ICRES 2019 is the fourth edition of the International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards series and will be held within the premises of London South Bank University, London, UK during 29–30 July 2019. The ICRES conference series provides a multidisciplinary forum for discussing the fundamental and pressing safety, ethical, legal, and societal issues in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and the scope is not limited to physical robots. Contributions in the form of full papers, posters, and extended abstracts are invited for possible inclusion in the conference on the none-exhaustive list of, topics below:

Conference topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Autonomy and liability
• Ethical principles in robotics
• Defining ethical guidelines for the design, use, and operation of robots
• Enhancement technologies: ethical issues
• Privacy and the management of personal data
• Ethical frameworks: universal or region specific?
• The role of industry and society in the definition of safety standards
• AI technology to block unethical/mendacious social-media communication
• Accountability in autonomous systems
• Embedding values and norms into intelligent systems
• Ethics and standardization
• Raising ethical awareness among stakeholders
• Transparency in autonomous systems
• Political and legal frameworks
• Formal and mathematical frameworks for robot ethics
• Implementations and engineering studies
• User and HCI/HRI studies at the intersection of the above issues

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers by the 15 February 2019. The papers accepted will be presented at ICRES 2019 conference and a selection of the best papers will be published by Springer.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

15 December 2018: Proposals for workshops & Special Sessions

15 February 2019: Submission of full/draft paper

01 April 2019: Notification of paper acceptance

01 May 2019: Submission of final (accepted) papers

01 May 2019: Author and early bird registration

15 June 2019: Preliminary program

29-30 July 2019: Conference