Dear colleagues,
This is a gentle reminder that the paper submission for the fifth edition
of SCRITA Workshop <http://scrita.herts.ac.uk> at IEEE RO-MAN 2022 are open!
This workshop will be a full day event on 29 August 2022, in conjunction
with the IEEE RO-MAN 2022 <http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/>
conference, held in sunny and beautiful Naples, Italy.
The workshop is open to a broad audience from academia and industry
researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control,
and user recommendation. We will foster the exchange of insights on past
and ongoing research, and contribute to the discussion of innovative ideas
for tackling unresolved issues by providing new and inspirational
directions of research with brilliant invited speakers and a panel of
experts in the field.
Please find attached below the call for papers.
For any questions and information, do not hesitate to contact us (emails
below).
Kind regards,
Alessandra
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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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* *** WorkhopTrust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction
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31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive
Communication (RO-MAN 2022)
August 29th - September 2nd, 2022
Naples, Italy
http://ro-man2022.org
**Important Dates**
**Submission deadline**: 15 July 2022
**Acceptance**: 31 July 2022
People's ability of accepting and trusting robots is fundamental for a
fruitful and successful coexistence between humans and people. While
advanced progresses are reached in studying and evaluating the factors
affecting acceptance and trust of people in robots in controlled or
short-term (repeated interactions) setting, developing service and personal
robots, that are accepted and trusted by people where the supervision of
operators is not possible, still presents an open challenge for scientists
in robotics, AI and HRI fields. In such
unstructured static and dynamic human-centred environments scenarios,
robots should be able to learn and adapt their behaviours to the
situational context, but also to people’s prior experiences and learned
associations, their expectations, and their and the robot’s ability to
predict and understand each other's behaviours. This workshop focuses on
addressing the challenges and development of the dynamics between people
and robots in order to foster short interactions and long-lasting
relationships in different fields, from educational, service,
collaborative, companion, care-home and medical robotics. Although the
previous editions valued the participation of leading researchers in the
field and several exceptional invited speakers who tackled down some
fundamental points in this research domains, we wish to continue to further
explore the role of trust in robotics to present groundbreaking
research to effectively design and develop socially acceptable and
trustable robots to be deployed "in the wild".
* Topics of interest include but are not limited to:*
* Impact of Social Cues on Trust in HRI
* Measuring Trust in HRI
* Trust Violation and Recovery Mechanism in HRI
* Effects of Humans’ Acceptance on Trust of Robots
* Humans Sense of Control and Trust in Robots
* Trust and Assistive Robotics
* Overtrust in Robots
* Antecedent of Trust and Robot Trust
* Enhancing Humans Trust in Robots
* Enhancing Trust in a Robot Companion
* Privacy Implications on Trust in HRI
* Mental Models and Trust in HRI
* Trust and Safety in HRI
* Ethics Implications on Trust in HRI
* Trustworthy AI
* XAI in HRI
* Legal Frameworks for Trustworthy Robotics
*Templates and Submission Procedure*
We encourage participants to submit two-page abstracts or full papers (up
to 6 pages) on original and unpublished research. We will also welcome
submissions of two-page position papers on topics covering the scope of the
workshop. All accepted papers will have an oral presentations.
We further welcome authors of the accepted papers to present a video or
demonstrate their works and achievements. Video demonstrations should be
accompanied by an up to 2 pages abstract describing the work and
achievements.
Authors should submit their papers formatted according to the IEEE
two-column format
<http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php>, which is also
used for contributions to the main conference. Use the following templates
to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX <
http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php> or MS-Word <
http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php>.
PDF submission will be possible via EasyChair <
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=scrita2022>. 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 who want to include a video in their submission can indicate their
plans via EasyChair and will be sent a link to a confidentially upload the
video file. At least one of the authors of the accepted papers needs to
register for the workshop.
