The first Serenoa workshop will be held jointly with the Ambient Intelligence conference, in Pisa (Italy), on November, 13th, 2012.

Given the importance of performing context-aware adaptation in a scenario of ubiquitous, pervasive and mobile computing; this workshop aims at reviewing the state-of-the-art in this domain and promoting the discussion among the interested community.

Besides, we intend to discuss positive and negative experiences, related works, and to highlight criteria and requirements that may drive context-aware adaptation in this scenario.

The workshop is organized by Francisco Javier Caminero Gil (Serenoa project coordinator), Fabio Paterno (CNR – ISTI) and Jean Vanderdonckt (UCL).

This workshop will last half a day, and participants are welcome from any background or discipline that is concerned with the main topic (Context-aware Adaptation).

For further information please refer to the webpage: www.serenoa-fp7.eu/casfe2012

Call for Participation

The AmI-12 conference brings together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working in the field of technologies and applications of Ambient Intelligence. Ambient Intelligence represents a vision of the future where we shall be surrounded by invisible technological means, sensitive and responsive to people and their behaviors, deliver advanced functions, services and experiences. Ambient intelligence combines concepts of ubiquitous technology, intelligent systems and advanced user interfaces putting the humans in the center of technological developments.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished work in all areas related to Ambient Intelligence. Contributions are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics:

• objects, devices and environments that embody ambient intelligence
• context models and context factors
• sensing and reasoning technology
• natural and multimodal interaction styles and user interfaces
• advanced interface artifacts
• end User Development for Ubiquitous Environments
• adaptation in Ambient Intelligence
• multi-device Interaction
• security, privacy and trust
• ambient intelligence services
• business model and business cases
• knowledge-based systems, computational intelligence
• autonomic systems, multi-agent architectures and systems
• adaptive architectures, symbiotic systems
• industrial and commercial applications of ambient intelligence
• configuration and control of ambient environments by end-users
• user experience and user experience factors (e.g., acceptance)
• ambient intelligence for special target groups
• ambient intelligence applications (e.g., assisted living, future shopping)
• artifacts in ambient intelligence environments (e.g., robots)
• large scale ambient contexts (e.g., intelligent buildings, urban public spaces, smart cities)
• social media applications in ambient environments
• societal implications of ambient intelligence
• distributed software, systems, middleware and frameworks
• reflections on the current state and future of ambient intelligence
• ambient games and game scenarios
• artifacts in ambient intelligence environments (e.g., robots)
• deployments and field tests of ambient intelligence technology

All submissions will be peer reviewed. The main proceedings will appear in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors are invited to submit their contributions electronically via the conference website: http://www.ami-12.org.

The program includes workshops, demos, panels, presentations, discussions and competitions.

The main topics involve:

• Social: social enterprises, best practices for a cross-platform social strategy, great social experiences;
• Mobile: innovative mobile applications, mobile advertising, best practices for developing apps on mobile and tablets;
• TV: content discovery and recommendations.

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Further information about the event can be accessed at: http://www.leweb.net/

The fifth edition of the MDDay will take place in Paris on 24th of November.

The MDDay, or La journée du Model driven, is an event dedicated to Model Driven approaches. Experts in this domain, such as practitioners, researchers, clients, users and developers, will present related concepts (MDA, UML, SOA), exchange experiences, discuss model driven solutions,  and provide some future perspectives.

The goals of the MDDay are to present cases of application of model driven approaches, evaluate these approaches in the context of complex projects, identify the advantages in short, medium and long term, etc.

The topics of discussion include, but are not limited to:

• Agile development
• MD approaches and users
• Performance of applications
• Quality of code
• Benefits of model-driven approaches

The MDDay is organized by 11 companies, and the Serenoa Project wil be represented there by W4 and UCL.

Further information can be accessed in: http://www.mdday.fr/index.html

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