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Deadline Extension - Call for Papers - 13th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2025)
by Iman Awaad 29 Jun '25

29 Jun '25

Apologies for multiple copies DEADLINE EXTENSION *** after several requests, the new submission deadline is now the 11th of July 2025 *** International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2025 Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2025) https://icaps25.icaps-conference.org/program/workshops/planrob/ Melbourne, Australia November 10-11, 2025 *Description* AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are key to enabling intelligent robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and interactive behaviours. Researchers in the P&S community have continued to develop approaches and produce planners, representations, as well as heuristics that robotics researchers can make use of. However, there remain numerous challenges complicating the uptake, use and successful integration of P&S technology in robotics, many of which have been addressed by robotics researchers with novel solutions. Strong collaboration and synergy between researchers in both communities is vital to the continued growth of the fields in a way that provide mutual benefits to the two communities. To foster this, the PlanRob workshop aims to provide a stable, long-term forum (having been held annually at ICAPS since 2013) where researchers from both the P&S and Robotics communities can openly discuss relevant issues, research and development progress, future directions and open challenges related to P&S when applied to Robotics. In addition to the usual paper submissions, the workshop’s format naturally lends itself to preliminary results, position papers as well as to work focused on challenges in using and integrating planners in robotics systems. *Topics of interest* Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - human-aware planning and execution in human-robot interaction, - real-world planning applications for autonomous and intelligent robots, - planning domain representations for robotics applications, - optimising behaviour in large scale automated or semi-automated systems, - integrated planning and execution in robot architectures, - learning methods for robot planning and scheduling, - P&S methods for optimisation and adaptation in robotics, - mission, path, and motion planning for robots, - formal methods for robot planning and control, - challenges and solutions in using P&S technology in robotics, - open problems for P&S in robotics, - coordination of multi-robot teams, - benchmark planning domains for robots, - adversarial action planning in competitive robot domains, - mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for robotic systems. *Important Dates* Paper submission (extended): July 11, 2025 (was June 30, 2025) Notification (extended): August 1, 2025 (was July 20, 2025) Workshop: November 10-11, 2025 (tbd) *Submission* There are two types of submissions: - short position papers (four pages) - regular papers (up to 10 pages) Papers may have an additional page containing references. Regular papers may be scheduled with more time in the final program. A poster session may be considered to provide a further presentation opportunity. The guidelines for formatting are the same as is used for ICAPS 2025 papers (typeset in the AAAI style as described at:http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php), but with the AAAI copyright removed. The papers must be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icapswsplanrob25). Please note that papers under review (e.g. which have been submitted to IJCAI-2025) are also welcome, however, in order to avoid potential conflicts, these manuscripts should be prepared as anonymous submissions for a double blind reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop’s website. The organisers are investigating the availability of journal editors in order to invite a selection of accepted papers from the workshop to a special issue or post-proceedings volume. *Organizing Committee* Zlatan Ajanović, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands zlatan.ajanovic(a)ml.rwth-aachen.de Iman Awaad, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany iman.awaad(a)h-brs.de Alberto Finzi, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy alberto.finzi(a)unina.it AndreA Orlandini, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy andrea.orlandini(a)istc.cnr.it *Program Committee (To Be Completed)* - Zlatan Ajanovic, TU Delft - Iman Awaad, Bonn Rhein Sieg University of Applied Sciences - Roman Barták, Charles University - Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University - Riccardo Caccavale, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II - Magí Dalmau Moreno, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Riccardo De Benedictis, CNR - National Research Council of Italy - Alberto Finzi, Universita' di Napoli Federico II - Nick Hawes, University of Oxford - Jane Jean Kiam, Universität der Bundeswehr München - Senka Krivic, University of Sarajevo - Oscar Lima, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence - DFKI - Tim Niemueller, Intrinsic Innovation GmbH - AndreA Orlandini, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTC) - Ron Petrick, Heriot-Watt University - Sebastian Stock, German Research Center for Artificial Intellegence, DFKI - Elisa Tosello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Alessandro Umbrico, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTC) - Pulkit Verma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Iman Awaad Researcher, Autonomous Systems Group Assistant director & Study advisor, Master's Program in Autonomous Systems www.h-brs.de/en/inf/studienangebot/master/autonomous-systems Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems www.h-brs.de/en/a2s Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences | Department of Computer Science Grantham Allee 20, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone +49 (0) 2241 865-295 www.h-brs.de/en/inf/iman-awaad Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it) Friedrich Hirzebruch-Allee 5, 53115 Bonn, Germany www.b-it-center.de

