<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Francesco Amigoni <<a href="mailto:francesco.amigoni@polimi.it" class="">francesco.amigoni@polimi.it</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[multirobotsystems] Call for Papers: Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) Workshop @AAMAS 2021 - Extended deadline</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">23 February 2021 at 08:02:42 WET<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"<a href="mailto:multirobotsystems@laas.fr" class="">multirobotsystems@laas.fr</a>" <<a href="mailto:multirobotsystems@laas.fr" class="">multirobotsystems@laas.fr</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Francesco Amigoni <<a href="mailto:francesco.amigoni@polimi.it" class="">francesco.amigoni@polimi.it</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) Workshop 2021</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">*** Paper submission deadline: March 5, 2021 ***</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">A workshop to be held as part of AAMAS2021 and to accompany the Area of Interest — Robotics</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">May 3 or 4, 2021 - FULLY VIRTUAL EVENT</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Website: </span><a href="https://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~agmon/arms2021/" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">https://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~agmon/arms2021/</a><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">AAMAS Website: </span><a href="https://aamas2021.soton.ac.uk/" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">https://aamas2021.soton.ac.uk</a><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">*** Fast-track review process for AAMAS extended abstracts, below ***</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Important Dates</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Paper submission deadline: March 5, 2021 (it was February 22, 2021)</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2021</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Submission of camera-ready version: TBD, 2021</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Overview</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Robots are agents, too. Indeed, AAMAS researchers are sometimes inspired by robots, sometimes use robots in motivating examples, and sometimes make contributions to robotics. Both practical and analytical techniques
in AAMAS influence, and are being influenced by, research into autonomous robots and multi-robot systems.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Areas of particular recent cross-fertilization include (but are not limited to):</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> - market-based methods for coalition formation and task allocation</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> - machine learning in single- and multi-robot (agent) settings</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> - human-robot interaction</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> - multi-robot teamwork</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> - single- and multi-robot path planning</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> - human-robot (agent) teamwork</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> - game-theoretic coordination</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> - analysis of large-scale multi-robot systems and swarms</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> - decision-theoretic single- and multi-robot (agent) planning</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> - imitation and learning by demonstration/example</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Despite the rich cross-fertilization between AAMAS and robotics research areas, roboticists and agents researchers have only few opportunities to meet and interact. The Area of Interest – Robotics at AAMAS (formerly,
Robotics Track) is one such opportunity.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">The goal of the workshop is to extend and widen this opportunity, by offering a forum where researchers in this field of study can interact and present promising innovative research directions and new results
with the goal of discussing and comparing ideas and approaches.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">The workshop is coordinated and associated with the AAMAS Area of Interest – Robotics to fast-track all papers accepted as extended abstracts at the main conference into the ARMS workshop.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Submissions and Publication</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">The submission website is</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arms2021" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arms2021</a><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Contributions are sought in all areas of robotics, in particular as related to autonomous agents research, but not necessarily so.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Theoretical papers are welcome, as long as they clearly address challenges in robotics. Empirical studies should ideally present experiments with real robots, though physical simulation studies are also acceptable.
Papers that focus on mechanical aspects and low-level control should make an effort to relate to the agents community.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">We particularly welcome papers with accompanying demos of real robots, which can come as recorded videos (please use YouTube or general-purpose repositories to share the video if it is ready at submission time)
or as live demos from the authors' labs during the workshop.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Submissions should follow Springer's LNCS format (see </span><a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class=""> for
instructions, or directly download the LaTeX style file: </span><a href="ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip</a><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">).</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Papers should not exceed 20 pages in length.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for selection of papers will include: originality, readability, relevance to workshop themes, soundness, and overall quality.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Papers do not have to be anonymized: We do not follow a double-blind review process.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Also this year, there will not be archival proceedings, but papers will be made available to the workshop participants.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Fast-Track Review Process</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">As part of our close coordination with the AAMAS Area of Interest — Robotics, we offer a fast-track review process to papers that have been accepted as extended abstracts ("short papers”) to the AAMAS conference,
in the topic of Area of Interest — Robotics or with a robotics keyword. For such papers, please include the original AAMAS paper number with the submission.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Organizing Committee</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Noa Agmon<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Bar Ilan University, Israel</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Francesco Amigoni<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Politecnico di Milano, Italy</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Joydeep Biswas<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">University of Texas at Austin, USA</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Alessandro Farinelli<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>University of Verona, Italy</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Maria Gini<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">University of Minneapolis, USA</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Gal Kaminka<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Bar Ilan University, Israel</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Daniele Nardi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Pedro Lima<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Lisbon Technical University, Portugal</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Mohan Sridharan<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">University of Birmingham, UK</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">The contact organizers are Noa Agmon (</span><a href="mailto:agmon@cs.biu.ac.il" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">agmon@cs.biu.ac.il</a><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">) and Francesco
Amigoni (</span><a href="mailto:francesco.amigoni@polimi.it" style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">francesco.amigoni@polimi.it</a><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">).</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Francesco Amigoni, Ph.D.</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Associate Professor</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory</span><br style="font-family: TrebuchetMS;" class="">
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