ACER@WI-IAT2021 CFP

 

ACER@WI-IAT2021:
International Workshop on Affective Computing and Emotion Recognition

Melbourne, Australia, and online, December 14-17 2021

 

Conference and workshop websites

WI-IAT: https://www.wi-iat.com/; ACER: http://dmi.unipg.it/acer

Submission deadline

October 2, 2021 October 24, 2021 (Extended)

 

Topics: emotion recognition cognitive computing artificial intelligence   social robots

 

Affective computing became a key scenario for Artificial Intelligence. Various emotion-mining techniques can be exploited for creating and automating personalized interfaces or subcomponent technology for larger systems, i.e. in business intelligence, affective tutoring, recommender systems, social robots. Different from sentiment analysis, this approach works at a deeper level of abstraction, aiming to recognize specific emotions and not only the positive/negative sentiment, to extract, manage and predict emotions in limited sets, basing on well-accepted or novel models, thus to use them to be reported/classified or understood/elicited/expressed by a machine. The aim of the ACER workshop is to explore the Emotion Recognition area in depth, and to present, discuss and ideate novel affective computing and emotion recognition techniques in WI-related task, providing a cross-fertilized network of different communities focused on research, development and applications of emotion recognition.

 

ACER invites original high-quality papers: conceptual, empirical as well as theoretical papers are welcome; graduate students are invited to submit their thesis showcase; experienced researchers are warmly invited to submit novel or updated versions of their work.

ACER aims also to create a network of research for future events and publications on Affective Computing, as already established in the previous editions (ACER2017@IEEE/ACM/WIC WI Leipzig, Germany, with the special issue Emotional Machines: the next revolution in the Web Intelligence Journal; ACER@ICCSA2019 Saint Petersburg, Russia; ACER@WI2019 Thessaloniki, Greece, ACER@ICCSA2020, Cagliari, Italy). Aiming at this collaboration path, ACER also welcomes papers on ongoing projects and PhD showcases, as well as applications, data sets, novel techniques, and multimodal or interdisciplinary approaches to emotion recognition. Cooperation between humans and machines for a shared action or goal is a desirable outcome.

 

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the ACM Press and published in the conference proceedings, which in the past years have been always indexed in Scopus and WoS. Selected papers will be further invited for expansion and publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international journals.

 

Topics


Topics include, but are not limited to Affective Computing in:

 

·        Affective computing and Emotion Recognition in Web Intelligence

·        Models of emotions, measuring emotions on the Web

·        Multidimensional emotion recognition

·        Emotional/affective process mining

·        Emotions in the crowds, emotions and sentiments in social networks, link prediction

·        Affective tagging and emotion recognition in Recommender Systems

·        Emotion recognition across cultural variations, local-culture emotion recognition

·        Semantic Emotion Recognition, Linked Data in affective spaces, affective ontologies, and sentic computing

·        Natural Language Processing, Emotion extraction from text

·        Automated emotion/mood tagging with emoji/memes

·        Facial/gestures/visual emotion recognition and synthesis, emotion recognition in video streaming

·        Emotional, affective states associated with music, audio or speech

·        Recognition of emotions elicited by artistic stimuli e.g. paintings

·        Affective computing, emotion recognition from Brain -Interfaces or sensors, e.g. EMG sensors, motion sensors, GPS tracking

·        Biomimetic modeling of emotions, models of emotionally communicative behavior, evolved or emergent emotional behavior

·        Emotion recognition in social robots, intelligent interfaces, symbiotic cognitive systems

·        Affective states or emotions expressed by web-based/cloud robots, web-based Artificial intelligence, affective human-computer interfaces

·        Online Human-Bot emotional interactions, real-time integrated systems

·        Novel technologies using emotional elements that can better engage disabled people, e.g. with ASC (Autism Spectrum Conditions), in learning and communication

·        Assertive robots, assertive artificial intelligence, artificial empathy and emotional intelligence in human-robot interactions

·       Emotion recognition in business/government intelligence and marketing strategies

·       Applications using web-based machine learning services e.g. IBM Watson, Google TensorFlow

·       Specialized interfaces and animation technologies, applications in games and education, e.g. affective tutoring

·       Ethical challenges on affective computing and emotion recognition in Web Intelligence, e.g. deception in emotions-aware HRI, emotional privacy, side effects and evolution of humanity using affective-intelligent web services

·        Applicable lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics, AI, psychology)

 

Important dates

 

October 2, 2021 October 24, 2021: Deadline for paper submission to the ACER Workshop through the Acer Submission Website (please be sure ACER is displayed in the top left corner)
October 8, 2021 November 1, 2021:
Final Notification of Acceptance (papers submitted before the deadline can recive early reviews and notifications).

