[agents] 2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Robotic Ecologies (ARE'13), at AmI 2013

[Mauro Dragone]

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2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Robotic Ecologies (ARE'13), at AmI
2013

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We would like to welcome you to participate and contribute to the 2nd
International Workshop on Adaptive Robotic Ecologies (ARE'13), at AmI 2013
: Fourth International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Dec 3,
2013 - Dec 5, 2013, Dublin, Ireland.

Robotic ecologies are networks of heterogeneous robotic devices (sensors,
actuators and automated home appliances) pervasively embedded in everyday
environments, where they cooperate in applications such as Ambient Assisted
Living.

The goal of ARE'13 (http://are13.ucd.ie) is to bring together
state-of-the-art contributions describing solutions that enable robotic
ecologies to be self-learning, self-configuring, and self-adapting, in
order to increase their adaptability, and reduce the amount of preparation
and pre-programming required for their deployment in real world
applications.


The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Algorithms and theories for cooperation and configuration in robotic
ecologies;

- Evaluation of adaptive robotic ecologies;

- Learning techniques to adapt to changes in the environment and in user
needs;

- Self-configuration supporting open, heterogeneous and computationally
constrained systems;

- Adaptation for people-centric robotic ecologies, personalization and user
interaction;

- Concrete examples of adaptive robot ecologies to AmI applications

- Software engineering and integration issues;

- Current efforts in the standardization of interfaces (SW, HW) for the
integration in AmI environments of commercial devices (sensors, actuators,
robots).

 PUBLICATION

Proceedings of the workshops will be published by Springer under the
*Communications
in Computer and Information Science
(CCIS)*<http://www.springer.com/series/7899>serie (
http://www.springer.com/series/7899). All accepted contributions will also
be published on the workshop webpage.

 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Papers are solicited from different research areas, including ambient
intelligence, robotics, wireless sensor networks, and agent systems.
Contributions will be reviewed for quality and relevance to the workshop’s
theme and should present substantial novel research achievements.
Theoretical and applied papers, as well as papers that capture best
practices and lessons learned from field studies and EU projects are
encouraged.
Papers presenting preliminary results may be accepted in the form of
extended abstracts.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Papers should be up to 14 pages in the CCIS one-column page format, and
should be submitted in pdf format through
*EasyChair*<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=are2013>(
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=are2013)
Authors should apply Springer conference paper templates, which can be
found in the *author’s instruction
page*<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>(
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)
Submitting a contribution is not a prerequisite to participation in the
workshop and the discussion sessions.

 SCHEDULE

Submission deadline: September 1st, 2013

Notification of acceptance: September 20th, 2013

Workshop date: December 3rd, 2013

 ORGANIZERS

This workshop is organized under the auspices of the
*RUBICON*<http://fp7rubicon.eu/>project (
http://fp7rubicon.eu), with is funded by the European Union Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013, ICT-2009.2.1) under grant agreement
No.269914.


* Mauro Dragone,
University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland

* Alessandro Saffiotti
AASS Cognitive Robotic Systems Laboratory, University of Orebro, Sweden

* Arantxa Renteria
Health and Quality of Life, Tecnalia, Bilbao, Spain

* Stefano Chessa
Computer Science Department, University of Pisa, Italy

 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Up-to-date information about this Workshop will be posted on the
web site: http://are13.ucd.ie