* Invited Speakers*
The following keynote speakers have already agreed to participate in this
workshop:
* Alan Wagner, Penn State University, USA
* Moojan Ghafurian, University of Waterloo, Canada
* Takayuki Kanda, Kyoto University, Japan
*Panel Session*
The following experts have already agreed to participate in this workshop:
* Alessandro Di Nuovo, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
* Kerstin Sophie Haring, University of Denver, USA
* Guillem Alenyà, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Spain
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GECON 2022 - The First Hybrid Edition of GECON
19th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems &
Services
http://gecon2022.gecon-conference.org/
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GECON 2022 will be a hybrid conference that will run fully
in-person and fully virtually. The conference is designed
and meant to be a hybrid conference to take advantage
of the best that the two modalities can offer.
Extended Deadlines:
Full, short papers: June 30th, 2022
Poster and new ideas papers: June 30th, 2022
GECON 2022 builds upon the very successful tradition of
the conference previous editions since 2003. GECON
solicits contributions that are interdisciplinary,
combining business and economic aspects with engineering
and computer science related themes.
Publication and Submission Guidelines for Papers
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Full papers and short papers (work-in-progress papers)
shall be submitted using the Springer LNCS format.
Submitted full papers should not exceed 12 pages and WIP
papers should not exceed 8 pages (including references and
appendices). For further details, visit the GECON 2022
web page.
Paper submissions are managed through EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2022
<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair…>.
The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS.
Extended versions of up to 10 accepted papers in the
Computer Science field will be invited for publication in
a special issue of the elsevier Journal of
Future Generation Computing Systems.
The selection of papers will start right after the celebration
of the 19th edition of GECON 2022, whose extended deadline
is 30 June 2022. Participation in the conference is an ideal
opportunity to receive feedback from the GECON community.
After the invitation to participate in the special issue,
a 40% different content to GECON Proceedings modified
text/results is expected.
Topics of Interest
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GECON encourages the submission of papers, which combine
at least one economic/legal area and one technologic area.
GECON list of areas includes but is not limited to:
-Economics-
Trustworthiness of services
Ecosystem economics
Incentive design, strategic behavior & game theory
Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages
Economic efficiency
Techno-economic analysis and modeling
Pricing schemes and revenue models
Preemptible computing
Metering, accounting, and billing
Cost-benefit analysis
Automated trading and bidding support tools
Trust, reputation, security, and risk management
Performance monitoring, optimization, and prediction
Economics of Open Data
Trustworthiness and Assurances for Quality of Data
Economic impact of distributed storage solutions
Energy efficiency
Sustainability
Business models and strategies
Decision support
Ecosystems
-Law and Legal Aspects-
Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects
Service level Agreements (SLAs)
Negotiation, monitoring, and enforcement
Governance of ecosystems
Privacy
-Clouds, Grids, Systems and Services-
IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and Federation of resources
Vertical scaling, burstable computing, vertical elasticity
Resource management: allocation, sharing, and scheduling
Capacity planning
Virtualization and containers
Service science, management and engineering (SSME)
Software engineering
Security
-Applications and Technologies Transforming the Economy-
Smart grids, smart cities, and smart buildings
Energy-aware infrastructures and services
Fog, edge, cloud computing
Micro-services, serverless computing
AI-enabled computing continuum from Cloud to Edge
Internet-of-Things
Blockchains
Community networks
Social networks
Social computing
Shared public infrastructures for knowledge exchange:
(e.g. IPFS, Origin Trail, Decentralized Knowledge Graphs)
Big data
Reports on industry test-beds and operational markets
Data stream ingestion and complex event processing
Open source
Keynote Speakers
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- Ittay Eyal, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
- Elisabette Di Nitto, Politecnico de Milano
- Ian Taylor, SIMBA Chain
Tutorial: “Serverless Computing: State of the Art
and Research Challenges” (Karim Djemame)
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Serverless computing is revolutionizing cloud application
development as it offers the ability to create modular, highly-scalable,
fault-tolerant applications. The serverless architecture has seen
widespread adoption from tech industry giants such as Amazon,
Google and as well as the public domain, with open-source projects
such as Apache OpenWhisk, Fission and OpenFaaS. This tutorial will
present the state-of-the-art in serverless computing research, and
provide useful insights into the main challenges that motivate
researchers to work on this topic. It will also identify research
gaps for future research.
