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.

The Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS) hosts the conference in cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) since 1988 so FLAIRS is one of the oldest AI conferences. The 36-th conference is organized at Sheraton Sandy Key Resort, Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA in May 14-17, 2023.

This is the anniversary tenth edition of the special track. The previous editions were organized at 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.

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):

• system architectures bridging sensory and action elements with reasoning capabilities
• perception, processing and action: sensors, vision, motion systems
• planning domain/world representation for real-life problems
• automated extraction/acquisition of planning domain/world models
• goal reasoning
• life-long autonomy
• motion, path, and action planning
• planning and execution
• robot control and behavior: localization, navigation, planning, simulation, visualization, virtual reality modeling
• evolutionary and cognitive robotics
• entertainment robotics
• applications of autonomous intelligent robots: robots for exploration, service, hazardous environments, …
• intelligent virtual agents, autonomous characters, and computer games

Interested authors should format their papers according to FLAIRS formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not accepted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review) and should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for short papers presented as a poster). This limit excludes references. Appendices after the references are permitted but might not be reviewed, and appendices will not be permitted in the final version of the paper if it is accepted. For FLAIRS-36, the 2023 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 Autonomous Robots and Agents special track for submissions. The submission is a two-step process. First, the abstract of the paper needs to be registered in EasyChair by February 6, 2023. Then, the full paper in PDF is due by February 13, 2023. Remember, without registering your abstract on time, you will not be allowed to submit the paper later.

FLAIRS requires that there be at least one full author registration per paper and presentation during the conference (on-line presentation will be possible). Accepted papers will be published by FloridaOJ (indexed by Scopus and dblp).

Abstract submission deadline: 6th February 2023
Paper submission deadline: 13th February 2023
Notification of paper decisions: 13th March 2023
AUTHOR registration: 3rd April 2023
Camera-ready version of papers due: 10th April 2023

All dates are assumed as midnight anywhere on Earth.

• Jacob Brue, Joe Shymanski, Selim Karaoglu and Sandip Sen: Relative Performance of Bilateral Mutliattribute Negotiation Strategies in Open Markets
• Sami Abuhaimed, Selim Karaoglu and Sandip Sen: Choosing the Allocator: Effect on Performance and Satisfaction in Human-Agent Teams
• Jack Vice, Natalie Ruiz-Sanchez, Pamela Douglas and Gita Sukthankar: Visual Episodic Memory-based Exploration
• Mahesh Anushka Ranaweera Kalu Arachchige and Qusay Mahmoud: Reinforcement Learning To Bridge The Reality Gap from Virtual to Physical Robot
• Bhaskar Trivedi and Manfred Huber: Learning Sensor Based Risk Map Augmentation for Risk-Aware UAS Operation
• Tuan Dang, Khang Nguyen and Manfred Huber: PerFC: An Efficient 2D and 3D Perception Software-Hardware Framework for Mobile Cobot (short)
• Luca Baccino and Serena Villata: How does a Minority Opinion Spread? An Agent-based Model on the Opposition between a Silent Majority and a Loud (short)
• Isaiah Chism, Daniel Plante and Md Suruz Miah: Area Coverage Optimization using Networked Mobile Robots with State Estimation (short)
• Fitzroy Nembhard, Khaled Slhoub and Marco Carvalho: An Agent-Based Approach Toward Smart Software Testing (poster)