<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hi,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I would like to recommend ROS users considering submission of their ROS-related work to the Robotics Software Design and Engineering topic of the <b>International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems</b> (<b>IJARS</b>) handled by SAGE Publishing, UK. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/international-journal-of-advanced-robotic-systems/journal202567">https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/international-journal-of-advanced-robotic-systems/journal202567</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I am the Editor-in-Chief of the Robotics Software Design and Engineering and the journal welcomes works related to Software Engineering issues with ROS. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif">The journal looks for papers that provide solutions for the future cloud robotics and Web robotics paradigms, in addition to the integration of robots into the Internet and the cloud computing systems through software abstractions and interfaces. The journal also welcomes contributions related to Robot Operation System (ROS) related software and development.</font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Submitted papers must contain design, implementation, validation and evaluation of <b>their software solutions</b> for mobile robots.</font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Areas of interest include but are not limited to:</font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>Software Engineering for Mobile Robots</b></font></div><ul><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Robot software meta-model</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Robot software architecture</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Object-oriented software engineering</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Agent-oriented software engineering for cooperative robots</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Software testing of robot’s software</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Performance evaluation of robotic software</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Robotic software safety and quality assessment</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Model-driven software development for robots</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Software abstractions for robotics applications</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Simulation models for mobile robots</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Multi-robot systems software design</font></li></ul><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>Cloud Robotics</b></font></div><ul><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Robots for the Internet-of-Things (Robot-as-a-Service)</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Web services for robots</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Internet of robots</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Internet of drones</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Distributed processing of robotic sensors data</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Big data tools for robotics applications</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Robots’ virtualization</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Collaborative cloud-based robots</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Remote brains for robots</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Knowledge databases and semantics for mobile robots</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Robots' interoperability and communication protocols and their implementation</font></li></ul><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif"><b>Software Engineering with Robot Operating System (ROS)</b></font></div><ul><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Comprehensive tutorials and surveys on ROS</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Case studies with ROS</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Using ROS in higher education</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Contributed ROS packages</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Software interfaces and abstractions for ROS</font></li><li><font face="Arial,sans-serif">Integration of ROS with the Internet</font></li></ul></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For any question, do not hesitate to contact me.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Anis</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><div><font face="Courier"> </font><span style="font-family: Courier;">--------------------------------------------</span></div><div><div><font face="Courier">Anis Koubaa, PhD., </font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><div><font face="Courier">Senior Fellow of the HEA (SFHEA)</font></div><div><font face="Courier">ACM Chapter Chair (Saudi Arabia) </font></div></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">Associate Professor</font></div><div><font face="Courier">Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font face="Courier">Research Associate</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font face="Courier">CISTER/INESC-TEC, ISEP, Portugal</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font face="Courier">Senior R&D Manager, Gaitech, China</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font face="Courier">http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~akoubaa</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font face="Courier">http://wiki.coins-lab.org</font></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier; 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