Announcement and Call for Papers 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2015) 30.11. – 2.12., 2015 in Linz, Austria www.mum-conf.org Organized by University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and Johannes Kepler University Linz in-cooperation with ACM SIGCHI MUM 2015, the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, will be held on 30.11. – 2.12.2015 at the Ars Electronica Center Linz in Austria. Import Dates: Paper submission deadline: August 21, 2015 Notification of review decisions: October 9, 2015 Conference dates: November 30 – December 2, 2015 MUM is a distinguished forum for advances in research and technologies…

CALL FOR PAPERS COMUNICAR JOURNAL Special Issue, n46 The Internet of the future The challenges of human interaction Internet del futuro Los desafíos de la interacción humana Subject Editors Carina S. González. University of La Laguna, Spain César A. Collazo. University of Cauca, Colombia FOCUS This issue is intended to promote and disseminate recent advances in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI in the USA, IPO in Spain). In particular, we will focus on the problems facing the internet of the future or the internet of things, and the challenges present in this field involving interacting and communicating with the…

CALL FOR PAPERS Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (www.scpe.org) Special Issue: Principles and Practices in Multi-Agent Systems Agent-based Computing addresses the challenges in managing distributed computing systems and networks through monitoring, communication, consensus-based decision-making and coordinated actuation. As a result, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems have demonstrated the capability to use intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, and other social metaphors like “trust”, “game” and “institution”, to not only address real-world problems in a human-like way but to transcend human performance. This has had a transformative impact on many application domains, particularly e-commerce, but also on planning, logistics, manufacturing, robotics, decision…

There is still opportunity to reserve your free place at this exciting afternoon symposium: ROBOT & GRAN: WOULD YOU LEAVE YOUR AGEING PARENT OR GRANDPARENT IN THE CARE OF A ROBOT? Wednesday 25th March 2015, 3:30pm Committee room 3, House of Lords Palace of Westminster United Kingdom This event is kindly hosted by Lord McColl of Dulwich For the first time in history, there are 11 million people aged 65 or over in the UK with 3 million people aged 80 or over. By 2050, estimates predict that the elderly will account for 16 percent of the global population. Research…

Call for Papers WEB3D 2015 – 20th International Conference on 3D Web Technology June 18-21 – Heraklion, Crete, Greece http://web3d2015.web3d.org The annual ACM Web3D Conference is a major event which unites researchers, developers, entrepreneurs, experimenters, artists and content creators in a dynamic learning environment. Attendees share and explore methods of using, enhancing and creating new 3D Web and Multimedia technologies such as WebGL, X3D, VRML, Collada, MPEG family, U3D, Java3D and other technologies. The conference also focuses on recent trends in interactive 3D graphics, information integration and usability in the wide range of Web3D applications from mobile devices to high-end…

Call for Papers SSC 2015: Special Session on Serious Games and Social Simulation (SSSG) The Eleventh Conference of the European Social Simulation Association September 14 to 18 in Groningen, The Netherlands Dear all, As organizers of the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Serious Games and Social Simulation (SSSG), we would like to invite you to consider submitting a paper for our special session at the 2015 Social Simulation Conference (SSC). This will take place from September 14-18 in Groningen, The Netherlands and the current deadline for full papers, extended abstracts and posters is set to April 13th.…