[agents] Second Workshop on "eXtended Reality & Intelligent Agents", XRIA25 at ECAI25: call for papers

[Viviana Mascardi]

Apologies for crossposting
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                Second Workshop on "eXtended Reality & Intelligent Agents"
                                         XRIA25 at ECAI25

                 https://sites.google.com/view/xria2025/home-page

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After the successful XRIA2024 edition in Santiago de Compostela, we are 
again very happy to organize the XRIA workshop! XRIA aims to bring 
together researchers, engineers, and practitioners interested in 
exploring the role of intelligent agents in eXtended Reality (XR, that 
is, virtual, augmented, and mixed reality), and vice versa, embracing a 
multidisciplinary perspective.
The workshop will be co-located with ECAI 2025, that will take place in 
the beautiful Bologna, Italy.

XRIA web site:
https://sites.google.com/view/xria2025/home-page

Important dates:
Abstract (not mandatory, but strongly appreciated): June 10th 2025
Submission deadline: June 20th 2025
Notification: July 30th 2025
Workshop: either 25th or 26th of October, 2025

Topics of interest:
The workshop welcomes papers that propose architectures, methodologies, 
and tools for integrating intelligent agents and XR systems, as well as 
already developed case studies and technologies, and more visionary 
proposals.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
-- Integration of Agents and Multiagent systems and techniques into XR 
systems
    Cognitive Agents for XR Avatars
    Interaction between agents and humans through virtual worlds
    Pedestrian and Crowd simulations in XR systems
    Autonomous and intelligent XR avatars
    Ambient Intelligent systems and XR
    Methodologies, platforms, tools and libraries for integrating MASs 
into XR platforms
-- XR for agents and MAS
    Exploiting virtual worlds as MAS environments
    Perception, locomotion and navigation of agents into XR environments
    Filling the gap between humans and virtual agents thanks to XR
    Exploiting XR simulation for Human & MAS experiments
    Exploiting XR simulation for Human & Robots experiments
    Methodologies, platforms, tools and libraries for integrating XR 
into MASs
-- More general aspects
    Conversational agents and XR
    Learning agents/avatars in the XR
    Ethical concerns with Virtual Agents
    Software Engineering aspects (testing, V&V) related to the 
integration of MAS and XR systems
    Any topic related to the integration/exploitation of MAS and XR


Submission instructions:
XRIA welcomes three types of submissions and proceedings: research 
papers, perspective papers, reviews, and case studies.
We plan to not have formal proceedings but to publish accepted papers on 
the workshop website. Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit 
an extension of the workshop paper to a Special Issue which will follow 
a standard review process.
In this line, the workshop will accept both short and long papers, as 
long as they provide enough information for the review process. The 
manuscript should use the ECAI LaTeX template: the expected number of 
pages is between 4 and 8 + references.
Papers can be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair: 
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=xria2025

Organizing committee:
    Daniela Briola, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
    Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy
    Anne-Hélène Olivier, University of Rennes 2, France