5th International Symposium on Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health

CALL FOR PAPERS
5th International Symposium on Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health

MINDCARE 2015
24 – 25 September, 2015 Milan, Italy
Past editions:

2014

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Scope

MindCare 2015 will continue the tradition of being a place where technological, psychiatric and psychological disciplines meet. It hosts top researchers and practitioners focused on exploiting technological advancements to maintain and/or improve mental health.

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Rosalind Picard
Founder and Director of the Affective Computing Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Venue

MINDCARE SYMPOSIUM will be hosted at Istituto Auxologico Italiano, which is one of the top and widespread facilities in Italy with more than 55 years of experience in research and treatment of neurodegenerative and cardiac conditions among many others.

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in one of the Springer’s seriesand will appear in the SpringerLink – one of the largest digital online libraries which covers a myriad of scientific disciplines. In addition, the accepted papers will be available in EU digital library (EUDL) and indexed in Scopus and EI as well as submitted for indexing in ISI Proceedings.

The confirmation on additional proceedings publisher is pending.

Selected papers will be given a possibility to be extended for a journal publication.

Topics

Technology is allowing the acquisition of unprecedented information related to individuals’ mental wellbeing as well as the provision of novel methods of treatment. The MindCare Community leverages the opportunities offered by the technological advancements to provide an improved diagnosis, a better support to both healthy subjects and patients, but also to extend the theoretical knowledge.

In this regard, we are soliciting high-quality papers in the following topics (but not limited to):

 

Sensing and data processing

  • Wearable computing
  • Smart environments
  • Biomedical devices
  • Combined sensing systems and infrastructures
  • Computer-enhanced self reporting
  • Machine learning and data mining methods

User experience

  • Novel interfaces
  • Usability studies
  • Visualizations
  • Augmented reality
  • Virtual reality approaches

Applications

  • Mental wellbeing support
  • Stress / Emotional response analysis
  • Affective computing
  • Serious games for mental health
  • Cognitive stimulation
  • Life-logging methods
  • Monitoring activities relevant to mental health
  • Treatment of mental disorders
  • Systems to support patients and / or caregivers
  • Using technology to improve the understanding of cognitive processes
  • Mental health promotion and disorders prevention

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories: regular papers up to 10 pages, short papers up to 6 pages and poster papers up to 3 pages. The papers should be formatted according to the Springer Author Guidelines (Word or Latex). The submissions should be made through the Easychair electronic system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mindcare2015All the submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least three expert reviewers. Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal.

Important dates

Submission:                                          1 June, 2015

Notification:                                         17 August, 2015

Camera-ready:                                     1 September, 2015

Please visit the conference website for detailed submission instructions.

General Chairs

Aleksandar Matic, Telefonica I+D, Spain

Pietro Cipresso, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy

Guillaume Lopez, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

Local Chair

Silvia Serino, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy

Program Chairs

Dimitris Giakoumis, The Centre for Research and Technology, Greece

Mads Frost, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Publicity Chair

Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Monica Tentori, CICESE, Mexico

Local Publicity Chair

Daniela Villani, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, Italy

Publication Chairs

Charalampos Doukas, CREATE-NET, Italy

Conference Coordinator

Ruzanna Najaryan, EAI

Steering Committee Chair  

Professor Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy

 

Technological Perspectives Chair  

Professor Anind K. Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

 

Psychological Perspectives Chair  

Professor Giuseppe Riva, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy

 

Endorsed by                                          Conference by                Technical Co sponsors

About EAI – The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. Find out more at http:\\www.eai.eu.

 

 

WCCS15: 2015 IEEE Third World Conference on Complex Systems

Call For Papers:
Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to: WCCS15: 2015 IEEE Third World Conference on Complex Systems.

For more information visit: http://mscomplexsystems.org/wccs15/

For submissions:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wccs15

Keynote Speakers: http://mscomplexsystems.org/wccs15/keynotes

PUBLICATION
The proceedings will be included in the IEEE digital library (IEEE Xplore).
Extended versions of best papers will be invited for publication in International journals.

THE TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
-Foundations of Complex Systems
-Modeling Social Systems
-Evolution and Ecology
-Information and Communication Technologies
-Cloud Computing and Complexity
-Computational Intelligence and Applications
-Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
-Software Engineering Research and Practice
-Embedded and Real-time Systems and Applications
-Modeling and Control of Complex Systems
-Complex Robotic and Automated Systems
-Mining Complex Data
-Network computing
-Image, Biomedical Engineering and Signal Processing

ORGANIZE A SPECIAL SESSION:
Researchers are welcome to organize special session. The session should be within a very specific topic. Please send your session title, your CV for this purpose to nemiche@uv.es
The conference will list the session on the web. The session chair will manage the publicity of his/her session. It is expected that each session will attract 5 registered papers. The session chair will get a free registration for one of his/her papers.
The submission and the reviewing process for the papers of the sessions will be managed jointly between the chair and the conference.
The chair can take the responsibility of the reviewing with the help of other researchers. However, the conference will get all the reviewing reports at the end.