Conference Organization
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Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (University of Haifa, Israel)
Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea)
Jose Angel Banares (Zaragoza University, Spain)
Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK)
Maurizio Naldi (Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (LUMSA), Italy)
Vlado Stankovski (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Bruno Tuffin (Inria Rennes, France)
Kostas Tserpes (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece)
Contact for Questions: gecon2022(a)easychair.org
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Prof. Dr. Jörn ALTMANN
office 37-305
Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program
Schoolof Engineering Practice
Collegeof Engineering
Seoul National University
1 Gwanak-Ro, Gwanak-Gu, 08826 Seoul, South-Korea
phone: +82 70 7678 6676
phone: +49 4155 129333
phone: +1 510 962 3062
phone: +44 20 32393134
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email: jorn.altmann(a)acm.org
www: http://altmann.my-groups.de/
CFP- SocialDisNER track: Detection of Disease Mentions in Social Media
(SMM4H Shared Task at COLING2022)
https://temu.bsc.es/socialdisner/
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/9f641e5f3d28301c54841c67fc044d2c8191cb75?ur…>
Despite the high impact & practical relevance of detecting diseases
automatically from social media for a diversity of applications, few
manually annotated corpora generated by healthcare practitioners to
train/evaluate advanced entity recognition tools are currently available.
Developing disease recognition tools for social media is critical for:
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Real-time disease outbreak surveillance/monitoring
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Characterization of patient-reported symptoms
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Post-market drug safety
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Epidemiology and population health,
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Public opinion mining & sentiment analysis of diseases
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Detection of hate speech/exclusion of sick people
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Prevalence of work-associated diseases
SocialDisNER is the first track focusing on the detection of disease
mentions in tweets written in Spanish, with clear adaptation potential not
only to English but also other romance languages like Portuguese, French or
Italian spoken by over 900 million people worldwide.
For this track the SocialDisNER corpus was generated, a manual collection
of tweets enriched for first-hand experiences by patients and their
relatives as well as content generated by patient-associations (national,
regional, local) as well as healthcare institutions covering all main
diseases types including cancer, mental health, chronic and rare diseases
among others.
Info:
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Web: https://temu.bsc.es/socialdisner/
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/c5728f76e1ed5005269d104d71dd52be2f9e1f9d?ur…>
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Data:
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/e3e043a9d607f5bf3ca96770c0b03ecdce89a5e1?ur…>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6359365
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/c6a15ea9dcb91aa274a210b643b16e779c920331?ur…>
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Registration: https://temu.bsc.es/socialdisner/registration
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/ce33e75824f6f84ea42b86800565d907cf615647?ur…>
Schedule
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Development Set Release: June 14th
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Test Set Release: July 11th
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Participant prediction Due: July 15th
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Test set evaluation release: July 25th
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Proceedings paper submission: August 1st
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Camera ready papers: September 1st
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SMM4H workshop @ COLING 2022: October 12-17
Publications and SMM4H (COLING 2022) workshop
Participating teams have the opportunity to submit a short system
description paper for the SMM4H proceedings (7th SMM4H Workshop, co-located
at COLING 2022). More details are available at
https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/
<https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/66f0903e1381332fb31268e504f6e95bc2d60e97?ur…>
SocialDisNER Organizers
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Luis Gascó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
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Darryl Estrada, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
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Eulàlia Farré-Maduell, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
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Salvador Lima, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
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Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Scientific Committee & SMM4H Organizers
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Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
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Davy Weissenbacher, University of Pennsylvania, USA
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Arjun Magge, University of Pennsylvania, USA
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Ari Z. Klein, University of Pennsylvania, USA
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Ivan Flores, University of Pennsylvania, USA
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Karen O’Connor, University of Pennsylvania, USA
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Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland
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Lucia Schmidt, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland
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Juan M. Banda, Georgia State University, USA
