Sincere apologies if you receive this call for papers multiple times. --------------------------------------------------------------------- AmI-07 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence November 7-10, 2007, Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ami-07.org CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for Workshop Proposals: May 10, 2007 Deadline for Paper Submissions: May 29, 2007 CONFERENCE THEME Ambient Intelligence represents a vision of the future where we shall be surrounded by electronic environments, sensitive and responsive to people. Ambient Intelligence technologies are expected to combine concepts of ubiquitous computing and intelligent systems putting humans in the centre of technological developments. The conference aims to bring together top researchers both from academia and industry within the various disciplines that constitute the field of Ambient Intelligence to stimulate research and create links between industry and academia allowing the exploration of new frontiers in the area of Ambient Intelligence. AmI-07 is the second joint conference that brings together two series of events. The first series of events is the Conference on Smart Objects (sOc) and has been organized by France Telecom and by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) both in Grenoble, France in 2001 and 2003. The second series of events is the European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (EUSAI) and has been organized by Philips and University of Eindhoven both in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 2003 and 2004. In 2005 the first joined conference of sOc and EUSAI was organized in Grenoble, France under the name sOc-EUSAI'05. Now in 2007 we are expanding the scope of the series by including three different types of contributions: research contributions, case studies and lessons learned contributions and industry and socio-economic contributions. The format of the conference will be dual track and comprises three different types of contributions: - Research Contributions: an international PC-committee will peer-review and select high-quality and original research in all areas of Ambient Intelligence submitted as research papers - Case Studies and Lessons Learned: an international PC-committee will select the contributions most valuable to the Ambient Intelligence community - Industry and Socio-Economic Contributions: an international PC- committee will select the most innovative contributions on commercial and socio-economic aspects of ambient intelligence. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Steering Committee Emile Aarts (Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven) Patrice Senn (France Telecom Research) General Chairs Emile Aarts (Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven) Alejandro Buchmann (TU Darmstadt) Program CoChairs (Research Contributions) Anind Dey (CMU) Hans Gellersen (Lancaster University) Bernt Schiele (TU Darmstadt) Case Studies and Lessons Learned Contributions CoChairs Boris de Ruyter (Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven) Manfred Tscheligi (University of Salzburg) Industry and Socio-Economics Contributions CoChairs Hartmut Raffler (Siemens Research) Jane Tateson (British Telecom) Workshop CoChairs Max M¸hlh‰user (TU Darmstadt) Alois Ferscha (University of Linz) Local Arrangements Chair Erwin Aitenbichler (TU Darmstadt) CONTACT For general information: [log in to unmask] For submission info: [log in to unmask] For registration info: [log in to unmask] For workshops: [log in to unmask] RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished work in all areas related to Ambient Intelligence. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Objects, devices and environments that embody Ambient Intelligence - Context awareness, sensing and inference for Ambient Intelligence - Natural and multimodal interaction styles and user interfaces for ambient computing - Ergonomics, interaction design and product prototyping for Ambient Intelligence - Distributed software, systems, middleware and frameworks for Ambient Intelligence - Analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of ambient computing systems and environments - Security, privacy and trust in Ambient Intelligence - Communication systems and infrastructure for Ambient Intelligence - Applications and experience with deployed systems We solicit papers of up to 18 pages. Shorter submissions will not be penalized, and each submission's length should be appropriate for its content. Paper submissions for AmI-07 must be in PDF format and should conform to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) style, and all submissions should be formatted according to their guidelines. Misformatted submissions, or those longer than 18 pages, are subject to rejection without review. Accepted Research Contributions will be published in Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (approval pending). One author from each accepted paper will be required to attend the conference to present their work. Paper submissions must be anonymized to facilitate blind review. Authors are encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimize references that may reveal the identity of the authors or their institutions. Relevant references to an author's previous research should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a neutral way. Important Dates May 29: Deadline for Paper Submission July 16: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection Sept 5: Deadline for Camera Ready Papers CASE STUDIES and LESSONS LEARNED CONTRIBUTIONS The conference will include case studies and lessons-learned contributions for high quality papers and presentations on various types of experiences of Ambient Intelligence, which include (but are not limited to) the following topics: - experience prototyping - user centered design - early experience labs - deployment of AmI - end-user insights - field testing - tools for experience instrumentation and analysis - living and early involvement labs - social acceptance experience Case Studies and Lessons-Learned submissions should also be prepared in LNCS-Springer format with a *18-page limit*, and submitted electronically. On an additional page the authors should explicitly list and comment what other researchers and practitioners may learn from the described case studies and how lessons learned may generalize. Important Dates May 29: Deadline for Paper Submission INDUSTRY and SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS The conference will include industrial and socio-economic contributions for high quality papers and presentations on innovative commercial and socio-economic aspects of Ambient Intelligence, which include (but are not limited to) the following topics: - examples of products and services - market insights - business models for AmI - socio-economical aspects - ethical aspects - sustainability aspects - societal trends - privacy - standardization issues - intellectual property rights - legislation - incentives needed for making AmI succeed Industrial and Socio-Economic submissions should also be prepared in LNCS-Springer format with a *18-page limit*, and submitted electronically. Important Dates May 29: Deadline for Paper Submission CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Scope ----- AmI-07 workshops should fit into one of the following categories: 1. EU PROJECT WORKSHOPS intended for internal, restricted, or public exchange of research progress or proposals related to projects funded by the European Commission - typically, in the context of FP6 or FP7 2. FOCUSSED SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOPS emphasizing a relatively narrow topic related to the AmI-07 overall theme. The topic should be interesting and concise such as to attract a group of like-minded participants. 3. EARLY-WORK SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOPS soliciting well defended research project proposals, work-in-progress reports, and similar early papers of sufficient quality. Workshop Format --------------- Workshops can be restricted to participation upon invitation only or they can be kept open. In any case, advance registration will be required in order to plan ahead for the required facilities. Half-day and full-day workshops can be accommodated, to be held on November 10. In the event that workshops shall be extended to Sunday, November 11, facilities can be provided as-is; no catering can be provided on November 11. Workshop registration fees will be kept separate from conference registration fees. Proposal Format and Submission ------------------------------ Proposals must be submitted by the deadline indicated below. Only electronic submissions in PDF format are accepted; the proposals must be submitted via the AmI-07 web site. Proposals for Scientific Workshops (scope 2+3 above) must include the following information: 1) Content of the Workshop a) Title b) Tentative Text (Body) of the Call for Papers c) Abstract describing - as far as not yet covered in 1b) - the Rationale, tentative review/selection procedure and timeline, publication plans, expected number of participants, and further information considered relevant b) and c) together should comprise about 250-500 words 2) For each of the (one through five) proposers: a) Name, Affiliation b) Short Bio, including a description of the expertise in the topic(s) of the workshop (around 150-250 words) 3) Tentative Program Committee (Name+Affiliation of members) For EU project workshops, 1 b-c) and 3) can be omitted; in exchange, documentation about the EU project(s) concerned should be provided (format and extent at discretion). Important Dates May 10: Deadline for Proposal Submissions June 10: Notifications of Acceptance Nov 10: Workshops at Darmstadt University of Technology Proposed Schedule for Workshops (responsibility of workshop organizers): July 31: Submission Deadline Sept 20: Notification of Acceptance Oct 30: Final Papers Due --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------