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Deadline extension SLERD 2023 - 8th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing / /========================================================= Deadline extension:*2nd of April (hard deadline)*/ ========================================================= *8th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development** * *2023:SMART LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS AS ENGINES OF THE GREEN AND DIGITAL TRANSITION* *June 19-20, 2023* /*Tallin, Estonia (hybrid)*/ slerd.uniroma2.it <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/> Contacts: janika [dot] leoste [at] tlu [dot] ee/(conference chair)/ =========================================================* *call for papers <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/call-for-papers/> *========================================================= *SLERD 2023 will host also a *Demo Student Contest* -> see call for demo <http://slerd.uniroma2.it/student-design-contest-2023/> **========================================================= **/SLERD 2023 will features as *Keynotes*/**: Ralf-Martin Shoe **/Urban Challenges Driven Smart Cities /** Päivi Kousa **/AI brings new challenges and opportunities to higher education/** ** ****=========================================================** ** *SLERD 2023* is organized by /Tallinn University /in collaboration with /ASLERD/ <http://www.aslerd.org>/./ * Please Note: SLERD 2023 will be held in precence but a possibility to attend it virtually is provided (hybrid format). * /*Short Intro*/ The energy crises and war have underscored the need to change our living style, consumption habits, learning methods and tools. The transition towards future education is according to theUnesco thematic action track 4 <https://transformingeducationsummit.sdg4education2030.org/track/digital>encompassing digital transformation which harnesses technology as part of larger systemic efforts. Making technology more inclusive, equitable, effective, relevant, and sustainable. What should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are changing? How such changes may be related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…>” as a contribution to theUnited Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld>? How will they contribute to the reduction of inequalities and, at the same time, to the empowering of each individual according to his expectations and talents? /**//*Topics of interests*/ *SLERD 2023* is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and practitioners - from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how to build together a brilliant post pandemic future, where smart learning ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. can be grouped under three big themes: /*• places for smart education */ * • future of institutional learning • interplay between formal and informal learning • new educational models and settings • continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning • role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education • dual education and other alternate scheme approaches • monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city, region) * /*• people in place centered design for smart education*/ * • general frameworks and methodological advances • design, data and other relevant literacies • smart citizen’s literacies, skill and competences • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences * /*• supportive learning technologies for smart education*/ * *• AI for smart learning ecosystems: ethical aspects, tools and H-AI interaction* *• semantic web technologies and applications*** • text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis • real/virtual communities and social network analysis • interoperability and application of open/smart data and services • safety & security in education • IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies • adaptability to educational contexts and citizens • role of VR in education * ========================================================= /*Important dates:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for papers submission: *April 2**, 2023* *(hard deadline)* • Notification to the authors: April 16, 2023 • Camera ready paper: April 30, 2023 • Conference: June 19-20, 2023 ========================================== /*Submissions:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- SLERD welcomes contributions composed by min. 4500 words. The max. length of the contributions should not overcome 16 pages. Papers should be written according to: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen… Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Series /Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies/ that will be indexed by SCOPUS, EI-Compendex and Springerlink. Extended version of selected papers will be also included in a special issue of IxD&A Journal <https://www.ixdea.org/> (ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Web of Science https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 Link to the /*paper submission page on easy chair:*/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2023 ========================================================= Information about SLERD 2023 will continuously updated on the ASLERD Linkedin page -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/5103530/> Facebook page -> link <https://www.facebook.com/people/Aslerd-Association-for-Smart-learning-Ecosy…> ========================================================= Join ALSLERD and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning Ecosystems: Timisoara declaration <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATI…> See ASLERD website <http://www.aslerd.org> for Request of membership, membership fees and legal =========================================================

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CFP - 4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds

by Luca Turchet

[Apologies for cross-posting, please distribute] *4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds* Pisa, October 26-27, 2023 https://internetofsounds.net/is2_2023/ *Call for papers and demos* We are pleased to invite the community to submit to the 4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2 2023). The Internet of Sounds is an emerging research field positioned at the intersection of the Internet of Things and the Sound and Music Computing domains. The symposium will be hosted at the congress center “Ex Monastero delle Benedettine” in the city of Pisa, Italy, and will take place on the 26 and 27 of October 2023. The aim of the symposium is to bring together academics and industry to investigate and advance the development of Internet of Sounds technologies by using cutting-edge tools and processes. The event will consist of oral presentations, keynotes, poster presentations, demonstrations, as well as tutorials. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Wireless acoustic sensor networks - Networked music performances - Web Audio - Networked Musical XR - Detection and classification of sounds in acoustic sensor networks - Sound-based anomaly detection and sound-based predictive maintenance in networked settings - Spatial audio for the Internet of Sounds - Cloud-based services for musical and audio applications - Ecoacoustics - Embedded audio - Privacy and security in acoustic sensor networks - Smart Musical Instruments - Musical haptics for the Internet of Musical Things - Participatory live music performances - Music education applications for the Internet of Musical Things - Intelligent music production in Internet of Musical Things contexts - Ubiquitous music - Sonification for Internet of Sounds applications - Protocols and exchange formats for the Internet of Sounds - Improving accessibility and inclusiveness within the Internet of Sounds - Open audio databases for Deep Learning and Data Mining - Challenges in the management and delivery of large audio databases - Visualization and Sonification of acoustic sensor networks - Sustainability and ethical aspects of the Internet of Sounds We consider contributions in the form of a full paper (min 5 pages, max 10 pages), a poster paper (4 pages), or a demo proposal (max 2 pages). Authors are welcome to submit to all three tracks. We encourage the submission of work in progress as well as more mature work. LaTeX and Word templates are available: IEEE conference templates. <https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html> *Important dates* - Papers and demos submission deadline: July 15, 2023 - Author notification: September 1, 2023 - Camera ready due: October 1, 2023 - Registration deadline: October 1, 2023 - Symposium dates: October 26-27, 2023 *Publications* The IS2 2023 proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE for publication. *Awards* The Organizing Committee will select the winners for the Best Paper, Best Student Paper and Best Demo awards. To be eligible for the best student paper award, the presenting and first author of the paper must be a full-time student. *Organizing Committee* - Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa) - Gregorio Procissi (University of Pisa) - Nils Peters (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Fraunhofer IIS) - Sacha Krstulovic (Music Tribe) - Claudia Rinaldi (University of L’Aquila) - Benjamin Matuszewski (IRCAM) - Chrisoula Alexandraki (Hellenic Mediterranean University) - Luca Borgianni (University of Pisa) - Luca Turchet (University of Trento) *Sponsors* - ZTE - Italia <https://www.zteitalia.it/en/home/> - Vianova <https://www.vianova.it/> - Italtel <https://www.italtel.com/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Luca Turchet*, Ph.D. Associate Professor Head of the *Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory* <https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/> Chair of the *IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds* <https://www.comsoc.org/about/committees/emerging-technologies-initiatives/i…> Founder and President of the* Internet of Sounds Research Network <https://www.internetofsounds.net/>* Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy E-mail: luca.turchet(a)unitn.it Tel: +39 0461 283792

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[CFP][Last days][Abstract 1-2 pages] IEEE Special Session on “eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications” (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023)

by Giuseppe Caggianese

Dear Colleagues, Last days to submit your contribution to our Special Session on “eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications” - IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) - October 25-27, 2023 - Milan - https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17. I want to remind you that the deadline of tomorrow, 15 March, is for the submission of a 1-2 page Abstract or a Graphical Abstract to show the idea you are proposing. You will have time to finalise your work by the deadline of April 30. Please see the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this special session. I'm looking forward to meeting you, virtually or in your presence, at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023. Best regards, Giuseppe Caggianese Giuseppe Caggianese, Ph.D. ------------------------------------------------------------- Research Scientist National Research Council (CNR) Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy Telefono: +39 0816139227 Mobile: +39 3371588044 Skype: giuseppe.caggianese Email: giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Special Session on: “EXTENDED REALITY AS A GATEWAY TO THE METAVERSE: PRACTICES, THEORIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS” https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) https://metroxraine.org/ October 25-27, 2023 - Milan, Italy. ==================================================================================== SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION ------------------------- The fast development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) solutions over the last few years are transforming how people interact, work, and communicate. The eXtended Reality (XR) term encloses all those immersive technologies that can shift the boundaries between digital and physical worlds to realize the metaverse. According to tech companies and venture capitalists, the metaverse will be a super-platform that convenes sub-platforms: social media, online video games, and ease-of-life apps, all accessible through the same digital space and sharing the same digital economy. Inside the metaverse, virtual worlds will allow avatars to carry out all human endeavours, including creation, display, entertainment, social, and trading. Thus, the metaverse will evolve how users interact with brands, intellectual properties, health services, cultural heritage, and each other things on the Internet. A user could join friends to play a multiplayer game, watch a movie via a streaming service and then attend a university course precisely the same as in the real world. The metaverse development will require new software architecture that will enable decentralized and collaborative virtual worlds. These self-organized virtual worlds will be permanent and will require maintenance operations. In addition, it will be necessary to design an efficient data management system and prevent privacy violations. Finally, the convergence of physical reality, virtually enhanced, and an always-on virtual space highlighted the need to rethink the actual paradigms for visualization, interaction, and sharing of digital information, moving toward more natural, intuitive, dynamically customizable, multimodal, and multi-user solutions. This special session aims to focus on exploring how the realization of the metaverse can transform certain application domains such us: (i) healthcare, in which the metaverse solutions can, for instance, improve the communication between patients and physicians; (ii) cultural heritage, with potentially more effective solutions for tourism guidance, site maintenance, and heritage object conservation; and (iii) industry, where to enable data-driven decision making, smart maintenance, and overall asset optimisation. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 TOPICS ---------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Hardware/Software Architectures for metaverse - Decentralized and Collaborative Architectures for metaverse - Interoperability for metaverse - Tools to help creators to build the metaverse0 - Operations and Maintenance in metaverse - Data security and privacy mechanisms for metaverse - Cryptocurrency, token, NFT Solutions for metaverse - Fraud-Detection in metaverse - Cyber Security for metaverse - Data Analytics to Identify Malicious Behaviors in metaverse - Blockchain/AI technologies in metaverse - Emerging Technologies and Applications for metaverse - New models to evaluate the impact of the metaverse - Interactive Data Exploration and Presentation in metaverse - Human-Computer Interaction for metaverse - Human factors issues related to metaverse - Proof-of-Concept in Metaverse: Experimental Prototyping and Testbeds IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2023. **NOTE that the abstract should be 1 - 2 pages. Final Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2023. Full Paper Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2023 Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2023 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare an Abstract (1 - 2 pages) that clearly indicates the originality of the contribution and the relevance of the work. The Abstract should include the title of the paper, names and affiliations of the authors, an abstract, keywords, an introduction describing the nature of the problem, a description of the contribution, the results achieved and their applicability. As an alternative to the traditional abstract, it is possible to submit a Graphical Abstract. For further information, please see here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. When the first review process has been completed, authors receive a notification of either acceptance or rejection of the submission. If the abstract has been accepted, the authors can prepare a full paper. The format for the full paper is identical to the format for the abstract except for the number of pages: the full paper has a required minimum length of five (5) pages and a maximum of six (6) pages. Full Papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Authors of accepted full papers must submit the final paper version according to the deadline, register for the workshop, and attend to present their papers. The maximum length for final papers is 6 pages. All contributions will be peer-reviewed and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Submissions must be written in English and prepared according to the IEEE Conference Proceedings template. LaTeX and Word templates and an Overleaf sample project can be found at: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. The papers must be submitted in PDF format electronically via EDAS online submission and review system: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30746. To submit abstracts or draft papers to the special session, please follow the submission instructions for regular sessions, but remind to specify the special session to which the paper is directed. The special session organizers and other external reviewers will review all submissions. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of presented papers are eligible for post-publication; more information will be provided soon. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese National Research Council of Italy giuseppe.caggianese@.cnr.it Ugo Erra University of Basilicata ugo.erra(a)unibas.it Luigi Gallo National Research Council of Italy luigi.gallo(a)cnr.it For any questions about the special session, please feel free to contact us via email.

