From nunolau ua.pt Wed Jan 8 16:17:01 2020 From: nunolau ua.pt (Nuno Lau) Date: Wed Jan 8 16:23:12 2020 Subject: [socios-spr] CfP: ICARSC 2020 - IEEE Int. Conf. on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions Message-ID: <061eaadf127e4a809fb6812b3030ac8a@ua.pt> (Apologies for multiple copies due to cross-posting) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ICARSC 2020 IEEE(*) International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions http://icarsc2020.uac.pt/ April 15-17, 2020 Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleague, We are pleased to inform you that ICARSC 2020 - IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions will be held in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, on April 15-17, 2020. The conference is co-located with ROBOTICA 2020 - 20th Portuguese Robotics Open, a RoboCup-sponsored local event, and it is promoted by the University of Aveiro, University of Azores, Polythecnic of Porto, University of Porto and the Portuguese Robotics Society. == Conference Scope == ICARSC gathers participants from academia and industry working in the field of autonomous robotics and related areas. ICARSC is a well established IEEE conference that has been growing continuously for over a decade and is nowadays a truly international forum attracting worldwide quality research papers. ICARSC has long been an IEEE (*) co-sponsored event and its proceedings will be indexed in IEEExplore and Scopus. Moreover, similarly to previous editions, extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication at relevant indexed journals. (*) IEEE co-sponsorship pending approval == Confirmed Invited Speakers == António Pascoal, University of Lisbon, ISR, Portugal == Important Dates == Submission Feb 9, 2020 Notification Mar 9, 2020 Camera Ready Mar 16, 2020 Registration Mar 16, 2020 Conference Apr 15-17, 2020 == Conference Topics == The conference aims to gather researchers from the industry and academia to present and discuss the latest trends in research and technology in the fields of robotics and related areas. Contributions from researchers, industry and outputs from collaboration between industrial and academic R&D units are welcome in the following topics. - Agricultural Robotics - Applications of Autonomous Intelligent Robots - Artificial Intelligence - Autonomous Robotic Systems - Computer Vision and Image Processing - Control Architectures and Programming - Cooperative Perception - Cooperative Planning and Task Allocation - Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping - Educational Robotics - Entertainment Robots - Evolutionary Robotics - Humanoid Robotics - Human-Robot Interaction - Localization, Mapping, and Navigation - Locomotion and Actuation Systems - Multi-Robot Coordination - Multi-Robot Systems - Planning, Reasoning and Modelling - Recognition and Tracking - Robot Learning - Robotic Competitions - Robotic Simulation - Sensors and Sensor Integration - Swarm Robotics - Underwater Robotics == Paper Submission == Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Six pages in the standard IEEE format: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the easychair.org platform: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2020 Reviewing for ICARSC 2020 will be *double blind* so authors must remove their names from the submitted papers and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. Accepted papers will be scheduled for presentation, which requires that at least one of the authors must register at the Conference and present the paper. Failure to meet this requirement will imply removing the paper from the online version of the proceedings. See you in Ponta Delgada! Nuno Lau, Universidade of Aveiro, IEETA, Portugal Manuel Silva, ISEP - Polytechnic Institute of Porto, INESC-TEC, Portugal Luis Paulo Reis, University of Porto, LIACC, Portugal Jose Cascalho, University of Azores, FCT-NIDeS - BioISI, Portugal (Co-chairs of ICARSC 2020) Please check further details at the (http://icarsc2020.uac.pt/). Should you have any question please (jose.mv.cascalho @ uac.pt). From sec sprobotica.pt Tue Jan 14 22:42:58 2020 From: sec sprobotica.pt (Secretaria SPR) Date: Tue Jan 14 22:43:02 2020 Subject: [socios-spr] =?iso-8859-1?q?Pr=E9mios_SPR_relativos_a_trabalhos_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?de_2019?= Message-ID: Caros Sócios da SPR, Relembra-se que está aberta, até 31 de janeiro de 2020, a candidatura aos prémios: - Prémio SPR para a Melhor Tese de Doutoramento nacional em Robótica; - Prémio SPR para a Melhor Dissertação de Mestrado nacional em Robótica; - Prémio SPR para Inovação e Transferência de Tecnologia na área da Robótica. Todos os interessados poderão encontrar informações mais detalhadas, incluindo os regulamentos destes prémios, em: http://www.sprobotica.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57 Melhores cumprimentos, Manuel Silva (Presidente da Comissão Diretiva da SPR) -- Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica Campus Universitário 3810-193 AVEIRO Portugal NIF 513 079 920 || IBAN PT50 0035 0836 00001476430 23 From pedro.lima tecnico.ulisboa.pt Thu Jan 16 09:47:33 2020 From: pedro.lima tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Pedro U Lima) Date: Thu Jan 16 09:49:25 2020 Subject: [socios-spr] CfP: 1st International Workshop on New Foundations for Human-Centered AI Message-ID: <5A886DD7-D792-44B6-AD65-4E6C0665EDD9@tecnico.ulisboa.pt> ====================================================================== = NeHuAI-2020 = 1st International Workshop on New Foundations for Human-Centered AI = June 9, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Part of ECAI-2020) ====================================================================== * First Call for Papers * SYNOPSIS -------- In June 2018, the European Commission has appointed a "AI High Level Expert Group" (AI-HLEG) to support the implementation of the European Strategy on Artificial Intelligence. One of the first results of the AI-HLEG has been to deliver ethics guidelines on Artificial Intelligence (https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/ai-alliance-consultation/guidelines). These guidelines put forward a human-centered approach to AI, and list seven key requirements that human-centered, trustworthy AI systems should meet, summarized by the following headers: 1. Human agency and oversight 2. Technical robustness and safety 3. Privacy and data governance 4. Transparency 5. Diversity, non-discrimination and fairness 6. Societal and environmental wellbeing 7. Accountability Many of today's most popular AI methods, however, fail to