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Abeed Sarker, Emory University, USA
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Yuting Guo, Emory University, USA
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Yao Ge, Emory University, USA
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Elena Tutubalina, Insilico Medicine, Hong Kong
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Jey Han Hau, The University of Melbourne (Australia)
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Luca Maria Aiello, IT University of Copenhagen
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Rafael Valencia-Garcia, Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
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Antonio Jimeno Yepes, RMIT University (Australia)
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Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Universidad da Coruña (Spain)
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Eugenio Martinez Cámara, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
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Gema Bello Orgaz, Applied Intelligence and Data Analysis Research
Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
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Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health (USA)
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Héctor D. Menendez, King's College London (UK)
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Manuel Montes y Gómez, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and
Electronics (Mexico)
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Helena Gómez Adorno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
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Rodrigo Agerri, IXA Group (HiTZ Centre), University of Basque Country
EHU (Spain)
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Miguel A. Alonso, Universidad da Coruña (Spain)
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Ferran Pla, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
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Jose Alberto Benitez-Andrades, Universidad de Leon (Spain)
Darryl Estrada
Full Stack - Web Developer
* Text Mining Unit | Barcelona Supercomputing Center*
* Final Call for Research Showcases*
The 25th RoboCup International Symposium
https://2022.robocup.org/
Submission of abstracts: 20 June 2022
Notification to authors: 24 June 2022
RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022)
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The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original
research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence
is presented. This year, we are inviting the submission of poster
proposals to facilitate scientific discussions about ongoing projects
and late-breaking results during the RoboCup 2022 Symposium. This call
is specifically for poster presentations to showcase teams’ ongoing work
and/or the latest results relevant to the RoboCup community. The
Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to promote exciting conversations
during the coffee break over posters, discussing scientific results,
finding other research groups with similar interests, and strengthening
connections between different teams as well as RoboCup leagues.
Any team, research group, or individual is welcome to propose a poster
presentation with the content relevant to the RoboCup community. To
ensure this and to group posters into the poster sessions, we ask
everyone interested in such poster presentations to submit a proposal
with the title and short abstract of max 250 words by June 20th (using
the Research Showcase Track).
IMPORTANT DATES
===============
Submission of poster abstracts (Research Showcase Track): 20 June 2022
Notification to authors: 24 June 2022
Upload of poster pdfs for website (optionally): 8 July
RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022)
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
==========================
Abstracts will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on
their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium. Poster abstracts will
not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings.
Proposals should be 250 words in plain text and must be submitted
through the EasyChair electronic submission system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022
POSTER FORMAT
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Posters presented at the Symposium should be in A0 portrait format.
Presenters will receive a poster board as well as material for attaching
the posters from the organizers.
Please note that the Symposium Co-Chairs will not be able to assist with
printing posters in Bangkok, so please bring your printed poster with
you to the Symposium.
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany
Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand
Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego, USA
CONTACT
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robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org
2022 Workshop on AI and Simulation for Natural Disaster Management
Hybrid Mode -- July 17, 2022
https://rescuesim.robocup.org/upcoming-events/2022-workshop/
Co-located with the
RoboCup Symposium 2022
[ https://2022.robocup.org/ | https://2022.robocup.org ]
TUTORIALS
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Hands-on activities to introduce and consolidate the participant's knowledge
and skills with the Rescue Simulation platforms. The planned tutorials are:
- Introduction to Rescue Simulation (2 hours)
This tutorial will endow the participants with basic understanding of the
structure and dynamic aspects of the Rescue Simulator and Simulation code.
The tutorial also will cover more practical aspects:
* Simulator installation and configuration
* Simulation executions
* Simple Rescue Agent Team code modification
- Implementing Rescue Team using Python (2 hours)
This tutorial will introduce the new Python API developed to interact with
the Rescue Simulator. The tutorial will detail the communication protocol
between the Rescue Simulator with the Rescue Agent Team and guide the
participants through a step-by-step process to develop a Rescue Agent Team
using the Python API via incremental assignments.
