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RoboCup 2021 - starting in 2 weeks!
by Peter Stone 09 Jun '21

09 Jun '21

Dear RoboCup community, I'm writing to share my excitement about RoboCup 2021, which will officially begin in just two weeks! (some leagues may start even sooner) Many of you reading this message have been hard at work helping with the organization, and even more of you have been hard at work preparing your teams. As of now there are more than 300 teams registered, and about 1500 participants! As you know, this year's RoboCup will be very different than in the past. But I'm very encouraged by the way all the leagues have found creative ways to make the best of a difficult situation - by using simulators, live streams, deploying robots in each other's labs, etc. The organizing team and I are doing everything we can to make sure the event will be a great scientific and engineering challenge for all participants, that will advance research as always. And we're also doing everything we can to make it a great community meet-up. To make that possible, we are working with Underline to prepare some plenary "main-stage" events including an opening ceremony, awards ceremonies, and a fantastic line-up of invited speakers (Dieter Fox, Jean-Paul Laumond, and Stefanie Tellex). We will also have a Gather.town space for league meetings, the symposium poster sessions, and other informal interactions. Gather.town will be available to registererd participants at all times. (Instructions on using Gather.town will be provided, but you may want to prepare by installing the app on your computer - that tends to work better than using it in the browser) As always, each league is creating its own competition schedule, and the symposium will have a great lineup of papers and posters. As they become available, we'll keep links to the schedules on the Underline main page (to be released soon) and/or the event webpage: https://2021.robocup.org/home Since this is the first time we're organizing RoboCup online, please bear with us if there are some glitches. We're counting on everyone to come to the event with a good spirit and to do your best to be flexible and help find solutions as needed. Meanwhile, good luck with your continued preparations! We look forward to seeing you all at the opening ceremony in a couple of weeks. Best, Peter Stone General Chair, RoboCup 2021 President, RoboCup Federation On behalf of the whole organizing committee: https://2021.robocup.org/

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RoboCup 2021 Worldwide
by April Foster 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Dear RoboCup Community, This is a reminder that RoboCup 2021 Worldwide <https://2021.robocup.org/home> will begin in a few weeks, with the main activities planned for June 22nd - 28th. Please note that the deadline for Major and Junior Team registrations is Monday, June 7, 2021. Registration will remain open for additional team members and Symposium-only registrants through June 28th. For more information about the registration process, fees, and deadlines, please visit: https://2021.robocup.org/participants/registration-process-and-fees The RoboCup Federation has selected Underline <https://underline.io/> to provide central services for this fully online event. RoboCup 2021 participants are asked to please complete the following release form from the RoboCup Federation and Underline: https://robocup21release.paperform.co/. More information about the online event platform will be sent to registered participants prior to the event. The RoboCup Federation is looking forward to bringing RoboCuppers from around the world together again!

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[HRI][meetings][CFP] GenR 2021: IEEE RO-MAN Workshop "GENDERING ROBOTS: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics"
by Giulia Perugia 30 May '21

