CENTRIC 2014, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services

May 17th, 2014 CI2S Enterprise Content Admin

CENTRIC 2014, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services

October 12 – 16, 2014 – Nice, France

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CENTRIC14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPCENTRIC14.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitCENTRIC14.html

Contributions:

– regular papers

– short papers (work in progress)

– posters

– ideas

– presentations

– demos

– doctoral forum submissions

Proposals for:

– symposia

– workshops

Submission deadline: May 30, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

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

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference 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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

CENTRIC 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


Centric views

User centricity: I-centric versus We-centric; User-centric in service-centric systems; User-centric business models; User-centric requirements in network-centric approaches; User-centric and critical time-centric applications and services; User information access behavior; User-centric professional attackers; User-centric data mining; User-centric data aggregation; Personalized seeking and personalized sharing; Contextual user information facets; User-oriented ontology; User empowerment: awareness and control; User-centric trust models

Privacy and anonymity

Anonymity and pseudonymity; Attacks against de-identified data; Data anonymity; Consent-based privacy disclosure; Private digital assets; Disclosure control techniques; Information loss assessment; Risk assessment for shared information; Privacy and anonymity ontology; Privacy technologies; User location anonymity techniques; Privacy preserving data and text mining; Privacy and anonymity in specialized applications /healthcare. databases, information retrieval, social networks, etc./; Legal aspects in privacy and anonymity

User-centric supporting mechanisms

Machine learning and artificial neural networks; Network control and feedback with man-in-the-loop; Personalized storage and information retrieval with user-context; Service discovery using user profile; Personalized navigation and visualization; Semantic web services; Advanced personalization techniques for semantic wikis; Application of advanced reasoning maintenance; Reasoning on user modeling and personalization; Information extraction and semantic web technologies with personalization and user modeling; Quality of experience

Personalization

Personalization of ICT services and devices; Personalization of eHealth services; Personalization related to ICT in cars; Adaptive personalization; Supporting the user in initial set-up of user profiles; Personalization and user profile management; Preferences for personalization in manufacturers’ devices; Standardization

User-centric networking and services

Personal profiles, preferences; Identity; Reputation; User profiles; Proximity and context-aware services; Social communities; User adapted services; Trust, privacy, security; Community services; Location services; Web 2.0 and Web 3.0; Key exchange, certificate handling, smartcards; Personal devices; Managing identity and security – identity provider; Home content access and rights management

User-centric advanced applications

Humanoids; Unmanned systems; On-body antennas; Body networks and devices; Preventive and personalized medicine; Anticipative systems for diagnosis and maintenance; Emergency and medical response systems; eHealth and telemedicine services; Personal entertainment

Technologies for personalized services

Personnel tracking; Presence automatic control; Remote home security control; User-centric recommender services; Identity management; Contactless radio: RFID, NFC; Proximity radio: Bluetooth, WLAN; Broadband and wireless broadband distribution; Ambient wireless and broadband networks; Social engineering and social networks; IPTV and Quadruple Play

People-centric sensing

People-centric sensing techniques, technologies, and applications; Participatory sensing; Smart phone sensing; urban sensing; Bio-medical sensing; Mixed sensor networks and people-centric sensing; SensorWeb; Mobility; Mobile social networks and sensing; Mobile healthcare and sensing; Platforms and architectures; Context awareness; Situation awareness and management

User Experience and Usability

Attributes and Measurement; Ergonomics/Human Factors; User-Centered and Contextual Design; Design Guidance/Best Practices; Usability Heuristics, Testing and Evaluation; User Feedback and Response; Design Tools and Process; Prototyping Technologies; Responsive Design Strategies; Innovative User Interfaces

User Research and Usage Behavior

Up-front User Research; Use Cases and Case Study Research; Usage/User Studies on New Services; Adoption and Diffusion Research; Usage/Demand Forecasting and Planning; Technology Acceptance Research; User Behavior and Attitudes; Social and Cultural Influences


Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComCENTRIC14.html


CENTRIC 2014 General Chairs

Lasse Berntzen, Vestfold University College – Tønsberg, Norway

Stephan Böhm, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences – Wiesbaden, Germany


