Call for contribution
Special Session on Context-awareness in Intelligent Systems and Smart Spaces (CISSS)

along with

The Tenth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies UBICOMM 2016,October 9 - 13, 2016 - Venice, Italy

Chair and Organizer: Dr. Moeiz Miraoui,
Umm Al-Qura University, KSA
mfmiraoui@uqu.edu.sa

Overview
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Recent advances in sensors network, wireless communication technologies and the dramatically increase of devices with considerable computing ability have brought us towards the era of pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Technology is moving beyond the personal computer towards a growing trend of embedded microprocessors in everyday objects. Devices in pervasive environment should dynamically and proactively (without explicit user intervention) adapt their behavior to current context changes in order to provide adequate service to the users and support them in their every daily lives. devices should become more autonomic, requiring minimum or no human intervention. Context-awareness has emerged as a key enabling technology for future intelligent systems such as smart devices, smart spaces, etc. Context awareness is a highly desirable property for intelligent systems and it shall be well understood and represented in a clear and concise manner. The purpose of the special session on Context-awareness in Intelligent Systems and Smart Spaces is to explore recent advances in the realization of context-aware systems especially in smart devices and smart spaces and to identify the challenges and opportunities that this research area will face in the near future.

Topics
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We invite authors to submit their original papers and contributions addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:
 Context and situation awareness
 Location and position awareness
 Context modeling and reasoning
 Context prediction
 Context-aware services adaptation
 Mobile and ubiquitous computing
 Ambient Assisted Living
 smart spaces
 Smart health
 Activity recognition
 Middleware and architecture of context-aware systems
 Security for context-aware smart spaces and devices

Submissions deadlines
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Submission deadline: August 30
Acceptance deadline: September 10
Registration deadline: September 15
Camera-ready deadline: September 15

Submissions to: Dr. Moeiz Miraoui, e-mail: mfmiraoui@uqu.edu.sa
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Contribution types
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Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]

Paper Format
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See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/CfPUBICOMM16.html
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

Publications
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Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

Registration
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Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings.
Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html

Content
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The topic suggested by the track can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

Inquires
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Chair: Dr. Moeiz Miraoui,
Umm Al-Qura University, KSA
mfmiraoui@uqu.edu.sa
Logistics: steve@iaria.org

Program Committee
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Dr Moeiz Miraoui, Umm Al-Qura university, KSA (chair and organizer)
Pr Chakib Tadj, University of Quebec, Canada
A.Professor Manolo Hina, ECE Paris, France
Dr Jaouhar Fattahi, University of Laval, Canada
A. Professor Wael M El-Medany, University Of Bahrain, Bahrain
Dr. Viktoriya Degeler, Research Engineer, Airbus Group Innovations
Dr Atef Zaguia, University of Taief, KSA
Pr Chokri Ben Amar, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Dr Sherif El-etriby, Umm Al-Qura University, KSA

The UBICOMM 2016 Web site can be seen from here : http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/UBICOMM16.html