Ambient Intelligence Environments (AmI Environments 2011)

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Special Track on Ambient Intelligence Environments (AmI Environments 2011) 

15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2011 

10th-13th October, 2011 :: Lisbon, Portugal http://epia2011.appia.pt

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Submission deadline: 10th May, 2011 
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Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a paradigm emerging from Artificial
Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting
people with their day-to-day activities, making everyone's life more
comfortable.
These environments should be aware of the needs of people, customizing
requirements and forecasting behaviours. 

AmI environments may be highly diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting
rooms, schools, hospitals, control centers, transport facilities, tourist
attractions, stores, sport installations, music devices, etc.

In the track on AmI Environments we will create a multi-disciplinary
discussion forum that will bring together researchers from the different
fields addressed discussing issues in Artificial Intelligence topics
included in the Ambient Intelligence environments. Researchers are welcome
to present both theoretical and practical works as well as the lessons
learned with their application in the varied range of domains. Emphasis will
be placed on the presentation of concrete systems, discussion of
implementation and development challenges and sharing of conclusions
achieved and relevant results. 


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CONTRIBUTIONS 
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In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original
and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Ambient
Intelligence. 
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
- Applications
- Ambient Assisted Living
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Artificial Intelligence for AmI
- Intelligent Environments
- Pervasive Computing
- Context Aware Computing
- Agent & Multiagent Systems for AmI
- Mobile Computing
- Sentient Computing
- e-Health
- Context Modelling
- AmI for e-Learning
- On-line Dispute Resolution
- Memory Assistant


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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS and PAPERS FORMAT
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Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted
according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in
PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in
any other format. 

Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being
rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each
accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the
Springer LNCS Web site
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

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SUBMITTING PAPERS 
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In order to submit a paper, authors must register at the EPIA 2011
conference management system (available soon), using the entry of the
AmI_Environments.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline:           10th May, 2011
Notification of acceptance:    10st June, 2011
Camera-ready papers:           1st July, 2011
EPIA 2011 Conference:          10th - 13th October, 2011 

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PUBLICATION
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As usual in the EPIA conference series, a set of the best full accepted
papers will be published in a volume of the LNAI series published by
Springer, edited by EPIA 2011 Conference Chairs. 

All other accepted papers presented at the conference appear in a published
book.  

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon@di.uminho.pt) 

Ana Almeida, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
(ana@dei.isep.ipp.pt) 

Sara Rodriguez, University of Salamanca, Spain (srg@usal.es)

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CONTACTS AmI_Environments@EPIA2011
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http://epia2011.appia.pt
http://isrt.di.uminho.pt/ae2011/

email: amie2011@appia.pt

International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011)

The 2nd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011)

19-21 September 2011

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada



Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/

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IMPORTANT DATES

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- Full Paper Submission:      March 15, 2011

- Acceptance Notification:    May   15, 2011

- Camera-Ready Submission:    June  15, 2011



The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011) is a leading international conference which provides an international forum for researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to address research challenges and to present and discuss research ideas, developments and experiences related to the ambient systems infrastructure, models, and technologies.

   The general aim of ambient systems is to provide an environment wherein computing devices exist anywhere and everywhere. In such systems mobile and embedded computing devices form ad hoc collaboration using different communication networks (e.g., wireless networks, RFID, etc) in order to share and exchange information and provide services. Ambient systems pose new research challenges due to the open and unreliable nature of the environment and the complexity and heterogeneity of the computing devices and the underlying communication networks. These characteristics challenge traditional techniques and demand new ways of approaching the problems related to the ambient systems.



TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers to the following research tracks. Details on topics of each track are available at the conference website.



- Autonomic Networks and Communications

- Systems Software Engineering

- Systems Security and Privacy

- Distributed Artificial Intelligence

- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing

- Multimodal Interfaces

- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications

- Smart Environments and Applications

- Social Networks

- General track: Distributed systems, networks and applications



PUBLICATION

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Papers accepted for the conference will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:



(1) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, by Springer

      http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779

(2) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer

      http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652

(3) Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, by Springer

      http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278



PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

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Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to Elsevier guidelines (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/).



COMMITTEES

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General Chairs

  Nick Cercone, York University, Canada

  Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia



Program Chairs

  Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada

  Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

  Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan



Advisory Committee

  Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

  Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada

  Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

  Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

  Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

  Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

  Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia



Workshops Chairs

  Sajid Hussain, Fisk University, USA

  Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey



Program vice Chairs

  Jiang Li, Howard University, USA

  Ye Tian, Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China

  Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany

  Agustinus Waluyo, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore

  Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

  Javier GarcÆa-Villalba, Universidad Comp. de Madrid, Spain

  Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

  Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, Germany

  Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal

  Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia

  Thomas Grill, University of Salzburg, Austria

  Soraya Kouadri MostÄfaoui, The Open University, UK

  Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE

  Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

  Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada

  Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada

  Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Econo & Tech University, Turkey



Local Arrangement Chairs

  Nauman Aslam, Dalhousie University, Canada

  Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada



Publicity Chairs

  Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

  Abdel Ilah Alshbatat, Tafila Technical University, Jordan



International Liaison Chairs

  Imad Saleh, University of Paris VIII, France

  Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan



Awards Chairs

  Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada

  Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait



Steering Committee Chair

  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada



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                    ANT-2011 Affiliated Workshops

    http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/#approvedWorkshops



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The ANT-2011 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of ANT-2011 and its related areas.



PUBLICATION

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All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2011 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2011Website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues.



IMPORTANT DATES (workshops)

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03/31/2011 - Submission Deadline

05/15/2011 - Author Notification

05/30/2011 - Author Registration Due

06/20/2011 - Final Manuscript Due



ANT-2011 - WORKSHOPS

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ETACC: Emerging Trends and Applications of Cloud Computing

   http://www.peterindia.net/peterworkshop.html

WNCS: International Workshop on Wireless Networked Control Systems

   http://myweb.dal.ca/naslam/wncs-11/

WIAS: International Workshop on Information Assurance and Security

   https://sites.google.com/site/wias2011/

HCUMA: International Workshop on Health Care Using Mobile Apps

   https://sites.google.com/site/hcuma2011/

IST-AWSN: The 6th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks

   http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ist-awsn11/

EmSeNs: International Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Sensor Networks

   https://sites.google.com/site/emsens2011/

IUPT: Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things

   http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/iupt-11/

DP: Digital Planet

   http://debii.curtin.edu.au/~naeem/dp/index.html

AASNET: The 5th International Symposium on Applications of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks

   https://sites.google.com/site/aasnet11/

GTDS: Green Technology and Digital Sustainability

   http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/#approvedWorkshops

AAC: Autonomic and Agent Computing: Foundations and Applications

   http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~bentahar/AAC2011/AAC2011.htm

ARTIFACT: AmbienT Intelligence at the services of inFo-mobility and Critical Transportation networks

   http://www.graphitech.it/artifact/

GCRE: International Workshop on Green Computing and Renewable Energy
   https://sites.google.com/site/gcre2011/

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International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011)

ICAART 2011 (International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - http://www.icaart.org) has an open call for papers, whose deadline is set for next July 08. The conference will be held in Rome, Italy next year, on January 28-30, 2011 and we hope you can participate in this prestigious conference by submitting a paper reflecting your current research.

The conference is sponsored by INSTICC and held in cooperation with the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). INSTICC is member of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and the Object Management Group (OMG). 

The purpose of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in these areas. Two simultaneous but strongly related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work within the area of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general, including web applications, on one hand, and within the area of non-distributed AI, including the more traditional areas such as Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception and also not so traditional areas such as Reactive AI Systems, Evolutionary Computing and other aspects of Computational Intelligence and many other areas related to intelligent systems, on the other hand. HTCO

The conference program features a number of Keynote Lectures to be delivered by distinguished world-class researchers, including those listed below.

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. The proceedings will be indexed by several major international indexers, including INSPEC, DBLP and we are awaiting the confirmation of indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index and EI.
Additionally, a short list of the best presented papers of the conference will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
Best paper awards will be given during the conference closing session.
All published papers will be also available at the SciTePress Digital Library.

Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose workshop or a special session, for example based on the results of a specific research project, please contact the secretariat.


Kind regards,
Patricia Alves
ICAART Secretariat
Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.Esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8556
Email: icaart.secretariat@insticc.org



ICAART website: http://www.icaart.org/

IMPORTANT DATES:
  Regular Paper Submission: July 08, 2010
  Authors Notification: October 06, 2010
  Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 26, 2010


In cooperation with: APPIA, AEPIA and AAAI 
Sponsored by: INSTICC
INSTICC is Member of: WfMC, FIPA and OMG

Proceedings indexed by INSPEC and DBLP
Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index and EI (awaiting the confirmation of indexation)
  
Best papers published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series Book
 


TOPIC AREAS:

 AREA 1: Artificial Intelligence 
  - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Ontologies
  - Model-Based Reasoning
  - Uncertainty in AI
  - Ambient Intelligence
  - Reactive AI
  - Hybrid Intelligent Systems
  - Planning and Scheduling
  - Case-Based Reasoning
  - Machine Learning
  - Pattern Recognition
  - Vision and Perception
  - AI and Creativity
  - Logic Programming
  - Expert Systems
  - Soft Computing
  - Fuzzy Systems
  - Neural Networks
  - Evolutionary Computing
  - Intelligent User Interfaces
  - Natural Language Processing
  - Cognitive Systems
  - State Space Search
  - Constraint Satisfaction
  - Data Mining
  - Industrial applications of AI

 AREA 2: Agents
  - Distributed Problem Solving
  - Agent Communication Languages
  - Agent Models and Architectures
  - Multi-Agent Systems
  - Brokering and Matchmaking
  - Cooperation and Coordination
  - Conversational Agents
  - Negotiation and Interaction Protocols
  - Programming Environments and Languages
  - Task Planning and Execution
  - Autonomous Systems
  - Cognitive Robotics
  - Group Decision Making
  - Web Intelligence
  - Web Mining
  - Semantic Web
  - Grid Computing
  - Agent Platforms and Interoperability
  - SOA and Software Agents
  - Simulation
  - Economic Agent Models
  - Social Intelligence
  - Security and Reputation
  - Mobile Agents
  - Pervasive Computing
  - Privacy, Safety and Security


KEYNOTES SPEAKERS:
- Cristiano Castelfranchi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), Italy
- Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- Didier Dubois, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), France
(list not yet complete)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Please check the program committee members at http://www.icaart.org/program_committee.asp


SPECIAL SESSION:
Regular paper submission deadline: September 09, 2010
- Workflow and Event Analysis for Industrial Environments Manipulation through Multi-Agent Systems (WeAIMtMAS)
 http://www.icaart.org/special_sessions.asp

International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010)

C A LL   F O R   P A P E R S

The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010) 
  
                                               8-10 November, 2010
                                                  Paris, France

                       Conference Website:  http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/ant2010    
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IMPORTANT DATES
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• Full Paper Submission:      June 21, 2010    (Extended)
• Acceptance Notification:    August 30, 2010     
• Camera-Ready Submission:    September 15, 2010         

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceeding to be published by ACM in-cooperation with ACM SIGART and the Austrian Computer Society in book series. All accepted papers will be included and indexed in ACM digital library and selected papers will be invited for publication in the special issues of:

(1) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652 
(2) Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications
http://www.springer.com/computer/communications/journal/11761 
(3) Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems
http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15741702 
(4) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779 


Conference Tracks:
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- Ambient-oriented Autonomic Networks and Communications
- Ambient Systems Software Engineering
- Ambient Systems Security and Privacy
- Distributed Ambient Artificial Intelligence
- Emerging Ambient Networking, Tracking & Sensing Technologies
- Multimodal Interfaces for Ambient Systems
- Service Oriented Computing for Ambient Systems
- Smart Environments and Applications in Ambient Systems
- Social Networking in Ambient Environments


ANT2010 Organizing Committee
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Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications

The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications
AIMSA 2010 - AI and Knowledge Societies: Learning, Sharing, Amplifying -

Varna, Bulgaria, 8-10th September, 2010
http://www.aimsaconference.org

**** Submission deadline: April 15th, 2010 ****

**** Proceedings published by Springer/LNCS ****

**** Keynote Speakers ****
John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Center for AI, DFKI, Germany

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SCOPE
The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of Artificial intelligence research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world.

The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of AI research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. AIMSA 2010 is supported by ECCAI, European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.

As its name indicates, the conference is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence in its entirety. However, for AIMSA 2010, we would like to put the emphasis on the application and leverage of Artificial Intelligence technologies in the context of knowledge societies where knowledge creation, accessing, acquiring, and sharing empower individuals and communities. A number of AI techniques play a key role in responding to these challenges. Artificial Intelligence is extensively used in the development of systems for effective management and flexible and personalized access to large knowledge bases, in the semantic web technologies that enable sharing and reuse of and reasoning over semantically annotated resources, in the emerging social semantic web applications that aid humans to collaboratively build semantics, in the construction of intelligent environments for supporting (human and agent) learning, etc. In building such intelligent applications, Artificial Intelligence techniq
ues are typically combined with results from other disciplines such as the social sciences, distributed systems, databases, digital libraries, information retrieval, service oriented applications, etc.  AIMSA 2010 aims to reflect this plethora of avenues with special attention to works that demonstrate the potential of AI for supporting learning, sharing, and amplifying of knowledge.

TOPICS
The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to:

   * AI in education
   * Ambient intelligence
   * Automated reasoning
   * Collaborative knowledge construction
   * Computer vision
   * Data mining and data analysis
   * Data semantics
   * Dialogue management and argumentation
   * Distributed AI
   * Information integration
   * Information retrieval
   * Intelligent decision support
   * Intelligent techniques for personalization and recommendation
   * Intelligent user interfaces
   * Knowledge engineering
   * Knowledge representation and reasoning
   * Large scale knowledge management
   * Logic and constraint programming
   * Machine learning
   * Multi-agent systems
   * Multimedia systems
   * Natural language processing
   * Neural networks
   * Ontologies (creating, learning, mapping, merging, alignment, evolution)    * Planning
   * Robotics
   * Semantic interoperability
   * Semantic peer-to-peer and grid systems
   * Semantic web content creation and annotation
   * Semantic web for desktops or personal information management
   * Semantic web for e-learning, e-business, e-culture, e-government, healthcare    * Semantic web inference schemes
   * Semantic web services (description, invocation, composition)    * Semantic web technologies for collaboration and cooperation    * Social network analysis, including community discovery and structure
   * Social networks and processes on the semantic web
   * Trust, privacy, and security on the web
   * Visualization and modelling and AI

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two members of the program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper.

The best paper of the conference, as selected by the AIMSA 2010 programme committee, will receive the Best Paper Award during the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
   Submission deadline: April 15, 2010     Notification of acceptance: June 05, 2010
   Deadline for camera-ready: June 25, 2010
   Conference: September 8-10, 2010

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PDF format) on the address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimsa2010.

Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 pages, font Times 11pt. Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords.

Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at AIMSA 2010 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work.

Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author.

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence subline of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.

LOCATION
AIMSA will be held at the Golden Sands Tourist Complex, 18 km from the north-east of Varna and 24 km from Varna airport. More information is available in the brochure at the conference web site.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Darina Dicheva Winston-Salem State University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
dichevad@wssu.edu
http://myweb.wssu.edu/dichevad/
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Danail Dochev Institute of Information Technologies
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G. Bonchev 29A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail:  dochev@iinf.bas.bg

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Gennady Agre (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)  Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)   Grigoris Antoniou (ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece)     Annalisa Appice (University of Bari, Italy)  Sören Auer (University of Leipzig, Germany) Franz Baader (Technical University Dresden, Germany)  Roman Barták (Charles University, Czech Republic)  Petr Berka (University of Economics, Prague)   Mária Bieliková (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia) Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy) Paulo Bouquet (University of Trento, Italy) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Valerie Camps (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France)  Yves Demazeau (CNRS, LIG Laboratory, France) Christo Dichev (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
Ying Ding (Indiana University, USA) Danail Dochev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark)  Ben du Boulay (University of Sussex, UK) Stefan Edelkamp (TZI, Bremen University, Germany) Floriana Esposito (University of Bari, Italy) Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)  Dragan Gasevic (Athabasca University, Canada)  Chiara Ghidini (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)  Enrico Giunchiglia (University of Genova, Italy) Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)   Martin Dzbor (Open University, UK)  Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool, UK) Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh, UK) Dominikus Heckmann (Saarland University, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Irena Koprinska (University of Sydney, Australia)  Atanas Kyriakov (Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp., Bulgaria) H. Chad Lane (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies, USA)  Ruben Lara (Telefonica R&D, Spain) Dominique Longin (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France)  Pierre Marquis (University of Artois, France) Erica Melis (German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany) Michela Milano (University of Bologna, Italy) Tanja Mitrovic (University of Canterbury , New Zealand)  Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Radoslav Pavlov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)  Marco Pistore (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)  Enric Plaza (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute – CSIC, Spain) Allan Ramsay (University of Manchester, UK)  Zbigniew Ras  (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) Ioannis Refanidis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Paolo Rosso (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari, Italy)  Luciano Serafini (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)       Pavel Shvaiko (TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy)  Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Umberto Straccia (Institute of Information Science and Technologies - CNR, Italy) York Sure (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool, UK)    Annette ten Teije (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands)  Klaus Tochtermann (Know-Center Graz, Austria) Dan Tufis (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Romania) Petko Valtchev (University of Montréal, Canada) Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Johanna Voelker (University of Mannheim, Germany)

ORGANISERS
Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association
Institute of Information Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IIT – BAS)

2nd International Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES (WIVE'10)

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International Workshop on WEB INTELLIGENCE & VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES (WIVE'10)
http://www.emse.fr/wive/

to be held at the 11th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE'10)
Saint-Etienne, France, October 11-13, 2010

*Important Dates*

Paper submission deadline: March 30th, 2010
Paper notification : May 15th, 2010
Camera ready paper : June 13th, 2010
Workshop : October 12-13th, 2010
Journal Paper submission deadline : November 15th, 2010
Journal Acceptance notification : January 15th, 2011
Special issue publication : 2011

*KEYNOTE SPEAKER*

We are honoured to welcome Anind Dey (Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) to the WIVE'10 workshop for an invited talk.

*JOURNAL PUBLICATION FOR POST-PROCEEDINGS*

A selection of an extended version of workshop papers will be published as post-proceedings in a special issue of the International Journal of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15701263).

*SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP*

Internet is a medium allowing services and information exchange in an open and decentralized environment, notably with numerous applications for virtual enterprises. It concerns enterprise information systems, local, regional and governmental organizations but it also involves more and more common users in the so-called web 2.0. The main stake is to use Internet as a technological support to communication, information exchange, service composition personalisation and access by all and anywhere. In this perspective, some work has been done these last years to combine classical techniques of information management with artificial intelligence technologies thus creating a new research domain called Web Intelligence. Research in Web Intelligence contributes to the development of algorithms, models and tools to handle the social and economic impact of the web usages.

The workshop will provide presentation and discussion opportunities for researchers working on web intelligence applied to collaborative networks, such as virtual enterprises and organizations. The possibilities and consequences of the web usage for collaborative networks are tremendous and new tools are required to satisfy users and service providers. Thus, Web Intelligence brings new research problems related to information and service access, quality of service, personalization, privacy preserving, trust as well as other issues.

The workshop Web Intelligence and Virtual Enterprises (VE) expects contributions on topics such as:

   * Multi-agent models and tools for VE
   * Services and Grid Services for VE, Service oriented architectures
   * Web information mining, filtering and retrieval within/for VE
   * Web-based applications and plate-forms for VE
   * Intelligent web interaction, querying, diffusion
   * Semantics and ontology engineering for VE
   * Self-* models and techniques for VE
   * Social networks modelling, virtual communities, social intelligence
   * Context-based approach, profile management, personalization and recommendations for/through VE
   * Privacy preserving, security, trust-based computing & reputation systems
   * Applications: E-* (market, procurement, technologies, health, government, etc.) and VE
   * VE and content and knowledge repositories, behaviour modelling and exchange
   * Web intelligence, mobility and VE, Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive computing
   * Performances evaluation, experiments, user feed-back
   * Surveys on WI and VE

The organization of the Web Intelligence & Virtual Enterprises workshop at PRO-VE'10 is supported by the Web Intelligence project from the French Rhône-Alpes regional cluster ISLE.

*SUBMISSIONS*

The Web Intelligence and Virtual Enterprises workshop welcomes the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological as well as application papers. Papers may report on completed work, descriptions of work in progress or discussion papers.

Submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process. Papers will be published into the CD-Rom of the conference. In addition, a selection of the workshop papers will be published as post-proceedings in a special issue of the International Journal of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15701263).

Submitted papers should be 16 pages maximum in length, including figures and references. The paper must be formatted according to the double column style guidelines for A4 papers available here: http://wi-consortium.org/wias/submissionInst.html

All papers should be prepared in pdf format and submitted on the web site
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wive2010

*CO-CHAIRS*

   * Christo El Morr, York University, Toronto, Canada
   * Pierre Maret, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France
   * Laurent Vercouter, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France

*LOCAL ORGANIZERS*

   * Philippe Beaune, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
   * Olivier Boissier, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
   * Jacques Fayolle, Telecom Saint-Étienne, France
   * Christine Largeron, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France

*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

   * Aknine Samir, LIRIS, University of Lyon 1, France
   * Altmann Joern, Seoul National University, South Korea
   * Bataille Fabien, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
   * Boissier Olivier, G2I/EMSE, France
   * Calmet Jacques, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
   * Favre Cecile, ERIC, University of Lyon 2, France
   * Framling Kary, University of Technology of Helsinki, Finland
   * Gandon Fabien, INRIA, France
   * Gensel Jerome, LIG, France
   * Hacid Hakim, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France
   * Halpin Harry, W3C, Scotland
   * Heckmann Dominikus, Saarland University, Germany
   * Ihara Masayuki, NTT Comware Corporation, Japan
   * Jalal Kawash, University of Calgary, Canada
   * Karageorgos Anthony, Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, Greece
   * Kristoffersen Steinar, Ostfold University College, Norway
   * Lopez Guillaume, University of Tokyo, Japan
   * Lumineau Nicolas, LIRIS, University of Lyon 1, France
   * Mazon Lopez Jose Norberto, University of Alicante, Spain
   * Nickles Matthias, University of Bath, United Kingdom
   * Occello Michel, University Pierre Mendes France, France
   * Robinson Philip, SAP Research, United Kingdom
   * Soulier Eddie, University of Technology of Troyes, France
   * Tarkkanen Kimmo, University of Turku, Finland
   * Tellioglu Hilda, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   * van Beijnum Bert-Jan, University of Twente, Netherlands
   * Weiss Gerhard, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
   * Werthner Hannes, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
   * Zimanyi Esteban, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

-- *Laurent Vercouter* Maitre-Assistant / Assistant Professor
SMA Dpt/G2I Center, Ecole des Mines de St-Etienne, France
Phone: +33 4 77 42 66 03    http://www.emse.fr/~vercouter