Re: CFP: 4th International Conf. on Ubiquitious Intelligence and Computing (UIC-07) - Hongkong, July 2007

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********************* UIC-
07 Call For Papers ************************* 
The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
(UIC-07
)
- Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces -

http://www.
uic-conference.org/2007/ 
http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~uic07/

      Organized by Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
          In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society 
           Hong Kong, China, July 11-13, 2007
**********************************************************

Ubiquitous computers, networks and information are paving a road towards a
smart world (SW) in which computational intelligence is distributed 
throughout the physical environment to provide trustworthy and relevant
services to people. This ubiquitous intelligence (UI) will change the
computing landscape because it will enable new breeds of applications and 
systems to be developed; the realm of computing possibilities will be
significantly extended. By embedding digital intelligence in everyday
objects, our workplaces, our homes and even ourselves, many tasks and
processes could be simplified, made more efficient, safer and more
enjoyable. Ubiquitous computing, or pervasive computing, composes these many
"smart things/u-things" to create the environments that underpin the smart 
world.

A smart thing can be endowed with different levels of intelligence, and may
be context-aware, active, interactive, reactive, proactive, assistive,
adaptive, automated, sentient, perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or 
thinking. Intelligent/smart things is an emerging research field covering
many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist to move from the world
of ubiquitous computing with universal services of any means/place/time to 
the smart world of trustworthy services with the right means/place/time.
UIC-
07 is a successor of the 1st Int'l Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds
(USW-05, Taipei, Mar. 2005), the 2nd Int'l Symposium on Ubiquitous 
Intelligence, Smart Worlds (UISW-05, Japan, Dec. 2005) and the 3rd Int'l
Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06, Three Gorges,
China, Sept. 2006). It offers a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and 
experiences in developing intelligent/smart objects, environments, and
systems as well as discuss various personal/social/physical issues faced by
UI and smart worlds.

Topics include but are not limited to the following: 

1. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Objects
  * Electronic Labels, Cards, E-Tags and RFID
  * Embedded Chips, Sensors & Actuators
  * MEMS, NEMS, Micro & Biometric Devices
  * Everyday Goods, Artifacts, Robots, etc. 
  * Smart Appliances and Wearable Devices
  * Material, Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc.
  * Emerging Intelligent/Smart Objects
  * Embedded Software and Agents

2. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Environments 
  * Room, Home, Office, Laboratory, etc.
  * Building, Library, School, Campus, etc.
  * Shop, Clinic, Hospital and Health Care
  * Street, Yard, Park, Ground, City, etc.
  * Vehicle, Road, Traffic & Transportation 
  * Land, Pool, Space and Hyperspace
  * Learning, Sport, Entertainment, etc.
  * Novel Intelligent/Smart Applications

3. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Systems
  * Sensor, Ad Hoc & Intelligent Networks 
  * Knowledge Representation and Ontology
  * Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
  * OS, Middleware and Intelligent Platforms
  * Intelligent Service Association and Architecture
  * Massive Agents, Swarm/Amorphous Systems 
  * Context-aware, Sentient and Proactive Systems
  * Novel Intelligent/Smart Systems

4. Personal/Social/Physical Aspects
  * Real/Cyber World Modeling and Semantics
  * End-User Interface, Control & Programming 
  * Social/Natural/Physical Model of UI & SW
  * User/Object Identity and Activity Recognition
  * Security, Privacy, Safety and Legal/Policy Issues
  * Emotional, Ethical and Psychological Factors
  * Implication and Impact of UI and SW 
  * Relations between Real and Cyber Worlds

= IMPORTANT DATES =

Submission Deadline:    January 15,  2007
Authors Notification:   March 15, 2007
Final Manuscript Due:   April 15, 2007

= ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION = 

Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file.
Submit your paper(s) at the UIC-07 submission site:
http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~uic07/sub/ 

= PAPER PUBLICATION =

Accepted papers will be published by Lecture Note in Computer Science
(LNCS). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested
to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers 
will be removed from the digital library after the conference.

Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special
issues of the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI), and 
the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC).
A set of high quality papers of the conference, after further revisions,
also will be published in an edited book published by Springer, Germany, and 
in an edited book published by IDEA Publishing Group, USA, respectively.

= Organizing Committees =

General Chairs
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Emile Aarts, Philips, Netherlands 

Program Chairs
Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Program Vice Chairs
Daqing Zhang, Inst. for Infocomm Research, Singapore 
Antonio Mana Gomez, University of Malaga, Spain
Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, Australia

Steering Committee
Jianhua Ma (chair), Hosei University, Japan 
Laurence T. Yang (chair), St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China
Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany 

International Advisory Committee
Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA
Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA 
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Moon Hae Kim, Konkuk University, Korea
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
Christian Muller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Norio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan
Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada
Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia 
Jhing-Fa Wang, Nat. Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Yaoxue Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China 


Publicity Chairs
Jiang (Linda) Xie, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Evi Syukur, Monash University, Australia
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China 
Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan

International Liaison Chairs*
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Jong Hyuk Park, Hanwha S&C, Korea
Akira Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan 

Publication Chairs
Hua Yu, Huazhong University of Sci.&Tech., China
Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia

Award Chairs*
Vipin Chaudhary, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
David Simplot-Ryl, University Lille 1, France 

Panel Chairs*
Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy
Victor Callaghan, University of Essex, UK

Financial Chair
TBA

Web Administration Chair
Tony Li Xu, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada 

Local Arrangement Chairs
Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Wei Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Kang Ying Allan Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., HK

Program Committee
See 
UIC-07 web site: www.
uic-conference.org/2007/

Further questions, please contact with
UIC07 Secretariat 
uic07 [at] googlegroups.com

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