The Information Processing and Telecommunications Center at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IPTC-UPM) in collaboration with Universidad de Granada are organizing the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020) to be held in Madrid, Spain from May 18-20, 2020. We are now inviting paper submissions especially on the following topics:
List of Topics
- Engagement and emotion in human-robot interactions
- Digital resources for interactive applications
- Multi-modal and machine learning methods
- Companions, personal assistants and dialogue systems
- Proactive and anticipatory interactions
- Educational and healthcare robot applications
- Dialogue systems and reasoning
- Big data and large scale spoken dialogue systems
- Multi-lingual dialogue systems
- Spoken dialog systems for low-resource languages
- Domain Transfer and adaptation techniques for spoken dialog systems
However, submissions are not limited to these topics, therefore we are encouraging to submit papers in all areas of spoken dialogue systems. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.We distinguish between the following categories of regular submissions:
- Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of 8-14 pages, including references.
- Short Research Papers should be in the range of 4-8 pages, including references. Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing but interesting and original research efforts.
- Position Papers deal with novel research ideas or view-points which describe trends or fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion and are not much researched. They should be 2 pages long, excluding references.
- Demo Submissions – System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total.
Authors are requested to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the paper submission system (EasyChair).
IWSDS 2020 requires that all authors wishing to present a paper take into account:
- The paper is substantially original and will not be submitted to any other conference or journal during the IWSDS 2020 review period.
- The paper does not contain any plagiarism.
- The paper will be presented by one of the authors in-person at the conference site according to the schedule published. Any paper accepted in the technical program, but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official conference proceedings.
NOTE: All submitted papers are subject to a single-blind review. The change in page limits is to accommodate responses to reviewer comments only.
As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes).
Special Sessions and Workshops
In addition, IWSDS will host three special sessions and one workshop. Authors can submit specific papers to any of these using the same procedure as the regular papers but selecting the specific session during the submission process. For additional information about these special sessions and workshop please check the Special Session link:
- Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agents and Dialogue Breakdown Detection Challenge (WOCHAT+DBDC)
- Dialogue systems for mental e-health
- HUMIC-DIAL: Designing humor in human computer interaction with focus on dialogue technology
- Speech Language and Conversation Technologies for Iberian Languages
Templates for formatting are available below:
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: January 10, 2020 (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT -8)
- Paper notification deadline: February 7, 2020
- Camera ready papers due: February 21, 2020
- Early bird registration ends: February 28, 2020
- Website: https://www.iwsds.tech
- Twitter: @iwsds2020
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to iwsds2020@gmail.com
Sponsors
IWSDS2020 is sponsored by Universidd Politécnica de Madrid, SigDial, and Colips.
Committees
Organizing Committee
- General Chair: Luis Fernando D'Haro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- General Chair: Zoraida Callejas, Universidad de Granada, Spain
- Local Organiser: David Griol, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Publicity: Marta Ruiz Costa-Jussà, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Sponsorship Chair: José Quesada, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- Special Sessions Chair: María Inés Torres (UPV/EHU), Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
- Student Organizer: Manuel Gil Martín, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
- Social Activities: Ricardo Kleinlein, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
- Webmaster: Kheng Hui Yeoh, Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore)
Steering Committee
- Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Laurence Devillers, LIMSI-CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sorbonne 4, France
- Rafael E. Banchs, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore
- Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Kore University of Enna, Italy
Senior Steering Committee
- Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
- Kristiina Jokinen, AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan
- Haizhou Li, national University of Singapore, Singapore
- David Traum, University of Southern California, USA
- Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Call for Book Chapters: Principles and Applications of Narrowband IoT
November 14th, 2019 
Daniela Lopez de Luise Dear Colleague,
First of all please accept our apologies if you are not concerned/interested about this information.
Through this call, we request you to submit a book proposal for the above mentioned title.
Please spread this information to those who might be interested to contribute to the above title.
Call for Book Chapter Proposals:
Proposal Submission Deadline: 20 November 2019
Notification of Acceptance: 25 November 2019
Full Chapter Submission: 30 December 2019
How to Send your Book Chapter Proposals:
Please send your book chapter proposal through the following link. In case of any doubt please let me know.
