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Call for Papers

Workshop on Adaptive Smart areaS and Intelligent Agents (ASSIA) held in conjunction with PAAMS 2024

June 26-28, 2024 (exact date tbc)

Salamanca, Spain

URL: https://www.paams.net/workshops/assia

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Submission deadline: April 5, 2024 (Extended)

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In this workshop, we want to discuss technological solutions for Adaptive Smart Areas, geo-positioned locations with a high need for sensorization, which facilitates their adaptation to significant changes in environmental conditions. Proposed solutions should facilitate decision making of independent entities fostering collaboration and coordination among them to improve available resources or increase their efficiency in a specific area (cities, buildings, villages, farms, forests, etc.). Adaptive Smart Areas represent a new way of thinking about any kind of a space by shaping a model that integrates aspects like energy efficiency, sustainable mobility, protection of the environment, and economic sustainability. These areas provide potentially unlimited settings for intelligent agents to display their ability to react, act proactively, interact among themselves, or otherwise plan, learn, etc., in an intelligent or human-like manner.


Therefore, this workshop aims to discuss the use of agent technology for Adaptive Smart Areas to provide intelligence to these areas. We welcome any paper about experiences on the use of agents in Adaptive Smart Areas tackling issues related to smart architectures, simulations, intelligent infrastructure, smart transport, robotics, and open data, among others. We also intend to address specific methodological and technological issues raised by the real deployment of agents in Adaptive Smart Areas.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics relevant to the ASSIA workshop include especially applications, but also theoretical approaches, based on (but not limited to):

Smart city modeling

Smart city simulation

Precision agriculture

Smart farming

Intelligent infrastructures

Sensors and actuators

ML-enabled predictive and analytic solutions

Intelligence applications and crop monitoring

Smart health and emergency management

Smart environments

Smart education

Smart health

Smart mobility and transportation

Intelligent vehicles

Ethical and legal issues in Adaptive Smart Areas

Cloud and edge assisted applications

Agricultural robotics

Data sharing and privacy

Cost-efficient wireless sensor nodes, network architecture, and implementation

New environment sensor technologies


SUBMISSIONS


ASSIA 2024 welcomes original, unpublished papers. All submissions must be written in English, be formatted using Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 12 pages including figures and references. The style is available at the following links: Microsoft word format (https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238706/data/v3) and LaTeX Format (https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v7). An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj#.WuA4JS5uZpi).


All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the PAAMS conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paams24 .


Only the PDF of the manuscript is required for the first submission. Each submission will undergo a single-blind peer-review process with three peer reviews. Contributions should carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation including e-mail address, and should include an abstract. Submission details can be found at the PAAMS webpage https://www.paams.net/submission .


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS


Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS Proceedings, published by Springer. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the Workshop Proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.


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SPECIAL ISSUES


We intend to pursue a post-workshop publication of extended versions of workshop papers, based on the quality of the submissions, in the form of a Scimago and WoS JCR indexed journal.

All workshop papers are also considered for invitation to the Special Issues dedicated to PAAMS 2024 in:

• International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (ISSN: 1989 - 1660, JCR (2022): 3,6 (Q3))

• MDPI Sensors Journal (ISSN: 1424-8220, JCR (2022): 3.9 (Q1))

• MDPI Smart Cities Journal (ISSN: 2624-6511, JCR (2022): 6.4 (Q1))

• MDPI Electronics Journal (ISSN: 2079-9292, JCR (2022): 2.9 (Q2))

• MDPI Future Internet Journal (ISSN: 1999-5903, JCR (2022): 3.4)

• MDPI Systems Journal (ISSN: 2079-8954, JCR (2022): 1.9 (Q2))

• ADCAIJ (ISSN: 2255-2863, JCR (2022): 1.4, JCI (2022): 0.09 (Q4))


IMPORTANT DATES


• April 05, 2024: Workshop paper due date (Extended)

• May 03, 2024: Notification of paper acceptance

• May 17, 2022: Camera-ready papers due

• June 26, 27, or 28, 2024: ASSIA 2024 Workshop (exact date tbc)



VENUE AND CONTACT DETAILS



The ASSIA 2024 workshop will be held within the workshop program of PAAMS 2024 at the University of Salamanca in Spain. We will let you know when the exact location and date become available.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE



Vicente Julián- Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)

Adriana Giret - Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)

Carlos Carrascosa - Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)

Juan Manuel Corchado - Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)

Sara Rodríguez - Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)

Fernando de la Prieta - Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)

Alberto Fernández - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)

Holger Billhardt - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)

Marin Lujak - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)