Second CFP: 1st International Workshop on Actionable Knowledge Representation for Robots (AKR3), collocated with ESWC, May 28th-29th

AKR3: 1st International Workshop on Actionable Knowledge Representation for Robots

co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC24) in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 28th-29th 

https://kr3-workshop.net/

The Actionable Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Robots (AKR3) workshop, co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), is dedicated to Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) in the area of cognitive robotics, with the focus on acquiring knowledge from the Web and making it actionable for robotic applications. We aim to bring together the European communities specializing in KRR and robotics to increase collaboration and accelerate advancements in the field.

Household robots are still not able to autonomously prepare meals, set or clean the table or do other chores besides vacuum cleaning. Much of the knowledge needed to refine vague task instructions and transfer them to new task variations is contained in instruction websites like WikiHow, encyclopedic web sites like Wikipedia, and many other web-based information sources. We argue that such knowledge can be used to teach robots to perform new task variations.

Given the availability of a plethora of sources and datasets of common sense knowledge on the Web (e.g. ConceptNet, OMICS, CSKG) as well as recent advances in language modeling, it is a timely research question to investigate which methods and approaches can enable robots to take advantage of existing common sense and task knowledge to reason on how to perform tasks in the real world. The main issue to be addressed in particular is how to allow robots to perform tasks flexibly and adaptively, gracefully handling contextually determined variance in task execution. We expect this line of research to contribute to better generalizability and robustness of robots performing in every-day environments. 

Invited Speaker:

The workshop will feature Prof. Dr. Lars Kunze from the Oxford Robotics Institute as invited speaker!

Submission Guidelines:

We solicit papers on the following guiding topics, but are open to any related research direction and topic:

Knowledge Representation for cognitive robotics: The importance of linking object to action and environment information
Approaches to leverage common sense and task knowledge from existing structured (e.g., common sense knowledge bases) or unstructured (e.g., the Web) sources 
Linking common sense knowledge to perception and execution
Translation of task requests to body movements and parametrisation of such body movements with Web knowledge
Novel formalisms and approaches to represent and encode knowledge for robots
Novel cognitive architectures and paradigms supporting reasoning with Web knowledge
Use of large language models and prompting to infer action-relevant knowledge
Natural language processing applied to common sense and task knowledge extraction from unstructured source

All papers must represent original work not submitted or published already at another workshop or conference, in the following formats: 

Full papers of up to 12 pages excluding references (formatted according to Springer LNCS) describing novel and substantial work including an evaluation / validation of the proposed approach
Short papers of up to 8 pages excluding references (formatted according to Springer LNCS) describing preliminary work or a position 

Papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=r3

Important Dates:

Full Paper Submission:   March 7th, 2024

Notification of Acceptance:  April 4th, 2024

Camera-ready version:   April 18th, 2024

Workshop:     May 26th/27th

Organising Committee:

Michael Beetz, Bremen University, Germany
Philipp Cimiano, Bielefeld University, Germany
Michaela Kümpel, Bremen University, Germany
Enrico Motta, Knowledge Media Institute, United Kingdom
Ilaria Tiddi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jan-Philipp Töberg, Bielefeld University, Germany

Program Committee:

Mark Adamik, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gianluca Bardaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Daniel Beßler, Bremen University, Germany
Agnese Chiatti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Philipp Cimiano, Bielefeld University, Germany
Aurélie Clodic, LAAS-CNRS, France
Mathieu d’Aquin, LORIA, University of Lorraine, France
Amelie Gyrard, Trialog, TriaLab Innovation Lab , France
Marc Hanheide, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Carlos Hernández Corbato, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Uwe Köckemann, Örebro University, Sweden
Volker Krueger, LTH, Lund University, Sweden
Michaela Kümpel, Bremen University, Germany
Lars Kunze, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Daniel Leidner, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Masoumeh Mansouri, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Enrico Motta, Knowledge Media Institute, United Kingdom
Daniele Nardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Alberto Olivares-Alarcos, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, UPC-CSIC, Spain
Andrea Orlandini, ITIA-CNR, Milan, Italy
David Paulius, Brown University, USA
Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece
Simon Razniewski, Bosch Center for AI, Germany
Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mohan Sridharan, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Jan-Philipp Töberg, Bielefeld University, Germany
Sven Wachsmuth, Bielefeld University, Germany

Venue:

The workshop will be collocated with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/

Publication:

Proceedings of the AKR3 Workshop will be published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings together with the proceedings of other ESWC workshops. 

The best paper of AKR^3 will appear in the Companion volume of the conference post-proceedings published by Springer. 

Contact:

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Philipp Cimiano at cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de

Sponsors: 

The workshop is sponsored by the  Joint Research Center on Cooperative and Cognition-enabled AI (CoAI JRC) (Co-AI), https://coai-jrc.de <https://coai-jrc.de/>
Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
AG Semantic Computing
Coordinator of the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center (CITEC)
Co-Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Institute (JAII)
Universität Bielefeld

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