IMPORTANT DATES:
SUBMISSION : April 30, 2015
NOTIFICATION : May 31, 2015
CAMERA-READY : June 15 2015
REGISTRATION : June 17, 2015
WCCS15 : November 23-25, 2015

WCCS15 Program Committee: http://mscomplexsystems.org/wccs15/international-technical-program-committee
CONTACT:  nemiche@uv.es

International Journal of Information Technology and Business Management

International Journal of Information Technology and Business Management
 

We are writing to announce that you can publish your research paper in 34th volume of International Journal of Information Technology and Business Management. The URL of the Journal is: http://www.jitbm.com/. Our aim is to provide forum to all Spectacular authors to publish their research and share their knowledge.

We invite you to submit your research paper till 25th February 2015 and become part of our 34th volume  to be published on 28th February 2015. We Believe in quality research work and for this our experienced team of editorial board will do blind peer review of every research paper to maintain the quality standard of every volume.

Please feel free to ask if you have any query. For Details Please Visit http://www.jitbm.com/.

Looking forward to correspond with you.

 

 

Haya Fatima | JITBM

Publication Manager

editor_manager@jitbm.com

www.jitbm.com

Conference on Business Analytics in Finance and Industry

Call for Abstracts

Conference on Business Analytics in Finance and Industry
December 14 – 16, 2015
Santiago, Chile
www.bafi.cl

Twitter: @bafichile
Presentation

 

The aim of the conference BAFI 2015 is to bring together researchers and developers from data science and related areas with practitioners and consultants applying the respective techniques in different business-related domains. This event provides a platform to stimulate an academic exchange of recent developments as well as to foster the mutual influence between academia and practitioners.

 

At BAFI 2015 we focus on methodological developments aimed at uncovering information contained in large databases, as well as on business applications in various sectors, such as finance, retail, and telecommunication, among others.

 

Conference Topics

 

Topics at this conference include, but are not limited to:

 

Business Analytics – Methods:

– Dimensionality Reduction, Feature Extraction, and Feature Selection

– Supervised, Semi-Supervised, and Unsupervised Methods

– Statistical Learning Theory

– Online Learning, Data Stream Mining, and Dynamic Data Mining

– Graph Mining and Semi-Structured Data

– Spatial and Temporal Data Mining

– Deep Learning and Neural Network Research

– Large Scale Data Mining

– Uncertainty Modeling in Data Mining
Business Analytics – Applications:

– Credit Scoring and Financial Modeling

– Forecasting

– Fraud Detection

– Web Intelligence and Information Retrieval

– Marketing, Business Intelligence, and e-Commerce

– Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems

– Social Network Analysis

– Privacy-preserving Data Mining and Privacy-related Issue

– Text Mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Opinion Mining

 

 

Timeline and Submission Guidelines

 

–          June 30, 2015: Deadline for submission of extended abstracts

–          August 15, 2015: Accept/reject decision

–          October 15, 2015: Deadline for early registration

–          December 14-16, 2015: BAFI 2015

 

Confirmed Speakers

 

  • Ricardo Baeza-Yates, VP of Research for Europe and Latin America, Yahoo Labs, Barcelona, Spain
  • Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
  • Jonathan Crook, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Matt Davison, Western University, Canada
  • Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada

 

 

Program Committee

 

– Richard Weber, Universidad de Chile, Chile (Chair)

– Galina Andreeva, University of Edinburgh, UK

– Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy

– Bart Baesens, KU Leuven, Belgium

– Cristián Bravo, Universidad de Talca, Chile

– Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

– Sven Crone, Lancaster University, UK

– Matt Davison, Western University, Canada

– David Díaz, Universidad de Chile, Chile

– Fernando Gomide, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

– Rudolf Kruse, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany

– Fazel Famili, University of Ottawa, Canada

– José Guajardo, University of California Berkeley, USA

– Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka University, Japan

– Sebastián Maldonado, Universidad de Los Andes, Chile

– Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada

– Karim Pichara, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

– Bárbara Poblete, Universidad de Chile, Chile

– Alejandro Rodríguez, Universidad de Talca, Chile

– Vania Sera, University of Essex, UK

– Alex Seret, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

– Wouter Verbeke, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

– Graham Williams, ATO, Australia

Interlink Continental Journal of Engineering, Technology And Innovation

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Interlink Continental Journal of Engineering, Technology And Innovation (ICJETI) will cover all areas of the subject. The journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence, and will publish:
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We invite you to submit your manuscript(s) for publication. Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within two (2) weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue. Guide to authors and other details are available on our website; http://transconpublishers.org/icjeti/authors-guide.php

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