<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>======== I apologize for multiple posting ================</div><br><div><b>The 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems - 2014</b><div><br>July 15-19, 2014, Padova and Venice, Italy</div><div><br></div><div>The University of Padova, Italy<br></div><div><br></div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS<br>============================================<div><br>Recent results confirm that robots, machines and systems are rapidly achieving intelligence and autonomy, mastering increasing capabilities in mobility and manipulation, sensing and perception, reasoning and decision making. The Series of International Conferences on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) founded in 1986 is one of the major events summarizing this trend. The aim of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems is to further witness the development of these technologies and to foster their adoptions in the industrial sector. </div><div><br></div><div>The 13th IAS invites researchers, engineers and experts to submit high quality papers to disseminate, to share and to fruitfully discuss their last achievements and results. IAS will provide forum and workshops where participants could exchange their ideas and experiences in the research and industrial fields through high quality peer reviewed papers. </div><div><br></div><div><div>After the successful IAS-12 Conference held in Korea with more than 300 participants, the 13th IAS will be held in Italy in July 2014. </div><div><br></div><div>The main sessions of the 13th IAS Conference and Workshop will be held in the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ns5MII4JRQ&feature=share&list=UUUbl-rRVocJDATd-H1fX6iw">historical city of Padua</a>, from July 15 to July 18, 2014, in <a href="http://www.unipd.it/en/university/history">one of the oldest universities in the world</a>. The venue will be the beautiful <a href="http://www.paduaconferencecenter.com/">Padua </a><a href="http://www.paduaconferencecenter.com/">Conference Center</a> and participants will enjoy an <a href="http://youtu.be/xj3qbzE1Zys">exciting social program</a>. From the evening of July 18 till the evening of July 19 a Post-Conference Workshop celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Foundation of <a href="http://www.ias-society.org/">IAS-Society </a>will be held in Venice city, at <a href="http://www.telecomfuturecentre.com/">Telecom Italia Future Center</a>, close to Rialto Bridge. On Saturday 19, Participants join a <a href="http://www.caorle.com/ufiles/images/venezia-redentore.jpg">wonderful social event</a> in the Special Fireworks Night of Venetian "<a href="https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDYQFjAB&url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festa_del_Redentore&ei=D5xMUtbYGcfdswbFnYG4Aw&usg=AFQjCNEDg6WdboQgI5wMusOiNZhc3cTpsA&sig2=8e2aPYXeOOShhQy-lsjI3g&bvm=bv.53537100,d.Yms">Feast of the Redeemer</a>".</div><div> </div><div>The organizing committee invites you to submit high quality papers, propose a workshop, organize a tutorial, participate in the conference and enjoy the rich cultural environment, the exciting social events and the beautiful locations of Padova and Venice.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Important Dates:</b><br>========================================<br><br>Papers:</div><div><br>- Final submission deadline: February 1, 2014 <br>- Acceptance notification: April 1, 2014<br><br>** Conference Proceedings will be published in Springer Series "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" indexed by ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink **</div><div> <br>Workshops & Tutorials:<br><br></div><div>- Final Submission Deadline: January 10, 2014<br>- Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2014<br><br> <br>13th IAS - 2014 Conference: July 16-17-18, 2014<br><br><div>13th IAS - 2014 Workshops: July 15 & 18, 2014<br></div><br></div><br><b>Conference Scope and Topics:</b></div><div><div>==========================================</div><div>Submissions of original scientific works are solicited in all areas of autonomous systems research. IAS-13 extends its scope to cover special sessions which highlight some major fields of interest. The tracks and special themes will be composed of, but not limited to:</div><div><ul><li>Underwater/Aerial Robots</li><li>Agriculture Robot</li><li>Space Robotics</li><li>Biomimetic robotics</li><li>Intelligent Transportation systems </li><li>Networked robots</li><li>Mobiligence</li><li>Rescue Robots</li><li>SWARM Intelligent Robot</li><li>Domestic Personal Robots</li><li>Visual servoing/Robot vision </li><li>Medical/rehabilitation robotics </li><li>Perception/learning</li><li>Robotic mechanism and design </li><li>Human-robot interface </li><li>Distributed Robot Coordination </li><li>Multi-agent systems</li><li>Micro Robot </li><li>Humanoids</li><li>Service/life support robots </li><li>Intelligent Security & Surveillance Systems </li><li>IAS for manufacturing </li><li>Professional Service Robots </li><li>Haptics/teleoperation </li><li>Motion Planning </li><li>Navigation/localization</li><li>Robot Simulations</li></ul></div></div><div> </div><div><b>Organizing Committee<br></b><br><div>Honorary Co-Chairs:<br></div><ul><li>Ruediger Dillmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)</li><li>Frans Groen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)</li></ul>Steering Committee:<br><ul><li>Hajime Asama (University of Tokyo, Japan)</li><li>Henrik Christensen (Georgia Tech, USA)</li><li>Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)</li><li>Sukhan Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)</li><li>Enrico Pagello (University of Padova, Italy)</li><li>Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)</li></ul>General Chair: </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Emanuele Menegatti (University of Padova, Italy)<br><br><br></div><div>Asia Regional PC Chair: </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hiroaki Yamaguchi (Aiyama Gakuin Univeristy, Japan)<br><br></div><div>Americas Regional PC Chair: </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Nathan Michael (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)<br><br></div><div>Europe/Africa Regional PC Chair: </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Karsten Berns (Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany)<br><br><b><br></b></div><div><b>IAS-13 Secretariat:</b><br>IT+Robotics srl </div><div>Meeting Management </div><div>Strada Prima 11, 35129 Padova (PD), Italy</div><div>Tel. : +39 049 80 75 216</div>Fax. : +39 049 21 08 819<br>Email : <a href="mailto:info@it-robotics.it">ias-13@it-robotics.it</a> <br>Web : <a href="http://www.it-robotics.it">http://www.it-robotics.it</a><br><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------<br>Prof. Emanuele Menegatti, Ph.D.<br><div><div>General Chair of "13th IAS Conference" in July 2014</div><div><a href="http://www.ias-13.org">http://www.ias-13.org</a></div></div><div><br></div>Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory (IAS-Lab)<br>Department of Information Engineering<br>The University of Padua<br>via g. gradenigo 6/A<br>I-35131 Padova - ITALY<br><br>Skype: emanuele.menegatti<br>Phone: ++39 049 827 7651<br>Mobile: ++39 347 090 77 97<br>FAX: ++39 049 827 7799<br><a href="http://www.dei.unipd.it/~emg">http://www.dei.unipd.it/~emg</a><br>------------------------------------------<br><br></div></div></div></body></html>