Editors:
Juan Carlos Augusto -- Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Asier Aztiria Goenaga -- Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain
Andrea Orlandini -- National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISTC),
Italy
Motivations
During the last decade, questions were raised on how intelligent
were the so called "smart systems" and the stereotype smart system
was somehow identified in the smart homes. Nowadays, the word smart
has become a sort of wild card to be attached to any new product
introduced to the market . The area related to Smart Homes has
blended with other areas in Computer Science and expanded in several
directions. Popularity has grown exponentially and several areas of
applications are now less science fiction and more of a reality.
There are Smart Cars, Smart Classrooms, Smart Farming and many other
environments where technology is changing the way people relates to
them.
Accompanying this popularity, there have been several events which
are now established and provide a forum to researchers and
innovators in general to debate the limitations and perspectives of
these areas. One of such events is the Workshop on Artificial
Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (AITAmI) which is
being run for 10 consecutive editions (http://aitami2015.mondragon.edu)
and investigated precisely how AI can improve the performance of
Smart systems. Ambient Intelligence is one of the ways to refer to
the ‘artificial intellectual capabilities’ of Smart systems.
More in general, the theme in the IJCAI 2007 edition was "AI and its
benefits to society", back then initial links between Ambient
Intelligence and the AI community were attempted , complemented
recently with another related and more specific tutorial . More
recently AI Magazine published a Special Issue focused on the topic
“Artificial Intelligence for, Rather than Instead of, the People”
considering many applications which have been previously considered
within the Ambient Intelligence area. From different directions
different communities within Computer Science are converging to the
cross roads which is ultimately stating that technology is created
to help non less than people, and for systems to be able to help
people properly they need to be clever.
It was anticipated a decade ago the analysis of the extent and the
way that AI can benefit Ambient Intelligence was not obvious,
although it was clear that AI seemed in a good position to
contribute to the new emerging field. There are still many
interesting open questions, for example, “What is good AI use in
Ambient Intelligence?”, because there are ethical dimensions to
this, and “How much intelligence is needed to make a difference?”,
or “How people expects to find intelligence in their surroundings?”.
This call aims at capturing chapters that provide a clear picture of
what has been achieved after a decade of discussion and, most
importantly, what avenues are the most promising for exploration in
the next decade. Indeed, this volume would create a reference that
field experts can use to be updated and to be inspired to create
better systems for society.
Topics
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• context awareness
• activity recognition
• individual/group emotional status
• individual/group preferences
• mediating conflicting interests
• non invasive sensing and interaction
• cognitive modelling of users
• modelling complex environments (smart homes, smart cars,
hospitals, museums, transportation, classrooms, open spaces, etc.)
• intelligent interactive systems
• multi-modal interfaces (voice, image and video, bio-signals,
handwriting, etc.)
as well as…
• agent-based approaches to AmI
• applications (health, industry, teaching, supporting group
collaboration, etc.)
• responsive/active architecture
• innovative applications of AI to Ambient Intelligence
• traditional relevant areas of AI (KR, reasoning about actions,
spatio-temporal reasoning, CBR, planning, uncertainty, learning,
belief revision, vision, decision-making, etc.)
Instructions for Authors
Authors may submit novel contributions of approximately 20 pages.
All papers will be reviewed against the standard criteria of
relevance, originality, significance, clarity and soundness, and are
expected to meet high quality standards. Contributions may not be
submitted to other conferences or journals during the reviewing
period nor they may be already under review or published in other
conferences or journals.
Important Dates
Chapter Submission: 15th of April 2016
Notification of Acceptance: 15th of June 2016
Revised Version Submission: 15th of September 2016
Final Recommendations: 1st October 2016
Final Version due: 1st of November 2016
Book submission to IOS Press: 15th of November 2016
Foreseen Publication Date: January 2017
Information on book series “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and
Applications”
The book series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and
Applications (FAIA) covers all aspects of theoretical and applied
Artificial Intelligence research in the form of monographs, doctoral
dissertations, textbooks, handbooks and proceedings volumes.
The FAIA series contains several sub-series, including 'Information
Modelling and Knowledge Bases' and 'Knowledge-Based Intelligent
Engineering Systems'. It also includes the biennial European
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) proceedings volumes,
and other ECCAI (European Coordinating Committee on Artificial
Intelligence) sponsored publications. An editorial panel of
internationally well-known scholars is appointed to provide a high
quality selection.
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