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/4419
The authors are requested to send 1 or 2 page proposal with an appropriate title before 20 November 2019. The proposal should include the summary (or extended abstract of 1000 to 2000 words) of the chapter clearly mentioning the main contents, issues and the goals along with 5 to 10 key words.
You can find the further information on the proposed book and its scope below.
Proposal Submission Deadline: 30 October 2019
Title: Principles and Applications of Narrowband Internet of Things
About the Book
Internet of things (IoT) is an emerging new technology which has utilities in almost all areas of engineering and science. IoT was started as a value added service over the mobile cellular networks. However, very fast it became a pervasive technology which can assist in all leading areas of engineering. In the modern digital ecosystem, IoT is the main technology which would facilitate the connected living paradigm. Industry 4.0 which is regarded as the fourth and the largest industrial revolution in modern human civilization is possible only over an IoT framework. In addition to the IoT, several emerging networks are disrupting the current technology markets. These networks are going to play big roles on the lives of people and businesses across the world. For instance, 5G will change the information and communication technology (ICT) ecosystem dramatically. In combination with IoT, 5G is going to change the social landscape to a large extent. However, the research is not going to stop at 5G. Beyond 5G technologies in ICT are already been researched and the progress will continue. Narrowband IoT (NBIoT) is a low power wide area version of the IoTs which needs fewer resources than other forms of IoTs. Therefore it is very much suitable for the large scale deployment of IoTs for the large projects such as smart cities, Industry 4.0, and other large deployments. This can be considered as a greener version of the IoTs. It has a large potential in the long term. Its applications are also pervasive. This is the main motivation for its deeper studies, research, and deployments.
Objectives:
The objective of this book is to provide an in-depth understanding on the recent advances on NBIoT, its architecture, deployment issues, and its applications. In addition to the NBIoT, this book would also consider the recent topics on emerging low power IoT networks which are in focus due to their important roles. Submissions should clearly identify how they relate to topics under consideration in this book. Contributions describing an overall working system of NBIoT and reporting real world deployment experiences are particularly of interest. Submitted chapters should contain state-of-the-art research material presented in a clear and easily readable style while adhering to the IGI Global book chapter rules. Thus all the chapters must adhere to the IGI Global book chapter formats with the word limits between 10000 and 12000.
Scope of the Book:
The topics of relevance include, but not limited to the following.
1. Fundamental Principles of IoT
2. Principles of NBIoT
3. Standards for NBIoT
4. Large scale machine-to-machine communications and NBIoT
5. 5G NBIoT
6. Mathematical models for IoT
7. Mathematical models for NBIoT
8. Principles of low power wide area networks (LPWANs)
9. Potentials of IoT in the long term
10. Potentials of NBIoT
11. Green IoT/NBIoT
12. Sustainability issues of IoT/NBIoT
13. Commercial potentials of NBIoT
14. NBIoT for Internet of Everything
15. Edge Computing for NBIoT
16. Cloud infrastructure for NBIoT
17. Large scale deployment of NBIoT
18. NBIoT for pervasive applications
19. Principal applications for NBIoT
20. NBIoT for healthcare
21. NBIoT for manufacturing and industry 4.0
22. NBIoT for smart cities
23. NBIoT for agriculture
24. NBIoT for security monitoring and policing
25. NBIoT for tracking
26. NBIoT for localization and target detection
27. NBIoT for parking
29. NBIoT for connected vehicles
30. NBIoT for space applications
31. NBIoT and satellite integration
32. NBIoT for mission critical applications
33. NBIoT for emerging applications
34. NBIoT for developing countries
35. Any other topic related to NBIoT
Initially, the authors are requested to send 1 or 2 page proposal with an appropriate title before 30 October 2019. The proposal should include the summary (or extended abstract of 1000 to 2000 words) of the chapter clearly mentioning the main contents, issues and the goals along with 5 to 10 key words. The chapter acceptance/rejection will be notified on or before 25 November 2019. All the proposals should be submitted through the IGI Global submission system at the following link. In case of any doubt or clarification please contact the editor at the email provided at the bottom of this notification. Please note that the following deadlines should be met for all the submissions.
