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<font face='Geneva' size='4'><b>*** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ***<br>9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION<br>AND CREATIVITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS<br>(KICSS 2014)<br></b><br><b>Elias Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus <br></b><br><b>6-8 November, 2014<br></b><br><b><a href="http://kicss2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy/">http://kicss2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy/</a><br><br>(Proceedings will be published by Springer)<br></b></font><font face='Geneva'><br>Following the tradition of previous conferences on Knowledge, Information and<br>Creativity Support Systems, KICSS 2014 will cover all aspects of knowledge<br>management, knowledge engineering, intelligent information systems, and creativity<br>in an information technology context, including computational creativity and its<br>cognitive and collaborative aspects. Papers reporting original unpublished research<br>results on theoretical foundations, IT implementations of decision support and<br>expert systems, as well as case studies of successful applications of the above-<br>mentioned ideas in various fields are equally solicited.<br><br><u>The list of conference topics includes but is not limited to:<br></u>Anticipatory networks, systems, and decisions<br>Autonomous creative systems<br>Cognitive foundations of knowledge<br>Cognitive and psychological issues in creativity research<br>Cognitive foundations of knowledge<br>Collaborative activities in Living Labs<br>Collaborative idea generation and creativity<br>Collaborative knowledge creation<br>Collaborative working environments fostering creativity<br>Complex system modelling<br>Computer supported creativity<br>Creative approaches to model technological evolution<br>Creative business models<br>Creative conflict resolution<br>Creative coordination and cooperation mechanisms<br>Creative decision processes<br>Creative interaction techniques<br>Creative model building<br>Creative reasoning and decision making<br>Creative research environments and their performance<br>Creative social computing<br>Creative visualisation of data and knowledge<br>Creativity in finance<br>Creativity in augmented reality<br>Creativity in health care<br>Creativity in mobile applications<br>Creativity in social media<br>Creativity in the Cloud<br>Creativity measurement<br>Creativity support systems<br>Creativity transfer and stimulation<br>Creativity vs. rationality<br>Creativity-enhancing interfaces<br>Creativity-oriented information system architectures<br>Decision sciences<br>Decision support systems (DSS)<br>Discovering opportunities, threats and challenges<br>Foresight support systems (FSS)<br>Future Internet and knowledge-based society<br>Future exploration and modelling<br>Future perspectives of knowledge, information, and creativity support<br>Game-theoretical aspects of knowledge<br>General creative systems (GCS)<br>Group recommendation, and advise<br>Heuristics and general problem solving<br>Identifying real options in complex business environments<br>Information fusion<br>Information quality<br>Intelligent analysis of Big Data<br>Knowledge extraction, creation, and acquisition<br>Knowledge in multi-agent systems<br>Knowledge integration<br>Knowledge management in business, industry, and administration<br>Knowledge representation and reasoning<br>Knowledge verification and validation<br>Living Lab support systems (LLSS)<br>Machine learning and creativity<br>Malicious creativity in the web, its discovery and remedy<br>Mathematical models of creative processes<br>Multi- and interdisciplinary approaches in creativity research<br>Multicriteria decision making<br>Natural language analysis<br>Non-monotonic reasoning<br>Ontology creation and management<br>Open innovation<br>Organizational learning<br>Preference modelling<br>Reasoning about knowledge<br>Recommender systems<br>Scientific information management<br>Search for a compromise in multicriteria decision making and collaborative games<br>Social Computing<br>Social factors of collaborative creativity<br>Software-based stimulation of creativity<br>Supervised and semi-supervised learning<br>Trust modeling<br>Uncertainty modelling<br>Virtual environment design<br>Visual Analytics and Intelligent User Interfaces<br>Web intelligence tools<br>World models<br><br><u>Important Dates <br></u>Paper Submission Deadline: <b>June 20, 2014</b><br>Notification of Acceptance: <b>August 8, 2014</b><br>Camera-Ready Version Due: <b>September 8, 2014</b><br>Research-in-Progress Report Submission Deadline: <b>September 5, 2014</b><br>Research-in-Progress Reports Author Notification Due: <b>September 12, 2014</b><br>Research-in-Progress Reports Camera-Ready Versions Due: <b>September 19, 2014<br><br></b><u>Submission</u> <br>Regular papers on all conference topics should be formatted according to the<br>Springer CS Proceedings (LNCS) format and should not exceed 12 pages.<br>Short and industrial/demo papers as well as research-in-progress reports<br>should not exceed 6 pages according to the above format. Up to 2 additional<br>pages may be allowed at extra charge.<br>The KICSS 2014 papers can be submitted via Easychair.<u><br></u>Submissions that overlap substantially with any other papers printed, submitted, or<br>accepted for publication or presentation elsewhere are not allowed.<br><b>Special session proposals</b> may be submitted by email to the KICSS Organizing<br>Committee. Although there is no formal template for such a proposal,<br>the proposers should nevertheless specify the title of the session, describe<br>briefly its essential content and relation to the conference topics, and specify<br>the expected number of contributions, and titles, if already known.<br><br><u>Proceedings</u><br>The KICSS 2014 (Post-) Proceedings will be published in the Springer<br>Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, ISSN 2194-5357,<br>indexed by ISI Proceedings, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, Ulrich's, EI-Compendex,<br>DBLP, MetaPress, Springerlink, see more here. The Post-Proceedings will<br>contain all the revised regular papers and - following an extension - a selection of<br>research-in-progress reports as well as short and demo papers.<br>The authors of the selected best papers presented at the conference will be<br>invited to submit the revised and extended versions of their contributions to<br>special issues of high-rank scientific journals.</font>
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