Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a recent paradigm emerging from Artificial Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting people with their day-to-day activities, making everyone’s life more comfortable.

Another main concern of AmI originates from the human computer interaction domain and focuses on offering ways to interact with systems in a more natural way by means user friendly interfaces. This field is evolving quickly as can be witnessed by the emerging natural language and gesture based types of interaction.

The inclusion of computational power and communication technologies in everyday objects is growing and their embedding into our environments should be as invisible as possible. In order for AmI to be successful, human interaction with computing power and embedded systems in the surroundings should be smooth and happen without people actually noticing it. The only awareness people should have arises from AmI: more safety, comfort and wellbeing, emerging in a natural and inherent way. ISAmI is the International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, aiming to bring together researchers from various disciplines that constitute the scientific field of Ambient Intelligence to present and discuss the latest results, new ideas, projects and lessons learned.Brand new ideas will be greatly appreciated as well as relevant revisions and actualizations of previously presented work, project summaries and PhD thesis.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission date: 4th February, 2019
Deadline and Doctoral Consortium: 1st March, 2019
Notification date: 11th March, 2019
Paper ready deadline: 29th March, 2019
Conference dates: 26th-28th June, 2019

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Review process

ISAmI welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.

The papers must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference


Submitting papers

ISAmI papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Template, with a maximum length of 8 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.


Publication

Accepted papers will be included in isami-conference Proceedings. 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 conference proceedings.

All accepted papers will be published by AISC series of Springer Verlag.

More information: www.isami-conference.net


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TOPICS

- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Applications
Ambient Assisted Living
Ubiquitous Computing
Artificial Intelligence for AmI
Distributed Computing
Domotics (Home Automation)
Pervasive Computing
Context Aware Computing
Agent & Multiagent Systems for AmI
Mobile Computing
Robotics
Computational Creativity
Sentient Computing
e-Health
Context Modelling
e Learning
Memory Assistant


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COMMITTEES

General Chairs

Jaime Lloret - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
Paulo Novais - Universidade do Minho (Portugal)


Organising committee

Davide Carneiro, Intelligent Systems Lab - Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Pablo Chamoso - University of Salamanca (Spain)

Invited Speakers

V.S. Subrahmanian, Dartmouth College (USA)
Toshiharu Sugawara, Waseda University (Japan)


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DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The aim of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a frame where students can present their on going research work and meet other students and researchers, and obtain feedback on future research directions.

The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who are still far from completing their dissertation.

All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with the aim to provide detailed and constructive feedback. The accepted submissions will be presented at the Doctoral Consortium and published in the conference proceedings.


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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

We are already thinking about the next iSAMI conference which will be held in Ávila on 26th to 28th June, 2019. We are looking for workshops that would highlight some particular aspects of Ambient Intelligence.

- Our offer will guarantee the following:

Local support for installing and managing the reviewing site of the submissions.
12 pages per paper, published at SV LNCS / CCIS, if acceptance rate under 60%.
Synchonization with PAAMS agenda and coordinated deadlines for workshops.
Duration : X slots of 2 h each for up to 4 papers each, with maximum of 8 slots.
Standard equipment (videoprojector) and local support all along the workshop.
Attractive registration including softcover proceedings, 3 lunches, 2 diners.
No registration at the workshop only since the main session is held at same time.
Possibility of workshop invited speaker but no direct support from iSAMI.
Suggestion to install aroundtabel at the end of the workshop for making summary.
We hope this offer will catch your attention. Should you be interested in submitting such a workshop, please contact us (info@paams.net) with a proposal before 14th september. Last year was very successful.


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SPECIAL ISSUES

Authors of selected papers from ISAmI will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in Special Section published in

- Neurocomputing (TENTATIVE) (JCR 2016 Neurocomputing: 3,317)
- ADCAIJ (ISSN: 2255-2863, indexed in DOAJ, ProQuest, Scholar, WorldCat, Dialnet, Sherpa ROMEO, Dulcinea, UlrichWeb, Emerging Sources Citation Index of Thomson Reuters, BASE y Academic Journals Database).
- Sensors (JCR 2016 Neurocomputing: 2,475)
- Electronics (JCR 2017 Electronics. 2.110)
- The research that receives an award for best paper on the topic of Data Fusion, will be sent to Information Fusion (ISSN: 1566-2535, JCR 2017: 6.639) and submitted for a quick review.
- Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Systems Journal (SJR 2017: 0.62, Q2).


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SPONSORS

IBM and Indra


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CONTACT

info@isami-conference.net