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Special Track on Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments (AmIA Environments 2017) 18th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence – EPIA 2017
5th-8th September, 2017 :: Porto, Portugal web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/
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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 everyoneís 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 ìnaturalî 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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In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Ambient Intelligence and Affective environments.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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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 EPIAí2017 submission Website (www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=epia2017) selecting the track Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments.
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Deadline for paper submission: April 15th, 2017 Notification of paper acceptance: May 31th, 2017 Camera-ready papers: June 15th, 2017 Conference dates: September 5-8, 2017
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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 2017 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2017 proceedings were indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.
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Paulo Novais, University of Minho, Portugal (pjon@di.uminho.pt) Ana Almeida, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal (amn@isep.ipp.pt) Sara Rodriguez, University of Salamanca, Spain (srg@usal.es) Goreti Marreiros, Polytechnic of Porto (mgt@isep.ipp.pt)