- Unraveling ADF Framework
The Agent Development Framework (ADF) is a modular and flexible framework
that enables the development of Rescue Agent Teams for the Rescue Simulator.
This tutorial will details the structure and propose incremental
assignments to help participants grap the dynamics of the framework. The
tutorial will also guide the participants through the installation and
configuration of the framework.
Please register in these Tutorials via the link [ https://forms.gle/EjdSdk4pSgGHFSU87 | https://forms.gle/EjdSdk4pSgGHFSU87 ] .
DESCRIPTION
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The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and simulation may contribute
to the advance of natural disaster management. AI and simulation models and
tools, however, have to embed the required features and capabilities of this
domain application in order to support in real-world disaster scenarios. Hence,
the collaboration with field experts and policy-makers in the natural disaster
domain becomes essential.
The workshop aims to gather together and build a community of researchers,
disaster responders, and policy-makers interested in developing and applying AI
and simulation techniques for natural disaster management.
The workshop is relevant because it will help to create a bridge between
technology experts and disaster management practitioners aligning their
understand, interpretation, and expectations of each other enabling an
environment for the exchange of ideas.
The workshop will be structured as a mix of
- Invited talks
- Technical/Research presentations
- Tutorials
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
====================
- Luis Gustavo Nardin, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
- Dina Helal, Microsoft, Ireland
- Farshid Faraji, Islamic Azad University of Bonab, Iran
- Seyed M. R. Modarasi, Sorbonne University Paris Nord, France
Dear All,
The 10th International Conference on Guided Self-Organization will take
place during *12-13 December 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand*:
http://www.guided-self.org/gso-2022.html (extended abstracts are due on 30
June 2022).
The GSO-2022 conference will bring together invited experts and researchers
in artificial life, self-organizing systems, and complex adaptive systems,
with particular emphasis on emergent behaviour. Topics of interest that
may be relevant to RoboCuppers include: swarm intelligence, cooperative and
modular robotics, distributed AI, unconventional computation, complex
networks, etc.
If interested in participating, please send an extended abstract (two
pages, pdf) by *June 30th, 2022*, by email to: mikhail dot prokopenko at
sydney dot edu dot au (with subject line: GSO-2022 submission). The
notifications are expected by July 31st, 2022. Authors of accepted
submissions will present the content at the conference. A special journal
issue will follow, in Entropy journal, a free media partner of GSO-2022.
Best regards,
Mikhail (on behalf of OC and PC: http://www.guided-self.org/gso-2022.html )
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Mikhail Prokopenko | Professor | PhD, MA, MSc | FRSN
Research Leader, Modelling and Simulation Research Group | Faculty of
Engineering
Director, Centre for Complex Systems, CCS | Faculty of Science
Theme Co-Leader (Pathogen Emergence & Spread) | Sydney Institute for
Infectious Diseases
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Rm 549, School of Computer Science J12 | The University of Sydney | NSW |
2006
T +61 2 9351 7569 | M +61 414 897 703
E mikhail.prokopenko(a)sydney.edu.au | W http://sydney.edu.au
Dear colleagues, dear friends,
We are pleased to announce the conference:
*De la marionnette au robot : manipulation, animation et expression des
corps artificiels *
The event will be held in Paris at the MSH Paris Nord on Saturday the 25th
of June, 2022.
The robot never ceases to populate fictional writings, essays, films and
series; in the theater, its presence has a long history, linked to the
exploration of otherness. The robot on stage seems to arouse a "disturbing
uncanniness" linked to the cohabitation, as for the puppet and the mask, of
animate and inanimate, of rigidity and illusion of life. Unlike these
theatrical objects par excellence, the behavior of the robot and its
autonomy determine a radical, external otherness, which raises the question
of the overcoming of the human. This conference aims to question the
techniques and modalities of animation and expression of artificial bodies,
from puppet devices to robots, fostering discussions on points of
convergence, divergence and overcomings, by bringing together engineers,
artists and researchers in performing arts.
