI, computer science, or to other disciplines for which an interface with KR exists (this includes database theory, game theory, social choice, logic and philosophy, etc.); -- bridge KR to areas that make use of KR, such as multi-agent systems, planning, natural language understanding, machine learning, explainable AI; or -- go beyond the commonly-understood boundaries of KR. 2) Papers that are tightly related to KR and -- have been published in journals but have not been presented at workshops or conferences; -- have been presented at conferences that are not typically attended by the KR community; or -- have been accepted at general high-profile AI conferences such as IJCAI, ECAI, or AAAI, where the time allotted has not allowed for full discussion of all key aspects of the paper. Submitted papers need only be of interest to a subcommunity in KR (like DL, argumentation, NMR, etc.). However, they need to be made friendly to a KR audience. Submission materials: — A cover page (single page) listing the title, the authors, a complete reference to the original paper, and a public or privately accessible url from which the paper can be downloaded. A list of keywords is also expected. Finally, the cover page must contain a statement that the work the submission is based on has not been already presented to a KR audience in a major forum. — A one-page (preferred) and no more than two-page extended abstract of the paper following the format for regular paper KR 2021 submissions. The abstract should present the main contributions of the paper, discuss the relevance of the paper to KR, and explain the significance of the results. — A single pdf file with the materials should be submitted to the KR submission site at EasyChair. The authors should mark the submission as Recently Published Research. Submissions must meet the following criteria: a. Candidate papers must have been published in a journal or a conference proceedings in 2019 or later. b. Papers that are in press may be submitted as long as the final camera-ready version is available. c. Extensions of papers that have been previously presented at a KR conference are not eligible for this track. Extended abstracts of the accepted papers will be linked from the conference website. Authors of accepted papers will present their work at the KR conference, focussing on its significance and relevance to KR. Significant time will be allocated for discussion of the interdisciplinary aspects of the work and its potential impact on future research opportunities for KR. Note that due to the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic, KR 2021 will take place as a fully online event. For any questions regarding suitability of a submission or any other aspect of the track, please email the special track program co-chairs: Vladimir Lifschitz, vl(a)cs.utexas.edu Pierre Marquis, marquis(a)cril.univ-artois.fr

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Fwd: SCIROC 2021: Call for interest now open!
by Luca Iocchi 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

Dear @Home teams, please consider participation to the SciRoc Challenge (Bologna, Italy, September 2021) that includes tests certainly in-line with @Home research interests. Do not hesitate to contact us for any information. Best regards, Luca. ---- *SMART CITIES ROBOTICS CHALLENGE (SCIROC) 2021 : Call for interest now open! Deadline: Friday 30^th April 2021. * After the outstanding success of our first Smart Cities Robotics Challenge in Milton Keynes, UK, in which we estimate we may have shown the state of the art in European robotics to around 650,000 people, we’re now promoting our second event in Bologna, Italy, 6 - 11 September 2021. Teams will bring their robots from all over Europe to compete in an environment that embeds the newest technologies in an ancient location. We’re aiming for a safe physical event (but have plans for teams that can’t travel if lockdown restrictions come back again). The last year has been hard, and across Europe it is time for people to start to re-emerge from their hibernation, and embrace life again. Our second SCIROC event will be an opportunity for robotics teams to get together and celebrate. It is also the perfect platform to show that robotics in Europe will play a role in supporting our happy safe future by showcasing research, and engaging with industry and the public. We all know how hard life has been with Covid-19, people will be full of questions about how robotics could help in the future. *Want to be involved?* For anyone that is interested in taking part in this year’s Smart City Challenge, our call for interested teams is now open! Register your interest via the SCIROC website by 30th April 2021: https://sciroc.org/2021-challenge-description/ We hope to see you in Bologna! Sarah Carter Project Manager SCIROC EU-H2020 / The European Robotics League Bristol Robotics Laboratory University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Tel. +44 (0) 117 32 83082 page1image2896128 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: HRI-ANNOUNCEMENT-signoff-request(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG If you don't already have a password for the LISTSERV.ACM.ORG server, we recommend that you create one now. A LISTSERV password is linked to your email address and can be used to access the web interface and all the lists to which you are subscribed on the LISTSERV.ACM.ORG server. To create a password, visit: https://LISTSERV.ACM.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?GETPW1 Once you have created a password, you can log in and view or change your subscription settings at: https://LISTSERV.ACM.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?SUBED1=HRI-ANNOUNCEMENT

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BRAHUR/BRASERO 2021: Call for Papers - DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Marco Simões 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Sorry for any duplication. ===================== Call For Papers The *IV Brazilian Humanoid Robot Workshop (BRAHUR)* and the *V Brazilian Workshop on Service Robotics (BRASERO)* will be a virtual edition. It will run from *May 19th to 21th, 2021*. These workshops will cover the most exciting new developments in the humanoid and service robotics field and related technologies. See further information on the Workshops web site: http://www.acso.uneb.br/brahurbrasero2021 ################### Important Dates ## ################### *Abstract registration deadline: March 15, 2021Submission deadline: March 22, 2021Notification: April 16, 2021Camera-ready: April 26, 2021* ########################### Submission Guidelines ## ########################### Considering that the primary goal of the joint workshops is the dissemination and sharing of work developed in robotics areas, focusing on humanoid robots and service robots, the works do not need to be original, but they must be relevant to the community (works published previously will NOT be accepted). Papers will be reviewed based on relevance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. All papers must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. Papers may be written in Portuguese or English. Articles written in Portuguese should also include the title and abstract in English. Papers must not exceed 6 (six) pages including all figures, references, and appendices, and must be submitted in one PDF file. Please, rely on good quality figures. The IEEE format for article submission should be followed: http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/files/ieeeconf_A4.dot http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php#latexclass (A4) <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php#latexclass> At least *one author must be registered to BRAHUR/BRASERO 2021 for each accepted paper*. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=brahurbrasero2021 ##################### List of Topics ## ##################### The Research Track publishes solid contribution focused on the theme of humanoid and service robotics or related technologies, which include (but is not limited to) the following topics: * Machine learning, intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, cognitive development, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, reinforcement learning, fuzzy logic applied to humanoid or service robots; * Computer vision, image processing, object segmentation and recognition, face recognition, camera calibration; * Multi-robot systems; * Multi-agent learning; * Multi-agent planning; * Feedback control, digital control, control theory; * Embedded systems; * Real-time systems; * Digital signal processing; * Object manipulation and action planning; * Innovations in mechanical design and materials; * Mobile robotics, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), sensor fusion; * Legged locomotion, biped walking and running; * Unmanned aerial vehicles; * Unmanned underwater vehicles; * Humanoids robots; * Ethics and the social implications of the advance of service robotics; * Robotics applications and case studies; * Assistive robotics. ############## Committees ## ############## *Organizing committee* - Ana Patricia Fontes Magalhães Mascarenhas (UNEB/ACSO and UNIFACS) - Adailton de Jesus Cerqueira Junior (UNEB/ACSO) - Jorge Alberto Prado Campos (UNEB/ACSO and UNIFACS) - Josemar Rodrigues de Souza (UNEB/ACSO) - Marco A C Simões (UNEB/ACSO) - Paulo Drews (FURG) - Robson Marinho da Silva (UNEB/ACSO) - Rodrigo Guerra (UFSM) - Tiago Nascimento (UFPB) ############## Publication ## ############## The BRAHUR/BRASERO 2021 proceedings will be published on BRAHUR/BRASERO 2021 website with DOI and ISBN ######## Venue ## ######## The conference will be held in Salvador, BA, Brazil (virtual). ########## Contact ## ########## All questions about submissions should be emailed to apmagalhaes(a)uneb.br *Take this opportunity and send your work!* *-- Marco Antonio Costa SimõesNucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br <http://www.acso.uneb.br>Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart <http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart>Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEBDepartamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus IMestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE* * <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Livre de vírus. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…>. <#m_-9209586057992870033_m_8241794896325470754_m_5100748289025288629_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>*

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[news] [@Home2021] First Call for Participation: EXTENDED
by Mauricio Matamoros 27 Feb '21

