Month: April 2010

SETN 2010

SETN-2010, The 6th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Athens, Greece, 4-7 May, 2010, http://www.setn2010.gr

On-line registration will be open until April 30th
Please see http://www.setn2010.gr/registration

Venue
SETN-2010 will be held at the conference centre of the
Eugenides Foundation, Athens, Greece.
See also http://www.eugenfound.edu.gr/

All areas of the conference centre are fully accessible.

Programme
Full conference programme has been announced at
http://www.setn2010.gr/programme

Highlighs:

* List of accepted papers at http://www.setn2010.gr/accepted
* Invited talks by four internationally distinguished keynote
speakers: Panos Constantopoulos, Michail Lagoudakis, Nikolaos
Mavridis, and Demetri Terzopoulos.
(http://www.setn2010.gr/keynotes for more details)
* SETN-2010 will proudly host the first RoboCup tournament to be held
in Greece, featuring three teams of Nao humanoid robots.
(http://www.setn2010.gr/robocup)
* Special sessions: best student paper award, system demonstrations,
panel discussion on research data sharing.
(http://www.setn2010.gr/specialsessions)
* Tutorials on wide range of AI issues.
(http://www.setn2010.gr/tutorials)

EVENTS workshop
The International Workshop on “Recognising and tracking events on the
Web and in real life” (EVENTS 2010) will be colocated with SETN 2010.
Please see http://mklab.iti.gr/events2010 for more information.

Important Dates
Early registration closes       19 April 2010
On-line registration closes     30 April 2010
On-site registration opens       4 May 2010
EVENTS Workshop                  4 May 2010
Conference                     4-7 May 2010

Conference Chairs
Constantine D. Spyropoulos, NCSR “Demokritos”
Director of Inst. Informatics and Telecommunications

Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR “Demokritos”
Head of Software and Knowledge Engineering Lab

George Vouros, University of the Aegean
EETN President

Steering Committee
Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH and University of Crete (SETN ’06 Chair)
John Darzentas, University of Aegean (SETN ’08 Chair)
Nikos Fakotakis, University of Patras (ECAI’08 Chair)
Themistoklis Panayiotopoulos, University of Piraeus (SETN ’04 Co-chair)
Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University (SETN ’02 Chair)

Programme Committee

PC Chairs
Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR “Demokritos”
Stavros Perantonis, NCSR “Demokritos”

Area Chairs
Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras
Ilias Maglogiannis, University of Central Greece
George Paliouras, NCSR “Demokritos”
Ioannis Refanidis, University of Macedonia
Efstathios Stamatatos, University of the Aegean
Kostas Stergiou, University of the Aegean
Panos Trahanias, University of Crete and FORTH

Full programme committee at
http://www.setn2010.gr/pc

New paper accepted for publication

The manuscript entitled as QoE-driven dynamic management proposals for 3G VoIP services authored by Jose-Oscar Fajardoa, Fidel Liberal, Is-Haka Mkwawa, Lingfen Sun and Harilaos Koumaras has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Computer Communications, Elsevier.

In this paper the authors propose a combined approach where service level adaptation is considered first and, provided that no suitable parameter combination is capable of providing enough QoE, a change of network state will be suggested. In order to do so we analyse the performance of the end-to-end (e2e) performance metrics in this  convergent scenario, the root causes of possible degradations and, finally, the combined effects of the different network segments and their impact on the user perceived QoE. We show the the map of best performing VoIP configurations for every state of the network segments. Furthermore, considering each of these configurations, we analyse the acceptability of the service or the convenience of trying to modify the network state. Finally, a lightweight implementation based on simple network state estimation and decision heurisitics is proposed and validated in terms of accuracy and responsiveness.

UCAmI 2010

IV International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and
Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2010)

Valencia, SPAIN, September 7-10, 2010

UCAmI 2010: http://ucami2010.lcc.uma.es
(is co-located with CEDI 2010, http://www.congresocedi.es/2010/)

The Ubiquitous Computing (UC) idea envisioned by Weiser in 1991, has recently evolved to a more general paradigm known as Ambient Intelligence (AmI). Ambient Intelligence then represents a new generation of user-centred computing environments aiming to find new ways to obtain a better integration of the information technology in everyday life devices and activities. AmI environments are integrated by several autonomous computational devices of modern life ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones. Ideally, people in an AmI environment will not notice these devices, but they will benefit from the services they provide them. Such devices are aware of the people present in those environments by reacting to their gestures, actions and context. Recently the interest in Ambient Intelligence Environments has grown considerably due to new challenges posed by society, demanding highly innovative services such as vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), e-Health, Internet of Things and Home Automation among others.