Important Dates:
· Proposal Submission Deadline: 20 November 2019
· Notification of Acceptance: 25 November 2019
· Full Chapter Submission: 30 December 2019
· Review Results Returned to Authors: 15 February 2020
· Final Chapter Submission: 30 March 2020
· Final Notification of Chapter Acceptance: 15 April 2020
If you have any doubts or enquiries please contact the editor at the following emails.
Sudhir K. Routray (Email: sudhir.routray@gmail.com / skr@ieee.org)
Thank you.
DECOR2020 Call For Papers – THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on Data Engineering meets Intelligent Food & COoking Recipes 2020
November 14th, 2019 Daniela Lopez de Luise Co-Located with the 36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
April 20, 2020, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Find the detailed DECOR2020@ICDE Call for Paper here.
The deadline for Full Paper, Demo, and Short paper Submission is January 7, 2020.
The 3rd International Workshop on Data Engineering meets Intelligent Food & COoking Recipes (DECOR2020) will be held on April 20, 2020 at Erik Johnsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, UT Dallas, TX, USA. DECOR2020 is co-located with ICDE’20. DECOR is the premier International Workshop for researchers in the intersection of Data Engi- neering, Intelligent Food and Cooking Recipes. As a multidisciplinary conference, it aims at providing an exchange platform for students, faculties, and researchers from all over the world.
Special events:
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Keynote Speakers
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Interactive Panel Discussions
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Enlightening Student session
Committee Members
Co-Chairs:
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– Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan, andres@nii.ac.jp
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– George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK, george.ghinea@brunel.ac.uk
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– William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA, wgrosky@umich.edu
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– Maria Leite, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA, mcleite@mail.usf.edu
Steering Committee:
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– Alan Hevner, University of South Florida, USA
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– Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, GR
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– Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of WestMinnster, UK
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– Takuya Kitagawa, Rakuten, JP
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– Pierre Levy, University of Ottawa, CA
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– Jeannette Nuessli Guth, ETH Zürich, SZ
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– Yoko Yamakata, The University of Tokyo, JP
– Aidong Zhang, The State University of NY at Buffalo , USA
Maria C.A. Leite, PhD
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Office: Davis Hall 255
"Creativity is intelligence having fun" — Albert Einstein
Premio “ACM Software System Award”
November 14th, 2019 Daniela Lopez de Luise Estimados docentes e investigadores:
Tengo el agrado de remitirles la siguiente convocatoria.
El ACM Software System Award reconoce a una institución o personas por desarrollar un sistema de software que haya tenido influencia duradera en la informática, como se refleja en las contribuciones a los conceptos, la aceptación comercial o ambas. El premio se presenta cada mes de junio en la Entrega de los ACM Awards y se acompaña de un premio de $ 35,000 más gastos de viaje a dicha entrega en Estados Unidos. El soporte financiero para el premio es proporcionado por IBM.
Fecha límite: 15 de enero de 2020
Las nominaciones serán revisadas por la evidencia que brinden de un impacto conceptual significativo, adopción y uso generalizado (incluyendo ofertas de código abierto o comerciales), influencia en desarrollos relacionados, contribución a la infraestructura y transición efectiva de la teoría a la práctica.
La postulación debe enviarse utilizando el formulario de nominación en línea (https://campus2.acm.org/public/awards/nomination.cfm). Los materiales enviados deben explicar la contribución en términos comprensibles para un no-especialista.
Convocatoria completa (en inglés): https://awards.acm.org/software-system/nominations
Para consultas, escriba a los siguientes correos electrónicos: acm-awards@acm.org / jade.morris@acm.org
Saludos cordiales,
Lic. Melina Garbarino
Asistente en Vicerrectoría de Investigación
Universidad Abierta Interamericana
Rectorado: Chacabuco 90, 4to piso – CP1069
Teléfono: 4342-7788 int. 165
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ICME Special Session on Multimodal People Analytics
November 14th, 2019 Daniela Lopez de Luise - Audiovisual diarization
- Active speaker identification
- Multimodal person (re)identification, character discovery
- Multiview approaches to learning shared representations
- Action retrieval and recognition in media
- Affect (e.g., violence, emotion) prediction in media (including social media)
- Algorithms, architectures and databases for people analytics in media