27 Feb '21

Online version: https://athome.robocup.org/2021-cfp-all/ *First Call for Participation* RoboCup@Home Virtual 2021 (DSPL · OPL · SSPL) June 22 – June 28, 2021 (Online) https://2021.robocup.org// <https://2021.robocup.org/> https://athome.robocup.org/ https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior). The RoboCup@Home Virtual competition aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots’ abilities and performance in a virtual home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Navigation and Mapping in virtual environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration. This page describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for RoboCup@Home 2021. Important dates: Feb. 10, 2021 Publication of the Call for Participation Feb. 28, 2021 Deadline for submission of qualification material and preregistration. March 7, 2021 Deadline for submission of qualification material and preregistration. EXTENDED (Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website). Mar. 14, 2021 Qualification announcement April 24, 2021 Robot model reception The qualification procedure consists of three simple steps: Step 1) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory) The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Organizing Committee ( oc(a)robocupathome.org) to participate in the qualification process for the RoboCup@Home 2021 event. Please fill in the following information: Team Name: League: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ] Country: Affiliation: Team Leader Name: Contact information (E-mail): Rank in local tournaments: Link to a team video: Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts: Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official template (new teams only). OR Hereby team [Team Name] countersigns its qualification for RoboCup@Home 2021 (qualified teams only). The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2021-Qualification] (YourTeamName) Considerations: - Only one platform can be specified per team. - Only one team leader can be specified per team. - Only one team video url can be specified per team. - Only one contact email can be specified per team. - All the publications and software to be evaluated for qualification ***MUST*** be in the team’s website. - The email must be encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character set. *IMPORTANT:* Teams qualified for the 2020 RoboCup@Home do *NOT* need to resubmit their TDPs. ***** Deadline: Sunday, February 28, 2021 23:59 GMT ****** Step 2) Participation confirmation Teams qualified do not require to confirm attendance. Step 3) Robot Model Submission (Open Platform League): Qualified teams ***MUST*** send the robot model to be used during the competition via email to the Organizing Committee (oc(a)robocupathome.org). Please follow the template below: Team Name: League: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ] Country: Affiliation: Virtual robot model attached to the email based on the official simulator. The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2021-RModel] (YourTeamName) The Technical Committee will inspect the robot models to verify they are compatible with the simulator and that all sensing and actuation is performed at component level and not bypassed by reading the variables of simulator such as position, pixel collision, etcetera. *IMPORTANT:* OPL teams may opt to use the official robot models of any of the Standard Platform League. In these cases, instead of attaching the robot models, the email must state which model will be used by the team. ***** Deadline: Sunday, April 25, 2021 23:59 GMT ****** Instructions for the Qualification Material Instructions for the Team Video: In order to proof a running virtual robot model, each team has to provide a qualification video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, the video must show the robot(s) successfully solving a task involving the following abilities: robust full-stack navigation (navigation, self localization, online mapping and collision avoidance), object manipulation, and object recognition. Is strongly advised to show a test of any of the RoboCup@Home RuleBooks from 2009 on. *Remarks:* - The shown task execution must look continuous, smooth, and robust. - When speeding-up video, the speed factor must be indicated. - The language spoken and shown in the video must be English. When using any other languages, translations must be included. - We strongly suggest upload videos to Youtube. - Videos sent will be uploaded/displayed in the league’s youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkdCpT0xrFMMt-_N8wSVew/playlists” <http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkdCpT0xrFMMt-_N8wSVew/playlists> - *Standard Platforms Only:* Teams are encouraged to use the standard robot in their Team Video. *Copyright note:*When sending videos for qualification, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup Federation to copy, modify, distribute, upload, publish, and use the multimedia material to promote the event and the league at convenience. Instructions for the TDP The TDP is an 6-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including also the following: - TDP - Group’s research focus and interests. - Innovative technology and scientific contribution - Please specify when your research is being used by other teams or research groups - Please specify when you are using software from other teams - Brief, general description of the system when solving a [domestic] task (portability to the real world) - The impact of your research must be clearly visible - Maximum length is *6 pages* (including figures and citations) - TDP length is *****6 pages***** (submissions over this hard limit will be discarded). For the TDP, please use the Springer LNAI format <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> used in the RoboCup Symposium submissions and limit yourself to 6 pages without altering margins or spacing (including references). You may download a template for the TDP from here <https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/TDPTemplate>. *Remark: *The language for the TDP, its graphics, tables, images, and all additional content must be English. Content in other languages must be translated. *Copyright note:*All TDPs sent for qualification may be made publicly available in the RoboCup @Home Wiki for further reference. On submitting, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup Federation to copy, distribute, upload, publish, and use the manuscript to promote the event and the league at convenience. ***** Exceeding the number of pages will automatically void your application *****. Instructions for the Web site While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader audience, including: - Photos of the virtual and/or real robot(s) - Videos of the virtual and/or real robot(s) - Description of the approaches and information on scientific achievements - Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download) - Link to repositories with software for the community - Team members - Previous participation in RoboCup - Participation and rankings in local RoboCup tournaments *Remark: *No IP addresses will be accepted as website. *Remark: *Only documented active software repositories are considered as contributions to the league. It must be clear and straightforward to other teams how to use your software. Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria: - Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions, re-usability by the league, applicability in real world) - Performance in local tournaments and previous competitions. - Qualification Video (number of demonstrated abilities, integration, difficulty of the task, portability to the real world) - Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable content, open-source software and other contributions) - Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and open-source software) - Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home) We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall system. With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team online, The 2021 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees

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Greetings and test
by Luca Iocchi 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

Dear all, we moved the mailing lists on another server and I am just checking if everything works well. Let me also take this opportunity to greet all the RoboCup@Home community. I hope to (virtually) meet many of you during RoboCup 2021. Best regards, Luca

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[@Home2021] Call for Participation (DSPL · OPL · SSPL)
by Mauricio Matamoros 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

Online version: https://athome.robocup.org/2021-cfp-all/ *Call for Participation* RoboCup@Home Virtual 2021 (DSPL · OPL · SSPL) June 22 – June 28, 2021 (Online) https://2021.robocup.org// <https://2021.robocup.org/> https://athome.robocup.org/ https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior). The RoboCup@Home Virtual competition aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots’ abilities and performance in a virtual home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Navigation and Mapping in virtual environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration. This page describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for RoboCup@Home 2021. Important dates: Feb. 10, 2021 Publication of the Call for Participation Feb. 28, 2021 Deadline for submission of qualification material and preregistration. (Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website). Mar. 14, 2021 Qualification announcement April 24, 2021 Robot model reception The qualification procedure consists of three simple steps: Step 1) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory) The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Organizing Committee ( oc(a)robocupathome.org) to participate in the qualification process for the RoboCup@Home 2021 event. Please fill in the following information: Team Name: League: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ] Country: Affiliation: Team Leader Name: Contact information (E-mail): Rank in local tournaments: Link to a team video: Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts: Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official template (new teams only). *OR* Hereby team [Team Name] countersigns its qualification for RoboCup@Home 2021 (qualified teams only). The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2021-Qualification] (YourTeamName) Considerations: - Only one platform can be specified per team. - Only one team leader can be specified per team. - Only one team video url can be specified per team. - Only one contact email can be specified per team. - All the publications and software to be evaluated for qualification ***MUST*** be in the team’s website. - The email must be encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character set. *IMPORTANT:* Teams qualified for the 2020 RoboCup@Home do *NOT* need to resubmit their TDPs. ***** Deadline: Sunday, February 28, 2021 23:59 GMT ****** Step 2) Participation confirmation Teams qualified do not require to confirm attendance. Step 3) Robot Model Submission (Open Platform League): Qualified teams ***MUST*** send the robot model to be used during the competition via email to the Organizing Committee (oc(a)robocupathome.org). Please follow the template below: Team Name: League: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ] Country: Affiliation: Virtual robot model attached to the email based on the official simulator. The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2021-RModel] (YourTeamName) The Technical Committee will inspect the robot models to verify they are compatible with the simulator and that all sensing and actuation is performed at component level and not bypassed by reading the variables of simulator such as position, pixel collision, etcetera. *IMPORTANT:* OPL teams may opt to use the official robot models of any of the Standard Platform League. In these cases, instead of attaching the robot models, the email must state which model will be used by the team. ***** Deadline: Sunday, April 25, 2021 23:59 GMT ****** Instructions for the Qualification Material Instructions for the Team Video: In order to proof a running virtual robot model, each team has to provide a qualification video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, the video must show the robot(s) successfully solving a task involving the following abilities: robust full-stack navigation (navigation, self localization, online mapping and collision avoidance), object manipulation, and object recognition. Is strongly advised to show a test of any of the RoboCup@Home RuleBooks from 2009 on. *Remarks:* - The shown task execution must look continuous, smooth, and robust. - When speeding-up video, the speed factor must be indicated. - The language spoken and shown in the video must be English. When using any other languages, translations must be included. - We strongly suggest upload videos to Youtube. - Videos sent will be uploaded/displayed in the league’s youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkdCpT0xrFMMt-_N8wSVew/playlists” <http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkdCpT0xrFMMt-_N8wSVew/playlists> - *Standard Platforms Only:* Teams are encouraged to use the standard robot in their Team Video. *Copyright note:*When sending videos for qualification, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup Federation to copy, modify, distribute, upload, publish, and use the multimedia material to promote the event and the league at convenience. Instructions for the TDP The TDP is an 6-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including also the following: - TDP - Group’s research focus and interests. - Innovative technology and scientific contribution - Please specify when your research is being used by other teams or research groups - Please specify when you are using software from other teams - Brief, general description of the system when solving a [domestic] task (portability to the real world) - The impact of your research must be clearly visible - Maximum length is *6 pages* (including figures and citations) - TDP length is *****6 pages***** (submissions over this hard limit will be discarded). For the TDP, please use the Springer LNAI format <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> used in the RoboCup Symposium submissions and limit yourself to 6 pages without altering margins or spacing (including references). You may download a template for the TDP from here <https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/TDPTemplate>. *Remark: *The language for the TDP, its graphics, tables, images, and all additional content must be English. Content in other languages must be translated. *Copyright note:*All TDPs sent for qualification may be made publicly available in the RoboCup @Home Wiki for further reference. On submitting, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup Federation to copy, distribute, upload, publish, and use the manuscript to promote the event and the league at convenience. ***** Exceeding the number of pages will automatically void your application *****. Instructions for the Web site While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader audience, including: - Photos of the virtual and/or real robot(s) - Videos of the virtual and/or real robot(s) - Description of the approaches and information on scientific achievements - Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download) - Link to repositories with software for the community - Team members - Previous participation in RoboCup - Participation and rankings in local RoboCup tournaments *Remark: *No IP addresses will be accepted as website. *Remark: *Only documented active software repositories are considered as contributions to the league. It must be clear and straightforward to other teams how to use your software. Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria: - Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions, re-usability by the league, applicability in real world) - Performance in local tournaments and previous competitions. - Qualification Video (number of demonstrated abilities, integration, difficulty of the task, portability to the real world) - Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable content, open-source software and other contributions) - Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and open-source software) - Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home) We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall system. With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team online, The 2021 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees

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Call for Papers: Special Session on KR & Robotics (KR2021)
by Thanh Dinh 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

CALL FOR PAPERS **Special Session on Knowledge Representation and Robotics** at the 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021) November 6-12, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submission of title and abstract: March 24, 2021 Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2021 Author response period: May 24-26, 2021 Notification: June 15, 2021 Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2021 Conference dates: November 6-12, 2021 ------------------ Much progress has been made in robotics through the introduction of machine learning, often leading to autonomous systems that are effective but opaque with inexplicable behaviours. Many applications, however, require robots to explicitly capture knowledge and reason with it in order to achieve high-level cognitive skills. This special session is devoted to exploring the intersection of Knowledge Representation and Robotics. Papers are solicited in all areas of this intersection. In particular, we welcome papers that extend knowledge representation techniques to cope with the challenges posed by interacting with the physical world, such as: - dealing with uncertain, incomplete or contradictory information; - reasoning with time, space and perceptions; - grounding representations in the physical world; - combining discrete and continuous representations; - reasoning with bounded computational resources; - trustworthy and accountable robot behaviours; and - social intelligence for robots in human-centric environments. Robots are the archetypical integrated cognitive systems. Thus, we also welcome papers that address the integration of knowledge representation into whole robotic systems, such as: - integrating knowledge representation and machine learning; - integrating symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches; - integrating reasoning about actions and control; or - cognitive robot architectures. Finally, we welcome papers that show concrete examples where real robotic systems benefit from knowledge representation, for instance in: - sensor interpretation and understanding; - human-robot interaction; - multi-robot planning and coordination; or - dealing with errors and unexpected situations. ------------------ Information for Authors ------------------ The Special Session on KR & Robotics will allow contributions of both regular papers (9 pages) and short papers (4 pages), excluding references, prepared and submitted according to the instructions on the KR2021 website. The special session emphasizes KR & Robotics, and welcomes contributions that extend the state of the art at the intersection of KR & Robotics. Therefore, KR-only or Robotics-only submissions will not be accepted for evaluation in this special session. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed by PC members who are active in KR & Robotics. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, including criteria such as originality, soundness, relevance, significance, quality of presentation, and understanding of the state of the art. ------------------ Remote Participation Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic ------------------ We understand that the global public health situation may make it difficult or impossible for some, if not all, participants to travel to Hanoi. For this reason, we commit to allowing authors of accepted papers to present virtually and will work hard to enable the best possible experience for all conference participants. ------------------ Chairs ------------------ Alessandro Saffiotti (University of Orebro, Sweden) Mary-Anne Williams (University of New South Wales, Australia) ------------------

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Call for Papers: Special Session on KR & Machine Learning (KR2021)
by Thanh Dinh 07 Feb '21

07 Feb '21

Call for Papers **Special Session on Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning** at the 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021) November 6-12, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submission of title and abstract: March 24, 2021 Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2021 Author response period: May 24-26, 2021 Notification: June 15, 2021 Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2021 Conference dates: November 6-12, 2021 ----------- Description ----------- Over the last two decades, Machine Learning (ML) has made incredible progress and become very effective at solving specific tasks while being robust across many experimental learning applications. Deep learning, statistical (relational) learning, reinforcement learning and logic-based and/or probabilistic learning are among the many ML approaches that are witnessing such advancements. On the other hand, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) has continued to be at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research providing solutions for explicit declarative representation of knowledge and knowledge-based inference, which have theoretical and practical relevance in many aspects of AI as well as in new emerging fields outside AI. The synergy between these two areas of AI has the potential to lead to new advancements on the foundations of AI that offer novel insights into open fundamental challenges including, but not limited to, learning symbolic generalisations from raw (multi-modal) data, using knowledge to facilitate data-efficient learning, supporting interpretability of learned outcomes, federated multi-agent learning and decision making. This year, for the second time, KR2021 will host a special session on "Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning". This special session aims at providing researchers and industrial practitioners with a dedicated forum for presentation and discussion of new ideas, research experience and emerging results on topics related to computational learning and symbolic knowledge representation and reasoning. This special session provides the opportunity for fostering meaningful connections between researchers from these two main areas of AI and, at the same time, offering the possibility to learn about progress made on these topics, share their own views and learn about approaches that could lead to effective cross-fertilisation among research in ML and KR and new innovative solutions to key AI research challenges. ---------------------- Expected contributions ---------------------- The Special Session on KR and ML at KR2021 invites submissions of papers across KR and ML on advancements in one of these areas for the purpose of addressing open research challenges in the other, integration of computational learning and knowledge representation and reasoning, and the application of combined KR and ML approaches to solve real-world problems, including case studies and benchmarks. We welcome papers on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: -- Learning ontologies and knowledge graphs -- Learning action theories -- Learning common-sense knowledge -- Learning spatial and temporal theories -- Learning preference models -- Learning causal models -- Learning tractable probabilistic models -- Probabilistic reasoning and learning -- Graphical models for knowledge representation and reasoning -- Reasoning and learning over knowledge graphs -- Logic-based learning algorithms -- Neural-symbolic learning -- Interplay between logic & neural and other learning paradigms (e.g., logics for reasoning about neural networks, embedding of logical reasoning in neural paradigms) -- Statistical relational learning -- Multi-agent learning -- Machine learning for efficient knowledge inference -- Symbolic reinforcement learning -- Learning symbolic abstractions from unstructured data -- Machine-learning-driven reasoning algorithms -- Explainable AI -- Transfer learning -- Multi-agent learning -- Expressive power of learning representations -- Knowledge-driven natural language understanding and dialogue -- Knowledge-driven decision making -- Knowledge-driven intelligent systems for internet of things and cybersecurity -- Application of knowledge-driven ML to question answering and story understanding -- Application of knowledge-driven ML to Robotics --------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria --------------------------------------------- The special session emphasizes KR and ML, and welcomes contributions that extend the state of the art at the intersection of KR and ML. Therefore, KR-only or ML-only submissions will not be accepted for evaluation in this special session. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed by PC members who are active in KR and ML. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, including criteria such as originality, soundness, relevance, significance, quality of presentation, and understanding of the state of the art. In this special session, the selection process of the highest quality papers will apply the following criteria: * Importance and novelty of using knowledge representation and reasoning to advance machine learning, or novelty of using machine learning solutions to advance knowledge representation and reasoning. * Applicability of the proposed solutions in real-world. * Reusability of datasets, case studies and benchmarks for systems and/or application papers. * Proved theoretical or empirically demonstrated practical advancement of the proposed solution with respect to baseline pure KR or ML approaches. Details on formatting and submission can be found on the KR21 website. -------------------------------------------------- Remote Participation Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic -------------------------------------------------- We understand that the global public health situation may make it difficult or impossible for some, if not all, participants to travel to Hanoi. For this reason, we commit to allowing authors of accepted papers to present virtually and will work hard to enable the best possible experience for all conference participants. ------ Chairs ------ Vaishak Belle (University of Edinburgh, UK) Luc De Raedt (KU Leuven, Belgium)

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Call for Papers - 9th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2021)
by Iman Awaad 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

[apologies for multiple copies] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** 9th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob‚ 2021) https://icaps21.icaps-conference.org/workshops/PlanRob/ International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling ICAPS 2021  Guangzhou, China  June 7-8, 2021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics and Objectives ********************* AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are key to enabling intelligent robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and interactive behaviors. Researchers in the P&S community have continued to develop approaches and produce planners, representations, as well as heuristics that robotics researchers can make use of. However, there remain numerous challenges complicating the uptake, use and successful integration of P&S technology in robotics, many of which have been addressed by robotics researchers with novel solutions. Strong collaboration and synergy between researchers in both communities is vital to the continued growth of the fields in a way that provide mutual benefits to the two communities. To foster this, the PlanRob workshop aims to provide a stable, long-term forum (having been held annually at ICAPS since 2013) where researchers from both the P&S and Robotics communities can openly discuss relevant issues, research and development progress, future directions and open challenges related to P&S when applied to Robotics. In addition to the usual paper submissions, the workshop’s format naturally lends itself to preliminary results, position papers as well as to work focused on challenges in using and integrating planners in robotics systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: - real-world planning applications for autonomous and intelligent robots; - optimizing behavior in large scale automated or semi-automated systems; - integrated planning and execution in robotic architectures; - planning domain representations for robotics applications; - P&S methods for optimization and adaptation in robotics; - mission, path, and motion planning for robots; - planning and coordination methods for multi-robot teams; - mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for robotic systems; - human-aware planning and execution in human-robot interaction; - adversarial action planning in competitive robotic domains; - formal methods for robot planning and control; - challenges and solutions in using P&S technology in robotics; - open problems for P&S in robotics, - benchmark planning domains for robots. Important Dates **************** Paper submission: March 7, 2021 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2021 Camera-ready version due: May 1, 2021 Workshop Date: June 7-8, 2021 The reference time-zone for all deadlines is UTC-12: Your submissions will be on time so long as there is still some place in the world where the deadline has not yet passed. Submissions *********** There are two types of submissions: short position papers and regular papers. Position papers are a maximum of four pages long while regular papers may be up to ten pages long. Papers may have an additional page containing references. Regular papers may be scheduled with more time in the final program. A poster session may be considered to provide a further presentation opportunity. The guidelines for formatting are the same as is used for ICAPS 2021 papers (typeset in the AAAI style as described at: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php), but with the AAAI copyright removed. The papers must be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=planrob2021). Please note that papers under review (e.g. which have been submitted to IJCAI-2021) are also welcome, however, in order to avoid potential conflicts, these manuscripts should be prepared as anonymous submissions for a double blind reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop’s website. The organizers are investigating the availability of journal editors in order to invite a selection of accepted papers from the workshop to a special issue or post-proceedings volume. Organizers ********** Iman Awaad, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany iman.awaad(a)h-brs.de Alberto Finzi, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy alberto.finzi(a)unina.it AndreA Orlandini  Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy andrea.orlandini(a)istc.cnr.it The ICAPS PlanRob Workshop is partially supported by TAILOR "Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Reasoning, Learning and Optimization", a project funded by the European Commissione (EU H2020 ICT-48 G.A. 952215). -- Iman Awaad Researcher, Autonomous Systems Group Assistant director & Study advisor, Master's Programme in Autonomous Systems Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it) Friedrich Hirzebruch-Allee 5, 53115 Bonn, Germany www.b-it-center.de Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences | Department of Computer Science Grantham Allee 20, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone +49 (0) 2241 865-295 iman.awaad(a)h-brs.de mas-group.inf.h-brs.de www.facebook.com/AutonomousSystemsProgram

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RoboCup@Home 2021 Edition
by Maxime St-Pierre 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Dear RoboCup@Home Community, After discussion with the RoboCup Federation and the Executive Committee, this year RoboCup@Home (2021) will be held in a simulated environment. All teams that were qualified last year (2020), will be automatically qualified for this year's competition (2021). The Technical Committee is currently writing a special version of the Rulebook to accommodate this new requirement. The discussion for these new change is going to happen on the discussions tab on the RoboCup@Home Rulebook GitHub Repository ( https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook/discussions). I highly suggest that everyone follow the development and contribute to the discussion since they will impact your team. If you have any suggestions or comments please submit them on the Rulebook GitHub repository. We will send out more information as they become available. Maxime St-Pierre OC Chair RoboCup@Home

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Call for Papers: Special Session on KR & Machine Learning (KR2021)
by Thanh Dinh 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

CALL FOR PAPERS **Special Session on Knowledge Representation and Robotics** at the 18th Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2021) November 6-12, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam https://kr2021.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de/ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submission of title and abstract: March 24, 2021 Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2021 Author response period: May 24-26, 2021 Notification: June 15, 2021 Camera-ready papers: July 14, 2021 Conference dates: November 6-12, 2021 ------------------ Much progress has been made in robotics through the introduction of machine learning, often leading to autonomous systems that are effective but opaque with inexplicable behaviours. Many applications, however, require robots to explicitly capture knowledge and reason with it in order to achieve high-level cognitive skills. This special session is devoted to exploring the intersection of Knowledge Representation and Robotics. Papers are solicited in all areas of this intersection. In particular, we welcome papers that extend knowledge representation techniques to cope with the challenges posed by interacting with the physical world, such as: - dealing with uncertain, incomplete or contradictory information; - reasoning with time, space and perceptions; - grounding representations in the physical world; - combining discrete and continuous representations; - reasoning with bounded computational resources; - trustworthy and accountable robot behaviours; and - social intelligence for robots in human-centric environments. Robots are the archetypical integrated cognitive systems. Thus, we also welcome papers that address the integration of knowledge representation into whole robotic systems, such as: - integrating knowledge representation and machine learning; - integrating symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches; - integrating reasoning about actions and control; or - cognitive robot architectures. Finally, we welcome papers that show concrete examples where real robotic systems benefit from knowledge representation, for instance in: - sensor interpretation and understanding; - human-robot interaction; - multi-robot planning and coordination; or - dealing with errors and unexpected situations. ------------------ Information for Authors ------------------ The Special Session on KR & Robotics will allow contributions of both regular papers (9 pages) and short papers (4 pages), excluding references, prepared and submitted according to Authors Guidelines for KR2021. The special session emphasizes KR & Robotics, and welcomes contributions that extend the state of the art at the intersection of KR & Robotics. Therefore, KR-only or Robotics-only submissions will not be accepted for evaluation in this special session. Submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed by PC members who are active in KR & Robotics. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, including criteria such as originality, soundness, relevance, significance, quality of presentation, and understanding of the state of the art. ------------------ Chairs ------------------ Alessandro Saffiotti (University of Orebro, Sweden) Mary-Anne Williams (University of New South Wales, Australia) ------------------

