<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p data-sourcepos="1:1-1:19" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong class="">Call for Papers</strong></p><p data-sourcepos="3:1-3:88" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2nd International Workshop on Blockchain Technologies for Robotic Systems (BCT4ROS'2020)</p><p data-sourcepos="5:1-5:139" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://ondergurcan.netlify.app/site/bct4ros2020/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" class="">https://ondergurcan.netlify.app/site/bct4ros2020/</a> (Submission deadline: July 27, 2020)</p><p data-sourcepos="7:1-7:125" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">in conjunction with The 29th IEEE International (Virtual) Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)</p><p data-sourcepos="9:1-9:31" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Naples, Italy, September 4 2020</p><p data-sourcepos="11:1-11:492" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</p><p data-sourcepos="13:1-13:799" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</p><p data-sourcepos="15:1-15:514" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</p><p data-sourcepos="17:1-17:540" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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 the 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.</p><p data-sourcepos="19:1-19:63" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Relevant Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:</p><ul data-sourcepos="21:1-34:0" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li data-sourcepos="21:1-21:40" class="">Trustworthy robot -- human interaction</li><li data-sourcepos="22:1-22:42" class="">Privacy and security for robotic systems</li><li data-sourcepos="23:1-23:35" class="">Autonomous cyber-physical systems</li><li data-sourcepos="24:1-24:42" class="">Blockchain for networked systems and IoT</li><li data-sourcepos="25:1-25:57" class="">Peer-to-peer and distributed models for robotic systems</li><li data-sourcepos="26:1-26:32" class="">Self-regulated robotic systems</li><li data-sourcepos="27:1-27:38" class="">Distributed sensing and coordination</li><li data-sourcepos="28:1-28:31" class="">Blockchain and mobile systems</li><li data-sourcepos="29:1-29:36" class="">Blockchain for multi-agent systems</li><li data-sourcepos="30:1-30:17" class="">Citizen science</li><li data-sourcepos="31:1-31:42" class="">Decentralized business models for robots</li><li data-sourcepos="32:1-32:29" class="">Blockchain and Industry 4.0</li><li data-sourcepos="33:1-34:0" class="">Blockchain and Robot Economics</li></ul><p data-sourcepos="35:1-35:27" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong class="">Submission Instructions</strong></p><p data-sourcepos="37:1-37:138" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:</p><ul data-sourcepos="39:1-42:0" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li data-sourcepos="39:1-39:226" class="">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.</li><li data-sourcepos="40:1-40:133" class="">Short papers (up to 4 pages) should describe novel and promising ideas and/or techniques that are in an early stage of development.</li><li data-sourcepos="41:1-42:0" class="">Extended abstracts (up to 300 words) should introduce novel and promising ideas shortly and concisely.</li></ul><p data-sourcepos="43:1-43:196" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Papers should be prepared using the standard IEEE Ro-MAN 2019 template (download the template from here: LaTeX or MS-Word) and should be submitted using the EasyChair conference management system.</p><p data-sourcepos="45:1-45:15" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong class="">Proceedings</strong></p><p data-sourcepos="47:1-47:120" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All accepted submissions will be published as a post-proceedings book by a major publisher (to be announced very soon).</p><p data-sourcepos="49:1-49:21" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong class="">Program Committee</strong></p><ul data-sourcepos="51:1-65:0" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li data-sourcepos="51:1-51:73" class="">Aleksandr Kapitonov, ITMO University, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation</li><li data-sourcepos="52:1-52:47" class="">Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy</li><li data-sourcepos="53:1-53:83" class="">Davide Calvaresi, University of Applied Science Western Switzerland, Switzerland</li><li data-sourcepos="54:1-54:36" class="">Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, MIT, USA</li><li data-sourcepos="55:1-55:62" class="">Enis Karaaslan, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi, Turkey</li><li data-sourcepos="56:1-56:61" class="">Joao Sequeira, Institue for Systems and Robotics, Portugal</li><li data-sourcepos="57:1-57:56" class="">Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium</li><li data-sourcepos="58:1-58:45" class="">Nicholas Jäger, OTH Amberg-Weiden, Germany</li><li data-sourcepos="59:1-59:61" class="">Olivier Boissier, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France</li><li data-sourcepos="60:1-60:42" class="">Önder Gürcan, CEA LIST, Paris, France</li><li data-sourcepos="61:1-61:43" class="">Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey</li><li data-sourcepos="62:1-62:37" class="">Pierre-Yves Piriou, EDF R&D, France</li><li data-sourcepos="63:1-63:52" class="">Sérgio Guerreiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal</li><li data-sourcepos="64:1-65:0" class="">...</li></ul><p data-sourcepos="66:1-66:14" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong class="">Organizers</strong></p><ul data-sourcepos="68:1-70:0" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li data-sourcepos="68:1-68:42" class="">Önder Gürcan, CEA LIST, Paris, France</li><li data-sourcepos="69:1-70:0" class="">Fabio Bonsignorio, Heron Robots, Genova, Italy</li></ul><p data-sourcepos="71:1-71:9" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong class="">Venue</strong></p><p data-sourcepos="73:1-74:7" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">BCT4ROS'2020 will be held in conjunction with The 29th IEEE International (Virtual) Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020) at Royal Continental Hotel in Naples, Italy on the 4th of September. Contact</p><p data-sourcepos="76:1-76:99" dir="auto" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For contacting with the organizers, please use the following e-mail address: <a href="mailto:bct4ros2020@icloud.com" class="">bct4ros2020@icloud.com</a></p></body></html>