[robocup-worldwide] 2nd CFP IROBOT'2019 - 9th Int. Them. Track on Intelligent Robotics

[Nuno Lau]

(apologies for cross-posting)
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IROBOT'2019 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
9th International Thematic Track on Intelligent Robotics

To be held at EPIA 2019, September 3-6, 2019
Vila Real, Portugal
http://epia2019.utad.pt/
epia2019 at utad.pt
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The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a well-established
European conference in the field of AI. The 19th edition, EPIA 2019,
will take place in Vila Real in September 3rd-6th, 2019.
This international conference is hosted with the patronage of the
Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).
Its purpose is to promote research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence
(AI), covering both theoretical/foundational ssues and applications, and
the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in
related disciplines.
EPIA 2019 will feature a set of thematic tracks, covering a wide spectrum
of AI topics.
Conference Proceedings includes a book published by Springer LNCS/LNAI.

## Important Dates

15 Apr 2019: Paper Submission Deadline
31 May 2019: Author Notification/Registration Open
15 Jun 2019: Camera-Ready Deadline
3-6 Sep 2019: EPIA'2019 Conference


## EPIA Keynote Speakers

- Marco Dorigo
Swarm robotics: recent results and new research directions

- Michael Wooldridge
Understanding Equilibrium Properties of Multi-Agent Systems

- Albert Bifet
Machine Learning for Data Streams

## IROBOT Description

IROBOT'2019 poses itself as a follow-up on the previous eight International
Thematic Tracks/Workshops on Intelligent Robotics held at EPIA since 2005.
Its main purpose is to bring together researchers, engineers and other
professionals interested in the application of AI techniques in real/simulated
robotics to discuss current work and future directions.

Robotics, from the point of view of AI, has been an important
application field, from which AI has also gained. Namely, the dynamic
and unforeseen nature of the environment, especially for mobile robots,
has fostered research in these aspects of AI. Together with the developments
in Robotics Research, the use of Robotics in industry and services has
changed a lot in recent years. New paradigms and approaches for industrial
robots and service robots have emerged, for example, on mobile robots
learning, localization, mapping and navigation in unstructured environments.
IROBOT 2019 will discuss these new developments on industrial and service
robotics with focus on robot learning.

## Topics of Interest

The Thematic Track will be structured around the following themes:

- Adaptive and flexible industrial robotics
- Agriculture robots
- AI Planning for robotics
- Autonomous vehicles
- Cognitive robotics
- Computer vision and object recognition
- Coordination in robotics
- Evolutionary robotics and reactive intelligence
- Human-robots interface and interaction
- Humanoid robotics
- Intelligent buildings and warehouses
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Mobile robots localization and navigation
- Modelling and simulating complex robots
- Multi-Robot systems
- Field Robots
- Real-time reactivity
- Robot behaviour engineering
- Robot learning and adaptation
- Robotic surveillance
- Sensor fusion

This topics' list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the
topics, and authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related
topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in the thematic track main
subject.


## Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or
experience reports in English. Scientific or technical articles describing
state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms, systems, environments, problems
or applications relevant to the area of Intelligent Robotics may
be submitted. Papers discussing application transfer from simulated to
real robots and papers showing socially useful robotic applications
generated by participations in robotic competitions are also welcome.
Although the main focus is on robot learning, there will be space for
reporting research in AI applied to other types of robots.

Submissions must follow the guidelines specified in the EPIA'2019 site.
The Springer LNCS format must be used (instructions in
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
The length of submitted full papers must not exceed 12 pages. Authors must remove
their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care
not to indirectly disclose their identity. Paper submissions will be made
in PDF format, through the submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2019

Three program committee members will be assigned to review each
paper. Acceptance will be based on the paper's significance, technical
quality, clarity, relevance and originality. Accepted papers, must be
presented at the conference by one of the authors. Accepted papers will
be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the
authors should register at the Conference. All accepted papers will be
published in the Conference Proceedings.


## IROBOT'2019 Organizing Committee

Nuno Lau (University of Aveiro, Portugal, nunolau at ua.pt)
João Alberto Fabro (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil)
Fei Chen (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
Luis Paulo Reis (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)


## Program Committee

André Marcato, Universidade Federal de Juíz de Fora, Brazil
André Scolari Conceição, Univ. Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Anna Helena Costa, EPUSP, São Paulo, Brazil
António José Neves, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
António Paulo Moreira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Armando Pinho, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Armando Sousa, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Axel Hessler, TU Berlin, Germany
Brígida Mónica Faria, Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
Carlos Carreto, Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal
César Analide, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Chengxu Zhou, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Fanny Ficuciello, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Fernando Osório, Universidade São Paulo/SC, Brazil
Jorge Dias, ISR, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Josemar Rodrigues de Souza, Brazil
Liming Chen, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
Luís Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Luis Moreno, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain
Luis Seabra Lopes, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Maxime Petit, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Nicolas Jouandeau, Paris8 University, France
Nikolaos Tsagarakis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Qinyuan Ren, Zhejiang University, China
Reinaldo Bianchi, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Saeed Shiry Ghidary, Amirkabir University, Iran
Sanem Sariel, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Yan Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research A*STAR, Singapore
Urbano Nunes, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal