CfP: Active Media Technology 2010

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            Active Media Technology 2010

                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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2010 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2010)

August 28-30, 2010, Toronto, Canada

Homepage: http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10/
Mirror page: http://www.yorku.ca/amtbi10 

Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) 
                IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
Co-sponsored by York University, Toronto, Canada
                Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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In the great digital era, we are witnessing many rapid
scientific and technological developments in human-centred,
seamless computing environments, interfaces, devices, and
systems with applications ranging from business and communication
to entertainment and learning. These developments are collectively
best characterized as Active Media Technology (AMT), a new area
of intelligent information technology and computer science that
emphasizes the proactive, seamless roles of interfaces and systems
as well as new media in all aspects of digital life. An AMT based
system offers services to enable the rapid design, implementation
and support of customized solutions.

The first International Conference on Active Media Technology
(AMT01) was held in Hong Kong in 2001, the second International
Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT04) was held in Chongqing,
China in May 29-31 of 2004, the third International Conference on
Active Media Technology (AMT05) was held in Kagawa, Japan in May
2005, the fourth International Conference on Active Media
Technology (AMT06) was held in Brisbane, Australia in June 7-9,
2006, and the fifth International Conference on Active Media
Technology (AMT09) was jointly held with the 2009
International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2009).
Following the success of AMT01, AMT04, AMT05, AMT06 and AMT09,
the Sixth International Conference on Active Media Technology
(AMT10) will be held in Toronto, Canada from August 28-30, 2010.

Active Media Technology 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010
International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2010).  The two
conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend sessions, exhibits and demonstrations across the
two conferences.

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Topics of Interest
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CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

* Active Computer Systems and Intelligent Interfaces
* Adaptive Web Systems and Information Foraging Agents
* Agent-Based Software Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems
* AMT for Semantic Web and Web2.0
* Cognitive Foundations for AMT
* Conversational Informatics
* Data Mining, Ontology Mining and Web Reasoning
* Digital City and Digital Interactivity
* E-Commerce and Web Services
* E-learning
* Entertainment and Social Applications of Active Media
* Evaluation of Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Human-Web Interaction
* Human Factors in AMT
* Information Retrieval
* Machine Learning and Human-Centred Robotics
* Multi-Modal Processing, Detection, Recognition, and
  Expression Analysis
* Network, Mobile and Wireless Security
* Personalized, Pervasive, and Ubiquitous Systems and their
  Interfaces
* Semantic Computing for Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Sensing Web
* Smart Digital Media
* Trust on Web Information Systems
* Web Based Social Networks
* Web Mining, Wisdom Web and Web Intelligence

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all AMT related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive
review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of
technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a
volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI).
Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be
considered for publication in special issues of international journals,
including Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer, 
http://www.editorialmanager.com/jiis/).

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript
submission guidelines (available at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for their initial
submissions (a maximum of 12 pages in Springer LNCS/LNAI style file). 
All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format
only, using the conference management tool. 

We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result
paper sessions. Detailed instructions and a paper submission form
can be found the AMT'10 Web page at http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10/

A selected number of the best papers from AMT'10 will be expanded
and revised for possible inclusion in "Knowledge and Information Systems:
An International Journal" (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) by Springer
and "Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal"
(http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) by IOS Press.

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Awards
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AMT 2010 best paper awards and student paper awards will be
conferred on the authors at the conference.

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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers 
(12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file):  
*** 31 March 2010 *** 

Notification of paper acceptance: June 1, 2010
Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 24, 2010
Conference:  August 28-30, 2010

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Conference Organization
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Conference General Chairs:
 * Sheela Petty, University of Regina, Canada
 * Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan

Program Chairs:
 * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
 * Aijun An, York University, Toronto, Canada

Organizing Chair:
 * Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada

Publicity Chairs:
 * Daniel Tao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
 * Jian Yang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China

IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

WIC Advisory Board:
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada


*** Contact Information ***

Email: Pawan Lingras  pawan@cs.smu.ca
       Aijun An  aan@cse.yorku.ca

CfP: Sixth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications

============== ICWMC 2010 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICWMC 2010: The Sixth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications 
September 20-25, 2010 - Valencia, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICWMC10.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CfPICWMC10.html

Submission deadline: April 20, 2010

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Co-sponsored by: IEEE Spain, University 'Politehnica' Bucharest, La Machinista Valenciana, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, IGIC 

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Publisher: CPS ( see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps )
Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore
Submitted for indexing: Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI's Engineering Information Index
Other indexes are being considered: INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index

Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. 

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICWMC 2010 Tracks (tracks' topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Wireless Communications Basics
Coding & modulation & equalization; Channel modeling and characterization; Equalization/Synchronization; Transform-domain communication; Multiple access algorithms and schemes; Antenna and RF subsystems; Smart antennas, adaptive antennas, MIMO and beam forming; MIMO and OFDM Based PHY Layer technologies; CDMA Systems

Radio Interfaces and Systems
Radio communications systems; Radio resource management; Radio transmission technologies; Power and interference control; Interference Cancellation for Wireless Mobile Systems; Power management for small terminals; Energy map; Channel Measurement and Characterization

Spectrum Allocation and Management
Spectrum efficiency analyses; Dynamic spectrum access networks; Spectrum management; Interference mitigation and management techniques 

Circuits for Wireless Communications
Wireless ASICs; Wireless technologies; RF Design issues

Wireless and Mobility
Mobility management; Location-based services and positioning; Micro and macro-mobility; Mobility, location and handoff management; Mobile and wireless IP; Wireless broadband mobile access; Routing in multihop, ad hoc and sensor networks; Wireless multicasting; Wireless mesh networks; Topology control in wireless

Protocols for wireless and mobility
Wireless protocols, architectural and design concepts; Protocols for air interfaces and networks; Wireless MAC protocols: Design and analysis; Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks; Middleware for handhelds and mobile services nodes; Proxies and middleware for wireless networks 

Traffic and congestion control, QoS, Resource Management
Traffic Modeling and Analysis; 3G/4G Bandwidth on Demand; QoS and mobility; End-to-end QoS; QoS profiling and pricing; Traffic Engineering; Congestion and admission control 

Wireless and mobile technologies
Wireless LANs; Home and Personal Area Networks: Bluetooth, ZigBeee, etc; Wireless MANs:802.16, 802.20; Wireless WANs: 2G/3G/4G; Mobile ad hoc networks and multi-hop wireless; Sensor networks and applications; Ultra-wideband and short-range networks; High altitude platforms and satellites; Emergency wireless communications; Wireless real-time communications 

Performance Evaluation, Simulation and Modeling of wireless networks and systems
Performance and QoS in wireless networks; Radio channel modeling (wave propagation and measurements); Mobile/wireless networks modeling and simulation; Performance of end-to-end protocols over wireless networks 

Management of wireless and mobile networks 
Mobility and QoS management; Billing technologies and tools; Policy Based Management in wireless LANS and MANs; Wireless and Mobile Network Planning; Mobile Database Access and Design

Security in wireless and mobile environment
Security and robustness in wireless networks; Privacy, Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA); Encryption and Cryptography; Key Management Protocols; Digital Rights Management and Multimedia Protection

Networks convergence and integration
2G/3G/4G integration; Convergence of 3G wireless and Internet cross-layer design in wireless networks; WLAN/3G/4G integration; Wireless-wireline convergence; Heterogeneous Networks (WAN, Wireless MAN, WLAN); IP Multimedia subsystems (IMS); Next Generation Network Architecture- mobility issues; Coexistence of mobile radio networks; End to End QoS in Heterogeneous environment; Signaling for integrated wireline/wireless networks 

Applications and services based on wireless infrastructures
Mobile & Wireless applications & services; Service discovery: protocols and frameworks; Personalized services and applications; Audio-visual and mobile multimedia applications; Media and content distribution over wireless networks 

Standardization and regulations
Position on standards & fora on wireless and mobile networks; Wireless Networks Standards and Protocols; Communications regulations; 802.11 WLAN Standards; 802.16 WMAN Standards; 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards; HSDPA Technology and Standards; Next Generation Network standards 

Design and implementation 
Emerging wireless technologies; Cross-layer optimizations in wireless networks; Design and implementation of mobile information systems; Software defined radio and re-configurability; Joint PHY/MAC design 

Wireless and mobile network deployment
Business models on wireless networks; Market trends and regional developments; M-commerce; Lessons learnt for wireless deployment in schools Lessons learnt for wireless deployment in special regions; Specialized wireless networks; Heterogeneous wireless network deployment (e.g., combining 802.11, 802.16 and 3G networks)

Cooperative and Cognitive Vehicular Networks
Architectures and platforms of cognitive vehicular network; Distributed artificial intelligence techniques for cognitive networks; Cognitive vehicular routing metrics and supporting protocols; Reduced complexity cognitive networks; Physical and MAC layer issues; Protocols design for cognitive vehicular networks; Cross-layer optimization in cognitive networks; Security issues for vehicular and cognitive networks; Testbed experiment, applications and new advances; Cooperative vehicular networks; QoS provisioning in heterogeneous networks ; Managing vertical handover; Multihoming; IPv6 GeoNetworking; Vehicular network architectures and protocols ; Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks and cognitive networks; Mobility management and topology control; Standardization and Development of vehicular networks

Convergence and social mobility
Convergence of mobile networks with the Web 2.0; Convergence on architecture and services; Open service capabilities; Open exposure of telco capabilities; Open Web APIs, SOA and SDP); Interworking strategies; Mobile terminals as sources for User-generated content; Architecture and services for user-generated content; Auto-description and metadata synthesis for telecom-generated for user-generated content; Social mobile networks; User behavior profiling; Social connections (social graphs, contacts, etc); Services and architectures/solutions for social mobile services

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ICWMC GENERAL CHAIR
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain 

ICWMC Advisory Chairs
Silviu Ciochina, University 'Politehnica' Bucharest, Romania 
Petre Dini, Concordia University, Canada / IARIA, USA
Jonathan Loo, Brunel University West London, UK 
Tudor Palade, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania 
Francisco Ramos, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain 
Manuel Sierra Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / IEEE Spain, Spain 

ICWMC 2010 Research Institute Liaison Chairs
Nicolae Crisan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania 
Adrian Matei, Politehnica University of Bucharest / Orange Romania S.A., Romania 
Jyrki Penttinen, Nokia Siemens Networks - Madrid, Spain / Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 
Tomi Räty, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland 
Javier Del Ser Lorente, Tecnalia, Spain 

ICWMC 2010 Industry/Research Chairs
José García, La Maquinista Valenciana, Spain 
Jingli Li, TopWorx - Emerson, USA 
Christopher Nguyen, Intel Corp., USA 
Horia Stefanescu, Orange, Romania 

ICWMC 2010 Special Area Chairs
Cooperative and Cognitive Vehicular Networks Area Chairs:
Yacine Khaled, Geenov, France
Jong-Hyouk Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea // INRIA, France

Committee members: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ComICWMC10.html
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CfP SIMPAR 2010 Conference

Call for Papers

           2nd International Conference on
         SIMULATION, MODELING and PROGRAMMING
          for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (SIMPAR 2010)

       Darmstadt (Germany), November 15-18, 2010

               http://www.simpar.org
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The objective of the International Conference on Simulation,
Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR) is
to offer a unique forum for the next generation of methodologies
and tools for robot development and to bring together researchers
from academia and industry to identify and solve the key issues
necessary to ease the development of increasingly complex robot software,
and to boost a smooth shifting of results from simulated to real applications.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

     * 3D robot simulation
     * Reliability, scalability and validation of robot simulation
     * Simulated sensors and actuators
     * Offline simulation of robot design
     * Online simulation with realtime constraints
     * Simulation with software/hardware in the loop
     * Middleware for robotics
     * Modeling framework for robots and environments
     * Testing and validation of robot software
     * Standardization for robotic services
     * Communication infrastructures in distributed robotics
     * Interaction between sensor networks and robots
     * Human robot interaction and collaboration
     * Multirobot systems

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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission of papers:    June 1, 2010
Proposals for tutorials/workshops:    June 1, 2010
Notification of acceptance:          July 19, 2010
Submission of camera-ready papers: August 20, 2010

Conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series.
Workshop proceedings will be published online with ISBN number.
A special issue of the Journal of Software Engineering
for Robotics related to the conference will be planned.

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       General Chair
O. von Stryk (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

       International Program Co-Chairs
S. Balakirsky (NIST, USA)
N. Ando (AIST, Japan)
M. Reggiani (University of Padua, Italy)

      International Steering Committee
M. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)
L. Parker (University of Tennessee, USA)
T. Arai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
X.P. Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)
H. Bruyninckx (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
E. Pagello (University of Padua, Italy)

       Award Chair
Itsuki Noda (AIST, Japan)
       Local Chair
T. Hemker (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
       Tutorial Chair
D. Brugali (University of Bergamo, Italy)
       Workshop Chair
E. Menegatti (University of Padua, Italy)
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More details can be found at http://www.simpar.org
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4th Semantic Robot Vision Challenge 2010

Call for Participation for the FOURTH SEMANTIC ROBOT VISION CHALLENGE  
- an event of the 2010 AAAI Robotics Exhibition and Workshop at the  
AAAI 2010 Conference in Atlanta

http://www.semantic-robot-vision-challenge.org

The Semantic Robot Vision Challenge (SRVC) is a scavenger hunt for  
mobile robots.  The robots are given a list of objects to find and  
they must learn what those objects look like by searching the internet  
(autonomously) for images of those objects, then take snapshots of the  
objects, draw bounding boxes around the objects and label them.

The actual contest is broken into two sections.  First, the robots are  
hooked up to the internet for the image search phase. Afterwards, the  
robot league entries are allowed to explore the environment for the  
objects that they are supposed to find to take snapshots and label  
them. Software-only teams are given a dataset of images to search  
through and label that is collected by the competition organizers.

This year, cash prizes of $2,000 and $1,000 will be offered to the  
winning teams of the robot league and the software-only teams. Also,  
as before, travel scholarships will be provided to participants. In  
exchange, participants will have to share their code as open source  
code. Since these rules were applied in the past three competitions,  
there is enough high quality code available at the SRVC web site to  
allow a new team to perform at a level comparable to winning teams of  
previous years.

We encourage anyone in these research fields to participate and help  
us to advance the state of the art in robotic vision and scene  
understanding. At the end of the competition, we will hold a workshop  
so that the specific technical aspects of each entry can be presented  
and discussed. The competition will be held at the Twenty-Fourth AAAI  
Conference on Artificial Intelligence that will be held at the Westin  
Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 11-15, 2010, in the  
context of the Nineteenth Edition of the Robotics Exhibition and  
Workshop at AAAI.


TENTATIVE TIMETABLE

Qualification Material Submission Deadline:  May 30, 2010
Acceptance Notification:                     June 7, 2010
AAAI Conference                              July 11-15, 2010
Competition Date:                            July 14, 2010


See http://www.semantic-robot-vision-challenge.org for more details on  
participation and qualification. If interested, subscribe to our email  
list! Please send an email to Paul Rybski and Daniel DeMenthon if you  
would like to participate.

Organizing committee:

Paul E. Rybski (prybski at cs.cmu.edu), Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Daniel DeMenthon (Daniel.DeMenthon at jhuapl.edu), Johns Hopkins University,
USA
Cornelia Fermuller (fer at umiacs.umd.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Pooyan Fazli (pooyanf at cs.ubc.ca), University of British Columbia, Canada
Ajay Mishra (mishraka at umiacs.umd.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Luis Seabra Lopes (lsl at ua.pt), Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Florian Roehrbein (roehrbei at informatik.uni-bremen.de), Universitaet
Bremen, Germany
David Gustafson (dag at ksu.edu), Kansas State University, USA

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Dr. Florian Roehrbein
Universitaet Bremen
FB 3 Informatik und Mathematik
Kognitive Neuroinformatik
e-mail: roehrbei at informatik.uni-bremen.de

RoboCup 2010 3D Soccer Simulation League

Call for Participation

           RoboCup 2010 3D Soccer Simulation League

                June 19 - June 25, 2010 (Singapore)
                    http://www.robocup2010.org/

Hereby I would like to give you information about the registration and
qualification process for the RoboCup 2010 3D Soccer Simulation League.


Schedule
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Team pre-registration deadline: 31 Jan 2010 (23:59 UTC)
Team qualification deadline: 15 Feb 2010 (23:59 UTC)
Qualified teams will be announced: 1 Mar 2010

Early registration: 1 Mar - 31 Mar 2010
Regular registration: 1 Apr - 30 Apr 2010
Late registration: After 1 May


Pre-Registration
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All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register, before the deadline at
31 Jan 2010. To pre-register, send an E-Mail to sgvandijk at gmail.com with the
subject 'Pre-registration TEAM_NAME'. The E-Mail should contain the
following information:

 1. Team-Name:
 2. Team-Leader:
 3. E-Mail:
 4. Country:
 5. Affiliation:
 6. Number of team members:


Qualification
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Qualification is based on a team's current performance,
previous achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions to the
RoboCup community in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list
and development of the simulator.

In RoboCup 2010, up to 28 teams will participate in the 3D competitions. The
top three teams from RoboCup 2009 (SEU RedSun, Bold Hearts and
LsuAmoyNQ) are automatically qualified after pre-registering their teams and
submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP). The other 25 teams
will be selected through a qualification process.

The qualification deadline is 15 Feb 2010. The OC does not accept
qualification materials from teams who have not been pre-registered by the
pre-registration deadline. Qualification material consists of:

1. Team Description Paper (TDP)
The TDP should describe your research focus and ideas implemented in the
team. The length of the TDP has to be at least four (4) pages and should not
exceed twelve (12) pages in Springer LNCS Style:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Please submit
the TDP only as a PDF document with the name of your team
like teamname_TDP.pdf.

2. A list of contributions to previous RoboCup Symposia and your team's
achievements in RoboCup events of previous years. Please do not include TDPs
that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. You may include a TDP, if
you presented a talk about your team at the Symposium. If you are new to the
RoboCup 3D community, you may also include references to relevant research
done by your team that shows its potential. Please submit the contribution
list as a PDF document with the name of your team, like teamname_list.pdf.

3. Binary
This year, to be better able to judge the performance of a team, all teams
should submit a working binary instead of a logfile. The OC will use these
binaries to play 3 vs 3 matches, under the rules and with the simulator used
during the 2009 competitions held in Graz. These rules can be found at:

http://www.robocup2009.org/125-0-rules

<http://www.robocup2009.org/125-0-rules>Submitted binaries should adhere to
the following:

- Two scripts should be included: a start up script, called start.sh, to run
a full team of agents and a kill script, called kill.sh, to fully kill all
agents of the team. The requirements and examples of these scripts can be
found at the rules page given above.
- All necessary external libraries should be included and be used locally by
the binary. The OC will not take an effort to install extra libraries on the
qualification systems.
- The binaries should not create any output, be it through standard output
or to files.
- No graphical (debugging) interface should be used.
- The binary should be compiled for 32 bit systems and should work on a
modern Linux distribution (e.g. Ubuntu 9.10).

To summarize: the binary should run out of the box on a standard, clean,
headless system in a restricted sand box environment with the simulation
server (possibly) running on a different machine. The OC will not try to fix
errors. When a binary fails to run, the respective team will be notified and
will have to resubmit their material, before the deadline of 15 Feb 2010.

Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team
name, create a tarball (preferably .tar.bz2) and upload it to the the ftp
server below. Also E-Mail me for confirmation with the subject:
Qualification, 3D: TEAM_NAME. If everything went well you will receive a
confirmation. If you did not receive any confirmation within two (2) days,
please contact the Organizing Committee.

ftp server: ftp.martenvdsanden.net
user: anonymous at martenvdsanden.net
Upload to the 'incoming' directory.

If you encounter any problem when uploading to the server please don't
hesitate to contact the OC, we will arrange for another solution.

Teams will be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in
this E-Mail. Also, the following general qualification limitations will be
considered:

- One-Third-Rule: The so called One-Third-Rule rule states that only up to
1/3 of the participants of a competition may be from the same country.
- One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule: The One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule states that
only one team from each university or research institute is allowed to
participate in a competition. Note that it is okay for different teams from
the same institute to participate in different competitions, e.g. 2D soccer
and 3D development.

Good luck!

Sander van Dijk
Chair Organizing Committee
Soccer Simulation League
RoboCup 2010 Singapore

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GAME AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES (GET2010)

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (new date): 29 March 2010 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GAME AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES (GET2010)
Freiburg, Germany, 26 – 28 July 2010
(http://www.gaming-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems(MCCSIS 2010)
Freiburg, Germany 26 – 31 July 2010
(http://www.mccsis.org)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Matt Costello, Scriptwriter & Games Designer, USA

* Conference background and goals
This conference aims to bring together research and practice from creative, social and business practitioners and researchers in this challenging field. The focus of this conference is on design, development and evaluation of games, entertainment technologies and the nature of play.

* Format of the Conference 
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).

* Best Papers
Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

* Types of submissions 
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to Game and Entertainment Technologies are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following topics: 
 
- Development methodologies
- Design issues 
- Controversial issues – we welcome debate and dissension, for example; games as art, entertainment as purely for monetary returns etc
- Special Effects
- Animation
- Mobile and ubiquitous games and entertainment 
- Serious Games and entertainment –applications, critiques
- Philosophical issues
- Prototypes
- Social and cultural uses of/for Play
- Tools and technologies
- Skills, strategy, rules and chance
- Genre
- Immersiveness and engagement
- Research methodologies in creative practice

- Usability and playability
- User/player centered design
- Psychological, social, and cultural differences in perception and participation
- Communities, networks, social interaction and social capital
- Cross-cultural and intercultural approaches
- Assessment of exploratory learning approaches
- Emerging practices


* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (new date): 29 March 2010
- Notification to Authors (new date): 30 April 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (new date): Until 24 May 2010
- Late Registration (new date): After 24 May 2010
- Conference: Freiburg, Germany, 26 – 28 July 2010

* Conference Location 
The conference will be held in Freiburg, Germany. 

* Secretariat 
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE GAME AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES 2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal 
E-mail: secretariat@gaming-conf.org
Web site: http://www.gaming-conf.org/

* Program Committee 
Game and Entertainment Technologies 2010 Conference Program Chair:
Katherine Blashki, University of Sydney, Australia

General MCCSIS 2010 Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands 
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Dirk Ifenthaler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.gaming-conf.org/committees.asp

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW)

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (new date): 29 March 2010 --


IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010 
Freiburg, Germany, 27 – 29 July 2010
(http://www.web3dw-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2010)
Freiburg, Germany 26 – 31 July 2010 
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Conference background and goals
This conference addresses important topics of today like education, health, corporate image and make customers feel at home at your internet site. 
Virtual reality already proved its superiority in involving the user. Indeed, medical, defense, architecture and even the car industry managed to increase learning effects and sensation.
 
* Format of the Conference 
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).
 
* Best Papers
Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.
 
* Types of submissions 
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. 
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
 
* Themes related to educational or edutainment web3DW, are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: 
 
- Web3D in education, health and energy
- Innovative 3D graphics applications for Web/Multimedia in industry, science, medicine, and education
- Geometric Modeling
- Methods for modeling and rendering complex geometry, structure and behaviors
- Virtual Reality
- Graphical User Interface
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer (Educational) Games
- User-interface paradigms and interaction methods for real-time 3D graphics and virtual environments
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computational Geometry
- Natural Phenomena Modeling 
- GPU and Graphics Systems
- Data Representation 
- Data Transformation
- Data Modeling
- Scientific Visualization
- Information Visualization
- Visualization Algorithms
- Software Visualization 
- Terrain Visualization
- Flow Visualization 
- Interactive 3D graphics and immersive systems
- High-performance 3D graphics
- Animated humanoids (avatars)
 
* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (new date): 29 March 2010
- Notification to Authors (new date): 30 April 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (new date): Until 24 May 2010
- Late Registration (new date): After 24 May 2010
- Conference: Freiburg, Germany, 27 – 29 July 2010
 
* Conference Location 
The conference will be held in Freiburg, Germany. 
 
* Secretariat 
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal 
E-mail: secretariat@web3DW-conf.org
Web site: http://www.web3dw-conf.org/
 
* Program Committee 
WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2010 Program Chair
Tomaz Amon, Amnim, Center for Scientific Visualization, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
General MCCSIS 2010 Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands 
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Dirk Ifenthaler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
 
Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.web3D-conf.org/committees.asp

FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ASYNCHRONOUS CELLULAR AUTOMATA (ACA 2010)

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Call for Papers

ACA 2010

FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ASYNCHRONOUS CELLULAR AUTOMATA
at 9th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2010)


Ascoli Piceno (Italy), September 21-24, 2010
http://www.acri2010.disco.unimib.it/workshops.html
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ORGANIZER

University of Milano - Bicocca

AIMS

Cellular Automata are a well-known formal model for complex systems that is used in many scientific fields and applications. Synchronicity is one of the main features of Cellular Automata evolutions. Indeed, all cells of common Cellular Automata are updated simultaneously at each discrete time step.

Recent trends consider the modelling of asynchronous systems based on local interactions. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers dealing with the theme of the asyncronicity inside Cellular Automata in order to foster their interaction and to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and works in progress on the subject.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to
the following aspects of Asynchronous Cellular Automata

- dynamics
- complexity issues
- computational issues
- emergent properties
- models of parallelism and distributed systems
- models of phenomena from biology, chemistry, physics, engineering and other fields


SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Authors are invited to submit papers according to two contribution categories -- full and short papers -- meant to provide a differentiation of the papers in terms of their length, depth and/or
maturity. Papers must comply with the Springer-Verlag format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs) and the maximum length of 5 and 10 pages for short and full contributions, respectively. Details on the electronic submission procedure will be provided through the website of the ACRI conference (http://www.acri2010.disco.unimib.it/).

Accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. This volume will be available by the time of the workshop.

It is also planned that selected papers will be considered for publication in a Special issue of Natural Computing. They will contain refereed extended versions of selected papers presented at ACA workshop.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alberto Dennunzio (Universita' di Milano - Bicocca, Italy) co-chair
Enrico Formenti (Universite' de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France) co-chair
Henryk Fuks (Brock University, CA)
Eric Goles (Universidad  Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
Giancarlo Mauri (Universita' di Milano - Bicocca, Italy)
Ferdinand Peper (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Nicolas Schabanel (CNRS, Universite' Paris Diderot, France)
Marco Tomassini (Universite' de Lausanne, Switzerland) co-chair

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: March 19, 2010
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 16, 2010
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: May 7, 2010
Conference: September 21-24, 2010

REGISTRATION:

Details about how to register will be provided through the website
of the ACRI conference.

WORLDCOMP'10

CALL  FOR  PAPERS
  Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): March 21, 2010

                       WORLDCOMP'10

       The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science,
       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
            July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, USA

        http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All
accepted papers will be published in the respective conference
proceedings. The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer
Science Bibliography, and others.)

WORLDCOMP 2010 CONFERENCES: (all will be held simultaneously;
ie, same location and dates.)

O  Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'10)
O  Computer Design (CDES'10)
O  Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR'10)
O  Scientific Computing (CSC'10)
O  Data Mining (DMIN'10)
O  e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Info. Systems, and
   e-Government (EEE'10)
O  Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
   (ERSA'10)
O  Embedded Systems & Applications (ESA'10)
O  Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'10)
O  Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer
   Engineering (FECS'10)
O  Grid Computing & Applications (GCA'10)
O  Genetic & Evolutionary Methods (GEM'10)
O  Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'10)
O  Internet Computing (ICOMP'10)
O  Wireless Networks (ICWN'10)
O  Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'10)
O  Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition
   (IPCV'10)
O  Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'10)
O  Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
   Applications (PDPTA'10)
O  Security & Management (SAM'10)
O  Software Engineering Research & Practice (SERP'10)
O  Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'10)

Each of the conferences listed above has its own proceedings;
its own program committee members, and infrastructure. A
link to each of these conferences can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org


ACADEMIC & TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS (a partial list):

The Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), University of
California, Berkeley, USA; Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and
Simulations (CACS), University of Southern California, USA; Intelligent
Data Exploration & Analysis Lab., University of Texas at Austin, Texas,
USA; Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics Lab.,
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA; BioMedical Informatics &
Bio-Imaging Lab., Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University,
Georgia, USA; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Center for the Bioinformatics
and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Medical
Image HPC & Informatics Lab. (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, USA;
University of North Dakota, USA; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing &
Communications Lab., North Dakota State University, USA; Knowledge
Management & Intelligent System Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen,
Germany; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research,
Austria; SECLAB of University of Naples Federico II, University of
Naples Parthenope, & Second University of Naples, Italy; National
Institute for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and
Technologies; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano);
Supercomputer Software Department (SSD), Institute of Computational
Mathematics & Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences;
Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics; The UK Department for
Business, Innovation and Skills, UK; VMW Solution Ltd.; Scientific
Technologies Corporation; HoIP - Health without Boundaries; Space for
Earth Foundation; and Manjrasoft (Cloud Computing Technology company),
Melbourne, Australia.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

WORLDCOMP 2010 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers
have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/computer
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as
Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster
(known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof.
Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry
Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known
as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza
(known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D.
Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K.
Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz
(NSF Program Director & Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute
of MIT & Harvard U.), Anousheh Ansari (CEO, Prodea Systems & first
female private space explorer), and many other distinguished speakers.
To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2009
delegates photos available at: http://www.pixagogo.com/1672514104
Featured keynote speakers for 2010 are (this is a partial list;
there are 22 other keynotes/invited talks):
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic) and Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA).


WORLDCOMP 2010 MEMBERS OF STEERING COMMITTEE:
(Each conference has its own committee members - what appears
below is a partial list of members of the steering committee
of the federated event.)

Dr. Selim Aissi
Chief Strategist - Security, Manageability and Virtualization,
Ultra Mobile Group, Intel Corporation, USA

Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (Contact Person)
Coordinator & General Co-Chair, WORLDCOMP 2010,
ISIBM Fellow & Professor, Department of Computer Science,
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
Co-Editor/Board, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier),
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing,
The University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
email: hra@cs.uga.edu

Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Prof. Hyunseung Choo
ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication, Korea,
Director, ITRC: Intel. HCI Convergence Research Center, Korea,
Director, Korea Information Processing Society,
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,
Assoc. Editor, Transactions on Computational Science, Springer;
Director, Korean Society for Internet Info. (KSII);
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Prof. Andy Marsh
Director HoIP (Healthcare over Internet Protocol),
Secretary-General WABT (World Academy of Biomedical Sci. & Tech.),
Vice-president ICET (Int'l Council for Engineering & Technology),
Vice-president ICMCC (Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics),
Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK

Prof. Layne T. Watson
IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow,
Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow,
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing,
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, PUBLICATION, INDEXING INFORMATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers
by uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/
Submissions must be uploaded by March 21, 2010 and they
must be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats
(about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12).
At this time, all reasonable typesetting formats are
acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be
asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare
their final papers for publication.)

The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include:
title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and
email address for each author. The first page should also
identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the content of
the paper.

All accepted papers will be published in the respective
conference proceedings (in both, printed book/ISBN form as well
as online). The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP / Computer
Science Bibliography, and others. 7247) The printed proceedings
will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers for publication in a number of research books being
proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer,
Elsevier, IOS, ...) - these books would be composed after
the conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops
will be forming journal special issues to be published after
the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 21, 2010:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 10, 2010:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 1, 2010:       Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 12-15, 2010:  The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science,
                   Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                   (WORLDCOMP'10)

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

See:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/location

9TH INTL. CONFERENCE ON CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY (ACRI 2010)

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Call for Papers

9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CELLULAR AUTOMATA
FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY (ACRI 2010)

Ascoli Piceno (Italy), September 21-24, 2010
http://www.acri2010.disco.unimib.it/
acri2010 [ at > disco.unimib.it
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Cellular Automata (CA) present a very powerful approach to the study
of spatio-temporal systems where complex phenomena build up out of
many simple local interactions. The main goal of the 9th edition of ACRI
2010 Conference (Cellular Automata for Research and Industry) is to
offer both scientists and innovation managers in academies and
industries an opportunity to express and discuss their views on current
and future trends, challenges, and state-of-the art solutions to various
problems in the fields of arts, biology, chemistry, communication,
cultural heritage, ecology, economy, engineering, physics, social
science, traffic control, etc.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest about CA and CA-based
models and systems include issues in parallelism, computational
complexity, dynamical and complex systems, innovative and
challenging models for real phenomena. Papers on languages,
software platforms and hardware components based on CA are
welcome. In order to emphasize the application power of CA and the
increasing interest about these advanced computational models in the
production world, papers and also demos will be welcome.


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Chairs
Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - I)
Hiroshi Umeo (University of Osaka Electro-Communication - J)

Steering Committee

Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - I)
Bastien Chopard (University of Geneva - CH)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca - I)
Hiroshi Umeo (University of Osaka Electro-Communication - J)
Thomas Worsch (University of Karlsruhe - G)

Program Committee

Susumu Adachi (Japan)
Andrew Adamatzky (UK)
Franco Bagnoli (Italy)
Stefania Bandini (Italy)
Olga Bandman (Russia)
Belgacem Ben Youssef (Canada)
Dbashish Chowdhury (India)
Bastien Chopard (Switzerland)
Alberto Dennunzio (Italy)
Andreas Deutsch (Germany)
Salvatore Di Gregorio (Italy)
Michel Droz (Switzerland)
Samira El Yacoubi (France)
Nazim Fatès (France)
Alfons Hoekstra (The Netherlands)
Teijiro Isokawa (Japan)
Francisco Jiménez (Spain)
Toshihiko Komatsuzaki (Japan)
Anna T. Lawniczak (Canada)
Jia Lee (Japan)
Pradipta Maji (India)
Danuta Makowiec  (Poland)
Sara Manzoni (Italy)
Nobuyuki Matsui (Japan)
Giancarlo Mauri (Italy)
Michael Meyer-Hermann (Germany)
Angelo Mingarelli (Canada)
Shin Morishita (Japan)
Katsuhiro Nishinari (Japan)
Hidenosuke Nishio (Japan)
Ferdinand Peper (Japan)
Roberto Serra (Italy)
Georgios Sirakoulis (Greece)
Furio Suggi Liverani (Italy)
Domenico Talia (Italy)
Gianluca Tempesti (UK)
Marco Tomassini (Switzerland)
Leen Torenvliet (The Netherlands)
Hiroshi Umeo (Japan)
Giuseppe Vizzari (Italy)
Burton Voorhees (Canada)
Thomas Worsch (Germany)

Organizing Committee

Stefania Bandini
Eliana Magnolo
Lorenza Manenti
Sara Manzoni
Roberto Pedroli
Andrea Valsecchi
Giuseppe Vizzari

Local Organizing Committee

Giorgia Malavolta

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SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting their original and
unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 10 pages and
should be formatted according to the usual LNCS article style
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Details on the electronic
submission procedure will be provided through the website of the
conference (http://www.acri2010.disco.unimib.it/).

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PUBLICATION:

A volume of proceedings, that will be published by Springer-Verlag
in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, will be available
by the time of the conference. Refereed volumes of selected
proceedings containing extended papers will be organized after it
as a special issues of international journals.

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REGISTRATION:

Details about how to register will be provided through the website
of the conference.

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: March 19, 2010
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 16, 2010
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: May 7, 2010
Conference: September 21-24, 2010

VI Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care (A2HC / ECAI 2010)

*VI Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care (A2HC / ECAI 2010) *
http://deim.urv.cat/~itaka/workshops/a2hc2010/

*Important dates *
Workshop paper submission: *April 27th, 2010 *
Notifications on Workshop paper submissions:  *June 7th, 2010 *
Final paper submission:  *June 28th, 2010 *

*Topics *
•
Co‐operation between intelligent agents to improve patient management
(e.g., distributed
patient scheduling).
• Agents that provide remote or elderly care delivery.
• Agents that provide information about medical services.
• Multi‐agent systems for patient monitoring and diagnosis.
• Agent‐based execution of clinical guidelines.
• Successful applications of agents and multi‐agent systems in health care.
•
Multi‐agent systems that improve medical training or education (e.g.
tutoring systems).

• Patient‐centered agent‐based applications.
• Medical agent‐based decision support systems.
•
Information agents that gather, compile and organise medical knowledge
available on
Internet.
•
Solutions to the basic methodological and technological problems
associated to the real
deployment of health‐care agent‐based systems:
   • Security, privacy of medical data.
   • Social acceptance of agent‐based systems.
   • Lack of clinical ontologies.
   • Lack of centralised control.
   • Communication standards (HL7 and EN13606).
   • Integration with other types of software.
   • Legal and ethical issues related to the use of agents in health care.
•
Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the
area of agents in health
care.

*Contact
Antonio Moreno* (ITAKA Research Group )
 e-mail: antonio.moreno_at_urv.cat

16th Intl. Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning

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                           CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS
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                                  LPAR-16
           
                 16th International Conference on Logic for
             Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning

                           April 25 - May 1, 2010
                               Dakar, Senegal
                        http://www.lpar.net/lpar-16/


The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programming, Artificial 
Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR) is a forum where, year after year, some of 
the most renowned researchers in the areas of logic, automated reasoning, 
computational logic, programming languages and their applications come to 
present cutting-edge results, to discuss advances in these fields, and to 
exchange ideas in a scientifically emerging part of the world. The 16th 
edition will be held in Dakar, Senegal.

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  In keeping with the tradition of LPAR, researchers and practioners are 
  encouraged submit short papers reporting on interesting work in progress or 
  providing system descriptions. They need not be original. Extended versions 
  of the short papers may be submitted concurrently with or after LPAR-16 to 
  another conference or a journal.
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Logic is a fundamental organizing principle in nearly all areas in Computer 
Science. It runs a multifaceted gamut from the foundational to the applied. 
At one extreme, it underlies computability and complexity theory and the 
formal semantics of programming languages. At the other, it drives billions 
of gates every day in the digital circuits of processors of all kinds. Logic 
is in itself a powerful programming paradigm but it is also the quintessential 
specification language for anything ranging from real-time critical systems 
to networked infrastructures. Logical techniques link implementation and 
specification through formal methods such as automated theorem proving and 
model checking. Logic is also the stuff of knowledge representation and 
artificial intelligence. Because of its ubiquity, logic has acquired a 
central role in Computer Science education.

Topics
------
New results in the fields of computational logic and applications are welcome. 
Also welcome are more exploratory presentations, which may examine open 
questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories and practices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
   * Automated reasoning
   * Verification
   * Interactive theorem proving and proof assistants
   * Model checking
   * Implementations of logic
   * Satisfiability modulo theories
   * Rewriting and unification
   * Logic programming
   * Satisfiability checking
   * Constraint programming
   * Decision procedures
   * Logic and the Web
   * Ontologies and large knowledge bases
   * Logic and databases
   * Modal and temporal logics
   * Program analysis
   * Foundations of security
   * Description logics
   * Non-monotonic reasoning
   * Specification using logics
   * Logic in artificial intelligence
   * Logic and types
   * Logical foundations of programming
   * Logical aspects of concurrency
   * Logic and computational complexity
   * Knowledge representation and reasoning
   * Logic of distributed systems

Programme Chairs
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   * Ed Clarke
   * Andrei Voronkov

Programme Committee
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   * Rajeev Alur
   * Matthias Baaz
   * Peter Baumgartner
   * Armin Biere
   * Nikolaj Bjorner
   * Iliano Cervesato
   * Agata Ciabattoni
   * Hubert Comon-Lundh
   * Nachum Dershowitz
   * Juergen Giesl
   * Guillem Godoy
   * Georg Gottlob
   * Jean Goubault-Larrecq
   * Reiner Haehnle
   * Claude Kirchner
   * Michael Kohlhase
   * Konstantin Korovin
   * Laura Kovacs
   * Orna Kupferman
   * Leonid Libkin
   * Aart Middeldorp
   * Luke Ong
   * Frank Pfenning
   * Andreas Podelski
   * Andrey Rybalchenko
   * Helmut Seidl
   * Geoff Sutcliffe
   * Ashish Tiwari
   * Toby Walsh
   * Christoph Weidenbach

Submission Details
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Short papers are limited in length to 5 pages in the EasyChair format. The 
class style may be downloaded from http://www.easychair.org/easychair.zip. 
Short papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system using the web 
page ...
     http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpar16short

The short paper proceedings will be available as an EasyChair collection 
volume.

Participation
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Authors of accepted papers are required to ensure that at least one of them 
will be present at the conference. Papers that do not adhere to this policy 
will be removed from the proceedings.

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline:  17 March 2010
Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2010
Final version:               1 April 2010
LPAR-16:                    25 April - 1 May 2010

Call for papers: ARCS-10, Orlando, USA, July 2010

It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research is in automation, robotics, control engineering, and related areas.

Call for papers: ARCS-10, Orlando, USA, July 2010

The 2010 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA.  ARCS-10 is an important event in the areas of Automation, Robotics, Control Systems and related areas. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10).

MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10.

•           International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10)

•           International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10)

•           International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10)

•           International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10)

•           International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10)

•           International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10)

•           International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10)

•           International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10)

•           International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10)

•           International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10)

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We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details.

Sincerely

John Edward

CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010

      !!!   CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010   !!!

The twelfth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer
School (EASSS 2010) will be in conjunction with MALLOW 2010
and take place at

  Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne
                  Saint-Etienne, France
                   23-27 August, 2010
                http://easss2010.emse.fr

Researchers and lecturers in the field of autonomous agents
and multi-agent systems are invited to submit a proposal
for a state-of-the-art course in the twelfth edition of the
European Agent Systems Summer School. Like its very successful
predecessors, EASSS 2010 aims to offer a valuable forum for
knowledge exchange between various research groups in this field
for the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and
advanced level. The success of this summer school is essential not
only for the mutual benefit of research groups, but also in
forming future generations of researchers to maintain the
excellence of Agents research and development in Europe.

Tutors are encouraged to submit a 1-page course proposal including:
the topic and its importance for the field, intended audience and
their required background knowledge, outline of the topics to be
presented, how the course material will be prepared, the tutors
and their experience, level of the course (beginners/advanced),
duration (typically 4 or 6 hours), and any special equipment
requirements. Proposals will be evaluated based on the importance and
quality of the topic description, the quality of the presentation
material, and the teaching ability of the proposed speakers.

Deadline for proposals:         April 18, 2010
Notification:                   May 24,   2010
material for reader (< 26 pp)   July 4,   2010

A typical course has 4 hours in total, but variations are
possible. Courses should be broad enough to provide a general
introduction to the chosen topic, but it should also cover
the most important contributions in depth. Courses are expected
to take a wider perspective than one specific approach practised
by an individual or group. For an impression, the courses given in
2001 are collected in a volume of Springer's LNAI series (No 2086),
and programmes of previous editions of EASSS can be found via the
webpage of EASSS09 (http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html).

The summer schools attract about 100 students each year. We intend
to give a modest contribution towards tutors' expenses by providing
free accommodation, but EASSS would not normally cover tutors'
travel costs. Please note that this year EASSS is in conjunction
(but not co-located) with MALLOW 2010 for the third time and takes
place one week before that event. MALLOW 2010 will be in Lyon
(very close to Saint-Etienne).

Submissions of tutorial proposals should be sent to Mehdi Dastani
(mehdi@cs.uu.nl).

The EASSS-2010 Committee members are:

Local Chairs:
Olivier Boissier                Saint-Etienne, France
Gauthier Picard                 Saint-Etienne, France
Laurent Vercouter               Saint-Etienne, France

Program Committee:
Mehdi Dastani (chair)           Utrecht, Netherlands
Rafael Bordini                  Durham, UK
Catholijn Jonker                Delft, Netherlands
Barbara Keplicz                 Warszawa, Poland
Nicolas Maudet                  Paris, France
Andrea Omicini                  Bologna, Italy
Michal Pechoucek                Prague, Czech Republic

For information about local organisation please contact
Laurent Vercouter (easss2010@emse.fr).

POSSIBLE TOPICS:

* action selection and planning in multi-/agent systems
* adaptation, evolution and learning in multi-/agent systems
* agent-based simulation and modeling
* agent communication, agent dialogues and agent argumentation
* agents, ontologies, web services and semantic web
* agent-oriented software engineering and development methodologies
* agent programming languages and development tools   
* agent standardizations in industry and commerce
* applications and deployment for agents and multi-agent systems
* architectures for multi-agent systems
* artificial market systems, auctions, trading agents and electronic
  commerce, electronic institutions
* autonomous robots and robot teams
* believability, human-like qualities of synthetic agents, humanoid
  and sociable robots
* game theory and coalition formation for agents based systems
* computational complexity in agent systems
* conventions, commitments, norms, social laws and legal issues in
  multi-agent systems
* coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-agent systems
* emergence, self-organisation and collective behavior in agent-based
  systems
* foundational issues and theories of agency     
* information agents, routers, brokering and matchmaking
* logics for specification, verification and validation of
  multi-agent systems
* mobile agents
* negotiation, task and resource allocation, and conflict handling
  in multi-agent systems
* privacy, safety and security in multi-agent systems
* scalability, robustness and dependability of multi-agent systems
* social and cognitive models for agents   
* social and organizational structures of multi-agent systems
* trust and reputation in multi-agent systems
* Multi-agent systems and/for Web Intelligence
* Multi-agent systems and/for Ambient Computing