[agents] 2nd CFP - Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments - EPIA 2013

[Paulo Novais]

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AmIA_Environments at EPIA2013 :: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
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Thematic Track on Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA
Environments 2013)
16th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2013

9th-13th September, 2013 ::  Azores, Portugal
http://www.epia2013.uac.pt/

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Submission deadline: 15th March, 2013
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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.

Affect and social behaviour plays an important role in the development
of Ambient Intelligent Environments. Consideration of aspects 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. 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 AmIA 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 and Affective 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original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of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 and Affective environments.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Affect and emotion recognition
- Affect and learning
- Agent & Multiagent Systems for AmI
- Ambient Assisted Living
- AmI for e-Learning
- Applications
- Artificial characters
- Artificial Intelligence for AmI
- Computational models of emotions
- Context Aware Computing
- Context Modelling
- e-Health
- Group Emotion
- Intelligent Environments
- Memory Assistant
- Mobile Computing
- On-line Dispute Resolution
- Pervasive Computing
- Sentient Computing
- Ubiquitous Computing

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS and PAPERS FORMAT
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Papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages in length and must be
formatted according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNAI
series
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0). The 


review process is double-blind. Therefore, authors must remove their
names from the submitted papers. Papers must be submitted in PDF
(Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in
any other format.

Papers that exceed 12 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 2013
conference management system
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2013), using the entry
of the Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline:           15th March, 2013
Notification of acceptance:    30th April, 2013
Camera-ready papers:           31th May, 2013
EPIA 2013 Conference:          9th-13th September, 2013

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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 (proceedings indexed by the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge),
edited by EPIA 2013 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 at di.uminho.pt)
Ana Almeida, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal (amn at isep.ipp.pt)
Sara Rodriguez, University of Salamanca, Spain (srg at usal.es)
Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto (mgt at isep.ipp.pt)

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CONTACTS AmIA_Environments at EPIA2013
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http://www.epia2013.uac.pt/
http://isrt.di.uminho.pt/ae2013/

email: amia2013 at appia.pt

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Paulo Novais
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