ICRES 2025 warmly invites proposals for half-day special sessions, workshops and tutorials. Special sessions, workshops 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 and workshops, a one-page proposal is required and should consist of the following elements
- Title.
- Organizers (Names, affiliations, emails), specifying one corresponding organizer.
- 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:
- Title
- Presenters (short biography of each)
- Table of contents
- Suggested format (lecturing/interactive)
Topics of Interest
We encourage submissions related to (but not limited to):
- Accountability in autonomous systems
- AI technology to block unethical/mendacious social-media communication
- Autonomy and liability
- Defining ethical guidelines for the design, use, and operation of robots
- Embedding values and norms into intelligent systems
- Enhancement technologies: ethical issues
- Ethical frameworks: universal or region-specific?
- Ethical principles in robotics
- Ethics and standardization
- Formal and mathematical frameworks for robot ethics
- Implementations and engineering studies
- Political and legal frameworks
- Privacy & management of personal data
- Raising ethical awareness among stakeholders
- The role of industry and society in the definition of safety standards
- Transparency in autonomous systems
- User and HCI/HRI studies at the intersection of the above issues
Submission
Potential organizers are invited to submit their special session, workshop or tutorial proposals to the conference secretariat by the key deadline date (15 January 2025). Special Session/Tutorial Proposal must be submitted in PDF format to:
icres2025@clawar.org (Email Subject: Session/Workshop/Tutorial Proposal)
We look forward to hosting your special session/tutorial at ICRES 2025!
All papers submitted for inclusion in the special sessions or workshops will go through the normal conference peer review process.