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CFP: Special issue on "AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= /Note: //*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal has migrated to https://ixdea.org/*// //The old website will no longer be updated from 5 March 2023 onwards./ ========================================================= Special Issue on *AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age *Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/ai-for-humans-and-humans-for-ai-towards-cultures-of-parti…> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- • Renate Andersen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Vita Santa Barletta, University of Bari, Italy • Anders Mørch, University of Oslo, Norway • Alessandro Pagano, University of Bari, Italy =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *May 20th, 2023* • Notification to the authors: July 31st, 2023 • Camera ready paper: September 20th, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: October 2023 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- This special issue is intended to explore the assumption (and to provide at least partial evidence) that the most successful Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems out there today are dependent on teams of humans, just as humans depend on these systems to gain access to information, provide insights and perform tasks beyond their own capabilities. An assumption that implies a confrontation between AI, Human-Centered AI and HCD and a reflection on the role of HCD in the AI age. The issue, thus, is not intended to be focalized on the design of user interfaces of systems containing embedded AI features, per se; rather, it is expected to be grounded in research activities involving a broad spectrum of academic disciplines – from computer science to social science – that will critically analyze the interplay between AI, Human-Centered AI and HCD, in order to investigate the impact on individuals, social groups, and society as a whole. In particular this special issue wish to explore the relationship between AI, aimed at replacing human beings, and Intelligence Augmentation (IA), focused on empowering human beings in their daily life and work. Balancing between these two perspectives means changing the research paradigm from traditional human-computer interaction, to designing the collaboration between humans and computers. This will foster creativity, meaningful work, intersubjectivity, and learning, and eventually improve the quality of life of individuals. However, a variety of issues and ethical problems need to be addressed in this new age – e.g., privacy intrusions, massive unemployment, knowledge and competence loss, lack of control, autonomous weapons, new research methods, etc. The guest editors encourage researchers to submit articles that will consider these aspects. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest for this special issue include, but not limited to: * AI and Human control: privacy and ethical issues * AI support in everyday work * Collaborative human-centered design * End-User Development for AI-based systems * Empirical evaluation of AI-based systems * Explainable AI through meta design * Human-centred AI * Learning analytics for teachers participation and learning effectiveness * Research methods in Human-Centered AI and Design =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: AI for Humans and Humans for AI") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /IxD&A special issue on AI for Humans and Humans for AI/ • renatea [at] oslomet [dot] no • vita [dot] barletta [at] uniba [dot] it • anders [dot] morch [at] iped [dot] uio [dot] no • alessandro [dot] pagano [at] uniba [dot] it -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • N.56 'Hybrid Games and Interaction Design' Guest editors: Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa, Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Fotis Liarokapis • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N.59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne • N.60 • ‘SLE as engines of the twin transition’ Guest editors: Mihai Dascalu, Oscar Mealha, Sirje Virkus • ‘Technologies, Tools, and Techniques for Online Design-Based Activities with Children’ Guest editors: Naska Goagoses, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Erkki Rötkönen, Tariq Zaman • ‘Designing for People in Human-Robot Collaboration’ Guest editors: Stine S. Johansen, Alan Burden, Eike Schneiders, Alexander N. Walzer ----------------------------------------------------------

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Call for Workshop Papers

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Call for Workshop Papers *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/workshops/ ACM UMAP 2023, the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and which collect, represent, and model user information, is organising a number of workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. ● CRUM 2023: The first edition of the workshop on Context Representation in User Modelling https://crum-workshop.github.io/ ● ExUM 2023: 5th Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/exum ● GMAP 2023: 2nd Workshop on Group Modelling, Adaptation and Personalisation https://sites.google.com/view/gmap2023 ● HAAPIE 2023: 8th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalised Interactive Environments http://haapie.cs.ucy.ac.cy ● PATCH 2023: The 14th International Workshop on Personalised Access to Cultural Heritage https://patch2023.di.unito.it/ ● FairUMAP: 6th UMAP Workshop on Fairness in Uder Modelling, Adaptation, and Personalisation https://fairumap.wordpress.com/ ● ADAPPT: Adaptive and Personalised Persuasive Technologies Workshop https://adappt2023.wordpress.com/ IMPORTANT DATES FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS SUBMISSIONS ● Workshop papers submission deadline: Defined per workshop, not before April 20 ● Notification of acceptance: Defined per workshop, around May 8, 2023 ● Adjunct proceedings camera ready: May 18, 2023 ● Workshop day: June 26, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. WORKSHOPS CHAIRS ● Veronika Bogina, Haifa University, Israel sveron AT gmail.com ● Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNICEN antonela.tommasel AT isistan.unicen.edu.ar

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Re: Call for papers - ECCE 2023, September 19-22, Swansea, UK

by Lammers, H.A. (Elly)

Apologies for multiple posting ECCE 2023 - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS 34th annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) 19 - 22 September 2023 | Swansea, United Kingdom CONFERENCE WEBSITE Please visit the conference website for up-to-date information, including registration: https://digitaleconomy.wales/ecce2023/ CALL FOR PAPERS ECCE 2023 invites contributions from researchers and practitioners which address the broad spectrum of Cognitive Ergonomics challenges in the analysis, design, and evaluation of virtual and physical interactive systems as part of a rich conference program including keynote talks, paper presentation as well as a doctoral consortium. The 34th ECCE conference will target state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to cognitive ergonomics and its role in design processes, information presentation and visualization, human factors and simulation, prototyping, cross / extended reality, user interfaces development, evaluations, and emerging ethical issues. IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES February 28, 2023: Deadline for workshop proposals (now closed) March 31, 2023: Deadline for paper submissions* June 22, 2023: Deadline for camera-ready submissions** July 16, 2023: Early registration deadline September 19, 2023: ECCE 2023 doctoral consortium and workshops September 20-22, 2023: ECCE 2023 main conference *Submissions of full papers are handled through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecce2023 ** One author per accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to guarantee publication in the conference proceedings. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Elizabeth Churchill, Senior Director of UX at Google. Clara Crivellaro, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Local Democracy at Newcastle University. John McCarthy, Head of School of Applied Psychology, University of Cork, Ireland Robert Pepperell, Professor of Fine Art, Cardiff Metropolitan University & Co-founder and leader of Fovolab at Cardiff Metropolitan University SPECIAL THEME AND TOPICS OF INTEREST The Special Theme of ECCE 2023 is Responsible Technology: Community, Culture and Sustainability. We are cordially inviting contributions on topics along, but not limited to, the following general topics of interest: * Perception and Augmented Perception * Design for sense-making and embodiment * Emotion research for interactive technologies * Mixed, augmented, and virtual realities * Human factors and control systems * Computer-Supported Cooperative Work * Recent developments in AI * History of computers and of ECCE * Ethics of responsible technology * Online Safety Bill & Digital Services Act * Digital and interaction issues for education * Social inclusion and diversity in a digital age * Teaching Cognitive Ergonomics and Human-Computer Interaction SUBMISSION CATEGORIES For ECCE 2023 we invite authors to submit novel research contributions and innovative applications related to the conference topics. The following paper categories are welcome: full papers, demonstrations, workshops, and doctoral consortium proposals. Papers Long papers must not exceed 10 pages, including all sections, references, and possible appendices. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages, including all sections, references, and possible appendices. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Please consult the website for publishing and formatting instructions. Submissions of full papers are handled through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecce2023 The deadline for full paper submissions is March 31st, 2023. Demonstrations Demonstrations are about showing work in a setting that allows for open discussion. These sessions are suitable for authors who wish to present and demonstrate their work, small projects, systems, or prototypes in an interactive and informal setting during ECCE 2023. Demonstration proposals should be no longer than 2 pages and should explain the work to be presented, the nature of the presentation, and the relevance of the presentation to the conference themes. Demonstration proposals, along with specific requirements for the demonstration (e.g., size of equipment, power, networking, etc.) should be directed to the general chairs (on ecce2023(a)gmail.com) by March 31st, 2023. Workshops (now closed) This year we welcome ideas for workshops, which will take place on Tuesday 19th September 2023. The suggested topics should be related to the aforementioned themes. Inquiries and Submissions of workshop proposals must be directed to the program chairs (ecce2023(a)gmail.com) by February 28th, 2023. Doctoral Consortium papers We warmly encourage doctoral students to apply to the doctoral consortium held one day prior to the conference (Monday 18th September 2023), which will be supervised by two leading experts. Submissions to the Doctoral Consortium should include a 2-page summary of the Ph.D. student’s work (including research context, past accomplishments, future directions, and problems encountered) and a 1-page CV. Upon acceptance, students have to submit a consortium paper (no longer than 6 pages), including references and possible attachments. DC papers revised and submitted according to reviewer comments will be published in the ACM Digital Library along with the conference proceedings. Inquiries and Submissions of the Doctoral Consortium papers should be sent directly to the doctoral consortium chairs by March 31st, 2023. Students whose Doctoral Consortium (DC) papers are accepted will get free registration to the conference (supported by EACE). ORGANISATION General Chairs Alan Dix, Swansea University and Cardiff Metropolitan University Irene Reppa, Swansea University Carina Westling, Bournemouth University Harry Witchel, Brighton & Sussex Medical School Doctoral Consortium Chairs Dr. Stéphane Safin, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Prof. Gerrit van der Veer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Workshop Chairs Harry Witchel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School Raymond Bond, Ulster University CONTACT Contact us on: ecce2023(a)gmail.com ________________________________ From: Lammers, H.A. (Elly) <h.a.lammers(a)vu.nl> Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 17:19 To: Lammers, H.A. (Elly) <h.a.lammers(a)vu.nl> Subject: Fw: Call for papers - reminder ________________________________ Apologies for multiple posting ECCE 2023 - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS 34th annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE) 19 - 22 September 2023 | Swansea, United Kingdom CONFERENCE WEBSITE Please visit the conference website for up-to-date information, including registration: https://digitaleconomy.wales/ecce2023/ CALL FOR PAPERS ECCE 2023 invites contributions from researchers and practitioners which address the broad spectrum of Cognitive Ergonomics challenges in the analysis, design, and evaluation of virtual and physical interactive systems as part of a rich conference program including keynote talks, paper presentation as well as a doctoral consortium. The 34th ECCE conference will target state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to cognitive ergonomics and its role in design processes, information presentation and visualization, human factors and simulation, prototyping, cross / extended reality, user interfaces development, evaluations, and emerging ethical issues. IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES February 28, 2023: Deadline for workshop proposals (now closed) March 31, 2023: Deadline for paper submissions* June 22, 2023: Deadline for camera-ready submissions** July 16, 2023: Early registration deadline September 19, 2023: ECCE 2023 doctoral consortium and workshops September 20-22, 2023: ECCE 2023 main conference *Submissions of full papers are handled through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecce2023 ** One author per accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to guarantee publication in the conference proceedings. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Elizabeth Churchill, Senior Director of UX at Google. Clara Crivellaro, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Local Democracy at Newcastle University. John McCarthy, Head of School of Applied Psychology, University of Cork, Ireland Robert Pepperell, Professor of Fine Art, Cardiff Metropolitan University & Co-founder and leader of Fovolab at Cardiff Metropolitan University SPECIAL THEME AND TOPICS OF INTEREST The Special Theme of ECCE 2023 is Responsible Technology: Community, Culture and Sustainability. We are cordially inviting contributions on topics along, but not limited to, the following general topics of interest: * Perception and Augmented Perception * Design for sense-making and embodiment * Emotion research for interactive technologies * Mixed, augmented, and virtual realities * Human factors and control systems * Computer-Supported Cooperative Work * Recent developments in AI * History of computers and of ECCE * Ethics of responsible technology * Online Safety Bill & Digital Services Act * Digital and interaction issues for education * Social inclusion and diversity in a digital age * Teaching Cognitive Ergonomics and Human-Computer Interaction SUBMISSION CATEGORIES For ECCE 2023 we invite authors to submit novel research contributions and innovative applications related to the conference topics. The following paper categories are welcome: full papers, demonstrations, workshops, and doctoral consortium proposals. Papers Long papers must not exceed 10 pages, including all sections, references, and possible appendices. Short papers must not exceed 6 pages, including all sections, references, and possible appendices. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Please consult the website for publishing and formatting instructions. Submissions of full papers are handled through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecce2023 The deadline for full paper submissions is March 31st, 2023. Demonstrations Demonstrations are about showing work in a setting that allows for open discussion. These sessions are suitable for authors who wish to present and demonstrate their work, small projects, systems, or prototypes in an interactive and informal setting during ECCE 2023. Demonstration proposals should be no longer than 2 pages and should explain the work to be presented, the nature of the presentation, and the relevance of the presentation to the conference themes. Demonstration proposals, along with specific requirements for the demonstration (e.g., size of equipment, power, networking, etc.) should be directed to the general chairs (on ecce2023(a)gmail.com) by March 31st, 2023. Workshops (now closed) This year we welcome ideas for workshops, which will take place on Tuesday 19th September 2023. The suggested topics should be related to the aforementioned themes. Inquiries and Submissions of workshop proposals must be directed to the program chairs (ecce2023(a)gmail.com) by February 28th, 2023. Doctoral Consortium papers We warmly encourage doctoral students to apply to the doctoral consortium held one day prior to the conference (Monday 18th September 2023), which will be supervised by two leading experts. Submissions to the Doctoral Consortium should include a 2-page summary of the Ph.D. student’s work (including research context, past accomplishments, future directions, and problems encountered) and a 1-page CV. Upon acceptance, students have to submit a consortium paper (no longer than 6 pages), including references and possible attachments. DC papers revised and submitted according to reviewer comments will be published in the ACM Digital Library along with the conference proceedings. Inquiries and Submissions of the Doctoral Consortium papers should be sent directly to the doctoral consortium chairs by March 31st, 2023. Students whose Doctoral Consortium (DC) papers are accepted will get free registration to the conference (supported by EACE). ORGANISATION General Chairs Alan Dix, Swansea University and Cardiff Metropolitan University Irene Reppa, Swansea University Carina Westling, Bournemouth University Harry Witchel, Brighton & Sussex Medical School Doctoral Consortium Chairs Dr. Stéphane Safin, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Prof. Gerrit van der Veer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Workshop Chairs Harry Witchel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School Raymond Bond, Ulster University CONTACT Contact us on: ecce2023(a)gmail.com

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CFP: AISB Convention 2023

by Grasso, Floriana

With apologies for cross postings - deadline March 6th AISB Convention 2023 13-14 April 2023 Swansea, Wales, UK The AISB Convention is a flourishing annual conference that thrives from an interdisciplinary audience and facilitates discourse amongst a diverse set of researchers and research cultures. Attendance will be free for AISB members. The 2023 convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) will be held as a hybrid in-person and online event 13-14 April 2023. The convention will consist of several tracks based on popular symposia of previous AISB conventions instead of separately organised symposia. This decision was made to streamline the processes involved in organising the convention in the context of reduced timeframes due to COVID-19 disruptions from the past years and the longer-term changes this has brought about for the reseach community. In addition to the thematic tracks, we will run a general track that can accommodate papers on any topic related to AI. Each track acts like a mini conference with its own chair and programme committee. Please see below for a list of tracks for 2023. AI & Games (AIG) This track focuses on the application of artificial intelligence or intelligent-like techniques, frameworks and theories to the creation of intelligent games. AI can be used in any manner suitable in the game, from the algorithm to making the game more engaging, personalised, and/or interactive. The following non-exhaustive list of research and practice shows potential submission topics: * Use of AI techniques (e.g. planning, learning, evolution etc.) * Design and engineering of AI components * Procedural content generation * Intelligent or adaptive player interaction * Game analytics * Data-driven player modelling * Agent decision making systems * Intelligent agents * Environmental simulations * Interactive narrative generation * Intelligent narrative technologies * Experimental AI * Serious games & gamification AI Ethics (AIE) Recent years have seen an increased awareness of ethical issues stemming from a lack of responsibility in the design and deployment of AI- and data-driven technology systems. This track explores solutions to these issues. Some topics of interest: * Algorithmic fairness * Diversity * Data governance * Accountability * Data privacy * AI ethics principles * Implementing ethical reasoning * AI regulation * Explainable AI Computational Creativity (CC) Computational creativity is continuing to attract researchers from both arts and science backgrounds. Philosophers, cognitive psychologists, computer scientists and artists have all contributed to and enriched the literature. Many argue a machine is creative if it simulates or replicates human creativity (e.g. evaluation of AI systems via a Turing-style test), while others have conceived of computational creativity as an inherently different discipline, where computer generated (art)work should not be judged on the same terms, i.e. being necessarily producible by a human artist, or having similar attributes, etc. More general topics of interest for this symposium include, but are not limited to: * Novel systems and theories in computational creativity, in any domain, e.g. drawing and painting, music, storytelling, poetry, conversation, games, etc. * The evaluation of computational creative systems, processes and artefacts * Theory of computational aesthetics * Representational issues in creativity, including visual and perceptual representations * Social aspects of computational creativity, and intellectual property issues * Creative autonomy and constraint * Computational appreciation of artefacts, including human artwork Philosophy & AI (AIP) With its origins in the Philosophy after AI symposium from previous AISB Conventions, this track sets out to investigate the philosophical and linguistic perspectives of the research paths which deal with language as it is conceived by AI. Contributions to a general philosophical discourse on AI are also welcome. We invite talks on the following (but not exclusively) topics: * Linguistics and AI; * AI research on language; * Learning, creativity and AI; * Meaning and AI; * Creativity, machine-learning and language; * Robots and communication; * Truth, post-truth and AI; * Social media, devices and human sociality. General Track (GT) This track accommodates AI research that does not align with any of the other special tracks. Possible topics include: * Agents and multi-agent systems * Agent-based social simulation * Verification of AI systems * Combining learning and reasoning * Argumentation * AI & cyber security * Natural language processing * Knowledge representation Submission Submissions to any of the tracks are in the form of extended abstracts and are subject to peer review. Proceedings will then accommodate final papers as short or regular papers. These are limited to the following page restrictions. * Extended abstract (max. 2 pages) * Short paper (max. 4 pages) * Regular paper (max. 8 pages) Page limits include references. Please use Springer Nature LaTeX or Word templates to prepare your papers. Web site and submission links will be available from mid-January 2023. Please use the following submission links: * AISB - AI & Games 2023: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=aisbaig2023 * AISB - AI Ethics 2023: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=aisbaie2023 * AISB - Philosophy & AI 2023: Please email your submission to aip2023(a)aisb.org.uk * AISB - Computational Creativity 2023: Please email your submission to cc2023(a)aisb.org.uk * AISB - General Track 2023: Please email your submission to gt2023(a)aisb.org.uk Important Dates * Submission: 6 March 2023 * Notification of acceptance: 27 March 2023 * Camera-ready paper: 3 April 2023 Program Committee General Chair: Bertie Müller (Swansea University) Track Chairs: * AISB - AI & Games 2023: Swen Gaudl (University of Plymouth, UK) * AISB - AI Ethics 2023: Bertie Müller (Swansea University, UK) * AISB - Philosophy & AI 2023: Giusy Gallo (Università della Calabria, Italy), Claudia Stancati (Università della Calabria, Italy) * AISB - Computational Creativity 2023: Jiaxiang Zhang (Swansea University, UK) * AISB - General Track 2023: Floriana Grasso (University of Liverpool, UK)

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CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI: Call for Papers

by amon rapp

CHItaly 2023: Call for Papers [Apologies for Multiple Postings] ================================================ CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 20-22 September 2023 Location: from Turin to the World, using Metaverse https://chitaly2023.it/ ================================================ SPECIAL THEME: Crossing HCI and AI ================================================ Besides traditional HCI topics, CHItaly 2023 aims at debating the intersection of HCI and AI as an emerging field of research, devoted mostly to Intelligent User Interfaces, i.e., interfaces developed using the approaches from HCI and the tools from AI. In addition to consolidated HCI contributions, we solicit research on methods, approaches, and systems relating the Human and the AI, innovative AI-based interfaces and interactions empowering humans, experiences in good and bad practices in applying AI to the interaction. ================================================ CALL FOR LONG AND SHORT PAPERS ================================================ We welcome research contributions in the form of either long or short research papers. Long papers present original and substantially new research in HCI. Short papers present original and provocative research or novel applications in HCI. All paper manuscripts undergo a selective review process. Accepted papers are invited for inclusion in the electronic ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS - pending approval), published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of top-quality papers will be invited to submit extended versions to special issues in international journals. Besides the special theme of CHItaly 2023, the conference is interested in all aspects of HCI: * Crossing HCI and AI * Fundamentals of HCI * Interactive Environments * Interaction Techniques, Modalities and Devices * Applications of HCI A more detailed list is available at https://chitaly2023.it/call_for_papers/ Submit on easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023 Main deadlines: - Submission deadline: March 31th, 2023 - Review notification: June 1st, 2023 - Initial camera-ready submission: June 30th, 2023 - Final submission: July 31st, 2023 All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Papers Chairs Tania Di Mascio (Università dell’Aquila) Rosa Lanzilotti (Università di Bari) Davide Spano (Università di Cagliari) email: papers(a)chitaly2023.it

