CALL FOR PAPERS 11th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S 2017) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 – 6 September, 2017 WWW: https://www.fedcsis.org/2017/mass and https://fedcsis.org/ E-mail: mass2017@fedcsis.org Position paper submission: May 31, 2017 We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a position paper to MAS&S 2017 – held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) provide powerful models for representing both real-world systems and applications with an appropriate degree of complexity and dynamics. Several research and industrial experiences have already shown that the use of MASs…

CALL FOR PAPERS British Psychological Society (BPS) Consciousness & Experiential Psychology (CEP) Section 20th Annual Conference: Technology, Consciousness and Experience 7-9th September 2017 Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK https://www.kc-jones.co.uk/cep2017 First submission deadline: 2 July 2017 Technology pervades modern life. Most of us are dependent on ICT and relate to others through it. Digital life appears to be changing experience. This conference explores the impact of the digital world on consciousness and experience. Themes include but are not limited to: the impact of immersion in digital technologies on ways of being, questions around advancing AI and…

Call for Papers The International Conference on Futures of Media “Futurisms – Media, Arts & Sciences” 10-11 October 2017 Colombo, Sri Lanka www.futuremediaconference.com Hosting Partner – Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China Abstract submission deadline:  10th July 2017 Possible areas of enquiry are: What is the relationship between art and science, and especially media theory? What are their possible areas of con-/divergence in the digital world? Is the so-called “third culture” – the fusion of art and science – an ideal or reality? How poetic is science today – which kinds of work does it produce and in what way do artists…

Call for Papers GAMIFICATION Part of the “Decision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science” Track 51st annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences January 3-6, 2018 | Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island http://gamification-research.org/2017/03/hicss2018/ IMPORTANT DATES June 15:  Submissions deadline August 17:  Notification sent to authors September 4:  Revision deadline September 10:  Final acceptance notifications sent to authors September 22:  Deadline for authors to submit the final manuscript (camera ready) October 1:  Registration deadline January 3-6, 2018:  Conference February 15, 2018 (date subject to change) (Optional): Submission deadline for extended versions of selected papers for Gamification special issue in the Journal…

Call for Papers Design for Affective Intelligence (DfAI) Workshop co-located with ACII2017 (International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction) San Antonio, Texas October 23-26, 2017 Workshop date: October 23 or 26, 2017 (TBA) http://dfaiworkshop.wordpress.com/ Submission Deadline: June 15, 2017 Intelligent and Affective systems are set to transform the way we live and experience the world. While many intelligent systems already benefits us through scripted automation and transactions, the need for assistive, unscripted, autonomous systems capable of dealing with growing and aging populations is on the increase. The active role that AI systems are asked to play in people’s life…

Call for Papers Workshop on Conversational Interruptions in Human-Agent Interactions (CIHAI) Intelligent Virtual Agents conference 2017 (IVA2017) 27 August Stockholm, Sweden http://workshopcihai2017.doc.ic.ac.uk This workshop is a part of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual agents (http://iva2017.org/). The workshop will take place on the day before the main conference (27th of August 2017). IMPORTANT DATES 02 June 2017: Full paper submission deadline 17 July 2017: Authors notification 28 July 2017: Camera-ready deadline 28 July 2017: Demo 1-page description submission deadline Same as IVA: Early registration deadline Same as IVA: Registration deadline 27 August 2017: Full day workshop OVERVIEW This workshop will…

We are pleased to announce the following workshop offered in conjunction with the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2017): WORKSHOP CARobots: Automated Driving Systems as Robots on Four Wheels Lisbon, Portugal; August 28th, 2017 colocated with RO-MAN 2017 (http://www.ro-man2017.org) Workshop website: http://www.andreasriener.com/RO-MAN17CARobots/ Submission deadline: June 25th, 2017 OBJECTIVE: AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEMS (ADSs) AS SPECIFIC ROBOTS We argue that automated driving systems (ADSs) are robots on four wheels and the design of such vehicles is similar as the design of traditional robots. Questions, such as “How to design ADSs that evokes trust in its drivers?”,…

Call for Papers 9th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference Special Session on Computational Intelligence and Games 27-29 September 2017, University Of Essex, UK http://ceec.uk/ceec17/special-sessions/cig/ Paper Submission deadline:  23rd June 2017 Games are an ideal domain to study Computational Intelligence (CI) methods because they provide affordable, competitive, dynamic, reproducible environments suitable for testing new search algorithms, pattern-based evaluation methods, or learning concepts. They are also interesting to observe, fun to play, and very attractive to students. Additionally, there is great potential for CI methods to improve the design and development of both computer games and non-digital games such as board…

Workshop on Persuasive Embodied Agents for Behavior Change Intelligent Virtual Agents conference 2017 (IVA2017) 27 August Stockholm, Sweden http://ii.tudelft.nl/peach2017 This workshop is a part of the International Conference on Intelligent Virtual agents (http://iva2017.org/). The workshop will take place on the day before the main conference (27th of August 2017). Paper submission: July 19, 2017 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Persuasive embodied agents can play an active role in supporting people in changing their behavior, emotion, or attitude. These agents can be part of training systems, ehealth systems, or decision systems. They help people in establishing, reinforcing, or altering behaviors. Embodiment, such as in…

CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications (AIMA’17) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 – 6 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org E-mail: aima2017@fedcsis.org Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline, there will be no extensions) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to AIMA’17 – held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE…

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…