ICRES 2020 warmly invites proposals for half-day special sessions and tutorials. Special sessions and tutorials will be held along with the main conference at the same venue as the conference. The primary criteria for selection are the anticipated level of interest, the potential impact, and the confirmed invited speakers.

For special sessions, a one-page proposal is required and should consist of the following elements:

  1. Title.
  2. Organizers (Names, affiliations, emails), specifying one corresponding organizer.
  3. Description of the special session, 500 words maximum. Includes motivations for the special session, the names of invited speakers (if any), paper submission plan (dates, paper length, ..), etc.

For tutorials, a one-page proposal is required and should consist of the following elements:

  1. Title
  2. Presenters (short biography of each)
  3. Table of contents
  4. Suggested format (lecturing/interactive)

Topics of Interest

We encourage submissions related to (but not limited to):

  • 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

Special Session/Tutorial Proposal must be submitted in PDF format to

icres2020 [AT] clawar [DOT] org (Subject: Special Session/Tutorial Proposal)

with cc to Dr Endre Kadar (kadar_e AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk) by May 01st, 2020

We look forward to hosting your special session/tutorial at ICRES 2020!