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We would like to inform you that the paper submission deadline for the IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2024) has been extended to <b>February 24, 2024 (hard deadline)</b>. We look forward to receiving your submission and welcoming you in Paredes de Coura, Portugal for ICARSC 2024 from 2-3 May, 2024.
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role="presentation"><span
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role="presentation"><span
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role="presentation"><span
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style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English. Six pages in the standard IEEE format (<a
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href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a>) are allowed for each paper, including tables and figures. Full draft papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the URL: </span><a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2024"
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New',monospace;color:#0563c1;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icarsc2024</span></a><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. For evaluation, 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 should register at the Conference and present the paper. If the authors of an accepted paper, either for oral presentation or poster, do not show up at the conference, the corresponding paper will not be submitted to IEEExplore.</span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">A selection of the presented papers will be invited to propose extended versions for a special issue of a Journal as in previous editions.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Vítor H. Pinto (FEUP/SYSTEC/ARISE/ISR)</span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Cristina Santos (UMinho/BiRD)</span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">José Lima (IPB/CeDRI/INESC TEC)</span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Luís Garrote (ISR-UC)</span><span
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</span><span
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</span><span
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</span><span
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</span><span
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Please check further details at the ICARSC 2024 conference website (</span><a
href="https://www.icarsc.pt/"
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://www.icarsc.pt/</span></a><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New',monospace;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">). Should you have any question please do not hesitate contacting us (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:icarsc2024@icarsc.pt">icarsc2024@icarsc.pt</a>).</span></p>
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