==== AAMAS 2022 CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS ===
Important Dates
Application Submission Deadline: 12th of February 2022 (23:59 UTC-12)
Notification: 26th of February 2022 (23:59 UTC-12)
Student Attendance Support
We are delighted to announce funding for the AAMAS 2022 student scholarship applications. This will enable the virtual registration fees to be waived to successful applicants.
To be eligible you must be registered as a full-time student at a higher education institution (e.g., University).
In allocating awards, we will prioritise to students who are listed as authors of a paper accepted for AAMAS 2022 (i.e., full paper or extended abstract at the main conference). Scholarships will then be allocated to students who had a paper accepted at an affiliated workshop or the Doctoral Consortium. Funding permitting, we will also try and support students who do not have a paper accepted but come from under-represented groups.
Please note that attending the conference is a requirement for being supported. No support will be possible for students who do not attend AAMAS 2022.
Submission Requirements
To apply, you are required to register and click to complete the Student Scholarship Application Form within registration, via the following link:
tinyurl.com/aamas2022scholarship <http://tinyurl.com/aamas2022scholarship>
The requested information includes a scanned student ID card certifying you are registered as a full-time student.
We care about your privacy: The Student Scholarship Application Form is compliant with GDPR (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj>) and your data will be kept, processed, and then destroyed, according to the GDPR European regulations and the most recent US guidelines.
Please note that participation in the student scholarship program carries with it an obligation to attend the conference and an encouragement to volunteer to act as a student volunteer. Student volunteers may be asked to support to conference in various ways, i.e., to help with running a particular session. 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 AAMAS.
Please submit your application by the 12th of February 2022 (11:59pm, UTC-12) via the link above. We will notify you of your application decision by the 26th of February 2022 (11:59pm, UTC-12).
If your application is successful, you will receive a code that you can then use upon registration as a conference fee waiver.
We ask the applicants to not register for the conference before
the scholarship notification. We will not be able to reimburse payments
that have already been made.
For any question, feel free to contact us at aamas2022scholarships(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:aamas2022scholarships@googlegroups.com>
The AAMAS 2022 Scholarship Chairs:
Hau Chan (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States)
Wojciech Jamroga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Paolo Turrini (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
16th International Conference on
Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning
LPNMR 2022
https://sites.google.com/view/lpnmr2022
Genova, Italy
September 5-8, 2022
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The 16th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic
Reasoning (LPNMR 2022) will be held in Genova, Italy.
The objective of the LPNMR workshop program is to stimulate the discussion
and the exchange of ideas on topics related, but not limited, to declarative
logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. We
aim at creating a forum where researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines
may interact and have an opportunity to promote collaboration and identify
directions for joint future research. Accordingly, we solicit workshop
proposals on theoretical and applied research topics.
Workshop proposals should explain and motivate the topic of the workshop, and
discuss the format of presentation of the contributes. Workshops will likely
be half-day or one-day in duration, but we may consider longer programs.
DATES
* Workshop proposals submissions: February 25th, 2022
* Workshop proposals notifications: March 7th, 2022
* Workshop program: September 5th, 2022 (tentative date)
SUBMISSION
Proposals must be submitted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lpnmrws2022
Proposals should clearly specify the following:
* Workshop title and acronym
* A brief description, emphasizing why this workshop would appeal to
audiences from LPNMR
* A list of organizers with email addresses, web page URLs, and a short
description of their experience in organizing events
* A short description of the format of planned activities (talks, posters,
panels, invited speakers if any, etc.)
* The proposed duration (half day, one day, etc.)
* A description of the history of the workshop (if any)
* Expected number of participants
VENUE
Workshops are planned to be held at the University, which is in the city
center of Genova.
Genova is the capital of Liguria, stretching along the bay of Genova
from Nervi to the east as far as Voltri to the west. Its old town district
is one of the largest in Europe, and hosts some remarkable artistic and
architectural treasures, including the Palazzi dei Rolli, fifty or so
homes of the aristocracy entered on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In
addition to offering a wealth of cultural attractions, Genova is a
fascinating destination for tourists, with its scenic vantage points,
sea promenades, aristocratic villas and of course the Riviera to the
east and west, both easy to reach: Portovenere and Le Cinque Terre (also
UNESCO World Heritage Sites), Portofino and Camogli to the east and
Alassio, Sanremo, Bordighera to the west.
