[Om-announce] Call for workshop proposal, PICom 2014, Dalian, China

[Shui Yu]

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|               Call for Workshop Proposals                     |
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|           The 12th International Conference on                |
|           Pervasive Intelligence and Computing                |
|                       (PICom 2014)                            |
|             August 24-27, 2014 Dalian, China                  |
|         http://action.dlmu.edu.cn/uscience/picom2014/         |
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The PICom Workshop Chairs invites proposals for the Workshops and
Symposiums immediately preceding the main conference of PICom 2014.

The PICom workshops offer a venue where participants are given the
opportunity to present discuss and brainstorm on new ideas,
technical topics, exciting new application areas and
cross-fertilization with other domains. The forums are meant as a
petri dish for new ideas and emerging topics in the field of intelligent
paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing.

The topics can overspread many areas ranging from:

+ Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Computing
+ Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
+ Nature-inspired Intelligence & Soft Computing
+ Social Intelligence & Agent-based Computing
+ Ubiquitous Intelligence & Cyber-Physical Computing
+ The Internet of Things
+ Embedded Hardware, Software & Systems
+ Pervasive Computers and Devices, Wearable Computers, RFIDs, Sensor
technology
+ Pervasive Networks & Communications
+ Pervasive Services & Systems, EaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS
+ Multimedia Technologies & Applications
+ Intelligent HCI Design
+ Pervasive Electronic Market Management
+ Pervasive Mobile Commerce
+ Handheld Computing
+ Context-Aware Computing
+ Situation-Aware Reasoning and Recognition
+ Mobile Data Mining
+ Ubiquitous Data Mining
+ Activity Recognition
+ Cloud Computing and Services for Pervasive Computing
+ Smart Urban Spaces
+ Intelligent Social Networking
+ Pervasive Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
+ Smart Homes
+ Ambient Intelligence
+ HCI for Pervasive Computing
+ Evolutionary Computation
+ Multimedia over Cognitive Radio Networks
+ Multimedia over Wireless Ad-hoc and P2P Networks
+ Mobility and Multimedia Data Traffic Modeling
+ Mobile Multimedia Test-beds And Related Research Infrastructures
+ Rapid Application Development for Mobile, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems

Relevant areas showcasing or contributing to PICom are all equally
encouraged. All workshops will take place on August 24-27, 2014 at
the site of the main conference. The details of the organization of
each workshop are left to its organizers.

IMPORTANT DATES

  March 20, 2014        Proposal submission deadline
  March 30, 2014        Acceptance notification
  April 2, 2014         Workshop web pages available and linked to the main
site.
                        Workshop CFP published.
  April 20, 2014        Workshop paper submission
  June 5, 2014          Notification of paper acceptance
  June 30, 2014         Camera ready due
  June 30, 2014         Registration
  August 24-27, 2014    Workshops and symposia

PROPOSAL CONTENT

Each workshop proposal should include the following information:

1. Title and abstract giving the goals and scope of the workshop
2. Description of the target audience
3. List of tentative speakers and / or attendees (if available)
4. History of the workshop if this is not the first instance
5. Tentative organizing committee members (at least 2 to 3 members)
6. Contact information for the organizer.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

The workshop organizers are responsible for:

1. Creating and distributing a call-for-papers, call-for-participation
   and any other relevant advertising. The calls should make it clear that
   at least one author of any accepted paper must attend the event and that
   papers will be withdrawn if no such participation is secured with the
   payment of the workshop dues. The call should clearly describe the
   review and selection process. Finally, the calls must be framed to
   encourage as broad participation as possible.
2. Creating and publishing (in a timely manner) a web site with all the
   relevant information pertaining to the workshop.
3. Provide an extended abstract for the conference program
4. Review and select paper submissions
5. Schedule the presentations within the workshop

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PICom 2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The conference organization is responsible for:

1. Provide publicity for the workshop program as a whole.
2. Provide logistics at the conference venue (meeting room, coffee breaks,
...).
3. Coordinate the allocation of time blocks for each workshop.
4. Coordinate the distribution of the workshop proceedings.
5. Collect the workshop dues covering the costs of space, breaks,
   and distributed documents.
6. The PICom Publicity Chair will take care of CFP distributions and
publicity.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

All proposals should be sent electronically to the workshop chairs

 Dr. Zhen Liu (liu_zhen at nias.ac.jp)
 Dr. Shui Yu (shui.yu at deakin.edu.au)
 Dr. Muhammad Khurram Khan (mkhurram at ksu.edu.sa)


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Shui YU, PhD, Senior Lecturer

School of Information Technology, Deakin University,

221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125,  Australia.

Telephone:0061 3 9251 7744

http://www.deakin.edu.au/~syu
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