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ISAmI 2011 :: CALL FOR PAPERS
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2nd International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence -
Software and Applications
6th-8th April, 2011 :: Salamanca, Spain
http://isami.usal.es

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Submission deadline: 15th November, 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 with their day-to-day activities, making
everyone’s life more comfortable.

Another main concern of AmI originates from the human computer
interaction domain and focuses on offering ways to interact with systems
in a more natural way by means user friendly interfaces. This field is
evolving quickly as can be witnessed by the emerging natural language
and gesture based types  of interaction.

The inclusion of computational power and communication technologies in
everyday objects is growing and their embedding into our environments
should be as invisible as possible. In order for AmI to be successful,
human interaction  with computing power and embedded systems in the
surroundings should be  smooth and happen without people actually
noticing it. The only awareness  people should have arises from AmI:
more safety, comfort and wellbeing, emerging in a natural and inherent way.

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 learned.

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

ISAmI 2011 will be held at the University of Salamanca, Spain.
This symposium will be organized by the Biomedicine, Intelligent System
and Educational Technology Research Group (http://bisite.usal.es/) of
the University of Salamanca.

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CONTRIBUTIONS
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As in the previous edition, the goals of ISAmI are:

• to create the appropriate conditions for researchers to disseminate
their research work;
• to strengthen the relationships among the AmI research groups;
• to facilitate the contact between new researchers and consolidated
groups;
• to help the diffusion of new developments to the community.

In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial,
original and previously
unpublished work are invited in all areas of Ambient Intelligence. The
papers can be presented
from a formal, methodological, technical or applied point of view focus,
namely, in AmI Software
and Applications.

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

- Applications
- 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
- Memory Assistant


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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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We are looking forward to receiving contributions from anyone interested
in participating and presenting their work at this symposium.
We are accepting two types of submissions:

1. Regular Paper. It must consist of original, relevant and previously
unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the
conference. It may be accepted as a Long paper, a Short paper or a Poster.

2. Doctoral Paper. PhD students are invited to present the topic and
progress of their research in order to obtain feedback from a panel of
experts.

Papers should be written in English, with a maximum of 8 (eight) pages.

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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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SUBMITTING PAPERS
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In order to submit a paper, authors must register at the ISAmI 2011
conference management system (http://isami.usal.es).

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:     15th November, 2010
Notification of acceptance:    10th December, 2010
Final version submission:      30th December, 2010
ISAmI 2011 Conference:         6th - 8th April, 2011


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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.

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.

A Thematic Issue in JAISE - the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and
Smart Environments (IOS Press) will be edited.

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BEST PAPER AWARD
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IOS Press will provide a prize, in the form of a free 12 months
subscription to the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart
Environments, for the authors of the best ISAmI 2011 Paper.

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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon at di.uminho.pt)
Davy Preuveneers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
(davy.preuveneers at cs.kuleuven.be)

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Juan M. Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain (corchado at usal.es)

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CONTACTS
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e-mail:  isami at usal.es
Website: http://isami.usal.es

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