Abstract Interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications has seen unprecedented
growth in the last few years. This success can be partly attributed to the advancements made …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications have sparked extraordinary interest in recent
years. This achievement can be ascribed in part to advances in AI subfields including …

In many future joint-action scenarios, humans and robots will have to interact physically in
order to successfully cooperate. Ideally, seamless human-robot interaction should not …

This paper presents a concept of a smart working environment designed to allow true joint-
actions of humans and industrial robots. The proposed system perceives its environment …

When we have to physically interact with a robot, the benchmark for natural and efficient
performance is our experience of daily interactions with other humans. This goal is still far …

Many human social exchanges and coordinated activities critically involve dialogue
interactions. Hence, we need to develop natural humanlike dialogue processing …

In the area of Information Retrieval, the task of automatic text summarization usually
assumes a static underlying collection of documents, disregarding the temporal dimension …

Generating referring expressions is a task that has received a great deal of attention in the
natural-language generation community, with an increasing amount of recent effort targeted …

Human–robot collaboration in industrial context requires a smooth, natural and efficient
coordination between robot and human operators. The approach we propose to achieve this …

This video features RAMCIP, a new service robot developed to provide proactive and
discreet assistance to elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairments (MCI), supporting their daily …