Call for Papers 2018 Workshop on Non-Player Characters and Social Believability At Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2018 Malmö University Sweden August 7-10 2018) http://fdg2018.org/ Workshop website: http://www.npc-workshop.org/cfp-2018.php Paper submission deadline: May 21 2018 The 2018 workshop on Non-Player Characters and Social Believability intends to be a point of interaction for researchers and game developers interested in modeling, discussing, and developing systems for Non-Player Character (NPC) social behavior and social affordances. This can include behaviour generation based on social and behavioural science theories and models, systems and approaches for social believability, social affordances when interacting with NPCs, and more. We…

Call for Papers Workshop on Intelligent Conversational Agents in Home and Geriatric Care Applications Held in conjunction with Federated AI Meeting (FAIM) 14th-15th of July, 2018 Stockholm http://taln.upf.edu/pages/ica_ws/ Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018 Communication is of crucial importance in home and geriatric care. Caregivers are expected not only to facilitate information, guidance and instruction, but also to interact as trustworthy companions of caretakers. In the light of the fact that more and more individuals are increasingly in need of home and geriatric care, ensuring adequate service for all has become a societal challenge. With the increasing maturity of verbal and…

CALL FOR PAPERS, IDEAS, and PARTICIPATION First IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (ai4i 2018) September 26-28, 2018 The Hills Hotel Laguna Hills, California http://www.ai4i.org Workshop proposals deadline: May 14, 2018 (Regular, Short, Abstract) Paper submission deadline: June 17, 2018 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is concerned with computing technologies that allow machines to see, hear, talk, think, learn, and solve problems. On one hand it allows business decisions to be driven by real-time models that enable unprecedented levels of accuracy and efficiency. On the other hand, general and domain specific problem solving can be integrated by semantic technologies. In…

Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on the ApplicatioN of Semantic WEb technologies in Robotics – AnSWeR 2018 Co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference 2018 (ISWC 2018) Date: October the 8th, 2018 Venue: Monterey, California, US (co-located with ISWC2018) Hashtag: #answer2018 Twitter: @answerworkshop Site: http://answer.kmi.open.ac.uk/ Workshop chairs: Emanuele Bastianelli – The Open University, UK Masoumeh (Iran) Mansouri – Örebro University, Sweden Ilaria Tiddi – The Open University, UK Steering Committee: Mathieu d’Aquin – Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland Daniele Nardi – Sapienza University of Rome, Italy IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: Friday, June 1st Notification to authors: Wednesday, June…

Call for Chapters: Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments Submission of Proposals Deadline: June 15, 2018 We are inviting proposals for chapters for an edited book “Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments” to be published by IGI Global in 2019. My colleagues and I have been researching the way virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality are having an impact on ways people communicate and learn with technology. Virtual Learning Environments at schools and in Higher Education Institutes embracing these emerging technologies are being adopted quickly. The challenge is to identify where and how these applications are able to provide…

Call for Papers ICTS4eHealth 2018 – 3rd edition of the IEEE International Workshop on ICT Solutions for e-Health In conjunction with the Twenty-Third IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications Praiamar Natal Hotel & Convention, Natal, Brazil June 25-28, 2018 www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it Submission deadline: April 16, 2018 (extended – firm deadline!) MISSION: e-Health is one of the major research topics that have been attracting cross-disciplinary research groups. The deployment of new emerging ICT technologies for Health, especially based on Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Computational Intelligence, is attracting the interest of many researchers. The use of Cloud computing, IoT technologies,…