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CFP - One Week Left - Abstract 1-2 pages - Special Session on “eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications” (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023)

by Giuseppe Caggianese

****** One Week Left ****** Call for Papers Special Session on "eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications" Abstract (1-2 pages) or alternatively, a Graphical Abstract by March 15, 2023 ********************************* Dear Colleagues, a friendly reminder that there is only one week left to contribute with an Abstract (1-2 pages) or a Graphical Abstract to the Special Session on “eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications” - IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) - October 25-27, 2023 - Milan - https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17. After the abstract submission, you will have time until April 30 to finalize your contribution. Please see the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this special session. Visit the conference website for further and updated information https://metroxraine.org/. I'm looking forward to meeting you, virtually or in your presence, at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023. Best wishes, Giuseppe Caggianese Giuseppe Caggianese, Ph.D. ------------------------------------------------------------- Research Scientist National Research Council (CNR) Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy Telefono: +39 0816139227 Mobile: +39 3371588044 Skype: giuseppe.caggianese Email: giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Special Session on: “EXTENDED REALITY AS A GATEWAY TO THE METAVERSE: PRACTICES, THEORIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS” https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) https://metroxraine.org/ October 25-27, 2023 - Milan, Italy. ==================================================================================== SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION ------------------------- The fast development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) solutions over the last few years are transforming how people interact, work, and communicate. The eXtended Reality (XR) term encloses all those immersive technologies that can shift the boundaries between digital and physical worlds to realize the metaverse. According to tech companies and venture capitalists, the metaverse will be a super-platform that convenes sub-platforms: social media, online video games, and ease-of-life apps, all accessible through the same digital space and sharing the same digital economy. Inside the metaverse, virtual worlds will allow avatars to carry out all human endeavours, including creation, display, entertainment, social, and trading. Thus, the metaverse will evolve how users interact with brands, intellectual properties, health services, cultural heritage, and each other things on the Internet. A user could join friends to play a multiplayer game, watch a movie via a streaming service and then attend a university course precisely the same as in the real world. The metaverse development will require new software architecture that will enable decentralized and collaborative virtual worlds. These self-organized virtual worlds will be permanent and will require maintenance operations. In addition, it will be necessary to design an efficient data management system and prevent privacy violations. Finally, the convergence of physical reality, virtually enhanced, and an always-on virtual space highlighted the need to rethink the actual paradigms for visualization, interaction, and sharing of digital information, moving toward more natural, intuitive, dynamically customizable, multimodal, and multi-user solutions. This special session aims to focus on exploring how the realization of the metaverse can transform certain application domains such us: (i) healthcare, in which the metaverse solutions can, for instance, improve the communication between patients and physicians; (ii) cultural heritage, with potentially more effective solutions for tourism guidance, site maintenance, and heritage object conservation; and (iii) industry, where to enable data-driven decision making, smart maintenance, and overall asset optimisation. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 TOPICS ---------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Hardware/Software Architectures for metaverse - Decentralized and Collaborative Architectures for metaverse - Interoperability for metaverse - Tools to help creators to build the metaverse - Operations and Maintenance in metaverse - Data security and privacy mechanisms for metaverse - Cryptocurrency, token, NFT Solutions for metaverse - Fraud-Detection in metaverse - Cyber Security for metaverse - Data Analytics to Identify Malicious Behaviors in metaverse - Blockchain/AI technologies in metaverse - Emerging Technologies and Applications for metaverse - New models to evaluate the impact of the metaverse - Interactive Data Exploration and Presentation in metaverse - Human-Computer Interaction for metaverse - Human factors issues related to metaverse - Proof-of-Concept in Metaverse: Experimental Prototyping and Testbeds IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2023. **NOTE that the abstract should be 1 - 2 pages. Final Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2023. Full Paper Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2023 Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2023 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare an Abstract (1 - 2 pages) that clearly indicates the originality of the contribution and the relevance of the work. The Abstract should include the title of the paper, names and affiliations of the authors, an abstract, keywords, an introduction describing the nature of the problem, a description of the contribution, the results achieved and their applicability. As an alternative to the traditional abstract, it is possible to submit a Graphical Abstract. For further information, please see here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. When the first review process has been completed, authors receive a notification of either acceptance or rejection of the submission. If the abstract has been accepted, the authors can prepare a full paper. The format for the full paper is identical to the format for the abstract except for the number of pages: the full paper has a required minimum length of five (5) pages and a maximum of six (6) pages. Full Papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Authors of accepted full papers must submit the final paper version according to the deadline, register for the workshop, and attend to present their papers. The maximum length for final papers is 6 pages. All contributions will be peer-reviewed and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Submissions must be written in English and prepared according to the IEEE Conference Proceedings template. LaTeX and Word templates and an Overleaf sample project can be found at: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. The papers must be submitted in PDF format electronically via EDAS online submission and review system: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30746. To submit abstracts or draft papers to the special session, please follow the submission instructions for regular sessions, but remind to specify the special session to which the paper is directed. The special session organizers and other external reviewers will review all submissions. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of presented papers are eligible for post-publication; more information will be provided soon. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese National Research Council of Italy giuseppe.caggianese@.cnr.it Ugo Erra University of Basilicata ugo.erra(a)unibas.it Luigi Gallo National Research Council of Italy luigi.gallo(a)cnr.it For any questions about the special session, please feel free to contact us via email.

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Third Call for Papers

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Third Call for Papers *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ eScience 2023 provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Its objective is to promote and encourage all aspects of eScience and its associated technologies, applications, algorithms, and tools, with a strong focus on practical solutions and open challenges. The conference welcomes conceptualization, implementation, and experience contributions enabling and driving innovation in data- and compute-intensive research across all disciplines, from the physical and biological sciences to the social sciences, arts, and humanities; encompassing artificial intelligence and machine learning methods; and targeting a broad spectrum of architectures, including HPC, Cloud, and IoT. The overarching theme of the eScience 2023 conference is “open eScience”. This year, the conference is promoting four additional key topics: • Computational Science for sustainable development • FAIR • Research Infrastructures for eScience • Continuum Computing: Convergence between Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) The conference is soliciting two types of contributions: • Full papers (10 pages) presenting previously unpublished research achievements or eScience experiences and solutions • Posters (2 pages) showcasing early-stage results and innovations Submitted papers should use the IEEE 8.5×11 manuscript guidelines: double-column text using single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5×11-inch pages. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . Submissions should be made via the Easy Chair system using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2023 . All submissions will be single-blind peer reviewed. Selected full papers will receive a slot for an oral presentation. Accepted posters will be presented during a poster reception. Accepted full papers and poster papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Rejected full papers can be re-submitted for a poster presentation. At least one author of each accepted paper or poster must register as an author at the full registration rate. Each author registration can be applied to only one accepted submission. AWARDS eScience 2023 will host the following awards, which will be announced at the conference. • Best Paper Award • Best Student Paper Award • Best Poster Award • Best Student Poster Award • Outstanding Early Career Contribution – this award is associated with poster submissions and short presentations of attendees in their early career phase (i.e., postdoctoral researchers and junior scientists). KEY DATES • Paper Submissions Due: Friday, May 26, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Paper Acceptance: Friday, June 30, 2023 • Poster Submissions due: Friday, July 7, 2023 (AoE) • Poster Acceptance Notification: Monday, July 24, 2023 • All Camera-ready Submissions due: Monday, August 14, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: Monday, August 14, 2023 ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee Email contact: Technical-Program(a)eScience-conference.org

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CFP: Special issue on "Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= /Note: //*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal has migrated to https://ixdea.org/*// //The old website will no longer be updated from 5 March 2023 onwards./ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces *Call for Papers -> link <https://ixdea.org/design-education-for-hybrid-environments-pedagogies-frame…> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://ixdea.org/ https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Dina El Zanfaly, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Peter Scupelli, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Daragh Byrne, Carnegie Mellon University, USA/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *May 20th, 2023* • Notification to the authors: July 31st, 2023 • Camera ready paper: September 20th, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: October 2023 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Over the past few decades, interactive technologies have become more and more embedded in and blended with our physical world. These technologies—mobile computing, AR and VR, interactive IoTs, tangible interfaces, and responsive architectures—are increasingly shaping our daily experiences in our homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, and cities. We call these physical-digital spaces Hybrid Environments . As these technologies continue to transform the way we live, many new opportunities emerge for design education and practice. Within higher education, more and more programs aim to cross-train designers, architects, creative technologists, and artists to operate in these emerging terrains. This is a complex pedagogical practice. Designing for Hybrid Environments requires knowledge and training in the design of both physical environments and interactive technologies. Solutions cut across, and often operate at multiple, scales: from the object to the room, from the neighborhood to the city. Consequently, the design of good physical-digital spaces must often bridge fundamental knowledge in design, architecture, art, interactivity, and computation. How are we meeting this emergent need? How do we educate cross-trained students to creatively respond and adapt to these complex design spaces? In this special issue, we invite design educators to share their pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces. We hope to gather, reflect, and share valuable examples and instructional practices so that we might learn from one another and critically examine how to teach students to design Hybrid Environments. Ultimately, we seek to form a common understanding and begin building the foundations for design education in this emerging field. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to Design Education for Hybrid Environments includes, but is not limited to: • Teaching for and within VR, AR, and XR technologies. • Teaching for interactive IoT, spatial computing, ambient media, and responsive architecture. • CAD and CAM tools to help conceive, represent, prototype, and test Hybrid Environments. • Theoretical frameworks and representational techniques to navigating scales of design —from the object to the room, from the neighborhood to the city. • Cognitive approaches to explain and study reasoning, conceiving, and building Hybrid Environments. • Post-Pandemic Hybrid Environments, including telepresence, distributed spaces, and the temporality of experience. • Assessment and performance methods, including pilot studies, curricula, or cases of evaluating Hybrid Environments design and instruction. • Instructional experiences resilient to rapid change in technology infrastructures and toolsets. • Research methods supporting the design process and evaluation of Hybrid Environments. =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/ ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Design Education for Hybrid Environments") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /IxD&A special issue on Design Education for Hybrid Environments/ • drosenb2 [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • N.56 'Hybrid Games and Interaction Design' Guest editors: Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa, Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Fotis Liarokapis • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N.59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne • N.60 • ‘SLE as engines of the twin transition’ Guest editors: Mihai Dascalu, Oscar Mealha, Sirje Virkus • ‘Technologies, Tools, and Techniques for Online Design-Based Activities with Children’ Guest editors: Naska Goagoses, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Erkki Rötkönen, Tariq Zaman • ‘Designing for People in Human-Robot Collaboration’ Guest editors: Stine S. Johansen, Alan Burden, Eike Schneiders, Alexander N. Walzer ----------------------------------------------------------

