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RoboCup Brazil Open 2023
by Patricia Vergara 29 Jun '23

29 Jun '23

Good morning! Registrations are now open for RoboCup Brazil Open 2023! The event will occur from October 7th to 12th at the* Salvador Convention Center in Salvador, Bahia*. Registrations can be made through the website: http://olimpo.robocup.org.br/. RoboCup Brazil Open is a large event that also includes the Brazilian Robotics Competition, the Brazilian Robotics Olympiad, and the Brazilian Robotics Exhibition. In addition, the following meetings will be held during the event: XV Brazilian Robotics Symposium XIV Workshop on Educational Robotics Thesis and Dissertation Workshop in Robotics Thesis and Dissertation Contest in Robotics IEEE Latin American Robotics Symposium All rules and challenges for each category are available on our website, as well as the updated registration fees and deadlines for TDP submission. >> Some categories will be in a hybrid format, allowing teams to participate remotely when necessary. >> All information is available on our website: www.cbrobotica.org and www.robotica.org.br ________________________________ Best regards, Robocup Brazil Team -- Patrícia Vergara Comunicação RoboCup Brasil (11) 9.8686-4993 (apenas whatsapp) www.robocup.org.br

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First CFP: 19th Information Assurance and Security -- Hybrid Event - Springer Publication
by Anu Bajaj 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

* First Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks ** -- 19th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2023) -- IAS 2023 Theme: Large Language Models and Generative AI for Information Security ======================================================================= http://www.mirlabs.org/ias23 http://www.mirlabs.net/ias23 Onsite and On the World Wide Web Onsite Venues: Olten, Switzerland : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olten Porto, Portugal : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto Vilnius, Lithuania : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius Kochi, India : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi December 12-14, 2023 IAS 2023 will be a hybrid conference that will run fully in-person and fully virtually to take advantage of the best that the two modalities can offer. Besides regular paper presentations, the technical programme will include 8-10 plenary lectures and poster sessions. IAS 2023 Organising Committee also recognises the benefits of virtual conferences allowing participation at a cheaper rate. This allows a higher number of research scholars and students to attend. Selected authors will have the option to attend and present the papers virtually or present in one of the three venues in Europe and Asia. Proceedings of IAS'23 will be published with Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. ( https://www.springer.com/series/15179) (Approval Pending) Proceedings of IAS'22: https://link.springer.com/ book/10.1007/978-3-031-27409-1 Indexed by: SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink History of IAS series: http://www.mirlabs.net/ias23/previous.php **Important Dates** --------------------- Paper submission due: September 30, 2023 Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2023 Registration and Final manuscript due: November 10, 2023 Conference: December 12-14, 2023 **About IAS 2023** --------------------- Information assurance and security have become important research issues in the networked and distributed information sharing environments. Finding effective ways to protect information systems, networks, and sensitive data within the critical information infrastructure is challenging even with the most advanced technology and trained professionals. The 19th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers, and policymakers involved in various information assurance and security disciplines to exchange ideas and learn the latest development in this crucial field. **Topics (not limited to)** --------------------------- Information Assurance, Security Mechanisms, Methodologies and Models Authentication and Identity Management Authorization and Access Control Trust Negotiation, Establishment and Management Anonymity and User Privacy Data Integrity and Privacy Network Security Operating System Security Database Security Intrusion Detection Security Attacks Security Oriented System Design Security and Performance trade-off Security Management and Strategy Security Verification, Evaluations and Measurements Secure Software Technologies New Ideas and Paradigms for Security Cryptography Cryptographic Protocols Key Management and Recovery Secure System Architectures and Security Application Image Engineering, Multimedia Signal Processing and Communication Security **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: https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript- preparation/5636#c3324 IAS’23 Submission Link: http://www.mirlabs.org/ias23/submission.php ** IAS 2023 Organization ** ---------------------------- General Chairs Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA Ana Maria Madureira, ISEP, Porto, Portugal Cengiz Kahraman, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Program Chair Yuchuan Sun, Beijing Normal University, China Publication Chair Anu Bajaj, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India Web Services Chair Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China Publicity Chair Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India International Program Committee TBA Note: If you would like to propose a special session, please email Ms. Mabrouka Salmi <salmimabrouka7(a)gmail.com> with a cc to Dr. Anu Bajaj < er.anubajaj(a)gmail.com> **Technical Contact** -------------------------------- Dr. Ajith Abraham Email: ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org

