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<div dir="ltr">*** WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT ***<br>
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[Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement]<br>
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6th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics<br>
(AIRO 2019)<br>
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<a href="https://airo2019.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">
https://airo2019.wordpress.com/</a><br>
19-22 November 2019<br>
Rende (CS), Italy<br>
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Held in conjunction with the<br>
18th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence<br>
(AIIA 2019)<br>
<a href="https://aiia2019.mat.unical.it/" target="_blank">
https://aiia2019.mat.unical.it/</a><br>
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** Aims and Scope **<br>
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The goal of AIRO 2019 is to foster the discussion about the use of<br>
Artificial Intelligence methods to design intelligent robots.<br>
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AI principles and methods play a crucial role in several areas of<br>
Robotics research (e.g., field, service, social robotics, etc.) and are pervasively exploited at various levels of robot architectures.
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We argue that robot intelligence is a property arising from the interaction between robots and their environment. As we expect robots to leave
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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
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functionality of a robotic architecture shows its intrinsic<br>
limitations. <br>
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On the contrary, the main motivation of AIRO 2019 is the belief that<br>
AI techniques must be considered at any levels of a robotic<br>
architecture, with respect to both hardware and software components.<br>
Sensing, representation and action can greatly benefit from the<br>
adoption of various forms of AI.<br>
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The scientific relevance of the workshop is related to how diverse<br>
areas of AI research can be used to design robots able to face complex<br>
challenges in real-world tasks.<br>
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The scope of AIRO 2019 encompasses such diverse yet intertwined<br>
research areas as sensing and perception, human-robot interaction,<br>
intelligent control, cognition and adaptation, behaviour and reasoning<br>
models, knowledge representation and computational ontologies, but<br>
also robot engineering tools, real-time software architectures and<br>
fast-prototyping techniques. Starting from these fields, and in<br>
continuity with the previous AIRO workshops, we will explore how robot<br>
intelligence is expected to play major roles when robots interact with<br>
humans and when dealing with everyday not predictable situations, like<br>
human assistance, housekeeping or autonomous driving, just to name<br>
three of the most common trendy scenarios nowadays.<br>
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AIRO 2019 is part of an on-going effort to consolidate the Italian<br>
community working on various aspects of the intersection between AI<br>
and Robotics.<br>
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** Workshop Format and submission**<br>
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The workshop will include oral presentations, system demonstrations<br>
and posters related to the integration of Artificial Intelligence and<br>
Robotics. Invited talks will complement presentations of contributed<br>
papers.<br>
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Prospective authors wishing to give either an oral or poster<br>
presentation will be required to submit a 4-page extended abstract<br>
(not including references). People interested in showcasing live their<br>
work in the form of a demo, or showing videos of their work, will be<br>
required to submit a 1-page abstract describing the main relevant<br>
aspects of the demo/video.<br>
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All the 4-page extended abstracts and the 1-page abstracts will form<br>
the Proceedings of the event, which will be published in the CEUR<br>
Workshop Proceedings AI*IA Series, as in previous Workshop editions,<br>
as well as on the workshop website.<br>
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Contributions should be submitted via the AIRO 2019 EasyChair website:<br>
<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=airo2019" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=airo2019</a><br>
All contributions should be typeset in the Springer LNCS style,<br>
described at: <a href="http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html" target="_blank">
http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html</a><br>
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The organizers are negotiating with the Editorial Board of the<br>
Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal to organise a Special Issue on<br>
AI and Robotics.<br>
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** Important Dates **<br>
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Submission deadline: 21 September, 2019<br>
Notification of acceptance: 20 October, 2019<br>
Camera Ready: TBA<br>
Workshop days: TBA, 2019<br>
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** Workshop Organizers **<br>
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Salvatore Anzalone (Universite' Paris 8, Saint Denis, Paris, France)<br>
Luca Buoncompagni (Universita' degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy)<br>
Alberto Castellini (Universita' di Verona, Verona, Italy)<br>
Alberto Finzi (Universita' di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy)</div>
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