Robotics and Artificial Intelligence are closely related areas though their research interests and topics diverted in past. Recently, the progress in both areas brings robotics and artificial intelligence together again and higher-level deliberative functions such as action planning are being integrated into usually reactive robotics systems to increase their autonomy as well as to simplify their control. The special track addresses research results on the border between robotics (and general intelligent agents) and AI techniques with the aim to bridge the enlarging gap between the areas.

The goal of the track is bringing researchers for now diverted areas of robotics, intelligent agents, and artificial intelligence back together to work on novel integrated approaches for development of autonomous systems, both physical and virtual.

This track is intended to AI community that applies own results in real environments using physical (robots) and virtual agents as well as to researchers in related areas namely robotics, computer games, and intelligent agents to present own challenges and solutions and to grasp novel AI techniques applicable in real-life problems.

Papers and contributions are encouraged for any work relating to increasing autonomy and reasoning capabilities of agents either physical (robots) or virtual (such as game characters). We in particular encourage submissions that are integrating approaches and methods from different areas and contribute to bridging more research areas such as robotics, computer games, and intelligent agents. Topics of interest may include (but are in no way limited to):

Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 17, 2014. For FLAIRS-28, the 2015 conference, the reviewing is a double blind process. Please do not disclose your name and affiliation in the paper. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can also be accessed through the main conference web site. Note: do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers. Authors should indicate the Intelligent Autonomous Systems special track for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. FLAIRS requires that there be at least one full author registration per paper.

Paper submission deadline: 17th November 2014
Notification of paper decisions: 19th January 2015
Final version of papers due: 23th February 2015

• Activity Monitoring and Prediction for Humans and NAO Humanoid Robots using Wearable Sensors
  Saminda Abeyruwan, Faisal Sikder, Ubbo Visser and Dilip Sarkar
• Safety in Multi-Agent Systems: Reputation based on Dossier
  André Pinz Borges, Vanderson Botêlho, Osmar Dordal, Braulio Avila and Edson E. Scalabrin
  
• An Ontology-based Domain Representation for Plan-based Controllers in a Reconfigurable Manufacturing System
  Stefano Borgo, Amedeo Cesta, Andrea Orlandini and Alessandro Umbrico.
• Spanning Tree Partitioning Approach for Configuration Generation in Modular Robots
  Ayan Dutta, Prithviraj Dasgupta, Jose Baca and Carl Nelson
  
• Recognizing Scenes by Simulating Implied Social Interaction Networks (short paper)
  Maryanne Fields and Craig Lennon
  
• Coordinating Robot Teams for Disaster Relief
  Mark Roberts, Tom Apker, David Aha and Benjamin Johnson
  
• Camera-Based Localization and Stabilization of a Flying Drone
  Jan Škoda and Roman Barták