ECAI-24] Call for Papers: AAPEI 2024 - Workshop Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence

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Call for papers

The 1st International Workshop on “Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence” (AAPEI 2024) will be held in conjunction with the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) on October 19/20, 2024 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Website: https://sites.google.com/diag.uniroma1.it/aapei24/

Aims and Scope

Regulating the autonomy of AI systems is a crucial challenge in AI, especially in contexts where the systems are immersed in and interact with human society. In these cases, the systems need the ability to operate and learn autonomously, while understanding when their decisions are unsafe, questionable, or unethical, and thus human supervision is required. Since situations are more and more frequent where systems exhibiting a high degree of autonomy are embodied into physical devices, such as robots, this form of adjustable autonomy also needs to take into account the peculiarities of the devices where the systems are physically embodied. In order to unify these two perspectives, scientific foundations, techniques, and tools for adjustable autonomy need to be devised, so as to equip software and/or physical AI systems with the required abilities to operate and learn in human environments, while being trustworthy and fully integrated in the environment.

The objective of the workshop is to serve as a forum for researchers interested in investigating all the aspects of combining adjustable autonomy and physical embodied intelligence, to openly discuss relevant issues, research and development progress, future directions, and open challenges.

Since the primary goal is to foster the discussion about ideas related to the WS topics, we welcome contributions reporting on original, published, or ongoing work in the area.

Workshop Format and Submissions

The workshop program will include one oral presentation for each accepted paper. Additionally, one or two invited speakers working in related areas will also be part of the program. The expected duration is one full day.

We solicit submissions of papers covering any aspect of interest for Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence. Recent work currently submitted to or accepted at other conferences and/or journals is also eligible for presentation.

Typical contributions relate (but are not limited) to the following topics:

Humans and AI
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning
AI and Robotics
Logic-based approaches for AI
Fairness, Ethics, and Trust
Multi-Agent Systems
Human-Robot Interaction and cooperation
Embodied Intelligence
Robot Learning
Planning, execution and monitoring for autonomy
LLMs for embedded autonomy
Experiences in deploying embedded autonomy, from conception to maturity in practice

Authors can choose one of the following submission options:

Extended Abstract: 2 to 4 pages, not included in proceedings
Short Paper: 5 pages (excluding references)
Regular Paper: 6 to 10 pages (excluding references)

Contributions must be submitted via the CMT System https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AAPEI2024/Submission/Index and must be formatted using the new CEURART style.

Detailed instructions and style files can be found here: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART.

An overleaf template page is also available here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw

Accepted short and regular papers will be made available as CEUR workshop proceedings, unless authors opt out.

Important Dates (deadlines are intended AoE: 11:59PM UTC-12:00)