The main conference will take place in Genova Nervi, Italy, in the
Collegio Emiliani (http://www.collegioemiliani.it/, information
available only in Italian on this link), which is a college directly
situated on the sea. Nervi is a former fishing village, now a suburb of
Genoa. Nervi is 7 km east of central Genova.
Of course, we will continuously monitor the pandemic situation in order
to evaluate whether the conference can be indeed held as an in-person
event, or we will need to switch to a hybrid event, if not completely
on-line.
GENERAL CHAIR
Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA
Marco Maratea, University of Genova, Italy
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Jessica Zangari, University of Calabria, Italy
WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR
Martin Gebser, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Matteo Cardellini, University of Genova, Italy
Angelo Ferrando, University of Genova, Italy (Chair)
Marco Mochi, University of Genova, Italy
CONTACT
For any details on workshops, please contact the Workshop Chair:
viviana.mascardi(a)unige.it
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19th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (EUMAS-2022)
September 14 - 16, 2022, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
https://ccc.cs.hhu.de/eumas2022/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Deadline for paper submission: May 6, 2022
- Notification of authors: July 15, 2022
- Camera-ready papers due: August 12, 2022
- Conference: September 14 - 16, 2022
All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12, i.e., while it is still the
respective date anywhere on earth.
Submission instructions:
https://ccc.cs.hhu.de/eumas2022/
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AIMS AND SCOPE
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In the past two decades, we have seen an enormous increase of interest
in agent-based computing and multi-agent systems (MAS). This field is
set to become one of the key intelligent systems technologies in the
21st century. The EUMAS conference series aims to provide the main forum
for academics and practitioners in Europe to discuss current MAS
research and applications.
EUMAS-2022, the 19th installment of the conference series, follows the
tradition of previous editions (Oxford 2003, Barcelona 2004, Brussels
2005, Lisbon 2006, Hammamet 2007, Bath 2008, Agia Napa 2009, Paris 2010,
Maastricht 2011, Dublin 2012, Toulouse 2013, Prague 2014, Athens 2015,
Valencia 2016, Evry 2017, Bergen 2018, Thessaloniki 2019, Virtual 2020),
and encourages and supports activity in the research and development of
multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial efforts.
The conference aspires to be the primary European forum for researchers
interested in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and
multi-agent systems. EUMAS enables researchers to meet, present
challenges, preliminary and mature research results in an open and
informal environment. To attract students as well as experienced
researchers, preliminary as well as mature work, EUMAS 2021 offers three
submission types and formal proceedings. Also, we will be working hard
to arrange for the post-publication of selected papers in the form of a
special issue of a high-quality journal in the area.
EUMAS-2022 is a designated event of the European Association of
Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS): http://www.euramas.org
<http://www.euramas.org/>
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Action and Planning
- Adaptation and Learning
- Agent Architectures
- Agent Programming Languages
- Agent Development Methodologies and Tools
- Agent-Based Simulations and Modeling
- Agent Organizations and Institutions
- Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
- Agents and Complex Systems
- Applications of Multi-Agent Systems
- Argumentation
- Automated Negotiation
- Biologically Inspired Approaches
- Cognitive Models
- Collective and Swarm Intelligence
- Collective Intentionality
- Communication, Cooperation, and Coordination
- Deep Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Domains
- Economic Models
- Electronic Commerce
- Ethical Behaviour of Multi-Agent Systems
- Formal Modeling
- Game-Theoretic Methods
- Logics for Multi-Agent Systems
- Logics for Strategic Reasoning
- Machine Learning for Multi-Agent Systems
- Multi-Agent Learning
- Multi-Robot Systems
- Negotiation
- Self-Organization
- Semantic Web Agents
- Socio-Technical Systems
- Theories of Agency
- Trust and Reputation
- Verification
- Virtual Agents
- Voting and Judgment Aggregation Models for Multi-Agent Systems
- Computational Social Choice
- Social Networks
- Human-Agent Interaction
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SUBMISSIONS
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EUMAS-2022 welcomes original, unpublished papers. Papers submitted shall
describe original work that has not been published or accepted for
publication, nor is currently under review by another conference or
journal (it might be on arXiv or a similar preprint server, though).
NEW! Papers rejected from AAMAS, AAAI, or IJCAI will be fast-tracked
given that their original reviews and an authors' cover letter
(indicating all changes made) will be submitted. Extended abstracts from
AAMAS also qualify for this fast track.
