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AmIA_Environments@EPIA2024 :: CALL FOR PAPERS

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Special Track on Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA

Environments 2024)

23rd Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence – EPIA 2024

EPIA 2024

23rd EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence

https://epia2024.pt/

September 3-6, 2024

Viana do Castelo, Portugal

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Paper submission: April 30, 2024

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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original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of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

– Mobile Health (mHealth)

– 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

– Sensor-based Applications

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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’2024

submission Website

(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2024) selecting the

track AmIA – Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Paper submission: April 30, 2024

Notification of paper acceptance: June 15, 2024

Camera-ready papers deadline: July 15, 2024

Conference dates: September 3-6, 2024

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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 2024 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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Luís Conceição, Institute of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal (msc@isep.ipp.pt)

Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon@di.uminho.pt)

Goreti Marreiros, Institute of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal (mgt@isep.ipp.pt)

Sara Rodriguez, University of Salamanca, Spain (srg@usal.es)

João Carneiro, Devoteam, Portugal (joao.carneiro@devoteam.com)

Peter Mikulecky, University of Hradec Kralove (peter.mikulecky@uhk.cz)