30 May '21

Dear Colleagues, We are glad to invite you to submit your work in the form of an abstract (1 page) or short paper (2-4 pages) to the *GenR2021 workshop "Gendering Robots: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics"*. The workshop will last half a day and will be held as part of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021) on August 12th, 2021. The workshop is intentionally *multidisciplinary*, hence we welcome submissions from all fields of study. Below, you can find further information regarding important dates, workshop website, and call for papers. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions and to circulate the call within your network. Kindest regards, Giulia Perugia ================================ *CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE RO-MAN 2021 GenR WORKSHOP * *GENDERING ROBOTS: Ongoing (Re)configurations of Gender in Robotics* *IMPORTANT DATES & INFO* Deadline for Paper Submission: June 30th, 2021 Paper Acceptance Notification: July 21st, 2021 Camera Ready Paper: July 28th, 2021 Main Conference Date: August 8th-12th, 2021 Workshop Date: August 12th, 2021 Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ro-man21-genr-workshop/home Twitter: @GenR_ROMAN <https://twitter.com/GenrRoman> Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=genr2021 Full call for papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/GenR2021 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES Within the GenR workshop, we aim to provide researchers investigating gender in robotics with a platform to share their work and invite interested scholars to reflect with us on inclusive and ethical practices in robot gendering. We hope to explore motivations for robot gendering, and understand how robot gendering might impact human-robot interaction in the face of its risks with regards to stereotype propagation. Furthermore, we would like to inspire discussions about the mindful use of robots in society and promote the possibility to use robots to oppose/challenge harmful social practices (gender stereotypes, gender inequality, etc.). To this end, we invite those working in related domains (e.g. Social Robotics, and Gender Studies) to discuss with us best practices to re-configure gender in robotics and shed light on issues of gender from a multidisciplinary perspective. Our goal is to bridge the communication gap we observed between disciplines addressing the topic of gender in robotics and the lack of spaces to converse with and learn from one another. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Gendering practices in Social Robotics - Experimental studies on gendered robots - Feminist robotics - Robot’s multimodal gender design - Norm-critical design - Queer design in HRI - Sex Robots - Ethics of Gendered Robots - Normative deviance in relation to robot gender - Societal implications and applications of gendered robots - Performative arts encompassing a reflection on gender in robotics - Non-binary perspectives on robot gender SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Since our workshop aims at bringing researchers from different fields together and starting a conversation on the process of gendering robots, we are open to two formats of submissions: abstracts (1 page) and short papers (2-4 pages). We particularly encourage multidisciplinary submissions presenting works in progress, as accepted authors will be invited to identify discussion points and questions they would like to put to our panelists and other attendees. In line with the intent of the workshop, we accept different types of submissions: empirical papers, experimental design protocols, philosophical essays, studies with preliminary results and more conclusive papers. Authors should submit their papers formatted according to the IEEE two-column format <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php>, the same as the main conference (LaTeX <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php> or MS-Word <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php> templates). Authors should submit a PDF of their paper through EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=genr2021>. Submissions will be evaluated according to their fit to the workshop theme, their thought-provoking content, and their adherence to the scientific standards of the discipline of origin. The reviews will consist of constructive feedback mindful of the authors’ multidisciplinary background. We will prefer qualitative evaluations to score-based numerical ones. The workshop proceedings will be published on ArXiv and the authors will be invited to submit their work in a SPECIAL ISSUE. INVITED SPEAKERS Prof. Robert SPARROW, Monash University, Australia Prof. Friederike EYSSEL, University of Bielefeld, Germany PANEL DISCUSSION Prof. Ericka JOHNSON - Linköping University (Sweden) Dr. Katherine HARRISON- Linköping University (Sweden) Prof. Verena RIESER- Heriot Watt University (UK) (TBC) Dr. Megan STRAIT - University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (USA) COMMITTEE Dr. Giulia PERUGIA (main organiser), Uppsala University, Sweden, giulia.perugia(a)it.uu.se Dr. Katie WINKLE, KTH, Sweden, winkle(a)kth.se Ryan Blake JACKSON, Colorado School of Mines, USA, rbjackso(a)mymail.mines.edu Dominika LISY, Linköping University, Sweden, dominika.lisy(a)liu.se

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2nd CFP GECON 2021- 18h Intl. Conf. on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services, submission deadline: June 7th, 2021
by Jörn ALTMANN 25 May '21

