ICPR2020 workshop on “Pattern recognition for positive technology and elderly wellbeing” (CARE2020)

CARE2020, International Workshop on pattern recognition for positive technology and elderly wellbeing

In conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2020)

Milan, Italy – January 10th, 2021

http://phuselab.di.unimi.it/CARE2020

*** THE EVENT WILL BE FULLY VIRTUAL ***
THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED!!! 
WE WELCOME SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS NOT ACCEPTED TO ICPR2020 AND FITTING THE TOPICS OF CARE2020

NEW submission deadline    October 24th, 2020

Author notification        November 10th, 2020

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ABOUT CARE 2020 
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Life expectancy horizon is in continuous growth, with an arising socio-economical needs of supporting the aging population. If this is stimulating a considerable research effort in the ICT field, there is a big gap between the complexity of available ICT devices and the needs of fragile individuals.
CARE2020 aims at bringing together the most recent advances of Intelligent Systems  for Positive Technologies and elderly wellbeing.
The list of relevant topics includes (but is not limited to) the following: 
  • Emotion recognition
  • Social interaction analysis
  • Facial expression analysis
  • Body gesture analysis
  • Human behaviour analysis
  • Physiological signal analysis
  • Ecological datasets
  • Mood induction
  • Virtual reality as a positive technology
  • Intelligent cognitive assistants
  • Activities of Daily Living recognition
  • Emotion-aware ambient intelligence
  • Natural Human-Computer Interaction
INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 
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  • Prof. Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge, UK) Creating Technology with Socio-emotional Intelligence
  • Prof. Andrea Gaggioli (Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy) Positive AI: Opportunities and challenges of integrating artificial intelligence in digital wellbeing application
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 
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  • Raffaella Lanzarotti (Università degli Studi di Milano)
  • Nicoletta Noceti (Università degli Studi di Genova)
  • Claudio de'Sperati (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano)
  • Francesca Odone (Università degli Studi di Genova)
  • Giuliano Grossi (Università degli Studi di Milano)
CONTACT
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All questions about submissions should be emailed to care2020@di.unimi.it
Nicoletta Noceti, PhD
Assistant Professor in Computer Science
MaLGa – Machine Learning Genoa center https://ml.unige.it 
DIBRIS – Università di Genova, Italy
Tel. +39 010 3536704

2021 First IEEE International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI) – Call for papers, Special Sessions, Competitions


2021 First International Conference on   Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI) – #51973, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India

Date of Conference:  2021August 25-27
(Last date of Paper Submission – 21 January 2021)
visit: http://ietcint.com
(Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society)

Call for papers

The First International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence, ETCI2021, technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, will be held at Hyderabad on Aug 25-27, 2021. This aims to highlight the evolution of topics, frontline research and multiple applications, in the domain of Computational Intelligence from the mainstream foundations to novel investigations. The conference comprises one day of tutorial sessions followed by two days of Keynote Lectures by invited international experts from Industry and Academia, paper presentations and competitions. Also, the conference hosts several special sessions on emerging technologies and applications in computational intelligence. The Conference will be supported by the Industry relevant tutorials conducted by NVidia, TechMahindra and others. More information on the Conference may be found at www.ietcint.com

ETCI 2021 invites you to submit your original, previously unpublished innovative work in any area of Computational Intelligence, both emerging topics which form the theme of the conference as well as more foundational areas. There are three main tracks of the Conference (i) Deep Learning, (ii) Sequence Modeling, and (iii) General Topics in Computational Intelligence. Some of the approved Special Sessions include (i) Intelligent Agents, (ii) ANNs in Computer and Robot Vision, and (iii) Data Analytics for Earth Observation. The Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the list given at http://ietcint.com/user/tracks.

All submitted manuscripts will be subjected to three or more reviews. Accepted and presented papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for digital publication.

Paper Submission

Manuscripts for Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence 2021 should be submitted electronically at https://edas.info/N27827

Authors should submit manuscripts up to 6 A4-sized pages in length, including figures, tables and references, prepared using the provided templates. Two additional pages can be included at additional cost.

