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[CFP - DEADLINE EXTENDED] GOODTECHS 2020 - Special Session in Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life, 14/09 - 16/09, Antwerp, Belgium
by Filippo Carnovalini 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

************************************************************************* * Call for Papers * GoodTechs 2020 * Special Session in Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life * September 14-16, 2020, Antwerp, Belgium *. Submission by 1 May 2020 (EXTENDED) * ************************************************************************* More info at: http://goodtechs.eu/serious-games/ The Organizing Committee of GOODTECHS 2020 is monitoring the COVID-19 situation to ensure the safety of attendees and a successful course of the event to be held in Antwerp, Belgium on September 14-16, 2020. If required, online presentations will be made possible due to any travel or local government restrictions. Furthermore, as we are aware of the COVID-19 situation around the world, we decided to postpone the submission deadline to May 1st, 2020. 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 methods 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, Italy, gaggi[at]math.unipd.it Co-Chair: Antonio Rodà, Università di Padova, Italy, antonio.roda[at] unipd.it 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: 1 May 2020 Notification deadline: 11 May 2020 Follow the submission instructions at: http://goodtechs.eu/submission/

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FedCSIS 2020 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 29 Mar '20

29 Mar '20

CALL FOR PAPERS 15th Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS’2020) Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-9 September, 2020 www.fedcsis.org Strict submission deadline: May 15, 2020, 23:59:59 pm HST (no extensions) (FedCSIS IEEE conference number: #49059) Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. KEY FACTS: expected Proceedings: IEEE Digital Library; indexing: Web of Science (since 2012); 22 Technical Sessions in 5 Tracks; Doctoral Symposium; conference fee covers 4 lunches and 3 social events; Sofia – capital of Bulgaria, city history goes back to Roman times (with some, recently uncovered and made available to see, fascinating ruins of Serdika – which is how Sofia was known during Tracian and Roman times). FedCSIS is an annual international conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly acclaimed forum in computer science and information systems. We invite researchers from around the world to contribute their research results and participate in Technical Sessions focused on their scientific and professional interests in computer science and information systems. As in the previous years, FedCSIS 2020 will host a data mining challenge. It will be organized on a, recently re-designed, Knowledge Pit platform: https://knowledgepit.ml The specific topic will be announced shortly, please check the competition site (or the conference portal). There will also be a special session devoted to this challenge at the FedCSIS 2020 conference. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This already includes Proceedings of FedCSIS 2018 (we are awaiting the decision for the FedCSIS 2019). Information about FedCSIS indexing / bibliometry / rankings can be found at: https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/indexation. FedCSIS TRACKS AND TECHNICAL SESSIONS The FedCSIS 2020 consists of five conference Tracks, hosting Technical Sessions: Track 1: Artificial Intelligence * Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (15th Symposium AAIA'20) * Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval (9th International Workshop ASIR'20) * Formal Approaches to Vagueness in Relation to Mereology (1st Symposium FVRM'20) * Language Technologies and Applications (5th Workshop LTA'20) * Computational Optimization (13th Workshop WCO'20) Track 2: Computer Science & Systems * Advances in Computer Science & Systems (ACSS'20) * Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars (1st Workshop 4A'20) * Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (13th Workshop CANA'20) * Multimedia Applications and Processing (13th Symposium MMAP'20) * Scalable Computing (11th Workshop WSC'20) Track 3: Network Systems and Applications * Advances in Network Systems and Applications (ANSA'20) * Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications (4rd Workshop IoT-ECAW'20) * Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust (1st International Forum NEMESIS'20) Track 4: Information Systems and Technologies * Advances in Information Systems and Technologies (AIST'20) * Data Science in Health (DSH'19) (2nd Special Session DSH'20) * Information Systems Management (15th Conference ISM'20) * Knowledge Acquisition and Management (26th Conference KAM'20) Track 5: Software and System Engineering * Advances in Software and System Engineering (ASSE'20) * Cyber-Physical Systems (7th Workshop IWCPS’20) * Lean and Agile Software Development (4th International Conference LASD'20) * Model Driven Approaches in System Development (6th Workshop MDASD'20) * Software Engineering (40th IEEE Workshop SEW’20) Track 6: DS-RAIT'20 - 7th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS * Christian Blum, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain Keynote title: Are you a Hybrid? Yes, of course, everyone is a Hybrid nowadays! * George Boustras, European University Cyprus Keynote title: Critical Infrastructure Protection – on the interface of safety and security * Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Keynote title: From Digital Transformation to Digital Ubiquity: The Role of Enterprise Modeling PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION + Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2020 (strict deadline, no extensions, submission system will be opened in the first week of March). + Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick and provided to the FedCSIS participants. + Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers, will posted within the conference Web portal. Moreover, most Technical Session organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events, or by contacting Chairs of said events). IMPORTANT DATES + Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15, 2020, 23:59:59 pm HST (there will be no extension) + Position paper submission: June 9, 2020 + Author notification: June 30, 2020 + Final paper submission and registration: July 15, 2020 + Conference date: September 6-9, 2020 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS in Social Media: FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonLinkedIN FedCSIS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FedCSIS FedCSIS on XING: http://preview.tinyurl.com/FedCSISonXING