25 May '21

=================================================================== 18th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services http://2021.gecon-conference.org <http://2021.gecon-conference.org> 21-23. September 2021, Online Springer LNCS Proceedings Fast Track for several Journals in Computer Systems and E-Commerce =================================================================== Second Call for full papers, short papers (work-in-progress papers), and poster presentations. Announcement of confirmed panels and tutorials. GECON 2021 builds upon the very successful tradition of the conference previous editions (http://www.gecon-conference.org <http://www.gecon-conference.org>) since 2003. GECON solicits contributions that are interdisciplinary, combining business and economic aspects with engineering and computer science related themes. The conference will be held online. ====================== / Important Deadlines / ======================= - Paper abstract submission deadline: May 31st, 2021 - Full Paper and short paper (Work-in-progress) submission deadline: June 7th, 2021 - Notification of acceptance of papers: July 5th, 2021 - Camera Ready deadline: July 12th, 2021 - Poster Submission deadline: July 12th, 2021 ====================== / Topics of Interest / ======================= As a global market for infrastructures, platforms, and software services emerge, the need to understand and deal with its implications and its interdisciplinary challenges is quickly growing. To address this, GECON encourages the submission of papers, which combine at least one economic/legal area and one technological 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 modelling Pricing schemes and revenue models Metering, accounting, and billing Cost-benefit analysis Automated trading and bidding support tools Trust, reputation, security, and risk management Performance monitoring, optimization, and prediction 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, osmosis computing Micro-services, serverless computing Internet-of-Things Blockchains Community networks Social networks Social computing Big data Reports on industry test-beds and operational markets Data stream ingestion and complex event processing Open source ====================================================== / Publication and Submission Guidelines for Papers / ====================================================== Original full papers and short papers (work-in-progress papers), which are not currently under review by another conference, will be considered. Manuscripts will be reviewed based on technical merit, originality, and relevance. Past acceptance rates have been around 30 per cent in recent years. 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 2021 web page. Paper submissions are managed through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2021>. 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. For papers targeting mainly business and economic aspects, a special issue of the - Springer Electronic Markets Journal or the - Elsevier Electronic Commerce Research and Applications - Springer Electronic Commerce Research with up to 15 papers is foreseen. ====================== / Poster Submissions / ====================== Poster presentations provide a unique opportunity for PhD students and young researchers to present their ongoing work and to receive constructive feedback from their peers as well as experts in the field (including academics and practitioners) at the GECON conference. Authors of accepted full papers and short papers (work-in-progress papers) are also welcome to present their work in poster sessions, giving them a higher visibility then just giving a talk. Posters will be organized and presented throughout the conference using gather.town, allowing for many discussions with participants and a highly interactive conference. ===================================================== / Accepted Tutorial: “Energy Efficiency / / Methodologies in Cloud Computing” (Karim Djemame)/ ===================================================== Computer systems have faced significant power consumption challenges over the past 20 years. The dual challenge of both power and performance has in recent years shifted from the devices and circuits level, to their current position as first-order constraints for system architects and software developers. A common theme is the need for low-power computing systems that are fully interconnected, self-aware, context-aware and self-optimising within application boundaries. The tutorial presents a number of energy efficiency methodologies and their use in domains such as cloud computing, which makes up a large proportion of the total ICT energy consumption. Cloud computing providers resort to a variety of techniques to improve energy consumption at each level of the cloud computing stack: application design, programming model, middleware, virtualisation, hardware. Therefore, research on energy efficiency in cloud computing has attracted considerable attention and has focused on many aspects including ICT equipment (servers, networks) as well as software solutions running on top of ICT equipment (cloud management system domain for managing the cloud infrastructure). ========================================================== / Accepted Special Topic Session: Law & Computer Science / ========================================================== As Law and Computer science develop, they pose each other new challenges. These challenges are expressed in questions such as: Where must computer scientists stretch their abilities to provide law with adequate solutions? What legal developments are required to deal with new computer science achievements? In this panel, hosted by Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda of the CRI institute at the University of Haifa, we will hear answers from: * Niva Elkin-Koren, of Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. * Supreeth Shastri, of the University of Iowa =========================== / Conference Organization / =========================== 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) Contact for Questions:gecon2021@easychair.org <mailto:gecon2021@easychair.org> @&@#^%&*%$@*#*&%#%^&$#@^@^&@%$@*^#&@ @%#&#@^*$@@#*%&%#@*$*&^@#$%@#%&$&%@ Prof. Dr. Jörn ALTMANN office 37-305 Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program Departmentof Industrial Engineering 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 fax: +1 610 956 4404 email: jorn.altmann(a)acm.org www: http://altmann.my-groups.de/

