Connectionists: Call for Papers: 19th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-19) | Deadline extension to March 7, 2025

Fri Feb 14 05:12:34 EST 2025

Dear Friends,

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.

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”.

**/ Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Mobile Robots Collaborative Robots/Cobots
Robots for Industry 4.0
Household Robots
Humanoid Robots
Climbing Robots
Outdoor and Field Robots
Autonomous Vehicles
Healthcare Robots
Flying Robots
Marine Robots
Robot Swarms
Biomimetic Robots
Long-Term Autonomous Systems
Intelligent Machines
Cognitive Architectures for Robots
Human-Robot-Interaction
Software Architectures for Robots
Cloud Robotics
Robot Vision
Tactile Sensing
Intelligent Sensors and Systems
Neuromorphic Sensing
Semantic Modelling
Data Fusion and Machine Learning
Obstacle Avoidance
Localization and SLAM
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Planning
Task-Motion Planning
Robot Foundation Models
Vision and Language Models
Robot Simulations
Mechatronics for Intelligent Systems

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.

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.

Proposals for workshops and tutorials are strongly encouraged. Workshops and tutorials will be scheduled on 30/6/2025.

Updates on www.ias-19.org<http://www.ias-19.org/>.

**/ Planned special sessions

1) Artificial Intelligence in Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction
Organisers:
Alessandro Umbrico (alessandro.umbrico at istc.cnr.it<mailto:alessandro.umbrico at istc.cnr.it>)
Alessandro Carfi (alessandro.umbrico at istc.cnr.it<mailto:alessandro.umbrico at istc.cnr.it>)

2) Robots and Intelligent systems for Citizens and the Environment
Organisers:
Antonio Sgorbissa (antonio.sgorbissa at unige.it<mailto:antonio.sgorbissa at unige.it>)
Jaeryoung Lee (jaeryounglee at isc.chubu.ac.jp<mailto:jaeryounglee at isc.chubu.ac.jp>)
Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto (carmine.recchiuto at dibris.unige.it<mailto:carmine.recchiuto at dibris.unige.it>)
Emilia Barakova (e.i.barakova at tue.nl<mailto:e.i.barakova at tue.nl>)

3) Marine Robotics
Organisers:
Giovanni Indiveri (giovanni.indiveri at unige.it<mailto:giovanni.indiveri at unige.it>)
Enrico Simetti (enrico.simetti at unige.it<mailto:enrico.simetti at unige.it>)
Francesco Wanderlingh (francesco.wanderlingh at unige.it<mailto:francesco.wanderlingh at unige.it>)

4) Proactive Social Perception for Human-Robot Collaboration: From Vision to Language
Organisers:
Dimitri Ognibene (dimitri.ognibene at unimib.it<mailto:dimitri.ognibene at unimib.it>)
Onofrio Gigliotta (onofrio.gigliotta at unina.it<mailto:onofrio.gigliotta at unina.it>)
Letizia Marchegiani (letizia.marchegiani at unipr.it<mailto:letizia.marchegiani at unipr.it>)
Tom Foulsham (foulsham at essex.ac.uk<mailto:foulsham at essex.ac.uk>)
Dario Zanca (dario.zanca at fau.de<mailto:dario.zanca at fau.de>)
Edoardo Datteri (edoardo.datteri at unimib.it<mailto:edoardo.datteri at unimib.it>)

5) Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence
Organisers:
Fabio Patrizi  (patrizi at diag.uniroma1.it<mailto:patrizi at diag.uniroma1.it>)
Luca Iocchi (iocchi at diag.uniroma1.it<mailto:iocchi at diag.uniroma1.it>)
Raffaello Camoriano (raffaello.camoriano at polito.it<mailto:raffaello.camoriano at polito.it>)

6) Advanced Mathematical and Control Methods in Soft and Humanoid Robotics
Organisers:
Fabio Bonsignorio (fabio.bonsignorio at fer.unizg.hr<mailto:fabio.bonsignorio at fer.unizg.hr>)
Enrica Zereik (enrica.zereik at cnr.it<mailto:enrica.zereik at cnr.it>)

7) Human Internal States Perception and Processing for Human-Centric Technology
Organisers:
Marco Matarese (marco.matarese at iit.it<mailto:marco.matarese at iit.it>)
Francesco Rea (francesco.rea at iit.it<mailto:francesco.rea at iit.it>)
Alessandra Sciutti (alessandra.sciutti at iit.it<mailto:alessandra.sciutti at iit.it>)

8) LLMs as planning tools for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks
Organisers:
Lorenzo Natale (lorenzo.natale at iit.it<mailto:lorenzo.natale at iit.it>)
Carmela Calabrese (carmela.calabrese at iit.it<mailto:carmela.calabrese at iit.it>)

NEW!!! 9) Field Robotics Empowered by Artificial Intelligence
Organisers:
Hyun-Joon Chung
Jinung An
Soon-Geul Lee
Sukhan Lee

**/ Paper submission instructions

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:

https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines<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>

In particular, refer to:

- instructions for authors:

https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19242230/data/v16

- LaTeX templates:

https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v8

- Overleaf LaTeX templates:

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj<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>

- MS Word templates:

https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/7117506/data/v1

Paper length should be at most 12 pages, including references.
Authors can optionally have 6 additional pages at a cost of 50 EUR per page.
Papers with more than 18 pages will be automatically rejected.

Papers must be submitted electronically via OpenReview:

https://openreview.net/group?id=ias-society.org/IAS/2025/Conference

Please indicate whether the paper is submitted to the general track or one of the special sessions.

**/ Important dates

20/9/2024 > First call for papers
7/12/2024 > Deadline for proposals for special sessions
15/12/2024 > Notification for proposals for special sessions
31/1/2025 > Deadline for proposals for workshops, and tutorials
7/2/2025 > Notification for proposals for workshops and tutorials
UPDATED!!! 7/3/2025 > Deadline for papers submission
15/4/2025 > Papers acceptance notification
15/5/2025 > Papers final submission
30/6/2025 - 4/7/2025 > IAS-19 in Genoa, Italy

**/ CONFIRMED Plenary speakers

Tomaso A. Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
Yoshihiko Nakamura, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, University of Tokyo, Japan

**/ CONFIRMED Keynote speakers

Arash Ajoudani, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Perla Maiolino, University of Oxford, UK
José Galvan, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Vatican State

**/ Organisation

- General Chair
Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, University of Genoa, Italy

- Program Chair
Francesco Amigoni, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy

- Regional Program Chairs
Takahashi Masaki, Keio University, Japan
Jing Xiao, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US
Arnoud Visser, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

**/ OPENING SOON: Call for sponsors and exhibitors

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.

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.