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AmITA  	
Workshop on Ambient Intelligence Technologies and Applications


Extended Deadline: 15 July 2007
http://epia2007.appia.pt

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) deals with a new world where computing 
devices are spread everywhere (ubiquity) allowing humans to interact 
with physical world environments in an intelligent and unobtrusive way. 
These environments should be aware of the needs of people, customizing 
requirements and forecasting behaviours.

AmI environments may be highly diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting 
rooms, schools, hospitals, control centers, transport facilities, 
tourist attractions, stores, sport installations, music devices, etc.

In the Workshop on Ambient Intelligence Technologies and Applications we 
will bring together researchers to present works and systems, discussing 
issues in Artificial Intelligence topics included in Ambient 
Intelligence environments.
Topics of Interest

     - Knowledge Representation and Intelligent Reasoning for AmI
     - Speech Recognition, Natural Language, Intelligent Interfaces in 
AmI interaction
     - Computer Vision for AmI
     - Intelligent Sensor Processing for AmI
     - Planning & Scheduling in AmI
     - Machine Learning and Data Mining in AmI
     - Knowledge-based AmI systems
     - Multi-Agent based AmI systems
     - Mixed and Virtual Reality in AmI
     - Proactive Computing in AmI
     - Activity Recognition
     - Context Awareness
     - Other AI methodologies and techniques applied to AmI
     - AmI applications for leasure
     - AmI applications in home
     - AmI applications in work environments
     - AmI applications in Industry
     - AmI applications in Services
     - AmI applications in Health
     - AmI applications in Energy
     - AmI applications in Transports
     - Other AmI application areas

Scope

The trend in the direction of hardware cost reduction and 
miniaturization increasingly allows embedding computing devices in 
several objects and environments. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) deals with 
a new world where computing devices are spread everywhere (ubiquity) 
allowing humans to interact with physical world environments in an 
intelligent and unobtrusive way. These environments should be aware of 
the needs of people, customizing requirements and forecasting behaviours.

AmI environments may be highly diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting 
rooms, schools, hospitals, control centers, transport facilities, 
tourist attractions, stores, sport installations, music devices, etc.

Ambient Intelligence involves many different disciplines, for example 
automation (sensors, control, and actuators), human-machine interaction 
and computer graphics, ubiquitous computing, embedded systems, and, 
obviously, Artificial Intelligence. The main contributions envisaged of 
AI research towards the objectives of Ambient Intelligence are the 
inclusion of more intelligence in the AmI environments, provision of 
better, more "natural", support for humans, and access to the knowledge 
essential for making better decisions in response to interactins between 
humans and the environments.

In the Workshop on Ambient Intelligence Technologies and Applications we 
would like to bring together researchers to present work and discuss 
issues in AI topics in Ambient Intelligence, as well as to present some 
developed systems realising AmI applications.