The conference will also host the performance of the *Equipe RoboAct
II *composed
by artists and students of Paris 8 University, trying to synthesize their
works on robotics, theatre and puppetry held in the last six months as part
of the project *Scène et Robotique.*
*The event will be held mainly in French. *
If you are able to come to Paris, do not hesitate to join us!
Feel free to register for the event through the following link:
https://forms.gle/LmWtUv4nTJUcsE7r5
*Registrations of the event will be shared through the project's YouTube
Channel*
*https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeuPsG4gvkvtheIzH25mQjQ
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeuPsG4gvkvtheIzH25mQjQ>*
For more information, please, find here the full program of the day:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3znm7inh93zxtmn/Programme%20-%202022-06-25.pdfhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/7dm2lfpyww8srj3/Programme%20scene%20et%20robotiqu…
And please, spread the information to all those who might be interested.
Best regards,
Salvatore Anzalone
with Erica Magris and Giulia Filacanapa
[JOBS] 1 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Robotics and AI: Social
perception in unstructured environments
######### Apologies for cross posting #########
Dear colleagues,
University Milano-Bicocca is offering 1 doctoral scholarship as part of the
“ph.D. program of national interest in Robotics and Intelligent Machines
(DRIM)”.
Main Theme: Social perception in unstructured environments
Funder: National Robotics Doctoral Consortium
Working place: Milan-Bicocca, University
Deadline: 29th of June 2022
More info: https://drim.i-rim.it/en/https://drim.i-rim.it/en/admission/https://sites.google.com/site/dimitriognibenehomepage/jobs
Template for the motivation letter:
https://drim.i-rim.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Template-Motivation-Projec…
Contact: dimitri.ognibene(a)unimib.it
Description of the candidate: We are looking for the perfect PhD candidate
to find out how to enable robots to interact with humans in the wild
considering the perceptual and computational limits they have. The
candidate will have the chance to explore practical machine learning and
more formal methods to develop the AI controller of social robots. There
will also be the opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration to look at
how humans and other organisms solve similar problems.
It will be crucial to be passionate about ideas and challenges (and maths
and programming).
Requirements:
Applicants are expected to have good programming skills and be interested
in further improving them.
Knowledge of statistics, control systems theory, artificial intelligence,
computer vision, as well as machine learning methodologies, and libraries
would be an important plus. Similarly, the ability to understand and design
psychological tasks as well as use statistical methods to evaluate
experimental results and human-robot interaction effectiveness would be
valuable. Experience with real-time 3d engines and/or VR platforms, such as
Unity3D, Unreal and similar, or with robotic platforms will also be
considered positively.
Description of the field:
In the last 10 years, with the advent of modern deep learning
methodologies, substantial performance improvement has been observed in
perception for robots and other artificial systems. However, interactions
with unstructured environments pose high challenges due to the variety of
conditions and crucial sensory limits, such as occlusions and limited FOV.
This position will focus on the study and development of systems that can
perceive others’ states in unstructured environments and predict their
actions, intentions, and beliefs.
A possible line of research would focus on adaptive and social active
perception mechanisms that enable to dynamically deal with sensory limits
and have received limited attention but play a crucial role in human
perception (Ognibene & Demiris, 2013, Lee, Ognibene et al. 2015). It has
been recently shown that such mechanisms may substantially improve learning
performance other than execution efficiency and even enable online
adaptation to new environments [Ognibene & Baldassarre, 2015], however,
these properties have not been fully scaled to social conditions yet.
Moreover, active perception also plays a crucial role also when interacting
with other agents who add relevant scene dynamics and may occlude important
information. At the same time agents may have their own sensory limits and
active perception strategies that must be scrupulously parsed to support
effective social interaction [Ognibene, Mirante, et al, 2019], e.g. false
beliefs and theory of mind [Bianco & Ognibene 2020]. Most importantly,
social interaction increases the demand for integration of information
about task and context, i.e. simultaneous perception of the states of other
agents, their effectors, and other scene elements which can be strongly
affected by the limited field of view and challenging for active perception
due to the necessity to focus on the right element at the right time
[Ognibene, Chinellato, et al 2013] and adapt to different types of
interaction. The work may not only focus on advancing technical performance
but on understanding and modelling how humans perform and adapt social
perception or on how to design active social perception to improve the
perceived quality of human-robot interactions.