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[meetings][CFP][RO-MAN 2025] TRUST: Building Trust in Human-Robot Interaction Workshop
by Alessandra Rossi 24 Jun '25

24 Jun '25

Dear Colleagues, This is the second call for submissions for our workshop, "TRUST: Building Trust in Human-Robot Interaction." The workshop is the joint work of SCRITA and RTSS workshops. The TRUST workshop will be held as a full-day event at ROMAN 2025 on August 29, 2025, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Please find below the call for paper! Do not hesitate to contact us for more info. We look forward to seeing you in Eindhoven! best regards Alessandra on behalf of the SCRITA and RTSS workshops organisers Important dates Paper Submission Deadline: 30 June 2025, Anywhere on Earth Notification of Acceptance: 21 July 2025 Camera-ready submission: 08 August 2025, Anywhere on Earth Workshop website: https://scrita.herts.ac.uk/2025/ Invited speakers - Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark - Roy Lindelauf, Tilburg University - Philip Brey, University of Twente - Minoru Asada, Osaka University & International Professional University of Technology in Osaka, Japan. Call for contributions and submission format We invite authors to submit position papers and four-page papers: - We invite authors to submit four pages long (excluding references), discussing novel works in the scope of the workshop. - We invite authors to submit position papers, 2 to 4 pages long (excluding references), discussing their prior experience and new developments in the scope of the workshop to feed into the group and the following panel discussions. We encourage the authors to present a video or demonstrate their works and achievements. All accepted papers will have short oral presentations. Submission Guidelines Authors should prepare 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>. Please submit your paper(s) to: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=scritartss2025 Aim and scope The TRUST workshop is the result of a collaboration between two established workshops in the field of Human-Robot Interaction: SCRITA (Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction) and RTSS (Robot Trust for Symbiotic Societies). This joint initiative brings together the complementary goals of these workshops to advance research on trust from both the human and robot perspectives. The RTSS component addresses a critical challenge in the development of future human-robot symbiotic societies: enabling robots to form trustworthy interactions with both human and robotic partners. While trust from the human perspective has been extensively studied, RTSS emphasizes the need to explore how autonomous agents assess and establish trust in heterogeneous peers. It promotes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and designing mechanisms for robot trust, with the aim of advancing technological, social, and ethical aspects of symbiotic interaction. On the other hand, SCRITA focuses on people’s trust and acceptance of robots in a wide range of social and collaborative contexts. Previous SCRITA workshops have highlighted progress in short-term and controlled interaction studies but also emphasized the need for robust, unambiguous metrics for evaluating human trust in more realistic and dynamic environments. SCRITA promotes cross-disciplinary dialogue to identify key factors affecting trust and to develop novel methodologies to measure and foster trust in long-term human-robot relationships. The TRUST workshop thus provides a unique forum for synthesizing these perspectives, bringing together researchers from robotics, psychology, AI, and HRI to explore how trust can be modelled, measured, and maintained in complex, real-world interactions. It aims to generate novel insights and guidelines for designing trustworthy robotic systems capable of adapting to and thriving in diverse human environments. Audience and topics: The workshop is open to a broad audience from academia and industry researching social robotics, machine learning, robot behavioural control, and user profiling. In particular, we aim to integrate expertise from roboticists with psychologists' and sociologists' insights and experiences to foster a multidisciplinary and human-focused discussion that can capture the multi-faceted nature of trust and acceptance. We will foster the exchange of views on past and ongoing research and contribute to the discussion of innovative ideas for tackling unresolved issues by providing new and inspirational directions for research. Organizers - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy - Patrick Holthaus, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Gabriella Lakatos, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Sílvia Moros, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Ali Fallahi, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (UK) - Murat Kirtay, Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands - Marie Postma, Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands - Erhan Oztop, Osaka University Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center (SISReC), Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka, Japan; Ozyegin University, Computer Science Department, Istanbul, Turkey

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AAAI-26 Call For Papers
by Hadi Hosseini 24 Jun '25