CENTRIC Advisory Chairs

Michael Gebhart, Gebhart Quality Analysis (QA) 82, Germany

Vitaly Klyuev, University of Aizu, Japan

Mario Hoffmann, Fraunhofer-Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) – Darmstadt, Germany

Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Cádiz, Spain

Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Thomas Marx, University of Applied Sciences Bingen, Germany


CENTRIC 2014 Research Institute Liaison Chairs

R. Hariprakash, Arulmighu Meenakashi Amman College of Engineering, India

Muhammad Iftikhar, University of Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia

Kong Cheng, Telcordia Technologies – Piscataway, USA

Gottfried Zimmermann, Stuttgart Media University, Germnay


CENTRIC 2014 Industry/Research Chairs

Eve Maler, Forrester Research, USA

Rainer Falk, Siemens AG – München, Deutschland

Juong-Sik Lee, Nokia Research Center – Palo Alto, USA

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SOTICS 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Social Eco-Informatics

May 17th, 2014 CI2S Enterprise Content Admin
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

SOTICS 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Social Eco-Informatics

October 12 – 16, 2014 – Nice, France

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SOTICS14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPSOTICS14.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitSOTICS14.html

Contributions:

– regular papers

– short papers (work in progress)

– posters

– ideas

– presentations

– demos

– doctoral forum submissions

Proposals for:

– symposia

– workshops

Submission deadline: May 30, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

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

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference 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.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

SOTICS 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


Digital resource domains

Social networks; Digital computing; Digital health care; Digital mapping; Digital human faces; Digital libraries; Eco-informatics; Micro-contribution by masses

Social evaluation and metrics

Metric on quality of experience and satisfaction; Social mobility; Social interactions; Social learning; Social media; Social models; Mutual social credentials

Social applications

On-line entertainment; Games and citizens; Social networking and social software; Tagging and micro-blogging; Collaborative filtering and tagging; Social simulation (mobility, groupware, etc.); Very large social networks; Deep web social information; Blogs and mini-blogs; E-books

Social mobility

Social mobile networks with the Web 2.0; Mobile social architecture and services; Open service capabilities; Open exposure of telco capabilities; Open Web APIs, SOA and SDP; Interworking strategies; Mobile terminals as sources for User-generated content; Architecture and services for user-generated content; Auto-description and metadata synthesis for telecom-generated for user-generated content; Social mobile networks; User behavior profiling; Social connections (social graphs, contacts, etc); Services and architectures/solutions for social mobile services

Mechanisms for social services

eSociety; Accessibility; Social education; Social opinion; Digital eco-systems; Ecology and social justice; eGovernments; Digital economy; eCommerce; Digital cities; Tourism; Democracy and social groups; Patent laws; Social tools; Web enterprises and services

Challenges in social environments

Computational thinking; Natural language processing; eImpact on children knowledge and abilities; Opinion and sentiment analysis; Computing and philosophy; Threats in social networks; Trusted computing; Reputation systems; Pervasive social computing; Real-time ubiquitous social semantic; Social creativity; Social trust; Ethics


Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComSOTICS14.html


SOTICS General Chairs

Philip Davis, Bournemouth and Poole College – Bournemouth, UK

David Newell, Bournemouth University – Bournemouth, UK


SOTICS Advisory Chairs

Petre Dini, Concordia University, Canada & IARIA, USA

Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Ulrike Lucke, University of Potsdam, Germany

Abdulrahman Yarali, Murray State University, USA


SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Social Networks

Feng Gao, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Lynne Hall, University of Sunderland, UK


SOTICS Special Area Chairs on eGovernment

Jennifer Watkins, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA


SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Digital Cities

Tom Erickson, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA


SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Digital Libraries

Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Media

Claus Atzenbeck, Hof University, Germany / Aalborg University, Denmark


SOTICS Publicity Chairs

Nima Dokoohaki, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) – Stockholm, Sweden

Christine Langeron, Hubert Curien Laboratory, Lyon University, France

Sandra Sendra Compte, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

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The 6th International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2014)