meet these guidelines: making them compliant is a scientific endeavor that is as crucial as it is challenging and stimulating. Systems based on deep learning are a case in point: while these systems often provide impressive results, our ability to _explain_ these results to the user is very limited, challenging requirements 4 and 7; in most cases we lack ways to formally _verify_ their correctness and assess their boundary conditions, challenging requirement 2; and we don't yet have methods to allow humans to _collaboratively_ influence or question the decisions, challenging requirement 1. A similar situation applies to many other popular AI methods. This workshop will collectively address the fundamental questions of what scientific and technological means we have to make AI systems "human-centered" in terms of the above guidelines, what means we still miss, and how we should address this gap. SUBMISSIONS ----------- Contributions are seeked on new foundations for building Human-Centered AI systems, able to comply with AI-HLEG recommendations. More specific topics include, but are not limited to: - Explainable AI - Verifiable AI - Collaboration between humans and AI systems - Integrating model-based and data-driven AI - Integrating symbolic- and sub-symbolic AI - Mixed initiative AI-Human systems - Understanding and naturally interacting with humans - Understanding and interaction in complex social settings - Reflexivity and expectation managament - Integrating Learning, Reasoning and Acting in AI systems Papers should be formatted according to the ECAI2020 formatting style, available at the ECAI2020 website (ecai2020.eu), and should not exceed seven pages excluding references. Submissions are not anonymous. Submit your paper by February 18 via Easychair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nehuai2020 ORGANIZERS ---------- Alessandro Saffiotti (Orebro University, Sweden) Luciano Serafini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy) Paul Lukowicz (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Giuseppe Amato (ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy> Joao Costeira (IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal) Fosca Giannotti (ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy> Pedro U Lima (IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal) Michela Milano (University of Bologna, Italy) Jacques Robin (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France> Alberto Sanfeliu (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Paolo Traverso (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy) Florian Zimmermann (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany> IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Feb 25: Paper submission deadline Apr 6: Acceptance notification Jun 8: Workshop SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS ------------------------ This worskhop is jointly organized by AI4EU (ai4eu.eu), the EU landmark project to develop a European AI on-demand platform and ecosystem; and by Humane-AI (humane-ai.eu), the EU FET preparatory action devoted to designing a European research agenda for Human Centered AI. ====================================================================== From MSS isep.ipp.pt Tue Jan 28 19:25:13 2020 From: MSS isep.ipp.pt (Manuel Silva) Date: Tue Jan 28 19:40:25 2020 Subject: [socios-spr] RoboCup Visiting Fellows Program - Call for Applications - Due Feb. 1 Message-ID: Dear RoboCup EC/OC/TC Members, The following call is for people currently outside of the RoboCup community. If you know of colleagues who might be interested or external mailing lists for which it's appropriate, please help us publicize it. Thank you. --------------- RoboCup Visiting Fellows Program - Feb. 1st ======================================================= Ever since 1997, The RoboCup Federation has been holding annual international research competitions and symposia in an effort to push the state of the art in robotics, artificial intelligence, and related fields. The community remains healthy and vibrant, with students, postdocs, professors, and industry professionals meeting each year to compete and share their knowledge in a wide range of research competitions. Based on the beliefs that 1) RoboCup is a unique and special community and venue within the research community, and 2) that the only way to fully appreciate what it has to offer is to experience it firsthand, the RCF is pleased to announce a new RoboCup Visiting Fellows program. Successful applicants will receive: - full travel support for two people from your home institution and free registration to the 2020 international RoboCup in Bordeaux, France on June 23-29, 2019, as an honored guest and observer. - up to an additional $10k USD in reimbursements of start-up expenses needed to start a new team for entry in 2021 and/or 2022 RoboCup events. - detailed, behind-the-scenes education about how the RoboCup community works, including meetings with current organizers and participants. The ideal applicants will be: - a pair of University faculty and a Ph.D. student or postdoc who have never participated in RoboCup, and are interested in learning about and becoming a part of the community. Application Requirements: - please send your CVs and a 2-page statement of interest that includes research interests, how RoboCup could support those interests, and possible RoboCup league(s) of interest. - a statement detailing what exposure the applicants have had to RoboCup in the past, if any, as well as a statement of commitment to attend RoboCup in Bordeaux for 6 days, from June 23rd-29th. We particularly encourage applications from people from underrepresented groups within the RoboCup community based on gender, ethnicity, or geography. Submission Details: - please send your materials by February 1st to april.robocup@gmail.com Requirements: - In addition to attending RoboCup 2020, RoboCup Visiting Fellows will be asked to submit a report within a month after the event summarizing their overall impressions as well as a proposed budget of up to $10k for startup costs of a new team. We look forward to receiving your applications! Sincerely, The RoboCup Federation Visiting Fellows Committee Minoru Asada Claude Sammut Rong Xiong Peter Stone Manuel Silva Professor Adjunto Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica [http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png] ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt -------------- próxima parte ---------- Um anexo em HTML foi limpo... URL: http://lists.sprobotica.pt/pipermail/socios-spr/attachments/20200128/a52379fe/attachment.html