References:
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recognition theories to adaptive theory of mind for robots: Computational
models. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on
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intention recognition for joint human-robot search and rescue missions
through Monte-Carlo planning in POMDP environments. In International
Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 332-343). Springer, Cham.
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Stare: Spatio-temporal attention relocation for multiple structured
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5916-5927.
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Dimitri Ognibene, PhD
Associate Professor at Università Milano-Bicocca
Honorary Lecturer of Computer science and Artificial Intelligence at
University of Essex
http://sites.google.com/site/dimitriognibenehomepage/
*Skype:* dimitri.ognibene
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Dimitri Ognibene, PhD
Associate Professor at Università Milano-Bicocca
Honorary Lecturer of Computer science and Artificial Intelligence at
University of Essex
http://sites.google.com/site/dimitriognibenehomepage/
*Skype:* dimitri.ognibene
Dear roboticists,
The Department of Computer Science at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg,
University of Applied Sciences (Sankt Augustin Campus), together with
the Bonn-Aachen International Centre for Information Technology (b-it),
has an opening for a *permanent professorship (W2) for Computer Science,
with specialisation in Autonomous Systems*.
*The **application deadline is July 5th, 2022*; the position itself is
available from Mar. 1st, 2023.
We expect applicants for the position to meet the following requirements:
* the employment requirements of §36 HG NRW, in particular three years
of professional experience outside of higher education institutions,
* very good knowledge of English, as well as the ability and
willingness to teach in English,
* pedagogical and didactic skills in teaching complex learning content,
* willingness to participate in activities within the university, as
well as national and international committees,
* experience in the acquisition, establishment and implementation of
internal and externally funded research and development projects,
* active participation in the further development and expansion of our
Autonomous Systems master's program.
In addition, the following criteria would be desirable:
* teaching experience at universities or comparable institutions,
* willingness to also teach undergraduate courses that correspond to
the topics of the call for applications,
* willingness for interdisciplinary cooperation with other
institutions within and outside the university,
* evidence of international collaborations and networking with the
professional community,
* willingness to conduct courses and examinations in German.
More detailed information about the position can be found at
https://stellen.h-brs.de/jobposting/27baf466423c9b9ede4285f948072a29d1f6ab0…
We would like to see more female scientists at our university and are
therefore particularly pleased to receive applications from women. We
also welcome applicants with children; H-BRS is a certified
family-friendly university - and proud of it. People with severe
disabilities are part of our university; we give them preference in the
application process if their qualifications are equal. The position is
suitable for part-time work. For information about the professorship to
be filled, please contact the head of the appointment committee, Prof.
Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender (nico.hochgeschwender(a)h-brs.de). In addition,
the Equal Opportunity Officer of H-BRS, Dr. Barbara Hillen, is also
happy to assist you (www.h-brs.de/de/gi/barbara-hillen
<https://www.h-brs.de/de/gi/barbara-hillen>).
Regards,
Nico Hochgeschwender
* We apologise for cross-posting*
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Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender
Professor of Autonomous Systems
B-IT Bonn-Aachen International Center of Information Technology
Fon: +49-2241-865-9634 Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
University oAS
Fax: +49-2241-865-8293 Computer Science
Department
Net: nico.hochgeschwender(a)h-brs.de Grantham-Allee 20
53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany
Web: http://www.h-brs.de/de/inf/nico-hochgeschwender
Twitter: @nico_roboticist
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International Master Program on Autonomous Systems
https://www.h-brs.de/en/inf/autonomous-systems-msc
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Dear colleagues,
This is a gentle reminder that the paper submission for the fifth
edition of SCRITA Workshop <scrita.herts.ac.uk> at IEEE RO-MAN 2022 are
open!
This workshop will be a full day event on 29 August 2022, in conjunction
with the IEEE RO-MAN 2022 <http://www.smile.unina.it/ro-man2022/>
conference, held in sunny and beautiful Naples, Italy.