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14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): Second Call for Research Projects @RCIS Track
by Announce Announcements 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

*** Second Call for Research Projects @RCIS Track *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus September 23-25, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=d2ZtLXJnCQkJd2ZtLXJnQG9nZi5vcm… Submission deadline: April 10, 2020 (AoE) (extended!) RCIS 2020 features a new track entirely devoted to presenting results and perspectives of research projects (e.g. H2020 or ERC projects, national grants) in the context of Information Science. This track features a good opportunity for both presenters to disseminate the results of their projects, and for participants to get an updated view of ongoing research while getting in touch with potential research partners. The Research Projects @RCIS Track follows a two-step publication process. Firstly, the authors should submit a 2 pages paper summarizing the objectives of the project and relevant results. Each submission will be peer reviewed on the relevance of the submitted paper in the context of RCIS. If the paper is accepted, the authors will have to register to the conference in order to present their work at the Posters and Demos session at RCIS. After the conference, presenters will have the opportunity to submit the presented poster, which will be published in the RCIS 2020 website. No shows will be excluded from the final proceedings. SUBMISSION PROCESS Each submission will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the RCIS scientific committees, and should include: · Project full name, acronym, duration (from-to) and URL · Names of presenter(s) and main contributors · Summary of project objectives and expected tangible outputs. · Summary of current project results Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template. To ensure uniformity, we have prepared ready-to-use templates for Word and LaTeX which are available on the conference web site. References and appendices must be included within the 2 pages. Papers can be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcis2020#) by selecting the "Research Projects @RCIS 2020" track. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission deadline: April 10, 2020 (AoE) (extended) · Notification (based on relevance only): April 15, 2020 · Author registration and camera-ready copy deadline: April 30, 2020 · Conference: September 23-25, 2020 CONTACT POINTS For further questions please contact: Marcela Ruiz marcela.ruiz(a)zhaw.ch Elena Kornyshova elena.kornyshova(a)cnam.fr CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Steering Committee · Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France · Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia · Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom · Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France · Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain · Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse · Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pericles Loucopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden · Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Raian Ali, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom · Sergio España, Utrecht University, Netherlands Tutorial Chairs · Estefania Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium · Ignacio Panach, University of Valencia, Spain Posters & Demos Chairs · Elena Kornyshova, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France · Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

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[CFP] GOODTECHS 2020 - Special Session in Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life, 14/09 - 16/09, Antwerp, Belgium
by Filippo Carnovalini 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

******************************************************************** * Call for Papers * GoodTechs 2020 * Special Session in Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life * September 14-16, 2020, Antwerp, Belgium *. Submission by 1 April 2020 * ******************************************************************** More info at: http://goodtechs.eu/serious-games/ 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 methods 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, Italy, gaggi[at]math.unipd.it Co-Chair: Antonio Rodà, Università di Padova, Italy, antonio.roda[at] unipd.it 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: 1 April 2020 Notification deadline: 11 May 2020 Follow the submission instructions at: http://goodtechs.eu/submission/

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14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): Call for Research Projects @RCIS Track
by Announce Announcements 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

*** Call for Research Projects @RCIS Track *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=d2ZtLXJnCQkJd2ZtLXJnQG9nZi5vcm… Submission deadline: March 21, 2020 (AoE) RCIS 2020 features a new track entirely devoted to presenting results and perspectives of research projects (e.g. H2020 or ERC projects, national grants) in the context of Information Science. This track features a good opportunity for both presenters to disseminate the results of their projects, and for participants to get an updated view of ongoing research while getting in touch with potential research partners. The Research Projects @RCIS Track follows a two-step publication process. Firstly, the authors should submit a 2 pages paper summarizing the objectives of the project and relevant results. Each submission will be peer reviewed on the relevance of the submitted paper in the context of RCIS. If the paper is accepted, the authors will have to register to the conference in order to present their work at the Posters and Demos session at RCIS. After the conference, presenters will have the opportunity to submit the presented poster, which will be published in the RCIS 2020 website. No shows will be excluded from the final proceedings. SUBMISSION PROCESS Each submission will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the RCIS scientific committees, and should include: · Project full name, acronym, duration (from-to) and URL · Names of presenter(s) and main contributors · Summary of project objectives and expected tangible outputs. · Summary of current project results Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template. To ensure uniformity, we have prepared ready-to-use templates for Word and LaTeX which are available on the conference web site. References and appendices must be included within the 2 pages. Papers can be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcis2020#) by selecting the "Research Projects @RCIS 2020" track. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission deadline: March 21, 2020 (AoE) · Notification (based on relevance only): March 25, 2020 · Author registration and camera-ready copy deadline: March 31, 2020 · Conference: May 20-22, 2020 CONTACT POINTS For further questions please contact: Marcela Ruiz marcela.ruiz(a)zhaw.ch Elena Kornyshova elena.kornyshova(a)cnam.fr CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Steering Committee · Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France · Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia · Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom · Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France · Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain · Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse · Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pericles Loucopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden · Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Raian Ali, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom · Sergio España, Utrecht University, Netherlands Tutorial Chairs · Estefania Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium · Ignacio Panach, University of Valencia, Spain Posters & Demos Chairs · Elena Kornyshova, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France · Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

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