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[CFP] AI LA Life Summit 2020
by Ross Mead 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Call for Participation: AI LA Life Summit 2020 *********************************************************************** AI LA Life Summit 2020 October 13-15, 2020 (Virtual) https://lifesummit.la *********************************************************************** *** REGISTRATION *** https://hopin.to/events/life-summit-2020 * $5 student tickets * $25 industry tickets *** OVERVIEW *** Whether you are science-focused or science-curious, AI LA’s three-day summit will inspire and interconnect you through scientific storytelling. Learn from academic and industry researchers at the core of today’s innovations, especially if you are interested in pursuing a career at the intersection of biotechnology and healthcare. The Life Summit is a forum for coming together as a community, a platform for exchanging ideas, and a catalyst for the scientists of the next generation. *** SCHEDULE *** (All times in Pacific Time, UTC-7) DAY 1: REFLECT (Tue, Oct 13) * 8:00am - Keynote by Claire Bonaci, Microsoft Sr. Director, US Health & Life Sciences * 8:15am - Hackers without Borders * 9:15am - The Global Pivot * 10:15am - Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Delivery of Behavioral Health * 11:00am - Networking * 12:00pm - Break * 4:00pm - Keynote by Amanda Daflos , Chief Innovation Officer of City of Los Angeles * 4:15pm - LA's COVID-19 Response * 5:15pm - Equity in Telehealth * 6:00pm - Health Systems Stressed * 7:00pm - Networking DAY 2: RECENTER (Wed, Oct 14) * 8:00am - Keynote by George Tolomiczenko, Director of Medical Innovations at UC Irvine * 8:15am - Temporal Scene Understanding in Robot-assisted Surgery Using Deep Learning * 8:30am - Deep learning-enabled cellular image analysis at scale * 8:45am - Physics-Guided Deep Learning for COVID-19 Forecasting * 9:00am - Using Reinforcement Learning to Imitate Drug Discovery Experts and Accelerate Discovery * 9:15am - Better Storytelling Through Data: Lessons from the Frontlines and Backends of a Pandemic * 10:00am - Investor Roundtable * 11:00am - Networking * 12:00pm - Break * 4:00pm - Welcome * 4:15pm - AI Applications in Ophthalmology * 4:30pm - The Entrepreneurial Scientist * 5:15pm - AI Talk (UCLA) * 5:30pm - AI Talk (USC) * 5:45pm - Developing tools for collaborating around 3D+ biomedical imaging data * 6:00pm - AI in Healthcare * 7:00pm - Networking DAY 3: REIMAGINE (Thu, Oct 15) * 8:00am - Keynote by Stephanie Hsieh, Executive Director at Biocom LA * 8:15am - Reimagining Cancer Treatment * 9:15am - Reimagining R&D in Labs * 10:00am - Quantified Self & AI * 11:00am - Networking * 12:00pm - Break * 4:00pm - Keynote by Vivienne Ming, Professional Mad Scientist * 4:15pm - The Future of Synthetic Biology * 5:15pm - Living Robots * 6:05pm - Sustainable Living Systems * 7:00pm - Networking *** CONTACT *** For more information, contact the AI LA Executive Board: * Todd Terrazas, AI LA (todd(a)joinai.la) * Dr. Ross Mead, Semio (ross(a)semio.ai) *** ABOUT *** AI LA is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to catalyze innovation through education, conversation, and collaboration. Since 2016, we have facilitated community events related to AI and its applications to education, environmental sustainability, healthcare, life sciences, the ethical and fair use of technology, and more! Learn more at https://joinai.la! -- -- Ross Mead, PhD Founder and CEO ross(a)semio.ai +1 (618) 696-2600 <https://semio.ai>

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ISIC 2021 in Hybrid mode with Scopus Proceedings
by SARIKA JAIN 04 Oct '20

04 Oct '20

Dear Colleague, Hope and pray that you stay safe in this COVID-19 situation. International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC-2021) <https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/> *Conference Dates: *Feb 25-27, 2021 Hard Deadline: *[October 10, 2020]* ISIC 2021 will allow remote participation and the organizing committee has started working toward putting together the technical infrastructure for both types of presentations (Face-to-face and remote). We understand that some workplaces are forfeiting the travel allowance, but need not worry as we make the remote participation available via online platforms. The registration amount for remote participation will be decreased by 30% in every category. You are hereby invited to submit full-length papers as the deadline of October 10, 2020, is approaching. The topics majorly include "Artificial Intelligence", "Machine Learning", and "Semantic Computing", but not limited to these. ISIC 2021 accepts submissions of all the three types - the comprehensive overview of the topic, - the review/survey of the topic, or - the research results/findings. *Star features of the conference:*Though it is its first edition, ISIC 2021 has attracted already - 4 top-shot researchers as advisory - 6 keynotes/invited talks - 2 tutorials - 11 special sessions with 31 chairs - Springer to publish the ISIC 2021 proceedings in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series, which is indexed in major indices - 11 special issues in journals (indexed in major indices) from 8 publishers for extended papers of ISIC 2021 - 21 members being chairs in main conference organization (coming from all around the world) - 200 Program Committee Members from various countries all around the world - high geographic diversity with members from 40 different countries - high gender diversity with 32% women The conference aims to establish itself as one of the best venues to publish the research findings with a publishing possibility in journals with major indices. Publication: Conference proceedings will be published by **CCIS Springer (Scopus Indexed) and available online. Few selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit the extended work in *Scopus / Web of Science (WoS) <https://nitkkr-ac-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15AS1o6TPo8z6KbT…>* indexed journals. *Submission link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isic2021 <https://nitkkr-ac-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15AS1o6TPo8z6KbT…> . *Important Dates:* Last date of Paper Submission: *[October 10, 2020]* Notification of acceptance: *[November 10, 2020]* Camera-ready submission of accepted papers: *[December 10, 2020]* If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me at < jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in> Best Regards *On behalf of the Conference Committee* Dr. Sarika Jain Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Applications National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India https://sites.google.com/view/nitkkrsarikajain/home <https://nitkkr-ac-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15AS1o6TPo8z6KbT…> ######################################## Consider contributing to the International Semantic Intelligence Conference ISIC2021 <https://nitkkr-ac-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15AS1o6TPo8z6KbT…> Delhi India Feb 25-27, 2021

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Elsevier Book Chapter
by SARIKA JAIN 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Dear Colleague, This is a call for book chapter proposals for the book *"Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Global Epidemics*" to be published by *Elsevier.* Deadline for submitting the Extended Summary: Sep 30, 2020 The individual chapters should provide a comprehensive overview of the chosen topic covering advances in the area and should be tutorial in nature and presentation, to appeal to a broad range of readers who may NOT be researchers on the topic. Hence, they shouldn't be like a research paper. You are hereby invited to submit first, a 2-3 page extended summary including (a) an abstract, (b) an outline / TOC / list of headings and sub-headings along with a summary of each heading, (c) short biographies of the authors, and (d) a statement why you are experts for the proposed chapter. Following a review of your summary, we'll offer our feedback and suggestions for improvement and better synergy with the rest of the chapters and cohesive coverage. *Chapter Submission Link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aige2021 *Structure of the Book:* The book is planned to have 11-12 chapters divided into two sections. Part I consists of 3 chapters providing a holistic overview of global epidemics, a motivation for the book and challenges. Part II consists of emerging technologies that help fight against epidemics. Part II has 6 chapters as listed below. This makes 9 chapters. The rest 2-3 chapters are to be added dynamically based on the availability of authors (These chapters may be on The Use of Social Media for Tracking Public Behavior, Does AI help in Genome Sequencing, AI-assisted Testing, Computational Drug Repurposing, or any other trending and suitable topic in line with the title and the theme of the book). *Part I: Controlling Epidemics: A Perspective* This part provides an overview and study of Global Epidemic situations. It starts with assessing the countries' readiness for coping with epidemics, goes through the challenges in battling with epidemic, and then closes with a survey of existing approaches, techniques and tools available or developed by academicians or industry professionals for controlling the epidemics. 1 Setting the Scene (A Chapter by the Editors) This chapter provides an overview and summary of the complete book as a whole. It acts as glue between the chapters written by different authors and brings in synergy to all the chapters in both the parts of the book. In effect, it sets the scene for the reader and acts as an introductory and a must read before proceeding for the further chapters. 2 An Overview of Global Epidemics and the Challenges Faced (a) Assessing Countries' Readiness for Coping with Epidemics: There is a need of retrospective evaluation of each country's readiness for coping with epidemics. An automated data collection followed by evaluation will help in knowing if the human kind is well-equipped to deal with it. (b) A Study related to Ebola, Corona viruses, Zika, influenza, Dengue, Chikungunya, Malaria like infectious diseases will be presented in this chapter. A discussion on the most fatal pandemics recorded in the history (like the Plague, Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19) and their economic consequences. What is common in these? All these have jumped to humans after being originated in animals somehow. (c) Challenges in Battling with Epidemics (d) ... 3 A Survey of Existing Approaches and Tools to fight against epidemic and the lessons learnt (a) Survey of tools/techniques/methodologies/software already available at the time of writing of this book to predict/detect/recommend actions during an epidemic situation. (b) Lessons learnt by every epidemic that has struck this world (including COVID-19) *Part II: Emerging Technologies Fight Against Epidemics* Having gone through the background of controlling global epidemic situation, this part of the book covers the emerging techniques to fight against epidemic. At the time of writing this book, COVID-19 pandemic was caused by coronavirus and was widespread with deadly results. The case study of COVID-19 has been presented to better exploit the study presented in each chapter. 4 AI Technologies specialized to the need in the fight against epidemic All current technologies under the umbrella of AI or surrounding AI should be covered like Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning, Semantic Technologies, Data Analytics, cyber security. 5 Does AI help in Forecasting? This chapter will speak about WHO statistics on pathogens. AI can help predicting everything about spillovers, hence allowing the governments to plan ahead. AI can predict what, when, why, and where of the epidemic. We define AI and discuss the various machine learning models to predict the same. Case Study of Covid-19 for Predictions will be presented. 6 AI and Detection / Improved Diagnosis In case of outbreak of a disease; after detection, we need to publicize the threat. AI makes possible quick detection in order to enable possible vaccination and treatment; and alerts for the public. Diagnosis and Monitoring of cases is of paramount importance. Case Study of Covid-19 for Early Detection will be presented. 7 Generating Recommendations A global, AI-enabled data system can provide advices and issue warnings in real time. Help manage socio-economic impacts. 8 Role of AI in Contact Tracing The architecture of so called "Corona apps" and their backends is described in this chapter. The role of AI is clarified for these approaches and also other aspects like privacy and security. Furthermore, other approaches to contact tracing are introduced in this chapter. 9 Situation Awareness In any disaster, it is essential that the citizens get the correct information and organizations get the correct data. This chapter describes AI approaches to detect fake news or scams. 10-12 Open Topics dynamically picked by the authors Any other trending and suitable topic in line with the title and the theme of the book can be incorporated. Editors: - Le Gruenwald, The University of Oklahoma, USA, ggruenwald(a)ou.edu - Sarika Jain, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India, jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in. - Sven Groppe, University of Lübeck, Germany, groppe(a)ifis.uni-luebeck.de *Deadlines:* Extended Summary: Sep 30, 2020 Notification of Proposal Approval: Oct 20, 2020 Full Chapter Submission: Jan 10, 2020 Best Regards Dr. Sarika Jain Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Applications National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India https://sites.google.com/view/nitkkrsarikajain/ ######################################## Consider contributing to the International Semantic Intelligence Conference ISIC2021 <https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/> Delhi India Feb 25-27, 2021

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LAST Call for Participation - The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020
by Marco Simões 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

Sorry for any duplication.=============The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020 Competition *10 – 14 November 2020 – ONLINE* http://www.cbrobotica.org *e-mail: organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org <organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org>* The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020 Competition will be held online, 10-14 November 2020. *General Chair*: João Alberto Fabro (fabro(a)utfpr.edu.br) *Important Dates: - Pre-registration and TDP submission: September 28- Regular Registration: November 3- Late Registration: November 14**Leagues* The rules and particularities of each category are defined by their chairs. Contact them for any questions. The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020 Competition leagues are as follows: *RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D* Chair: Haroldo Dornelas (gm.haroldo(a)gmail.com) *RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D* Chair: Adailton Cerqueira Jr. (adailton.junior(a)gmail.com) *RoboCup Brazil Open Flying Robot Trial League* Chair: Tiago Nascimento (tiagopn(a)ci.ufpb.br) *RoboCup Small Size Soccer (F180)* Chair: Rafael Guedes Lang (rglang(a)hotmail.com) *RoboCup Soccer Humanoid League / Standard Platform League (SPL)* Chair: Danilo Hernani Perico (danilo.perico(a)gmail.com) *RoboCup@Home* Chair: Plinio Thomaz Aquino Junior (plinio.aquino(a)fei.edu.br) *RoboCupJunior* General Chair: Andrique F. Amorim (andrique(a)gmail.com) *On Stage* Chair: Rosângela Matias (rosartematias(a)gmail.com) *Soccer* Chair: Alan Teixeira de Oliveira (alan.oliveira(a)ifnmg.edu.br *Rescue Maze* Chair: Diogo Novais (diogopereira(a)ifba.edu.br) *Rescue Simulation (CO-SPACE)* Chair: Tiago Hártur de Oliveira Feu (tiago.hartur(a)gmail.com) *Participation* All teams (including RC Junior teams) are required to register following the instructions here: http://www.cbrobotica.org/index.php/inscricao-2/ *Participation Fees* - Regular Registration from October 3, 2020 until November 3, 2020 - Team (includes 1 free student): US$ 50.00 - Additional student: US$ 5.00 - Additional professor: US$ 10.00 - Late Registration from November 4, 2020 until November 14, 2020 - Additional student: US$ 10.00 - Additional professor: US$ 20.00 In the Late Registration phase, only professors and students from teams already registered and paid until November 3 can make new registrations. For more information please visit our official website at http://www.cbrobotica.org For inquiries please contact us via the following email addresses: *General Enquiries/ Registration: organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org <organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org>* -- Marco Antonio Costa Simões Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE

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Second CFP: 10th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2020) - Scopus - Springer - Online
by Dr. Umang Singh 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

** Second Call for Papers  - The 10th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT'20) --http://www.mirlabs.org/wict20http://www.mirlabs.net/wict20On the World Wide Web* December 16-18, 2020 *Proceedings of WICT'2019: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030493387Indexed by: SCOPUS, Thomson ISI Web of Science, DBLP, etc.History of WICT series: http://www.mirlabs.net/wict20/previous.phpWICT 2020: Scopus ProceedingsAll accepted and registered papers will be published in AISC Series of Springer, indexed in ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. **Important Dates**---------------------Paper submission due: October 15, 2020Notification of paper acceptance: November 15, 2020Registration and Final manuscript due: November 25, 2020Conference: December 16-18, 2020**About WICT 2020**------------------After the success of the 9th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2019), we are organizing WICT 2020 to provide an opportunity for the researchers from academia and industry to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results and methods in the usage and applications of ICT in the real world. The conference programme will include workshops, special sessions, and tutorials, along with prominent keynote speakers and regular paper presentations in parallel tracks.In the past century, our society has been through several periods of dramatic changes, driven by innovations such as transportation systems, telephone etc. Last few decades have experienced technologies that are evolving so rapidly, altering the constraints of space and time, and reshaping the way we communicate, learn and think. Rapid advances in information technologies and other digital systems are reshaping our ecosystem. Innovations in ICT allow us to transmit information quickly and widely, propelling the growth of new urban communities, linking distant places and diverse areas of endeavor in productive new ways, which a decade ago was unimaginable. Thus, the theme of this World Congress is "Innovating ICT For Social Revolutions".**Submission Guidelines**-------------------------Submission of a paper should be made through the submission page from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.Paper format templates:http://www.springer.com/series/11156WICT’20 Submission Link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wict2020**WICT 2020 Organization**-------------------------General ChairsAjith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USAPatrick Hung, Ontario Tech University, CanadaThinakaran Perumal, Universiti Putra Malaysia, MalaysiaProgram ChairsLeszek Sliwko, Axis Applications Ltd., UKUmang Singh, Institute of Technology & Science, India**Technical Contact**---------------------Dr. Ajith AbrahamEmail: ajith.abraham@ieee.orgNote: We sincerely hope that this conference announcement is interesting for you. If you are not interested or wish to unsubscribe then please reply to this email and we will remove your name from our future emails. Our apologies for any inconvenience.   Best Regards  Dr. Umang Singh PC Chair WICT 2020 Sr. Member IEEE, LMCSI Associate Professor, Department of IT Institute of Technology & Science, Ghaziabad - 201007(India) Contact Editor - SSNASC 2020 (Springer) for more details (https://easychair.org/cfp/SSNASC-2020) Editorial Board Member IJFSE(InderScience) Board of Refrees, BJIT(Springer) https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=x5H32lMAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-umang-singh-23237214/ Alternative Email Id: dr.umang.singh@ieee.org,singh.umang@rediffmail.com

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Call for Participation - The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020
by Marco Simões 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Sorry for any duplicates ================= ======================================================= The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020 Competition 10 – 14 November 2020 – ONLINE http://www.cbrobotica.org e-mail: organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org ======================================================= The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020 Competition will be held online, November 10-14, 2020. General Chair: João Alberto Fabro (fabro(a)utfpr.edu.br) =============== Important Dates =============== • Pre-registration and TDP submission: September 28 • Regular Registration: November 3 • Late Registration: November 14 ======== Leagues ======== The rules and particularities of each category are defined by their chairs. Contact them for any questions. The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020 Competition leagues are as follows: - RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D Chair: Haroldo Dornelas (gm.haroldo(a)gmail.com) - RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D Chair: Adailton Cerqueira Jr. (adailton.junior(a)gmail.com) - RoboCup Brazil Open Flying Robot Trial League Chair: Tiago Nascimento (tiagopn(a)ci.ufpb.br) - RoboCup Small Size Soccer (F180) Chair: Rafael Guedes Lang (rglang(a)hotmail.com) - RoboCup Soccer Humanoid League / Standard Platform League (SPL) Chair: Danilo Hernani Perico (danilo.perico(a)gmail.com) - RoboCup@Home Chair: Plinio Thomaz Aquino Junior (plinio.aquino(a)fei.edu.br) - RoboCupJunior General Chair: Andrique F. Amorim (andrique(a)gmail.com) * On Stage Chair: Rosângela Matias (rosartematias(a)gmail.com) * Soccer Chair: Alan Teixeira de Oliveira (alan.oliveira(a)ifnmg.edu.br * Rescue Maze Chair: Diogo Novais (diogopereira(a)ifba.edu.br) * Rescue Simulation (COSPACE) Chair: Tiago Hártur de Oliveira Feu (tiago.hartur(a)gmail.com) ============= Participation ============= All teams (including RC Junior teams) are required to register following the instructions here: http://www.cbrobotica.org/index.php/inscricao-2/ ================== Participation Fees ================== • Regular Registration from October 3, 2020 until November 3, 2020 • Team (includes 1 free student): US$ 50.00 • Additional student: US$ 5.00 • Additional professor: US$ 10.00 • Late Registration from November 4, 2020 until November 14, 2020 • Additional student: US$ 10.00 • Additional professor: US$ 20.00 In the Late Registration phase, only professors and students from teams already registered and paid until November 3 can make new registrations. For more information please visit our official website at http://www.cbrobotica.org For inquiries please contact us via the following email addresses: General Enquiries/ Registration: organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org -- Marco Antonio Costa Simões Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE

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[meetings] Call for Participation: New Foundations for Human-Centered AI
by Alessandro Saffiotti 24 Aug '20

24 Aug '20

====================================================================== = 1st International Workshop on New Foundations for Human-Centered AI = September 4, part of ECAI-2020, free registration ====================================================================== SYNOPSIS -------- In June 2018, the European Commission has appointed a "AI High Level Expert Group" (AI-HLEG) to support the implementation of the European Strategy on Artificial Intelligence. One of the first results of the AI-HLEG has been to deliver ethics guidelines on Artificial Intelligence (https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/ai-alliance-consultation/guidelines). These guidelines put forward a human-centered approach to AI, and list seven key requirements that human-centered, trustworthy AI systems should meet. Many of today's most popular AI methods, however, fail to meet these guidelines: making them compliant is a scientific endeavor that is as crucial as it is challenging and stimulating. This full day workshop will collectively address the fundamental questions of what are the scientific and technological gaps that we have to fill in order to make AI systems "human-centered" in terms of the above guidelines. PROGRAM ------- See the full program at the workshop web site: http://nehuai2020.aass.oru.se/ REGISTRATION ------------ The workshop is part of ECAI-2020, the European Conference on AI. To attend the workshop, you must register at https://digital.ecai2020.eu (free registration). ORGANIZERS ---------- Alessandro Saffiotti (Orebro University, Sweden) Luciano Serafini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy) Paul Lukowicz (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany) SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS ------------------------ This worskhop is jointly organized by AI4EU (ai4eu.eu), the EU landmark project to develop a European AI on-demand platform and ecosystem; and by Humane-AI (humane-ai.eu), the EU FET preparatory action devoted to designing a European research agenda for Human Centered AI. ======================================================================

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Virtual RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2020 (VRCAP 2020): 2nd Call for Participation
by Asad Norouzi 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

##################### 2nd Call for Participation ################### The Virtual RoboCup Asia-Pacific (VRCAP 2020) Competition 8 – 12 October 2020 ONLINE 2020.robocupap.org ################ Virtual RoboCup Asia Pacific 2020 ################ The Virtual RoboCup Asia-Pacific (VRCAP) Competition will be held online, 8-12 October 2020. *Leagues* The Virtual RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2020 (VRCAP 2020) competition leagues are as follows: *RoboCupSoccer:* - Soccer 2D Simulation *RoboCup@Home:* - RoboCup@Home Simulation (TBC) *RoboCupRescue:* - Rescue Simulation (TBC) *RoboCupIndustrial:* - RoboCup@Work *RoboCupJunior:* - Soccer - Lightweight Primary - Lightweight Secondary - Open - Rescue - Rescue Line Primary - Rescue Line Secondary - Rescue Maze Primary - Rescue Maze Secondary - Rescue Simulation Primary - Rescue Simulation Secondary - OnStage - Preliminary Primary - Preliminary Secondary - Advanced Secondary *RoboCup Asia Pacific (RCAP) Challenges* The VRCAP 2020 Organizing Committee will be organizing RCAP Industry Sponsored Leagues and RCAP Challenges. The RCAP Challenges will be as follows: - RCAP CoSpace Grand Prix Challenge - RCAP CoSpace Rescue Challenge - RCAP Junior Humanoid *Participation* All teams (including RC Junior teams) are required to register through the online registration form here: http://2020.robocupap.org/registration *Important dates* - Regular Registration: 01 - 21 August 2020 - Late Registration: 22 - 28 August 2020 For more information please visit our official website at http://2020.robocupap.org/ For inquiries please contact us via the hereunder email addresses: General Enquiries: office(a)robocupap.org Registration: registration(a)robocupap.org Regards, RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Office Virtual RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2020 (VRCAP 2020) Organizing Committee

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[Call for Participation] Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics
by Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

https://www.lacoro.org We are excited to announce that our first Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO) is taking place on 2 weeks from now. This event aims at making cutting-edge knowledge on Artificial Intelligence for Robotics Applications accessible to everyone, especially in the Southern Hemisphere. We are mindful of uncertainty prompted by the outbreak of COVID-19 and we cannot forecast what impact it may have in the coming weeks and months. Despite this, we are still organizing LACORO, albeit as a webinar. Our aims are: - to build a sustainable community of students and researchers in the area of Artificial Intelligence for Robotics, particularly Cognitive Inspired Aspects of AI. - to make cutting-edge scientific topics accessible to everyone. - to overcome the complexity of a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary learning context. *Format:* We will organize the Summer School in Latin America biennially. LACORO will include cutting-edge lectures and tutorials on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics but also aspects of Human Cognition. Moreover, we will host a hackathon where attendees can acquire hands-on experience on some of the topics of the Summer School. *Date and Location*: September 1st to September 4th, 2020 through Zoom application. *Registration:* Please visit our website (www.lacoro.org), where you can find more information about invited speakers and corresponding schedule. We extended the registration deadline until the 23rd August 2020 . This Webinar will be free of charge. If you have any questions about the school or the registration process, please contact the organizing committee: lacoro(a)innovacionyrobotica.com Best regards from the organizing committee,

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Virtual RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2020 (VRCAP 2020): Call for Participation
by Asad Norouzi 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

####################### Call for Participation ##################### The Virtual RoboCup Asia-Pacific (VRCAP 2020) Competition 8 – 12 October 2020 ONLINE 2020.robocupap.org ################ Virtual RoboCup Asia Pacific 2020 ################ The Virtual RoboCup Asia-Pacific (VRCAP) Competition will be held online, 8-12 October 2020. *Leagues* The Virtual RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2020 (VRCAP 2020) competition leagues are as follows: *RoboCupSoccer:* - Soccer 2D Simulation *RoboCup@Home:* - RoboCup@Home Simulation (TBC) *RoboCupRescue:* - Rescue Simulation (TBC) *RoboCupIndustrial:* - RoboCup@Work *RoboCupJunior:* - Soccer - Lightweight Primary - Lightweight Secondary - Open - Rescue - Rescue Line Primary - Rescue Line Secondary - Rescue Maze Primary - Rescue Maze Secondary - Rescue Simulation Primary - Rescue Simulation Secondary - OnStage - Preliminary Primary - Preliminary Secondary - Advanced Secondary *RoboCup Asia Pacific (RCAP) Challenges* The VRCAP 2020 Organizing Committee will be organizing RCAP Industry Sponsored Leagues and RCAP Challenges. The RCAP Challenges will be as follows: - RCAP CoSpace Grand Prix Challenge - RCAP CoSpace Rescue Challenge - RCAP Junior Humanoid *Participation* All teams (including RC Junior teams) are required to register through the online registration form here: http://2020.robocupap.org/registration *Important dates* - Regular Registration: 01 - 21 August 2020 - Late Registration: 22 - 28 August 2020 For more information please visit our official website at http://2020.robocupap.org/ For inquiries please contact us via the hereunder email addresses: General Enquiries: office(a)robocupap.org Registration: registration(a)robocupap.org Regards, RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Office Virtual RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2020 (VRCAP 2020) Organizing Committee

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[jobs] 3 years Assistant Professor (RTD-A) Position at DIAG, Sapienza Univrsity of Rome, Italy
by Luca Iocchi 25 Jun '20

25 Jun '20

A call for a 3-years Assistant Professor (RTD-A) is now open https://web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/bando-2/2020-rtd-tempo-pieno-ssd-ing-in… Deadline to submit applications is on July 16, 2020. The position has been open by the Cognitive Cooperating Robots Lab, located at DIAG (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale) of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (http://labrococo.dis.uniroma1.it/) It is for a 3 years contract, renewable, expected to start in Fall 2020, The ideal candidate holds a PhD in Computer Science with focus on artificial intelligence and robotics, has a very good publication record in top conferences/journals in the field, and has a strong background in software development for artificial intelligence and robotics applications. The main research area is the design and implementation of autonomous and social robotic systems and their performance evaluation in the context of the robotic competitions planned in the context of the SciRoc EU project. In addition, the projects BEAST and MADROB (EuroBench) aim at the design and implementation of simulation environments for humanoid robots in the tasks of door opening and cart pushing. The research activities of the researcher are expected to address also research challenges that go beyond the above mentioned projects, that will be jointly defined based on the background and previous research activity of the awarded candidate. For any further information, do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Luca

