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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode"> *International
Workshop on Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics* (RobOntics) @
RO-MAN 2023<br>
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We encourage researchers interested in the fields of robotics
and knowledge engineering to submit original extended abstract
(2-4 pages) or papers (5-8 pages) research papers by June 30th
2023.<br>
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*Workshop Motivation*<br>
ROBONTICS focuses on the area of robot autonomy enabled by
knowledge-driven approaches, and in particular formal
ontologies, in all their possible uses. It aims to foster
interaction across robotics, ontology, and knowledge
representation and reasoning, to investigate promising
approaches and to review progress in knowledge-driven
robotics.<br>
Today ontologies are used in robotics and standardization
efforts for robotics knowledge management. Many open problems
involve autonomous robotic agents operating in natural,
artificial or socio-technical environments, and several
research projects in healthcare assistance, logistics,
autonomous driving, etc, aim to bring robots into realistic
human environments.<br>
One of the difficulties is the amount of real-world knowledge
that an agent needs to have to be able to act competently and
autonomously. Further, any item of knowledge is often relevant
for many agents and in several scenarios, and as such should
be reusable. To garner trust, to ensure dependability, and to
enable debugging, knowledge should also be accessible to human
operators, both in terms of explaining what knowledge is
present in a system, and of providing ways to easily amend it
if necessary.<br>
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*Special Topic of ROBONTICS 2023*<br>
While we maintain our usual list of topics, this edition of
ROBONTICS is particularly interested in the problem of
modeling culture and social scenarios (broadly understood) via
ontology and other knowledge representation techniques.<br>
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*Important Dates*<br>
Submission deadline: June 30, 2023<br>
Notification: July 15, 2023<br>
Workshop: August 28, 2023<br>
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*List of Topics* (partial)<br>
Participants are invited to submit original extended
abstract (2-4 pages) or papers (5-8 pages) on topics such as:<br>
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- Foundational issues: <br>
o Are there some ontological approaches better suited than
others for autonomous robotics? why?<br>
o How should we ontologically model notions like
capability, action, interaction, context etc. in robotics?<br>
o How can ontology be used to model culture, cultural
knowledge and cultural behavior?<br>
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- Robustness: <br>
o how can ontologies be used to help robots cope with the
variety and relatively fluid structure of human environments?<br>
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- Ontologies in the perception-action loop: <br>
o what roles can ontology play in autonomous manipulation?<br>
o how can ontology be used to support machine learning for
object classification?<br>
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- Interactivity: <br>
o how can knowledge about other agents present in the
environment be modelled?<br>
o how can ontology be used to model the flow of an
interaction, e.g., in the case of shared tasks?<br>
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- Normed behavior: <br>
o how can we ontologically represent norms and cultural
expectations?<br>
o how can expectations be acquired? would they be the same
for robots and for humans?<br>
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- Explainability: <br>
o decision chains are very complex; how can these be
organized and presented at various levels of detail for the
benefit of a human user?<br>
o what is an explanation? what is a good explanation? how
it be generated from a collection of knowledge items?<br>
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*Submission Information*<br>
Beside regular papers, position and survey papers are also
welcome. All the contributions to the workshop must be
submitted according to the IOS press format available from<br>
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Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
merit, originality, and relevance. Each paper will be reviewed
by at least two Program Committee members. Papers must be
submitted electronically in PDF, using this link:<br>
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*Publication*<br>
Depending on interest, accepted works will be published in an
open access CEUR volume as part of the new IAOA series (see <a
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or a special issue in a suitable journal will be organized.<br>
Further information at the ROBONTICS website:<br>
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<b>Laboratory for Applied Ontology</b> (LOA), ISTC-CNR <br>
Trento, Italy <br>
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