May 17th, 2014 CI2S Enterprise Content Admin

*** SoCPaR – Call for Papers ***
— The 6th International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2014) —

*** Tunis, Tunisia ***
11-14, August 2014

http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar14/

SoCPaR 2014 Publication: IEEE
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After the success of the 5th International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2013), SoCPaR 2014 is organized to bring together worldwide leading researchers and practitioners interested in advancing the state of the art in Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities. It is hoped that researchers and practitioners will bring new prospects for collaboration across disciplines and gain inspiration to facilitate novel breakthroughs. The themes for this conference are thus focused on “Innovating and Inspiring Soft Computing and Intelligent Pattern Recognition”.

 

The conference is expected to provide an opportunity for the researchers to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results and methods in solving intriguing problems in the fields of soft Computing and Pattern Recognition. The conference programme will include workshops, special sessions and tutorials, along with prominent keynote speakers and regular paper presentations in parallel tracks. Like previous years, we expect the SoCPaR 2014 proceedings to be published by IEEE subject to fulfilling of all quality requirements of IEEE. The General Chairs, along with the entire team cordially invite you to submit your latest research results in the fields of Soft Computing and Intelligent Pattern Recognition, and to take part in the upcoming conference, to be held on August 11-14 in Ramada Plaza Tunis Hotel, Tunisia.

 

