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ACER@WI-IAT2021: Melbourne,
Australia, and online, December 14-17 2021 |
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Conference and workshop websites |
WI-IAT: https://www.wi-iat.com/; ACER: http://dmi.unipg.it/acer |
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Submission deadline |
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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 include, but are not limited to Affective Computing in:
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Affective computing
and Emotion Recognition in Web Intelligence
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Models of emotions,
measuring emotions on the Web
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Multidimensional
emotion recognition
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Emotional/affective
process mining
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Emotions in the
crowds, emotions and sentiments in social networks, link prediction
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Affective tagging and
emotion recognition in Recommender Systems
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Emotion recognition
across cultural variations, local-culture emotion recognition
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Semantic Emotion Recognition,
Linked Data in affective spaces, affective ontologies, and sentic computing
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Natural Language
Processing, Emotion extraction from text
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Automated
emotion/mood tagging with emoji/memes
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Facial/gestures/visual
emotion recognition and synthesis, emotion recognition in video streaming
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Emotional, affective
states associated with music, audio or speech
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Recognition of
emotions elicited by artistic stimuli e.g. paintings
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Affective computing,
emotion recognition from Brain -Interfaces or sensors, e.g. EMG sensors, motion
sensors, GPS tracking
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Biomimetic modeling
of emotions, models of emotionally communicative behavior, evolved or emergent
emotional behavior
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Emotion recognition
in social robots, intelligent interfaces, symbiotic cognitive systems
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Affective states or
emotions expressed by web-based/cloud robots, web-based Artificial
intelligence, affective human-computer interfaces
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Online Human-Bot
emotional interactions, real-time integrated systems
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Novel technologies
using emotional elements that can better engage disabled people, e.g. with ASC
(Autism Spectrum Conditions), in learning and communication
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Assertive robots,
assertive artificial intelligence, artificial empathy and emotional
intelligence in human-robot interactions
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Emotion recognition
in business/government intelligence and marketing strategies
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Applications using
web-based machine learning services e.g. IBM Watson, Google TensorFlow
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Specialized
interfaces and animation technologies, applications in games and education,
e.g. affective tutoring
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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
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Applicable
lessons from other fields (e.g. robotics, AI, psychology)
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
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)
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Giulio Biondi, University of Florence,
Italy (giulio.biondi@unifi.it)
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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
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Alfredo Milani, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Italy
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Giulio Biondi, Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science, University of Florence, Italy
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Jordi Valverdů, Philosophy Department,
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Cataluńa, Spain
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Francesca D’Errico, For.Psi.Com
Department, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy
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Berardina De Carolis, Department of Computer
Science, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy
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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
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.
Similar to the main conference, there are 2 types of paper submissions that are
possible:
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Type 1: Full Paper
Submissions. Papers need to have up to 8 pages in ACM proceedings format.
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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.
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.
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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