Call for Chapters: Cyber-Physical Systems for Next Generation Networks Editors: Joel Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal Amjad Gawanmeh, Khalifa University, UAE, and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada To be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.) http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2681 Proposal Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 INTRODUCTION The new paradigms and tremendous advances in computing, communications and control have provided and supported wide range of applications in all domains of life, in particular, bridging the physical components and the cyber space leading to the Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). The notion of CPS is to use…

Call for Papers The Mutual Shaping of Human-Robot Interaction A workshop held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2017) Lisbon, Portugal August 28-31, 2017 www.mutualshapinghri.com Submission deadline for workshop papers: June 1, 2017 WORKSHOP TOPIC The field of robotics has rapidly advanced over the last decades and shown great promises in different fields. After robots were introduced in industry decades ago, advancements in robotic systems have enabled them to increasingly enter and affect our everyday lives. Nowadays, we see robotic systems being introduced as assistants, team-mates, care-takers, and companions, in diverse contexts…

Call For Papers UbiTtention 2017 (2nd International Workshop on Smart & Ambient Notification and Attention Management) in conjunction with ACM UbiComp/ISWC 2017 Maui, Hawaii September 11 or 12, 2017 Website: https://projects.hcilab.org/ubittention2017/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ubittention/ Submission deadline: June 9, 2017 WORKSHOP THEME AND GOALS In the advancing ubiquitous computing, users are increasingly confronted with a tremendous amount of information proactively provided via notifications from versatile applications and services, through multiple devices and screens in their environment. Thus, our human’s attention have been getting a new significant bottleneck. Further, the latest computing trends with emerging new devices including versatile IoT devices, and contexts,…

CALL FOR PAPERS ESSEM@ACII 2017 3rd International Workshop on Emotion and Sentiment in Social and Expressive Media (ESSEM 2017): User Engagement and Interaction http://di.unito.it/essem17 Co-located with the seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2017 (http://acii2017.org/), San Antonio, Texas, October 23, 2017 Submission deadline: June 15, 2017 Keynote speaker: Georgios Yannakakis, Institute of Digital Games, Univ. of Malta The role of emotional intelligence is increasing at fast speed in everyday computer-mediated interactions, thanks to the integration of more or less explicit affective elements in social networks, apps, virtual assistants, etc. Expressed through emojis, color, tags or speech,…