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UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: Fourth Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos

by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com

*** Fourth Call for Late-Breaking Results and Demos *** UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization June 26 - 29, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.um.org/umap2023/call-for-late-breaking-results-and-demos/ Submissions due: April 24, 2023 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 IMPORTANT DATES ● Submission of papers: April 24, 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2023 ● Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: May 18, 2023 ● Conference: June 26-29, 2023 Note: The submission times are 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) SUBMISSION FORMATS Demonstrations ● Max. 5 pages + max. 1 additional page for references; ● (Optional) video or external material demonstrating the system; ● Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ● Presentation as a demo + poster at the conference. Description: Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes and commercially available products in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demonstrations are an excellent and exciting way to showcase implementations and get valuable feedback from the community. Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how these will be demonstrated on-site as well as online. To better identify the value of demos, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast (max. 5 minutes on Vimeo or YouTube) or any external material related to the demo (e.g., shared code on GitHub). Descriptions of demonstrations should have a length of max. 5 pages + 1 page of references in the new ACM single-column style. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a specification of the technical requirements for demonstrating the system at UMAP 2023. Late-Breaking Results ● Max. 7 pages + max. 2 additional pages for references; ● (Required) unpublished page with a list of questions the authors aim to get feedback on; ● Publication in ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings; ● Presentation as a (potentially virtual) poster at the conference. Description: Late-Breaking Results (LBR) are research-in-progress that must contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. In addition, papers introducing recently started research projects or summarizing project results are welcome as well. We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit late-breaking work as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Late-Breaking Results papers have a length of up to 7 pages + 2 pages of references in the new ACM single-column style and will be presented to the conference as posters. On an extra page (not to be published), submissions should include a list of questions that the authors aim to get feedback on during the poster session at UMAP 2023. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymised before submission Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting): ● LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} in the sample- authordraft.tex file for single-column): https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t… ● Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart} for single-column): https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-… ● MS Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio… Note: Accepted papers will require further revision to meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after acceptance. The ACM Code of Ethics gives the UMAP program committee the right to (desk-) reject papers that perpetuate harmful stereotypes, employ unethical research practices, or uncritically present outcomes/implications that clearly disadvantage minority communities. Submit your papers in PDF format via EasyChair for ACM UMAP 2023 Demos and Late-Breaking Results at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 (choose “New Submission” and make sure to select “UMAP'23 - LBR and Demos” track). The review process will be single-blind, i.e., authors’ names should be included in the papers. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. They will be assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. Papers that exceed the page limits or do not adhere to the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. UMAP has a *no dual submission* policy, which is why full paper submissions should not be currently under review at another publication venue. Further, UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) as well as the ACM Publication Policies and Procedures (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies). PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION Accepted Demo and Late-Breaking Results papers will be published in the ACM UMAP 2023 Adjunct Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Papers will be accessible from the UMAP 2023 website through ACM OpenToc Service for one year after publication in the ACM Digital Library. All categories will be presented at the poster reception of the conference, in the form of a poster and/or a software demonstration following poster format. This form of presentation will provide presenters with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during the conference. To be included in the Proceedings, at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there. LATE-BREAKING RESULTS AND DEMO CHAIRS ● Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy ● Alisa Rieger, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands ● Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi, University at Albany – SUNY, USA ● Contact: HYPERLINK "mailto:umap2023-lbr@um.org"umap2023-lbr(a)um.org

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[CFP] Workshop on "AI per la Sostenibilità"@Ital-IA 2023

by Marco Polignano

*** Apologies for cross postings *** **AI per la Sostenibilità @Ital-IA 2023*- Call For Papers - *** DEADLINE March, 19 *** https://www.ital-ia2023.it/workshop/ai-per-la-sostenibilita ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop presso il*Terzo Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificiale Ital-IA*(https://www.ital-ia2023.it/) 29-31 Maggio 2023, Pisa, Italy Ital-IA è il terzo Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, organizzato per sviluppare obiettivi comuni tra istituzioni pubbliche, industria italiana e la ricerca scientifica delle università e dei centri di ricerca nazionali. Ital-IA ha l'ambizione di "fare rete nazionale" tra tutte le azioni che si stanno disegnando in questi mesi in Italia per cogliere le potenzialità di sviluppo legate alle tecnologie dell'Intelligenza Artificiale. Il convegno è organizzato dal Laboratorio Nazionale "Artificial Intelligence ed Intelligent Systems" (AIIS), creato dal CINI (Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica). Il Laboratorio è stato creato nel Giugno 2018 con il sostegno del Dipartimento di Informazione e Sicurezza della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri (come indicato nel recente rapporto del DIS "Relazione sulla Politica dell’Informazione per La Sicurezza 2018") per sviluppare obiettivi comuni tra istituzioni pubbliche, industria italiana e la ricerca scientifica delle università e dei centri di ricerca nazionali. Il laboratorio conta oggi 57 nodi che includono quasi tutti gli Atenei Italiani oltre a CNR, FBK e IIT. For any information: marco.polignano(a)uniba.it ========= ABSTRACT ========= La rapida evoluzione dell'Intelligenza artificiale dell'ultimo decennio ha spinto la ricerca verso lo sviluppo di tecnologie sempre più sofisticate e accurate basate su enormi quantità di dati. Tali sistemi si sono dimostrati un ottimo strumento per supportare processi volti alla sostenibilità Ambientale, Economica e Sociale sia lato produttivo che lato di ricerca grazie alla loro eccezionale capacità di comprensione dei dati (strutturati e non), pianificazione e reasoning. In questo workshop si vogliono discutere quei sistemi di AI in grado di agire in tale ambito ed aiutare aziende e università ad affrontare i temi della sostenibilità ed efficienza. E' difatti prerogativa dell'Unione Europea rendere possibile il transitare quanto prima verso soluzioni produttive sostenibili, efficienti e attente al benessere dell'ambiente e dei lavoratori. Tuttavia gli stessi modelli di Intelligenza Artificiale possono essere estremamente energivori e poco attenti alla sostenibilità, sopratutto ambientale (eg. basti pensare ai grandi modelli di comprensione del testo proposti dalle grandi multinazionali). Pertanto oggetto del workshop è anche il tema della sostenibilità dei modelli di AI e alla possibilità di renderli meno impattanti e più efficienti. ====== TOPICS ====== Gli argomenti di interesse del workshop sono (ma non limitati a): • AI e metodi di data mining per la valutazione automatica e il ranking di valori di sostenibilità sociale, economica e ambientale; • Risorse e strategie di valutazione per le strategie di sostenibilità sociale, economica e ambientale; • Tecnologie basate su AI per il monitoraggio e la valutazione di diversi aspetti delle procedure di mantenimento della sostenibilità sociale, economica e ambientale (ma non limitati a), impronta di carbonio, diversità e inclusione, equo commercio, giustizia sociale, impatto ambientale, ecc.; • Rilevamento automatico e prevenzione dei rischi legati alla non sostenibilità di processi ed attività sia come obblighi nazionali ed internazionali che di gestione del rischio riferiti (ma non limitati a), farmacovigilanza, sicurezza alimentare, disuguaglianza ed esclusione, mobbing sul lavoro, fake o contenuti imprecisi, stereotipi etnici e altri linguaggi insensibili; • Approcci di AI e tecnologie di NLP per interpretare e modellare il posizionamento e la percezione del livello di sostenibilità sociale, economica e ambientale; • Modellazione di correlazioni tra le politiche, le azioni e le dichiarazioni sulla sostenibilità di un'azienda con il pubblico; • Estrazione, annotazione e integrazione dati, inclusi report aziendali, studi di impatto ambientale, reclami dei consumatori, registrazioni delle donazioni relative alle azioni volte alla sostenibilità, problemi, registrazioni di violazioni e sanzioni relative a questioni di sostenibilità, notizie e dati dei social media; • Adattamento e sinergia di approcci e soluzioni di AI e sostenibilità; • Modelli di AI sostenibili ed efficienti. ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ I contributi dovranno essere caricati, entro il 19 Marzo 2023, al seguente link: https://www.ital-ia2023.it/submission/insert selezionando come topic lo workshop cui si intende sottomettere. * I contributi devono avere valenza tecnica e scientifica, e devono preferibilmente riferirsi a progetti in corso o avere un taglio applicativo in relazione al workshop. * I contributi, la presentazione ed il poster possono essere redatti sia in lingua italiana che inglese. * I contributi devono essere di almeno 2 e di massimo 6 pagine (incluso References) e devono essere redatti seguendo uno dei template (LaTeX o Word) disponibili ai seguenti URL: o Latex:https://www.ital-ia2023.it/static/frontend/ital-ia2023.zipo come template Overleafhttps://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/ital-ia-2023-template/hqdd… o Word:https://www.ital-ia2023.it/static/frontend/ital-ia2023_docx.zip In particolare, si richiede di utilizzare: + il file sample.tex o Template.docx nel caso acconsentiate alla pubblicazione su CEUR-WS.org e il vostro contributo sia in inglese e di almeno 5 pagine + il file sample_NOPUB.tex o Template_NOPUB.docx nel caso non acconsentiate alla pubblicazione su CEUR-WS.org *Ogni contributo dovrà essere coperto da almeno una registrazione all'evento.* Tutti i contributi accettati per la presentazione saranno resi disponibili sul sito della conferenza con licenza Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). I contributi accettati redatti in inglese e superiori alle 5 pagine saranno pubblicati su CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) e indicizzati da Scopus, previo consenso degli autori esplicitato durante l'invio. Sono accettati anche contributi che descrivano attività e approcci già presentati in altri convegni o pubblicati su rivista. Per garantire la pluralità nelle discussioni all’interno dei workshop,*i vari gruppi di ricerca sono pregati di inviare al più un solo contributo*, che può essere complessivo delle varie attività e progetti in corso, per ogni workshop. I contributi selezionati v*erranno presentati in forma di poster o di breve presentazione i giorni 29 e 30 Maggio*, in modo che nella giornata seguente se ne possano raccogliere i contenuti in forma aggregata, per delineare un quadro delle attività di ricerca e sviluppo italiane nell'Intelligenza Artificiale nei diversi settori applicativi. ================ IMPORTANT DATES ================ * Paper submission: March 19, 2023 (GMT) ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Prof.ssa Michela Milano, Università di Bologna Alma Master Studiorum, Italy Dott. Roberto Pellungrini, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy Dott. Marco Polignano, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

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A Friendly Reminder - Call for Paper - Abstract (1-2 pages) by March 15, 2023.

