[ecoop-info] Last Mile, June 5th! | CfP: CENTRIC 2011 || October 23-28, 2011 - Barcelona, Spain

[Cristina Pascual]

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results.
The submission deadline is June 5, 2011.
In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== CENTRIC 2011 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

CENTRIC 2011: The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services

October 23-28, 2011 - Barcelona, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CENTRIC11.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CfPCENTRIC11.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/SubmitCENTRIC11.html

Submission deadline: June 5th, 2011

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

CENTRIC 2011 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Centric views
User centricity: I-centric versus We-centric; User-centric in service-centric systems; User-centric business models; User-centric requirements in network-centric approaches; User-centric and critical time-centric applications and services; User information access behavior; User-centric professional attackers; User-centric data mining; User-centric data aggregation; Personalized seeking and personalized sharing; Contextual user information facets; User-oriented ontology; User empowerment: awareness and control; User-centric trust models

Privacy and anonymity
Anonymity and pseudonymity; Attacks against de-identified data; Data anonymity; Consent-based privacy disclosure; Private digital assets; Disclosure control techniques; Information loss assessment; Risk assessment for shared information; Privacy and anonymity ontology; Privacy technologies; User location anonymity techniques; Privacy preserving data and text mining; Privacy and anonymity in specialized applications /healthcare. databases, information retrieval, social networks, etc./; Legal aspects in privacy and anonymity

User-centric supporting 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 reasoning maintenance; Reasoning on user modeling and personalization; Information extraction and semantic web technologies with personalization and user modeling; Quality of experience

Personalization
Personalization of ICT services and devices; Personalization of eHealth services; Personalization related to ICT in cars; Adaptive personalization; Supporting the user in initial set-up of user profiles; Personalization and user profile management; Preferences for personalization in manufacturers' devices; Standardization

User-centric networking and services
Personal profiles, preferences; Identity; Reputation; User profiles; Proximity and context-aware services; 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

User-centric advanced applications
Humanoids; Unmanned systems; On-body antennas; Body networks and devices; Preventive and personalized medicine; Anticipative systems for diagnosis and maintenance; Emergency and medical response systems; eHealth and telemedicine services; Personal entertainment

Technologies for personalized services
Personnel tracking; Presence automatic control; Remote home security control; User-centric recommender services; Identity management; Contactless radio: RFID, NFC; Proximity radio: Bluetooth, WLAN; Broadband and wireless broadband distribution; Ambient wireless and broadband networks; Social engineering and social networks; IPTV and Quadruple Play

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CENTRIC Advisory Chairs

Vitaly Klyuev, University of Aizu, Japan
Mario Hoffmann, Fraunhofer-Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) - Darmstadt, Germany
Guadalupe Ortiz, University of Cádiz, Spain

CENTRIC 2011 Research Institute Liaison Chairs

R. Hariprakash, Bharath Institute of Higher Education &. Research - Chennai, India
Muhammad Iftikhar, University of Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
Kong Cheng, Telcordia Technologies - Piscataway, USA
Gottfried Zimmermann, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

CENTRIC 2011 Industry/Research Chairs

Eve Maler, Forrester Research, USA
Rainer Falk, Siemens AG - München, Deutschland
Juong-Sik Lee, Nokia Research Center - Palo Alto, USA
Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/ComCENTRIC11.html
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