24 Jun '25

We are pleased to invite high-quality submissions to the *Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26)*, which will be held in *Singapore EXPO *from January 20 to January 27, 2026. *Call For Papers* *TL;DR*: AAAI-26 Call For Papers *Important Dates* - Abstract deadline: *July 25, 2025 *at 11:59 PM UTC-12 - Full paper deadline: *August 1, 2025 *at 11:59 PM UTC-12 - Supplementary material/code deadline: *August 4, 2025 *at 11:59 PM UTC-12 - Notification of final acceptance or rejection (main track): *November 3, 2025* - AAAI-26 Conference*: January 20-27, 2026* *Details of Main Track*: https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/main-technical-track-call/ *Note*: Deadlines are track-specific and may differ from those listed above. Track-specific deadlines are listed on their respective CFP. *Additional Tracks/Programs*: AAAI-26 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibition programs, and two other activities: a Bridge Program and a Lab Program. Please see the AAAI-26 webpage for details. *Webpage*: https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/ *About AAAI*: The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is a nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines. Read more *here <https://aaai.org/about-aaai/>: * https://aaai.org/about-aaai/ *Quick Summary*: - Three technical tracks (Main Track; AI for Social Impact; AI Alignment) - Two-phase reviewing for the Main Track: - Phase 1: Two reviews supplemented by one AI-generated, non-decisional review. - Phase 2: Additional reviews for papers not rejected in Phase 1. - Author response after Phase 2, only for papers not rejected in Phase 1. - Metareview and disposition decision after author response period. - Submissions may consist of up to 7 pages of technical content plus additional pages solely for references. - Authors may submit supplementary material, but please note that reviewers are not required to review this material. Any material critical to the evaluation of the paper should be included in the main body of the paper. Three kinds of supplementary material may be submitted alongside all papers: (1) technical appendix; (2) multimedia; (3) code and data. The supplementary material deadline is 3 days after the paper submission deadline. - All authors must complete a reproducibility checklist to facilitate replication of the reported research. - All authors are expected to be available to review (light load), unless extenuating circumstances apply. - AAAI-26 is an* in-person* conference. *AAAI-26 Organizing Committee* -- Hadi Hosseini, Ph.D. Associate Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology Associate Director, Center for AI Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFE) Director, FAIR Lab Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA https://faculty.ist.psu.edu/hadi/

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Call for Papers - 13th ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2025)
by Iman Awaad 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

Apologies for multiple copies Call for papers International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2025 Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob 2025) Melbourne, Australia November 10-11, 2025 *Description* AI Planning & Scheduling (P&S) methods are key to enabling intelligent robots to perform autonomous, flexible, and interactive behaviours. Researchers in the P&S community have continued to develop approaches and produce planners, representations, as well as heuristics that robotics researchers can make use of. However, there remain numerous challenges complicating the uptake, use and successful integration of P&S technology in robotics, many of which have been addressed by robotics researchers with novel solutions. Strong collaboration and synergy between researchers in both communities is vital to the continued growth of the fields in a way that provide mutual benefits to the two communities. To foster this, the PlanRob workshop aims to provide a stable, long-term forum (having been held annually at ICAPS since 2013) where researchers from both the P&S and Robotics communities can openly discuss relevant issues, research and development progress, future directions and open challenges related to P&S when applied to Robotics. In addition to the usual paper submissions, the workshop’s format naturally lends itself to preliminary results, position papers as well as to work focused on challenges in using and integrating planners in robotics systems. *Topics of interest* Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - human-aware planning and execution in human-robot interaction, - real-world planning applications for autonomous and intelligent robots, - planning domain representations for robotics applications, - optimising behaviour in large scale automated or semi-automated systems, - integrated planning and execution in robot architectures, - learning methods for robot planning and scheduling, - P&S methods for optimisation and adaptation in robotics, - mission, path, and motion planning for robots, - formal methods for robot planning and control, - challenges and solutions in using P&S technology in robotics, - open problems for P&S in robotics, - coordination of multi-robot teams, - benchmark planning domains for robots, - adversarial action planning in competitive robot domains, - mixed-initiative planning and sliding autonomy for robotic systems. *Important Dates* Paper submission: June 30, 2025 Notification: July 20, 2025 Workshop: November 11, 2025 *Submission* There are two types of submissions: - short position papers (four pages) - regular papers (up to 10 pages) Papers may have an additional page containing references. Regular papers may be scheduled with more time in the final program. A poster session may be considered to provide a further presentation opportunity. The guidelines for formatting are the same as is used for ICAPS 2025 papers (typeset in the AAAI style as described at: http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php), but with the AAAI copyright removed. The papers must be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icapswsplanrob25). Please note that papers under review (e.g. which have been submitted to IJCAI-2025) are also welcome, however, in order to avoid potential conflicts, these manuscripts should be prepared as anonymous submissions for a double blind reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop’s website. The organisers are investigating the availability of journal editors in order to invite a selection of accepted papers from the workshop to a special issue or post-proceedings volume. *Organizing Committee* Zlatan Ajanović, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands zlatan....(a)ml.rwth-aachen.de Iman Awaad, Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany iman....(a)h-brs.de Alberto Finzi, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy albert...(a)unina.it AndreA Orlandini, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy andrea.o...(a)istc.cnr.it *Program Committee (To Be Completed)* - Zlatan Ajanovic, TU Delft - Iman Awaad, Bonn Rhein Sieg University of Applied Sciences - Roman Barták, Charles University - Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University - Riccardo Caccavale, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II - Magí Dalmau Moreno, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Riccardo De Benedictis, CNR - National Research Council of Italy - Alberto Finzi, Universita' di Napoli Federico II - Nick Hawes, University of Oxford - Jane Jean Kiam, Universität der Bundeswehr München - Senka Krivic, University of Sarajevo - Oscar Lima, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence - DFKI - Tim Niemueller, Intrinsic Innovation GmbH - AndreA Orlandini, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTC) - Ron Petrick, Heriot-Watt University - Sebastian Stock, German Research Center for Artificial Intellegence, DFKI - Elisa Tosello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Alessandro Umbrico, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTC) - Pulkit Verma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Researcher, Autonomous Systems Group Assistant director & Study advisor, Master's Program in Autonomous Systems www.h-brs.de/en/inf/studienangebot/master/autonomous-systems Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems www.h-brs.de/en/a2s Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences | Department of Computer Science Grantham Allee 20, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone +49 (0) 2241 865-295 www.h-brs.de/en/inf/iman-awaad Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (b-it) Friedrich Hirzebruch-Allee 5, 53115 Bonn, Germany www.b-it-center.de

