February 2025 - RoboCup-worldwide

RoboCup International Symposium 2025 first call for papers
by Rudi Villing 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Call for papers RoboCup International Symposium 2025 https://2025.robocup.org/symposium/ Monday 21 July 2025 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The 28th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 21 July 2025, in conjunction with RoboCup 2025 (15 July to 20 July 2024), in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium will be held in person at the Salvador Convention Center (CCS), Av. Octávio Mangabeira, 5.490 Boca do Rio - Salvador - Bahia - Brazil. In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, there is the development track encouraging reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of full papers: 7 April 2025 Notification to authors: 16 May 2025 Submission of camera-ready copies: 30 May 2025 RoboCup Symposium 2025: 21 July 2025 (RoboCup on 15-20 July 2025) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and must be electronically submitted through Springer’s electronic-submission system EquinOCS. (The link to submit papers will be provided in the second call for papers email). Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. The LNAI author guidelines site contains a Springer’s proceedings LaTeX template (v2.24), and a link to the template in Overleaf: (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer…) TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning * Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning * Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction DEVELOPMENT TRACK To encourage open-source release of hardware and software systems, the RoboCup International Symposium has included a development track in recent years. In 2025, the scope of this track includes datasets and benchmarks. We encourage the submission of papers describing open-source hardware and software, tools and frameworks that facilitate development of robotics hardware and software, datasets that enable new robotic capabilities, as well as benchmarks that establish reproducible test beds and performance metrics to advance research. If applicable, contributions to the special track should include evidence of the released system or dataset, and highlight past, ongoing, and/or potential future impacts on the RoboCup community. A review of these contributions will be based on technical merit and benefits to the RoboCup community, and the research topics listed above. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Ana Patrícia Fontes Magalhães Mascarenhas (UNEB, Brazil) Alexander Ferrein (FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Rudi Villing (Maynooth University, Ireland) LOCAL ORGANIZERS Marco Antônio Costa Simões (UNEB, Brazil) Reinaldo Bianchi (Centro Universitário FEI, Brazil) CONTACT You can contact via the PC chairs via the contact button in EquinOCS VISA INFORMATION If you are a citizen of a country that needs a Visa for traveling to the Brazil, please start the VISA process as soon as possible. If you are not sure if you are eligible for a VISA-exemption, please consult the official website of the Brazilian government for information, at https://www.gov.br/mre/pt-br/assuntos/portal-consular/vistos/informacoes-so… (Information is in English below each paragraph in Portuguese).

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CfP for Studica Smart Farming Challenge at RoboCup German Open 2025
by Oskar von Stryk 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

🌱🤖 Premiere of the Studica Smart Farming Challenge! 🚜💡 The future of agriculture needs intelligent, autonomous robots - and this is exactly where the new Studica Smart Farming Challenge comes in during the RoboCup German Open 2025 in Nuremberg! For the first time, teams will have the chance to demonstrate their skills in developing innovative intelligent robotics solutions for the needs of modern agriculture. 🌾 👉 What can you expect? ✅ Each team will receive a Studica Smart Farming Robot Kit - and can keep it after the competition! ✅ Attractive prizes for the best teams: 1st place: EUR1000, 2nd place: EUR500, 3rd place: EUR250 🏆 ✅ An exciting challenge: recognising artificial plants, determining the degree of ripeness and harvesting carefully - on uneven terrain! 🍅🥒 Limited number of teams - it pays to be quick! Both new teams and teams registered for the RoboCupMajor leagues can take part in the challenge. 📅 Date: 12-16 March 2025 during the RoboCup German Open 2025 at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre, parallel to the Freizeit Messe and the 1st German Robotics Conference of the Robotic Institute Germany. Registration deadline: 9 March 2025 🌐 Info & registration: https://robocup.de/sfc Join in and become part of the future of smart agriculture! 💚 Best regards, Oskar von Stryk (General Chair RoboCup German Open 2025)

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Call for participation: RoboCup JapanOpen2025
by Wataru UEMURA 23 Feb '25

