<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p align=""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b></b></span></b></p><p align=""><b>Second Call for Papers</b></p><p align=""><b>Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems</b></p><p align=""><b>Special Issue on "Advances in Domestic Service Robots in the Real World"</b></p><div>This special issue focuses on a broad spectrum of domestic service robots that operate in the real-world in home environments. The robots are fully autonomous and use intuitive interfaces such as language, gestures and visual displays to communicate with people. The home environment is defined as 'any place where people live in their daily lives', which can include, for example, a living room, a kitchen or a garden. Special attention is being paid to submissions where the robot capabilities are validated in a real-world setting such as the RoboCup@Home benchmark or during long lasting experiments in the real-world. The focus will also be on different modes of natural interaction with humans, semantic perception and mapping in domestic environments, recognition and manipulation of domestic objects, cost-effectiveness of the solution (computational and financial resources used by the robot), modeling and search in unknown daily life environments, such as homes, restaurants, and shopping centers, the effect of appearance on acceptance and more.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><b><b><br></b></b></div><div>The topics are related, but not limited, to all the aspects required for a robot to operate in<b style="font-weight: bold; "> <b><div style="font-weight: normal; display: inline !important; "><b><div style="font-weight: normal; display: inline !important; ">daily life</div></b></div></b><b><div style="font-weight: normal; display: inline !important; "> environments with a long-term focus on applicability, such as:</div></b></b></div><p align="">- cooperative human-robot interaction and task solving,</p><p align="">- semantic perception and mapping in domestic environments,</p><p align="">- manipulation of domestic objects such as doors, kitchen utensils, glasses, etc.,</p><p align="">- modeling and search in unknown daily life environments, such as homes, restaurants, and shopping centers,</p><p align="">- high-level cognition for robots in domestic environments,</p><p align="">- benchmarking domestic service robots,</p><p align="">- long lasting robotic experiments in domestic environments,</p><p align="">- acceptance of robots in households.</p><div><b>Submissions addressing practical applications using international benchmarks and/or in-field experimental testing are strongly encouraged</b>.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><b><b> </b></b></div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><b><b><br></b></b></div><div><b>Guest Editors</b>:</div><p align="">Luca Iocchi, Università di Roma ''La Sapienza'', <a href="mailto:Luca.Iocchi@dis.uniroma1.it">Luca.Iocchi@dis.uniroma1.it</a></p><p align="">Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Universidad de Chile, <a href="mailto:jruizd@ing.uchile.cl">jruizd@ing.uchile.cl</a></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#121212">Tijn van der Zant, University of Groningen, </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><a href="mailto:tijn@ieee.org">tijn@ieee.org</a></span></p><div style="font-weight: normal; "><b><b> </b></b></div><div><b>Important dates</b>:</div><p align="">14 December 2012: Second Call for Participation</p><p align="">14 January 2013: Expression of Interest</p><p align="">1 April 2013: Opening paper submission</p><p align="">20 May 2013: Closing Paper Submission</p><p align="">1 August 2013: Paper Acceptance Announcements</p><p align="">31 August 2013: Camera-ready Paper Submission</p><p align="">2014: Expected Publication</p><p></p></div></body></html>