Scope:
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The ICCASA 2018 conference (co-located with ICTCC 2018 conference) sponsored by EAI, Hung Vuong University in Phu Tho Province (HVU) and Nguyen Tat Thanh University (NTTU) is a place for highly original ideas about how CAS is 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.

One of hot topics in ICT is currently undergoing rapid advancements and emerging on the spot as one of the priority research areas, whose research activities are booming recently: context-aware systems (CAS), which is primarily inspired by the human autonomic nervous system. CAS is characterized by its self-* 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. To this end, ICCASA 2018 will bring together Vietnamese and international researchers and practitioners working or interested in the intersection of approaches for supporting context-aware systems.

Topics:
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Fundamentals of Context-aware system:
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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

Context-aware Systems:
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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

Context-aware Technologies:
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Context-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

Publication:
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All accepted and presented papers are published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, appearing in the LNICST series.

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

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications.

Paper submission:
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Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

Important dates:
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Full Paper Submission deadline
22 August 2018

Notification deadline
21 September 2018

Camera-ready deadline
22 October 2018

Start of Conference
22 November 2018

End of Conference
23 November 2018