Agents and Robots for Reliable Engineered Autonomy:A Perspective from the Organisers of AREA 2020

Abstract

Multi-agent systems, robotics and software engineering are large and active research areas with many applications in academia and industry. The First Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA), organised the first time in 2020, aims at encouraging cross-disciplinary collaborations and exchange of ideas among researchers working in these research areas. This paper presents a perspective of the organisers that aims at highlighting the latest research trends, future directions, challenges, and open problems. It also includes feedback from the discussions held during the AREA workshop. The goal of this perspective is to provide a high-level view of current research trends for researchers that aim at working in the intersection of these research areas.

Special Issue: Agents and Robots for Reliable Engineered Autonomy

“…Paper [1] Paper [2] Paper [3] Paper [4] Paper [5] We hope that the different research communities that are represented in our Special Issue will improve their collaboration efforts in the future so that the best proposals from these different areas can be combined to create new and exciting solutions and tools to be exploited both in academia and in industry.…”

“…This Special Issue brings together researchers from the autonomous agents, software engineering and robotics communities, as combining knowledge from these three research areas may lead to innovative approaches that solve complex problems related with the verification and validation of autonomous robotic systems. We (the Special Issue editors) have written a perspective paper (peer-reviewed by members of the editorial board of the journal) that is included in our Special Issue [1]; in the perspective, we give an overview of recent research trends for researchers that aim at working in the intersection of these research areas.…”