AKR^3: International Workshop on Actionable Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Robots Crete Heraklion, Greece, May 28-29, 2024 |
Conference website | https://kr3-workshop.net/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=r3 |
Submission deadline | March 21, 2024 |
The Actionable Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Robots (AKR3) workshop, collocated 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 web sites 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 this existing common sense 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.
Submission Guidelines
All papers most represent original work not submitted or published already at another workshop or conference, in the folllowing formats:
- Full papers of up to 12 pages excluding references (formatted accoording 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
List of Topics
- Knowledge Representation for cognitive robotics: The importance of linkingobject to action and environment information
- Approaches to leverage common sense knowledge from the Web
- Linking common sense knowledge to perception and execution
- Translation of task requests to body movements and parametrisation of suchbody movements with Web knowledge
- Novel formalisms and approaches to represent and encode knowledge forrobots
- Novel cognitive architectures and paradigms supporting reasoning with Webknowledge
- Use of large language models and prompting to infer action-relevant knowl-edge
- Natural language processing applied to common sense knowledge extractionfrom unstructured source
Committees
Program Committee
- Mark Adamik, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Gianluca Bardaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Michael Beetz, Bremen University, Germany
- Agnese Chiatti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Philipp Cimiano, Bielefeld University, Germany
- 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
- Volker Krueger, LTH, Lund University, Sweden
- Michaela Kümpel, Bremen University, Germany
- Masoumeh Mansouri, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Enrico Motta, Knowledge Media Institute, United Kingdom
- Alberto Olivares-Alarcos, Institut de Roòotica 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
- Ilaria Tiddi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Jan-Philipp Töberg, Bielefeld University, Germany
- Sven Wachsmuth, Bielefeld University, Germany
Organizing 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
Publication
Proceedings of the AKR3 Workshop will be published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Venue
The conference will be held in Heraklion, Crete, collocated with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Philipp Cimiano at cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
Organisation
The workshop is organized by the SAIL Network (https://www.sail.nrw/) in collaboration with the Joint Research Center on Cooperative and Cognition-enabled AI (CoAI JRC) (Co-AI), https://coai-jrc.de