AAAI 2024 Fall Symposium on “Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development” (UR-RAD)

2ND CALL FOR PAPERS
What:  AAAI 2024 Fall Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development (UR-RAD)
When: November 7-9, 2024
Where: Arlington, VA
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: August 2nd
Decision Notification: August 16th
Camera Ready Deadline: August 30th (this is a hard deadline for authors who wish to be included in the AAAI proceedings)
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Dear colleagues,

We invite you to submit a paper and/or participate in the 2nd AAAI Fall Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development (UR-RAD). Accepted papers will be presented in person only (though participants who are not presenting may attend remotely).

Capturing a desired task or interaction as a computational artifact (i.e., a representation) has long played a pivotal role in robotics. Many robotic subfields have traditionally employed a variety of different representational techniques, such as LTL, planning languages, social representations, natural language, and many more. The problem is that there is a lack of cohesion in when and how these representations are applied. The 2nd symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development (UR-RAD) thereby aims to increase representational cohesion between AI and robotics researchers, identify representational trends in robotics and opportunities for adopting new representations, foster cross-institutional collaborations, and make an impact beyond the symposium.

Symposium Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aaai-ur-rad-symposium/home
AAAI Fall Symposium Series Website: https://aaai.org/conference/fall-symposia/fss24/

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Submission Topics of Interest
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– Representational trends

– Representations for robot learning
– AI planning for robotics
– Formal methods in robotics
– Natural language as a representation
– Novel representations & novel representation uses
– Representations for user interfaces
– Robot end-user development
– Robot programming interfaces & paradigms
– Robot runtime/control environments
– Opportunities for standardization
– Frameworks (e.g., ROS or middleware)
– Open-source & collaboration initiatives
– Identifying representation requirements

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Submission Information
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We invite the following contributions, formatted using the AAAI-24 author kit:

  • Research Papers (4-6 pages excluding references): describes work related to the topics above.
  • Position Papers (2-4 pages excluding references): discusses topics outlined above.
  • Artifact Papers (2-4 pages excluding references): describes artifacts (e.g., software tools or libraries) related to the topics above.
Papers submitted by the above dates can be included in the AAAI Proceedings.

If you intend to submit a paper, please email us at urrad.symposium@gmail.com” style=”margin:0px” target=”_blank”> urrad.symposium@gmail.com. Use the subject line, “[UR-RAD] Intent to Submit”, and include the following in the body of the message: (1) a tentative title, (2) a tentative author list, and (3) tentative keywords. This step is optional, but will aid in our planning for reviewers. Note that at least one author from each paper will be expected to review 2-3 UR-RAD papers themselves.

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Organizing Committee
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David Porfirio (Chair, Naval Research Laboratory)
Saad Elbeleidy (Peerbots)
Ruchen Wen (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Laura M. Hiatt (Naval Research Laboratory)
Mark Roberts (Naval Research Laboratory)
Willie Wilson (Franklin & Marshall College)
Ross Mead (Semio)
Laura Stegner (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Contact urrad.symposium@gmail.com” style=”margin:0px” target=”_blank”> urrad.symposium@gmail.com for any questions!

CFP- ICICIP2025, Muscat, Oman, February 6-11, 2025

Call for Papers

The 13th International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP2025) will be held in Muscat, Oman, February 6-11, 2025, following the successes of previous events. As the capital of Oman, Muscat is Oman's largest city with a population of over four million people and numerous tourist attractions. ICICIP2025 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of research and applications in related fields. The conference will feature plenary speeches given by world-renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, special sessions focusing on popular topics, and post-conference workshops/tutorials in the region.

Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ICICIP2025. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the symposium are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ICICIP2025. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information, and brief biographical information on the organizers.

Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (8 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online submission system. Potential organizers are also invited to enlist five or more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or is not copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions. All accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requirements. Selected high-quality papers will be included in several journal special issues.

The paper submission system is now open. 

Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=IEEE.org/ICICIP/2025/Conference&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)#tab-your-consoles 


Submission deadline: November 1, 2024

Synthetic Realities and Biometric Security: Advances in Forensic Analysis and Threat Mitigation (SRBS)

Synthetic Realities and Biometric Security: 
Advances in Forensic Analysis and Threat Mitigation (SRBS) 
Workshop held at the 2024 British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 
27-28 November 2024, Glasgow, UK 
Paper submission: August 4, 2024, 11:59pm PST
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*** Call for Papers *** 
Recent advancements in deep learning algorithms, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Diffusion models, have led to a surge in the creation of highly realistic images and videos, which are often indistinguishable from genuine content to the human eye. While these developments have benefited the entertainment industry, they are often used to spread misinformation and manipulate public opinion. Moreover, in the security domain, synthetic and manipulated images and videos are frequently utilized to impersonate individuals, enabling unauthorized parties to bypass systems for biometric authentication gaining illegal access to sensitive information. Accurate detection of fake data is crucial for preventing security breaches and safeguarding the integrity of security measures and public information.  
 
SRBS aims to present the latest developments in the creation, evaluation, impact, and countermeasures against visual attacks on biometric systems. We invite practitioners, researchers and engineers from biometrics, signal processing, material science, mathematics, computer vision and machine learning to contribute their expertise to underpin the highlighted challenges.  
 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 
  • Human-oriented generative models and image/video synthesis techniques, 
  • Detection of tempered, manipulated and synthetic content, 
  • Deepfake generation and detection, 
  • Morphing attack generation and detection, 
  • Image manipulation attacks in biometrics verification and identification scenarios, 
  • Video manipulation attacks, 
  • Physical (presentation) attacks on biometric systems, 
  • Forensic analysis of behavioral biometrics, 
  • Ethical and societal implications of manipulation techniques, 
  • Synthetic realities, 
  • Relevant case studies and applications, 
  • New datasets and performance benchmarks, 
  • Watermarking. 
 
 *** Submission *** 
 
*** Important Dates *** 
 
Full Paper Submission: August 4, 2024, 11:59pm PST 
Acceptance Notice:     August 16, 2024, 11:59pm PST 
 

IEEE PICom 2024 – Final Extension to Submit Your Regular Paper

=====================CALL FOR PAPERS=============================
The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing
IEEE PICom 2024
http://cyber-science.org/2024/picom/
2024 IEEE CyberSciTech / PICom / DASC / CBDCom Co-located Conferences (In-Presence/Virtual)
5-8 November 2024 – Boracay Island, Malay, Philippines

=====================IMPORTANT DATES=============================

Regular Paper Due: 26 Jul 2024 (final extension)
WiP/WS/SS Paper Due: 10 Aug 2024 (final extension)
LBI Paper Due: 10 Aug 2024
Authors Notification: 01 Sep 2024
Paper Registration Due: 18 Sep 2024
Camera-ready Submission: 27 Sep 2024

=====================INTRODUCTION=============================
Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from artificial intelligence, nature-inspired computing,
and social-oriented technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI).
The IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these
intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing domains. PICom 2024 is the
conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, previously held as PCC (Las Vegas, USA, 2003 and 2004), PSC
(Las Vegas, USA, 2005), PCAC (Vienna, Austria, 2006, and Niagara Falls, Canada, 2007), IPC-2007 (Jeju, Korea,
December 2007), IPC-2008 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), and since 2009 as the name PICom. It aims to bring
together computer scientists and engineers, providing a platform for vibrant discussions and exchanges on
experimental and theoretical results, ongoing work, cutting-edge designs, and innovative test-environments or testbeds,
while also delving into the latest advancements and novel trends in Intelligence and Machine Learning within the realms
of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing.

=====================TRACKS AND TOPICS=============================
– Track 1: Next Gen Pervasive AI
– GenAI for wireless sensing
– Machine-to-machine GenAI
– Generative IoT
– GenAI for semantic communications
– Multi-agent network powered by GenAI
– Big Data and Smart Data
– Brain-inspired Computing
– Mobile Data Mining
– Ubiquitous Data Mining

– Track 2: Intelligent Networks, Middleware and Applications
– Pervasive Networks/Communications
– 5G networks and Technologies
– AI/ML for smart wireless networks
– AI and machine learning-based applications for ad hoc networks
– Cooperative and cognitive communication
– Middleware for the IoT
– Adaptive Middleware for Pervasive Systems
– Context-aware applications
– Intelligent/Smart IoT
– Programming Abstractions for IoT

– Track 3: Pervasive Computing and Activity/Affect Recognition
– Crowdsourcing and Social Computing
– Collective Intelligence
– Agent-based Computing
– Pervasive Devices and RFIDs
– Wearable Devices and Applications
– Activity Recognition
– Intelligent Social Networking
– Pervasive Technologies for ITS
– HCI for Pervasive Computing

– Track 4: Next Gen Smart Environments
– Smart grid, healthcare, transportation,applications
– Wearable and human-centric devices and networks
– Device Virtualization
– Intelligent Cloud Computing
– Services for Pervasive Computing
– Smart Cities and Smart Homes
– Privacy, Security and Trust in Smart Environments
– Autonomous Pervasive Systems
– Autonomous IoT
– Digital Twins

– Track 5: Edge intelligence applications
– ML for resource allocation at the Edge
– NFV-Edge
– 5G-Edge
– Edge-assisted IoT
– Integration of Edge Computing and Blockchain
– Edge-Cloud Continuum
– Edge AI

– Track 6: Work-in-Progress (WiP) and Late Breaking Innovation (LBI)
 The track covers all the topics but it is aimed at
 either papers that have an original but not fully
 validated proposal (WiP) or present a breakthrough, a
 new vision or an out of the box idea on the field to be
 discussed at the conference (LBI).

==================SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION=============================
Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Regular, work-in-progress (WiP), and workshop/special session papers need to be submitted via EDAS (https://edas.info/N32602) in IEEE CS Proceedings format. IEEE formatting info: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
All the accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the Conference Proceedings (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestigious journal Special Issues.
Some papers originally submitted as full papers can be accepted as short papers during the review process. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference.
Full Papers: 6-8 pages – WiP/WS/SS/Short Papers: 4-6 pages – Late Breaking Innovation (LBI) Papers: 4-8 pages

===================ORGANIZING COMMITTEE=============================
-Honorary Chairs-
– Hui-huang Hsu, Tamkang University (Taiwan)
– Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney (Australia)
– Jinhua She, Tokyo University of Technology (Japan)

-General Chairs-
– Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University (Brazil)
– Antonio Guerrieri, ICAR-CNR (Italy)

-General Executive Chairs-
– Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University (Japan)
– Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI (UAE)

-Program Chairs-
– Claudio Miceli, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
– Wei Li, The University of Sydney (Australia)

-Workshop & Special Session Chairs-
– Xiuwen Fu, Shanghai Maritime University (China)
– Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University (UAE)

-Publicity Chairs-
– Gwanggil Jeon, Incheon National University (Korea)
– Antonino Galletta, University of Messina (Italy)
– Wenfeng Li, Wuhan University of Technology (China)
– Celimuge Wu, The University of Electro-Communications (Japan)
– Rebeca Motta, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil)
– Endang Djuana, Universitas Trisakti (Indonesia)
– Kittichai Lavangnananda, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand)

-Advisory Committee-
– Victor Chang, Aston University (United Kingdom)
– Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria (Italy)
– Samee U. Khan, Mississippi State University (USA)
– Moayad Aloqaily, MBZUAI (UAE)
– Chuan-Yu Chang, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (Taiwan)
– Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus)
– Paulo de Figueiredo Pires, Dell (Brazil)
– D. Frank Hsu, Fordham University (USA)

-Steering Committee-
– Jianhua Ma, Hosei University (Japan)
– Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ. (Canada)
– Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland U Tech. (New Zealand)
– Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University (Brazil)


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