Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Conference Intelligent Environments 2005

The IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments
University of Essex, Colchester, UK
28-29 June 2005

The international workshop on Intelligent Environments will be held at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK on the 28th and 29th of June 2005. The workshop will provide a leading edge forum for researchers and engineers from across the world to present their latest research and to discuss future directions in this area. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from both industry and academia from the various disciplines contributing to the area on Intelligent Environments which will help to stimulate research and break down barriers between the different disciplines in both industry and academia.

The first day of the workshop will feature keynote presentations from prominent international researchers, from both industry and academia, speaking on a range of disciplines in the Intelligent Environments area.

The second day will feature parallel sessions to present the peer reviewed papers, the papers will be published in the workshop proceedings to be produced by the IEE. At the end of the second day, we will organise a Doctoral colloquium for PhD students.

The workshop will have an exhibit area within the workshop foyer which will be available for industrial companies and research projects demonstrations.

By the end of the first day, we plan to have the formal opening of the Essex Intelligent apartment (iDorm2) which is unique purpose-built test-bed for intelligent environments and pervasive computing experimental work. Delegates will be able to visit the iDorm2 and thereby take away useful practical knowledge on its potential uses for research together with information as to how they might use this facility.

Featured Subjects and Disciplines
The workshop will aim to bring together researchers working in disciplines from a broad spectrum of the Intelligent Environments area. Such disciplines include, but are not limited to:

Intelligence - including learning algorithms, user profiling, personalisation and adaptivity, autonomous intelligence, agent technologies and multi-agents

Pervasive networking - including wired, wireless and ad-hoc networking, discovery mechanisms, software architectures, system integration, prototyping and portable devices

Ubiquitous and pervasive computing

Ambient Intelligence

Human and Social Factors - including security and privacy issues relating to intelligent environments

Human Computer Interfaces

End-User programming

Mobile Communications

Smart devices and smart spaces

Middleware

Mobile/ wireless computing systems and services

Context based and implicit computing

Location based services

Natural user-system interaction - including ambient interfaces, multimodal interaction, innovative interaction styles and concepts and human friendly user interfaces

Domestic and Rehabilitation Robotic systems

Resource management in pervasive computing platforms

Smart sensors and actuators

Applications to homes, work, education, entertainment, healthcare, etc.

Building Technology and Automation

Virtual Environments

Art and Design

Embedded-Internet

Knowledge Representation