Paper Templates

The paper size should be A4 and must be prepared in two-column format. They should be formatted according to standard templates for IEEE Conference Proceedings, available for Microsoft Word and LaTeXat https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Call for Special Sessions

 Special session proposals are invited to the 2021 ICETCI http://ietcint.com/user/call_for_special_sessions.

A special session proposal should include the title, aim and scope (including a short description of the main topic) of the proposed session, and the names, e-mail addresses, affiliations and short bios of the organizers. A list of potential contributors will be helpful.

Special session proposals will be evaluated based on the relevance of the topic to the theme of the Conference, its uniqueness, and qualifications of the proposers. The proposers are expected to have a PhD degree and a good publication track record in the proposed area. Proposals of similar topics will be requested to integrate. Accepted special sessions will be listed on the website.

 Proposals should be sent by e-mail to Special Session Chair: avik.bhattach@gmail.com. All proposals should be submitted by November 21st, 2020. Early submissions are encouraged.

 Call for Competitions

 Competitions are a key component of academic events, as they comprise effective means for making rapid progress in specific topics. By posing a challenge to the academic community, competition organizers contribute to pushing the state of the art in specific subjects and/or to solve problems of practical importance.

 We invite proposals for the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (2021 IEEE ICETCI) competition track to be held in Mahindra University Hyderabad, India.

 We solicit competition proposals on any topic of interest to the ICETCI community. We especially encourage competition proposals from emerging new fields or new application domains related to computational intelligence. Interdisciplinary topics that will attract a significant cross-section of the community are especially highly encouraged.

 Proposals should follow the format of standard data science competitions, where participants will compete to obtain the best score on a machine learning task of interest to the ICETCI community based on a problem and data defined and released by the organizers of the competition.

 The results of competitions will be announced during a dedicated session of the 2021 IEEE ICETCI conference, where competition results will be presented and discussed. Competition organizers will be asked to propose a tentative schedule for presentation of the competition and its results during an assigned time slot. Additionally, there will be a joint poster session where participants of all competitions can share and discuss their results. Publication opportunities are being explored for organizers and participants of competitions and will be announced after acceptance of competition.

Proposal Submission

 We invite you to submit proposals to the Competitions chair: rww.haensch@gmail.com.
 Please carefully follow the provided template (Latex, MS Word) when preparing proposals.

 Review and Selection Process

 A competition program committee will be formed, consisting of experts on both machine learning and challenge organization. Each proposal will be reviewed by at least three members of the committee. The factors that will be considered when evaluating proposals include:

     Task chosen: Impact, originality, relevance to the ICETCI community will all be considered. Tasks that include humanitarian and/or positive societal impact are especially highly encouraged this year, although other topics relevant to the ETCI community will also be considered. If humanitarian projects are submitted, the involvement of the community in question is strongly desired, and “parachute science” is strongly discouraged.

    Protocol of competition: Feasibility of the task chosen, soundness of the evaluation criteria, and clarity and fairness of the competition rules will all be considered.

    Logistics: Schedule, plan for attracting competition participants, and experience and diversity of the organizers will all be considered.

 IMPORTANT DATES (anywhere on earth)

    Competition proposal submission deadline: December 30, 2020
    Acceptance notification: January 11, 2020

    Competition track: August 25, 2020

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
    Competition organizers should propose a timeline for running the competition to ensure that participants have enough time to contribute high-quality entries. It is recommended that competitions be completed by the end of July 2021 at the absolute latest.

    Competition organizers that require help or suggestions regarding competition platforms for running the competition can contact the competition chair for advice.

 COMPETITION CHAIR
Ronny Hänsch, German Aerospace Center, Germany.
 Contact: rww.haensch@gmail.com

Important Dates

Special Session Proposal Deadline:                  Nov 21, 2020
Tutorial Proposal Deadline:                               Dec 30, 2020
Competition proposal Deadline:                                   Dec 30, 2020
Paper Submission Deadline:                            Jan 21, 2021
Paper Acceptance Notification:                                    April 30, 2021
Submission of Final paper:                               May 31, 2021
Early Registration Deadline:                             May 31, 2021
Conference dates:                                           Aug 25-27, 2021

CFP: Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics – Your Submission Is Welcome!