23 Feb '25

Dear RoboCuppers, We are pleased to announce that RoboCup JapanOpen 2025 will be held at SHIGA Daihatsu Arena on May 2nd - 5th, 2025 as follows: RoboCup JapanOpen 2025 -- Call for Participations -- https://www.robocup.or.jp/JapanOpen2025/english.html We plan to have the following leagues: - RoboCup Soccer - small size (wheel) - RoboCup Soccer - small size (humanoid challenge) - RoboCup Soccer - simulation (2D) - RoboCup Rescue - robot - RoboCup Rescue - simulation - RoboCup @Home - open platform - RoboCup @Home - domestic standard platform - RoboCup @Home - bridge competition - RoboCup @Home - simulation open platform - RoboCup Industrial - logistics = Event dates Team setup day: 2, May, 2025 Competition days: 3-5, May, 2025 Organizer: RoboCup Japan Regional Committee More details will be announced by each league organizer. = Important dates Team registration deadline: 4 April, 2025 Member registration deadline: 11, April, 2025 = Registration Fees * faculty or ordinary participants : 28,000 yen * students who are >=18 years old : 13,000 yen * students who are <18 years old : 10,000 yen = Contact Secretary office of The Robocup Japanese Regional Committee office[at]robocup.or.jp = League Organizers Soccer small size - wheel: Yuzuru Ohba Soccer small size - humanoid challenge: Yasuhiro Masutani Soccer simulation (2D): Tomoharu Nakashima Rescue robot: Noritaka Sato Rescue simulation: Nobuhiro Ito @home open platform and domestic standard platform: Hakaru Tamukoh @Home simulation open platform: Tatsunari Inamura Industrial logistics: Wataru Uemura --- Best regards, Wataru. ==================== Wataru UEMURA, Dr. Eng. Associate Professor, Ryukoku University Executive Director, RoboCup Japanese Regional Committee http://friede.elec.ryukoku.ac.jp/~wataru ====================

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[News]Call for Participation 2025 RoboCup Logistics League (RCLL)
by 安田尚平Yasuda Shohei 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

Dear RoboCupper, Call for Participation 2025 RoboCup Logistics League (RCLL) Salvador, Brazil July 15th-21st, 2025 https://2025.robocup.org/ https://ll.robocup.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Deadlines * Pre-Registration: March 21, 2025 * TDP Submission: March 21, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT RCLL With both competitive and research aspects, the RoboCup Logistics League aims to demonstrate the possibilites of a future Smart Factory. With the concept of „Industry 4.0“ in mind, production steps have to be divided into actions executable by robots, thus making their automation possible. These actions have to be planned and coordinated fully autonomously by the robots. The RCLL strives to promote research and development on the intralogistic challenges of future production processes. For this purpose the competition is held in an exemplary factory setting where an abstract product consisting of bases, rings and caps can be produced. There are 3 separate competitions in the RCLL: * Main Track * Challenge Track * Open Challenge The Main Track is a competition similar to prior years, with games that replicate a full production scenario. The Challenge Track focuses on the individual skills that are required to succeed in the RCLL and thus is a great opportunity for newcomers to gradually progress in the domain. The Open Challenge is an invitation for teams to shine with their own innovative ideas on how to tackle the challenges arising in a Smart Factory. The rulebook is below: https://github.com/robocup-logistics/rcll-rulebook QUALIFICATION All interested teams must submit a Team description paper (TDP) in order to qualify. The TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Deadline for Submission is March 21, 2025. Optional Qualification Materials include a Team Video and a Team Poster to encourage exchange between teams. SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION Registration must be done via Email to: rc-logistics-oc(a)lists.robocup.org and must not include the Qualification Material, but a link to access the qualification material. The registration must include: 1. Team Name 2. Country 3. Affiliation 4. Team Leader Name 5. Team Contact Info (Email) 6. Team Website address The subject of the Email should be: /[RoboCupLogisticsLeague2025-Participation] (YourTeamName)/ We hope to see you around, the RoboCup Logistics League Organizing and Technical Committee -- 安田尚平 Shohei Yasuda 龍谷大学大学院先端理工学研究科電子情報通信コース Ryukoku University Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering Course shohei(a)vega.elec.ryukoku.ac.jp y24m037(a)mail.ryukoku.ac.jp

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Call for two post doc positions in Smart Agriculture
by Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi 15 Feb '25

15 Feb '25

********************************************************** FAPESP Post-doctoral Fellowship #1 - Call for applications ********************************************************** The FAPESP project "SMART: Sustainable Management of Agriculture with the Intelligent Computing Continuum" (bv.fapesp.br/en/auxilios/116446<http://bv.fapesp.br/en/auxilios/116446>) has an open Post-Doctoral position to work at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). The research theme is "Smart Application Deployment for the IoT Computing Continuum", dealing with the challenges of deploying smart agriculture applications over the IoT Computing Continuum (IoTinuum), considering the inherent distribution of the end-to-end path between devices and the cloud and the need for individual services to run in multiple stages in-between. The SMART project aims to develop and deploy a trustworthy platform for smart agriculture across the IoTinuum, from field sensors to the cloud. It will utilize various sensors, data sources, networking technologies, data management, and machine learning to ensure reliable dataflow and trustworthiness. The deployment of smart applications for the IoTinuum requires the efficient orchestration of resources allocated to the services to provide the intended quality levels. Orchestration involves fulfilling the application needs by carefully matching services, resources, and workloads, including microservice placement, deployment, and migration. In the IoTinuum context, it means being aware of and monitoring the resources available in each stage, understanding the application QoS requirements (such as maximum delay), and deploying the services in the most appropriate stage, i.e., in Mist, Fog, or Cloud. An IoT smart application comprises various services (i.e., microservices), which may be deployed in different stages for distinct installations. Using a certain node within the continuum stage involves deploying services. If this stage is not used in a given installation, this service must be deployed elsewhere in another stage. Current deployment strategies cannot handle varying configurations for IoT efficient and scalable application deployment within the continuum. The general objective of this postdoc fellowship is to design and implement an application deployment methodology for the IoTinuum that takes as input a model (such as a directed acyclic graph) representing the application and generates a deployment strategy as output. The main challenges in this proposal involve: 1. A Deployment Triggering strategy, which identifies the need for a new deployment to be executed over the IoTinuum 2. A Deployment Biding strategy, which means that that abstract graph representing the application will be mapped to specific nodes (with IP addresses and ports) located in different stages of the continuum, such as Thing, Mist, Fog, or Cloud 3. A Deployment Distribution and installation strategy for transferring services to where they will be executed (e.g., cloud or fog) 4. A preliminary version of the application deployment methodology A highly motivated candidate is expected to show background in the following concepts: - IoT, cloud, fog, edge, and the computing continuum - Application deployment and DevOps strategies - Performance analysis with experimentation techniques - Advanced programming language skills - Advanced English language skills - Strong publication record The candidate must hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related areas (less than 7 years since graduation). The fellowship's duration is 30 months, and the monthly stipend is R$12.000,00 plus 10% for research expenses. The term for this scholarship is expected to start as soon as possible, ideally in April 2025. Candidates should fill out the online form at: https://forms.gle/AxC47yMXqFi9fP9K8<https://cas5-0-urlprotect.