First International Conference on Smart Technology-based Education and Training (STET-2014)

Conference theme: From smart technology towards smart education and smart society

Conference Web site: http://stet14.kesinternational.org/


18 – 20 June 2014
Chania, Crete, Greece
Conference venue: The Minoa Palace Resort & Spa - http://www.minoapalace.gr/

GOAL
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The STET international conference is aimed at rapidly growing fusion of three areas:
- smart technology, intelligent systems, computer science and computer engineering;
- engineering of state-of-the-art educational software and hardware systems; and
- advanced technology-based teaching and learning strategies and methodologies.

The STET international conference serves as an innovative incubator for research, design, development, systems and applications of “smart technology + smart software/hardware systems + smart education/training”.

STET-2014 is focused on presentation and discussion of innovative ideas, approaches, technologies, systems, and research findings in the emerging area of smart technology and its applications in education and corporate training.


CONFERENCE PAPERS and PROCEEDINGS: PUBLISHER, INDEXING and CHAPTER BOOK
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PUBLISHER.
The conference proceedings will be published by the IOS publishing company in the IOS Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and Applications series (IOS FAIA).

INDEXING in SCOPUS, ACM DL, DBLP, and other DBs.
IOS FAIA series is indexed in SciVerse Scopus, ACM Digital Library (DL), DBLP, Google Scholar and Zentralblatt MATH. In previous years it was also indexed in ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - CPCi / Web of Science (Thomson-Reuter makes a decision on a year-by-year basis which conferences to index in CPCi). STET-2014 conference proceedings will be sent to all above mentioned DBs for possible indexing.

CHAPTER BOOK by SPRINGER.
Based on preliminary agreement, authors of selected high quality conference papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers into an edited chapter book published by Springer in the ISRL series (final approval is pending).

Contributions are invited from prospective authors with interests in the indicated conference topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be high quality, original and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the International Program Committee and external evaluators, and may be accepted for oral or poster presentation.


IMPORTANT DATES (for authors)
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- Submission of papers: 10 February 2014
- Notification of acceptance: 3 March 2014
- Final paper to be received by: 17 March 2014


IMPORTANT DATES (for chairs of invited sessions and workshops)
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- Proposal for Invited Sessions/Workshops: 6 January 2014
- Session/Workshop Chair sets submission deadlines
- Final paper to be received by: 17 March 2014


MAIN CONFERENCE TOPICS include but are not limited to:
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1.SMART TECHNOLOGY and INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS' EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS area:
- Educational applications of smart technology and intelligent systems
- Smart technology-based educational software and hardware systems
- Fusion of smart technology and serious gaming (gamification)
- Fusion of smart technology and rich multimedia technology
- Fusion of smart technology and mobile technology
- Fusion of smart technology and software/Web/hardware/computer/network security
- Smart computing applications in education and training

2.SMART CLASSROOM, SMART TEACHING and SMART LEARNING area:
- Smart classroom (features, characteristics, infrastructure, etc.)
- Smart e-learning and smart mobile learning
- Smart technology-based pedagogy
- Innovative smart technology-based teaching and learning strategies
- Smart technology-based assessment systems
- Smart technology and intelligent systems for student/learner modeling

3.SMART UNIVERSITY, SMART EDUCATION and SMART CORPORATE TRAINING area:
- Smart academic/corporate university (concepts, features, infrastructure)
- Smart technology-based online and mobile education
- Smart technology-based curriculum and courseware
- University-wide smart systems for teaching, learning, research, collaboration, communication, management, security
- Faculty development and instructor's skills for smart education/training
- Best practices and case studies on smart education/training
- National and international projects on smart education/training
- Smart technology-based blended, distance, online and open education
- Standards and policies in smart technology-based education/training

4.SMART EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY area:
- Smart educational society (concepts, features, infrastructure, etc.)
- From smart technology to smart education and smart society


CONFERENCE AWARDS
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- Best Conference Paper award
- Best Graduate/Ph.D. Student award
- Best Software and/or Hardware System award


COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS
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- Institut Superieur de l'Electronique et du Numerique ISEN-Brest (FRANCE)
- Silesian University of Technology (POLAND)
- University of Vigo (SPAIN)
- Institute for Design Problems in Microelectronics, The Russian Academy of Sciences (RUSSIA)
- National Taiwan Normal University (TAIWAN)
- Science and Education Research Council COPEC (BRAZIL)
- Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (RUSSIA)
- Tallinn University of Technology (ESTONIA)
- School of Computing & Information Technology, University of Technology (JAMAICA)
- Information Security Laboratory, Tokyo Denki University (JAPAN)
- Multimedia Software Engineering Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong (CHINA)
- Multimedia Apps D&R Center, University of Craiova (ROMANIA)
- Knowledge Networks PTY. Ltd. (AUSTRALIA)
- InterLabs Research Institute, Bradley University (USA)


CONFERENCE GENERAL CHAIR
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Dr. Vladimir Uskov
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems Department
Co-Director, InterLabs Research Institute
Bradley University, U.S.A.
Email: uskov@bradley.edu


CONFERENCE ORGANIZER: CONTACT INFORMATION
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- Address: KES International, PO Box 2115, Shoreham-by-sea, BN43 9AF UNITED KINGDOM
- URL: http://www.kesinternational.org
- E-mail: stet-14@kesinternational.org