Call for Special Sessions ROBOT’2019

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                 Call for Special Sessions
       ROBOT’2019 – Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference
              http://web.fe.up.pt/~robot2019/
                   November 20-22, 2019
                     Porto – Portugal
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Conference Scope
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ROBOT’2019 – Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference will take place at Porto, Portugal, 20 – 22 November 2019, http://web.fe.up.pt/~robot2019/ and follows the three previous editions of the Iberian Robotics Conference held in Madrid in 2013, Lisbon 2015 and Seville 2017. Robot’2019 is Organized by: SPR – Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica, SEIDROB – Sociedad Española para la Investigación y Desarrollo en Robótica.
ROBOT’2019 main goal is to continue the precedent efforts in showing the robotic research and development of new applications in the Iberian Peninsula. Although focused on the works developed at Iberia the conference is open for good quality submissions from any country in the world.
As in previous editions we plan to publish the conference proceedings with Springer – Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series, indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and SCOPUS. Extended versions of the conference best papers will also be published in Special Issues from several top Journals.
We are hereby announcing the conference and distributing the call for special sessions. Please pass on the information and we hope to see you in Porto.
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Important Dates
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Special Session Proposals: April 15, 2019
Special Session Acceptance: April 22, 2019
Paper Submission: June 21, 2019
Notification: July 22, 2019
Early Registration: September 6, 2019
Camera Ready: September 6, 2019
Conference: November 20-22, 2019
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Proposal Submission
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Special Session proposal must be submitted electronically, at easychair following the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robot2019. The proposal should contain the following information:
  • Title  – Proposed Name of the session
  • Asbtract/Description  – Brief description (one/two paragraphs) of the special session
  • Topics  – List of the main topics covered by the special session
  • Organizers  – Organizers of the session (Name, Affiliation, Country and Email)
  • Program Committee  – Tentative Program Committee for the session (Name, Affiliation and Country)
  • Papers  – If already available include the already contacted authors and titles for tentative papers for the session
All special sessions will be managed as conference tracks chaired by the session organizers, using the easychair conference management system of Robot 2019 at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robot2019
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Robot’2019 Conference Chairs
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Manuel F. Silva – ISEP, Porto Polythecnic, Portugal
José Luís Lima – Polythecnic of Bragança, Portugal
Luís Paulo Reis – University of Porto, Portugal
Alberto Sanfeliu – University Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain
Danilo Tardioli – Centro Universitario de la Defensa / I3A University of Zaragoza, Spain