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1st International Workshop on Intelligent Systems for the Internet of Things: Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

1st International Workshop on Intelligent Systems for the Internet of Things Santorini Island, Greece May 29 - 31, 2019 Link: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=d2ZtLXJnCQkJd2ZtLXJnQG9nZi5vcm… in conjunction with the: 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2019) Workshop papers will get 8 pages in the IEEE proceedings, in the same volume with the DCOSS papers. Important Dates Paper Submission: 8th March Acceptance Notification: 1st April Camera Ready: 15th April Early Registration: 10th April Scope The Internet of Things is a paradigm that assumes a pervasive presence in the environment of many smart things, including sensors, actuators, embedded systems and other similar devices. The development of IoT, however, has reached a crossroads, which means that without intelligence, an IoT system will act as an ordinary information transfer system. Emerging IoT applications in various fields, including smart city, smart home, smart grid, e-health, intelligent transportation systems, etc., require trustworthy networking solutions that are resilient against high mobility, high density, disasters, infrastructure failures, cyberattacks, and other disruptions. This interdisciplinary landscape of IoT applications demands researchers from different areas such as machine learning, computational intelligence, optimization, distributed computing, embedded systems, and big data to synergize their efforts in better understanding the untapped opportunities to produce highly efficient, deployable, intelligent IoT systems. Topics (Not limited to): Computational Intelligence for the IoT Performance evaluation for the IoT Machine Learning in IoT and Smart Systems Dependability and Fault Tolerance in Smart Systems Big Data and data Miningfor the IoT Intelligent Network Technologies for the IoT Swarm and Multi-Agent Models for IoT Embedded Multiagent Systems Collective and Collaborative Robotics Applications of the IoT Smart Systems in Different industry verticals IoT platforms Blockchain for the IoT IoT Intrusion Detection Trust and Privacy in IoT Cloud Computing for the IoT Data Fusion from the IoT Program Chairs Dr. Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus and RISE Research Center on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies Dr. Zinonas Zinonos, Neapolis University of Paphos Dr. Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus and RISE Research Center on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies Dr. Stelios Timotheou, University of Cyprus and KIOS Center on Intelligent Systems Submission instructions Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts reporting applied or technical research. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the same volume with the DCOSS 2019 conference proceedings. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and selected papers will be organized for presentation at the workshop. All submissions will be exclusively electronic with a maximum length of eight (8) printed pages including title, authors, abstract, figures, diagrams, references and attachments. Articles must be prepared in English following the IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings (available here) and submitted in PDF format only. Submission link: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=d2ZtLXJnCQkJd2ZtLXJnQG9nZi5vcm…

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[CFP] GOODTECHS 2019 - Track Session in Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life, 25/09 - 27/09, Valencia, Spain
by Filippo Carnovalini 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

******************************************************************** * Call for Papers * GoodTechs 2019 *Track Session in Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life * September 25-27, 2019, Valencia, Spain *. Submission by 10 April 2019 * ******************************************************************** More info at: http://goodtechs.eu/serious-game-to-improve-the-quality-of-life/ <http://goodtechs.eu/serious-game-to-improve-the-quality-of-life/> SCOPE ====== Gamification techniques and serious games are often used to capture and maintain user’s attention and motivation. This is particularly important when dealing with young patients or people with special needs. Patient’s collaboration is crucial for doctors to perform a good diagnosis, and to provide an efficient therapy, but it cannot always be taken for granted. Moreover, serious games are proved to be an efficient tool to incentivize people to improve their lifestyle, e.g., making more physical activity. This track will feature new insights, research, and practice on how to design, develop and use gamification and persuasive technologies to create serious games and applications to improve individuals’ Quality of Life (QoL) and behavior, with a particular focus on people with disabilities. The track targets researchers, doctoral students, practitioners and other people interested in presenting, discussing, reflecting and networking on central themes associated with the development and use of serious games and applications to help people with special needs. Papers on both theoretical aspects and design method of gamification techniques and serious games are welcomed, as well as system prototypes and novel evaluation methods. In addition, the track welcomes full research, work in progress papers and educational cases. Chair: Ombretta Gaggi, Università di Padova Co-Chair: Antonio Rodà, Università di Padova TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== Serious game design for better lifestyle promotion Serious games for people with disability Games for Education and Learning Gamification Pervasive Systems Assistive Technologies Persuasive solutions Methods, models and principles for gamification design Usability and accessibility issues Games for Health and Well-Being Serious Games for social inclusion Serious Games for cultural heritage IMPORTANT DATES ================ Full Paper Submission deadline: 10 April 2019 Notification deadline: 1 June 2019 Follow the submission instructions at: http://goodtechs.eu/paper-submission/ <http://goodtechs.eu/paper-submission/>

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The 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019): Final Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions
by Announce Announcements 16 Feb '19

