<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><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; " class=""><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">======== I apologize for multiple posting ============</font></div><div class=""><div class="WordSection1"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Dear Colleagues,</font></span></p><div><br></div><div>after several requests and because of the overlap with IROS 2014 deadline, the deadline for submitting papers to </div><div>the <b class=""><font face="Arial" class="">13th International Conference </font></b><b class="" style="font-family: Arial; ">on Intelligent Autonomous Systems - 2014</b><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span> is extended to:</div><div><br></div><div><b> ** February, 20, 2014 ** extended paper submission</b></div><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><u class="">(!! please check the web site for information for authors!! </u><b class=""><span class="" style="color: red; "><font face="Arial" class=""> </font></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span class="" style="color: red; "><font face="Arial" class="">(<span class=""><a href="http://www.ias-13.org" class="">www.ias-13.org</a>)</span></font></span></b></p><div><span class=""><span class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br></font></span></span></div><div><span class=""><span class=""><font face="Arial" class="">best regards,</font></span></span></div><div><span class=""><span class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Emanuele Menegatti</font></span></span></div><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; ">=========================</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; ">CALL for PAPERS and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "> After the successful IAS-12
Conference held in Korea with more than 300 participants, the 13th IAS
will be held in Italy in</span><font face="Arial" class="">July 14-19, 2014, Padova and Venice, Italy</font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; "> and will be l</span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">ocated at</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; ">Universitเ degli Studi di Padova</span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">, in Padova, and </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; ">Telecom Future Centre</span><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; ">in Venice</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Locations</span></p><div class="">===============================</div><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> The main sessions of the <span class="">13th IAS Conference and Workshops</span> will
be held in the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ns5MII4JRQ&feature=share&list=UUUbl-rRVocJDATd-H1fX6iw" class="">historical
city of Padova</a>, from July 15 to July 18, 2014, in <a href="http://www.unipd.it/en/university/history" class="">one of the oldest universities
in the world</a>. </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">The venue will be the </font><a href="http://www.univeneto.it/wp-content/uploads/aula_magna_unipd.jpg" class="">Historical Main Hall</a><font face="Arial" class=""> of the </font><a href="http://www.unipd.it/en/node/261" class="">University</a><font face="Arial" class=""> and the <a href="http://www.paduaconferencecenter.com/" class="">Padua </a><a href="http://www.paduaconferencecenter.com/" class="">Conference Center</a>. Participants
will enjoy a rich and exciting
social program (e.g. </font><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class=""> the IAS Banquet will be held at the nice ancient "</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj3qbzE1Zys&feature=youtu.be" data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj3qbzE1Zys&feature=youtu.be" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Villa dei Vescovi</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">", in the Hills around Padua)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; " class="">. From the evening of July 18 till the evening
of July 19 a </span><b style="font-family: Arial; " class="">Post-Conference Workshop</b><span style="font-family: Arial; " class="">
celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Foundation of </span><a href="http://www.ias-society.org/" style="font-family: Arial; " class="">IAS-Society </a><span style="font-family: Arial; " class="">will be held in Venice
city, at </span><a href="http://www.telecomfuturecentre.com/" style="font-family: Arial; " class="">Telecom Italia
Future Center</a><span style="font-family: Arial; " class="">, close to Rialto Bridge, </span><font face="Arial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; " class="">during the Annual Venetian "<a href="http://www.myvenice.org/Feast-of-the-Redeemer.html" data-mce-href="http://www.myvenice.org/Feast-of-the-Redeemer.html" class="">Feast of the Redeemer</a>". </font><font color="#333333" face="Arial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class=""><span style="line-height: 19px; " class="">In the evening of Saturday July 19, we will embark all Participants of the Workshop in a boat, cruising the Laguna in front of San Marco Square, to dine and watch the fantastic </span></font><a href="http://www.caorle.com/ufiles/images/venezia-redentore.jpg" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">Fire-works show</a><font color="#333333" face="Arial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class=""><span style="line-height: 19px; " class="">.</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">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.</font><span style="font-family: Arial; " class=""> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="">Important Dates:</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Papers:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">- EXTENDED submission deadline: February 20, 2014 <br class="">
- Acceptance notification: April 15, 2014<br class="">
<br class="">
** 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 <o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> <br class="">
<span class="">Workshops & Tutorials:</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; ">- EXTENDED Submission Deadline:
