Session07-AmI-DHN

Special Session on Ambient Intelligence & Digital Home Networks

(AmI-DHN 2020)

CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

Recent years have witnessed rapid developments of the information communication technology and the Next-Generation Internet. 4G and 5G wireless mobile networks have been striding to a large-scale deployment and application. So, we have seen the potential and value for new technologies from a variety of digital networks to various interconnected digital devices, which made it possible to improve user’s digital experiences.

Since its early development is late 1990s, Ambient Intelligence (AmI), describes new worlds, economies and paradigms that emphasize the centrality of human experience. The emerging versatile networks could enable a convenient connection “anytime, anywhere, anything, anyone” to the information communications network. Unfortunately, in such environment, privacy issues, some autonomous activities, infringement behaviors, unauthorized usage and access, unexpected role and scope of artificial reasoning, will also become a much more common phenomenon to address. Ordinary human reasoning and knowing what people actually want and need remain persistently elusive. Some applications research frontiers, related to digital home network, have emerged in recent years. These include subjects on digital home network models, architectures and mechanisms, secure digital multimedia broadcasting and controlled contents sharing. Researchers, contents industry engineers and administrators attempt to resort to the state-of-the-art technologies and ideas to protect valuable multimedia contents and services assets against attacks and IP piracy in the emerging triple play.

This special session aims to bring together related research works in the realm of Digital Home Networks and Ambient Intelligence, and further investigates and discusses trusted solutions and secure techniques for Digital Home Networks and DRM, the integration of IoT based systems, as well as some open issues faced by digital contents owners/rights holders/multimedia services providers, who dedicate themselves to protect their Rights and business benefits. In addition, novel ideas and research works from end users and consumer electronics’ perspective, such as intelligence and reasoning levels, trust management and evaluations, 3D display and quality test methods, will be embraced by this special session.

The DHN-AmI Session topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Environmental sensing and applications

• Middleware for wireless sensor networks

• Sensor fusion, tracking and positioning

• Modelling and simulation of smart environments

• Body-worn and Environmental sensor networks architectures

• Assistive Living and Healthcare applications

• Context and location-aware Frameworks and Sensing

• Security Model, Architecture, Mechanisms and Protocols for Digital Home Networks

• Multimodal interfaces

• Mining techniques for mobile and sensor data

• Learning, reasoning and adaptation techniques

• Context-Awareness in Assistive Environments

• Digital Rights Management & Interoperability

• Authentication, Authorization and Access Control in Digital Networks

• 3D Display and Quality Test Methods for Consumer Electronics

• IP, Privacy and Usage Control for Home Networks

• Trust Management and Evaluations Among Users

• Secure Digital Multimedia Broadcasting

• Multimedia Contents Sharing Modeling and Simulations

• Contents Security and Protection in Multimedia Social Networks

• Internet of Things and Intelligent Ambience

• NFC/RFID integration in the Internet of Things

• Cyber Physical Systems

• User interactions and experience

• Mobile multimedia platforms

• Embedded Multimedia in wearable computing

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS

You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to high performance Ambient Intelligence and digital home networks. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be for

- Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript.

- Short papers (up to 4 pages), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript.

- Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-posters for posters submission details) will also be considered.

Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.

Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the special session paper submission site at xxx. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission.

Conference Policies

Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and soundness, presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend (virtually) the HPCS 2020 conference to present the paper at the special session as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. For more information, please refer to the Authors Info and Registration Info pages.

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2020 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly.

SPECIAL ISSUE

Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a reputable journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the special session, please contact the special session organizers.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 25 September 2020

Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 09 October 2020

Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 16 October 2020

Conference Dates: --------------------------------------------- 25 - 29 January 2021

SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS

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International Program Committee*:

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special session technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2020 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2020 Proceedings.

Coming Soon

(* Committee formation is pending and will be finalized shortly.)

For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 or contact one of the Conference's organizers.