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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Friends,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I wish to invite you all to contribute to the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-19), which will be held in Genoa, Italy, from June
30 to July 4, 2025.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Since the first edition in 1985, IAS has been a venue for original, novel, and innovative papers with a theoretical or experimental flavour. For IAS-19, we look for papers
centered around the theme “Ethical, Responsible, and Inclusive Robotics”.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">**/ Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Mobile Robots Collaborative Robots/Cobots</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Robots for Industry 4.0</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Household Robots</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Humanoid Robots</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Climbing Robots</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Outdoor and Field Robots</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Autonomous Vehicles</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Healthcare Robots</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Flying Robots</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Marine Robots</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Robot Swarms</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Biomimetic Robots</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Long-Term Autonomous Systems</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Intelligent Machines</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Cognitive Architectures for Robots</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Human-Robot-Interaction</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Software Architectures for Robots</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Cloud Robotics</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Robot Vision</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tactile Sensing</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Intelligent Sensors and Systems</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Neuromorphic Sensing</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Semantic Modelling</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Data Fusion and Machine Learning</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Obstacle Avoidance</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Localization and SLAM</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Knowledge Representation and Reasoning</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Planning</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Task-Motion Planning</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Robot Foundation Models</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Vision and Language Models</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Robot Simulations</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Mechatronics for Intelligent Systems</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">All contributed papers will go through a rigorous peer-review process, which will be managed by Editors, Associated Editors, and Reviewers. Each manuscript will be reviewed
by at least two reviewers. If a paper will be accepted, the authors should submit a revised final version reflecting reviewers’ comments and present their paper orally and in presence.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and a post-proceedings book will be published by Springer, as is customary for IAS
conferences. A limited number of authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issue of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, published by Elsevier.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Proposals for workshops and tutorials are strongly encouraged. Workshops and tutorials will be scheduled on 30/6/2025.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Updates on <a href="http://www.ias-19.org/" target="_blank">www.ias-19.org</a>.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">**/ Planned special sessions</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">1) Artificial Intelligence in Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organisers:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Alessandro Umbrico (<a href="mailto:alessandro.umbrico@istc.cnr.it" target="_blank">alessandro.umbrico@istc.cnr.it</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Alessandro Carfi (</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:alessandro.umbrico@istc.cnr.it" target="_blank">alessandro.umbrico@istc.cnr.it</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2) Robots and Intelligent systems for Citizens and the Environment</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organisers:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Antonio Sgorbissa (<a href="mailto:antonio.sgorbissa@unige.it" target="_blank">antonio.sgorbissa@unige.it</a>) </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jaeryoung Lee (<a href="mailto:jaeryounglee@isc.chubu.ac.jp" target="_blank">jaeryounglee@isc.chubu.ac.jp</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto (</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:carmine.recchiuto@dibris.unige.it" target="_blank">carmine.recchiuto@dibris.unige.it</a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Emilia Barakova (<a href="mailto:e.i.barakova@tue.nl" target="_blank">e.i.barakova@tue.nl</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">3) Marine Robotics</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organisers:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Giovanni Indiveri (</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:giovanni.indiveri@unige.it" target="_blank">giovanni.indiveri@unige.it</a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Enrico Simetti (<a href="mailto:enrico.simetti@unige.it" target="_blank">enrico.simetti@unige.it</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Francesco Wanderlingh (<a href="mailto:francesco.wanderlingh@unige.it" target="_blank">francesco.wanderlingh@unige.it</a>) </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">4) Proactive Social Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration: From Vision to Language </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organisers:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dimitri Ognibene (</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:dimitri.ognibene@unimib.it" target="_blank">dimitri.ognibene@unimib.it</a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Onofrio Gigliotta (<a href="mailto:onofrio.gigliotta@unina.it" target="_blank">onofrio.gigliotta@unina.it</a>) </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Letizia Marchegiani (<a href="mailto:letizia.marchegiani@unipr.it" target="_blank">letizia.marchegiani@unipr.it</a>) </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tom Foulsham (<a href="mailto:foulsham@essex.ac.uk" target="_blank">foulsham@essex.ac.uk</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dario Zanca (<a href="mailto:dario.zanca@fau.de" target="_blank">dario.zanca@fau.de</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Edoardo Datteri (<a href="mailto:edoardo.datteri@unimib.it" target="_blank">edoardo.datteri@unimib.it</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">5) Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organisers:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Fabio Patrizi (<a href="mailto:patrizi@diag.uniroma1.it" target="_blank">patrizi@diag.uniroma1.it</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Luca Iocchi (<a href="mailto:iocchi@diag.uniroma1.it" target="_blank">iocchi@diag.uniroma1.it</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Raffaello