[agents] Culture and Computing 2011

[Toru Ishida]

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Call for Papers

The Second International Conference on Culture and Computing
(Culture and Computing 2011)

Date: October 20-22, 2011
Venue: The Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Japan
http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2011/

International communities have a myriad of problems around topics
such as: population demographic shifts, energy use and creation,
the environment, and food supply. It is necessary to build a
global consensus for resolving problems within these topic areas.
Unfortunately, there are difficulties in communication among
different cultures. Information and communication technologies
are required in order to overcome such difficulties.

There are various research directions in the relations between
culture and computing:
to archive cultural heritages via ICT (cf. digital archives),
to empower humanities researches via ICT (cf. digital humanities),
to create art and expressions via ICT (cf. media art),
to realize a culturally situated agent (cf. cultural agent),
to support multi-language, multi-cultural societies via ICT
(cf. intercultural collaboration), and to understand new cultures
born in the Internet and Web (cf. net culture).

The International Conference on Culture and Computing
(Culture & Computing) will be held in Kyoto, the cultural heart
of Japan, to provide an opportunity to share research issues and
discuss the future of culture and computing. To understand the
proceedings at the previous conference, please visit
http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2010/index.html.

The second conference (Culture & Computing 2011) will be organized
with an exhibition on the integration of state of the art cultural
computing technologies and Japanese traditional culture,
along with a number of co-located events.

Papers are solicited on any aspect on the intersection of culture
and computing, but all papers are expected to be suitable for a
multidisciplinary audience. We have a single session Main Track
and a few parallel session Special Tracks. The Main Track will
present a collection of scientific or engineering research results.
Examples of suitable paper topics for the Main Track include:

•Archiving cultural heritages
•Information environments for humanity studies
•Art and design by information technologies
•Digital storytelling
•Intercultural communication and collaboration
•Culturally situated agents and simulations
•Game and culture
•Analysis of new culture in the Internet and Web
•Culture and brain science

The Special Tracks are collections of short papers, and are
organized in coordination with the Main Track for the purpose of
encouraging discussions in hot areas. We have Special Tracks for
"Digital Humanities," "Asian Culture based Media Art" and
"Computing and Music" at this conference.

Paper

Submitted papers must report original work that has not been
previously published. A full paper with a limit of six (6) pages
and a special trackpaper with a limit of two (2) pages, should be
submitted by the paper submission deadline. Papers should follow
the formatting instructions for publishing with IEEE Computer
Society's Conference Publishing Services.

Main Track papers (full papers) should be submitted electronically
with an abstract (150 words) via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2011.
Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed
6 pages in IEEE Standard template.

Special Track papers (short papers) should be submitted electronically
with an abstract (150 words) via EasyChair at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2011sp.
Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed
2 pages in IEEE Standard template.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by three distinguished
researchers in the area of culture and computing. Accepted papers
will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE
Computer Society and be included in the IEEE Computer Society
Digital Libraries (CSDL).

Important Dates

Main Track:
Deadline for titles and abstracts: April 20th, 2011
Deadline for papers for review: May 1st, 2011
Author notification: June 20th, 2011
Deadline for camera ready papers: July 20th, 2011

Special Track:
Deadline for titles and abstracts: May 20th, 2011
Deadline for papers for review: June 1st, 2011
Author notification: June 20th, 2011
Deadline for camera ready papers: July 20th, 2011

Organization

Conference Co-Chairs:
Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Naoko Tosa (Kyoto University, Japan)

Program Committee [Main Track]
Richard Beacham (King's College London, UK)
Philippe Codognet (CNRS & University of Tokyo, Japan)
Christiane D. Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
Sidney Fels (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Michitaka Hirose (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Katsushi Ikeuchi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Lewis Johnson (Alelo Inc. USA)
Yasuhiro Katagiri (Future University Hakodate, Japan)
Michihiko Minoh (Kyoto University, Japan)
Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT, USA)
Ryohei Nakatsu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Yoshihiro Okada (Ryukoku University, Japan)
Ana Paiva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)
Zhigeng Pan (Zhejiang University, China)
Matthias Rauterberg (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Tetsuo Sawaragi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, France)
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Naoko Tosa (Kyoto University, Japan)
Naomi Yamashita (NTT, Japan)
Takashi Yoshino (Wakayama University, Japan)
Hai Zhuge (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Program Committee [Special Track: Digital Humanities]
Richard Beacham (King's College London, UK)
Neil Fraistat (University of Maryland, USA)
Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Chair
Jieh Hsiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Jane Hunter (University of Queensland, Australia)
Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada)
Keiji Yano (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

Program Committee [Special Track: Asian Culture based Media Art]
Tomoe Moriyama (Musem of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan)
Ryohei Nakatsu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Jong-II Park (Hanyang University, Korea)
Naoko Tosa (Kyoto University, Japan) Chair

Program Committee [Special Track: Computing and Music]
Gerard Assayag (IRCAM, France)
Philippe Codognet (CNRS & University of Tokyo, Japan) Chair
Shlomo Dubnov (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Atau Tanaka (Newcastle University, UK)
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