16 Feb '19

*** FINAL CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM SUBMISSIONS *** 27th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2019) Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus, June 9-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=d2ZtLXJnCQkJd2ZtLXJnQG9nZi5vcm… Submissions due: March 1, 2019 ACM UMAP 2019, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, will, as in previous issues of the conference series, include a Doctoral Consortium (DC) Session, which provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. The Doctoral Consortium is implemented as a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers from the relevant fields. Students are expected to document in a brief submission their doctoral research (see below described submission information for further details), which will be evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a Doctoral Consortium Session as part of the conference. Promising, but less well- developed applications will be selected for presentation at a poster session. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student's work and will discuss the doctoral research with the student and the audience at the consortium. How to Submit to the Doctoral Consortium To apply for the ACM UMAP 2019 Doctoral Consortium, students are asked to submit a paper presenting their doctoral research that describes: · The problem being addressed. · Motivation outlining the relevance of the problem and referring to related work. · The main contributions that the PhD project aims to achieve. · The progress made to date (including a clear description of the proposed approach, methodology and preliminary results) as well as the plan for further research. · Topics include (but are not limited to) the ACM UMAP 2019 key areas. Each DC submission is encouraged to consider the following: identification of related (state of the art) work, indication of the potential innovation, application or advancement of the state-of-the-art that the work intends to achieve. In addition, as appropriate for the PhD project, the submissions can consider: indication of data to be used for experimentation, indication of implementation approach, indication of evaluation criteria and experimental design. Each submission should contain a cover page including the paper title, name of the PhD candidate, the name of his/her supervisor(s) and University, a paragraph describing the stage they are in the PhD programme, together with a brief description of their background. This will enable the committee to adapt its assistance to each student. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair Doctoral Consortium submission system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=d2ZtLXJnCQkJd2ZtLXJnQG9nZi5vcm… Submissions should be pdf documents consisting of 1 cover page and the paper (up to 4 pages long), formatted using the ACM SIG proceedings template. ACM UMAP Proceedings The accepted ACM UMAP 2019 Doctoral Consortium papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by ACM and that will be available via the ACM Digital Library. The main author (doctoral student) must register for the conference for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Financial Support ACM UMAP has a history of supporting students to attend. Further details are available on the conference web site: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=d2ZtLXJnCQkJd2ZtLXJnQG9nZi5vcm… Important Dates · Paper submission: March 1st, 2019 · Notification to authors: March 22nd, 2019 · Camera ready submission: April 3rd, 2019 · ACM UMAP 2019 DC Session: June 11th and 12th, 2019 Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Laurens Rook, TU Delft, The Netherlands (l.rook AT tudelft.nl) · Markus Zanker, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (mzanker AT unibz.it)

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[CFP] EAI GOODTECHS 2019 - 5th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good - Valencia, Spain, 25-27 September 2019
by gquadrio＠math.unipd.it 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

******************************************************************** * * Call for Papers * * GoodTechs 2019 * * 5th EAI International Conference on * Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good * * September 25-27, 2019 * * Submissions due: March 15, 2019 * ******************************************************************** SCOPE ====== By social good we refer to a “good” or a service that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety, environment, democracy, and human rights, but we can add to this classic list even communication, art, entertainment and much more. In this context, the popularity of portable computing devices, like smartphones, tablets, or smart watches combined with the emergence of many other small smart objects with computational, sensing and communication capabilities coupled with the popularity of social networks and new human-technology interaction paradigms is creating unprecedented opportunities for each of us to do something useful, ranging from a single person to the whole world. Furthermore, Internet of Things, Smart-cities, distributed sensing and Fog computing are representative examples of modern ICT paradigms that aim to describe a dynamic and globally cooperative infrastructure built upon objects’ intelligence and self-configuring capabilities. These connected objects are finding their way into our pockets, vehicles, urban areas and infrastructure, thus becoming the very texture of our society and providing us the possibility, but also the responsibility, to shape it. In GOODTECHS we are hence interested in experiences with the design, implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart objects and technologies for social good. Clearly, we are not considering only the so called first world as the scenario for this evolution; we also refer to those areas where ICT is currently less widespread, hoping that it may represent a societal development opportunity rather than a source for further divide. Topics Authors are solicited to submit original, previously unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to topic areas: - App concepts and technologies for different mobile platforms - Blockchain for social good - Communication between mobile devices - Content Distribution - E-learning solutions - Data collection, organization and dissemination methods - Delay-tolerant aerial networks and ferrying approaches - Deployment and field-testing - Digital tools for art and feelings - Environment sensing, monitoring and preservation - Experimental results of communication testbeds - Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications - Health and social care - Human-object interaction - ICT for development - Mobile service architectures and frameworks - Mobility and handover management - New application scenarios for vehicular communications - Pervasive and ubiquitous services in cloud and IoT - Platforms and frameworks for mobile devices - Privacy issues and solutions - Protocol design, testing and verification - Security issues, architectures and solutions - Smart cities and transportation - Smart economy solutions: e-banking, e-business - Smart governance and e-administration - Smart living and E-health - Technology addressing the digital divide PhD students are invited to submit a 2-page research article stating their research topic and PhD projects at different stages. SPECIAL SESSIONS ================ In addition to the main conference, GOODTECHS19 will feature special sessions, aimed to emphasize emerging topics not fully or not specifically covered in the main conference. Special sessions should highlight current topics related to experiences with the design, implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart objects and technologies for social good. Presentations delivered during the events should be based on original papers, selected through a peer-review process and that have not been previously published. Accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings. For more information please refer to the main conference website and in particlar the two full calls can be found at: http://goodtechs.eu/call-special-sessions/ PUBLICATION =========== All registered papers will be published by ACM and made available through ACM Digital Library. Papers should be in English. Regular papers should be up to 6 pages in length. Short papers should be up to 4 pages in length. Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers will be rejected without review. Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to: - Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 2.497) All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of: - EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems - EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games SUBMISSION ========== Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy‘ system (http://confy.eai.eu/52608) and have to comply with the ACM format (see Author’s kit section). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Full Paper Submission deadline: March 15, 2019 Notification deadline: June 1, 2019 Camera-ready deadline: July 1, 2019 Start of Conference: September 25, 2019 End of Conference: September 27, 2019 -- Giacomo Quadrio Ph.D student University of Padua Department of Mathematics Via Trieste, 63 - Office 731 35121, Padua, Italy

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