We invite researchers, practitioners, and visionaries to contribute to our workshop on the Technical and Ethical Aspects of Autonomous Systems. We welcome submissions that explore a diverse array of themes, including but not limited to:

1. Ethical and Societal Considerations

• Privacy concerns in surveillance and civilian monitoring

• Bias and fairness in algorithmic decision-making

• Accountability and transparency of autonomous systems

• Social and psychological impacts on individuals and communities

• Legal and regulatory frameworks for autonomous technologies

2. Case Studies and Applications

• Autonomous irrigation and precision agriculture

• Drone technology for surveillance, delivery, and exploration

• Smart city applications and urban planning

• Humanitarian uses of autonomous systems

• Challenges and opportunities in integrating autonomy into existing systems

3. Human-Autonomy Interaction

• Designing user interfaces and experiences for effective human-autonomy collaboration

• Investigating methods for seamless integration of human intervention into autonomous systems

• Understanding cognitive and behavioral dynamics of human interaction with autonomous technologies

• Exploring shared decision-making frameworks and distributed control paradigms

Chao Qian
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Peter Zdankin
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

• TBA

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

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Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

– Regular papers should be up to 12-20 pages in length.
– Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection. You can learn more about Community Review here.

Paper submission

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section below).

How do I submit a paper in Confy?

1. Go to Confy+ website
2. Login or sign up as new user
3. Select your desired Track
4. Click the ‘Submit Paper’ link within the track and follow the instructions

Alternatively, go to home page of Confy+ and click on “Open conferences”.

Submission guidelines

– Papers should be in English.
– Double-Blind Review. Papers have to be submitted anonymously.
– Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal.
   Such papers will be rejected without review.
– The paper submissions must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (see Author’s kit section below).
– Authors are required to adhere to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.

• LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
• Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

• a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
• an archive file (e.g. zip, tar.gz) containing the both a PDF copy of your paper and LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.