Like previous editions, all accepted papers presented at SoCPaR2014 will be selected and recommended for possible publication in Journal Special Issues and Edited Volumes (indexed by SCI, EI Compendex, etc.).

~~~TOPICS~~~

Soft Computing and Applications (but not limited to):
Evolutionary computing

Swarm intelligence

Artificial immune systems

Fuzzy Sets

Uncertainty analysis

Fractals

Rough Sets

Support vector machines

Artificial neural networks

Case Based Reasoning

Wavelets

Hybrid intelligent systems

Nature inspired computing techniques

Machine learning

Ambient intelligence

Hardware implementations
Pattern Recognition and Applications (but not limited to):
Information retrieval

Data Mining

Web Mining

Image Processing

Computer Vision

Bio-informatics

Information security

Network security

Steganography

Biometry

Remote sensing

Medical Informatics

E-commerce

Signal Processing

Control systems
Author Guidelines:
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Submission of paper should be made through the submission link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2014

All submissions should be in the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. The page
limit for a full-length paper is 6 pages. Short papers describing
novel research visions, work-in-progress or less mature results are
also welcome, with the limit of 4 pages. Please refer to the
conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.

All accepted papers will be compiled in conference proceedings
published by the IEEE. It is mandatory at least an author registers
for every paper that is included in the conference proceedings.
Proceedings will be made available during the conference. Accepted
papers must be presented by author(s) personally to be published in
the conference proceedings.

Expanded versions of SoCPaR 2014 selected papers will be published in
special issues of internationally referred journals (indexed by SCI)
and edited volumes.

Important Dates:
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Special session proposals: March 15, 2014
Acceptance of special sessions: March 31, 2014
Paper submission due: May 15, 2013
Notification of paper acceptance: June 15, 2014
Final manuscript and registration due: July 01, 2014

SoCPaR 2014 Organizing team:
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Honorary Chairs
Abderazek Ben Abdallah, University of Aizu, Japan
Volker Märgner, University of Braunschweig, Germany

General Chairs
Ajith Abraham, MIR Labs, USA
Adel M. Alimi, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Technical Program Committee Chairs
Haikal El Abed, University of Braunschweig, Germany
Mohamed Ben Halima, University of Gabes, Tunisia

Organizing Chairs
Habib Kammoun, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Ali Wali, University of Kairouan, Tunisia

Publication Chair
Yun-Huoy Choo, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia

Publicity Chair
Azah Kamilah Muda, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia

Local information contact:
Adel M. Alimi
REGIM, University of Sfax,
ENIS, BP 1173, Sfax 3038,
Tunisia
Phone: +216-98-66-76-82 (mobile) / +216-74-677-545 (office)
e-mail : adel.alimi@ieee.org

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IEEE LATINCOM 2014

May 17th, 2014 CI2S Enterprise Content Admin
IEEE LATINCOM 2014
6th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications
– Towards an Internet for People and Things
Cartagena, Colombia
5-7 November 2014
http://www.ieee-latincom.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

ABOUT IEEE LATINCOM 2014

The 6th Latin-American Conference on Communications (IEEE LATINCOM 2014) will be held in Cartagena, Colombia on 5-7 November 2014. The IEEE LATINCOM is the premier ComSoc organized in Latin America. It has attracted authors and attendees for the four corners of the world in its past edition. Selected papers will be published in the IEEE Latin America Transactions, an ISI indexed journal, and best paper award will be is given after careful selection.

Cartagena de Indias is one of the most beautiful treasures from the Caribbean. A city in which three natures live together: the old Spanish colonial city, full of history of pirates, gold, inquisition and the fight for freedom; the new modern city, full of high rise constructions, boutique hotels, local and international gastronomy and a growing economy; and an ecological paradise with gorgeous beaches, scuba diving in coral reefs and natural parks. It is one of the favorite destinations for world-class
events.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Areas of interest include and are not limited to the following topics:

Networking
– Networking for Cloud computing
– Communications for Smart Grids
– Peer-to-Peer networking
– Social Networks
– Network Virtualization
– Content-oriented Infrastructures

Wireless Communications and Networking
– 5G and 4G Communications and Networking
– Device-to-Device and Machine-to-Machine communications
– Internet of things and Smart Cities
– Cognitive networks and Cross-layer design
– Ad Hoc, sensor, mesh and access networks
– Radio, Satellite and space communications
– Software Defined Networking and wireless cloud

Communication Services
– Quality of Experience and Quality of Services
– Services for disaster situations and humanitarian services
– Multimedia services and Applications
– Service Security and Privacy
– Location-based Information Systems
– E-health
– E-governance

Sustainable Communications and Energy Efficiency
– Green wireless and fixed-line communications
– Energy-efficient protocols and networks

Optical networks
– Elastic networks
– Access networks
– Optical communications
– Optical & wireless convergence

Communications Systems and Signal Processing
– Communication theory
– Signal processing and communication electronics

Communication QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling
– Communications systems integration and modeling
– Performance evaluation
– Reliability of systems and networks
– Traffic engineering and traffic theory

Enabling technologies
– Network management
– Switching and Routing
– Internet protocols
– Communications protocols
– Security
IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Submission of full papers: 7 July 2014
Submission of tutorial proposals: 1 August 2014
Notification of acceptance: 1 September 2014
Submission of camera-ready papers: 30 September 2014

PAPER SUBMISSION

We solicit submission of high-quality full papers reporting original and novel research results on all above topics. Papers must be written in English, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Full papers must be formatted as the standard IEEE double-column conference template and submitted exclusively in PDF on JEMS (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br) at the IEEE LATINCOM 2014 page. Maximum 6 pages are allowed for each paper, including all illustrations and references.

CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

Proposals are invited for half-/full-day tutorials on topics of interest of the conference. Proposals must be submitted on JEMS (IEEE LATINCOM 2014 page, Tutorial Track) and include title, abstract, full contact information, introduction to the subject, preferred length, past history, biography of the lecturer, detailed outline.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Maurizio Dècina, Politecnico di Milano
Hikmet Sari, SUPÉLEC

SPECIAL ISSUE

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a revised version of their paper to a special issue to be published in the IEEE Latin-America Transactions


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair

Jose David Cely, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Calda, Colombia

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Pedro Wightman, Universidad del Norte – Barranquilla, Colombia
Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain

Tutorials Co-Chairs

Boris Ramos, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador
Alberto Sanchez, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

Publications Chair

Carlos E .Velasquez, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Finance Chair

Salomon Herrera, Dirección Nacional de los Espacios Acuáticos, Ecuador

Steering Committee Chair

Nelson L. S. da Fonseca, University of Campinas, Brazil

Technical Program Advisor

Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Patrons Chair

Lorena Garcia, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Local Arrangements

Yuli Andrea Rodriguez, ITC Ministry, Colombia

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