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<div style="margin:0px">DEADLINE EXTENSION</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Call for Papers</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Second Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA)</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Co-located with IJCAI/ECAI 2022</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Workshop: 23rd-25th July 2022 (EXACT DAY TO BE CONFIRMED)</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Conference: 23rd-29th of July, 2022</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Vienna, Austria</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Info:<span> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><a href="https://areaworkshop.github.io/AREA2022/" style="margin:0px">https://areaworkshop.github.io/AREA2022/</a></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Contact: area.workshop.info@gmail.com</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">IMPORTANT DATES</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Paper Submission Deadline: 13th May 2022 (AoE, UTC-12)</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Paper Notification: 3rd June 2022</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Camera Ready: 17th June 2022</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">SCOPE</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Autonomous agents is 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 has largely been adopted in applications
which are primarily software based, and remains limited in applications which involve physical interaction. In parallel, robots are no longer used only in tightly constrained industrial applications but are instead being applied in an increasing number of
domains, ranging from robotic assistants to search and rescue, where the working environment is both dynamic and underspecified, and may involve interactions between multiple robots and humans.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">This presents significant challenges to traditional software engineering methodologies. Increased autonomy is an important route to enabling robotic applications to function in these environments, and autonomous agents and multi-agent
systems are a promising approach to their engineering. As autonomy and interaction increases, the engineering of reliable behaviour becomes more challenging (both in robotic applications and in more traditional autonomous agent settings), and so there is a
need for research into new approaches to verification and validation that can be integrated in the engineering lifecycle of these systems.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the autonomous agents and the robotics communities, since combining knowledge from these two research areas may lead to innovative approaches that solve complex problems related to
the verification and validation of autonomous robotic systems. Therefore, we encourage submissions that combine agents, robots, software engineering, and verification, but we also welcome papers focused on one of these areas, as long as their applicability
to the other areas is explicit.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">TOPICS</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">The main topics include but are not limited to:</div>
<div style="margin:0px">- Agent-based modular architectures applicable to robots</div>
<div style="margin:0px">- Agent-oriented software engineering to model high-level control in robotic development</div>
<div style="margin:0px">- Agent programming languages and tools for developing robotic or intelligent autonomous systems</div>
<div style="margin:0px">- Coordination, interaction, and negotiation protocols for agents and robots</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">- Fault tolerance, health management, and long-term autonomy</div>
<div style="margin:0px">- Real-world applications of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems in robotics</div>
<div style="margin:0px">- Real-time multi-agent systems</div>
<div style="margin:0px">- Reliable software engineering of autonomy</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">- Task and resource allocation in multi-robot systems</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">- Engineering reliable interactions between humans and autonomous robots or agents</div>
<div style="margin:0px">- Verification and validation of human-robot interactions</div>
<div style="margin:0px">- Engineering transparent decision making for autonomous systems</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">SUBMISSIONS</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Participants are invited to submit either:</div>
<div style="margin:0px">- a full-length research paper: a technical paper describing technically sound, innovative ideas that can advance the engineering/reliability of agents and robots; an application/case study paper, with emphasis on robotic applications
where agents techniques have been applied; a survey paper on one of the topics of interest.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">- a short paper: a position paper describing relevant questions and issues that participants feel should be addressed; a demo paper describing a demonstration of an agent/robotic application, system or tool; a new idea in the field which
is not ready for publication as a regular paper.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Full-length research papers must not exceed twelve (12) pages single column, and short papers must not exceed six (6) pages single column, excluding references and appendices. All submissions must be in English and PDF format.</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Each submission will receive at least three single-blind reviews. All papers should be original and not be submitted elsewhere. The review process is single-blind: submissions should not be blind, reviewers will be.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">In case of acceptance, at least one of the authors should attend the workshop to present their work.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">The proceedings of the workshop will be published with EPTCS (<span style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><a href="http://www.eptcs.org/" style="margin:0px">http://www.eptcs.org/</a></span>).
Formatting guidelines should follow EPTCS style:<span> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><a href="http://style.eptcs.org/" style="margin:0px">http://style.eptcs.org/</a></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Submission link:<span> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=area22" style="margin:0px">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=area22</a></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px">After the workshop, we will consider applying for a journal special issue (journal to be selected later), where revised selected and extended papers can be published.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">WORKSHOP FORMAT</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">This event is planned as a half-day workshop taking approximately 5 hours. Depending on the number of submissions, we may organise a discussion panel at the end.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">INVITED TALKS</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">There are going to be two invited talks:</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Prof. Ana Cavalcanti (The University of York, UK)</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Prof. Brian Logan (University of Aberdeen, UK)</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">IMPORTANT NOTE</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">The AREA workshop is going to be an in-person event (following IJCAI-ECAI 2022 guidelines). At least one author of each accepted paper has to register to the Workshop (via IJCAI-ECAI 2022 website, fees will be made available soon). Authors
that cannot come in person to the event will be allowed to present their contribution online as long as they have registered for the workshop (no discount fees will be available, IJCAI-ECAI 2022 is entirely physical, we are only aiming to give the option to
people that want to participate but will not be able to attend in person).</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Kind regards, the organisers:</div>
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<div style="margin:0px">Rafael C. Cardoso, University of Aberdeen (UK)</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Angelo Ferrando, University of Genova (Italy)</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Fabio Papacchini, Lancaster University Leipzig (Germany)</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Mehrnoosh Askarpour, McMaster University (Canada)</div>
<div style="margin:0px">Louise A. Dennis, The University of Manchester (UK)</div>
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