The workshop is open to a broad audience from academia and industry
researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural
control, and user recommendation. We will foster the exchange of
insights on past and ongoing research, and contribute to the discussion
of innovative ideas for tackling unresolved issues by providing new and
inspirational directions of research with brilliant invited speakers and
a panel of experts in the field.
Please find attached below the call for papers.
For any questions and information, do not hesitate to contact us (emails
below).
Kind regards,
Alessandra
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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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*** WorkhopTrust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction ***
31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive
Communication (RO-MAN 2022)
August 29th - September 2nd, 2022
Naples, Italy
http://ro-man2022.org <http://ro-man2022.org/>
*Important Dates*
*Submission deadline*: 15 July 2022
*Acceptance*: 31 July 2022
People's ability of accepting and trusting robots is fundamental for a
fruitful and successful coexistence between humans and people. While
advanced progresses are reached in studying and evaluating the factors
affecting acceptance and trust of people in robots in controlled or
short-term (repeated interactions) setting, developing service and
personal robots, that are accepted and trusted by people where the
supervision of operators is not possible, still presents an open
challenge for scientists in robotics, AI and HRI fields. In such
unstructured static and dynamic human-centred environments scenarios,
robots should be able to learn and adapt their behaviours to the
situational context, but also to people’s prior experiences and learned
associations, their expectations, and their and the robot’s ability to
predict and understand each other's behaviours. This workshop focuses on
addressing the challenges and development of the dynamics between people
and robots in order to foster short interactions and long-lasting
relationships in different fields, from educational, service,
collaborative, companion, care-home and medical robotics. Although the
previous editions valued the participation of leading researchers in the
field and several exceptional invited speakers who tackled down some
fundamental points in this research domains, we wish to continue to
further explore the role of trust in robotics to present groundbreaking
research to effectively design and develop socially acceptable and
trustable robots to be deployed "in the wild".
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Impact of Social Cues on Trust in HRI
* Measuring Trust in HRI
* Trust Violation and Recovery Mechanism in HRI
* Effects of Humans’ Acceptance on Trust of Robots
* Humans Sense of Control and Trust in Robots
* Trust and Assistive Robotics
* Overtrust in Robots
* Antecedent of Trust and Robot Trust
* Enhancing Humans Trust in Robots
* Enhancing Trust in a Robot Companion
* Privacy Implications on Trust in HRI
* Mental Models and Trust in HRI
* Trust and Safety in HRI
* Ethics Implications on Trust in HRI
* Trustworthy AI
* XAI in HRI
* Legal Frameworks for Trustworthy Robotics
Templates and Submission Procedure
We encourage participants to submit two-page abstracts or full papers
(up to 6 pages) on original and unpublished research. We will also
welcome submissions of two-page position papers on topics covering the
scope of the workshop. All accepted papers will have an oral presentations.
We further welcome authors of the accepted papers to present a video or
demonstrate their works and achievements. Video demonstrations should be
accompanied by an up to 2 pages abstract describing the work and
achievements.
Authors should submit their papers formatted according to the IEEE
two-column format
<http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php>, which is
also used for contributions to the main conference. Use the following
templates to create the paper and generate or export a PDF file: LaTeX
<http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php> or MS-Word
<http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php>.
PDF submission will be possible via EasyChair
<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=scrita2022>. Each paper will
receive at least two reviews. 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 who want to include a video in their submission can indicate
their plans via EasyChair and will be sent a link to a confidentially
upload the video file. At least one of the authors of the accepted
papers needs to register for the workshop.
Invited Speakers
The following keynote speakers have already agreed to participate in
this workshop:
* Alan Wagner, Penn State University, USA
* Moojan Ghafurian, University of Waterloo, Canada
* Takayuki Kanda, Kyoto University, Japan
Panel Session
The following experts have already agreed to participate in this workshop:
* Alessandro Di Nuovo, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
* Kerstin Sophie Haring, University of Denver, USA