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AAAI 2023 - Bridge Program<br>
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<a href="https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-23/"
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color: rgb(80, 81, 79); text-decoration: none;">Thirty-Seventh
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence</a></strong><br
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">
February 7 - 14 2023 Washington, DC, USA.</strong><br
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">CONTEXT</strong><br
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics are strongly connected
areas since the early days of AI. On the one hand, AI principles
and methods play a crucial role in several areas of Robotics
research and are pervasively exploited at various levels of robot
architectures. On the other hand, Robotics provides several
relevant challenges for the AI community where different AI
methods and tools requires to be deeply integrated to obtain an
embodied agent capable of an autonomous, adaptive and interactive
behavior. In this direction, the scientific relevance of this
proposal is related to how diverse areas of AI and Robotics
research can be integrated to enable robots to face complex
challenges in real-world tasks.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
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Notwithstanding the shared challenges and the widespread of
learning and statistical methods in robotics, the AI and Robotics
communities still need to further interact to integrate methods
that are still not fully exploited. In particular, the integration
of symbolic and sub-symbolic models and methods with different
levels of abstraction are needed to face many relevant issues
(e.g., combined task and motion planning, neuro-symbolic learning,
task teaching, collaborative task execution, etc.) that require a
strict collaboration between the two communities. <br>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Some initiatives have
already been started to create a stable, long-term forum where
researchers from both AI and Robotics communities can openly
discuss relevant issues such as research and development progress,
future directions and open challenges related to AI methods in
Robotics. A notable venue is the International Conference on
Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) workshop series on
Planning and Robotics (PlanRob [1]). Started during ICAPS 2013, in
Rome (Italy), and followed by editions at every ICAPS from 2014 to
2021, the PlanRob Workshop series has gathered excellent feedback
from the P&S community, as also confirmed by the organisation
of a Special Track on Robotics starting with ICAPS 2014. On the
Robotics side, a version of the PlanRob series was held at ICRA
2017 in Singapore (top conference for the IEEE Robotics and
Automation Society). Some related events were also organized at
the European Robotic Forum [2] (promoted by the European
Commission) to present results and challenges in EU-funded
projects.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
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After such time, technological developments allow embedded devices
to run complex algorithms and be more effective, a wide diffusion
of data is enabling opportunities for ground-breaking impact from
learning techniques when applied to robots and an increasing
number of AI & Robotics results are being collected
facilitating the deployment of intelligent robots in many
applicative fields.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">AIM OF
THE BRIDGE SESSION</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
The goal of this Bridge Session is to keep fostering the
interactions already ongoing within PlanRob and further stabilize
such common ground where researchers can confront and broaden
research frontiers, identify most crucial challenges and pave the
way towards a shared research agenda. Gathering notable
representatives from both communities in a unique venue
contributes in achieving such objective and allow them to share
their knowledge and expertise as well as take advantage of
different perspectives.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">EXPECTED
CONTRIBUTIONS AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</strong><br
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We look for<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: bold;">position papers<span> </span></strong>to
discuss ideas and concepts, e.g., via critiques or new
perspectives in AI and Robotics, historical perspectives and
analysis. Some relevant areas are, e.g., long-term autonomy and
robot learning, neural symbolic approach, task teaching, cognitive
robotics, human-robot interaction, open world planning and acting,
explainable AI in robotics, reliable and safe AI methods for
robotics, technological and integration challenges. The list is no
limited to the above areas and additional topics may be proposed
by contributors.</p>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">We are also looking for<span> </span><strong
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">tutorial</strong>, a<span> </span><b
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">survey</b><span> </span><b
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">presentation<span> </span></b>or
an integrated<span> </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: bold;">application</b><span> </span><b
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">showcase<span> </span></b>proposals
on (new) cross-disciplinary AI & Robotics topics, with a
shared focus, and to engage and educate new researchers, as well
as established researchers. The goal is also to set common grand
challenges while discussing fundamental problems and educating
each other about respective tools.</p>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Both<span> </span><b
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papers</b><span> </span>and<strong style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-weight: bold;"> </strong>proposals for <strong
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">tutorial,
survey presentation or application showcase </strong>can be
(max) 4 pages in AAAI style (plus up to one page of references).<br
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">ENVISAGED
STRUCTURE</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
This session will be a one-day long event and it will be
structured as a sequence discussion sessions, tutorials and
interactive discussions to confront ideas and synthesize common
views. A poster session will be organized to allow the
presentation of open contributions and further stimulate the
general discussion. A final panel session will aim to select the
most crucial elements and identify a possible common research
agenda for future steps.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
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Link to submission: <a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaaiairob23"
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color: rgb(80, 81, 79); text-decoration: none;"
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">IMPORTANT
DATES</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
Contribution submission due: November 18, 2022<br
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AAAI early registration deadline: December 12, 2022<br
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Bridge Sessions at AAAI-23: 7-8 February, 2023</p>
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LAAS-CNRS, France</p>
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University of Naples Federico II, Italy<br>
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National Research Council of Italy</p>
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