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ENIAC 2021 - Call For Papers
by Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi 22 May '21

22 May '21

CALL FOR PAPERS The 18th National Meeting on Artificial and Computational Intelligence Online event, organized by C4AI Center for Artificial Intelligence<https://c4ai.inova.usp.br/>, November 29 - December 03, 2021 >>> Deadline for paper submission: August 09, 2021 <<< ENIAC 2021 is the eighteenth of a series of successful meetings bringing together Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence, supported by Brazilian Special Interest Groups on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence from Brazilian Computer Society. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the sanitary and economical related issues, the ENIAC 2021 will be held online as part of BRACIS 2021. Such event provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, educators, and students to present and discuss innovations, trends, experiences and developments in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence. In particular, it is the ideal event for undergraduate and postgraduate students to submit and present their first papers! ACTIVITIES AND THEMES Authors are encouraged to submit articles containing new ideas, discussions on existing work, practical studies, and experiments relevant to the field of Artificial and Computational Intelligence, which have not been previously published. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: AI in Emerging Countries: Public Policies and the Future of Work Applications of Artificial Intelligence Artificial Life Artificial Neural Networks Automated Planning and Scheduling Automated Reasoning Computational Intelligence Computer Vision Data Mining Data Science Decision Making in Food Production Networks Decision Support Systems Deep Learning Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Multiagent Systems Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Fuzzy Systems Graph-Oriented Machine Learning Hybrid Intelligent Systems Intelligent Human-Computer Interfaces Intelligent Information Systems Intelligent Robotic Intelligent Tutoring Systems Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge Base Construction Knowledge-Enhanced Machine Learning Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Logic Programming Machine Learning Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis Model-Based Reasoning Natural Language Processing Natural Language Processing in Portuguese Ontologies Representation Learning Software Tools for Artificial Intelligence Text and Web Mining UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT SPECIAL TRACK AND BEST UNDERGRADUATE PAPER AWARD Following up on ENIAC 2020, we will have a special track for papers whose first author is an Undergraduate student. Such papers will undergo the same reviewing process as papers on the main track. However, the best papers in this track will be invited to make an oral presentation in a special session and will run for the Best Undergraduate Paper Award. PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION Manuscripts are limited to twelve (12) pages including text, references, appendices, tables, and figures. Articles may be written either in Portuguese or English, using the SBC article style: SBC Template <http://www.sbc.org.br/documentos-da-sbc/summary/169-templates-para-artigos-…> Papers written in Portuguese must have titles and abstracts in English. Manuscripts that do not follow the formatting guidelines might be rejected without review. Submissions should be carried out online using the JEMS system: https://jems.sbc.org.br/jems2/ Please select the appropriate track (Undergraduate track for papers whose main author is an Undergraduate student, Main track for the others). The review process will be double-blind (authors' names and institutions must be omitted in the papers). All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work either in an oral presentation or in a poster session. All accepted papers will likely be published electronically through the SBC Open Lib - SOL. There will be no distinction between papers presented in oral or poster format in the proceedings. BEST PAPER AWARD AND SPECIAL ISSUE Authors of selected papers will be invited to present their work in a special session and will run for a Best Paper Award. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: August 09, 2021 Notification to authors: September 27, 2021 Camera-ready copy due: October 04, 2021

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BRACIS 2021 - Call For Papers
by Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi 22 May '21