Camoriano (<a href="mailto:raffaello.camoriano@polito.it" target="_blank">raffaello.camoriano@polito.it</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">6) Advanced Mathematical and Control Methods in Soft and Humanoid Robotics</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organisers:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Fabio Bonsignorio (</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:fabio.bonsignorio@fer.unizg.hr" target="_blank">fabio.bonsignorio@fer.unizg.hr</a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Enrica Zereik (<a href="mailto:enrica.zereik@cnr.it" target="_blank">enrica.zereik@cnr.it</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">7) Human Internal States Perception and Processing for Human-Centric Technology</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organisers:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Marco Matarese (</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:marco.matarese@iit.it" target="_blank">marco.matarese@iit.it</a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Francesco Rea (</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:francesco.rea@iit.it" target="_blank">francesco.rea@iit.it</a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Alessandra Sciutti (<a href="mailto:alessandra.sciutti@iit.it" target="_blank">alessandra.sciutti@iit.it</a>)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">8) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">LLMs as planning tools for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organisers:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Lorenzo Natale (</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:lorenzo.natale@iit.it" target="_blank">lorenzo.natale@iit.it</a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Carmela Calabrese (</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:carmela.calabrese@iit.it" target="_blank">carmela.calabrese@iit.it</a></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">NEW!!! 9) Field Robotics Empowered by Artificial Intelligence</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Organisers:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hyun-Joon Chung</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jinung An</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Soon-Geul Lee</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sukhan Lee</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">**/ Paper submission instructions</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Prospective authors must format their papers in a single-column layout on 21 cm x 29.7 cm A4-size paper according to the Springer guidelines:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines&e=ed7a584b&h=fe37a403&f=y&p=y" target="_blank" title="www.springer.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In particular, refer to:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- instructions for authors: </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v16" target="_blank">https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v16</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- LaTeX templates: </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v8" target="_blank">https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v8</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Overleaf LaTeX templates: </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.overleaf.com%2Flatex%2Ftemplates%2Fspringer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science%2Fkzwwpvhwnvfj&e=ed7a584b&h=ce6ecb75&f=y&p=y" target="_blank" title="www.overleaf.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- MS Word templates: </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Paper length should be at most 12 pages, including references. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Authors can optionally have 6 additional pages at a cost of 50 EUR per page. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Papers with more than 18 pages will be automatically rejected.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Papers must be submitted electronically via OpenReview: </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=ias-society.org/IAS/2025/Conference" target="_blank">https://openreview.net/group?id=ias-society.org/IAS/2025/Conference</a> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please indicate whether the paper is submitted to the general track or one of the special sessions.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">**/ Important dates</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><s><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">20/9/2024 > First call for papers</span></s><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><s><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">7/12/2024 > Deadline for proposals for special sessions</span></s><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><s><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">15/12/2024 > Notification for proposals for special sessions</span></s><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><s><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">31/1/2025 > Deadline for proposals for workshops, and tutorials</span></s><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><s><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">7/2/2025 > Notification for proposals for workshops and tutorials</span></s><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">UPDATED!!! 7/3/2025 > Deadline for papers submission </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">15/4/2025 > Papers acceptance notification </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">15/5/2025 > Papers final submission </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">30/6/2025 - 4/7/2025 > IAS-19 in Genoa, Italy</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">**/ CONFIRMED Plenary speakers</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tomaso A. Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Yoshihiko Nakamura, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Yasuo Kuniyoshi, University of Tokyo, Japan</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">**/ CONFIRMED Keynote speakers</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Arash Ajoudani, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Perla Maiolino, University of Oxford, UK</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">José Galvan, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Vatican State</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">**/ Organisation</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- General Chair</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, University of Genoa, Italy</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Program Chair</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Francesco Amigoni, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">- Regional Program Chairs</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Takahashi Masaki, Keio University, Japan</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jing Xiao, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Arnoud Visser, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">**/ OPENING SOON: Call for sponsors and exhibitors</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We will soon open a call for sponsors and exhibitors. We are working toward nicely blending the usual scientific tracks of IAS with pitch sessions and events oriented
towards innovation and the industry.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IAS-19 will feature a dedicated crash course on entrepreneurship, student challenges in which companies may be directly involved, plenary pitch sessions, and an industry
forum.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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