The 12th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2021, will be held on March 9 – 12, 2021, in Orlando, Florida, USA.

You can submit an article at: http://www.iiis-2021conf.org/imcic

This conference has always contemplated the two modalities of participation: face to face and virtual. However, given the current Coronavirus situation and travel restrictions, at this moment we are only accepting submissions for virtual participation. If the situation changes and we feel the safety of our participants would not be at risk, we will start accepting submissions for face-to-face participation, and those authors who submitted their article for virtual participation will have the ability to change their participation modality to face-to-face, if they wish.

The Proceedings of IMCIC and ICSIT/ICETI have been indexed by Elsevier's SCOPUS since 2010. The 2021 proceedings will also be sent to Elsevier's SCOPUS.

The conference will also be jointly held with:

  • The 12th International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics: ICETI 2021
  • The 12th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2021

More details regarding these and other collocated events and special tracks can be found at: http://www.iiis-2021conf.org/cfp-spring2021.asp

The deadlines for this CFP are as follows:

  • October 27th, 2020: Article submissions
  • October 27th, 2020: Invited/Special session proposals
  • November 25th, 2020: Notifications of acceptance
  • December 15th, 2020: Uploading of camera-ready or final version

Both synchronous and asynchronous virtual presentations are possible. Therefore, the authors who participate virtually in the conference have the option of:

  • Submitting a slide show and/or a pre-recorded video of their presentation (asynchronous presentation) or
  • Making their presentation via Zoom (synchronous presentation)

Additionally, each paper to be presented at the event, virtually or in-person, may be read and commented on, via electronic forums, and evaluated by those participants who have registered for the conference.

You also have the option to contribute as a member of the Organizing Committee by accepting our invitation for organizing an invited or special session, where you would have the responsibility of promoting your session and reviewing the articles submitted to you. You should appoint your own reviewers to support you. Effective organizers will be included as co-editors of the volume of the proceedings in which the papers of the session(s) that they organized have been included. If you accept this invitation, please submit your proposal through the conference web site.

Keynote speakers will be selected from registered authors whose submissions are among the best according to their external reviewers. The identification of the best submissions will be based on the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the reviewers and the percentage of reviewers recommending the acceptance of the submission as related to all the reviewers who made their respective reviews. For this reason, we recommend you to submit your paper early.

Registered authors of accepted submissions will be invited to make an additional presentation with no additional charge , if such a presentation is oriented to inter-disciplinary communication. These authors will also have the option of writing an invited paper associated with their respective invited presentation.

Furthermore, the best papers presented at the conference, as selected by the audiences of each respective session, will also be published in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JCSI). JSCI is indexed in EBSCO, Cabell, DOAJ, and Google Scholar and is listed in Cabell Directory of Publishing Opportunities and in Ulrich's Periodical Directory.

For the past 25 years, professors, students, and researchers from all over the world have come together at our conferences to present research and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. It is this interdisciplinary focus that allows our attendees to discover new viewpoints they otherwise would not have discovered in a uni-disciplinary conference. These new viewpoints become intellectual seeds which, as they slowly bloom over time, expand their understanding of their own respective disciplines.

Many of our participants look forward to our conferences every year as they allow them to publish their papers, share their life's work, create a network of influential and like-minded colleagues, and expand their ever-growing understanding of their respective disciplines, as well as learn about new disciplines. Some testimonials can be read clicking on the button “TESTIMONIALS” placed at the top of the left column of each of the conference web sites.

We hope to continue creating and expanding inter-disciplinary networks while facilitating the ever-growing expansion of each individual discipline represented at our conferences. We know this is only possible with contributions from people such as yourself. It is for this reason that we would greatly appreciate your contribution to the conference.

You are also welcome to forward this message to any appropriate colleagues and/or groups whose contributions would further promote the interdisciplinary growth of all the various disciplines represented in our conferences.

Thank you for your time, and we look forward to your contribution.

