[agents] [Call for Papers] 2nd International (Virtual) Workshop on Blockchain Technologies for Robotic Systems (BCT4ROS'2020)

[Önder Gürcan]

BCT4ROS'2020: 2nd International Workshop on Blockchain Technologies for Robotic Systems
Virtual Conference (totally free of charge, no article processing cost as well)
Naples, Italy, September 15, 2020
Conference website	http://www.blockchainroboticsandai.org/ <http://www.blockchainroboticsandai.org/>
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bct4ros2020 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bct4ros2020>
Abstract registration deadline	August 31, 2020
Submission deadline	August 31, 2020
Notification	September 7, 2020
Camera-Ready	September 14, 2020
Topics: blockchain <https://easychair.org/cfp/topic.cgi?a=24591542;tid=9363885> robotics <https://easychair.org/cfp/topic.cgi?tid=750;a=24591542> multi agent systems <https://easychair.org/cfp/topic.cgi?tid=3702;a=24591542> trust <https://easychair.org/cfp/topic.cgi?a=24591542;tid=4810>
Call for Papers

It’s been 11 years since Satoshi Nakamoto unleashed the first blockchain, the Bitcoin, into our lives. Since then, the theoretical and experimental foundations of blockchain systems are becoming increasingly well understood and today the term "blockchain" is not anymore a buzzword. And the the combination of such a ground-breaking technology with robotics, seems to be very promising since it would allow the robotic applications be more secure, flexible, autonomous, and even profitable.

Robotics is an interdisciplinary research area at the interface of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design intelligent machines that can help and assist humans in their day-to-day lives and keep everyone safe. However, it is quite challenging to perform research and development in enabling and fostering the development of autonomous robots and to help such robots become accepted by society. To enable the development of robots that can operate autonomously and safely, important issues like data privacy, security and transparency need to be tackled for the future use of robots in high-sensitive scenarios. Therefore, solutions to these issues might be necessary steps towards mainstream adoption.

Blockchain technologies provide an immutable shared data structure, thanks to the distributed consensus protocols and cryptographic techniques, that can store various kinds of data including program codes (known as smart contracts) that can be deterministically executed the same way by all the participants. Thanks to its characteristics that fit very well the multi-agent systems, blockchain technologies show great potential for making robotic applications more open, trustworthy, secure and tolerant to faults.

Based on this observation, the BCT4ROS workshop series seek to move beyond the classical view of robotic systems to advance our comprehension about the conceivable outcomes and impediments of combining robots with blockchain innovation and intend to bring together specialists active in the scholarly community and industry to share tthe thoughts so far created and talk about the challenges still ahead.. We welcome all papers that address and evaluate the relevance of blockchain technologies to overcome the limitations of robotic systems.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Full papers (6 to 8 pages) should (1) clearly describe innovative and original research, or (2) report a survey on a research topic in the field, or (3) explain how existing techniques have been applied to a real-world case.
Short papers (up to 4 pages) should describe novel and promising ideas and/or techniques that are in an early stage of development.
Extended abstracts (up to 300 words) should introduce novel and promising ideas shortly and concisely.
Papers should be prepared using the standard IEEE Ro-MAN 2020 template (download the template from here: LaTeX <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/tex.php> or MS-Word <http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/word.php>) and should be submitted using the EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bct4ros2020> conference management system.

List of Topics

Blockchain and mobile systems
Blockchain for multi-agent systems
Citizen science
Decentralized business models for robots
Blockchain and Industry 4.0
Blockchain and Robot Economics
Trustworthy robot -- human interaction
Privacy and security for robotic systems
Autonomous cyber-physical systems
Blockchain for networked systems and IoT
Peer-to-peer and distributed models for robotic systems
Self-regulated robotic systems
Distributed sensing and coordination
Committees

Program Committee

Aleksandr Kapitonov, ITMO University, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation
Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy 
Davide Calvaresi, University of Applied Science Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, MIT, USA
Enis Karaaslan, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi, Turkey
Joao Sequeira, Institue for Systems and Robotics, Portugal 
Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 
Nicholas Jäger, OTH Amberg-Weiden, Germany
Olivier Boissier, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France 
Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey 
Pierre-Yves Piriou, EDF R&D, France 
Sérgio Guerreiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal 
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Organizing committee

Önder Gürcan <http://127.0.0.1:4321/site/bct4ros2020/ondergurcan.netlify.app/>, CEA LIST, Paris, France 
Fabio Bonsignorio <http://www.heronrobots.com/about/people-info/15-fabio-bonsignorio>, Heron Robots, Genova, Italy 
Publication

All accepted submissions is planned to be published as a post-proceedings book by a major publisher (indexed in Scopus, Web of Science and so on), and/or invited to a special issue in Robotics <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics> (indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index <http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=2218-6581> (ESCI - Web of Science) , Scopus <https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100833833#tabs=0> (2019 CiteScore: 2.5), nspec (IET) and DBLP Computer Science Bibliography).

Venue

BCT4ROS'2020 will be held in conjunction with The 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020) <http://ro-man2020.unina.it/> as a virtual conference on the 15th of September.

Registration 

Participation to the hosting conference IEEE ROMAN 2020 <http://ro-man2020.unina.it/> as well as to BCT4ROS'2020 is totally free of charge (no article processing cost as well). 

Contact

For all questions considering the workshop, please use the following e-mail address: bct4ros2020 at icloud.com <mailto:bct4ros2020 at icloud.com>
Previous Editions

1st International Workshop on Blockchain Technologies for Robotic Systems (BCT4ROS'2019 <https://researchers.pagesperso-orange.fr/bct4ros2019/>), Delhi, India.
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