by Giuseppe Caggianese

Dear Colleagues, a friendly reminder to contribute with an Abstract (1-2 pages) to the special session on “eXtended Reality as a gateway to the Metaverse: Practices, Theories, Technologies and Applications” in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) that will be held on October 25-27, 2023 in Milan. https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 Please see the CfP below for details and forward it to colleagues who might be interested in contributing to this special session. Visit the conference website for further and updated information https://metroxraine.org/. I'm looking forward to meeting you, virtually or in your presence, at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023. Best wishes, Giuseppe Caggianese ==================================================================================== Call for Papers - Special Session on: “EXTENDED REALITY AS A GATEWAY TO THE METAVERSE: PRACTICES, THEORIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS” https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) https://metroxraine.org/ October 25-27, 2023 - Milan, Italy. ==================================================================================== SPECIAL SESSION DESCRIPTION ------------------------- The fast development of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) solutions over the last few years are transforming how people interact, work, and communicate. The eXtended Reality (XR) term encloses all those immersive technologies that can shift the boundaries between digital and physical worlds to realize the metaverse. According to tech companies and venture capitalists, the metaverse will be a super-platform that convenes sub-platforms: social media, online video games, and ease-of-life apps, all accessible through the same digital space and sharing the same digital economy. Inside the metaverse, virtual worlds will allow avatars to carry out all human endeavours, including creation, display, entertainment, social, and trading. Thus, the metaverse will evolve how users interact with brands, intellectual properties, health services, cultural heritage, and each other things on the Internet. A user could join friends to play a multiplayer game, watch a movie via a streaming service and then attend a university course precisely the same as in the real world. The metaverse development will require new software architecture that will enable decentralized and collaborative virtual worlds. These self-organized virtual worlds will be permanent and will require maintenance operations. In addition, it will be necessary to design an efficient data management system and prevent privacy violations. Finally, the convergence of physical reality, virtually enhanced, and an always-on virtual space highlighted the need to rethink the actual paradigms for visualization, interaction, and sharing of digital information, moving toward more natural, intuitive, dynamically customizable, multimodal, and multi-user solutions. This special session aims to focus on exploring how the realization of the metaverse can transform certain application domains such us: (i) healthcare, in which the metaverse solutions can, for instance, improve the communication between patients and physicians; (ii) cultural heritage, with potentially more effective solutions for tourism guidance, site maintenance, and heritage object conservation; and (iii) industry, where to enable data-driven decision making, smart maintenance, and overall asset optimisation. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/special-session-17 TOPICS ---------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Hardware/Software Architectures for metaverse - Decentralized and Collaborative Architectures for metaverse - Interoperability for metaverse - Tools to help creators to build the metaverse - Operations and Maintenance in metaverse - Data security and privacy mechanisms for metaverse - Cryptocurrency, token, NFT Solutions for metaverse - Fraud-Detection in metaverse - Cyber Security for metaverse - Data Analytics to Identify Malicious Behaviors in metaverse - Blockchain/AI technologies in metaverse - Emerging Technologies and Applications for metaverse - New models to evaluate the impact of the metaverse - Interactive Data Exploration and Presentation in metaverse - Human-Computer Interaction for metaverse - Human factors issues related to metaverse - Proof-of-Concept in Metaverse: Experimental Prototyping and Testbeds IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2023. **NOTE that the abstract should be 1 - 2 pages. Final Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2023. Full Paper Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2023 Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2023 SUBMISSION AND DECISIONS ------------------------ Authors should prepare an Abstract (1 - 2 pages) that clearly indicates the originality of the contribution and the relevance of the work. The Abstract should include the title of the paper, names and affiliations of the authors, an abstract, keywords, an introduction describing the nature of the problem, a description of the contribution, the results achieved and their applicability. As an alternative to the traditional abstract, it is possible to submit a Graphical Abstract. For further information, please see here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. When the first review process has been completed, authors receive a notification of either acceptance or rejection of the submission. If the abstract has been accepted, the authors can prepare a full paper. The format for the full paper is identical to the format for the abstract except for the number of pages: the full paper has a required minimum length of five (5) pages and a maximum of six (6) pages. Full Papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Authors of accepted full papers must submit the final paper version according to the deadline, register for the workshop, and attend to present their papers. The maximum length for final papers is 6 pages. All contributions will be peer-reviewed and acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Submissions must be written in English and prepared according to the IEEE Conference Proceedings template. LaTeX and Word templates and an Overleaf sample project can be found at: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions. The papers must be submitted in PDF format electronically via EDAS online submission and review system: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30746. To submit abstracts or draft papers to the special session, please follow the submission instructions for regular sessions, but remind to specify the special session to which the paper is directed. The special session organizers and other external reviewers will review all submissions. More information can be found here: https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ----------------------------------- All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of presented papers are eligible for post-publication; more information will be provided soon. ORGANIZERS ------------- Giuseppe Caggianese National Research Council of Italy giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it Ugo Erra University of Basilicata ugo.erra(a)unibas.it Luigi Gallo National Research Council of Italy luigi.gallo(a)cnr.it For any questions related to the special session, please feel free to contact us via email. Giuseppe Caggianese, Ph.D. ------------------------------------------------------------- Research Scientist National Research Council (CNR) Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy Telefono: +39 0816139227 Mobile: +39 3371588044 Skype: giuseppe.caggianese Email: giuseppe.caggianese(a)cnr.it

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Third Call for Submissions

by Announce Announcements

*** Third Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ (Proceedings to be published in Springer LNCS; Journal Special Issue with Springer Computing) AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Semantic services and service mining • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Storage, computation and network Clouds • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of abstracts: June 4th, 2023 (AoE) • Submission of full papers: June 11th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification to authors: July 14th, 2023 (AoE) • Camera-ready versions due: July 31st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: • Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references, for the technical and special tracks) • PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) • Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. The best papers accepted will be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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Deadline extension: special issue on "Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ /========================================================= *DEADLINE EXTENSION -> March 31, 2023 (new hard deadline)*/ ========================================================= Special Issue on *Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children *Call for Papers -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call58> to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: -> link ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Sumita Sharma, INTERACT Research Unit, University of Oulu • Eva Durall Gazulla, INTERACT Research Unit, University of Oulu • Marianne Kinnula, INTERACT Research Unit, University of Oulu • Nitin Sawhney, Aalto University/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *March 31st, 2023 *(new extended hard deadline) • Notification to the authors: May 15th, 2023 • Camera ready paper: June 15th, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: July 2023 (tentatively) =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Child-Computer Interaction (CCI) research is focused on cultivating, nurturing, and nudging children towards technology use and design. Recently, ethical aspects related to technology have come to the forefront, including the inherent limitations of technology, particularly related to Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML). Further, AI has a known diversity problem where age-inclusion can be sometimes forgotten. While various global and national policy frameworks on Children and AI are being developed, the approaches are child-centered but not child-led, restricting children from affecting their own digital futures. Further still, there is little discussion with children on the limitations, inherent biases, and lack of diversity in current design and development of AI/ML. As AI evolves to mimic human-like cognition, emotions, conversations, and decision-making, its impact on children and their futures should be critically examined for, with, and by children. Therefore, we invite researchers working on the various challenges and opportunities related to Children and AI/ ML to submit their work to this special issue. We welcome research that includes children as equal partners and empowers them to consider present and future challenges as experts of their own lives, with diverse interests, backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We also welcome research and design work with (but not limited to) educators, families, children (as testers, co-designers, co-researchers, protagonists), and other stakeholders in a variety of contexts (schools, after-school clubs, out of school contexts, public spaces, rural, urban). ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- Suggested topics include theories,models, frameworks, exploratory studies, case / user studies on (but not limited to): • Research on and with Children and AI/ML • AI Literacy for Al • Children’s rights and AI • Ethical AI for children • Participatory Design and Research with intelligent systems • Inclusion, diversity, and empowerment of under-represented children and communities. =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines ->link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission page: -> link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Age against the machine") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /IxD&A special issue on Age against the machine/ • firstname [dot] lastname [at] oulu [dot] fi for the guest editors from University of Oulu. • firstname [dot] lastname [at] aalto [dot] fi for the guest editor from Aalto University -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • N.56 'Hybrid Games and Interaction Design' Guest editors: Nelson Zagalo, Micael Sousa, Ana Patrícia Oliveira, Fotis Liarokapis • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N.59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------

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Call For Papers - PATCH 2023: International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage

by Noemi Mauro

***** Apologies for any cross-posting ***** CALL FOR PAPERS The 14th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2023) Held in conjunction with ACM UMAP 2023 - Limassol, Cyprus. https://patch2023.di.unito.it/index.html Important dates: April 20, 2023: paper submission May 8, 2023: notification to authors May 18, 2023: camera-ready due The workshop will be in person. However, in very exceptional circumstances we might accept a remote participation, to be discussed with us at paper submission time. Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2023 will again be the meeting point between state-of-the-art cultural heritage (CH) research and personalization research. Focused on those using different types of technology, with emphasis on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, used to enhance the personal experience in CH sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of CH and are interested in exploring the potential of state-of-the-art mobile and personalized technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visiting experience. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and, hopefully, forge some research collaborations. Motivation Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a primary area for personalization research. Visitors come to cultural heritage sites willing to experience and learn new things, with expectations but possibly without a clear idea of what they will find there. The Museum Experience Revisited, by John Falk and Lynn Dierking (2013), argues that the visitor’s experience is constructed by the intertwining of the personal, the social, and the physical context. The experience begins before the visit, when one starts to think about it, and lasts well after leaving the building. Indeed CH is rich in objects and information and offers much more than the visitor can absorb during their limited time in situ. Hence, visitors may benefit from individualized support that takes into account contextual and personal attributes. We invite cultural heritage professionals and researchers to join us to discuss findings and trends on personalisation of cultural heritage in the broadest sense, from online and remote cultural access to onsite visit, from individuals to groups, from tangible to virtual and robotic mediation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Adaptive navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections and in CH sites - Ambient Cultural Heritage - Personalization for group of visitors to CH sites - Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management - Creativity and collaboration support in CH - Personalized mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants - Personalization by Citizen Curation - Recommendation strategies for CH - Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH - NLG techniques and conversational agents for CH - (User Interaction with) Integration of virtual and physical collections - Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation - Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem (including CH) - Long-term personalization in CH - IoT and Cultural Heritage - Human-Robots adaptation in museums - 3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage - Context-aware information presentation in CH - Interactive user interfaces for CH applications - Use of personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences - Participatory CH including multiple viewpoints and perspectives - Community mapping for CH information sharing - Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH - Remote access to CH - Personalized support to the exploration of Cultural and Natural Heritage Submissions Full papers: up to 14 pages excluding references. Short papers/Position papers/Demo papers: up to 7 pages excluding references. Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Submissions should be single-blinded, i.e., authors’ names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://patch2023.di.unito.it/submission.html . All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "The 14th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2023)": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 . An international panel of experts will review all submissions. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces a significant addition to the previously published work. There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all the workshop papers will be published. Workshop organizers Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro(a)unito.it Daniela Petrelli, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, d.petrelli(a)shu.ac.uk George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, graptis(a)humanopsis.com Alan J. Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com

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7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023): Fourth Call for Papers

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*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023) September 13-15, 2023, 5* St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/ Submissions due: May 1, 2023 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS; Best Paper Award sponsored by Springer with 300 EUR) “Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological, social and economic sciences. INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports. INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy- oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests. INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen as both drivers and consequences of each other. Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following list. TOPICS Green, Sustainability, and Innovation • The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution • The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural Projects • Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change • Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains) • Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed economic models • Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level. Collective intelligence, sensing and action • Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption, relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches • Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models, collaborative making, art and creativity. Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures • Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems • Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content • Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing • Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion aspects, feasibility and adoption • Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and pervasiveness aspects • People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces Societal Structures • How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models • Digital Competences and Participation • Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the technological platforms being used • Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on Internet Evolution • Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/ VR Interactions Digital Politics and Governance • Internet and Political Participation • Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives, technological impacts and requirements • Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences • Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and collaborative solutions to moderate them • E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world • Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness Free Communication Patterns and Democracy • Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing • Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power • Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to counteract it • Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web • Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation • Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement, Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills, decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions) • E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim) • Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking), for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence), economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children protection, fake news, digital rebels) • Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers Sustainable Network Economy • Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual Property and the Digital Commons • New Collaborative Markets Analytics • Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data solutions and their applicability • Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives • Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat • Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets • New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self- disclosure and digital sovereignty • The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in, automated contracts and warranties Global Access Opportunities • Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies, Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty • Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide • Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World • Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide • Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions • Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies Data Sharing and Protection • Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies • Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions and intended applications • Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open innovation • Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation • Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform governance, economic and innovation aspects IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Papers: May 1, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023 • Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023 PAPER REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers must: • Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere • Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format • Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses • Be formatted according to the Springer’s LNCS format Proceedings template: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html • Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the end of the abstract • Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2023 Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. SELECTION All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise. The review process will be single-blind. Selection will be based on: • Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences) • Novelty and technical merit • Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development The best paper will be sponsored with 300 EUR by Springer. CAMERA-READY Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including: • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in pdf format • The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in editable sources format • The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in a special issue to be organised with an accredited journal (under negotiation). ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece • Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium Steering & Program Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/committees/

