Call for late breaking papers

We are pleased to inform you that ICRES 2020 will be held virtually during 28-29 September 2020, Taipei, Taiwan. The deadline for submission of full papers has passed, and we are pleased to invite prospective authors to submit their late breaking papers of 3-4 pages length in PDF format from the paper submission page of the conference web-site, with view of inclusion in the conference programme and proceedings, according to the following key dates

The technical program of the conference will comprise plenary, regular, and special/invited sessions. All articles submitted for inclusion in the conference will be peer reviewed before acceptance. It is envisaged that all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and a selection of final papers will be published by Springer Publishing Company, subject to registration of at least one author for presenting their paper. ICRES 2020 will also feature Virtual Robot Exhibition.

30 July 2020:      Deadline for submission of Late Breaking Papers (3-4 pages long)

07 August 2020: Notification for acceptance of Late Breaking Papers

14 August 2020: Submission of final (accepted) Late Breaking Papers

CFP ICRES 2020

Download Call for Papers as PDF file here.

ICRES 2020 is the fifth edition of the International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards series and will be held Taipei, Taiwan during 28–29 September 2020. 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 non-exhaustive list of topics below:

  • Autonomy and liability
  • Ethical principles in robotics
  • Defining ethical guidelines for the design, use, and operation of robots
  • Enhancement technologies: ethical issues
  • Privacy & 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

Submission of Papers

Authors are invited to submit their papers in PDF format using the templates posted on the submission page of the conference website. Full papers can be up to 8 pages in length. Posters and extended abstracts can be up to 2 pages in length. All submissions will undergo a single-blind peer-review process, and accepted ICRES 2020 submissions will be included in the conference program and open-access proceedings, subject to at least one author registering and presenting their work. The ICRES 2020 Proceedings will also be submitted for indexing at SCOPUS.

Workshops/Special Sessions

Potential organisers are invited to submit their workshop/special session proposals to Dr Endre Kadar by the key deadline date. The proposals will include the title, aim and scope of the session with a list of potential contributions. All papers submitted for inclusion in the session will go through the conference peer-review process.

Robot Exhibition

The robot exhibition will be organised around the theme of “Robot-Human and Human-Robot”, and in addition to physical hardware will include videos and software models and animations. Potential exhibitors are invited to view the exhibition page on the conference website for details of the requirements and process of taking part in the exhibition.