[AISWorld] CFP - 18th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2022)

[Sergio Ilarri]

Call for Papers || Short Papers || Demos & Videos || Doctoral colloquium

18th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2022), 
20-23 June 2022, Biarritz, France

http://ie2022.iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr/

** Important Dates **
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    Conference paper submission:         1 December 2021
    Communication of results:           15 February 2022
    Camera ready:                       28 March 2022


The 18th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2022) 
will be held in 2022 in Biarritz, France, from June 20th to June 23rd. 
The IE Conference is recognized as a major annual venue in the area. It 
has been hosted all around the world and offers a truly international 
forum that encourages rich exchanges. Intelligent environments refer to 
physical spaces in which information and communication technologies are 
woven with sensing/acting technologies in order to create interacting 
spaces enhancing occupants' experience. The ultimate objective of such 
environments is to provide services to occupants, enrich their 
activities but also to develop their awareness.

** Conference Program **
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IE is a multidisciplinary event welcoming contribution from a diversity 
of relevant areas including sensing, networking, human-computer 
interaction, artificial intelligence, software engineering, 
context-awareness, the internet of things, pervasive and ubiquitous 
computing, etc. The event will include regular full/short papers, a 
Doctoral Colloquium, a Posters Session and Demos Session as well as an 
Industrial Forum. Special Sessions will focus on specific topics 
(details further down).

** COVID-19 information **
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The IE 2022 committee is closely monitoring the situation with respect 
to health safety and travel. We will adapt the conference according to 
the latest pandemic evolution and recommendations. IE will take the form 
of a hybrid event, or totally virtual depending on the health situation 
in June 2022.

** Paper categories **
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     FULL papers should be up to 8 pages in total (see 
https://ie2022.iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr/call-for-papers/)
     SPECIAL SESSIONS papers should be up to 8 pages in total  (see 
https://ie2022.iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr/special-sessions/)
     SHORT papers should be up to 4 pages in total (see 
https://ie2022.iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr/call-for-papers/)
     DEMOS & VIDEOS papers should be up to 4 pages in total (see 
https://ie2022.iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr/call-for-demos-and-posters/)
     DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM papers should be up to 4 pages in total (see 
https://ie2022.iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr/doctoral-colloquium/)

     All accepted papers of all categories will be published in the IEEE 
proceedings of the conference and submitted for inclusion into IEEE 
Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

** Submission **
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For this edition, to increase high quality papers and independent merit, 
the evaluation process is *double blind*. Hence, all papers should be 
anonymous for any of the categories below. This constraint does *not* 
apply to DEMOS & VIDEOS papers.
All papers should be submitted as PDF on EasyChair : 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ie2022 by selecting the 
appropriate category.

They should be formatted according to the IEEE Template for Conference 
Proceedings, https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

** Special Sessions **
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The following special sessions proposed by members from our scientific 
community have been accepted:
- "Smart Cities" by Juan Carlos Augusto, Middlesex University, London, UK
- "Human Mobility Analysis in Heterogeneous Urban Environments" by 
Fernando Terroso Sáenz and Manuel Curado Navarro, Universidad Católica 
de Murcia (UCAM), Spain
- "Ethics & Privacy Preservation in Data Analytics and Smart 
Environments" by Antonio Balderas-Alberico, Juan Manuel Dodero, Manuel 
Palomo Duarte, and Mercedes Rodriguez-Garcia, University of Cadiz, Spain
- "Post-covid Intelligent Environments" by Sherif Aly (The American 
University in Cairo, Egypt), Takuya Yoshihiro (Wakayama University, 
Japan), Ahmed Elmogy (Prince Sattam Bin Abdelaziz University, Saudi 
Arabia), and Hamada Rizk (Osaka University, Japan & Tanta University, Egypt)

** Short Papers **
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Short Papers provide an opportunity to report on early results, position 
statements, and complementary resources created. Accepted submissions 
will be included in the conference proceedings and will be presented 
during an exclusively dedicated Posters Session of the conference.


** Demos & Videos **
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The demo and video track provides a unique opportunity to showcase 
research prototypes, novel ideas or future visions of Intelligent 
Environment that are difficult to convey in a paper-only format. Demos 
allow conference participants to view and try out novel and noteworthy 
systems and components of Intelligent Environments in action, and 
discuss the systems with those who created them. Appropriate demos 
include applications, technologies, and research prototypes. Accepted 
demos will be showcased during the conference.

** Doctoral Colloquium Papers **
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Doctoral colloquium papers should focus on research projects (PhD or 
similar) which are either (a) in a relatively early stage, but where the 
investigating student has already identified the nature and key aspects 
of the problem(s), and has ideas regarding how to solve them, or (b) is 
at a stage where interesting results are being produced, but the work is 
not yet sufficient  to produce a long paper.

** Keynote Speakers **
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The conference will include keynote lectures of the following 
distinguished speakers:

·       Prof. Jiannong Cao, Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile 
Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

·       Prof. Christine Julien, Annis & Jack Bowen Professor in 
Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of 
Texas at Austin, U.S.A

·       Dr. Maria-Antonietta Grasso, Principal Scientist UX and 
Ethnography, Naverlabs, France

** Awards **
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As previous editions, several awards will be programmed to recognize 
authors outstanding scientific contributions to the area of intelligent 
environments. The awards are the following.
- Beatrice WORSLEY award for the best full paper
- Best Poster award
- Best Doctoral Colloquium award
- Best Demos&Video award
- Best Presentation awards  for a full paper presentation
** by a female presenter
** by a male presenter

This twin presentation award has been set up to encourage equal 
visibility of female and male researchers. The awards will be allocated 
to the whole co-authors of the presented paper. The attribution will be 
decided by a jury of people of equally balanced gender.

** Workshops & Tutorial & Industry Forum **
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The conference will feature 10 workshops and 7 tutorials on all aspects 
of intelligent environments. Check the workshop and tutorial web pages 
(https://ie2022.iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr)
Furthermore, as each year, the conference will offer an Industrial Forum 
which will be a networking event and an opportunity for the business 
sector to showcase their innovation. Companies interested by the 
industrial forum can contact the industrial forum chairs directly.