[agents] AmIA_Environments at EPIA2021 :: CALL FOR PAPERS

[Paulo Novais]

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]

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AmIA_Environments at EPIA2021 :: CALL FOR PAPERS
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Special Track on Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA 
Environments 2021)
20th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2021 (Online)

7th-9th September, 2021
https://www.appia.pt/epia2021


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Submission deadline: 15th April, 2021
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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 behaviour 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 behaviours.

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original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of 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 INSTRUCTIONS and PAPERS FORMAT
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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 EPIA’2021 
submission Website 
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2021) selecting the 
track AmIA - Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2021
- Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2021
- Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2021
- EPIA Conference: September 7-9, 2021 (Online)

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PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (Springer 
LNAI - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least 
one author is registered in EPIA 2021 by the early registration deadline.
Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by ISI Thomson, SCOPUS, 
DBLP, EI-Compendex among several other scientific databases.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Ana Almeida, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal (amn at isep.ipp.pt)
Sara Rodriguez, University of Salamanca, Spain (srg at usal.es)
Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto (mgt at isep.ipp.pt)
Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon at di.uminho.pt)
Peter Mikulecky, University of Hradec Kralove (peter.mikulecky at uhk.cz)


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CONTACT PERSON
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Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon at di.uminho.pt)

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Paulo Novais
Full Professor
Universidade do Minho
Escola de Engenharia
Departamento de Informática / Centro ALGORITMI
ISLab - Synthetic Intelligence Lab
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
        islab.di.uminho.pt