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Call for Papers: Special Issue<br>
First Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered
Autonomy (AREA)
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<p>Autonomous agents are a well-established area that has been
researched for decades, both from a design and implementation
viewpoint. Nonetheless, the application of agents in real world
scenarios is largely adopted when logical distribution is
needed, while still limited when physical distribution is
necessary. In parallel, robots are no longer used only in
industrial applications but are instead being applied to an
increasing number of domains, ranging from robotic assistants to
search and rescue. Robots in these applications often benefit
from (or require) some level (semi or full) of autonomy. Thus,
multiagent solutions can be exploited in robotic scenarios,
considering their strong similarity both in terms of logical
distribution and interaction among autonomous entities.</p>
<p>The autonomous behaviour responsible for decision-making should
(ideally) be verifiable since these systems are expensive to
produce and are often deployed in safety-critical situations.
Thus, verification and validation are important and necessary
steps towards providing assurances about the reliability of
autonomy in these systems. This Special Issue aims to bring
together researchers from the autonomous agents, software
engineering and the robotics communities, as combining knowledge
coming from these two research areas may lead to innovative
approaches that solve complex problems related with the
verification and validation of autonomous robotic systems.
Consequently, we encourage submissions that combine agents,
robots and verification, but we also welcome papers focused on
one of these areas, as long as their applicability to the other
areas is clear.</p>
<p>The Special Issue seeks original contributions that address but
are not limited to the following topics:</p>
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<li>Agent-based modular architectures applicable to robots;</li>
<li>Agent oriented software engineering to model high-level
control in robotic development;</li>
<li>Agent programming languages and tools for developing robotic
or intelligent autonomous systems;</li>
<li>Coordination, interaction and negotiation protocols for
agents and robots;</li>
<li>Distributed problem solving and automated planning in
autonomous systems;</li>
<li>Fault tolerance, health-management and long-term autonomy;</li>
<li>Real world applications of autonomous agents and multiagent
systems in robotics;</li>
<li>Real-time multiagent systems;</li>
<li>Reliable software engineering of autonomy;</li>
<li>Runtime verification of autonomous agents and robotic
systems;</li>
<li>Task and resource allocation in multirobot systems;</li>
<li>Verification and validation of autonomous systems;</li>
<li>Testing and simulation tools and techniques for autonomous
or robotic systems;</li>
<li>Self-healing entities and systems.</li>
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This Special Issue is based on the First International Workshop on
“Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA)”, <a
href="https://area2020.github.io/">https://area2020.github.io/</a>,
co-located with ECAI 2020. Authors of selected papers from the
workshop are invited to submit an extended version of their text
and completely new submissions from the community are also
welcome.</div>
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submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed.
Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal
(as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special
issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as
short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title
and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the
Editorial Office for announcement on this website.</p>
<p>Submitted manuscripts should not have been published
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(except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are
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