[agents] ISAmI 2016 – CALL FOR PAPERS

[Paulo Novais]

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ISAmI 2016 – CALL FOR PAPERS
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7th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence
1st – 3rd June, 2016 – Sevilla, Spain
http://isami-conference.net
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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 2016 will be held at the University of 
Sevilla, Spain.

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CONTRIBUTIONS
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As in the previous edition, the goals of ISAmI are:
•              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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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 downloaded here.


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission dates: 25th January, 2016
Notification date: 22nd February, 2016
Camera-ready deadline: 7th March, 2016
Conference dates: 1st-3rd June, 2016

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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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Helena Lindgren, Umea University, Sweden.
Juan F. De Paz Santana, University of Salamanca, Spain.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal.
Andrés Jiménez Ramírez, University of Sevilla,  Spain.


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CONTACT
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E-mail: mailto:info at isami-conference.net
Website: http://isami-conference.net



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Paulo Novais
Universidade do Minho
Escola de Engenharia
Departamento de Informática / Centro ALGORITMI
Campus de Gualtar
4710-057 Braga, PORTUGAL

Phone: +351 253604437/70
Fax:   +351 253604471
Email: pjon at di.uminho.pt
Web:   www.di.uminho.pt/~pjn
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