Respectfully,

IMCIC 2021 Organizing Committee

DIONE 2021 (virtual) submission deadline extended with new publication opportunities | Conference on Data and Information in Online Environments | Present in front of a global audience and get more citations & extra exposure | March 10 – 12, 2021

Web version

March 10 – 12, 2021 | Cyberspace
Submission Deadline: November 2, 2020 (extended)

EAI is proud to announce that DIONE is going virtual and beyond borders.

Get the same full publication and indexing, enjoy EAI’s fair evaluation and recognition, present your paper to a global audience, and experience virtual meetings live as well as on-demand from the safety and comfort of your home.

Watch the full recording of the EAI DIONE 2020 livestream (Keynote speeches: Prof. Miriam Capretz and Prof. Mario Dantas) and get involved in the current edition!

SCOPE

We are pleased to invite you to submit your paper to DIONE 2021.
Papers can be submitted in English, Portuguese and Spanish languages,
following the Springer formatting guidelines (see Submission). 

DIONE 2021 aims to bring together researchers and professionals from academia and industry to present theoretical proposals and practical solutions in the treatment, processing and study of data and information produced in online environments, the latest trends in the analysis of network information, media metrics social, data processing technologies and open science.

An interdisciplinary space will be provided to improve cooperation between data science, data engineering, big data, research evaluation, network science, open science, scientometrics, sociology of science and citizen science.

The works that will be presented at the conference will focus on the following topics:

  • Use and analysis of network information
  • Evaluation of science in social networking environment
  • Data processing

Proceedings from the previous edition (DIONE 2020) are indexed in Scopus.

Submit Paper

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DIONE 2021 will take place online due to safety concerns and travel restrictions caused by COVID-19. Although we will miss having everyone meet and connect in person, we feel strongly that knowledge exchange must continue, if not more so. That is why we have equipped our online conferences with live viewing with chatvirtual Q&A, and a multitude of other measures to provide you with a great experience. All of this while making the registration for co-authors and non-authors completely free to give you the biggest possible audience. You can learn more about EAI’s online conferences here.

Publication

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

Additional publication opportunities:

        Important dates

        Full Paper Submission Deadline: November 2, 2020 (extended)

        Notification Deadline: december 10, 2020

        Camera-ready deadline: january 15, 2021

        Conference dates: march 10 – 12, 2021

        Invitation Letter for ITU elearning course “Mobile Broadband Internet, 5G and Future Services” (17 Nov – 14 Dec 2020)


        Dear Colleagues,

        You are invited to register to the ITU elearning course on “Mobile Broadband Internet, 5G and Future Services”, 17 November – 14 December 2020, which is organized within the framework of ITU Centre of Excellence Network for Europe, and it will be delivered through the ITU Academy.

        This course is targeted at managers, engineers and employees from regulators, government organisations, telecommunication companies and academia, who are interested in understanding, implementation and regulation of Mobile Broadband Internet, 5G and Future Services, including technologies, standardization, regulation and content. Other institutions and individuals that are dedicated in building their capacity related to Mobile Broadband Internet, 5G and Future Services are also welcome to participate.

        For more information please refer to the Course Outline, attached to this message (also available at https://academy.itu.int/training-courses/full-catalogue/mobile-broadband-internet-5g-and-future-services).

        To register for the course please proceed toward the following steps:

        STEP 1 – Login into ITU Academy
        In order to access this course you need to have a valid account in ITU Academy.
        If you do not have an account you may freely open one on the ITU Academy via the following link: https://academy.itu.int/user/register

        STEP 2 – Registration into this course
        You can register for the course via the following link (copy-paste in the same browser after login):
        https://academy.itu.int/training-courses/full-catalogue/mobile-broadband-internet-5g-and-future-services
        To register for this course click on the “Pay and enroll” (after login), go to your “Shopping cart” (in upper right corner), and then you may choose between the two types of registrations:
        – Pay by card (online payment), which provides direct and automatic enrollment into the course;
        – Bank transfer (offline payment), with automatically generated invoice from the ITU Academy platform, which provides manual enrollment into the course after submission of proof of payment to the ITU via an email to hcbmail@itu.int, with cc to me (tonij@feit.ukim.edu.mk).

        If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

        Sincerely,
        Prof. Dr. Toni Janevski
        Head/Coordinator of ITU Centre of Excellence at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia

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