Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Conference Chair for the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2020), which will take place in Nancy in June 2020 (https://icaps20.icaps-conference.org/) [Olivier Buffet].

• Co-chair and co-organizer with Olivier Simonin the JNRR (National bi-annual conference on Robotics) 2019, in Vittel [François Chapillet]

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Conference “Drôles d'objets - Un nouvel art de faire 2020” that will take place in La Rochelle in april 2020 [Amine Boumaza, co-organizer]

• Workshop at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2019) (Human movement science for physical human-robot collaboration) [Pauline Maurice and Serena Ivaldi, co-organizers]

• Local Organization Committee of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2020) [Vincent Thomas]

• Workshop “Women in Robotics V” at the international conference Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2019) [Serena Ivaldi]

• Workshop “Tele-operation of Humanoid Robots” at IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS 2019) [Serena Ivaldi]

Scientific Events: Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Program chair of the 2019 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Toronto, Canada) [Serena Ivaldi]

• Co-chair of the track “Evolutionary Machine Learning” at GECCO 2019 (Prague, Czech Republic) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

Awards Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Awards co-chair of the 12th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2019) [Serena Ivaldi]

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020) [Francis Colas, Vincent Thomas, F. Charpillet]

• 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019) [Olivier Buffet]

• 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019) [Olivier Buffet, Vincent Thomas]

• Journées Francophones sur la Planification, la Décision et l'Apprentissage pour la conduite de systèmes (JFPDA 2019) [Olivier Buffet, Vincent Thomas]

• 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020) [Olivier Buffet, F. Charpillet]

• 33th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019) [Olivier Buffet, F. Charpillet]

• ALIFE 2019 (European Conference on Artificial Life) [Amine Boumaza, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• GECCO 2019 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) [Amine Boumaza, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• EA 2019 (Artificial Evolution) [Amine Boumaza, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020) [Pauline Maurice – Associate editor]

• 12th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2019) [Pauline Maurice]

• 27emes Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents (JFSMA 2019)[François Charpillet]

• 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2019)[François Charpillet]

Reviewer

• Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2019) [Francis Colas, Serena Ivaldi]

• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019) [Francis Colas, Pauline Maurice, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020) [Pauline Maurice, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2019) [Francis Colas, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020) [Francis Colas, Vincent Thomas, François Charpillet]

• 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019) [Olivier Buffet, Vincent Thomas]

• 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019) [Olivier Buffet, Vincent Thomas]

• Journées Francophones sur la Planification, la Décision et l'Apprentissage pour la conduite de systèmes (JFPDA 2019) [Olivier Buffet, Vincent Thomas]

• 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020) [Olivier Buffet]

• 33th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020) [François Charpillet]

• IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics ans its Social Impacts (ARSO 2019) [Pauline Maurice]

• Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2019) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• ACM WomeENcourage 2019 [Serena Ivaldi]

• 27emes Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents (JFSMA 2019)[François Charpillet]

• 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2019)[François Charpillet]

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters [Serena Ivaldi – associate editor]

• ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization [Jean-Baptiste Mouret – associate editor]

• Frontiers in AI and Robotics – review editors [Amine Boumaza, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) [Olivier Buffet]

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) [Olivier Buffet].

• Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines [Amine Boumaza]

• Robotica [Francis Colas]

• Robotics and Automation Letter [Francis Colas, Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• Artificial Life [Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (TELO) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction [Pauline Maurice]

• PloS One [Pauline Maurice]

• Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics [Pauline Maurice]

• The Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces [Pauline Maurice]

• Frontiers in Neurorobotics [Serena Ivaldi]

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine [Serena Ivaldi]

Invited Talks

• Keynote at the 10th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, Patras (Greece) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• Keynote at the 12th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2019) in Reggio Emilia (Italy) [Serena Ivaldi]

• Invited talk at the Conference on “Novel technological innovations for occupational safety and health” organised by the Polish Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute (CIOP-PIB), Warsaw (Poland) [Pauline Maurice]

• Invited talk at the workshop on “Closing the Reality Gap in Sim2real Transfer for Robotic Manipulation” at RSS 2019, Freiburg (Germany) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• Invited talk at the CNRS GDR ISIS (Information, Signal, Image et ViSion), special day on robot learning, Paris (France) [Jean-Baptiste Mouret]

• talk at Workshop on “Task-Informed Grasping” at RSS 2019,Freiburg (Germany) [Serena Ivaldi]

• invited talk at the HUMANOIDS 2019 Workshop “Can we build Baymax?”, Toronto (Canada) [Serena Ivaldi]

• invited talk at HUMANOIDS 2019 Workshop on “Humanoid Teleoperation”, Toronto (Canada) [Serena Ivaldi]

• invited talk at the HUMANOIDS 2019 Workshop on “Challenges and solutions for HRI and collaboration”, Toronto (Canada) [Serena Ivaldi]

• invited talk at the IROS 2019 “Cutting Edge Forum on Cognitive architecture for humanoids: where are we in our quest to achieve human-level AI in robotics?”, Macau (China) [Serena Ivaldi]

• invited talk at the IROS 2019 Workshop on “Progress in Ergonomic Physical Human-Robot Collaboration”, Macau (China) [Serena Ivaldi]

• invited talk at the IROS 2019 Workshop on “Open-Ended Learning for Object Perception and Grasping: Current Successes and Future Challenges”, Macau (China) [Serena Ivaldi]

Research Administration

• Serena Ivaldi is member of the scientific council of the Federation Charles Hermite

• Jean-Baptiste Mouret is a member of the “Bureau du Comité des Projets” of Inria Nancy – Grand-Est

• François Charpillet is member of the scientific commitee of the Robotic GDR (All the teams in France contributing to research in Robotics are members of the Groupe de Recherche (GDR) en Robotique, an open national Research Group established by the CNRS).

• François Charpillet is co-leading with Pr Rossignol the SCIARAT plateform of the CPER IT2MP