22 May '21

Call For Papers 10th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS) http://c4ai.inova.usp.br/bracis/ Online Event November 29 - December 03, 2021 >>>> Deadline for paper submissions: June 20, 2021 (extended) <<<< >>>> CALL FOR PAPERS <<<< The Program Committee of the 10th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent System (BRACIS) invites submissions of original research papers for the conference from November 29th to December 3th, 2021. Due to the COVID pandemic and the sanitary and economical related issues, the conference will be held online. BRACIS 2021 will be organized by C4AI Center for Artificial Intelligence (https://c4ai.inova.usp.br/). BRACIS is the most important event in Brazil for researchers in the fields of Artificial and Computational Intelligence. The Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS) originated from the combination of the two most traditional scientific events in Brazil in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computational Intelligence (CI): the Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - SBIA (21 editions ), and the Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks - SBRN (12 editions). The conference aims to promote theory and applications of Artificial and Computational Intelligence. BRACIS also aims for the promotion of international level research by exchanging scientific ideas among researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission - June 20, 2021 (extended) - Notification to authors - July 30, 2021 - Camera-ready copy due - August 19, 2021 SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to be appreciated for publication in special issues after the conference. SUBMISSION DETAILS *** Please, note that BRACIS submission is double-blind *** This means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not reveal their identity. Submissions should include significant and unpublished research on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Computational Intelligence (CI). Submission format Submitted papers must be written in English, and not exceed 15 pages, including all tables, figures, references, and appendices. Formatting instructions, as well as templates for Word and LaTeX, are available at Conference Proceedings guidelines<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.overleaf.com_latex…> . All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts in the field. Accepted papers will be included in the BRACIS proceedings, and submitted for publication in Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Only PDF files can be uploaded in the submission system. [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/IhrJhR4_lPr0gjUtatcXK5qAr38MvNaZVAPBX9bFx…] SUBMISSION SYSTEM JEMS - Journal and Event Management System (Coming soon) https://jems.sbc.org.br/jems2/ TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): * Agent-based and Multi-Agent Systems * AI in Emerging Countries: Public Policies and the Future of Work * Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering * Cognitive Modeling and Human Interaction * Combinatorial and Numerical Optimization * Computer Vision * Constraints and Search * Decision Making in Food Production Networks * Deep Learning * Distributed AI * Education * Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics * Forecasting * Foundations of AI * Fuzzy Systems * Game Playing and Intelligent Interactive Entertainment * Graph-Oriented Machine Learning * Hybrid Systems * Information Retrieval, Integration, and Extraction * Intelligent Robotics * Knowledge-Enhanced Machine Learning * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (including Commonsense Reasoning, Model-Based Reasoning, Probabilistic Reasoning, Approximate Reasoning) * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Ontologies and the Semantic Web * Logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning * Machine Learning and Data Mining * Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis * Meta-learning * Molecular and Quantum Computing * Multidisciplinary AI and CI * Natural Language Processing * Natural Language Processing in Portuguese * Neural Networks * Pattern Recognition and Cluster Analysis * Planning and Scheduling * Reinforcement Learning GENERAL CHAIR Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi, Centro Universitário FEI and C4AI Zhao Liang, Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and C4AI PROGRAM CHAIRS: André Britto, Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS) (andre(a)dcomp.ufs.br<mailto:andre@dcomp.ufs.br>) Karina Valdivia Delgado, Universidade de São Paulo (USP) (kvd(a)usp.br<mailto:kvd@usp.br>)

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Migration of robocup-worldwide list
by Ali Modaresi 18 May '21

18 May '21

Dear robocup-worldwide subscribers, RoboCup IT Team is currently migrating the mailing lists which are still hosted at Georgia Tech, to a server at robocup.org, because the old mailing list is being blocked by an increasing number of servers. The new address of the list (to be used to send messages to all the subscribers) is robocup-worldwide(a)lists.robocup.org The old address is not working anymore, therefore, please update the list address with the new one and remove the old one. Please note that the old passwords are not usable anymore. In order to get your password please enter your email address on https://lists.robocup.org/options/robocup-worldwide and then click on the remind button. You will receive an email with your password immediately. In addition, you can share the list link via https://lists.robocup.org/listinfo/robocup-worldwide Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Best regards, ╔════════════════════╗ ║ Ali Modaresi ║ ║ RoboCup IT support ║ ╚════════════════════╝

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