[robocup-worldwide] Call for Papers: Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) Workshop @AAMAS 2020 - Extended deadline

[Francesco Amigoni]

(Apologies for multiple postings.)


*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) Workshop 2020

*** Paper submission deadline: February 25, 2020 ***

A full-day workshop to be held as part of AAMAS2020 and to accompany the AAMAS Area 9 — Robotics

May 9 or 10, 2020, Auckland, New Zealand


Website: http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~agmon/arms2020/

AAMAS Website: https://aamas2020.conference.auckland.ac.nz<https://aamas2020.conference.auckland.ac.nz/>


*** Fast-track review process for AAMAS extended abstracts, below ***


Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: February 25, 2020 (it was February 10, 2020)
Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2020
Submission of camera-ready version: TDB, 2020


Overview
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Robots are agents, too. Indeed, AAMAS researchers are sometimes inspired by robots, sometimes use robots in motivating examples, and sometimes make contributions to robotics. Both practical and analytical techniques in AAMAS influence, and are being influenced by, research into autonomous robots and multi-robot systems.

Areas of particular recent cross-fertilization include (but are not limited to):
 - market-based methods for coalition formation and task allocation
 - machine learning in single- and multi-robot (agent) settings
 - human-robot interaction
 - multi-robot teamwork
 - single- and multi-robot path planning
 - human-robot (agent) teamwork
 - game-theoretic coordination
 - analysis of large-scale multi-robot systems and swarms
 - decision-theoretic single- and multi-robot (agent) planning
 - imitation and learning by demonstration/example

Despite the rich cross-fertilization between AAMAS and robotics research areas, roboticists and agents researchers have only few opportunities to meet and interact. The topic of interest Area 9 – Robotics at AAMAS (formerly, Robotics Track) is one such opportunity.

The goal of the workshop is to extend and widen this opportunity, by offering a forum where researchers in this field of study can interact and present promising innovative research directions and new results with the goal of discussing and comparing ideas and approaches.

The workshop is coordinated and associated with the AAMAS topic of interest Area 9 – Robotics to fast-track all papers accepted as extended abstracts at the main conference into the ARMS workshop.


Submissions and Publication
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The submission website is
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arms2020

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.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/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.

Also this year, there will not be archival proceedings, but Springer will publish a best-paper volume from all AAMAS workshops, to be published in June or July 2020. Authors of the selected best papers will be required to revise their submitted papers after the workshops.


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 extended abstracts ("short papers”) to the AAMAS conference, in the topic of interest Area 9 – Robotics 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
Francesco Amigoni  Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Joydeep Biswas  University of Texas at Austin, USA
Gal Kaminka  Bar Ilan University, Israel
Maria Gini  University of Minneapolis, USA
Alessandro Farinelli   University of Verona, Italy
Daniele Nardi  Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Pedro Lima  Lisbon Technical University, Portugal
Mohan Sridharan  University of Birmingham, UK

The contact organizers are Noa Agmon (agmon at cs.biu.ac.il<mailto:agmon at cs.biu.ac.il>) and Francesco Amigoni (francesco.amigoni at polimi.it<mailto:francesco.amigoni at polimi.it>).


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Francesco Amigoni, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32
I-20133 Milano (MI), Italy

Voice: +39 02 2399-3475
Fax: +39 02 2399-3411
Email: francesco.amigoni at polimi.it<mailto:francesco.amigoni at polimi.it>
Web: http://www.deib.polimi.it/people/amigoni
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