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3…> Deadline: March, 14, 2025 Inquiries can be sent to carlos.kamienski(a)ufabc.edu.br<mailto:carlos.kamienski@ufabc.edu.br> ********************************************************** FAPESP Post-doctoral Fellowship #2 - Call for applications ********************************************************** The FAPESP project "SMART: Sustainable Management of Agriculture with the Intelligent Computing Continuum" (bv.fapesp.br/en/auxilios/116446<http://bv.fapesp.br/en/auxilios/116446>) has an open Post-Doctoral position to work at the FEI Univerity Center (FEI). The research theme is "Developing the Intelligent IoT Continuum for Precision Agriculture: Task Allocation, Forecasting, Resource Management, and Data Analytics", dealing with the challenges of deploying smart agriculture applications over the IoT Computing Continuum (IoTinuum). This project aims to develop an intelligent Internet of Things (IoT) system focused on precision agriculture. The aim is to create an interconnected network of devices capable of collecting and analyzing data on crop conditions, such as soil moisture, temperature, and weather conditions. Using artificial intelligence techniques, the system should be able to optimize the allocation of tasks between the different devices in the network, manage resources efficiently, and carry out predictive analyses of agricultural production. The system will train machine learning and deep learning models collaboratively through federated learning, using data from different devices without centralizing the information. Based on the data collected and analyzed, the system should predict the production of a given crop, optimize irrigation and fertilizer application, and identify possible crop problems in advance. In short, this project aims to create an innovative solution for agriculture, combining the Internet of Things with artificial intelligence to improve productivity, reduce costs, and promote sustainability. The general objective of this postdoc fellowship is to develop an intelligent Internet of Things system for precision agriculture that can collect, analyze, and utilize data on crop conditions. The main challenges in this proposal involve: 1. To design an intelligent IoT system for precision agriculture. 2. To optimize the allocation of tasks and resources within the IoT network using artificial intelligence techniques. 3. To perform predictive analyses of agricultural production through machine learning and deep learning models trained collaboratively using federated learning. 4. To predict crop production, optimize irrigation and fertilizer application, and identify potential crop problems. A highly motivated candidate is expected to show background in the following concepts: - Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Network Architectures, time series and their application to agricultural problems. Federated Learning is a plus - Data Analytics, Model Evaluation and Deployment - IoT, cloud, fog, edge, and the computing continuum - Advanced programming language skills - Advanced English language skills - Strong publication record The candidate must hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related areas (less than 7 years since graduation). The fellowship's duration is 30 months, and the monthly stipend is R$12.000,00 plus 10% for research expenses. The term for this scholarship is expected to start as soon as possible, ideally in April 2025. Candidates should fill out the online form at: https://forms.gle/oftX3orZz478Gne17<https://cas5-0-urlprotect.trendmicro.com/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3…> Deadline: March, 14, 2025 Inquiries can be sent to rbianchi(a)fei.edu.br<mailto:rbianchi@fei.edu.br> Esta mensagem, juntamente com qualquer outra informa??o anexada, ? confidencial e protegida por lei. Somente os seus destinat?rios est?o autorizados a us?-la. Se voc? n?o for o destinat?rio, por favor, informe o remetente e, em seguida, apague a mensagem, observando que n?o h? autoriza??o para usar, copiar, armazenar, encaminhar, imprimir ou tomar qualquer a??o baseada no seu conte?do.