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First CFP - 23rd Hybrid Intelligent Systems - Hybrid Event - Springer Publication
by Anu Bajaj 24 Jun '23

24 Jun '23

** First Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks ** -- The 23rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'23) -- HIS 2023 Theme: Hybrid Approaches for Large Language Models and Generative AI ================================================================ http://www.mirlabs.net/his23 http://www.mirlabs.org/his23 *Onsite and On the World Wide Web* *Onsite Venues:* Olten, Switzerland : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olten Porto, Portugal : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto Vilnius, Lithuania : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius Kochi, India : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi *December 12-14, 2023* HIS 2023 will be a hybrid conference that will run fully in-person and fully virtually to take advantage of the best that the two modalities can offer. Besides regular paper presentations, the technical programme will include 8-10 plenary lectures and poster sessions. HIS 2023 Organising Committee also recognises the benefits of virtual conferences allowing participation at a cheaper rate. This allows a higher number of research scholars and students to attend. Selected authors will have the option to attend and present the papers virtually or present in one of the four venues in Europe and Asia. Proceedings of HIS'23 will be published with Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. ( https://www.springer.com/series/15179) (Approval Pending) Proceedings of HIS'22: https://link.springer.com/ book/10.1007/978-3-031-27409-1 Indexed by: SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink History of HIS series: http://www.mirlabs.net/his23/previous.php **Important Dates** --------------------- Paper submission due: September 30, 2023 Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2023 Registration and Final manuscript due: November 10, 2023 Conference: December 12-14, 2023 **About HIS 2023** ------------------ Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of modern artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the development of the next generations of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) investigations is the awareness in the academic communities about the necessity of the combined approaches to solving the remaining challenging problems in artificial/computational intelligence. Hybrid Intelligent Systems are recently getting popular due to their capabilities in handling several real-world complexities involving imprecision, uncertainty, and vagueness. HIS'23 built on the success of the previous HIS conferences. HIS'23 is the 23rd International conference that brings together researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of soft computing, computational intelligence, agents, logic programming, and several other intelligent computing techniques. It aims to increase the awareness of the research community about the broad spectrum of hybrid approaches. It brings together worldwide AI researchers to present their cutting-edge results, discuss the current trends in HIS research, and develop a collective vision of future opportunities. Thereby helping the researchers and practitioners establish international collaborative opportunities, and as a result, advancing the state-of-the-art of the field. **Topics (not limited to)** --------------------------- Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy inference systems. Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization techniques. Fuzzy clustering algorithms and optimization techniques. Fuzzy inference system optimization using global optimization algorithms. Hybrid computing using neural networks - fuzzy systems - evolutionary algorithms. Hybrid optimization techniques (evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, GRASP etc.). Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning techniques. Models using inductive logic programming, logic synthesis, grammatical inference, case-based reasoning etc. Autonomic computing. Hybridizatiion with novel computing paradigms: Qantum computing, DNA computing, membrane computing etc. Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Applications **Submission Guidelines** ------------------------- Submission of 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: https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript- preparation/5636#c3324 HIS’23 Submission Link: http://www.mirlabs.org/his23/submission.php (under development) **HIS 2023 Organization** ------------------------- General Chairs Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA Ana Maria Madureira, ISEP, Porto, Portugal Cengiz Kahraman, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Program Chair Yuchuan Sun, Beijing Normal University, China Publication Chair Anu Bajaj, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India Web Services Chair Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China Publicity Chair Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India International Program Committee TBA Note: If you would like to propose a special session, please email Ms. Mabrouka Salmi <salmimabrouka7(a)gmail.com> with a cc to Dr. Anu Bajaj < er.anubajaj(a)gmail.com> **Technical Contact** --------------------- Dr. Ajith Abraham Email: ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org

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First CFP - 23rd Intelligent Systems Design and Applications 2023 - Hybrid Event - Springer Publication
by Anu Bajaj 20 Jun '23

