[agents] Special issue on "Information Fusion in Ambient Intelligence"

[Ruben]

     Dear colleagues,

     please consider submitting your most recent work to this CFP. 
Accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.

     Call for papers for a special issue of "INFORMATION FUSION IN 
AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE" to be published at the journal "Information 
Fusion", an International Journal on Multi-Sensor, Multi-Source 
Information Fusion.

     The Information Fusion Journal is planning a special issue on the 
engineering of information processing for ambient intelligence based 
systems.

     Last few years have seen the proliferation in our everyday lives of 
technologies for automatically interacting with the environment. 
Well-known examples are applications related to timetables, location, 
identity, movement, orientation, face and speech, based on the use of 
devices such as notebooks, tablets, smart phones, surveillance cameras 
or presence sensors.

     This scenario offers important opportunities for systems that 
seamless integrate with people activities to facilitate them. However, 
this vision still faces numerous and challenging open issues. Some of 
them are related with the difficulties to manage information in these 
systems: large volumes of data, gathered from heterogeneous and 
distributed sources, and processed for different purposes. The 
application of Artificial Intelligence research to these problems is one 
of the more promising and active approaches in this context. It offers 
techniques for systems to work explicitly on knowledge and information, 
and to provide context-awareness and adaptability, which are central to 
ambient intelligence.

     This special issue of Information Fusion aims to provide a complete 
overview of these trends and become a reference for those concerned with 
the current state of the art and new frontiers on the use of Artificial 
Intelligence to provide ambient intelligence systems focusing on 
information fusion aspects.

     Manuscripts covering both research and practical aspects of the use 
of Artificial Intelligence in ambient intelligence based systems, with 
an emphasis on engineering issues for information fusion, are invited. 
There is a particular interest in the role of integrating approaches 
that provide solutions covering different aspects of ambient 
intelligence. This does not rule out any specific topic in this field, 
so works exhibiting solutions for specific problems are also sought. 
However, it is mandatory that all submissions to the special issue 
should clearly demonstrate the beneficial role of information fusion in 
their study.

     It should be noted that manuscripts should be original and not 
previously published either in full or in part or presented even in a 
more or less similar form at any other forum. Absolutely no cut and 
pastes from any prior publications(of text and/or figures or tables or 
other illustrations) will be permitted. All such reproduced material 
should be excluded by generous use of citations to the relevant prior 
publications wherever necessary within the text of the Journal 
submission The manuscript will be judged solely on the basis of new 
contributions excluding the contributions made in earlier publications. 
Contributions should be described in sufficient detail to be 
reproducible on the basis of the material presented in the paper and the 
references cited therein.

     The following is a list of typical topics within the Artificial 
Intelligence area of knowledge. We seek papers that address one or more 
of these topics when applied in the ambient intelligence domain and 
specifically focused on the aspects related to information fusion. Such 
topics include, but are not necessarily limited to:

     . Bio-inspired computing
     . Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
     . Constraint satisfaction
     . Data Mining
     . Emotional computing
     . Evolutionary computing
     . Game playing and interactive entertainment
     . Human-Computer Interaction
     . Information extraction and integration
     . Knowledge Engineering and Applications
     . Machine Learning
     . Modeling and Simulation
     . Multi-Agent Systems
     . Natural Language Processing
     . Neural networks
     . Planning and Scheduling
     . Probabilistic Reasoning
     . Robotics
     . Swarm intelligence
     . Uncertainty and Fuzzy Systems

     Manuscripts should be submitted electronically online at 
http://ees.elsevier.com/inffus.

     The corresponding author will  have to create a user profile if one 
has not been established before at Elsevier. The guest editors listed 
below may be contacted for additional information.

Guest Editor(s)

Juan A. Botía,
Universidad de Murcia (Spain),
juanbot at um.es <mailto:juanbot at um.es>

Rubén Fuentes-Fernández,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain),
ruben at fdi.ucm.es <mailto:ruben at fdi.ucm.es>

Manuscript Deadline: August 31, 2013

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Dr. Rubén Fuentes-Fernández
Associate Professor
Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
School of Computer Science, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
c/ Profesor José García Santesmases s/n
Ciudad Universitaria - 28040 Madrid
Tel. (+34) 913947547 - Fax: (+34) 913947547
http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es
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