[agents] [ISAmI 2010] 1st Call for Papers

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ISAmI 2010 :: CALL FOR PAPERS
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International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence
16th-18th June, 2010 :: Guimaraes, Portugal
http://isami2010.di.uminho.pt

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Submission deadline: 8th February, 2010
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Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a recent paradigm emerging from
Artificial Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive
tools assisting people in their day-to-day, making everyone’s life
more comfortable.

The interaction with computers is changing quickly, as we no longer
need to do it in ways not natural for us, since a main concern of
AmI consists in to make possible the interaction with computational
systems using friendly interfaces, allowing input through natural
language or simple gestures.

This inclusion of technology in our day-to-day objects and
environments should be as invisible as possible, because of the
computational power and communication technologies embedding in
most of the devices we use nowadays.

Human interaction with computing power embedded systems should happen
without noticing it. The only awareness people should have arises
from AmI: more safety, comfort and wellbeing, emerging in a natural
and inherent way.

As defined by the IST Advisory Group (ISTAG), AmI has born thanks to
three new key technologies: Ubiquitous Computing, Ubiquitous
Communication and Intelligent User Interfaces, which are starting to
change the way we see computers.

ISAmI is the International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, aiming
to bring together researchers from various disciplines that
constitute the scientific field of Ambient Intelligence to present
and discuss the latest results, new ideas, projects and lessons.

Brand new ideas will be greatly appreciated as long as relevant
revisions and actualizations of previously presented work, project
summaries and PhD thesis.

ISAmI 2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of
Guimarães, Portugal, nominated by UNESCO as a World Cultural
Heritage. With exceptional opportunities for sightseeing and
gastronomy, Guimarães is a wonderful venue for a great symposium.

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Everyone interested in participating and presenting his work in this
symposium may do so by sending a contribution. There are three
possibilities:

1. Long papers: consisting of original, relevant and previously
unpublished sound research results, related to any of the topics of
the conference, with a maximum of 8 (eight) pages.

2. Short papers: can be project reports, a summary of a PhD thesis or
work in progress, with no more than 4 (four) pages.

3. Doctoral consortium: PhD students are invited to present the topic
and progress of their research, in order to obtain feedback from a
panel of experts. The length of these papers should not exceed
8 (eight) pages.

Papers should be written in English.

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PAPERS FORMAT
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Papers must be prepared according to Springer’s templates (MS Word or
LaTeX format) for the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
volume series (www.springer.com/series/4240).

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PUBLICATION
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All accepted papers will be published in a special volume of Advances
in Intelligent and Soft Computing (Springer), indexed by ISI
Proceedings, DBLP and Springerlink, among others.

Authors of selected papers will be encouraged and assisted to submit
an extended version to the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart
Environments (IOS Press).

For each paper, at least one author is required to register and
attend the symposium to present the paper, so as to have it included
in the symposium proceedings.

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SUBMITTING PAPERS
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In order to submit a paper, authors must register at ISAmI 2010
conference management system (cmt.research.microsoft.com/ISAmI2010).

All papers must be submitted in electronic format (PDF format, word
document or latex and images).

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline:     8th February, 2010
Notification of acceptance:    8th March, 2010
Final version submission:     29th March, 2010
ISAmI 2010 Conference:   16th-18th June, 2010

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

* Ambient Intelligence
* Ambient Assisted Living
* Ubiquitous Computing
* Artificial Intelligence for AmI
* Distributed Computing
* Domotics (Home Automation)
* Pervasive Computing
* Context Aware Computing
* Agent & Multiagent Systems for AmI
* Mobile Computing
* Robotics
* Computational Creativity
* Sentient Computing
* e-Health
* Context Modelling
* e Learning

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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster, UK
Juan M. Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Paulo Novais, CCTC/University of Minho, Portugal
Cesar Analide, CCTC/University of Minho, Portugal

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CONTACTS
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e-mail:  isami2010 at di.uminho.pt
Website: http://isami2010.di.uminho.pt

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ISAmI 2010
1st International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence	
16th-18th June, 2010, Guimarães, Portugal
e-mail: isami2010 at di.uminho.pt
Website: isami2010.di.uminho.pt