20 Jun '23

** First Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks ** -- The 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’23) –- *ISDA 2023 Theme: **Large Language Models and Generative Pre-trained Transformers in the Real World* ============================================================ ==================================== *http://www.mirlabs.org/isda23 <http://www.mirlabs.org/isda23>http://www.mirlabs.net/isda23 <http://www.mirlabs.net/isda23>* Onsite and On the World Wide Web *Onsite Venues:* *Olten, Switzerland *: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olten *Porto, Portugal* : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto *Vilnius, Lithuania* : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius *Kochi, India* : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi *December 11-13, 2023* ISDA 2023 will be a hybrid conference that will run fully in-person and fully virtually to take advantage of the best that the two modalities can offer. Besides regular paper presentations, the technical programme will include 8-10 plenary lectures and poster sessions. ISDA 2023 Organising Committee also recognises the benefits of virtual conferences allowing participation at a cheaper rate. This allows a higher number of research scholars and students to attend. Selected authors will have the option to attend and present the papers virtually or present in one of the three venues in Europe and Asia. As usual, proceedings of ISDA'23 are expected to be published with Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. ( https://www.springer.com/series/15179). Proceedings of ISDA’22: https://link.springer.com/ book/10.1007/978-3-031-27440-4 Indexed by: SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink History of ISDA series: https://www.mirlabs.org/isda23/previous.php **Important Dates** --------------------- Paper submission due: September 30, 2023 Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2023 Registration and Final manuscript due: November 10, 2023 Conference: December 11-13, 2023 **About ISDA 2023** ------------------ The International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA) is a major international conference bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners who work in the areas of intelligent systems and their applications in industry and the real world. Every year, ISDA attracts authors from over 30 countries. After the success of the 22nd conference, which was held online, this year's event will be held in hybrid mode (onsite and online) during December 12-14, 2023. ISDA 2023 is expected to provide an opportunity for researchers to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results, and methods in solving intriguing problems in the fields of artificial intelligence and its real-world applications. The conference programme will include workshops, special sessions, tutorials, prominent keynote speakers, and regular paper presentations in parallel tracks. All submitted papers will be reviewed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. Conference contents will be submitted for inclusion in Springer and other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. **Topics (not limited to)** --------------------------- Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications Intelligent Image and Signal Processing Intelligent Internet Modeling Intelligent Data mining Intelligent Business Systems Intelligent Control and Automation Intelligent Agents Intelligent Knowledge Management Innovative Information Security Innovative Networking and Communication Techniques Web Intelligence Intelligent Software Engineering ***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:* https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript- preparation/5636#c3324 *ISDA’23 Submission Link:* http://www.mirlabs.org/isda23/submission.php (updated soon) *** ISDA 2023 Organization *** ---------------------------------------------- General Chairs Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Patrick Siarry, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France Program Chairs Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Sabri Pllana, Center for Smart Computing Continuum, Forschung Burgenland, Austria Publication Chair Anu Bajaj, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India Web Services Chair Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China Publicity Chair Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India International Program Committee TBA Note: If you would like to propose a special session, please email Ms. Mabrouka Salmi <salmimabrouka7(a)gmail.com> with a cc to Dr. Anu Bajaj < er.anubajaj(a)gmail.com> ***Technical Contact*** ------------------------------------ Dr. Ajith Abraham Email: ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org

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Call for Book Chapters: Computational Intelligence based Hyperspectral Image Analysis, Springer (Scopus Indexed)
by Anu Bajaj 08 Jun '23

