<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div><div>Hello ROS-Users,</div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We received a good number of chapter proposals so far and due to some requests, I extended the call for abstracts to March 05, 2016 to give a chance for receiving more chapters. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We received exciting titles, and mostly related to unmanned aerial vehicles, and we welcome more chapter proposals for the book. Please note, although we aim at a special focus on unmanned aerial vehicles, any other topic related to ROS is also welcome. In particular, it is sought to have tutorials/case studies/research papers related to ROS 2.0, image processing with open-cv and PCL in ROS, ROS performance evaluation, robot/arm control, software engineering with ROS, simulation, to name a few. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Guidelines for editing the full chapter in addition to a Springer template can be found on the call for chapters web page. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The call for chapters/abstracts is appended blow. Please help with disseminating it.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Anis</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">++++++++++</div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This is to announce the <a href="http://events.coins-lab.org/springer_ros_book_v2.html">call for chapters</a> for the <b>Springer Book on Robot Operating System (ROS) Volume 2</b> is now open. </div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Website: </font><a href="http://events.coins-lab.org/springer_ros_book_v2.html">http://events.coins-lab.org/springer_ros_book_v2.html</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">The book will be published by Springer. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">We look forward to receiving your contributions to make this book successful and useful for ROS community. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">In <a href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319260525">Volume 1</a>, we accepted 27 chapters ranging from beginners level to advanced level, including tutorials, case studies and research papers. The </font><a href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319260525" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Volume 1</a><font face="Arial,sans-serif"> is expected to be released by Feb 2016.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">After negotiation with Springer, the authors have benefited of around 80% of discount on hardcopies as an incentive to their contribution, in addition to publishing their work. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">The call for chapters website (see above) presents in detail the scope of the book, the different categories of chapters, topics of interest, and submission procedure. There are also <a href="http://events.coins-lab.org/springer/SpringerBookChapterGuidelines.htm">Book Chapter Editing Guidelines</a> that authors need to comply with. </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">In this volume, we intend to make a <b>special focus on unmanned aerial vehicles using ROS</b>. Papers that present the design of a new drone and its integration with ROS, simulation environments of unmanned aerial vehicle with ROS and SITL, ground station to drone communication protocols (e.g. MAVLink, MAVROS, etc), control of unmanned aerial vehicles, best practices to work with drones, etc. are particularly sought.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif">In a nutshell, abstracts must be submitted by <font color="#ff0000"><b>March 05, 2016</b> </font>to register the chapters and to identify in advance any possible similarities of chapter contents. Full chapters submission is due on <b><font color="#ff0000">May 01, 2016</font></b>.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Submissions and the review process will be handle through EasyChair. </font></div></div></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><i style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 19.6px; text-align: justify; widows: 1;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rosbook2016" style="color: purple;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rosbook2016</a></span></i></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Each chapter will be reviewed by <b>at least three expert reviewers</b>, one at least should be a ROS user and/or developer. </font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b><i>Want to be a reviewer for some chapters?</i></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif">We look for the collaboration of ROS community users to provide reviews and feedback about proposals and chapters to be submitted for the book. If you are interested to participate in the review process, please consider filling in <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11jTIXw8FnKyTIWr_GxKtZ4p3QSaRi-3LiBFfzdx0Ulo/viewform">the following reviewer interest form</a>. </font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif">We look forward to receiving your contribution for a successful ROS reference!</font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Anis</font></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier;">--------------------------------------------</span></div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><font face="Courier">Anis Koubaa, PhD., </font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Courier;">Senior Fellow of the HEA (SFHEA)</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><div><font face="Courier">ACM Chapter Chair (Saudi Arabia) </font></div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Courier;">Associate Professor</span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><font face="Courier">Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><font face="Courier">&</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><font face="Courier">Research Associate</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><font face="Courier">CISTER/INESC-TEC, ISEP, Portugal</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><a href="http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~akoubaa">http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~akoubaa</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><font face="Courier"><a href="http://wiki.coins-lab.org">http://wiki.coins-lab.org</a></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px;">--------------------------------------------</span></div></div><div><br></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div><br></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></span></body></html>