[agents] [meetings] IAS-19 | Call for Papers

Thu Feb 20 07:55:32 EST 2025

Dear Friends,

I wish to invite you all to contribute to the 19th International Conference
on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-19), which will be held in Genoa,
Italy, from June 30 to July 4, 2025.

Since the first edition in 1985, IAS has been a venue for original, novel,
and innovative papers with a theoretical or experimental flavour. For
IAS-19, we look for papers centered around the theme “Ethical, Responsible,
and Inclusive Robotics”.

**/ Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Mobile Robots Collaborative Robots/Cobots

Robots for Industry 4.0

Household Robots

Humanoid Robots

Climbing Robots

Outdoor and Field Robots

Autonomous Vehicles

Healthcare Robots

Flying Robots

Marine Robots

Robot Swarms

Biomimetic Robots

Long-Term Autonomous Systems

Intelligent Machines

Cognitive Architectures for Robots

Human-Robot-Interaction

Software Architectures for Robots

Cloud Robotics

Robot Vision

Tactile Sensing

Intelligent Sensors and Systems

Neuromorphic Sensing

Semantic Modelling

Data Fusion and Machine Learning

Obstacle Avoidance

Localization and SLAM

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Planning

Task-Motion Planning

Robot Foundation Models

Vision and Language Models

Robot Simulations

Mechatronics for Intelligent Systems

All contributed papers will go through a rigorous peer-review process,
which will be managed by Editors, Associated Editors, and Reviewers. Each
manuscript will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. If a paper will be
accepted, the authors should submit a revised final version reflecting
reviewers’ comments and present their paper orally and in presence.

All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference
proceedings, and a post-proceedings book will be published by Springer, as
is customary for IAS conferences. A limited number of authors will be
invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issue
of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, published by Elsevier.

Proposals for workshops and tutorials are strongly encouraged. Workshops
and tutorials will be scheduled on 30/6/2025.

Updates on www.ias-19.org.

**/ Planned special sessions

1) Artificial Intelligence in Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction

Organisers:

Alessandro Umbrico (alessandro.umbrico at istc.cnr.it)

Alessandro Carfi (alessandro.umbrico at istc.cnr.it)

2) Robots and Intelligent systems for Citizens and the Environment

Organisers:

Antonio Sgorbissa (antonio.sgorbissa at unige.it)

Jaeryoung Lee (jaeryounglee at isc.chubu.ac.jp)

Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto (carmine.recchiuto at dibris.unige.it)

Emilia Barakova (e.i.barakova at tue.nl)

3) Marine Robotics

Organisers:

Giovanni Indiveri (giovanni.indiveri at unige.it)

Enrico Simetti (enrico.simetti at unige.it)

Francesco Wanderlingh (francesco.wanderlingh at unige.it)

4) Proactive Social Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration: From Vision
to Language

Organisers:

Dimitri Ognibene (dimitri.ognibene at unimib.it)

Onofrio Gigliotta (onofrio.gigliotta at unina.it)

Letizia Marchegiani (letizia.marchegiani at unipr.it)

Tom Foulsham (foulsham at essex.ac.uk)

Dario Zanca (dario.zanca at fau.de)

Edoardo Datteri (edoardo.datteri at unimib.it)

5) Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence

Organisers:

Fabio Patrizi  (patrizi at diag.uniroma1.it)

Luca Iocchi (iocchi at diag.uniroma1.it)

Raffaello Camoriano (raffaello.camoriano at polito.it)

6) Advanced Mathematical and Control Methods in Soft and Humanoid Robotics

Organisers:

Fabio Bonsignorio (fabio.bonsignorio at fer.unizg.hr)

Enrica Zereik (enrica.zereik at cnr.it)

7) Human Internal States Perception and Processing for Human-Centric
Technology

Organisers:

Marco Matarese (marco.matarese at iit.it)

Francesco Rea (francesco.rea at iit.it)

Alessandra Sciutti (alessandra.sciutti at iit.it)

8) LLMs as planning tools for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks

Organisers:

Lorenzo Natale (lorenzo.natale at iit.it)

Carmela Calabrese (carmela.calabrese at iit.it)

9) Field Robotics Empowered by Artificial Intelligence

Organisers:

Hyun-Joon Chung

Jinung An

Soon-Geul Lee

Sukhan Lee

**/ Paper submission instructions

Prospective authors must format their papers in a single-column layout on
21 cm x 29.7 cm A4-size paper according to the Springer guidelines:

https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
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In particular, refer to:

- instructions for authors:

https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v16

- LaTeX templates:

https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v8

- Overleaf LaTeX templates:

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj
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- MS Word templates:

https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/7117506/data/v1

Paper length should be at most 12 pages, including references.

Authors can optionally have 6 additional pages at a cost of 50 EUR per
page.

Papers with more than 18 pages will be automatically rejected.

Papers must be submitted electronically via OpenReview:

https://openreview.net/group?id=ias-society.org/IAS/2025/Conference

Please indicate whether the paper is submitted to the general track or one
of the special sessions.

**/ Important dates

20/9/2024 > First call for papers

7/12/2024 > Deadline for proposals for special sessions

15/12/2024 > Notification for proposals for special sessions

31/1/2025 > Deadline for proposals for workshops, and tutorials

7/2/2025 > Notification for proposals for workshops and tutorials

UPDATED!!! 7/3/2025 > Deadline for papers submission

15/4/2025 > Papers acceptance notification

15/5/2025 > Papers final submission

30/6/2025 - 4/7/2025 > IAS-19 in Genoa, Italy

**/ CONFIRMED Plenary speakers

Tomaso A. Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

Yoshihiko Nakamura, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial
Intelligence, UAE

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, University of Tokyo, Japan

**/ CONFIRMED Keynote speakers

Arash Ajoudani, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

Perla Maiolino, University of Oxford, UK

José Galvan, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Vatican State

**/ Organisation

- General Chair

Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, University of Genoa, Italy

- Program Chair

Francesco Amigoni, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy

- Regional Program Chairs

Takahashi Masaki, Keio University, Japan

Jing Xiao, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US

Arnoud Visser, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

**/ OPENING SOON: Call for sponsors and exhibitors

We will soon open a call for sponsors and exhibitors. We are working toward
nicely blending the usual scientific tracks of IAS with pitch sessions and
events oriented towards innovation and the industry.

IAS-19 will feature a dedicated crash course on entrepreneurship, student
challenges in which companies may be directly involved, plenary pitch
sessions, and an industry forum.