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CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI: Call for Papers

by amon rapp

CHItaly 2023: Call for Papers [Apologies for Multiple Postings] ================================================ CHItaly 2023 - Crossing HCI and AI The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter ================================================ 20-22 September 2023 Location: from Turin to the World, using Metaverse https://chitaly2023.it/ ================================================ SPECIAL THEME: Crossing HCI and AI ================================================ Besides traditional HCI topics, CHItaly 2023 aims at debating the intersection of HCI and AI as an emerging field of research, devoted mostly to Intelligent User Interfaces, i.e., interfaces developed using the approaches from HCI and the tools from AI. In addition to consolidated HCI contributions, we solicit research on methods, approaches, and systems relating the Human and the AI, innovative AI-based interfaces and interactions empowering humans, experiences in good and bad practices in applying AI to the interaction. ================================================ CALL FOR LONG AND SHORT PAPERS ================================================ We welcome research contributions in the form of either long or short research papers. Long papers present original and substantially new research in HCI. Short papers present original and provocative research or novel applications in HCI. All paper manuscripts undergo a selective review process. Accepted papers are invited for inclusion in the electronic ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS - pending approval), published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of top-quality papers will be invited to submit extended versions to special issues in international journals. Besides the special theme of CHItaly 2023, the conference is interested in all aspects of HCI: * Crossing HCI and AI * Fundamentals of HCI * Interactive Environments * Interaction Techniques, Modalities and Devices * Applications of HCI A more detailed list is available at https://chitaly2023.it/call_for_papers/ Submit on easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chitaly2023 Main deadlines: - Submission deadline: March 31th, 2023 - Review notification: June 1st, 2023 - Initial camera-ready submission: June 30th, 2023 - Final submission: July 31st, 2023 All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Papers Chairs Tania Di Mascio (Università dell’Aquila) Rosa Lanzilotti (Università di Bari) Davide Spano (Università di Cagliari) email: papers(a)chitaly2023.it

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): First Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals

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*** First Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) (currently pending approval for the 2023 edition) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS The Organizing Committee invites proposals for Special Sessions that cover any topic related to BESC. Special Sessions can also cover any other area focusing on challenging open problems of relevance in applications on Behavioural, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing. Papers accepted in the Special Sessions will be included in the same conference volume with those accepted in the main track and will be candidates for being invited to the journal special issues that will be organised for BESC 2023. The proposals for organising Special Sessions should be submitted to the Special Sessions Chairs by the indicated deadline. A proposal should be submitted in PDF, be no longer than 2 pages in length, and contain the following: (i) Title of the proposed Special Session. (ii) Names, affiliations and contact information of the proposers. (iii) Names and affiliations of the Program Committee of the proposed Special Session. (iv) Description of the proposed Special Session, including the covered topics and the rationale as to why it fits into the themes of BESC. (v) A dissemination plan of the CFP for the proposed Special Session that the proposers will undertake, if their proposal is accepted. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of Special Session proposals: 10 April 2023 • Acceptance notification for Special Session proposals: 15 April 2023 • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia (taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au) • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China (yuting AT zhejianglab.com) Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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IS-EUD 2023: Workshop submission deadline extended - 15 March

by Davide Spano

*Update: the workshop submission deadline has been extended to the 15 of March* CfP below *= IS-EUD 2023 = * 9th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2023) 6-8 June 2023, Cagliari, Italy https://cg3hci.dmi.unica.it/iseud2023/ Complete CfP: https://cg3hci.dmi.unica.it/iseud2023/cfp.html End-User Development (EUD) aims to empower end-users who are not necessarily experts in technology development, to create their own technology to address their specific needs. These technologies might include mobile, web or software systems, IoT solutions, physical computing devices or machine learning systems. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event that gathers researchers interested to extend our knowledge about how to design end-user development technologies and to provide scientific accounts of phenomena surrounding end-user development practices. *== Topics ==* The conference welcomes contributions that: • describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development • describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor technology artefacts • present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development • develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development *== Contributions ==* Submission website: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/IS-EUD2023 *=== Papers ===* • *Regular papers*, up to 16 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field • *Short papers*, up to 8 pages (not counting references), describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2023, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) • Submission deadline: 1 March 2023 • Notification: 23 March 2023 • Camera-ready: 16 April 2023 *=== Workshop Proposals ===* Workshop proposals are invited (up to 6 pages) aligned to the themes of the conference. Workshops provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Workshops can be half-day or one-day long and will be held on June 6, 2023. Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the IS-EUD 2023 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. • Submission deadline: 15 March 2023 • Notification: 5 April 2023 • Camera-ready: 30 April 2023 *=== Demonstrations and Work in Progress ===* Demonstrations offer the chance to show EUD-related systems to the community. Submitted contributions should explain the system relevance and describe a plan for the activities during the conference. Work in progress submissions (up to 6 pages) are intended for presenting preliminary results or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during parallel sessions. Accepted demonstration and work in progress papers will be included in the IS-EUD 2023 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. • Submission deadline: 30 March 2023 • Notification: 20 April 2023 • Camera-ready: 28 April 2023 *=== Doctoral Consortium ===* The IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit doctoral consortium contributions (max 6 pages) describing the topic of their PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress. Accepted doctoral consortium papers will be included in the IS-EUD 2023 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. • Submission deadline: 30 March 2023 • Notification: 20 April 2023 • Camera-ready: 28 April 2023 -- [image: photo] Prof. Lucio Davide Spano Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università di Cagliari Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy Tel: +39 070 675 8760 | Skype: davide.spano5 Website <http://people.unica.it/davidespano> | RG <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucio_Spano> | ORCHID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Last Mile for Submission of Workshop Proposals

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*** Last Mile for Submission of Workshop Proposals *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ The 19th IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus on October 9-13, 2023. eScience 2023 welcomes proposals for workshops to be co-located with the main conference on Monday, October 9 and Tuesday, October 10, 2023. The eScience conference has a long history of hosting well-attended workshops broadly related to eScience and co-located with the main conference. These workshops share the goal of bringing together international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. Workshops may be focused on any eScience-related topic including, but not limited to interdisciplinary and translational research, continuum computing infrastructures, data science, sustainability, and education. eScience 2023 invites authors of workshop proposals to consider a diverse group of organizers, paper reviewers, and keynote speakers in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, and geographic areas. eScience 2023 accepts two types of workshop proposals: (1) workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings, and (2) workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings. Workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings The proceedings of workshops with peer-reviewed papers will be included in the eScience 2023 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, if the following criteria are followed: • The solicitation for papers must be open. • All the papers must be peer-reviewed by a qualified Program Committee. • The workshops Program Committee must have an appropriate size for the expected number of submissions. • The workshop proceedings must have at least 4 papers at a length of at least 6 pages and no longer than 10 pages (including figure, tables, and citations) in the IEEE conference format. • For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must be registered to eScience 2023 to present the paper in person. Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a Program Committee and a paper submission system, collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals showing clear focus and objectives in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops(a)escience-conference.org and not exceed 5 pages in length. Proposals should include the following information: • Workshop name and acronym. • Workshop description, including its focus and goals (max. 500 words). • Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committee (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers and committee members in terms of e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, geographic areas, etc.). • Expected number of submissions/accepted papers. • Prior history of this workshop, if any. Workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks and no proceedings Workshop organizers are responsible for inviting the speakers, establishing a program in due time, organizing the selected talks into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals gathering experts in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Each speaker must be registered to eScience 2023 to present in a session. Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to workshops(a)escience-conference.org and not exceed 5 pages in length. Proposals for workshops or mini-symposia with invited talks only should include the following information: • Workshop name and acronym • Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) • Names and affiliations of the organizers • Expected number of talks and their length • Tentative list of speakers and talk titles • Prior history of this workshop, if any KEY DATES • Workshop Submissions due: Friday, February 24, 2023 (AoE) • Workshop Acceptance Notification: Friday, March 10, 2023 • All Camera-ready Submissions due: Friday, July 21, 2023 • Final list of talks / agenda for no-proceedings workshops: Friday, July 21, 2023 CONTACT INFORMATION Workshop Chairs (contact: workshops(a)escience-conference.org): • Iraklis Klampanos, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Greece • Fred Suter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Last Mile for Paper Submission

by Announce Announcements

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org *** Recipient of the Euro-Par Achievement Award 2023: Professor Enrique S. Quintana Ortí *** *** The Best Paper Award will be sponsored by Springer with €2,000 *** SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. The main audience of Euro-Par are researchers in academic institutions, government laboratories and industrial organisations. Euro-Par aims to be the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their specific areas. Euro-Par provides an excellent forum for focused technical discussion, as well as interaction with a large, broad and diverse audience. In addition, Euro-Par conferences provide a platform for a number of accompanying, technical workshops for smaller and emerging communities. VENUE AND ORGANIZATION Euro-Par 2023 will be held as a primarily in-person event (although remote presentation and participation will be supported, if needed). The venue place is the 5* St. Raphael Resort, in Limassol, Cyprus. Euro-Par 2023 is organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. The General Chair is George A. Papadopoulos and the Program Chairs are Marios D. Dikaiakos and Rizos Sakellariou. The Organizing Committee is listed on the web site: https://2023.euro-par.org/conference/committees/ . SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Euro-Par 2023 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. • Papers must be in PDF format and should not exceed 14 pages (including references and any appendices) • Papers must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… • The submission process will be single-blind • Papers that don’t meet these requirements might be rejected without a review • Contributions submitted elsewhere or currently under review will not be considered • All submitted papers will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate; papers which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review • Paper submissions are made through EasyChair using the link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=europar2023 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: February 24, 2023 (AoE) • Paper Submission: March 3, 2023 (AoE) • Author Notification: April 30, 2023 • Camera-Ready Papers: June 2, 2023 • Author Registration: June 2, 2023 ARTEFACTS Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an artefact that will be evaluated separately. Accepted Artefacts will be considered for the Euro-Par 2023 Artefact Special Issue in the Journal of Open Source Software (https://joss.theoj.org). TOPICS We invite submissions of high-quality, novel and original research results in areas of parallel and distributed computing covered by the following list of tracks. More information on the tracks can be found on the conference web page: https://2023.euro-par.org/submission-of-papers/call-for-papers/ Track 1. Programming, Compilers and Performance Chairs: • Biagio Cosenza, University of Salerno, Italy • Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Track 2. Scheduling, Resource Management, Cloud, Edge Computing, and Workflows Chairs: • Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy • Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Track 3. Architectures and Accelerators Chairs: • Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain • Leonel Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal Track 4. Data Analytics, AI, and Computational Science Chairs: • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland • Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Track 5. Theory and Algorithms Chairs: • Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras, Greece Track 6. Multidisciplinary, Domain-specific and Applied Parallel and Distributed Computing Chairs: • Francisco F. Rivera, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain • Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy

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Call for papers - VL/HCC 2023 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

by Rebecca Krosnick

VL/HCC 2023 : IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2023 The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. The 2023 symposium is scheduled to take place October 2-6 in Washington, DC, USA. VL/HCC 2023 is 100% Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC). **Call for Research Papers** SCOPE AND TOPICS We solicit original, unpublished research papers on computing technologies for modeling, programming, communicating, and reasoning, which are easier to learn, use or understand by humans than the current state-of-the-art. Papers should focus on efforts to design, formalize, implement, or evaluate those technologies and languages. This includes technologies intended for general audiences (e.g., professional or novice programmers, or the public) or domain-specific audiences (e.g., people working in business administration, production environments, healthcare, urban design or scientific domains). Empirical papers that validate current proposed solutions with rigorous scientific means (i.e., empirical studies, controlled experiments, rigorous case studies, etc.) are also welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Visual languages: Novel visual languages, Design, evaluation, and theory of visual languages and applications, Development of systems for manipulating and interacting with diagrammatic representations - Human aspects and psychology of software development and language design, such as supporting inclusion and diversity in programming - End-user development: End-user development, adaptation and programming, Creation and evaluation of technologies and infrastructures for end-user development - Crowdsourcing design and development work - Representations: Novel representations and user interfaces for expressing computation, Software, algorithm and data visualization - Modeling: Model-driven development, Domain-specific languages, including modeling languages, Visual modeling of human behavior and socio-technical systems - Thinking more deeply about code: Computational thinking and Computer Science education, Debugging and program understanding, Explainable ML/AI If you are not sure if your paper is a good fit for VL/HCC, feel free to email the PC Co-chairs (see “Contact” below). We welcome those new to the VL/HCC community to submit! SPECIAL EMPHASIS FOR 2023: Low-Code / No-Code Development This year’s special topic is “Low-Code / No-Code Development”. This development paradigm enables the creation and deployment of fully functional applications using visual abstractions and interfaces and requiring little or no procedural code. This way, users are empowered to create software applications for constrained domains, even if they lack a programming background. This year, we especially welcome papers at VL/HCC that design, build, or evaluate any aspects of low-code and no-code solutions. PAPER SUBMISSIONS We invite two kinds of papers: - full-length research papers, up to 8 pages - plus unlimited additional pages containing only references and/or acknowledgements - short research papers, up to 4 pages - plus unlimited additional pages containing only references and/or acknowledgements Papers must be submitted using the IEEE two-column conference paper format. Be sure to use the current IEEE conference paper format (which was updated in 2019), and to select the “US letter” template: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vlhcc2023). To facilitate the assigning of papers to reviewers, we require paper abstracts to be submitted via EasyChair at least 1 week prior to the paper submission deadline (see Important Dates below). The abstract must be kept up to date such that it matches exactly the abstract in the submitted paper. The abstract must be no longer than 250 words. All accepted papers, whether full or short, should be complete, self-contained, archival contributions. Contributions from full papers are more extensive than those from short papers. Note that some full paper submissions may be accepted as short papers if reviewers deem contributions to be comparable in size to a short paper. Work-in-progress, which has not yet yielded an archival contribution, should be submitted to the Posters/Showpieces category. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee in a double-blind review process. Authors will then receive the reviews for their submissions and will be able to answer them in a rebuttal phase. Only after this step the PC will make a final decision about the acceptance of the submissions. Submissions and reviews for the technical program are managed with EasyChair. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for VL/HCC 2023 and present the paper at the conference. There will be a virtual presentation option in case of travel restrictions. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, including IEEE Xplore Digital Library, if the paper is not presented by the author at the conference. The proceedings of IEEE VL/HCC are published in digital form by the IEEE Computer Science Society and archived in the IEEE Digital Library with an official ISBN number. Accepted papers will be available to conference attendees via the IEEE Open Preview program in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/). DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEWING We follow a double-blind reviewing process. Both authors and reviewers are expected to make every effort to honor the double-blind reviewing process. In case of questions, please contact the Program Chairs. Authors should ensure that the submission can be evaluated without it being obvious who wrote the paper. This means leaving author names off the paper and using terms like “previous research” rather than “our previous research” when describing background. However, do not hide previous work – papers must still reference all relevant research using full (non-anonymized) citations, including the author’s own prior work, so that reviewers can evaluate novelty. Please reference your own prior work in the third-person just like you would do for any other related work (e.g., avoid “As described in our previous work [10], … ” and instead write something like “As described by [10], …”). It is also important that authors specify all conflicts of interest with potential reviewers during the submission phase. Reviewers should not undertake any investigation that might lead to the revealing of authors’ identity. If identities are inadvertently revealed, please contact the Program Chairs. The Program Chairs will check all submissions for obvious signs of lack of anonymity and may ask authors to make changes and resubmit the paper within three days of the submission deadline. Only changes to resolve anonymity issues will be permitted. EVALUATION AND JUSTIFICATION Papers are expected to support their claims with appropriate evidence. For example, a paper that claims to improve programmer productivity is expected to demonstrate improved productivity; a paper that claims to be easier to use should demonstrate increased ease of use. However, not all claims necessarily need to be supported with empirical evidence or studies with people. For example, a paper that claims to make something feasible that was clearly infeasible might substantiate its claim through the existence of a functioning prototype. Moreover, there are many alternatives to empirical evidence that may be appropriate for justifying claims, including analytical methods, formal arguments or case studies. Given this criterion, we encourage potential authors to think carefully about what claims their submission makes and what evidence would adequately support these claims. In addition, we expect short papers to have less comprehensive evaluation than long papers. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstracts only: April 21, 2023 - Submission deadline: April 28, 2023 - Rebuttal phase: June 5 - 9, 2023 - Notification: June 23, 2023 - Camera-ready: July 14, 2023 CONTACT PC Co-Chairs: - Philip Guo (University of California San Diego, United States) - Esther Guerra (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) - Contact email: vlhcc2023(a)googlegroups.com

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Last reminder: Special issue on "Hybrid Games and Interaction Design" - IxD&A Journal

by Carlo Giovannella

/Apologize for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *DEADLINE EXTENSION -> February 20, 2023 (new hard deadline)* ========================================================= Special Issue on *Hybrid Games and Interaction Design* to be published at the /*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/ (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998) https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- **** Since 2012 also in Scopus **** **** *Since 2015 also* in *Emerging Sources Citation Index* and *Web of Science* *** *---------------------------------------------------------------- IxD&A implements the Gold Open Access (OA) road to its contents with no charge to the authors (submission & paper processing) Help us in improving the quality of the editorial process and of the journal, please donate: link <https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5EUX7C…> ---------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102&link=call56> ========================================================= *Guest Editors:*  --------------------------------------------------------- -- /• Nelson Zagalo, DigiMedia, University of Aveiro, Portugal • Fotis Liarokapis, University of Technology, Cyprus • Micael Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Ana Patrícia Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal/ =========================================== *Important dates:* ----------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline: *February**20*, *2023* *(extended)* • Notification to the authors: March 30, 2023 • Camera ready paper: April 15, 2023 • Publication of the special issue: first half of May, 2023 =========================================== *Overview* ----------------------------------------------------------- Board games gained significant momentum throughout the past two decades, with some of the best creations earning millions of dollars in funding platforms during 2021, in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, digital games have surpassed all other media, from film to music, in investments and returns. Board and digital games are two forms of play which use the same base of design – the game design – so it was without surprise that a new hybrid approach, that mixed both media, would appear. Over the past five years, we have seen games with Augmented Reality, board games using smartphones as assisting tools, tablets being used as boards, or even games using real food–edible games. This combination of digital and physical components and strategies in games contributes to a new experience of play which enhances not only the player’s immersion and interaction, but also the contents, presentation, atmosphere, and control of the game. There are some questions emerging in this discussion, namely about the complementary relationship between physical and digital games: What are the borderlines between real and virtual dimensions in hybrid games? How can hybrid games provide a more participatory gaming experience while players become engaged with digital and physical components at the same time? Which model of interaction design of hybrid games best favors player experience, communication, and engagement? In this special issue, we want not only to present the current state-of-the-art of the hybrid games, as the possibilities beyond current days, making use of speculative approaches to design, as design fiction, but we want to dig deeper through the lenses of interaction design, in order to understand the new needs in the realm of technologies. Furthermore, we want to understand the full impacts and effects of this move on human interaction with game artifacts and consequently find out what should we expect from the discipline of interaction design while using ludic approaches in the next decade. ----------------------------------------------------------- *Topics of Interest* ----------------------------------------------------------- The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue devoted to Gamification of the Learning Process' includes, but is not limited to: • Hybrid digital/physical games • Methods of hybrid game design • Design Fiction and Hybrid Interaction Design • Interaction design relation with game design • Play Hybridism • Hybrid systems; • Hybrid design models; • Hybrid game mechanics and patterns; • Hybrid storytelling models; • Hybrid Game interaction models; • Cognition and game design; • Aesthetics of Hybrid Digital/Physical Games; • Board games and Digital Games; • Hybrid-games design; • Hybrid game User Experience; • Players’ physical/digital behavior modelling; • NPC behavior and Physical Characters =========================================== /*Submission guidelines and procedure*/ ---------------------------------------------------------- All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication. The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format. All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines -> link <http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7> ========================================================== *Authors' guidelines* ---------------------------------------------------------- Link to the paper submission page: link <https://www-2020.ixdea.uniroma2.it/ojs/ixdea/login> (Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. When submitting the paper, please, choose the section: "SI: Hybrid Games and Interaction Design") More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors, publication ethics and malpractice are published. For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A scientific editor marking the subject as: /Hybrid Games and Interaction Design/ • nzagalo [at] ua [dot] pt -----------------------------------------------------------------------------** * *To keep updated join the IxD&A groups @: IxD&A Linkedin -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3785204/> IxD&A Facebook -> link <https://www.facebook.com/groups/528301461963022> Enjoy the videos of the "Meeting the Authors" events @: IxD&A Youtube channel -> link <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_F6Aa-zJERXS1H7IqbTtKA/videos> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------* *** * Forthcoming issues:* https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000 • N.57 'Competence based education: from school to responsible citizenship, wellbeing and democracy.' Guest editors: Stefania Bocconi, Stefano Cacciamani, Romina Cachia, Arianna Sala, Nadia Sansone • N.58 'Age Against the Machine: A Call for Designing Ethical AI for and with Children' Guest editors: Sumita Sharma, Eva Durall Gazulla, Marianne Kinnula, Nitin Sawhney • N. 59 'AI for Humans and Humans for AI: Towards Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age' Guest editors: Renate Andersen, Vita Santa Barletta, anders Mørch, Alesandro Pagano 'Design Education for Hybrid Environments: Pedagogies, frameworks, and tools for crafting next-generation physical-digital spaces' Guest editors: Daniel Rosenberg Munoz, Dina El Zanfaly, Peter Scupelli, Daragh Byrne ----------------------------------------------------------

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