Each submission will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind fashion. All
submissions should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format and
contain at least 12 and at most 16 pages, plus any number of additional
pages for bibliography and, if needed, a clearly marked appendix. For
templates and instructions for authors, see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Authors must submit their
abstracts and papers through the EUMAS-2022 Easychair submission site
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eumas2022.
EUMAS-2022 accepted papers will be published by Springer in an LNCS/LNAI
volume. As such, they will be made available to several indexing
services (including Scopus, Google Scholar, DBLP, CPCI, EI Engineering
Index, and more).
Authors should consult Springer's author guidelines and use their
proceedings templates, either for LaTeX (preferred) or for Word (if need
be), for the preparation of their papers.
Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. We
urge the authors to follow these guidelines from the submission stage
already.
Additional guidelines will be communicated after the conference to the
authors of accepted papers for the preparation of the final versions to
be included in the post-proceedings.
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Opportunity for a JAAMAS publication
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This year, the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(JAAMAS) will provide the opportunity for revised and extended versions
of the EUMAS-2022 best paper award winner (see below) and the EUMAS-2022
best paper award runner-up to be fast-tracked for the journal.
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Opportunity to publish revised and extended papers in SN CS
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A selection of EUMAS-2022 papers will be invited to submit revised and
extended versions for publication in a special issue of the Springer
Nature Computer Science journal.
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Best Paper Award
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A Best Paper Award will be presented at the conference.
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Keynote Speakers
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Prof. Marija Slavkovik (University of Bergen)
Prof. Carles Sierra (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the
Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona)
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DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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There will be a doctoral consortium day prior to the conference where
PhD students can present the topics related to MAS they are currently
working on.
Keynote Speaker for the PhD Day (September 14, 2022):
Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Science and Technology Kraków)
Organizers of the PhD Day:
Linus Boes (HHU Düsseldorf)
Christian Laußmann (HHU Düsseldorf)
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CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Dorothea Baumeister (HHU Düsseldorf)
Jörg Rothe (HHU Düsseldorf)
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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https://ccc.cs.hhu.de/eumas2022/
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CONTACT DETAILS
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EUMAS-2022 Organizing Committee: eumas2022(a)cs.hhu.de
HRI 2022 Workshop
March 7th, 2022
Virtual - 9:00 am - 6:00pm PST
Workshop Objective
This workshop seeks to grow the study of how real-world, deployed robot
systems impact the people who interact with them and the social structure
of the places that they inhabit. By bringing together researchers
interested in longitudinal studies on real-world human-interactive
long-term deployments, we hope to arrive at a clearer vision of how best to
study these systems.
Invited Speakers
Maja Mataric, University of Southern California
Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University
Stefanie Tellex, Brown University
Selma Šabanović, Indiana University
Paper Topics
Contributions are invited on all topics relevant to longitudinal social
impacts of HRI over long-term deployments including (but not limited to):
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Longitudinal studies of HRI over real-world large-scale deployments
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Interdisciplinary approaches and long-term autonomy
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Methodological and technical challenges for longitudinal studies
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Social impacts of HRI over long-term deployments
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Social effects such as safety, privacy, and inclusion
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New opportunities for HRI and HR teaming
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Demonstrations of long-term deployments
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Hardware and devices for human-robot interaction
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New sensors, biological signals for longitudinal HRI
Social Science and Technical Review Tracks
All submissions will select at least one review track for their paper:
either social science or technical. A submission may select both tracks if
it appropriately represents the work.
Submission types
Submission types for this workshop include:
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Short work-in-progress and position papers (2-4 pages)
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Long-format integration and experimental papers (4-6 pages).
All papers are to be considered for both oral presentations and posters,
with final format to be indicated along with acceptance.
To encourage participation, 1-2 page extended abstracts describing the
research interests of participants will also be accepted and featured on
the workshop's website.
Key Dates
Early Submission Deadline January 17, 2022
Early Submission Notifications February 7, 2022
Late Submission Deadline February 14, 2022
Late Submission Notifications March 1, 2022
Workshop Website
https://sites.google.com/view/lsi-hri/home
Submission Site
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lsihri22
Organizers
Justin Hart - hart(a)cs.utexas.edu
Elliot Hauser - eah13(a)utexas.edu
Samuel Baker - sebaker(a)austin.utexas.edu
Joydeep Biswas - joydeepb(a)cs.utexas.edu
Junfeng Jiao - jjiao(a)austin.utexas.edu
Luis Sentis - lsentis(a)utexas.edu
Dear colleagues,
Apologies for any cross-posting
Please find attached below the first call for Regular and Special Session papers at the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) that will be held in Naples (Italy) on August 29th - September 2nd, 2022.