The main goal of this conference is to provide a discussion forum where researchers and practitioners on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence can meet, disseminate and exchange ideas and problems, identify some of the key issues related to these topics, and explore together possible solutions and future works.

TOPICS

Both academia and industry are invited to submit papers about any of the following topics of interest:

* Integrating lightweight and/or mobile devices in AmI environments (telephones, RFID, consumer electronics, sensors, smart devices, etc.)
* Mobile Ad Hoc Networks support for AmI environments for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), MANETs, VANETs, etc.,(architectures, protocols, etc.)
* Sensing location and context awareness (context modelling, adaptation, sentient computing, etc.)
* Human-Centric Interfaces for AmI environments
* Middleware support for AmI and ubiquitous computing environments (WSNs, MANET, VANETs, RFID, etc.)
* Artificial intelligence approaches (agents, affective computing, ontologies, semantic reasoning, etc.)
* Applications for AmI environments (e-learning, e-health, Home Automation, e-payment, ticketing, etc.)
* Specific services for AmI (service discovery, security, data delivery, coordination, etc.)
* Communication and radio technologies (NFC, Bluetooth, etc.)
* Quality attributes in AmI applications (real-time, quality of service, fault-tolerance, etc.).
* Software technologies for AmI (frameworks, components, aspect-orientation, service-orientation, software product line, etc.)

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND PROCEDURE

Types of submissions

1. Long Paper. A maximum length of 10 pages. They must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the symposium.

2. Short paper. A maximum length of 5 pages (for example, a project report, a summary of a PhD thesis, or work in progress).

3. Doctoral Consortium. PhD students are invited to present the topic and progress of their research, in order to obtain feedback from a panel of experts. The length of these papers should be no longer than 8 pages.

All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. Every submitted paper to UCAmI’10 will be reviewed by at least two members of the Scientific Committee.

The conference papers will be published as part of the CEDI proceedings (with ISBN).

Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special theme of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal, indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (http://www.facebook.com/notes/personal-and-ubiquitous-computing/ubiquitous-computing-ambient-intelligence-2010/158424205457).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: April 18, 2010
Notification of acceptance: May 17, 2010
Camera-ready version: May 27, 2010
Conference dates: September 7-10, 2010

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

General Chair, José Bravo, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Program Chair, Lidia Fuentes, University of Málaga (Spain)
Web master, Nadia Gámez, University of Málaga (Spain)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Xavier Alamán, Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain)
Mariano Alcañiz, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)
Mercedes Amor, University of Malaga (Spain)
Cecilio Angulo, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain)
Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster at Jordanstown (UK)
Francisco J. Ballesteros, Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain)
Juan A. Botía, University of Murcia (Spain)
José Bravo, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Yang Cai, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Rafael Corchuelo, University of Sevilla (Spain)
Kevin Curran, University of Ulster (UK)
Flavia Delicato, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brasil)
Jesús Favela, CICESE (Mexico)
Joao Miguel Fernandez, University of Minho (Portugal)
Lidia Fuentes, University of Malaga (Spain)
Ramón Hervás, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Diego Gachet, European University of Madrid (Spain)
Nadia Gámez, University of Malaga (Spain)
Carlos García, University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain)
Víctor M. González, Autonomous University of Nuevo León (Mexico)
Antonio F. Gómez Skarmeta, University of Murcia (Spain)
Hani Hagras, University of Essex (UK)
Carlos Juiz, University of the Balearic Islands (Spain)
Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, The Open University (UK)
Juan Carlos López, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Diego López de Ipiña, University of Deusto (Spain)
Ricardo J. Machado, University of Minho (Portugal)
René Meier, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
Francisco Moya, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Sergio Ochoa, University of Chile (Chile)
Nuria Oliver, Microsoft Research (USA)
Marcela Rodríguez, Autonomous University of Baja California (Mexico)
Iñaki Vázquez, University of Deusto (Spain)