The workshop will be held in the framework of the 12th EANN/7th AIAI 2011 Joint conference

2nd Workshop " Informatics & Intelligent Systems Applications for Quality of Life information Services" ISQLIS
Program chairs

Kostas Karatzas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Lazaros Iliadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Mihaela Oprea, University Petroleum-Gas of Ploiesti, Romania
Program Committee

* Achilleas Kameas, Hellenic Open University , Greece

* Miltiadis Anagnostou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

* Voukantsis Dimitris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

* Thomas Glezakos, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

* Spyridon Kaloudis, TEI of Karpenisi, Greece

* Kostandinos Katsifarakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

* Kyriakh Kitikidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

* Mikko Kolehmainen, University of Eastern Finland

* Tina Kostopoulou, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

* George Koutitas, International Hellenic University, Greece

* Nikos Lorentzos, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

* Periklis Mitkas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

* Vladimir Olej, University o Pardubice, Czech Republic

* Eros Pacero, Polytech. Torino, Italy

* Babis Patrikakis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

* Alexander Sideridis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

* Athena Tocatlidou , Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

* Theodoros Tsiligkiridis, Agricultural University of Athens,Greece

* Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

* Kostas Yialouris, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece



CFP:
Quality of Life (QoL) is directly related to environmental pressures and conditions, including
air quality, pollen, drinking and bathing water quality, noise pollution, waste production,
energy consumption, nutrition and many others.

The plethora of living patterns, as well as the availability of various ICT that are interwoven
to the urban web, calls for a detailed, intelligent, personalized and yet easily generalized ways
for monitoring, modeling and managing environmental systems and conditions.

It is therefore evident that services, systems, applications and algorithms dealing with everyday
utility for the individual, are expected to play an important role in supporting QoL. On this basis,
QoL information services are expected to make use of personalized access and interactivity to
multimodal information, based on user preferences and semantic concepts or human-machine
interface systems utilizing information on the affective state of the user.

The proposed AI workshop will receive papers concerning intelligent methods for analyzing
and modeling environmental systems and conditions, with the aim to serve the everyday needs
of citizens under various QoL states. Human centric approaches in environmental information
services will also be addressed, as they require intelligent, knowledge-centric methods and
tools, that are flexible, adaptable to environmental problems, and perform better in terms of
knowledge mapping and system behavior reproduction.

SPECIAL ISSUE:
All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the main event. Selected papers
from the workshop will pass through a peer review process in order to be published in a
Special Issue of the Journal Engineering Intelligent Systems.

PREVIOUS EVENTS:
The first "Intelligent Environmental Monitoring, Modelling & Management Systems for better
Quality of Life Workshop" was held in the framework of the
20th ICANN 2010 (http://delab.csd.auth.gr/icann2010/iemmm_call.html)



Submission:
All papers should be submitted to both Program chairs:
liliadis@fmenr.duth.gr and
kkara@eng.auth.gr
Papers should be submitted either in a doc or in a pdf form and they should be peer reviewed by
at least 2 academic referees. They should not exceed 10 pages formatted according to the
well known LNCS Springer style.

Publication:
Accepted papers will be presented orally in the conference for 20 minutes and they will be published in the Proceedings of the main event.
They will be also considered for potential selection for publication in the Special Issues that will be edited.