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[NEW LEAGUE] RoboCup 2025 Flying Robots - Call for Participation
by Marco Antonio C. Simões 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Call for Participation RoboCup 2025 Flying Robots League July 15 – July 21, 2025, Salvador (Brazil) https://2025.robocup.org/robocup-flying-robots/ The Flying Robot League (FRL) aims to stimulate the study and development of autonomous and intelligent flying robots for different tasks applied to the industrial and logistics sector. The Challenge is a reduced and playful model that tries to emulate logistical problems in an arena with two suspended bases for landings and takeoffs, a takeoff base, and three mobile land bases. Among the research challenges still existing on autonomous and intelligent robots, the Flying Robot League aims to stimulate the development of aerial robotic systems and robust flight controllers (trajectory, altitude, and pose) with embedded, precise, and independent camera tracking and localization systems; high-capacity embedded processing; and devices for manipulating and loading objects. We invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2025 Flying Robot League competition in Salvador, Brazil. If you are interested in participating, please register your team and follow the procedure outlined below. This league is promoted in partnership with RoboCup Rescue Robot League. Important Dates April 10, 2025 (23:59 AoE): Team Qualification Materials Submission Deadline (TDP and Video) April 15, 2025: Qualified Teams Announcement July 15 – 20, 2025: Competition Waiver of the team fee for 2025 Qualified Teams The RoboCup Federation is pleased to announce a waiver of the team registration fee for the RoboCup competition for QUALIFIED teams in this new league. This fee applies only to the team fee but not to the members’ registration fee. A QUALIFIED team is one in which the TDP paper and TDP Challenge video were accepted as performing the required points. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any waiver of fees for team members. Qualification Qualification is based on a team’s current performance, previous achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions in relevant areas in past years. In RoboCup 2025, up to 11 (eleven) teams will participate in the Flying Robots League. The top three teams from RoboCup Brazil Open 2024 (Capybots, Atena, and RoboCIn) are automatically qualified after submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP) without needing the TDP challenge video. The team from Salvador (BahiaRT), home of the 2025 event, is also automatically qualified after submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP) without needing the TDP challenge video. The other seven teams will be selected through the qualification process involving the proper Team Description Paper (TDP) and the TDP Challenge video. Qualification material consists of: 1. Team Description Paper (TDP) The TDP should describe your research focus and ideas implemented by the team. It should clearly describe your work and your contributions and specify what you have used from others’ efforts (including, but not limited to, any source code released by other teams or their scientific work). In qualification, teams must be judged based on their work, so failing to acknowledge the work of others could result in immediate disqualification. The length of the TDP must be at least eight (8) pages and should not exceed ten (10) pages in Springer LNCS Style. Please do not send TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. Please submit the TDP as a PDF document with your team's name in the filename, i.e., Teamname_TDP.pdf. The TDP needs to be done using the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science template, with a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 8 pages containing the following information: * Title: must be the name of the team; * Authors: must be the names of the team members (full name); * Affiliation: * University where the team comes from; * Link to the team, group, or lab’s webpage; * Phone number of 2 contacts for Whatsapp Group; * The e-mail of the captain of the team; * Just below the Keywords, there should be a link to the execution of the TDP challenge performed by the team’s UAV; * As for the article itself, the TDP must contain: * 0.5 page maximum for the title, author's names, affiliation, abstract, keywords, and video link. * 1.5 pages maximum describing the used UAV (mechanics, electronics, sensors, etc); * 2 pages maximum describing with details the Navigation System (software, with open git-hub); * 3 pages describing how the team solved the TDP task, describing the proposed architecture and development, as well as presenting the obtained results and discussing them; * 1 page maximum for References. 2. TDP Challenge: To be classified to participate in the RoboCup Flying Robot Trial League, the team must perform a TDP challenge and submit the video of the drone performing the desired task along with the written TDP. The task consists of one flying robot performing 2 (two) different plight paths (Position and Transverse) autonomously around a desired target. More details about the challenge can be found within the Rulebook<https://2025.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Flying-Robots-League-Ro…>. The video should be sent in a mp4 file with your team's name in the filename, i.e., Teamname_TDP.mp4. Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name, create a tarball named teamname.tar.gz, and upload it to the registration form. https://forms.gle/TsWg7FCuURRz41w77 You should upload only one file, including all your qualification materials. If everything works fine, you will receive a confirmation. If you do not receive any confirmation within two (2) days, please contact the Organizing Committee. If you encounter any problem sending your qualification materials, please don’t hesitate to contact the OC. Best Regards, RoboCup 2025 Flying Robot League Organizing Committee Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br<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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Call for Papers: The 7th Games, Agents, and Incentives Workshop (GAIW)@AAMAS 2025
by Nicholas Mattei 08 Feb '25