More information can be also found on the website and social media:
http://ro-man2022.org
IG: @ieeeroman2022
Twitter: @ROMAN2022ieee
Facebook: @ieeeroman2022
For any questions and further information about the Regular and Special Session papers, please email program(at)ro-man2022.org
Kind regards,
Alessandra Rossi
Publicity Chair
Dr. Alessandra Rossi
Assistant Professor
PRISCA research lab
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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*** FIRST CALL FOR REGULAR PAPERS and SPECIAL SESSIONS PAPERS ***
31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)
August 29th - September 2nd, 2022
Naples, Italy
http://ro-man2022.org
IG: @ieeeroman2022
Twitter: @ROMAN2022ieee
Facebook: @ieeeroman2022
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REGULAR PAPERS and SPECIAL SESSIONS PAPERS IMPORTANT DATES
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2022
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: MAY 30, 2022
CAMERA-READY DEADLINE: JUNE 15, 2022
The RO-MAN2022 Organising Committee invites for the submission of Regular Papers and Special Session Papers to be held during the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication in Naples, Italy from August 29th to September 2nd, 2022. The RO-MAN conference is a leading forum where state-of-the-art innovative results, the latest developments as well as future perspectives relating to robot and human interactive communication are presented and discussed. The conference covers a wide range of topics related to Robot and Human Interactive Communication, involving theories, methodologies, technologies, empirical and experimental studies. Proposals related to the study of robotic technology, psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, human factors, ethics and policies, interaction-based robot design and other topics related to human-robot interaction are welcome.
This year's theme is “Social, asocial, and antisocial robots”. One of its goals is to explore how to create robots that are capable of being welcomed as our assistants and companions in society while, at the same time, not being perceived as “asocial” or “antisocial”. A second aim is to understand how we can create robots perceived as facilitators of the natural development of human beings and communities, rather than obstacles.
TEMPLATES AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format via Papercept. For the first submission, a manuscript can be of 6-8 pages including references. For the final submission, a manuscript should be of 6 pages, with 2 additional pages allowed at an extra charge.
All papers submitted to RO-MAN 2022 will undergo a peer-review process. A manuscript will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, who will provide detailed comments. If the submission is accepted, the authors submit a revised “camera-ready” version that takes into account this feedback. The review process is managed by the program chair, the program co-chairs, the editors, and the conference associate editors.
All papers are reviewed using a single-blind review process: authors declare their names and affiliations in the manuscript for the reviewers to see, but reviewers do not know each other’s identities, nor do the authors receive information about who has reviewed their manuscript.
Authors will have to declare that the research presented in the submitted papers complies with the IEEE Code of Ethics.
Authors should use the templates provided by the electronic submission system. The templates for US Letter format paper should be used. The manuscript submission website will require that you submit your abstract and make any final changes to the author list and title of the paper before uploading the paper. Use the following templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX or MS-Word.
All authors and co-authors must be registered in the electronic system. It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that the complete author list and the correct title are being entered. This information will be used for the conference program and the proceedings.
AUTHORS SHOULD ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING STEPS FOR SUBMITTING THE PAPER (FOR INITIAL SUBMISSION):
• Create an account: go to https://ras.papercept.net/, then PIN and fill out the form. Ask all your co-authors to do the same if they do not have an account on the system yet, write down the authors' PINs (this information is needed for manuscript processing purposes).
• Go to Support Menu and depending on how you are preparing your paper, download a template: LaTeX or MS-Word, Use these templates/style files to create the paper and save in PDF format.
• Upload the paper as pdf: go to https://ras.papercept.net/ and click on "Submit a contribution to RO-MAN 2022".
• Submit (regular paper, special session paper).
• Fill in the form presented on the next page (make sure to enter all author PINs created in Step 1).
SPECIAL ISSUE ON RO-MAN 2022 CONFERENCE
Best papers will be invited to submit an extended/revised version to a Special Issue of RSJ International Journal of Advanced Robotics.
For any concerns about Full Papers preparation, submission and review process, please contact program(at)ro-man2022.org.
