[agents] [AREA 2020] - CFP First Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy

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Call for Papers - First Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable 
Engineered Autonomy (AREA)
Co-located with ECAI 2020
Conference: 10th-12nd of June, 2020
Workshops: 8th or 9th of June, 2020
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Info: area2020.github.io
Contact: area2020.workshop at gmail.com

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SCOPE

Autonomous agents is a well-established area that has been researched 
for decades, both from a design and implementation viewpoint. 
Nonetheless, the application of agents in real world scenarios is 
largely adopted when logical distribution is needed, while still limited 
when physical distribution is necessary. The autonomous behaviour 
responsible for decision-making should (ideally) be verifiable since 
these systems are expensive to produce and are often deployed in 
safety-critical situations.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the autonomous 
agents, software engineering and the robotics communities, as combining 
knowledge coming from these research areas may lead to innovative 
approaches that solve complex problems related with the verification and 
validation of autonomous robotic systems. Consequently, we encourage 
submissions that combine agents, robots, and verification, but we also 
welcome papers focused on one of these areas, as long as their 
applicability to the other areas is clear.

FORMAT

This workshop is a 1-day event with presentations of accepted papers and 
one to two invited speakers (to be confirmed).

TOPICS

The main topics include but are not limited to:
- Agent-based modular architectures applicable to robots
- Agent oriented software engineering to model high-level control in 
robotic development
- Agent programming languages and tools for developing robotic or 
intelligent autonomous systems
- Coordination, interaction, and negotiation protocols for agents and robots
- Distributed problem solving and automated planning in autonomous systems
- Fault tolerance, health-management, and long-term autonomy
- Real world applications of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems 
in robotics
- Real-time multi-agent systems
- Reliable software engineering of autonomy
- Runtime verification of autonomous agents and robotic systems
- Task and resource allocation in multi-robot systems
- Verification and validation of autonomous systems
- Testing and simulation tools and techniques for autonomous or robotic 
systems
- Self healing entities and systems

SUBMISSIONS

We invite you to submit:
- Full research papers that must describe authors' original research 
work and results.
- Case study papers that should identify lessons learned, validate 
theoretical results (such as scalability of methods) or new tools and 
applications, benchmarks, or provide specific motivation for further 
research and development.
- Research ideas: AREA encourages the submissions of new research ideas 
in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop.

Full and case study papers are limited to 15* single-column pages; 
research ideas papers are limited to 7* single-column pages. All 
submissions must be in English and in PDF format.
*excluding references and appendices

The page limit is strict, and it will not be possible to purchase 
additional pages at any point in the process (including after the paper 
is accepted).

All papers should be original and not be submitted elsewhere. The review 
process is single blind: submissions should not be blind, reviewers will be.
Submissions are accepted in PDF format only.

We are negotiating with a publisher for publishing the proceedings of 
the workshop. We are also in the process of applying for a special issue 
for the post-proceedings where revised selected papers will be published.

Formatting guidelines should follow LNCS (to be confirmed when the 
publisher will be selected): 
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=area2020#

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: 1st March 2020
Paper Notification: 8th April 2020
Camera Ready: 8st May 2020
Workshop: 8th or 9th June 2020


Kind regards

Rafael C. Cardoso, Angelo Ferrando, Tobias Ahlbrecht, Claudio Menghi, 
Daniela Briola