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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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