[agents] CFP: Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA at EPIA2019):: Deadline April 15th

[Paulo Novais]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA at EPIA2019)
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Thematic Track of 19th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2019)
3-6 September 2019, Vila Real, Portugal
https://epia2019.utad.pt/

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Submission deadline: April 15, 2019
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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 behavior 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 behaviors.

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original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of 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

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Submission Information and paper publication
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Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and 
previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 
pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting 
instructions of Springer LNCS series (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer 
Science). Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and 
should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIAí2019 
submission Website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2019) 
selecting the track Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments.

All accepted papers will be published by Springer in a volume of the 
LNAI Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (indexed by 
the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge).

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Important Dates
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*• Full Paper Submission: April 15, 2019*
• Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2019
• Camera ready Papers: June 15, 2019
• Conference Date: September 3-6, 2019
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Organizing Committee
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Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto (mgt at isep.ipp.pt)
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)
Peter Mikulecky, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic 
(Peter.Mikulecky at uhk.cz)