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<div style="font-size:small">*** WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT ***</div>
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<div style="font-size:small"> [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement]</div>
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<div style="font-size:small"> 6th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics</div>
<div style="font-size:small"> (<span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">AIRO</span> <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">2019</span>)</div>
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<div style="font-size:small"> 19-22 November <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">2019</span></div>
<div style="font-size:small"> Rende (CS), Italy</div>
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<div style="font-size:small"> Held in conjunction with the</div>
<div style="font-size:small"> 18th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence</div>
<div style="font-size:small"> (AIIA <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">2019</span>)</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">** Aims and Scope **</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">The goal of <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">AIRO</span> <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">2019</span> is to foster the discussion about the use of</div>
<div style="font-size:small">Artificial Intelligence methods to design intelligent robots.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">AI principles and methods play a crucial role in several areas of</div>
<div style="font-size:small">Robotics research (e.g., field, service, social robotics, etc.) and are pervasively exploited at various levels of robot architectures. </div>
<div style="font-size:small">We argue that robot intelligence is a property arising from the interaction between robots and their environment. As we expect robots to leave </div>
<div style="font-size:small">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 </div>
<div style="font-size:small">functionality of a robotic architecture shows its intrinsic</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">On the contrary, the main motivation of <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">AIRO</span> <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">2019</span> is the belief that</div>
<div style="font-size:small">AI techniques must be considered at any levels of a robotic</div>
<div style="font-size:small">architecture, with respect to both hardware and software components.</div>
<div style="font-size:small">Sensing, representation and action can greatly benefit from the</div>
<div style="font-size:small">adoption of various forms of AI.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">The scientific relevance of the workshop is related to how diverse</div>
<div style="font-size:small">areas of AI research can be used to design robots able to face complex</div>
<div style="font-size:small">challenges in real-world tasks.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">The scope of <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">AIRO</span> <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">2019</span> encompasses such diverse yet intertwined</div>
<div style="font-size:small">research areas as sensing and perception, human-robot interaction,</div>
<div style="font-size:small">intelligent control, cognition and adaptation, behaviour and reasoning</div>
<div style="font-size:small">models, knowledge representation and computational ontologies, but</div>
<div style="font-size:small">also robot engineering tools, real-time software architectures and</div>
<div style="font-size:small">fast-prototyping techniques. Starting from these fields, and in</div>
<div style="font-size:small">continuity with the previous <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">AIRO</span> workshops, we will explore how robot</div>
<div style="font-size:small">intelligence is expected to play major roles when robots interact with</div>
<div style="font-size:small">humans and when dealing with everyday not predictable situations, like</div>
<div style="font-size:small">human assistance, housekeeping or autonomous driving, just to name</div>
<div style="font-size:small">three of the most common trendy scenarios nowadays.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small"><span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">AIRO</span> <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">2019</span> is part of an on-going effort to consolidate the Italian</div>
<div style="font-size:small">community working on various aspects of the intersection between AI</div>
<div style="font-size:small">and Robotics.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">** Workshop Format and submission**</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">The workshop will include oral presentations, system demonstrations</div>
<div style="font-size:small">and posters related to the integration of Artificial Intelligence and</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">Prospective authors wishing to give either an oral or poster</div>
<div style="font-size:small">presentation will be required to submit a 4-page extended abstract</div>
<div style="font-size:small">(not including references). People interested in showcasing live their</div>
<div style="font-size:small">work in the form of a demo, or showing videos of their work, will be</div>
<div style="font-size:small">required to submit a 1-page abstract describing the main relevant</div>
<div style="font-size:small">aspects of the demo/video.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">All the 4-page extended abstracts and the 1-page abstracts will form</div>
<div style="font-size:small">the Proceedings of the event, which will be published in the CEUR</div>
<div style="font-size:small">Workshop Proceedings AI*IA Series, as in previous Workshop editions,</div>
<div style="font-size:small">as well as on the workshop website.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">Contributions should be submitted via the <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">AIRO</span> <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">2019</span> EasyChair website:</div>
<div style="font-size:small"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=airo2019" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=airo2019</a></div>
<div style="font-size:small">All contributions should be typeset in the Springer LNCS style,</div>
<div style="font-size:small">described at: <a href="http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html</a></div>
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<div style="font-size:small">The organizers are negotiating with the Editorial Board of the</div>
<div style="font-size:small">Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal to organise a Special Issue on</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">** Important Dates **</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">Submission deadline: 21 September, <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">2019</span></div>
<div style="font-size:small">Notification of acceptance: 20 October, <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">2019</span></div>
<div style="font-size:small">Camera Ready: TBA</div>
<div style="font-size:small">Workshop days: TBA, <span class="gmail-m_-2284051189221882746il">2019</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:small">** Workshop Organizers **</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">Salvatore Anzalone (Universite' Paris 8, Saint Denis, Paris, France)</div>
<div style="font-size:small">Luca Buoncompagni (Universita' degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy)</div>
<div style="font-size:small">Alberto Castellini (Universita' di Verona, Verona, Italy)</div>
<div style="font-size:small">Alberto Finzi (Universita' di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy)</div>
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