CALL FOR PAPERS
Fifth International Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA)

Co-located with ECAI 2025
Workshop: 25th OR 26th October 2025 (exact day TBC)
Bologna, Italy

Workshop website: https://areaworkshop.github.io/AREA2025/
Contact: area.workshop.info@gmail.com

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: 14th July 2025 (AoE, UTC-12)
Paper Notification: 11th August 2025 (AoE, UTC-12)
Camera Ready: 18th August 2025 (AoE, UTC-12)

SCOPE

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the autonomous agents, robotics, and software engineering communities. Combining knowledge from these research areas may lead to innovative approaches to tackle complex real-world problems related to autonomous robotic systems. We encourage submissions that combine agents, robots, software engineering, and verification. We also welcome papers focused on one of these areas, as long as their applicability to the other areas is explicit.

TOPICS

The main topics include but are not limited to:
- Agent-based modular architectures applicable to robots
- Agent-oriented software engineering to model high-level control in robotic development
- Agent programming languages and tools for developing robotic or intelligent autonomous systems
- Coordination, interaction, and negotiation protocols for agents and robots
- Distributed problem-solving and automated planning in autonomous systems
- Engineering reliable interactions between humans and autonomous robots or agents
- Fault tolerance and long-term autonomy
- Neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence
- Real-world applications of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems in robotics
- Runtime verification of autonomous agents and robotic systems
- Task and resource allocation in multi-robot systems
- Verification and validation of autonomous systems

SUBMISSIONS

Types of submissions:
- full-length research paper
- short paper

Full-length research papers must not exceed sixteen (16) pages single column excluding references and appendices and short papers must not exceed eight (8) pages single column excluding references and appendices. All submissions must be in English and PDF format. Each submission will receive at least three single-blind reviews. All papers should be original and not be submitted elsewhere. The review process is single-blind: submissions should not be blind, reviewers will be.

A paper will be selected for the Best Paper Award based on reviewers' scores and recommendations.

The AREA workshop is going to be an in-person event (following ECAI 2025 guidelines). At least one author of each accepted paper has to register for the workshop (via the ECAI 2025 website).

The proceedings of the workshop will be published in Springer (series TBC). Formatting guidelines should follow LNCS style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eurai.org/ECAI/2025/Workshop/AREA
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WORKSHOP FORMAT

The workshop is a one-day event, with a duration of approximately eight hours (four in the morning and four in the afternoon). The event will comprise of the presentation of accepted papers and two invited talks, to be announced at a later date.

Kind regards, the organisers:
Angelo Ferrando, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Rafael C. Cardoso, University of Aberdeen (UK)