PC CO-CHAIRS
Nak Young Chong, JAIST (JP)
Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow (UK)
Gentiane Venture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (JP)
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Call for Papers ICARSC'2022 - IEEE(*) International Conference on Autonomous
Robot Systems and Competitions
<https://festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/>
https://festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/ / April 29-30, Santa Maria da
Feira Portugal
(*) IEEE co-sponsorship pending approval
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Dear colleague
We are pleased to inform you that ICARSC2022 IEEE(*) International
Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions will be held in
Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, on April 29-30, 2022. The conference is
organized within ROBOTICA 2022 - 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open, a
RoboCup-sponsored local event, and it is promoted by the Portuguese Robotics
Society.
(*) IEEE co-sponsorship pending approval
== Conference Scope ==
ICARSC gathers participants from academia and industry working in the field
of autonomous robotics and related areas. ICARSC is a well-established IEEE
conference that has been growing continuously for over a decade and is
nowadays a truly international forum attracting worldwide quality research
papers. ICARSC has long been an IEEE co-sponsored event and its proceedings
are indexed in IEEExplore and Scopus. Moreover, similarly to previous
editions, extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for
publication at relevant indexed journals.
== Invited Speakers ==
George Nikolakopoulos, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Jorge Dias, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
== Important Dates ==
Submission Feb 21, 2022
Notification Mar 22, 2022
Camera Ready Mar 29, 2022
Registration Apr 14, 2022
Conference Apr 29-30, 2022
== Conference Topics ==
The conference aims to gather researchers from the industry and academia to
present and discuss the latest trends in research and technology in the
fields of robotics and related areas. Contributions from researchers,
industry, and outputs from collaboration between industrial and academic R&D
units are welcome in, but not limited to, the following topics.
- Agricultural Robotics
- Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Robotic Systems
- Computer Vision and Image Processing
- Control Architectures and Programming
- Cooperative Perception
- Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation
- Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping
- Educational Robotics
- Entertainment Robots
- Evolutionary Robotics
- Humanoid Robotics
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Localization, Mapping, and Navigation
- Locomotion and Actuation Systems
- Multi-Robot Coordination
- Multi-Robot Systems
- Planning, Reasoning and Modelling
- Recognition and Tracking
- Robot Learning
- Robotic Competitions
- Robotic Simulation
- Sensors and Sensor Integration
- Swarm Robotics
- Space Robotics
- Underwater Robotics
== Paper Submission ==
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English.
Six pages in the standard IEEE format (
<http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm
l>
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
) are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full draft
papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the URL:
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2022>
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2022. For evaluation purposes,
authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take
reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. Accepted papers
will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the
authors should register at the Conference and present the paper. If the
authors of an accepted paper do not show up at the conference, the
corresponding paper will not be submitted to IEEExplore.
== ICARSC2022 General/Program Chairs ==
Pedro Fonseca, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Rodrigo Ventura, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Luís Louro, University of Minho, Portugal
Pedro Neto, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Call for proposals: RCF and MathWorks Support for Research Projects 2022
The RoboCup Federation (RCF) and MathWorks, a Global Sponsor of RoboCup,
are pleased to announce this call for proposals to support research
projects in RoboCup.
RCF-MathWorks Support for Research Projects 2022 aims at funding
robotics research projects that use MATLAB and Simulink software. The
goal is to enable collaboration between RoboCup researchers and
MathWorks engineers to foster progress of RoboCup and its leagues.
The RoboCup Federation and MathWorks hosted a webinar to discuss the
details of the call, describe expected results and MathWorks tools,
showcase previously sponsored projects, and answer questions.
Link to the webinar: https://youtu.be/znZSFBWAWhg
For more info or clarification on the details of this call, please
contact info(a)robocup.org
Proposal Requirements
Proposals in this category must meet *ALL* of the following requirements:
1. Work must be associated with one or more of the research topics
listed below.
2. Work must primarily utilize MathWorks software such as MATLAB,
Simulink, Stateflow, and other add-on products. Preference may be given
if using one or more of the development methods listed below.
3. Project team will be assigned MathWorks contacts, and must arrange
and participate in at least 3 progress check-in meetings with them
during the course of the project. The team is encouraged to reach out to
their MathWorks contacts whenever they have questions.
4. Final deliverables shall be posted publicly after review by MathWorks
contacts.