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[meetings] [news] Deadline Extension: Call for Demo Proposals - CoRL 2025 in Seoul, Korea
by Xuesu Xiao 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

Dear Colleagues, We are excited to invite demo proposals for the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025, which will be held in Seoul, Korea! This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your latest advancements and systems in robot learning to a dedicated and engaged audience. We are seeking demonstrations that highlight: A new level of autonomy beyond existing systems. The performance of novel (recently published) robot learning methods integrated with real robots. Enablers for the robot learning community. Submission Guidelines: Proposals should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=robot-learning.org/CoRL/2025/Demos. Submissions must include a 2-page proposal (excluding proposer bios and references), following the provided template. A video (less than 10 minutes) showcasing the demo and the hardware to be brought to the conference venue is also required. Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025 (11:59:59 AoE) For more details on the submission process and the proposal template, please visit the official Call for Demos page: https://www.corl.org/contributions/call-for-demos <https://www.corl.org/contributions/call-for-demos> We look forward to receiving your exciting demo proposals and seeing you in Seoul! Best regards, Tingnan Zhang and Daehyung Park CoRL 2025 Demo Chairs ----------------------- Xuesu Xiao, Ph.D. -- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science George Mason University xiao(a)gmu.edu https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/ https://robotixx.cs.gmu.edu/

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Call for Demo Proposals - CoRL 2025 in Seoul, Korea
by Xuesu Xiao 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Dear Colleagues, We are excited to invite demo proposals for the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025, which will be held in Seoul, Korea! This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your latest advancements and systems in robot learning to a dedicated and engaged audience. We are seeking demonstrations that highlight: A new level of autonomy beyond existing systems. The performance of novel (recently published) robot learning methods integrated with real robots. Enablers for the robot learning community. Submission Guidelines: Proposals should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=robot-learning.org/CoRL/2025/Demos. Submissions must include a 2-page proposal (excluding proposer bios and references), following the provided template. A video (less than 10 minutes) showcasing the demo and the hardware to be brought to the conference venue is also required. Submission Deadline: June 7, 2025 (11:59:59 AoE) For more details on the submission process and the proposal template, please visit the official Call for Demos page: https://www.corl.org/contributions/call-for-demos <https://www.corl.org/contributions/call-for-demos> We look forward to receiving your exciting demo proposals and seeing you in Seoul! Best regards, Tingnan Zhang and Daehyung Park CoRL 2025 Demo Chairs ----------------------- Xuesu Xiao, Ph.D. -- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science George Mason University xiao(a)gmu.edu https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/ https://robotixx.cs.gmu.edu/

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