[CfP] RobOntics 2023: Workshop on Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics

International Workshop on Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics (ROBONTICS) 
@ RO-MAN2023

We encourage researchers interested in the fields of robotics and 
knowledge engineering to submit original extended abstract (2-4 pages)or 
papers (5-8 pages)research papers by June30th 2023.


*Workshop Motivation*

ROBONTICS focuses on the area of robot autonomy enabled by 
knowledge-driven approaches, and in particular formal ontologies, in all 
their possible uses. It aims to foster interaction across robotics, 
ontology, and knowledge representation and reasoning, to investigate 
promising approaches and to review progress in knowledge-driven robotics.

Today ontologies are used in robotics and standardization efforts for 
robotics knowledge management. Many open problems involve autonomous 
robotic agents operating in natural, artificial or socio-technical 
environments, and several research projects in healthcare assistance, 
logistics, autonomous driving, etc, aim to bring robots into realistic 
human environments.

One of the difficulties is the amount of real-world knowledge that an 
agent needs to have to be able to act competently and autonomously. 
Further, any item of knowledge is often relevant for many agents and in 
several scenarios, and as such should be reusable. To garner trust, to 
ensure dependability,and to enable debugging, knowledge should also be 
accessible to human operators, both in terms of explaining what 
knowledge is present in a system, and of providing ways to easily amend 
it if necessary.

*Special Topic of ROBONTICS 2023*: this edition of ROBONTICS is 
particularly interested in the problem of /modeling culture and social 
scenarios/(broadly understood) via ontology and other knowledge 
representation techniques.



*Important Dates*

Submission deadline: June30, 2023

Notification: July15, 2023

Workshop: TBD (between August 28 and 31, 2023)



*List of Topics (partial)*

Participants are invited to submit original extended abstract (2-4 
pages)or papers (5-8 pages)ontopics such as:

  *

    Foundational issues:

      o

        Are there some ontological approaches better suited than others
        for autonomous robotics? why?

      o

        How should we ontologically model notions like capability,
        action, interaction, context etc. in robotics?

      o

        How can ontology be used to model culture, cultural knowledge
        and cultural behavior?

  *

    Robustness:

      o

        how can ontologies be used to help robots cope with the variety
        and relatively fluid structure of human environments?

  *

    Ontologies in the perception-action loop:

      o

        what roles can ontology play in autonomous manipulation?

      o

        how can ontology be used to support machine learning for object
        classification?

  *

    Interactivity:

      o

        how can knowledge about other agents present in the environment
        be modelled?

      o

        how can ontology be used to model the flow of an interaction,
        e.g., in the case of shared tasks?

  *

    Normed behavior:

      o

        how can we ontologically representnorms andcultural expectations?

      o

        how can expectations be acquired?would they be the same for
        robots and for humans?

  *

    Explainability:

      o

        decision chains are very complex; how can these be organized and
        presented at various levels of detail for the benefit of a human
        user?

      o

        what is an explanation? what is a good explanation?how it be
        generated from a collection of knowledge items?



*Submission Information*

Beside regular papers, position and survey papers are also welcome. All 
the contributions to the workshop must be submitted according to the IOS 
press format available from

https://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/

Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their merit, 
originality, and relevance. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two 
Program Committee members. Papers must be submitted electronically in 
PDF, using this link:

- https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robontics2023



*Publication*

Depending on interest, accepted works will be published in an open 
access CEUR volume as part of the new IAOA series (see 
[http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html](http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html)) or a 
special issue in a suitable journal will be organized.


Further information at the ROBONTICS website:

https://robontics.github.io

-- 
Daniel Beßler          |danielb@uni-bremen.de
Universität Bremen     | Am Fallturm 1
28359 Bremen           | Germany
Tel: +49 421 218-64023 |http://ai.uni-bremen.de
Fax: +49 421 218-64047 |http://www.open-ease.org  - Open Knowledge for AI-enabled robots