[socios-spr] Call for Papers: ROBOT'2015 - Second Iberian Robotics Conference

[Pedro U. Lima]

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                      Call for Papers
       ROBOT'2015 - Second Iberian Robotics Conference
              http://web.fe.up.pt/~robot2015/
                   November 19-21, 2015
                     Lisbon – Portugal
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Conference Scope
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ROBOT'2015 - Second Iberian Robotics Conference will take place at Lisbon, Portugal, November 19-21 2015, http://web.fe.up.pt/~robot2015/ and follows the First Iberian Robotics Conference held in Madrid in 2013. Robot’2015 is Organized by: SPR – Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica, SEIDROB – Sociedad Española para la Investigación y Desarrollo en Robótica and GTROB - Grupo de Robótica de CEA. The event is co-located with RoCKIn Competition 2015: http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu/rockin2015.php.

ROBOT'2015 main goal is to continue the precedent efforts in showing the robotic research and development of new applications in the Iberian Peninsula. Although focused on the works developed at Iberia the conference is open for good quality submissions from any country in the world.

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Conference Format
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The conference is organized in a Main Track and 21 Special Sessions proposed by recognized international researchers, on the following topics:
- Agricultural Robotics and Field Automation
- Autonomous Driving and Driver Assistance Systems
- Communication Aware Robotics
- Control and Planning in Aerial Robotics
- Educational Robotics
- Emerging UAV Technologies for Civil Applications
- Environmental Robotics
- Future Industrial Robotics Systems
- Legal, Social and Ethics aspects about UAVs
- Legged Locomotion Robots
- Machine Learning in Robotics
- Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics
- Robot Competitions
- Robotic Applications in Art and Architecture
- Simulation in Robotics
- Social Robotics: Intelligent and Adaptable AAL Systems
- Surgical Robotics
- Urban Robotics
- Visual Maps in Robotics
- Visual Perception for Autonomous Robots
- XVI Workshop on Physical Agents
More details at: https://web.fe.up.pt/~robot2015/index.php/special-sessions

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Keynote Speakers
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We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers:
Manuela Veloso - Carnegie Mellon University, USA – “Symbiotic Autonomous Mobile Service Robots”
Bill Smart - Oregon State University, USA – “How the Law Will Think About Robots (and Why You Should Care)”
Jon Agirre Ibarbia - TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Spain – “Applications in Flexible Manufacturing with Humans and Robots”

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Paper Submission
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Authors are invited to submit original research contributions, in English, electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: Robot'2015 Submission System at Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robot2015
Papers must follow the Springer AISC template. Twelve pages in the Springer AISC format are allowed for each paper, including all figures, tables and references. Please check the Author Guidelines for the Preparation of Contributions to Springer Computer Science Proceedings for more complete information.
As in previous editions we plan to publish the conference proceedings with Springer - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series, indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and SCOPUS. Extended versions of the conference best papers will also be published in Special Issues from several top Journals.
Authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. At least 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 will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors should register at the Conference and present the paper.

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Important Dates
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Paper Submission: July 10, 2015
Notification: September 7, 2015
Early Registration: September 12, 2015
Camera Ready: September 12, 2015
Conference: November 19-21, 2015

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Robot’2015 General/Program Chairs
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Luis Paulo Reis – University of Minho, Portugal
António Paulo Moreira – FEUP/INESCTEC, Portugal
Pedro Lima – University of Lisbon, Portugal
Luis Montano - University of Zaragoza, Spain
Victor F. Muñoz - University of Malaga, Spain

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Please check further details at the ROBOT2015 conference website (http://web.fe.up.pt/~robot2015/). 
Should you have any question please don‘t hesitate contacting us (robot2015  fe.up.pt).