08 Jun '23

Dear Colleagues We cordially invite researchers and scientists working in hyperspectral image analysis all around the globe to participate and submit their research work to contribute to our book titled "Computational Intelligence based Hyperspectral Image Analysis". It would help if you could let us know the tentative title of your contribution within 10 days of receiving this mail so that we can plan / structure the table of contents of the book. Submission link: https://forms.gle/owMZQys1yd6zXtkMA Scope of the Book: -------------------- Computational Intelligence (CI) based hyperspectral image analysis has gained significant importance in recent years due to its ability to extract valuable information from hyperspectral images and make predictions. Hyperspectral images provide a rich source of information about the composition and properties of objects in the environment. However, the vast amount of data generated by hyperspectral images can be overwhelming and hard to analyze. With their ability to provide valuable insights and improve decision-making, Computational Intelligence techniques act as a powerful tool that aids in automatic analysis and improves accuracy. Recent advances in the field have provided new and exciting ways to employ CI-based hyperspectral image analysis in many diverse applications. The book aims to showcase these latest achievements and novel approaches in this field, focusing on their wide applications in agriculture, the environment, defense, medical diagnostics, food and product inspection, and mineral exploration. It will be an essential resource for those seeking to deepen their understanding of how hyperspectral image analysis can combine with computational intelligence techniques to solve specific tasks in different application fields from a multidisciplinary perspective. The topics include, but are not limited to: --------------------------------------------- Hyperspectral Image Acquisition Hyperspectral Image Enhancement Hyperspectral Image Clustering Hyperspectral Image Representation Hyperspectral Image Restoration Hyperspectral Image Filtering Hyperspectral Image Classification Hyperspectral Image Segmentation Hyperspectral Image Retrieval and Indexing Hyperspectral Image Compression Spatial/Spectral Super-Resolution Computational Imaging Object Detection Applications in Remote Sensing Multispectral/Hyperspectral Image Processing: Band Selection, Dimensionality Reduction, Compressive Sensing, Sparse Representation, Image Registration/Matching, Image Denoising/Destriping, Image Fusion/Pansharpening Unsupervised Learning, Semi-supervised Learning, Transfer Learning, Deep Learning on Hyperspectral Images Real time Monitoring and applications Important Dates: --------------------- Full Chapter Submission Deadline August 30, 2023 Final Notification of Acceptance October 15, 2023 Final Chapter Submission Deadline November 15, 2023 Publisher Details: ---------------------- This book will be published in the Springer Series "Intelligent Systems Reference Library" (Electronic ISSN: 1868-4408, Print ISSN: 1868-4394) Indexed by: SCOPUS, SCImago, DBLP, zbMATH, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series Submission Guidelines: ---------------------- The length of a book chapter should be between 20 and 30 pages. Chapters must be formatted according to Springer format (Latex or Word). The manuscript should be submitted in Word or Latex files. The plagiarism rate should be less than 15%. The figure should not have any copyright issues; either it can be redrawn or a copyright certificate should be obtained. There is no processing or publication charge for this book. More details on https://sites.google.com/view/cihia2023/home ----- Best Regards Editors: Ajith Abraham, Flame University, Pune, India; Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA Anu Bajaj, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India Jyoti Maggu, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India Information contact: Anu Bajaj (er.anubajaj(a)gmail.com)

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Fwd: Submission Deadline Extension - Conference WRE 2023
by Marco Simões 31 May '23

31 May '23

Sorry for any duplicates. ---------- Forwarded message --------- De: Milena F. <milenafariaa(a)gmail.com> Date: qua., 31 de mai. de 2023 às 07:47 Subject: Submission Deadline Extension - Conference WRE 2023 To: Somosrobotica <somosrobotica(a)googlegroups.com> We'd like to invite you to submit original research papers for the 2023 Workshop on Robotics in Education (WRE 2023), to be held in *Salvador, Brazil, on October 9-10, 2023.* Submissions are open, and the hard deadline for paper submission is now *June 19th, 2023.* *Accepted papers in English will be submitted to IEEE Xplore proceedings.* To submit your paper, please visit the WRE 2023 website at http://natalnet.br/wre2023/index.php?page=submission We look forward to your participation in WRE 2023! Best regards, WRE 2023 Organizing Committee ____________________________________ Profa. Milena F. Pinto (PhD.) *Departamento de Engenharia Eletrônica* *Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Rio de Janeiro* *Av. Maracanã, 229 - Maracanã* *Rio de Janeiro/RJ - CEP: 20271-110* Celular: * ++55 32 991000370* *Lattes: **http://lattes.cnpq.br/9537851345288279 <http://lattes.cnpq.br/9537851345288279>* *Orcid: 0000-0001-6916-700X <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6916-700X>* *e-mail: **milena.pinto(a)cefet-rj.br <milena.pinto(a)cefet-rj.br>* __________________________________________________ -- Você recebeu essa mensagem porque está inscrito no grupo "#somosrobotica" dos Grupos do Google. Para cancelar inscrição nesse grupo e parar de receber e-mails dele, envie um e-mail para somosrobotica+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. Para ver essa discussão na Web, acesse https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/somosrobotica/CAE-brws-HRjeeV0S40DfNp%3DZ… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/somosrobotica/CAE-brws-HRjeeV0S40DfNp%3DZ…> . -- Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

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Results of an Analysis of 2D Log Files of Recent Tournaments
by Prof. Dr. Thomas Gabel 16 May '23

