[robocup-worldwide] Call for Papers: Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) Workshop 2017

[Pedro U Lima]

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***



Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) Workshop 2017



*** Note new deadline ***



A full-day workshop to be held as part of AAMAS-2017 and to accompany the AAMAS Special Track on Robotics.



May 8 or 9, 2017, Sao Paulo, Brazil



Website: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~agmon/arms2017



AAMAS Website: http://www.aamas2017.org

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 ** Note fast-track review process for AAMAS short papers, below **



 Important Dates

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  Paper submission deadline: Feb 13, 2017      new date

  Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2017

  Submission of camera-ready version: March 17, 2017

 

Overview
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Robots are agents, too. Indeed, agent researchers are sometimes inspired by robots, sometimes use robots in motivating examples, and sometimes make contributions to robotics. Both practical and analytical techniques in agent research influence, and are influenced by, research into autonomous robots and multi-robot systems. Areas of particular recent cross-fertilization include (but are not limited to):

 - motion planning and path planning for single and multiple mobile robots

- market-based for coalition formation and task allocation

- machine learning in robotics

- multi-robot teams and swarms

- human-agent-robot teamwork

- analysis of large-scale multi-robot systems and swarms

- decision-theoretic single- and multi-robot planning

- imitation and learning by demonstration/example

- formal methods and control architectures

- canonical robotics problems and benchmarks, such as robotic soccer, coverage, foraging, or patrolling

 

Despite the rich cross-fertilization between AAMAS and robotics research areas, roboticists and agents researchers have only a few opportunities to meet and interact. The recently established robotics track at AAMAS is one such opportunity. The goal of the proposed workshop is to extend and widen this opportunity, by offering a forum where researchers in this area of research can interact and present promising innovative research directions, and new results. The workshop is coordinated and associated with the AAMAS robotics track.

 

Submissions and Publication
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The submission website is

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arms2017

Contributions are sought in all areas of robotics, in particular as related to autonomous agents research, but not necessarily so.

Theoretical papers are welcome, as long as they clearly address challenges in robotics. Empirical studies should ideally present experiments with real robots, though physical simulation studies are also acceptable.  Papers that focus on mechanical aspects and low-level control should make an effort to relate to the agents community.

 Submissions should follow Springer's LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for instructions, or directly download the latex style file: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip).

 Papers should not exceed 20 pages in length.

 Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for selection of papers will include: originality, readability, relevance to themes, soundness, and overall quality.

 Papers do not have to be anonymized: We do not follow a double-blind review process.

 

 Fast-track Review process
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As part of our close coordination with the AAMAS robotics track, we offer a fast-track review process to papers that have been accepted as "short papers" (extended abstracts) to the AAMAS conference, in the robotics track or with a robotics keyword.  For such papers, please include the original AAMAS paper number with the submission.





Organizing Committee
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NOA AGMON, Bar Ilan University, Israel
GAL KAMINKA, Bar Ilan University, Israel
ALESSANDRO FARINELLI, University of Verona, Italy
FRANCESCO AMIGONI, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
MARIA GINI, Univ. of Minneapolis, USA
DANIELE NARDI, "Sapienza" Universita di Roma, Italy
PEDRO LIMA, Institute for Systems and Robotics, Portugal
EROL SAHIN , Middle East Technical University, Turkey




The contact organizer is Noa Agmon (agmon at cs.biu.ac.il)