To be defined November 15: Camera-ready submission

December 14-17, 2021: WI-IAT 2021 Conference
 

Committees

 

ACER organizing committee:

-      Valentina Franzoni, University of Perugia, Italy / Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (valentina.franzoni@dmi.unipg.it)

-      Alfredo Milani, University of Perugia, Italy (milani@unipg.it)

-      Giulio Biondi, University of Florence, Italy (giulio.biondi@unifi.it)

-      Jordi Valverdů, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Cataluńa, Spain (jordi.vallverdu@uab.cat)

ACER program committee:

-      Valentina Franzoni, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Italy / Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

-      Alfredo Milani, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Italy

-      Giulio Biondi, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Florence, Italy

-      Jordi Valverdů, Philosophy Department, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Cataluńa, Spain

-      Francesca D’Errico, For.Psi.Com Department, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy

-      Berardina De Carolis, Department of Computer Science, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy

-      Concetta Papapicco, For.Psi.Com Department, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy

-      James Deng, MindSense Technologies, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

WI-IAT organizing committee:

https://www.wi-iat.com/wi-iat2021/projects-Program.html



WI-IAT


ACER will be located at
the 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, held in Melbourne, Australia, and online, on December 14-17 2021. The 2021 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'21) provides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences on Web intelligence and intelligent agent technology research and applications.

The first international joint conference of Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'01) was held in Maebashi, Japan, 2001. Then, it followed by WI-IAT'03 in Halifax, Canada, WI-IAT'04 in Beijing, China, WI-IAT'05 in Compiegne, France, WI- IAT '06 in Hong Kong, WI-IAT'07 in Silicon Valley, USA, WI-IAT'08 in Sydney, Australia, WI-IAT'09 in Milano, Italy, WI-IAT'10 in Toronto, Canada, WI-IAT'11 in Lyon, France, WI-IAT'12 in Macau, China, WI-IAT'13 in Atlanta, USA, WI-IAT'14 in Warsaw, Poland, and WI-IAT'15 in Singapore. The goal of WI-IAT conferences is to provide a global forum for scientists, engineers and educators to present the latest WI-IAT technologies, discuss how to develop future intelligent systems for complex applications. After these years, in 2016, WI-IAT conferences have been merged as one brand (WI'16 in Omaha, USA, WI'17 in Leipzig, Germany, WI'18 in Santiago de Chile, and WI'19 in Thessaloniki, Greece) by redefining and vitalizing the WI aims and topics. In recognition of the strong connection of Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, the classic brand of WI-IAT was resumed in 2020.

 

Submission guidelines


Similar to the main conference, there are 2 types of paper submissions that are possible:

·        Type 1: Full Paper Submissions. Papers need to have up to 8 pages in ACM proceedings format.

·        Type 2: Abstract Submissions. Abstracts have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is particularly welcome.

Once in the Acer Submission Website, select “Submit a new paper” and enter the required information.

Papers on applications, case studies, and data sets are welcome, as well as master/PhD thesis showcases. Each paper must be original and unpublished work, not submitted for publication elsewhere (copyright problems fall entirely under responsibility of the authors).

Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors should register and present orally the paper in the conference. Failure to do so shall lead to exclusion of the paper from the proceedings.

 

Publication of proceedings

 

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the ACM Press and published in the conference proceedings, which in the past years have been always indexed in Scopus and WoS. Selected papers will be further invited for expansion and publication in Web Intelligence journal and other international journals.

 

Venue

 

The 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, including the ACER workshop, will be held on December 14-17, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia, and online.

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