Digital cultural heritage is now a mature field, in which information technologies are used in the service of preserving cultural heritage. The digital form of resources allows for the exploitation of advances in data analytics, semantics, information retrieval, user interaction, profiling and personalization in order to develop new, exciting and stimulating cultural heritage experiences in tourism and education.

This special issue aims to form a reference point for the field of personalized delivery of cultural heritage content. We invite works that present and/or review the current state of the art in theory and practice, as well as promising recent advances in the area of aligning the delivery process for cultural heritage content to the needs, goals, characteristics and preferences of individual users and groups of users. The issue is broad in scope, with the caveat that emphasis should be on the link between cultural heritage and personalization techniques; works dealing exclusively with one of the two topics will be deemed out of scope.

Topics of interest

• Semantic modelling for cultural heritage content and their application to personalized content delivery.
• Advances in knowledge representation.
• Metadata standards and datasets.
• Automated reasoning and computational argumentation for personalized explanations and feedback.
• Personalization/recommendation technologies applied to cultural heritage content.
• Profiling techniques for individuals, groups and crowds.
• Context awareness in cultural heritage venues and cities.
• Applications in cultural, educational or touristic experiences.
• Personalized storytelling.
• Adaptive navigation and browsing.
• Crowdsourcing and crowd computing methodologies, tools and case studies and their application to personalization in Cultural Heritage.
• Creativity and collaboration.
• Social interaction and argumentation.
• Mixed Crowd and AI- based processing approaches to personalization
• Personalized interaction with cultural heritage content.
• PCs and mobile personal devices.
• Multi-touch interfaces.
• Information booths.
• Public and shared displays

Paper submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (up to four pages) to the special issue editors via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umuaich2017).

Promising and in-scope works will be invited for extension into full submissions, from which point on a standard reviewing process will be followed. Submission and detailed formatting instructions for full papers are available at the journal’s site (http://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html).

Important dates

Abstract due: November 30th, 2017
Full submission invitation: December 15th, 2017
Manuscript due: February 28th, 2018
First notification to authors: April 30th, 2018
Revised submission deadline: June 15th, 2018
Final notification to authors: July 31st, 2018
Publication date: End of 2018 / start of 2019, as per UMUAI’s publication schedule

Guest editors

Manolis Wallace
??? LAB – Knowledge and Uncertainty Research Laboratory
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
University of Peloponnese

Martín López-Nores
Department of Telematics Engineering
University of Vigo

Yannick Naudet
Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology (LIST)
5, avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux
L-4362 Esch/Alzette

Tsvi Kuflik
Information Systems Department
The University of Haifa

*** Call for Participation ***

9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence

ICCCI 2017

Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

27 – 29 September, 2017

http://cyprusconferences.org/iccci2017/

(collocated with the 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, http://cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/)

Description

Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration,semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems.

The 114 high quality papers will be presented by researchers from 31 countries all over the world on the following topics:

– Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web
– Social Networks and Recommender Systems
– Data Mining Methods and Applications-
– Multi-agent Systems
– Sensor Networks and Internet of Things
– Decision Support & Control Systems
– Cooperative Strategies for Decision Making and Optimization
– Computational Swarm Intelligence
– Machine Learning in Medicine and Biometrics
– Cyber Physical Systems in Automotive Area
– Internet of Things – Its Relations and Consequences
– Text Processing and Information Retrieval
– Low Resource Language Processing
– Computer Vision Techniques
– Intelligent Processing of Multimedia in Web Systems

Keynote Lectures

1. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Nürnberger
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Title: Collaborative Exploration: Methods to Support Collaborative Searching and Sensemaking

2. Prof. Yannis Manolopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Title: Predicting the future evolution of scientific output

3. Prof. Slawomir Zadrozny
Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Title: Consensual decision making: history and new trends

4. Prof. Constantinos S. Pattichis
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Title: Cardiovascular Health Informatics: Predicting the Risk of Stroke Based on Ultrasound Image Analysis of the Atherosclerotic Carotid Plaque

Proceedings

The proceedings are published in Springer’s LNCS/LNAI series. According to the recent Springer Reports of May 2017 Proceedings of ICCCI 2016 and ICCCI 2015 belong to the top 25% most downloaded eBooks in the relevant SpringerLink eBook Collection in 2016.

Registration

http://cyprusconferences.org/iccci2017/registration.html

Organization

Honorary Chairs
· Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus
· Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada
· Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

General Chairs
· Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
· George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Chairs
· Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
· Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
· Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan

Organising Chair
· Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs
· Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
· Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Doctoral Track Chair
· George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Publicity Chair
· Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Local Organising Committee
· Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
· Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
· Rafa? Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
· Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
· Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Steering Committee
· Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
· Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
· Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
· Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam
· Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
· Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea
· Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
· Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
· Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
· Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain LM Opening

5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems

ECBS 2017

Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus

31 August – 1 September, 2017

http://cyprusconferences.org/ecbs2017/

In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP, SIGOPS and SIGSOFT

*** Early Registration Deadline: 19 August, 2017 ***

(collocated with the 8th International Conference on Information
Inteligence Systems and Applications, http://iisa2017.unipi.gr)

 

ECBS 2017 is a formal meeting dedicated to formulating and advancing methods, techniques, and tools for engineering of computer-based systems. The conference is devoted to the design, development, deployment, and analysis of the complex systems whose behavior is largely determined or controlled by computers. Such systems are characterized by functional, performance, and reliability requirements that mandate the tight integration of information processing and physical processes.

ECBS integrates software, hardware, and communication perspective of system engineering through its many facets that include system modeling, requirements specification, simulation, architectures, safety, security, reliability, human–computer interaction, system integration, verification and validation, high performance/parallel computing, cloud-based technologies, and project management. The conference provides a bridge between industry and academia, blending academic research and industrial development.

The 5th edition of the conference will be held in Larnaca, Cyprus. Larnaca is known for its palm-tree seafront, the Church of Saint Lazarus, the Hala Sultan Tekke, the Kamares Aqueduct and its medieval fort. It is built on the ruins of ancient Citium, which was the birthplace of Stoic philosopher Zeno. Larnaca is home to the country’s primary airport, Larnaca International Airport. It also has a seaport and a marina. Larnaca is a highly touristic city and close to some of the best beaches of Cyprus in Ayia Napa and Protaras.

The conference venue is the well known 4* hotel, Lordos Beach Hotel. The Lordos Beach Hotel is one of the leading 4 star hotels in Cyprus. Standing directly on the sandy beach of the Larnaca Bay it is ideally located yet close to both the Larnaca International Airport and the city centre. Set in its own gardens the Lordos Beach boasts a comfortable and stylish environment with professional service from caring staff. Extensively refurbished during 2002 and 2006, the guest rooms on all floors are equipped with all the facilities a discerning traveller expects and are luxuriously decorated in a natural pastel tones.

The program of ECBS 2017 includes a keynote by Avgoustinos Constantinides, the Solutions Director of IBSCY Ltd. on the business value of the Cloud, and research papers. The conference attracted 42 paper submissions from 25 countries from many continents. After rigorous reviewing by at least three members of the Program Committee per paper, 16 full papers, 3 short papers and 3 posters were selected to form the technical program and be included in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM ICPS. Papers cover topics of interest in ECBS in areas of software engineering, parallel and distributed systems, embedded systems and networking.

We cordially invite you to attend ECBS 2017 in Larnaca, Cyprus!

 

Organization

General Chair
· George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Chair
· Ondrej Rysavy, Brno University of Technology , Czech Republic

Program Co-Chair
· Valentino Vranic, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

Steering Committee
· Hassan Charaf, ECBS-EERC 2013 General Chair
· George Angelos Papadopoulos, General Chair
· Miroslav Popovic, ECBS-EERC 2009 General Chair
· Ondrej Rysavy, ECBS-EERC 2015 General Chair
· Valentino Vranic, ECBS-EERC 2011 General Chair

Program Committee
http://www.cyprusconferences.org/ecbs2017/organizers.html