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Scope

ICCASA 2021 is a place for highly original ideas about how Context-Aware Systems (CAS) are going to shape networked computing systems of the future. Hence, it focuses on rigorous approaches and cutting-edge solutions which break new ground in dealing with the properties of context-awareness. Its purpose is to make a formal basis more accessible to researchers, scientists, professionals and students as well as developers and practitioners in ICT by providing them with state-of-the-art research results, applications, opportunities and future trends.

CAS is primarily inspired by the human autonomic nervous system and it’s is characterized by itself-* facets such as self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, self-protection and so on whose context awareness used to dynamically control computing and networking functions. The overall goal of CAS is to realize nature inspired autonomic systems, that can manage themselves without direct human interventions. Meeting this grand challenge of CAS requires a rigorous interdisciplinary approach to context-aware systems.

We are happy to inform you about the collocated conference ICTCC 2021 (ictcc.org)!

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Topics

The works that will be presented at conference will focus on the following topics:

Fundamentals of Context-aware systems

- Context-aware models
- Context-aware control
- Context-aware algorithms
- Context-aware networks
- Context-aware computing
- Context-awareness calculi
- Context-awareness representation
- Context-awareness-based systems
- Logic in context-awareness
- Context-awareness reasoning
- Formal methods of context-awareness
- Context-awareness-based optimization and swarm Intelligence
- Theory, computational models and algorithms in context detection for computing
- Awareness of context in collaboration or crowdsourcing
- Context recognition and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Privacy issues

Context-aware Systems

- Routing, transport, and reliability issues of context-aware systems
- Data dissemination and replication in context-aware systems
- Applications and middleware support, mobile social networking applications
- Mobility models and statistical analysis of mobility traces
- Context and social awareness mechanisms and algorithms
- Co-existence of opportunistic networks with infrastructure mobile wireless networks
- Service composition in autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Cognition-driven information processing and decision making
- Performance modeling, scaling laws, and fundamental limits for autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Game-theoretic insights to the operation of autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Participatory and urban sensing in autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Trust, security, and reputation in context-aware systems
- Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and prototypes, measurement data from real experiments
- Socio-economic models for autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Mobile data measurement and collection platforms for context detection
- Automated systems to model and detect context

Context-aware Technologies

vContext-aware information retrieval
- Context-aware profiling, clustering and collaborative filtering
- Machine learning for context-aware information retrieval and ontology learning
- Context-aware e-learning/tutoring
- Ubiquitous and context-aware computing
- Use of context-aware technologies in UI/HCI
- Context-aware advertising
- Recommendations for mobile users
- Context-awareness in portable devices
- Context-aware services
- Social Agents and Avatars
- Emotion and Personality
- Virtual Humans
- Autonomous Actors
- Awareness-based Animation
- Social and Conversational Agents
- Inter-Agent Communication
- Social Behavior
- Crowd Simulation
- Understanding Human Activity
- Memory and Long-term Interaction
- Context representations and signal characteristics that describe and identify context
- Context detection algorithms/approaches using data collected with mobile devices, wearable devices and pervasive sensors (e.g. RF sensors)
- User studies and evaluation techniques for context detection
- The novel use of context information in computing applications
- Applications of context information for the work-life balance, for a healthier life and behavior
- Integration of context into lifelogging applications.

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Publication
All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library: ICCASA Conference Proceedings.

ICCASA proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:
- Mobile Networks and Applications – Springer (SCI-E, IF=2.602)
- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience – Wiley (SCI-E, IF=1.167) – Special issue is opening soon!

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:
- EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications (Open Access)

Additional publication opportunities:
- EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series

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General Chair
Phan Cong Vinh - Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Vietnam

Technical Program Committee Chair
Abdur Rakib - The University of the West of England, UK

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This event is organized by EAI (www.eai.eu).

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