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Call for Papers

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
IOS Press

Thematic Issue on
Contribution of Artificial Intelligence to Ambient Intelligence

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) technology holds great promise in
permeating everyday life by changing the nature of
almost every human activity. Research in the past few years has
indicated that the realization of AmI vision
requires the development of systems that integrate sensing, computing
and networking with advanced
techniques for data and knowledge representation and management. AmI
systems derive their power from the
vast number of interactions among a large number of heterogeneous
components with versatile properties and
capabilities. Nevertheless, if this technology is to be accepted,
intuitive and efficient human-system interaction
must be provided.

The complexity of AmI applications that results from their dynamic and
distributed nature and the need to provide
a safe and controllable environment for people constitutes an
opportunity for the application of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) research. In order to achieve the AmI concept,
researchers and developers must employ
modern, highly effective AI techniques. In the aims of AI, research
envisages to include more intelligence in AmI
environments, allowing for better support to human occupants and
access to the essential knowledge to make
better decisions when interacting with these environments.
In this special issue, we shall consider high quality papers reporting
original research results on topics that
include, but are not limited to:

•
Context awareness, representation and management techniques
•
AI based data/information processing and decision making techniques
for AmI applications
•
Knowledge representation and management in AmI environments
•
Design of semantically rich AmI environments
•
Agent based architectures for AmI applications
•
Design of smart components and autonomous systems
•
Intuitively interactive AmI applications, including speech recognition
and natural language processing,
computer vision, gesture recognition, activity recognition, emotion
and mood recognition etc
•
Machine learning techniques in AmI environments
•
Planning decisions and actions in AmI environments
•
AI tools applied to the design of AmI systems

Submission Procedure:
Paper submissions must follow the format available at
http://www.iospress.nl/html/18761364_ita.html where files
with the formatting styles can be downloaded. To submit a paper to
this special issue, authors can email a PDF
version of the paper directly to the special issue guest editors.
Prospective authors are also encouraged to
contact the special issue editors in advance, indicating their
interest and a tentative title of the paper.

Important Dates:
Deadline for Manuscript Submission: October 20, 2008
First reviews and decision: December 15, 2008
Final Accepted Manuscript: January 19, 2009
Targeted Publication Date: April, 2009

Guest Editors of Special Issue
Anind K. Dey, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA, anind@cs.cmu.edu
Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University & Computer Technology
Institute, Patras, Greece, kameas@cti.gr
Carlos Ramos, Institute of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto,
Portugal, csr@dei.isep.ipp.pt