January 31, 2014</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">
- Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2014<br class="">
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<span class="">13th IAS - 2014 Conference in Padova:
July 16-17-18, 2014</span></font><span class=""><font face="Arial" class=""> </font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><font face="Arial" class="">13th IAS - 2014 Workshops in Padova: July 14 & 15 & 18, 2014</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><font face="Arial" class="">13th IAS - 2014 Post-Conference Workshop in Venice: 19 July 2014<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="">Conference Scope and Topics:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><span style="font-family: Arial; " class="">==========================================</span><br style="font-family: Arial; " class=""><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class="">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:<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "> Multi-Agent Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font face="Arial" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font face="Arial" class=""> Artificial Intelligence<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; " class=""> Underwater/Aerial Robots</span></p></div><div class="WordSection2"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Agriculture Robots<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Space Robotics<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Biomimetic robotics<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Intelligent Transport Systems<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Networked robots<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Mobiligence & Ambient Intelligence<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Rescue Robots<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> SWARM Intelligent Robots<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Domestic Personal Robots<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Visual Servoing/Robot vision<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Medical/rehabilitation robotics<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Perception/Learning<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Mechanism and Robot Design<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Human-Robot Interface<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Distributed Robot Coordination<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; "> Micro-robot</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Humanoids<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Service/Life Support Robots<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Intelligent Security & Surveillance
Systems<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> IAS for Manufacturing<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Professional Service Robots<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Haptics/Teleoperation<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Motion Planning<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Navigation/Localization<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""> Robot Simulations<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
</div>
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</font><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Invited Speakers</span></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; " class="">==================================</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; " class="">- Gary Bradski, Industrial Perception, OpenCV, USA</span></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">- Eugenio Guglielmelli, "Campus Bio-Medico" University, Rome, Italy</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">- Koh Hosoda, Osaka University, Japan</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">- Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany</font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; ">- Cyrill Stachniss, University of Freiburg, Germany</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; ">- </span>Jos้ del R. Millแn, Ecole Polytechnique F้d้rale de Lausanne</div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><br></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; ">IAS-13 Secretariat:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font face="Arial" class="">==================</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font face="Arial" class="">IT+Robotics srl <o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font face="Arial" class="">Meeting Management <o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font face="Arial" class="">Strada Prima 11, 35129 Padova (PD), Italy<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font face="Arial" class="">Tel. : +39 049 80 75 216<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font face="Arial" class="">Fax. : +39 049 21 08 819<br class="">Email : <a href="mailto:info@it-robotics.it" class="">ias-13@it-robotics.it</a> <br class="">Web : <a href="http://www.it-robotics.it" class="">http://www.it-robotics.it</a><o:p class=""></o:p></font></p><div><font face="Arial" class=""> </font></div><p></p><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; " class="">You can also become friend of IAS-13 on Facebook: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ias13padua" class="">https://www.facebook.com/ias13padua</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " class="">or follow IAS-13 on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ias13padua" class="">https://twitter.com/ias13padua</a></div></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">------------------------------------------<br class="">Prof. Emanuele Menegatti, Ph.D.<br class=""></font><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">General Chair of "13th IAS Conference" in July 2014</font></div></div><font face="Arial" class=""><a href="http://www.dei.unipd.it/~emg" class="">http://www.dei.unipd.it/~emg</a><br class="">------------------------------------------<br class=""></font><br class=""></div></div></body></html>