16 May '23

Dear 2D Community! [Same text will be shared in Discord as well!] TL&DR; We analyzed the log files of major competitions during past years and found a degradation of the reliability of the hardware setup and its computational power provided to the teams. In particular, we observed that - starting in 2022 - many teams' players did frequently miss to send a command within 100ms. If you have any questions or remarks on this, please share them. Best regards, Thomas Gabel (on behalf of the FRA-UNIted team). =====FULL EXPLANATION===== ~~Assumptions~~ We assume that all teams do, in general, send at least one command to the soccer server each time step. By commands we refer to their (A) body-related commands (dash, kick, turn, catch, tackle) and their (B) other-parts-related commands (attentionto, turn_neck, say, change_view, pointto). It is standing to reason to assume that each player sends at least one of those commands to the server each time step. Moreover, most teams do indeed send one of the body-related commands (dash, kick, turn, catch, tackle) to the server each time step. ~~Definitions~~ If some agent does not send a command in one time step at all (neither from category (A) nor from category (B)), then usually something is wrong. In accordance to Ralf Berger from the first Soccer Simulation 2D Champion team ever (AT-Humboldt'97) we call this situation a HOLE. If some agent sends in one time step t more than one command, then usually something is very wrong (e.g. two dashes, or a dash and a turn). It usually means that this agent did not manage to send the first of the two commands within the 100ms of the previous time step t-1, i.e. it is being sent one step too late. Simultaneously, the agent sends the command of the current time step t. Thus, the server receives the command from the previous *and* the current time step in the same cycle. In accordance to Ralf Berger from the first Soccer Simulation 2D Champion team ever (AT-Humboldt'97) we call this situation a BLACK HOLE. ~~History~~ Holes and black holes are bad things for any agent. They used to be a big issue in the early days of soccer simulation 2D, when computational resources were scarce (e.g. the 12 processes of one team had to be run on just one or two single-core PC) as well as when the network connections needed for exchanging messages via UDP were not as reliable as they are today. While we believed that holes and black holes are a problem of another decade and they occur only very rarely or due to programming errors by some team nowadays, we observed their systematic return in competitions of the last and current year where, as far as we can tell, for the first times tournaments were run on 12 docker instances for each team and one for the rcssserver (in total 25 docker instances) entirely on one single machine (which, of course, is equipped with a sufficient amount of cores, e.g. 64 cores). ~~Methodology~~ We took the log files from the 2019, 2021 and 2022 world championships plus the very recent IranOpen 2023 tournament and analyzed the rcl files for the occurrence of holes and black holes. Our analysis tool and script are available on request. ~~Findings~~ In RoboCup 2019, there were no problems across all teams (with the exception of Ri-One which we think to be due to a team-internal problem). And a minor issue for YuShan2019 (with, however, less than 1 black hole in the course of two matches). Team Name, #matches, #holesTotal, #blackholesTotal, holesPerMatch, blackHolesPerMatch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Receptivity, 22, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 MT2019, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 ITAndroids, 21, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Fractals2019, 22, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Ri-one, 21, 18938, 572, 901.8095, 27.238094 YuShan2019, 21, 9, 9, 0.42857143, 0.42857143 CYRUS2019, 22, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 HillStone, 21, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Razi2018, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 FRA-UNIted, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 FCP, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 RoboCIn, 22, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 HfutEngine2019, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 HELIOS2019, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Titas2019, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Likewise, there were no issues for RoboCup 2021: Team Name, #matches, #holesTotal, #blackholesTotal, holesPerMatch, blackHolesPerMatch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Austras2D, 35, 812029, 0, 23200.828, 0.0 Persepolis, 35, 7916, 0, 226.17143, 0.0 Oxsy, 35, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 YuShan2021, 36, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 CYRUS, 36, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 HfutEngine2021, 38, 11, 0, 0.28947368, 0.0 ITAndroids, 38, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Hades2D, 36, 1034, 0, 28.722221, 0.0 RoboCIn, 36, 16, 0, 0.44444445, 0.0 MT2021, 36, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 ARAS, 35, 6, 0, 0.17142858, 0.0 Jyo, 35, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 HELIOS2021, 35, 8, 1, 0.22857143, 0.028571429 FRA-UNIted, 37, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Alice2021, 35, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 ThunderLeague, 36, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Some teams (e.g. Austras or Persepolis) seem to refrain from sending a command in each time step, producing what we call a hole. Each team must decide for itself whether this is intended, or acceptable, or bad behavior (so we assume that this large amount of holes is fine for the two team mentioned). Anyways, black holes are always most likely a bad thing for any team. If we count the total number of black holes for RoboCup 2021, we see that there was just a single black hole in the entire tournament (by HELIOS2021). Unfortunately, things changed in RoboCup 2022 where, for the first time, a docker-based environment was used. Unfortunately, the entirety of logs for that year can no longer be found on archive.robocup.info which is why our analysis focuses only on the fraction of logs that we downloaded during the tournament: Team Name, #matches, #holesTotal, #blackholesTotal, holesPerMatch, blackHolesPerMatch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MT2022, 32, 52, 12, 1.625, 0.375 YuShan2022, 36, 416, 248, 11.555555, 6.888889 Alice2D, 32, 73671, 7, 2302.2188, 0.21875 ITAndroids, 34, 53, 6, 1.5588236, 0.1764706 Oxsy, 32, 70, 19, 2.1875, 0.59375 HELIOS2022, 31, 21, 12, 0.67741936, 0.38709676 RoboCIn, 34, 51, 16, 1.5, 0.47058824 Hfutengine2022, 38, 129, 56, 3.3947368, 1.4736842 Tehran2D, 36, 72, 18, 2.0, 0.5 CYRUS, 33, 51, 17, 1.5454545, 0.5151515 FRA-UNIted, 32, 161, 139, 5.03125, 4.34375 Hades2D, 32, 59, 7, 1.84375, 0.21875 The summed number of black wholes has been increased to 557 in the entire tournament - a number which is certainly far beyond anything that is acceptable. Apparently, all teams were affected where YuShan2022 was affected most with almost 7 black holes per game on average. As a safety check, we ran our analysis also on a big part of the log files produced by the recent IranOpen 2023 tournament which was also held in a docker-based environment with each agent/coach running in its own docker instance, all on the same single machine. Team Name, #matches, #holesTotal, #blackholesTotal, holesPerMatch, blackHolesPerMatch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- YuShan2023, 15, 63, 32, 4.2, 2.1333334 FRA-UNIted, 22, 113, 100, 5.1363635, 4.5454545 Mcafee, 8, 26, 4, 3.25, 0.5 Mrl, 14, 361, 289, 25.785715, 20.642857 The8, 20, 54, 13, 2.7, 0.65 Robo2D, 7, 242, 131, 34.57143, 18.714285 Pyrus, 14, 50, 23, 3.5714285, 1.6428572 Apollo2d, 9, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 RoboCIn, 15, 11, 0, 0.73333335, 0.0 ThunderLeague, 12, 11, 0, 0.9166667, 0.0 Zina-AI, 17, 44, 21, 2.5882354, 1.2352941 R3CESBU, 4, 22, 0, 5.5, 0.0 football-iauk, 9, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 EMPEROR, 7, 46, 14, 6.571429, 2.0 This time, some teams where affected even more severely, e.g. Mrl or Robo2D each with nearly 20 black holes per match on average. The negative impact on our own team was nearly the same in RoboCup 2022 and IranOpen 2023 with ca. 4.5 black holes per match. Of course, one might argue that the prevention of black holes is in the responsibility of each team itself. However, we strongly belief that the wide re-occurrence of black holes from 2022 onward points to some inherent problem with the way the simulation environment has been set up recently. As an additional safety check (for our team, FRA-UNIted, only), we also ran a large amount of matches with our team against various opponents on standard PCs (without docker or other virtualizations) using exactly the same version as we employed recently in the IranOpen 2023 tournament. We observed no black hole at all. ~~Details~~ Our analysis reveals that often the entire simulation seems to be "frozen" for one time step or for time steps that are near to one another. We can only speculate about the reasons; one such speculation would be that other docker environments (of another match that is running in parallel on the same machine) are initialized at match start-up/clean-up and this increases the overall system load for a few seconds. Please, see the detail analysis of the exemplary match between RoboC2 and YuShan2023 during the recent IranOpen 2023 tournament in which these teams were affected by 51 and 32 black holes, respectively. All these black holes occur between time steps 600 and 800. In some time steps many players are affected simultaneously (see below: Appendix). ~~Conclusion~~ The hardware, virtualization, and software setup for upcoming tournaments must be very critically questioned in order to allow for fair competitions. =====Appendix===== Detail analysis of one exemplary match from IranOpen 2023: Program arguments: ./GGHv1WP_server1_Robo2D_1-vs-YuShan2023_4.rcl I extracted 2 team names: Robo2D, YuShan2023 I extracted 22 agent names: Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_2, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_4, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_9, YuShan2023_10, YuShan2023_11. t=623: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_10 -> {Robo2D=4} t=624: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_1 t=624: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_3 t=624: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_8 t=624: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=680: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_7, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_4, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_10 -> {Robo2D=4, YuShan2023=7} t=681: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_4 t=681: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_4 t=681: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_7 t=681: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_8 t=748: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_2, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_10 -> {Robo2D=10, YuShan2023=7} t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_6 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_7 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_9 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_11 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_2 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_3 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_6 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_10 t=751: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_2, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_9, YuShan2023_10, YuShan2023_11 -> {Robo2D=11, YuShan2023=9} t=752: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11 -> {Robo2D=11} t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_2 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_3 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_5 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_6 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_7 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_9 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_10 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_1 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_2 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_3 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_4 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_5 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_6 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_7 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_8 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_9 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_11 t=758: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_2, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_4, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_9, YuShan2023_10, YuShan2023_11 -> {Robo2D=11, YuShan2023=11} t=759: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11 -> {Robo2D=11} t=759: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_1 t=759: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_3 t=759: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_7 t=759: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_11 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_1 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_2 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_3 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_4 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_5 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_6 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_7 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_8 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_9 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_11 t=762: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11 -> {Robo2D=11} t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_1 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_2 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_3 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_4 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_5 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_6 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_7 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_8 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_9 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_11 t=779: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11, YuShan2023_4, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_9, YuShan2023_10, YuShan2023_11 -> {Robo2D=10, YuShan2023=8} t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_1 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_3 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_5 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_6 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_8 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_11 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_4 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_5 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_6 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_7 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_8 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_9 t=799: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_10, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_2, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_4, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_9, YuShan2023_10, YuShan2023_11 -> {Robo2D=9, YuShan2023=11} t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_5 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_1 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_2 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_3 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_4 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_5 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_6 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_7 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_8 TOTALHBH, Robo2D, 92, 51, YuShan2023, 53, 32, Second example in full detail (with less black holes): I extracted 2 team names: Tehran2D, FRA-UNIted I extracted 22 agent names: Tehran2D_1, Tehran2D_2, Tehran2D_3, Tehran2D_4, Tehran2D_5, Tehran2D_6, Tehran2D_7, Tehran2D_8, Tehran2D_9, Tehran2D_10, Tehran2D_11, FRA-UNIted_1, FRA-UNIted_2, FRA-UNIted_3, FRA-UNIted_4, FRA-UNIted_5, FRA-UNIted_6, FRA-UNIted_7, FRA-UNIted_8, FRA-UNIted_9, FRA-UNIted_10, FRA-UNIted_11. t=2: Holes for Tehran2D_2, Tehran2D_10 -> {Tehran2D=2} t=3: BLACK HOLE FOR Tehran2D_2 t=3: BLACK HOLE FOR Tehran2D_10 t=1014: Holes for FRA-UNIted_5 -> {FRA-UNIted=1} t=1015: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_5 t=1019: Holes for FRA-UNIted_8 -> {FRA-UNIted=1} t=1020: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_8 t=2753: Holes for FRA-UNIted_10 -> {FRA-UNIted=1} t=2754: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_10 t=4791: Holes for FRA-UNIted_2 -> {FRA-UNIted=1} t=4792: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_2 t=5039: Holes for FRA-UNIted_5, FRA-UNIted_6, FRA-UNIted_7, FRA-UNIted_9 -> {FRA-UNIted=4} t=5040: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_5 t=5040: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_6 t=5040: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_7 t=5040: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_9 TOTALHBH, Tehran2D, 2, 2, FRA-UNIted, 8, 8, ~~The End~~ Thanks for reading! -- Prof. Dr. Thomas Gabel Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich 2: Informatik und Ingenieurwissenschaften Nibelungenplatz 1, Raum 1-202 D-60318 Frankfurt am Main Tel.: +49(0)69-1533-2538 tgabel(a)fb2.fra-uas.de http://www.frankfurt-university.de/tgabel

