Ambient Intelligence Environments (AmI Environments 2011)

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AmI_Environments@EPIA2011 :: CALL FOR PAPERS
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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and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Ambient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

Affective Computing (AC’2011)

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AC@EPIA2011 :: CALL FOR PAPERS

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Special Track on Affective Computing (AC’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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The workshop on Affective Computing (AC) will focus on the role of affect, social behaviour, and related issues in the development of computer systems. Relevant topics include the consideration of factors like emotions, mood, personality traits, and attitudes in human-computer, human-robot, and human-environment interaction, especially insofar as they provide better or more "natural" support for humans. Also relevant is the role of such factors in facilitating access to the knowledge essential for making better decisions in response to interactions between individuals and the environments (e.g. facilitating social interaction among humans or among humans and artificial characters).

Affective Computing is a multidisciplinary field that draws upon such areas as sociology, psychology, human-machine interaction, virtual environments, and, obviously, Artificial Intelligence. It is also a field with a wide range of applications, including virtual reality, decision support, computer games, and ambient intelligence, social robotics, and ECAs (Embodied Conversational Agents).

The purpose of this workshop on Affective Computing is to bring together researchers to discuss theories, architectures and applications which are based on a combination of cognitive and affective considerations and that can be applied to groups of individually different persons and their interactions.

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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 Affective Computing.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Computational models of emotions

Individual Emotion recognition

Social Web

Personality in Agents Architectures

Group Emotion

Emotion and learning

Artificial characters

Affect and emotion recognition

Emotion and memory

Emotion content classification and affect content classification, used to evaluate or analyse human-X interaction;

Using reputation and trust models in social interactions

Using negotiation and persuasion in social interactions

Infrastructure and policy for affective computing

Understanding and Modelling groups and other social systems

Social aspects of globally distributed computing and new cooperative work technologies

New forms of education, entertainment and social relations based on cooperation technologies

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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 Affective Computing.

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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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Goreti Marreiros, goreti@dei.isep.ipp.pt(ISEP, Portugal)

Andrew Ortony, ortony@northwestern.edu(Northwestern University, USA)

Ana Paiva, Ana.Paiva@inesc-id.pt, (INESC-ID and IST, Portugal)

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CONTACTS  goreti@dei.isep.ipp.pt