INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to AMBIENT 2012. The submission deadline is set to May 18, 2012. In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== AMBIENT 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS AMBIENT 2012, The Second International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies September 23 - 28, 2012 - Barcelona, Spain General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/AMBIENT12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPAMBIENT12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitAMBIENT12.html Submission deadline: May 18, 2012 Proceedings: ISBN: 978-1-61208-235-6 Archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library at http://www.thinkmind.org Printed version can be ordered at http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html All publications will be submitted for major indexing. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal: http://www.iariajournals.org Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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 comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html AMBIENT 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Track 1: Ambient computing environments, sensors and hardware Fundamental for ambient computing and mechanisms; Environmental sensing and computing; Distributed ambient and artificial intelligence; Autonomic ambient networks and communications; Smart environments and applications; Ubiquitous and mobile computing Track 2: Ambient computing and modeling Sentient Computing; Tracking and sensing networks; Location-based computing; Ambient context modeling and reasoning; Context-aware computing; Local and global sensing; Multi-sensory and multi-modal fusion Track 3: Ambient devices, applications and systems Ambient media and devices; Ambient content and methods for adding intelligence to media objects; Sentient offices; Smart phones; Glasses and filters for ambient game and movie; Social networks and social computing; Semantic-location; Body sensors; Wearable devices; Smart sensors Track 4: Ambient services, technology and platforms Personalized services; Ambient assisted living (AAL) ; Social games; Domotics (Home Automation) ; Domestic robotics; Intelligent homes; Tele-care and Telemedicine; Mobile media; Mobile learning; Emergency services; Ambient-oriented technologies (wireless, social networks); Universal access; Ambient platforms; Ambient and mobile social networks Track 5: User Friendly Interfaces Haptic interfaces; Smart user interfaces; Ambient interfaces (touch, gesture, haptics, biometrics) ; Multimodal interfaces and interaction Track 6: Ambient Business Models, Privacy and Trust Business model and business cases, security, privacy and trust, Real-life implementations ================================================ Thanks for contributing! Maarten, Petre ------------------------------------------- AMBIENT General Chair Maarten Weyn, Artesis University College of Antwerp, Belgium IARIA Committees Chair Petre Dini, Concordia University - Montreal, Canada | China Space Agency Center - Beijing, China -------------------------------------------