<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear Friends,</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I wish to invite you all to contribute to the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-19), which will be held in Genoa, Italy, from June 30 to July 4, 2025.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Since the first edition in 1985, IAS has been a venue for original, novel, and innovative papers with a theoretical or experimental flavour. For IAS-19, we look for papers centered around the theme “Ethical, Responsible, and Inclusive Robotics”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">**/ Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mobile Robots Collaborative Robots/Cobots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Robots for Industry 4.0</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Household Robots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Humanoid Robots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Climbing Robots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Outdoor and Field Robots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Autonomous Vehicles</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Healthcare Robots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Flying Robots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Marine Robots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Robot Swarms</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Biomimetic Robots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Long-Term Autonomous Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Intelligent Machines</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cognitive Architectures for Robots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Human-Robot-Interaction</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Software Architectures for Robots</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cloud Robotics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Robot Vision</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tactile Sensing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Intelligent Sensors and Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Neuromorphic Sensing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Semantic Modelling</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Data Fusion and Machine Learning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Obstacle Avoidance</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Localization and SLAM</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Knowledge Representation and Reasoning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Planning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Task-Motion Planning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Robot Foundation Models</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Vision and Language Models</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Robot Simulations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mechatronics for Intelligent Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All contributed papers will go through a rigorous peer-review process, which will be managed by Editors, Associated Editors, and Reviewers. Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. If a paper will be accepted, the authors should submit a revised final version reflecting reviewers’ comments and present their paper orally and in presence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and a post-proceedings book will be published by Springer, as is customary for IAS conferences. A limited number of authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issue of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, published by Elsevier.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Proposals for workshops and tutorials are strongly encouraged. Workshops and tutorials will be scheduled on 30/6/2025.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Updates on <a href="http://www.ias-19.org/" target="_blank">www.ias-19.org</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">**/ Planned special sessions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1) Artificial Intelligence in Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Organisers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Alessandro Umbrico (<a href="mailto:alessandro.umbrico@istc.cnr.it" target="_blank">alessandro.umbrico@istc.cnr.it</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Alessandro Carfi (<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:alessandro.umbrico@istc.cnr.it" target="_blank">alessandro.umbrico@istc.cnr.it</a>)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">                                                </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2) Robots and Intelligent systems for Citizens and the Environment</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Organisers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Antonio Sgorbissa (<a href="mailto:antonio.sgorbissa@unige.it" target="_blank">antonio.sgorbissa@unige.it</a>)           </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Jaeryoung Lee (<a href="mailto:jaeryounglee@isc.chubu.ac.jp" target="_blank">jaeryounglee@isc.chubu.ac.jp</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto (<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:carmine.recchiuto@dibris.unige.it" target="_blank">carmine.recchiuto@dibris.unige.it</a></span>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Emilia Barakova (<a href="mailto:e.i.barakova@tue.nl" target="_blank">e.i.barakova@tue.nl</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3) Marine Robotics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Organisers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Giovanni Indiveri (<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:giovanni.indiveri@unige.it" target="_blank">giovanni.indiveri@unige.it</a></span>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Enrico Simetti (<a href="mailto:enrico.simetti@unige.it" target="_blank">enrico.simetti@unige.it</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Francesco Wanderlingh (<a href="mailto:francesco.wanderlingh@unige.it" target="_blank">francesco.wanderlingh@unige.it</a>)     </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4) Proactive Social Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration: From Vision to Language    </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Organisers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dimitri Ognibene (<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:dimitri.ognibene@unimib.it" target="_blank">dimitri.ognibene@unimib.it</a></span>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Onofrio Gigliotta (<a href="mailto:onofrio.gigliotta@unina.it" target="_blank">onofrio.gigliotta@unina.it</a>)                   </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Letizia Marchegiani (<a href="mailto:letizia.marchegiani@unipr.it" target="_blank">letizia.marchegiani@unipr.it</a>)        </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tom Foulsham (<a href="mailto:foulsham@essex.ac.uk" target="_blank">foulsham@essex.ac.uk</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dario Zanca (<a href="mailto:dario.zanca@fau.de" target="_blank">dario.zanca@fau.de</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Edoardo Datteri (<a href="mailto:edoardo.datteri@unimib.it" target="_blank">edoardo.datteri@unimib.it</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">                                                </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">5) Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Organisers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Fabio Patrizi  (<a href="mailto:patrizi@diag.uniroma1.it" target="_blank">patrizi@diag.uniroma1.it</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Luca Iocchi (<a href="mailto:iocchi@diag.uniroma1.it" target="_blank">iocchi@diag.uniroma1.it</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Raffaello Camoriano (<a href="mailto:raffaello.camoriano@polito.it" target="_blank">raffaello.camoriano@polito.it</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">6) Advanced Mathematical and Control Methods in Soft and Humanoid Robotics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Organisers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Fabio Bonsignorio (<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:fabio.bonsignorio@fer.unizg.hr" target="_blank">fabio.bonsignorio@fer.unizg.hr</a></span>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Enrica Zereik (<a href="mailto:enrica.zereik@cnr.it" target="_blank">enrica.zereik@cnr.it</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">                                                </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">7) Human Internal States Perception and Processing for Human-Centric Technology</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Organisers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Marco Matarese (<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:marco.matarese@iit.it" target="_blank">marco.matarese@iit.it</a></span>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Francesco Rea (<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:francesco.rea@iit.it" target="_blank">francesco.rea@iit.it</a></span>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Alessandra Sciutti (<a href="mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it" target="_blank">alessandra.sciutti@iit.it</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">8) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">LLMs as planning tools for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Organisers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lorenzo Natale (<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:lorenzo.natale@iit.it" target="_blank">lorenzo.natale@iit.it</a></span>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Carmela Calabrese (<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:carmela.calabrese@iit.it" target="_blank">carmela.calabrese@iit.it</a></span>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">9) Field Robotics Empowered by Artificial Intelligence</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Organisers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hyun-Joon Chung</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Jinung An</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Soon-Geul Lee</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sukhan Lee</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">**/ Paper submission instructions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Prospective authors must format their papers in a single-column layout on 21 cm x 29.7 cm A4-size paper according to the Springer guidelines:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a title="www.springer.com" href="https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines&e=ed7a584b&h=fe37a403&f=y&p=y" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In particular, refer to:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- instructions for authors: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v16" target="_blank">https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v16</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- LaTeX templates: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v8" target="_blank">https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v8</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- Overleaf LaTeX templates: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a title="www.overleaf.com" href="https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.overleaf.com%2Flatex%2Ftemplates%2Fspringer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science%2Fkzwwpvhwnvfj&e=ed7a584b&h=ce6ecb75&f=y&p=y" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj</a><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- MS Word templates: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/7117506/data/v1" target="_blank">https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/7117506/data/v1</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Paper length should be at most 12 pages, including references. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Authors can optionally have 6 additional pages at a cost of 50 EUR per page. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Papers with more than 18 pages will be automatically rejected.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Papers must be submitted electronically via OpenReview: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=ias-society.org/IAS/2025/Conference" target="_blank">https://openreview.net/group?id=ias-society.org/IAS/2025/Conference</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please indicate whether the paper is submitted to the general track or one of the special sessions.<b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">**/ Important dates</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><s><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">20/9/2024 > First call for papers</span></s><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">        </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><s><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">7/12/2024 > Deadline for proposals for special sessions</span></s></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><s><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">15/12/2024 > Notification for proposals for special sessions</span></s></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><s><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">31/1/2025 > Deadline for proposals for workshops, and tutorials</span></s></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><s><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height:18.4px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">7/2/2025 > Notification for proposals for workshops and tutorials</span></s><span style="font-size:medium"></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">UPDATED!!! 7/3/2025 > Deadline for papers submission        </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">15/4/2025 > Papers acceptance notification        </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">15/5/2025 > Papers final submission        </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">30/6/2025 - 4/7/2025 > IAS-19 in Genoa, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">**/ CONFIRMED Plenary speakers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tomaso A. Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Yoshihiko Nakamura, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Yasuo Kuniyoshi, University of Tokyo, Japan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">**/ CONFIRMED Keynote speakers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Arash Ajoudani, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Perla Maiolino, University of Oxford, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">José Galvan, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Vatican State</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">**/ Organisation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- General Chair</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, University of Genoa, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- Program Chair</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Francesco Amigoni, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- Regional Program Chairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Takahashi Masaki, Keio University, Japan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Jing Xiao, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Arnoud Visser, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">**/ OPENING SOON: Call for sponsors and exhibitors</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We will soon open a call for sponsors and exhibitors. We are working toward nicely blending the usual scientific tracks of IAS with pitch sessions and events oriented towards innovation and the industry.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">IAS-19 will feature a dedicated crash course on entrepreneurship, student challenges in which companies may be directly involved, plenary pitch sessions, and an industry forum.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">   </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">More on this soon!</span></p></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div>---------------------------------------------------</div><div>Silvia Rossi, PhD</div><div>University of Naples "Federico II" - ITALY</div><div>tel: +39 081 679983 - fax: +39 081 679967</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:silvia.rossi@gmail.com" target="_blank">silvia.rossi@gmail.com</a></div><div><a href="http://people.na.infn.it/~srossi" target="_blank">http://people.na.infn.it/~srossi</a></div></div></div>