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[meetings][CFP] EXTENDED Deadline for paper submission at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium
by Marco Simões 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, *Apologies for any cross-posting* Please notice that the paper submission deadline has been extended to *01 May 2023*. The *26th RoboCup International **Symposium* will be held on 10 July 2023, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. *Conference website* https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/ *Submission link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023 *Submission deadline* May 1, 2023 Please find attached the full call for proposals and papers for *the International **Symposium 2023*. Kindest regards, Alessandra Rossi, Cédric Buche, Marco Simões, Ubbo Visser [image: image.png] The 26th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on *10 July 2023*, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A full list of topics welcomed to this year's symposium can be found 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 Bordeaux, France. However, a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require it. In addition to the *regular track* with regular research papers, the *development track* encourages 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 specifically working in RoboCup. *Submission deadline:* May 1st, 2023 List of Topics - 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 Submission Guidelines 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-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/my/conference?conf=rcsymposium2023* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023>). 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-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj* <https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-…> Invited Speakers - Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France *(confirmed)* - Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *(confirmed)* Committees Organizing committee - Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - cedric.buche(a)enib.fr - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk - Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - msimoes(a)uneb.br - Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - visser(a)cs.miami.edu Venue The conference will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France. Contact Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra Rossi - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk -- Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

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[meetings][CFP] EXTENDED Deadline for paper submission at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium
by Alessandra Rossi 18 Apr '23

18 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, *Apologies for any cross-posting* Please notice that the paper submission deadline has been extended to *01 May 2023*. The *26th RoboCup International **Symposium* will be held on 10 July 2023, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. *Conference website* https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/ *Submission link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023 *Submission deadline* May 1, 2023 Please find attached the full call for proposals and papers for *the International **Symposium 2023*. Kindest regards, Alessandra Rossi, Cédric Buche, Marco Simões, Ubbo Visser [image: image.png] The 26th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on *10 July 2023*, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A full list of topics welcomed to this year's symposium can be found 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 Bordeaux, France. However, a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require it. In addition to the *regular track* with regular research papers, the *development track* encourages 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 specifically working in RoboCup. *Submission deadline:* May 1st, 2023 List of Topics - 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 Submission Guidelines 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-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/my/conference?conf=rcsymposium2023* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023>). 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-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj* <https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-…> Invited Speakers - Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France *(confirmed)* - Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *(confirmed)* Committees Organizing committee - Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - cedric.buche(a)enib.fr - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk - Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - msimoes(a)uneb.br - Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - visser(a)cs.miami.edu Venue The conference will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France. Contact Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra Rossi - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk

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Robotica2023: Tomar, Portugal - 3D Simulation - Call for Participation - Deadline Extended
by Nuno Lau 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

============================================================= ---------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ----------------- ============================================================= (Our apologies for any cross-posting) ROBOTICA 2023 - 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/2023/en April 28 to 30, 2023 Tomar, Portugal The Portuguese Robotics Open is a RoboCup Event that aims at promoting Science and Technology among students from the 1st grade to university studies, as well among the general public, through robotic competitions. We would like to invite you to participate in the 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open which will take place from April 28 to 30, 2023, in Tomar, Portugal. If you are interested in participating, please register your team in one of the promoted competitions. 3D Simulation competition ALLOWS for the participation of REMOTE TEAMS. == Schedule == Early Registration deadline (250 euros): April 7, 2023 ** EXTENDED ** Late Registration deadline (300 euros): April 16, 2023 Remote Team Late Registration deadline (100 euros): April 16, 2023 Portuguese Robotics Open: April 28-30, 2023 All deadlines are 23:59 GMT. == 3D SIMULATION LEAGUE == Robot scientific competitions are a growing trend worldwide and particularly at the European level in the past few years. The 3D SIMULATION LEAGUE provides a great opportunity to experiment with humanoid robots without the need for investing in robot hardware. It facilitates experimenting using different learning and optimization techniques by providing a simulated environment. Since the games are played with teams of 11 players, the league is also a very good environment for experimenting on multi-robot coordination methodologies. --------- The official rules of this League for the 2023 edition, can be found at: https://ssim.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/3D-Rulebook2022.pdf --------- --------- Important resources for the 3D Simulation League, including mailing lists, an installation guide for the server and 3D viewer, team binaries, source-code releases, game replays and other documents can be found at: https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-tools/ --------- == Registration == Registration is performed through the on-line form at: https://forms.gle/7WnmRiTnLAmHLTxj8 == Description and History == The Portuguese Robotics Open (also known as Festival Nacional de Robótica) had its 1st edition in 2001. The event has had an enormous growth since the 1st edition, both in the number of teams, participants and visitors and also includes an international IEEE conference where national and international researchers present their latest work in the field of Robotics (https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/). The Portuguese Robotics Open is currently an initiative of the Portuguese Robotics Society. Hoping to see you at the Portuguese Robotics Open! Kind Regards, The Portuguese Robotics Open Organizing Committee

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