Workshop on Visions on Internet of Cultural Things and Applications

Collocated with:

SITIS 2015 - The 11th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS
November 23-27, 2015 - Bangkok, Thailand

Scope of the Workshop
The adoption of Future Internet (FI) technology, and in particular of its most challenging components like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Services (IoS), can constitute the basic building blocks to progress towards unified ICT platforms for a variety of applications within the large framework of smart cities.
The combination of the Internet and emerging technologies such as near-field and BLE communications, real-time localization, and embedded sensors lets us transform everyday objects into smart objects that can understand and react to their environment.
In the last years, Cultural Heritage has turned out to be one of the most suitable domains in which such achievements can be profitably exploited, since it characterizes a domain where several aspects have to be considered at the same time. In line with SITIS tradition of promoting interdisciplinary research, the international workshop on Visions on Internet of Cultural Things and Applications, VICTA’15 aims to be a profitable informal working day to discuss together hot topics about Internet of Things and its applications to Cultural Heritage.
This second edition will be organized by DATABENC, the high technology district for Cultural Heritage in Regione Campania, ITALY. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and applied papers on their research in the following topics.

Topics of interest for the workshop, include (but are not limited to) aspects of:
- Internet of Things
- Smart Objects
- Multimedia applications and services
- Embedded platforms and sensors
- Multimedia recommendations and User profiling techniques
- Interactive 3D media and immersive environments
- Data in social networks
- Data collection and management
- Semantic-Web data
- Big Data Analytics

Important dates

Submission deadline: September 21, 2015
Acceptance/Reject notification: October 15, 2015
Camera-ready: October 22, 2015
Author Registration: October 22, 2015

Submission
Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices, and must follow the IEEE double columns publication format available at:
Microsoft Word DOC
LaTex Formatting Macros

Paper submission will only be online via: Easy Chair.
Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression by at least two reviewers. The organizers will examine the reviews and make final paper selections.

Publication
All the papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Content will be submitted to the indexing companies for possible indexing. They will be available at the conference. Extended version of selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in special issues of a major journal.

Registration
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Workshop registration fee is determined by SITIS. A single registration for the workshop or the conference allows attending both events.

Workshop Co-Chairs
Angelo Chianese, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Program Committee
Miodrag Bolic, University of Ottawa, CANADA
Massimo De Santo, University of Salerno, ITALY
Antonio Picariello, University of Naples “Federico II”, ITALY
Vincenzo Moscato, University of Naples “Federico II”, ITALY
Giuseppe De Pietro, ICAR-CNR, ITALY
Flora Amato, University of Naples “Federico II”, ITALY
Luigi Gallo, ICAR-CNR, ITALY
Carles Gomez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, SPAIN
Dimitros Buhalis, Bournemouth University, UK
Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR, ITALY
Rob Law, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, CHINA
Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples “Federico II”, ITALY
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, ITALY
Tsvi Kuflik, Haifa University, ISRAEL
Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE

Contact
victa2015.info@gmail.com