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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b class="">[Call for extended abstracts] IEEE Ro-MAN 2017 Autonomous Robot Ontology Workshop (AROW 2017)<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">September 1st, 2017</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ro-2Dman2017.org_&d=DwMGaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=0w3solp5fswiyWF2RL6rSs8MCeFamFEPafDTOhgTfYI&m=xl2bXpbBII-6rskXuE3Rr8b_TbxkwEDcrHnrIv7GiYU&s=6YzRkMncWNk3Ph1MK1zSbgEUWlxkjJaRsU2JkwIRNPo&e=" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">http://www.ro-man2017.org/</span></a></p>
<div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">With a <b class="">potential follow-up Special Issue in the ISI indexed</b> <b class="">“International Journal of Robotics and Automation”</b> from ACTA Press.</span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The IEEE-RAS Autonomous Robotics (AuR) study group (</span><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ieee-2Dras.org_industry-2Dgovernment_standards_autonomous-2Drobotics-2Dgroup&d=DwMGaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=0w3solp5fswiyWF2RL6rSs8MCeFamFEPafDTOhgTfYI&m=xl2bXpbBII-6rskXuE3Rr8b_TbxkwEDcrHnrIv7GiYU&s=h1mZ1Wh5DEwa83eyfOEooubbofST3-EmraxBbGppSLg&e=" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">http://www.ieee-ras.org/industry-government/standards/autonomous-robotics-group</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">)
organizes the AROW 2017 workshop in IEEE RO-MAN 2017 to discuss the requirements and development of autonomous robotics ontology in perspective of Robot and Human Interactive Communications.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">AROW 2017 is a half-day workshop, including one invited talk by Stefano Borgo of Laboratory for Applied Ontology
(ISTC-CNR , Italy), one paper presentation session and one interactive poster session by contributing participants. After the presentations, there will be a Panel discussion, focused on:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Robot and human interactive communications and autonomous robotics ontology:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> What is the vocabulary needed for development? What type of architecture is needed for robot ontology?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Robot and human interactive communications case studies.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b class="">:: Important Dates :: <o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Extended abstract submission due date: June 25th, 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Extended abstract notification of acceptance/rejection: July 9th, 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Camera-ready version due date: July 20th, 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Workshop day: September 1st, 2017<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b class="">:: Objectives ::<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The IEEE-RAS Autonomous Robotics (AuR) study group (</span><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ieee-2Dras.org_industry-2Dgovernment_standards_autonomous-2Drobotics-2Dgroup&d=DwMGaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=0w3solp5fswiyWF2RL6rSs8MCeFamFEPafDTOhgTfYI&m=xl2bXpbBII-6rskXuE3Rr8b_TbxkwEDcrHnrIv7GiYU&s=h1mZ1Wh5DEwa83eyfOEooubbofST3-EmraxBbGppSLg&e=" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">http://www.ieee-ras.org/industry-government/standards/autonomous-robotics-group</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">)
presents the AROW 2017 workshop in IEEE RO-MAN 2017 to discuss the requirements and development of autonomous robot ontology in perspective of Robot and Human Interactive Communications. Indeed, future autonomous systems need to work in teams and communicate
with humans and other robots such as unmanned vehicles to share information and coordinate activities<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The workshop will provide thus the opportunity for the participants to evaluate the work done so far and to further share knowledge about the different R&A domains (e.g.
aerial, ground, surface, underwater, and space robots) in order to identify new concepts and axioms as well as to define appropriate relations between these concepts and their properties to facilitate interactions between humans and autonomous robots.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The advances in robotics systems around the globe show a very promising future where robots and humans will share the same environment as partners. Robots might work in
factories, malls, and airports. In all cases, both humans and robots should communicate to each other to exchange information. An effective way of achieving this goal is to standardize terminology in the Robotics and Automation (R&A) domain, as it has been
done in the past in other domains. We propose to discuss current work towards a standard for autonomous robots that specifies domain concepts and relationships as ontology. The proposed workshop will serve the following sectors: Public sector using autonomous
robots to deliver automated services, such as police and emergency responders; Health service providers; Transformation industry; Mining and construction industry; Oil and gas industry.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b class="">:: List of Topics for the contributed talks / poster session ::<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Standards for robotics and automation and Robot and Human Interactive Communications (RHIC)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Ontology development for RHIC and robotics and automation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Ontology based standards for engineering and RHIC<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Knowledge representation for RHIC, robotics and automation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Reasoning techniques for robotics and automation ontologies<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Context awareness<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Activity recognition<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Ontology engineering frameworks and methodologies<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Robot-robot interaction and/or human-robot interaction using ontologies<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Human-robot intention recognition<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Knowledge representation and reasoning in ubiquitous environments.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- A two page abstract is mandatory for the contributing authors to present their work in the sorkshop.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- The presentation will be oral or by poster upon evaluation of the extended abstract by the TPC.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- The template for the extended abstract is the same used for the papers of the main IEEE RO-MAN conference.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Submissions should be sent to the workshop organizers (<a href="mailto:paulo.goncalves@ipcb.pt" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">paulo.goncalves@ipcb.pt</span></a>)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Accepted full paper contributions will be published in the online CEUR Workshop Proceedings <</span><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ceur-2Dws.org_&d=DwMGaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=0w3solp5fswiyWF2RL6rSs8MCeFamFEPafDTOhgTfYI&m=xl2bXpbBII-6rskXuE3Rr8b_TbxkwEDcrHnrIv7GiYU&s=bbqimssRlLxuqvHCDifSo3to8TyZEjwxcuTRBxH64e4&e=" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">CEUR-WS.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> - Stefano Borgo,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR , Italy)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Website: </span><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.loa.istc.cnr.it_people_borgo&d=DwMGaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=0w3solp5fswiyWF2RL6rSs8MCeFamFEPafDTOhgTfYI&m=xl2bXpbBII-6rskXuE3Rr8b_TbxkwEDcrHnrIv7GiYU&s=yKWMA5mSNq6bS9SnB8W6PeTcW0_E9yWI0aWKbDa--OY&e=" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/people/borgo</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Sandro Rama Fiorini, Lissi Lab, Universitè Paris-Est Créteil, Paris, France<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Veera Ragavan Sampath Kumar, Monash University, Malaysia</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b class="">:: Organizers :: <o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Paulo J.S. Gonçalves, IDMEC - Center of Intelligent Systems, University of Lisbon, Portugal<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">- Howard Li, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Joanna Isabelle Olszewska, University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">- Abdelghani Chibani, Lissi Lab, Universitè Paris-Est Créteil, Paris, France<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Paulo J.S. Gonçalves: </span><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><a href="mailto:paulo.goncalves@ipcb.pt" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">paulo.goncalves@ipcb.pt</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <</span><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><a href="mailto:paulo.goncalves@ipcb.pt" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(56, 110, 255);">mailto:paulo.goncalves@ipcb.pt</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">></span></p>
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