9th International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards ICRES 2024
Yokohama, Japan, 29-31 July 2024

Call for papers

Dear Colleague

ICRES2024　is　the　9th　issue　of　the　International　Conference　Series on　Robot　Ethics　and　Standards.　The　conference　will　be　organized　in　collaboration　with　the　Keio　University,　Japan,　during 29-31, July 2024. The ICRES conference series provides a multidisciplinary forum for discussing the fundamental and pressing safety, ethical, legal, and societal issues in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and the scope is not limited to physical robots. All papers will be peer-reviewed before acceptance, and all accepted papers (subject to registration) will be published in the PDF conference proceedings with ISBM. Please see further details in the instruction to authors page (https://clawar.org/icres2024/).

Scopes: Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Autonomy and liability
Ethical principles in robotics
Enhancement technologies: ethical issues
Defining ethical guidelines for the design, use, and operation of robots
Privacy & management of personal data
Ethical frameworks: universal or region-specific?
The role of industry and society in the definition of safety standards
AI technology to block unethical/mendacious social-media communication
Accountability in autonomous systems
Embedding values and norms into intelligent systems
Ethics and standardization
Raising ethical awareness among stakeholders
Transparency in autonomous systems
Political and legal frameworks
Formal and mathematical frameworks for robot ethics
Implementations and engineering studies
User and HCI/HRI studies at the intersection of the above issues

Workshops/Special Sessions:

Potential organizers are invited to submit their workshop/special session proposals to the conference secretariat by the key deadline date. The proposals will include the title, aim and scope of the session with a list of potential contributions. All papers submitted for inclusion in the session will go through the conference peer review process.

Deadlines:
Proposals for Workshops / Special Sessions 1 March 2024
Submission of Full Draft Papers 1 April 2024
Notification of Paper Acceptance 15 May 2024
Submission of Final Papers 10 June 2024
Author and Early-bird Registration 10 June 2024
Preliminary program 1 July 2024

Waiting for your submission.
Hope to see you in Yokohama!

With best wishes,
Sincerely,

ICRES 2024 General Co-chairs,
Prof. Satoshi Kurihara from Keio University, Vice President of JSAI
Prof. Etsuko Kobayashi, The University of Tokyo
Prof. Mohammad Osman Tokhi, London South Bank University, UK
Prof. Maria Isabel A. Ferreira, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Email: icres2024@clawar.org
Web-site: https://clawar.org/icres2024

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