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<h2 align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">7<sup>th</sup> Workshop on</span></h2><h2 align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">(AITAmI’12)</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red">Focus of 2012 edition: Context and Situation Understanding</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Guanajuato, Mexico - </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">26<sup>th</sup>-27<sup>th</sup> of June 2012<br>
<br><a href="http://www.mondragon.edu/kongresuak/aitami2012/en" target="_blank">http://www.mondragon.edu/kongresuak/aitami2012/en</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Important Dates</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Paper submission: 15 March 2012</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Notification: 16 April 2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Paper final submission (with revisions): 30 April 2012</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Background and Goals:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Imagine a future where human environments respond to human preferences and needs. In this world, devices equipped with simple intelligence and the abilities to sense, communicate, and act will be unremarkable features of our world.  We will <i>expect</i> the car to warn us of hazards, track our location and provide timely route advice.  We will speak to simple machines and hold conversations with more complex systems, such as intelligent homes that will help us monitor conditions, track routine tasks, and program the behaviour of the heater, lights, garden watering and the entertainment centre.  Analogous systems at work will make simple decisions in our stead ranging from scheduling meetings to negotiating for common services over the web. Such systems will also acquire, and adapt to our preferences over time.  In sum, we will come to view simple software intelligence as an ambient feature of our environment. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">This workshop will provide the opportunity to understand latest developments and take action to shape the future of the area by gathering researchers in a variety of AI subfields together with representatives of commercial interests to explore the technology and applications for ambient intelligence.  </span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The 7th edition of AITAmI will focus on the understanding of Context and Situations as key concepts which support accurate diagnosis and reasoning for the decision making processes that sustain Ambient Intelligence applications.</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">This event will build up on the topics discussed during the previous successful editions: <i>AITAmI’06</i> held during ECAI’06 <i>AITAmI’07   </i>held   during   IJCAI’07,   <i>AITAmI’08 </i> held  during ECAI’08, <i>AITAmI’09</i> held during IE’09, <i>AITAmI’10</i> held during IE’10, and <i>AITAmI’11</i> held during IE’11.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Areas of interest:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> include, but are not limited to, the following:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">Context Awareness</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">Activity recognition</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">Individual/Group emotional status</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">Individual/Group preferences</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">Mediating conflicting interests</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">Non invasive sensing and interaction</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">Cognitive modelling of users</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">Modelling complex environments (Smart homes, smart cars, hospitals, museums, transportation, classrooms, open spaces, etc.)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">Intelligent interactive systems</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">Multi-modal interfaces (voice, image and video, bio-signals, handwriting, etc.</span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">as well as...</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white">Agent-based approaches to AmI</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white">Applications (Health, industry, teaching, supporting group collaboration, etc.)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white">Responsive/active architecture</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white">Innovative applications of AI to Ambient Intelligence</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background:white">Traditional relevant areas of AI (KR, reasoning about actions, spatio-temporal reasoning, CBR, planning, uncertainty, learning, belief revision, vision, decision-making, etc.)</li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Submission Details: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Authors wishing to participate as speakers in this event should: </span></p>
<div style="margin-left:36.0pt"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt">         </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Submit papers of no more than 12 pages formatted according to the IOS Press style:</span></p>
</div><div style="margin-left:36.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><a href="http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/" target="_blank">http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/</a></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">           </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt">         </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Online submission system for this event: <a href="https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/AITAMI2012/" target="_blank">https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/AITAMI2012/</a></span></p>
<div style="margin-left:36.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue"> </span></b></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Publications:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> all papers accepted will be published in the proceedings of the event which will be a volume in the Book Series on <i>Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments:</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><a href="http://www.iospress.nl/bookserie/ambient-intelligence-and-smart-environments/" target="_blank">http://www.iospress.nl/bookserie/ambient-intelligence-and-smart-environments/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">This series is now indexed by Scopus, DBLP and ACM Digital Library.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white">
<span style="color:black"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Co-Chairs</span></b></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">A. Aztiria (U. of Mondragon, Spain) </span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">J.C. Augusto (U. of Ulster, UK) </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">D.  Cook (Washington State U., USA)</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Invited Speakers:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Hedda R. Schmidtke (Technology for Pervasive Computing, Germany)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white">
<span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Best Presentation Awards: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> there will be prizes in the categories of ‘Best Paper’ and ‘Best Presentation’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Web page: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:red"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><a href="http://www.mondragon.edu/kongresuak/aitami2012/en" target="_blank">http://www.mondragon.edu/kongresuak/aitami2012/en</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><b><span style="color:black">Contact:</span></b><span style="color:black"> <a href="mailto:aaztiria@mondragon.edu" target="_blank">aaztiria@mondragon.edu</a> </span></p>
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