CFP

IE2024: International Conference on Intelligent Environments

Jozef Stefan Institute

Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 17-20, 2024

Conference website	https://ie2024.ijs.si/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ie2024
Submission deadline	January 3, 2024

Topics: ubiquitous computing internet of things human computer interaction artificial intelligence

The 20th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2024) will be held in the beautiful Ljubljana (Slovenia), a vibrant historic city, 17-20 June 2024. For those who cannot attend in person, online participation will also be an option. Intelligent Environments refer to physical spaces in which information and communication technologies, artificial intelligence, interfaces, sensing and actuating technologies are woven together into interacting spaces. The ultimate objective of such environments is to enrich users’ activities, while allowing users to manage them and be aware of each other’s capabilities. IE2024 is a multidisciplinary event welcoming contributions from a diversity of relevant areas, including sensors and actuators, the Internet of Things, signal processing (incl. audio and images), human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, software engineering, context-awareness, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, applied in various domains, such as homes, buildings, cities, healthcare, agriculture, education, culture, etc.

Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline has been extended to 3 January. This is a firm deadline.

Conference program

IE2024 will include:

Full (8-page) and short (4-page) papers
2 special sessions
7 workshops
7 tutorials
Doctoral colloquium
Industrial forum
Demos & videos session.

Moreover, IE2024 will host affiliated workshops.

Conference features

Special sessions

Cybersecurity issues related to smart environments
Emerging trends in intelligent transportation systems

Workshops

13th International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being (WISHWell 2024)
13th International Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments (WoRIE 2024)
6th International Workshop on Citizen-Centric Smart Cities Services (CCSCS 2024)
4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Emerging Topics (ALLEGET 2024)
1st International Workshop on Intelligent Environments for a Sustainable Agriculture (AGRO 2024)
1st International Workshop on AI for Climate Resilient Smart City Infrastructures and Services (AI-CRSC 2024)
1st International Workshop on Intelligent Teaching and Learning Environments (WITLE 2024)

Tutorials

Empowering Intelligent Environments: Sensing, Recognition, and Tracking (by Dr. Akira Uchiyama, Dr. Akihito Hiromori, Dr. Tatsuya Amano, Dr. Hamada Rizk)
Sensor-based Activity Recognition in Emerging Domains (by Dr. Takuya Maekawa, Dr. Ryoma Otsuka, Dr. Kei Tanigaki, Dr. Qingxin Xia, Dr. Naoya Yoshimura)
Blockchain Applications and Development: An Easy Start (by Dr. Weizhi Meng, Dr. Wei-Yang Chiu)
Privacy-aware learning for sensor-based affect and behavior modeling (by Dr. Martin Gjoreski, Dr. Dario Fenoglio, Dr. Hristijan Gjoreski, Dr. Valentin Rakovic, Dr. Daniel Denkovski, Dr. Marija Poposka, Dr. Zoran Hadzi-Velkov)
Digital Agriculture: informatics, technologies and user-centered design (by Prof. Stefano Chessa, Dr. Alexander Kocian, Dr. Silvia Torsi)
TinyML for Sustainable Development (by Dr. Marco Zennaro, Dr. Rytis Paškauskas, Dr. John Shawe-Taylor)
Generating Highly Realistic Doppelgänger Avatars: Technical Methodologies and Psychological Considerations in Virtual Environments (by Dr. Sameer Kishore, Dr. Nishtha Lamba)

Doctoral colloquium

The aim of the colloquium is to provide research students an opportunity to meet other people in a similar position, make relatively informal presentations, receive feedback from experts in the field, exchange ideas and experiences with each other, and make connections and have fun! Students should submit short (4-page) papers, which will be published in the IE2024 IEEE Proceedings. A prize will be awarded for the best colloquium paper.

Industrial Forum

In the Industrial Forum, colleagues from the industry domain will have the opportunity to showcase their projects while attracting funding or further expand collaborations with industry and academia at an international level. A limited number of presentation/demo slots of up to 30 minutes including questions and answers will be available for industry partners. During these slots, it will be possible for companies to present products/solutions/projects related to Intelligent Environments.

Demos & Videos

We welcome demonstrations of intelligent environments solutions and systems, which will be presented live at the conference. We encourage authors to prepare demonstrations that will be engaging for the audience. We also welcome videos of up to 5 minutes that may either demonstrate working systems, methods, or the authors’ vision of intelligent environments. Submissions should be made as 4-page papers; further instructions will follow afterwards.

Proceedings

Papers accepted in the main conference as either short or full paper will be published in IEEE proceedings and available through IEEE Xplore.
Papers accepted in workshops will be published as a volume of the IOS Press Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments book Series of IOS Press.

Proceedings will be indexed by Web of Science and SCOPUS.

Journal publication

A selection of papers will be invited to extent and submit extended versions to special issues of the following journals:

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, IF (JCR 2022) = 1.7 (Q4)
Multimedia Tools and Applications, IF (JCR 2022) = 3.6 (Q1)
International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, IF (JCR ESCI 2022) = 4.3 (Q2)

Keynote speakers

Paul Lukowicz, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany (on-site)
Shamsi Tamara Iqbal, Microsoft Research, United States of America
Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan (on-site), Mika Yasuoka, Roskilde University, Denmark
Mozafar Saadat, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Awards

Best full paper award
Best short paper award
Beatrice WORSLEY award (best quality paper with a female co-author)
Best presentation awards by a
- female presenter
- male presenter
Award for the most influential paper in the last 5 years
Best doctoral colloquium paper award
Best demo & video award

Submission guidelines

To submit a paper, please use the IEEE two-column conference A4 format. The Word and LaTex templates are available HERE.

Important dates

Conference paper submission: ~~10 December 2023~~ 3 January 2024
Communication of results: 20 February 2024
Camera-ready versions: 28 March 2024
Workshops paper submission: 1 March 2024
Workshops results: 5 April 2024
Workshops camera ready: 15 April 2024
Workshops and tutorials: 17-18 June 2024
Main conference: 19-20 June 2024

Organizers

Honorary chair: Matjaž Gams, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
General chairs: Mitja Luštrek, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, and Hristijan Gjoreski, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia
Program chair: Carles Gomez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Local organising committee chair: Nina Reščič, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia