[agents] Final call for Culture & Computing 2011

[Toru Ishida]

Dear colleagues,

Here is the final call for Culture & Computing 2011, which will
be organized with the following events.

•Keynote: Shigeru Miyagawa (Professor, Massachusetts Institute
  of Technology, Chair of MIT Open Course Ware Committee) will give
  a talk on "Open Culture on the Web: Benefits and Risks."
•Invited Talk: Zhigeng Pan (Professor, Zhejiang University) will
  give a talk about animating Song Dynasty Scroll Painting "Along
  the River During the Qingming Festival" for Shanghai Expo
  Chinese Pavilion.
•Exhibition: Art fair on the integration of cultural computing
  technologies and Japanese traditional culture.
•Co-located Events: Number of workshops including intercultural
  communication, multilingual medical support, Kyoto Buddhist culture
  forum, tea ceremony, etc.

Join us to explore the frontier of culture and computing!
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Final Call for Papers

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

Date: October 19-22, 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 below.
http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/culture2010/index.html

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.
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=culture2011sp
Submissions (PDF) must be written in English and must not exceed 2 pages
in IEEE Standard template.

You can submit the abstract and paper together, but please remember
to submit the paper title and abstract before the deadline for
titles and abstracts. If you want to submit only an abstract first,
please check the "Abstract Only" box in the "Upload Paper" area of
the submission page, and upload your paper before the Deadline for
papers for review.

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]
Ken Coates ( University of Waterloo)
Jean M. Ippolito (University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA)
Tomoe Moriyama (Musem of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan)
Ryohei Nakatsu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Jong-II Park (Hanyang University, Korea)
Vibeke Sorensen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Naoko Tosa (Kyoto University, Japan)　Chair
Alistair Swale (University of Waikato, New Zealand)

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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Toru Ishida
Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University
Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
TEL 81 75 753 4821 FAX 81 75 753 4820
E-mail ishida at i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Web http://www.ai.soc.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ishida/