[agents] First CfP: Ambient Intelligence for Large Premises (AmILP 2016) at ECAI-16

Thu Mar 17 11:52:42 EDT 2016

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First Call for Papers

AmILP 2016 at ECAI 2016

Date: August 29th, 2016

The Hague, Netherlands

*** Deadline: May 15th, 2016 ***

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The First International Workshop on

Ambient Intelligence for Large Premises (AmILP 2016) 

http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/amilp2016

held at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016)

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND AIMS

In the name of the MOSI-AGIL (Social Modelling of Ambient Intelligence for
Large Premises) project (http://www.gsi.dit.upm.es/mosi/ ), we would like to
cordially invite you to consider contributing an original research paper to
AmILP 2016, held as part of the European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (ECAI 2016).

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is intended to provide users with systems tightly
integrated with their everyday environment and activities. The goal is
minimizing the need of explicit actions by users, through the continuous and
distributed orchestration of information and actuation devices. With the
advances in the field, AmI is pursuing growingly ambitious goals in terms of
the size and integration of its smart spaces, the number of served users,
and the level of adaptation to them.

AmILP 2016 will be focused on the particular challenges and potential
solutions that appear when AmI moves to Large Premises (LP). In this
context, new requirements consider big groups of people moving in premises
that fall beyond the classical closed and controlled environments of most
AmI systems. The ways of interaction, the expected services, and the
behaviour of people acquire a new dimension and variability in those
interconnected smart spaces. AmI systems need to adapt to the crowds using
large numbers of multiple and heterogeneous AmI resources in distributed and
frequently uncontrollable environments that cause unexpected dynamic changes
in the system topology.

TOPICS

AmILP 2016 aims at providing a forum for discussing recent advances in
engineering complex AmI systems acting in large premises. The research
emerging in this domain faces multidisciplinary issues, both technical and
social. In particular, the areas of interest are the following (not
exclusive):

    Psychology of crowds

    Sociology of crowds

    Crowd simulation

    Crowd coordination

    Environment specifications and models

    Inclusive design

    Sensor networks

    Information fusion

    Machine learning

    Agent-based simulation techniques and methodologies

    AmI engineering driven by formal models

    AmI toolkits and frameworks

    AmI testing in large premises

    Industrial case studies

    Scalability in AmI for large premises

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Prospective authors are invited to prepare original papers formatted
according to the camera-ready style for ECAI 2016
<http://www.ecai2016.org/content/uploads/2015/10/ecai.tar.gz> . Papers
should be submitted electronically in PDF format using the EasyChair
conference management system available at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amilp2016 . 

AmILP accepts both full-length and short papers. The maximum length for
short papers is 4 pages (at least 3 pages), while for full papers the
maximum length is 8 pages (at least 5 pages). Selected full papers will be
presented at the main workshop session. Selected short papers will be
presented in a poster session.

All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of their relevance,
originality, significance, soundness and clarity. At least three referees
will review independently each submission. 

PROCEEDINGS

The organizers will provide a single PDF file to be posted on the ECAI 2016
website and on the ECAI-AmILP 2016 workshop website. Moreover, the
proceedings will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings series
(http://ceur-ws.org). Copyright of papers remain with the authors.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

We also plan to publish a special issue of an ISI-ranked journal  “Computer
Science and Information Systems” of a small number of best papers extended
with at least 30 % of additional unpublished original work and fully
refereed according to the journal standards. After the conference, authors
of selected full papers will be invited to re-submit their work for the
special issue.

ATTENDANCE

For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for AmILP 2016
and participate at the workshop. Please check the ECAI 2016 website for
registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies.

IMPORTANT DATES 

- Submission deadline: May 15th, 2016

- Acceptance decision: June 5th, 2016

- Camera ready version: June 30th, 2016

- Early registration: [TBA]

- Late registration: [TBA]

- Workshop date: August 29th, 2016

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

- Rubén Fuentes-Fernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

- Marin Lujak (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TENTATIVE)

-        Antunes, Luis, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

-        Argente, Estefanía, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

-        Augusto, Juan Carlos, Middlesex University London, United Kingdom

-        Balsa, João, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

-        Bernon, Carole, Universite Paul Sabatier, France

-        Billhardt, Holger, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

-        Blanke, Ulf, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

-        Botía, Juan, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

-        Cossentino, Massimo, ICAR-CNR, Italy

-        Davidsson, Paul, Malmö University, Sweden

-        Drury, John, University of Sussex, UK

-        Dunkel, Jürgen, Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts,
Germany

-        Gravina, Raffaele, University of Calabria, Italy

-        Klügl, Franziska, Örebro Universitet, Sweden

-        Molesini, Ambra, Università di Bologna, Italy

-        Novais, Paulo, University of Minho, Portugal

-        Petta, Paolo, OFAI, Austria

-        Ricci, Alessandro, Università di Bologna, Italy

-        Rossetti, Rosaldo, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

-        Vizzari, Giuseppe, Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy 

FURTHER INFORMATION

Please visit the workshop website (http://grasia.fdi.ucm.es/amilp2016/ ) for
further information and regular updates.

For any enquiry, please contact
<mailto:amilp2016 at easychair.org?Subject=[AmILP2016]%20Question>
amilp2016 at easychair.org. 

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Marin Lujak, CETINIA, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

 <http://www.ia.urjc.es/~lujak/> http://www.ia.urjc.es/~lujak/