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Control, Modelling , Simulation, Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Applications (IJSCAI)-Volume 09 Publication CFP.
by Fredrick Johnson 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

International Journal on Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Applications (IJSCAI) ISSN : 2319 - 1015 [Online]; 2319 - 4081 [Print] Volume 9 Call for papers International Journal on Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Applications (IJSCAI) is an open access peer-reviewed journal that provides an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing. The Journal looks for significant contributions to all major fields of the Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing in theoretical and practical aspects. The aim of the Journal is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field. Authors are solicited to contribute to the journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Database management systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to, the following Artificial Intelligence * AI Algorithms * Artificial Intelligence tools & Applications * Automatic Control * Bioinformatics * Natural Language Processing * CAD Design & Testing * Computer Vision and Speech Understanding * Data Mining and Machine Learning Tools * Fuzzy Logic * Heuristic and AI Planning Strategies and Tools * Computational Theories of Learning * Hybrid Intelligent Systems * Information Retrieval * Intelligent System Architectures * Knowledge Representation * Knowledge-based Systems * Mechatronics * Multimedia & Cognitive Informatics * Neural Networks * Parallel Processing * Pattern Recognition * Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence * Programming Languages * Reasoning and Evolution * Recent Trends and Developments * Robotics * Semantic Web Techniques and Technologies * Soft computing theory and applications * Software & Hardware Architectures * Web Intelligence Applications & Search Soft Computing * Fuzzy Systems * Neural Networks * Machine learning * Probabilistic Reasoning * Evolutionary Computing * Pattern recognition * Hybrid intelligent systems * Software agents * Morphic Computing * Image processing * E-commerce, e-medicine * Rough Sets * Symbolic machine learning * Wavelet * Signal or Image Processing * Vision Recognition * Biomedical Engineering * Telecommunications * Reactive Distributed AI * Nano & Micro-systems * Data Visualization * Linear and nonlinear programming Control * Linear control theory * Mathematical control theory * Mathematical modelling and applications * Measurement systems * Modelling and control * Nonlinear control theory * Numerical methods in control systems * Optimization and optimal control * Parallel computing * Process control and automation * Real-time systems * Real and complex analysis * Robust control * Soft computing techniques Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers for this journal through submission system. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Journal. Editor in Chief Tad Gonsalves, Sophia University, Japan Publication Charges 150 USD (maximum 20 pages): From January 2020 No Article Submission Charges Publication Frequency- Quarterly Important Dates * Submission Deadline : June 27,2020 * Notification : July 27,2020 * Final Manuscript Due : August 06,2020 Publication Date : Determined by the Editor-in-Chief --------November 2019, Volume 8, Number 4--------Sample Issue. Quality Identification of Endemic Pagaralam Salak Fruit using Expert System Buhori Muslim, Desi Puspita and Kasih Lestari, Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Pagaralam, Indonesia The Effects of the LDA Topic Model on Sentiment Classification DU Jing Wei, Jinan University, China Thanks! Fred.

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Open Research Scientist Position available in KIWI-biolabs: Machine Learning / AI in LifeScience and Biotechnology robotics
by mark doerr 12 Jun '20

12 Jun '20

Dear Robotics groups, very recently the TU Berlin, Universities of Hildesheim and Greifswald won a BMBF research grant (KIWI) for closing the loop between Machine Learning and Robotics in Biotechnology to realise autonomous controlled experimentation between robotics labs. KIWI is a highly interdisciplinary project uniting over 20 international scientist from different Machine Learning, Robotics, Labautomation and Biotechnology Institutes, located in Berlin, Hildesheim and Greifswald. The Greifswald BioTech Robotic Plattform LARA (lara.uni-greifswald.de <http://lara.uni-greifswald.de>) is offering an open position for Research Assistant / PhD student. If you know a possible candidate who is passionate about applying machine-learning strategies to Biotechnology robotics in a highly interdisciplinary project, likes to develop data communication standards and knowledge database architectures, please do not hesitate to forward this job announcement - and please do not worry about the deadline (it is flexible): https://www.uni-greifswald.de/en/university/information/jobs/job/n/wissensc… https://www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet/information/stellenausschreibung… This project will offer a unique opportunity to dive into the rapidly developing field of MachineLearning,Robotics and BioTechnology. With kind regards, mark doerr -- -- Dr. mark doerr Working group: Prof. Uwe T. Bornscheuer Institute of Biochemistry Dept. of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis University of Greifswald Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 4 D-17487 Greifswald germany Phone: +49 (0)3834-420-4411 +49 (0)3834-420-4391 (Secr.) Fax: +49 (0)3834-420-794367 Room: B021 and B047 LARA-Web (BioTech Robotic platform) : http://lara.uni-greifswald.de/

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CFP Deadline Extension – 10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Valparaiso Chile
by Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

We hope that this message finds you healthy and that you and your families are safe and well during these difficult times! Since many countries are still under heavy pressure from COVID-19 together with the fact the Southern Hemisphere is just entering winter, we have decided to reschedule the conference to the 28th to the 30th of October. The conference will be hybrid, hosting both onsite and online participants. Online participants will have a reduced fee. We have also extended the submission deadline, and already submitted papers can be modified. CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED: 10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (This is the follow-up of the previous ICDL-EpiRob conference series) 28th-30th October 2020, Valparaiso, Chile https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/ An IEEE Computational Society-sponsored conference ==== Important Dates ==== Paper Submission Deadline: 21th June 2020 (Final Extension) Paper Author Notification: 13th July 2020 Final Paper Version Due: 16th August 2020 Conference: 28th-30th October 2020 Also, we are receiving extended abstracts, and we are hosting a Journal Track, Follow up Special Issue, Workshops and Tutorials. For more information on these and all the activities of the conference, please visit our website: https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/ ==== Overview ==== The IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), previously referred to as ICDL-EpiRob, is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of cognitive and developmental learning. As such, ICDL is a unique conference gathering researchers from computer science, robotics, psychology and developmental studies. ICDL is a highly selective annual international conference that aims to showcase and share the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research on how humans and animals develop sensing, reasoning and actions. ICDL community focusses on the understanding of how biological agents take advantage of interaction with social and physical environments to develop their cognitive capabilities. Moreover, how this knowledge can be used to improve future computing and robotic systems. We invite submissions for the conference to explore, extend, and consolidate the interdisciplinary boundaries of this exciting research field. ==== Scope and Topics ==== The primary list of topics of interest includes, but not limited to: - principles and theories of development and learning; - development of skills in biological systems and robots; - nature vs nurture, developmental stages; - models on the contributions of interaction to learning; - verbal, non-verbal and multi-modal interaction; - models on active learning; - architectures for lifelong learning; - emergence of body and affordance perception; - analysis and modelling of human motion and state; - models for prediction, planning and problem solving; - models of human-human and human-robot interaction; - emergence of verbal and non-verbal communication; - epistemological foundations and philosophical issues; - robot prototyping of human and animal skills; - ethics and trust in computational intelligence and robotics; - social learning in humans, animals, and robots. ==== Submissions ==== Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers of six pages with the possibility of two-extra pages at a fee. Submissions are in the IEEE conference template. Submission will be selected for either oral or poster presentation based on the reviews. Accepted and presented regular six-page paper submissions will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Xplore after the conference. For more information about submissions, travel grants, social events, etc. visit the conference webpage under https://cdstc.gitlab.io/icdl-2020/ ==== Organizing committee ==== General Chairs: Giulio Sandini, and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar Program and Finance Chairs: Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero, and María-José Escobar Bridge Chairs: Minoru Asada, Frédéric Alexandre, and Linda Smith Publicity Chairs: Carmelo Bastos, Maya Cakmak, Angelo Cangelosi, Yukie Nagai, and Emre Ugur Publication Chairs: Pablo Barros, and Haian Wu Tutorials and Workshops Chair: Miguel Solis Travel and Registration Awards Chair: Francisco Cruz Local chairs: Mauricio Araya Webpage Chairs: Cristóbal Nettle, and Patricio Castillo Graphics: Camila Angel Alfaro Best regards from the organizing committee,, Nicolás -- Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero https://nicolas-navarro-guerrero.github.io/

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