International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services I-CENTRIC 2008 October 26-31, 2008 - Sliema, Malta

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Details:

Colocated with ICSNC 2008 and ICSEA 2008

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal Publisher: IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services Posted: IEEE Digital Library Indexing process

Selected papers will be published in the Special Issue on "Human Centric Communications" in "The International Journal on Semantic Computing"

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hassan Gomaa, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Topic: Designing Evolutionary Architecture-centric Component-based Software Product Lines

Important deadlines:

Full paper submission	May 10, 2008 May 23, 2008
Authors notification	June 20, 2008 June 23, 2008
Registration and camera ready	July 10, 2008

Topics:

I-centric mechanisms

• Machine learning and artificial neural networks
  
• Network control and feedback with man-in-the-loop
  
• Personalized storage and information retrieval with user-context
  
• Service discovery using user profile
  
• Personalized navigation and visualization
  
• Semantic web services
  
• Advanced personalization techniques for semantic wikis
  
• Application of advanced reason maintenance and reasoning to user modeling and personalization
  
• Combining results of information extraction and semantic web technologies with personalization and user modeling
  
• Quality of experience

Technologies for personalized services

• Body networks
  
• On-body antennas
  
• Contactless radio: RFID, NFC
  
• Proximity radio: Bluetooth, WLAN
  
• Broadband and wireless broadband distribution
  
• Ambient, wireless and broadband networks
  
• Emergency and medical response systems
  
• Proximity and context-aware services
  
• Personal entertainment
  
• IPTV and Quadruple Play

I-centric networking and services

• Personal profiles, preferences
  
• Identity
  
• Social communities
  
• User adapted services
  
• Trust, privacy, security
  
• Community services
  
• Location services
  
• Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
  
• Key exchange, certificate handling, smartcards
  
• Personal devices
  
• Managing identity and security - identity provider
  
• Home content access and rights management

I-centric advanced applications

• Humanoids
  
• Body networks and devices
  
• Preventive and personalized medicine
  
• Unmanned systems
  
• Anticipative systems for diagnosis and maintenance
  
• Social engineering and social networks