[agents] CFP: 3rd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRO 2016)

[Alessandro Farinelli]

*** WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT ***

        [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement]

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              3rd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
                                                   (AIRO 2016)

                                          https://airo2016.wordpress.com/
                                            28 November 2016
                                                  Genoa, Italy

                                            Held in conjunction with the
                      15th Conference of the Italian Association for
Artificial Intelligence
                                                  (AI*IA 2016)
                                          http://www.aixia2016.unige.it/
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** Aims and Scope **

The goal of AIRO 2016 is to foster the discussion about the use of
Artificial Intelligence methods to design intelligent robots.

AI principles and methods play a crucial role in several areas of
Robotics research (e.g., field, service, social robotics, etc.) and
are pervasively exploited at various levels of robot architectures. We
argue that robot intelligence is a property arising from the
interaction between robots and their environment. As we expect robots
to leave lab settings and to take part to our everyday life, either at
home or in public spaces, the notion of AI as a separated and somewhat
peculiar functionality of a robot’s architecture shows its intrinsic
limitations. In fact, it is now common belief that, in order to cope
with the plethora of situations, events, objects, places and humans
the world is full of, robot intelligence “as it is” is rather
insufficient, both with respect to the scope of achievable performance
and to actual techniques and tools for designing engineered robot
behaviours.

On the contrary, the main motivation of AIRO 2016 is the belief that
AI techniques must be considered at any levels of a robot’s
architecture, with respect to both hardware and software components.
Sensing, representation and action can greatly benefit from the
adoption of various forms of AI.

The scientific relevance of the workshop is related to how diverse
areas of AI research can be used to design robots able to face complex
challenges in real-world tasks.

The scope of AIRO 2016 encompasses such diverse — yet intertwined —
research areas as sensing and perception, human-robot interaction,
intelligent control, cognition and adaptation, behaviour and reasoning
models, knowledge representation and computational ontologies, but
also robot engineering tools, real-time software architectures and
fast-prototyping techniques. Starting from these fields, and in
continuity with the previous AIRO workshops, we will explore how robot
intelligence is expected to play major roles when robots interact with
humans and when dealing with everyday not predictable situations, like
human assistance, housekeeping or autonomous driving, just to name
three of the most common trendy scenarios nowadays.

AIRO 2016 is part of an on-going effort to consolidate the Italian
community working on various aspects of the intersection between AI
and Robotics.


** Workshop Format and submission**

The workshop will include oral presentations, system demonstrations
and posters related to the integration of Artificial Intelligence and
Robotics. Invited talks will complement presentations of contributed
papers.

Prospective authors wishing to give either an oral or poster
presentation will be required to submit a 4-page extended abstract
(not including references). People interested in showcasing live their
work in the form of a demo, or showing videos of their work, will be
required to submit a 1-page abstract describing the main relevant
aspects of the demo/video.

All the 4-page extended abstracts and the 1-page abstracts will form
the Proceedings of the event, which will be published in the CEUR
Workshop Proceedings AI*IA Series, as in previous Workshop editions,
as well as on the workshop website.

Contributions should be submitted via the AIRO 2016 EasyChair website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=airo2016
All contributions should be typeset in the Springer LNCS style,
described at: http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html

The organizers are negotiating with the Editorial Board of the
Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal to organise a Special Issue on
AI and Robotics.

** Important Dates **

Submission deadline: September 16th, 2016
Notification of acceptance: October 5th, 2016
Camera Ready: October 25th, 2016
Workshop day: November 28th, 2016

** Workshop Organizers **

Alberto Finzi (University of Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy)
Alessandro Farinelli (University of Verona, Verona, Italy)
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni (University of Genova, Genova, Italy)


** Programme Committee (To Be Completed) **

Jacopo Aleotti, University of Parma
Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano
Salvatore Anzalone, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Stefano Caselli, University of Parma
Antonio Chella, University of Palermo
Alessandro Farinelli, University of Verona
Alberto Finzi, University of Naples “Federico II”
Salvatore Gaglio, University of Palermo
Giuseppina Gini, Politecnico di Milano
Luca Iocchi, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, University of Genoa
Matteo Matteucci, Politecnico di Milano
Emanuele Menegatti, University of Padua
Lorenzo Natale, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Daniele Nardi, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Andrea Orlandini, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, CNR
Enrico Pagello, University of Padua
Monica Reggiani, University of Padua
Antonio Sgorbissa, University of Genoa
Armando Tacchella, University of Genoa
Renato Zaccaria, University of Genoa


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Dr. Alessandro Farinelli
Computer Science Department
University of Verona
Ca' Vignal 2, Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona, Italy
Phone: +39 045 8027842
Fax: +39 045 802 7068
E-mail: alessandro.farinelli at univr.it
Web Page http://profs.sci.univr.it/~farinelli/