Dear colleagues and friends,

Following up previous information on the RCIS 2017 conference, we would like to draw your attention to the following specialized events that will be part of the conference: the Doctoral Consortium, the Posters and Demos session and the Tutorials.

We are looking forward to receiving your paper and meeting you in Brighton!

The RCIS 2017 Conference Committee

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*DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM*
The RCIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium is organized as an opportunity for doctoral students to present, discuss and develop their research interests and ideas in an interdisciplinary workshop, with the strong participation and the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers in the field. The doctoral consortium is especially useful for those PhD-students that have defined a topic and a research plan, have obtained some first results, and still have room for revising their plan. However, we encourage doctoral students at all stages to participate, for an objective of the doctoral consortium is also to help

*Important dates*
Submission deadline: February 14, 2017 (23:59 AoE – Anywhere on Earth)
Notification to authors: March 15, 2017
Author registration deadline: April 07, 2017
Camera-ready version: April 07, 2017

Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers: http://sense-brighton.eu/rcis2017/callDoctoral.html

*Chairs*
Maya Daneva, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Christos Kalloniatis, University

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*POSTERS AND DEMOS*
RCIS will feature posters in a poster session and offer the opportunity for demonstrations of tools in a demonstration session. Both sessions will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to showcase their work, to interact with conference participants, and to obtain feedback on on-going research and advanced prototypes and products from knowledgeable conference attendees:
- Posters are intended to convey a research result and are not advertisements for commercial software packages. While posters need not describe completed work, they should report on research for which at least some preliminary results are available.
- Demonstrations should directly and actively involve the exhibition and display of software prototypes, research tools and associated materials that illustrate research work in progress and serve as ground for discussion of research ideas.

*Important dates*
Posters and Demos submission deadline: February 14, 2017 (23:59 AoE – Anywhere on Earth)
• Author notification: March 15, 2017
• Author registration deadline: April 07, 2017
• Camera-ready deadline: April 07, 2017

Call for Posters and Demos: http://sense-brighton.eu/rcis2017/callPostersAndDemos.html

*Chairs*
Claudia Ayala, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain
Mara Nikolaidou, Harokopio University of Athens

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*TUTORIALS*
RCIS will feature several tutorials. Tutorials are 90-minute free format sessions, where the presenters share specific and relevant practical know-how to conference attendees that are willing to participate. Tutorials run in parallel with other conference tracks, and participation is included in the attendees’ conference fee. We invite proposals for tutorials that may address one or more of the listed topics below, although authors should not feel limited by them.

*Important dates*
Tutorial submission deadline: 14 February 2017 (23:59 AoE – Anywhere on Earth)
Tutorial notification: 15 March 2017

Call for Tutorials: http://sense-brighton.eu/rcis2017/callTutorials.html

*Chairs*
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Incipit CSIC, Spain
Elena Kornyshova, CEDRIC, CNAM,France