Research Topics
1. Navigation and Planning
a. Motion Planning for Manipulators and Mobile Robots
b. Motion planning for humanoid robots
c. Collision avoidance
2. Perception and Sensor Fusion
a. Object detection and tracking
b. Lidar and vision-based SLAM
c. Point cloud processing
d. Fusing IMU with other sensors for localization and state estimation
3. Control systems
a. Control of humanoid robots
b. Hybrid systems and behavior
c. Multi-agent systems
d. Robot Manipulation and Grasping
4. Human-Robot Interaction
a. Natural language processing
b. Signal and audio processing
NOTE: teams are encouraged to apply machine learning techniques (deep
learning, reinforcement learning, etc.) toward these research topics
Development Methods
1. Development Tools
a. User interfaces and Web applications
b. Hardware initialization and calibration tools
2. Modeling and simulation
a. Model-based design of software components
b. Physical system simulation and design
c. Behavior modeling: finite-state machines, behavior trees, etc.
d. Multi-agent simulation
3. Embedded systems
a. Implementation to reduce memory, power consumption, etc.
b. Targeting microcontrollers, FPGAs, and GPUs
c. Real-time and hardware-in-the-loop simulation
4. Interfaces to standard platforms
a. Robots, e.g., Toyota, SoftBank, FESTO
b. Software frameworks, e.g., ROS
Support
Support will be given as a gift between 5,000 and 10,000 USD depending
on quantity and quality of accepted proposals in this category.
Teams will be notified of the exact amount awarded upon their proposal
being accepted. Funding will be provided directly by RCF after the
RoboCup Symposium 2022 if the research and deliverables are completed in
a satisfactory manner.
Submission
A single PDF file should be submitted through the easychair system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcfsupport2022 under the
Category: RCF and MathWorks Support for Research Projects 2022
The proposal (MAX 6 pages) must include:
1. description of the project,
2. motivations and goals,
3. intended use of MATLAB and/or Simulink software,
4. benefits for RoboCup and for the RoboCup League (not for a single or
a few teams),
5. implementation plan and budget.
Evaluation
Application materials will be evaluated by a committee of RoboCup
Trustees and MathWorks engineers. The evaluation of the proposals will
be based on (i) the quality of the proposed research; (ii) the research
contributions of the applicants, particularly in relation to RoboCup;
(iii) the usage of MATLAB and/or Simulink software; and (iv) the impact
of the proposed plan on the advancement and visibility of RoboCup.
A limited number of awards is expected to be assigned.
Deadlines
Submission Deadline: February 6th, 2022
Notification: February 8th, 2022
Completion of the action: Preliminary work expected to be presented
during the RoboCup 2022 Research Symposium, and official content
publication by October 2022
Exceptions to this rule must be submitted for approval to the evaluation
committee.
** For more information about the call for projects, please contact:
info [at] robocup.org **
Call for proposals: RCF Project Support 2022
The RoboCup Federation (RCF) is pleased to announce this call for
proposals to support activities for promoting the development of RoboCup
Leagues.
RCF Project Support aims at funding activities for the development of
the RoboCup Leagues or the promotion of RoboCup in general. The main
goal of these projects is to research and develop activities that
support significant advancements of the RoboCup leagues and/or the
RoboCup community which are difficult to achieve otherwise. This
includes support for short-term visits for a collaboration between teams
(e.g. joint team development, integration of research agendas) and/or
RoboCup camps on special or novel topics.
This year the RCF particularly encourages proposals in the following areas:
* Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI), any type interaction of a human with a
robot within one of the RoboCup leagues
* Low-Cost Standard Robots, any ideas to lower the entry bar to a
RoboCup league or to allow to scale the number of robots in a team
* Unified Game Controllers, development of game controllers that can be
shared between RoboCup leagues easily and with minor re-configuration
* Data Sets from Competitions, any concept for automated collecting and
annotating data (i.e. ground truth) from competitions in order to
support statistical analysis or machine learning
Support
Support will be provided in the form of reimbursement upon receipts of
direct expenses (e.g., hardware devices or costs for organization of
events) or of a grant for the applicants. In case of hardware
acquisition, it must be specified how the league (e.g. other teams) will
benefit from this hardware.
A detailed list of expenses must be described in the proposal. Funds
from RCF are limited, partial funding may be also considered.
