Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems - Call for Papers: Topical Issue on Sustainability Science and the Role of Robots
Guest Editors:
Yannis A. Phillis
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou
Closing Date: August 31, 2023
Description:
Sustainability is a rather politically charged term that lacks a precise definition despite its extensive use by scientists, managers, politicians, and journalists, to name but a few. Roughly speaking sustainability of a process or entity could be viewed as its ability to go on for a very long time without depleting or damaging the resources supporting this process or entity. Such a view avoids the thorny issues of time scales and the meaning of depletion and damage of resources. One point on which most researchers in the field agree is that sustainability has two main components, environmental and social.
Sustainability could be studied in the context of a multitude of actual systems. For example, there is extensive literature examining the sustainability of the environment, nations, societies, cities, energy, transportation, corporations, etc.
This special issue in robotics and sustainability focuses on two aspects of sustainability. First, theoretical issues such as mathematical definitions, models, and assessment and, second, applications of robotics in sustainability. Papers will be sought addressing those two main points. Examples of topics are given below.
The first category includes issues of sustainability and climate change, natural resources depletion, plastic pollution, biodiversity crisis, environmental pollution, overfishing, food production and distribution, overheating, acidification and pollution of oceans, and chemical farming.
The second category includes topics such as robots and waste management, sustainable manufacturing with the aid of robots, the role of robots in farming, using robots to tackle climate change, fighting wildfires, ecosystem monitoring and invasive species management, robotics and power generation.
Submission guidelines:
Papers must be prepared in accordance with Springer policy. Instructions and Guide for Authors are available online at: https://www.springer.com/journal/10846/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab)
All contributions should be submitted online at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/jint/default.aspx (this opens in a new tab) Select article type "Sustainability Science and the Role of Robots".
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editors-in-Chief.
Guest Editor Biographies:
Yannis A. Phillis received his diploma in electrical and mechanical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1973 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in control systems in 1980. He has held academic positions at UCLA, Boston University, Escuela Superior Politecnica de Chimborazo in Ecuador, and the Technical University of Crete, Greece, where he is a professor emeritus and was rector for more than 12 years. In 2008 he was an Onassis Foundation Senior Visiting Fellow in the US.
He is a recipient of numerous awards from Boston University, the Academy of Athens, and the Municipalities of Chania and Assini, Greece, for his service to society, science, and letters; recipient of a “Lifetime Achievement Award,” at the World Automation Congress, Kobe, Japan, 2010; Alumni Achievement Award in Academia from UCLA, 2013. He is an award winning poet and novelist in Greece and the US. He is a member of the Greek PEN Club, and Poets and Writers, USA; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc); member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA). Website: www.phillis.tuc.gr
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou received a diploma in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1985 and a Ph.D. in production engineering and management from the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, in 1989.
Since 1991, he has been with the Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, where he is a professor and director of the Computer-Aided Manufacturing Laboratory, and has served as chairman. His research interests are in modeling and optimization of production networks and environmental systems.