[AISWorld] 2nd Intelligent Users/Intelligent Cities Workshop (Shanghai, 30th June - 1st July, 2014)

[Efpraxia Zamani]

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2nd Call for Contributions
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2nd Intelligent Users / Intelligent Cities Workshop
co-located with the 10th International Conference on Intelligent  
Environments (IE '14)
http://iuic14.orbitlab.gr

June 30 - July 1, 2014 - Shanghai, China


Overview
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The proliferation of online social networks, hybrid realities and  
virtual spaces among others, have accelerated the transformation of  
users’ perceptions regarding their real and virtual social presence,  
as they can create, manipulate and share their digital personas in the  
online, as they do in the offline one. Therefore, such technologically  
enabled realities have altered the way we, today, perceive image, self  
and space.


Aims & Scope
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The workshop focuses on user behavior and familiarization with  
intelligent systems as well as the latters’ integration within the  
urban space. In particular, it will try to identify techniques, which,  
through the examination of the characteristics of the user of the  
smart city, will make relevant and reasonable the way the city is  
transformed into the smart and augmented city of the future. The main  
goal is to examine how computing weaves its way through the urban  
environment and the everyday life of the habitants. Therefore, the  
main goal of the workshop is to first identify users of intelligent  
environments by giving them characteristics, and then recognize the  
parameters that establish the city as an intelligent environment. What  
is a “smart – intelligent city” and how this vision can be realized.


Topics of Interest
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We seek regular papers (e.g., long, short and position papers),  
artwork (e.g., video submissions) on topics including, but not limited  
to, the following:

* Economics and social aspects of the Intelligent Smart City
* Best practices, case studies, lessons learnt, and elaborate on  
intelligent user interfaces
* Identification of characteristics, factors, and their relationships  
among others for developing e.g., comprehensive frameworks
* Cities as platforms for new internet-based services
* Smart and efficient energy management
* Using mobile devices to access and/or offer services
* Enhancing individuals’ everyday life (e.g. health, education)
* Communication technologies and systems for smart cities
* Social networks and leveraging human resources in urban environments
* Internet of things for smart cities
* Smart buildings and urban planning
* Environmental sustainability


Submissions
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Contributions can be regular papers (e.g., long, short and position  
papers) or artwork (e.g., video submissions).
All papers accepted will be published as a volume of the Ambient  
Intelligence and Smart Environments Series of IOS Press (also ISI  
indexed) and electronically available through ACM Digital Library. The  
best papers will be invited for special issues of the Journal of  
Ambient Intellince and Smart Environments, The Transactions on Future  
Intelligent Educational Environments and the Intelligfent Buildings  
International Journal.


Important dates
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Workshop Paper submission: 4th April 2014
Paper decision notification: 25th April 2014
Final Version to be submitted by: 6th May 2014
Workshop Dates: 30th June-1st July 2014

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