Submission
A single PDF file should be submitted through the easychair system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcfsupport2022 under the
Category: Projects for League Developments
The proposal (MAX 4 pages) must include:
1. description of the project,
2. motivations and goals,
3. benefits for RoboCup and RoboCup leagues (not for a single or a few
teams),
4. implementation plan and budget.
Evaluation
Application materials will be evaluated by a committee of RoboCup
Trustees or RoboCup Exec members. The evaluation of the proposals will
be based on (i) the quality of the proposed research; (ii) the research
contributions of the applicants, particularly in relation to RoboCup;
and (iii) the impact of the proposed plan on the advancement and
visibility of RoboCup (e.g. high ranked publications).
A limited number of awards is expected to be assigned.
Deadlines
Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2022
Notification: February 8th, 2022
Completion of the project: Preliminary work expected to be presented
during the RoboCup Symposium 2022, the project needs to be finished by
end of 2022 and a final report submitted by January 2023.
Exceptions to this rule must be submitted for approval to the evaluation
committee.
* RoboCup Rescue Simulation Virtual Robot Competitions 2022*
*Bangkok, Thailand**July 11-19, 2022*
https://robocup-rsvrl.github.io/https://2022.robocup.org/
<https://www.robocup.org/leagues/27>
*IMPORTANT DATES*
Pre-Registration……………………………….: February 15, 2022 (23:55 GMT)
Team Description Paper (TDP) submission..: March 21, 2022 (23:55 GMT)
Qualified teams announcement…………..…: March 28, 2022
Team registration deadline…….…………..…: May 31, 2022
Camera-ready TDP submission………….….: June 8, 2022 (23:55 GMT)
Tournament dates………………………..……: July 11-19, 2022
If you are interested in participating please take the time to pre-register
your team for the RoboCup 2022 Virtual Robot Competition as soon as
possible, so that we can inform you about the latest developments. The
current plan is to have the competition in-person and closely monitor the
COVID-19 restrictions and if needed the committee will provide the
teams remote access to a competition platform by using a cloud computing
service. In order to organise the we need to know the number of
participating teams. The ultimate deadline for pre-registration is set
on February 15, 2022.
*(1) RoboCup Rescue Simulation League and Virtual Robot Competition*
———————
The RoboCup Rescue Simulation League is a socially relevant part of the
RoboCup event. Its main purpose is to provide emergency decision support by
integration of disaster information, prediction, planning, and human
interface.
A generic urban disaster simulation environment is constructed on network
computers. Heterogeneous intelligent agents such as firefighters,
commanders, victims, volunteers, etc. conduct search and rescue activities
in this virtual disaster world. Agents can sense their environment and make
decisions on the basis of the perceived data. Mission-critical human
interfaces support disaster managers, disaster relief brigades, residents,
and volunteers to decide their actions to minimize the disaster damage.
Addressing this problem involves advanced and interdisciplinary research
themes. AI/robotics research, for example, behavior strategy (e.g.,
multi-agent planning, real-time/anytime planning, heterogeneity of agents,
robust planning, mixed-initiative planning) is a challenging problem. For
disaster researchers, RoboCup Rescue works as a standard basis in order to
develop practical comprehensive simulators adding necessary disaster
modules.
The Virtual Robot Competition is based on ROS/Gazebo, an advanced robot
simulator in which users can simulate multiple agents whose capabilities
closely mirror those of real robots. ROS/Gazebo currently features several
ground and air robots, as well as a wide range of sensors and actuators.
Moreover, by exploiting ROS, users can easily develop their robot systems
integrating standard modules.
Currently addressed research topics include but are not limited to
- Human-robot interfaces
- Autonomous navigation
- Sensor fusion
- Image processing
- Speech processing
- 2D and 3D mapping
- Distributed planning
- Distributed learning
*(2) Major changes to this year (2022)*
——————-
This year, we had a server migration to ROS2 bringing a great opportunity
for roboticists to learn ROS2 in a tested environment via challenges. This
new server could be accessed on "The Construct sim
<https://www.theconstructsim.com/>" as this league will provide the remote
participation option.
*(3) Intention of participation*
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If you are interested to participate in the competition, please respond,
before Feb 15, 2021, by filling out the following google form:
https://forms.gle/U9vFrxGzky5EQ63CA <https://forms.gle/U9vFrxGzky5EQ63CA>
*(4) Qualification material*
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Besides sending the intention of participation, please prepare before Mar
21, 2022, a Team Description Paper describing the most innovative
contributions or scientific results your team is intended to provide.
The TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS
format:
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui…
<https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/ln…>
And the tex template file of the TDP can be found on the overleaf:
https://www.overleaf.com/read/nrcfnpygskyx
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.overleaf.com/read/nrcfnpygskyx&sa=…>
The Team Description Paper is an overview of the methodologies you use or
intend to use to control your robots inside the Virtual Robot Competition.
If applicable, include a reference to your latest publications.
The qualification material should be placed on a dedicated web page on the
team’s home page.
Please include the link to the qualification material on the intention of
participation information.
*(5) Useful links*
———–
- Virtual Robot Competition Wiki <https://robocup-rsvrl.github.io/>
- Virtual Robot Competition 2022 Server
<https://github.com/RoboCup-RSVRL/RoboCup2022RVRL_Demo>
- Official RoboCup Rescue Simulation website
<https://rescuesim.robocup.org/>
- Virtual Robot Competition 2022 Rule (draft)
<https://robocup-rsvrl.github.io/assets/rules/RoboCup2022-RVRL-Rules-draft.p…>
With kind regards,
Amirreza Kabiri on behalf of
RoboCup Rescue Simulation Executive, Technical, and Organizing Committees
Hi,
We have been working in the last years on a project in our lab named
"Learning Setplays from Demonstration." The main goal of this project is to
provide evidence that we can catch human's intuitive knowledge in a domain
and use it to feed a massive dataset for robots to learn how to cooperate
to solve problems in this domain.
At this time, we are gathering contributions worldwide to populate the
dataset. So we ask your contribution in the following way:
1- Watch some robot soccer games
2- Locate situations where you think you can demonstrate a setplay for a
team to perform better in that situation
3-Create your demonstration
4- Send us several demonstrations
To turn it easier for you, we have developed the BahiaRT's Learning
Setplays from Demonstration Toolkit that encapsulates in Docker containers
all tools you need to watch games and create setplays demonstrations. The
following links contain all information you need:
- The BahiaRT's Learning Setplays from Demonstration Toolkit -
https://bitbucket.org/bahiart3d/setplaysdataset/src/master/
- Setup instructions:
https://bitbucket.org/bahiart3d/setplaysdataset/src/master/README.md
- Usage instructions:
https://bitbucket.org/bahiart3d/setplaysdataset/src/master/USAGE.md
- Video tutorial: https://youtu.be/h_s8rA2IS88
At the end of this project, we will provide:
1- A public massive setplays dataset organized using our fuzzy clustering
strategy ready to be used for any soccer team (not only 3D simulation teams)
2- Source code of the dataset organizer and the deep reinforcement learning
engine used for teams training.
3- Results published (Ph.D. thesis and several papers).
You can see some earlier publications of this project at the end of this
message.
We appreciate your contribution. Anyone who enjoys soccer can contribute.
You do not need any experience with robot soccer or 3D Soccer Simulation. I
hope you have fun and send us several setplays demonstrations in the
following weeks.
If you have any doubts, please send a message to teambahiart(a)gmail.com.
Best,
Marco
Earlier Publications:
[1]M. A. C. Simões et al., “Generating a dataset for learning setplays from
demonstration”, SN Appl. Sci., vol. 3, nº 6, p. 608, jun. 2021, doi:
10.1007/s42452-021-04571-y.
[2]M. A. C. Simões, R. M. da Silva, e T. Nogueira, “A Dataset Schema for
Cooperative Learning from Demonstration in Multi-robot Systems”, J Intell
Robot Syst, vol. 99, nº 3–4, p. 589–608, set. 2020, doi:
10.1007/s10846-019-01123-w.
[3]M. A. C. Simoes et al., “Strategy Planner: Enhancements to support
better defense and pass strategies within an LfD approach”, in 2020 IEEE
International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
(ICARSC), Ponta Delgada, Portugal, abr. 2020, p. 46–52. doi:
10.1109/ICARSC49921.2020.9096188.
[4]M. A. C. Simões e T. Nogueira, “Towards setplays learning in a
multiagent robotic soccer team”, in 2018 latin american robotic symposium,
2018 brazilian symposium on robotics (SBR) and 2018 workshop on robotics in
education (WRE), nov. 2018, p. 277–282. doi:
10.1109/LARS/SBR/WRE.2018.00058.
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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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