08 Feb '25

Call for Papers: The 7th Games, Agents, and Incentives Workshop (GAIW)@AAMAS 2025 TL;DR:GAIW submission deadline is extended to Monday, February 18, Anytime on Earth Webpage: https://preflib.github.io/gaiw2025 - Submission Deadline: February 11 18, 2025 (AoE). - Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2025. - Camera Ready: April 4, 2025 (AoE). - Workshop: May 19 or 20, 2025 (TBA). Call for Papers: We invite submissions to the 7th iteration of the Games, Agents and Incentives Workshop, co-located with AAMAS 2025 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Games, Agents and Incentives is a confederated workshop which focuses on agents and incentives in AI. In particular, it promotes approaches that deal with game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative), social choice, and agent-mediated e-commerce aspects of AI systems. The confederated workshop merges multiple workshops that have been associated with AAMAS in the past, which considered different aspects of the general interplay between AI and economics: • CoopMAS: Cooperative Games in Multi-agent Systems • AMEC: Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce • EXPLORE: Exploring Beyond the Worst Case in Computational Social Choice Over the past two decades, the focus of agent incentives in decentralised and centralised AI systems has increased dramatically. These issues come up when designing preference aggregation mechanisms and markets; computing equilibria and bidding strategies; facilitating cooperation among agents; and fairly dividing resources. ********************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION ********************************************************** Authors should submit full papers electronically in PDF format at < Open review link TBA. See website for updates > Formatting Guidelines: Please format papers according to the AAMAS 2025 format (author kit <https://aamas2025.org/index.php/conference/calls/submission-instructions-ma…>). Optionally, one may submit in LNCS format as well (LaTeX template). Paper Length: Papers can be at most 8 pages long in AAMAS format, or 12 pages long in LNCS format. Additional pages may be used for references. Supplemental material can be appended at the end of the paper. However, reviewers are instructed to make their evaluations based on the main submission, and are not obligated to consult the supplemental material. Multiple Submissions: To widen participation and encourage discussion, there will be no formal publication of workshop proceedings. We will, however, post the accepted papers online to the benefit of the participants to the workshop. Therefore, submission of preliminary work and papers to be submitted or in preparation for submission to other major venues in the field are encouraged. Past Submissions: In order to strike a balance between new work and work that may have been presented, but not widely seen, we ask that if authors want to submit published work they do so non-anonymously and clearly indicate when and where the work was published. We will only accept work which has been published in the last calendar year (e.g., IJCAI 2024, NeurIPS 2024, AAAI 2024, AAAI 2025 and any conference held strictly after February 2024). We invite papers on topics of game theory, mechanism design, fair allocation, computational social choice, and their applications to multi-agent systems: - Algorithmic mechanism design - Auctions - Behavioral Game Theory - Bounded rationality - Cooperative Games - Computational advertising - Computational aspects of equilibria - Computational social choice - Coalitions, coordination, collective action, and cooperation - Economic aspects of security and privacy - Economic aspects of distributed and network computing - Equilibrium computation - Empirical approaches to e-market - Fairness (in ML & elsewhere) - Fair Division - Incentives in machine learning - Information and attention economics - Learning in games (e.g., solution concepts and equilibria) - Matching and Matching Markets - Negotiation - Price differentiation and price dynamics - Social networks - Trading agent design and analysis - Uncertainty in AI and economics Best Presentation Award: The organizing committee of GAIW will be giving two awards (first-place and runner up) for best paper presentations. The award criteria include the clarity of presentation, the level of engagement, the content, and discussion handline. Inquiries: If you have any questions, direct them to alan.tsang(a)carleton.ca. ********************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ********************************************************** - Submission Deadline: February 11, 2025 (AoE). - Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2025. - Camera Ready: April 4, 2025 (AoE). - Workshop: May 19 or 20, 2025 (TBA). ********************************************************** ORGANIZATION ********************************************************** Program Chairs Ben Abramowitz, Tulane University Haris Aziz, UNSW Sydney and Data61 John P. Dickerson, University of Maryland Hadi Hosseini, Penn State University Nicholas Mattei, Tulane University Svetlana Obraztsova, Carleton University Zinovi Rabinovich, Carleton University Alan Tsang, Carleton University Tomasz Wąs, Penn State University Michael Curry, University of Illinois Chicago -- *Nicholas Mattei* Associate Professor, Tulane University nsmattei(a)tulane.edu | www.nickmattei.net Stanley Thomas Hall | 305B +1 504 865 5782 Department of Computer Science Tulane University 6823 St Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70118

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CFP:World Robot Summit Harsh Environment F-REI Challenge (WRS F-REI Challenge)
by Tetsuya Kimura 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

Dear Robocuppers, CFP:World Robot Summit Harsh Environment F-REI Challenge (WRS F-REI Challenge) Event Details: Dates: October 10–12, 2025 Venue: Fukushima Robot Test Field Host: Fukushima Institute for Research, Education, and Innovation (F-REI) Co-Host: Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), Japan Application Information: Application Guidelines: https://wrs.f-rei.go.jp/en/guideline/ Entry Form: https://wrs.f-rei.go.jp/en/entry/ Application Deadline: May 12, 2025 Team Qualification Announcement: May 30, 2025 Challenge Categories: The WRS F-REI Challenge will feature the following four categories: 1.Harsh Environment Drone Challenge 2.Plant Disaster Challenge 3.Simulation Disaster Challenge 4.Standard Disaster Robotics Drone Challenge Travel Support and Award Money will be provided. Performance in competitions such as the RoboCup Rescue Robot League or similar events will be considered as supporting evidence during the selection process. Tetsuya Kimura, WRS F-REI Challenge OC RRRL-WC Former Executive Committee Members ---- Tetsuya KIMURA, Dr. of Eng., Professor. Dept. of System Safety Engineering, Nagaoka Univ. of Tech. Trustee, Internat. Rescue System Inst. kimura(a)mech.nagaokaut.ac.jp Tel.+81-258-47-9708, Fax.+81-258-47-9770

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