[agents] ISAmI 2015 Extended deadline - Last Call For Papers

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*ISAmI2015 – CALL FOR PAPERS*

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*6^th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence*
/3^th - 5^th June, 2015 – Salamanca, Spain/

http://isami.usal.es <http://isami.usal.es/>

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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 2015 will be held at the University of 
Salamanca, Spain. This symposium will be organized by the Bioinformatic, 
Intelligent System and Educational Technology Research Group 
(http://bisite.usal.es <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 ofISAmIare:

•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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*SPECIAL ISSUES
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Authors of selected papers from PAAMS 2015 will be invited to submit an 
extended and improved version to a special issue published in 
Neurocomputing (JCR Impact Factor: 2.005):

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<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/neurocomputing/>

Authors of selected papers from ISAMI 2015 will be invited to submit an 
extended and improved version to a special issue published in Frontiers 
of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering (2013 JCR Impact 
Factor: 0.38):

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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:

·*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.

·*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.*All papers must have 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. The template can be downloadedhere 
<http://www.springer.com/series/4240?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=156163>.

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*IMPORTANT DATES*
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*Submission dates: **26**^th ****January, 2015 *******Extended 
Deadline********

*Notification date: 23^rd February, 2015*

*Camera-ready deadline: 9^th March, 2015*

*Conference dates: 3^th -5^th June, 2015*

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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.

At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the 
symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the 
conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by 
Springer Verlag.

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*SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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A. M. de Jesus Pereira - Leiria Polytechnic Institute (Portugal)

Amr Mohamed (Chair) - College of Engineering Qatar University (Qatar)

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*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Gabriel Villarrubia González - University of Salamanca (Spain)

Paulo Novais (Co-chairman) - University of Minho (Portugal)

Tiancheng Li - University of Salamanca (Spain)

Cesar Analide – University of Minho (Portugal)

Fernando De la Prieta - University of Salamanca (Spain)

Javier Bajo - Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain)

Juan F. De Paz - University of Salamanca (Spain)

Sara Rodriguez – University of Salamanca (Spain)

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*CONTACT
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E-mail:isami at usal.es <mailto:isami at usal.es>

Website:http://isami.usal.es <http://isami.usal.es/>

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*WORKSHOPS*
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*Ambient Intelligence for e-Healthcare -> AIfeH’15 *

*http://isami.usal.es/aifeh15/***

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The world healthcare market is living an increasing demand towards 
e-Healthcare services. E-Healthcare is a stimulating and inspiring area 
of research as providing solutions to many different problems and needs. 
We can find e-Healthcare systems that help to improve mental health by 
detecting people moods and emotions; e-Healthcare systems that are used 
for providing medical services; e-Healthcare systems that are applied to 
treat mobility problems, and so on. E-Healthcare enlists electronic 
processes and communications to provide quality healthcare services to 
patients, covering all locations.

The diversity of problems and needs turns the development of 
e-Healthcare systems into a challenging activity requiring disciplines 
as different as Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction and 
Engineering to work together in order to provide solutions that satisfy 
the growing demand of the society. The stakeholders, including companies 
and industry, must be able to create systems that are as intelligent as 
to detect falls or emotions, as usable as to be exploited by people with 
mobility problems, and as reliable and autonomous as to monitor health 
and mobility.

*Ambient Intelligence using Multi-Agent Systems for Intelligent Cities 
-> AmI-MAS-IC’15*

*http://isami.usal.es/AmI-MAS-IC15/***

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Intelligent cities can be seen as cities that combine sustainable 
development and quality of life. This combination relies on information 
and communication technologies as well as physical infrastructures that 
provide essential functions for a city. To improve life in urban 
environment those essential functions may concern energy consumption, 
transportation, smart homes, etc. and more generally accurate services 
according to users' context and needs.

In order to implement this "intelligence", numerous chips and sensors 
are distributed on digital/physical/mobile devices and even on human 
actors. Those equipments enable to locate human actors as well as 
objects, to collect measures (such as temperature, pollution, 
consumption...), etc. Besides, city-dwellers produce more and more 
information thanks to their actions on their smartphones or on mobile 
devices, and thanks to their movements or activities that can be 
observed via sensors.

Intelligence of cities may be seen as the result of numerous observed 
interactions and actions between devices and human actors 
(city-dwellers), but also between individuals themselves. This 
collective intelligence is the result of the "structural coupling" 
between devices and human actors. It may give rise to emergent 
collective services or emergent individual services depending on 
observed actions (behaviours) that are recurrently achieved by one or 
several actor(s). Relations between the physical infrastructures, 
service offerings and actors' actions have then to be studied to provide 
services that are efficient, optimal, opportunistic (even personalized) 
and innovative while taking into account the context in which they are 
situated.

This special session encourages submissions dealing with generic, 
evolutionary and adaptive approaches using multi-agent system paradigm, 
based on self-regulation of this multitude of devices scattered in space 
and time in order to combine big data obtained from sensors deployed in 
a city, and whose goal is to improve the quality of life of city-dwellers.