Dear colleague,
We are pleased to announce and invite you to submit a paper to the:
WORKSHOP ON THE RELIABILITY OF INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS (WORIE’11)
http://amilab.ii.uam.es/worie2011/
within the International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence Salamanca, 6th-10th of April 2011 (http://isami.usal.es/)
15 Nov 2010: Paper submission deadline 10 Dec 2010: Notification of acceptance 30 Dec 2010: Final version submission 07 Apr 2011: Workshops date
Intelligent Environments (IE) is rising as one of the technical fields with the highest potential to make an impact in daily human life during the near future. Developments in this area are achieved by a complex juxtaposition of complex technical fields. Software is related to the architecture of a building, sensors, a network for data transportation, and different levels of users. Many of these elements are error prone, software is notoriously difficult and even companies like NASA, Microsoft, Intel, BMW which can afford powerful teams of experienced development teams have paid with lives, economic losses and reputation missing to detect software bugs within their products. Sensors are often unreliable, networks are sometimes unstable and users can put systems to the test in circumstances that were not initially foreseen. Developing these type of systems is therefore complex and given that some applications will be given the tremendous responsibility to take care of humans. Think for example on how much interest there is on the development of systems to support independent living. These systems are intended to give peace of mind to elderly people and their relatives trusting that the system will be able to do many things for them including safety related issues like detecting whether the occupant of the house has fallen or is unwell in some way. Other examples are unmanned cars and other autonomous systems which are supposed to perform tasks for us which can have disastrous consequences should something go wrong.
Our community should develop appropriate standards and specific methodologies to ensure we do our outmost to deliver safe systems given the current state of the art. Given the specific blend of components in our area of development we cannot just transfer developments in other areas (although of course they should be taken into account to inform the process). This event will aim to bring together developers and researchers to focus on all aspects of the development process that can contribute to make Intelligent Environment systems safer and to provide methodologies that can increase the confidence in these developments.
Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
All submissions must adhere to the same format than the main event (ISAmI’11) this workshop is co-located with. Submissions have to be submitted through the EasyChair conference system. See more details on this from the web page of the workshop. All articles selected for publication will be reviewed by at least two reviewers with expertise in the area.
Submissions must be made via the Conference Review System: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=worie11
The core of the event will be the presentation of recent advances in research and applications followed by a debate aiming to encourage a critical reflection on the subject. Presentations can also contain demos about tools and applications.
After the presentations of the selected papers a panel will focus on critical issues that should be addressed at both academic and professional level. The results of this panel can be used then by different groups to elaborate a summary document on achievements and prospective issues to be considered by the research community. Interaction will be encouraged throughout the event.
All accepted papers will be published in a special volume of Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (Springer), indexed by ISI Proceedings, DBLP and Springerlink, among others.
Dr. Juan Carlos Augusto School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown BT37 0QB Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, UK Phone: +44 (0) 7766325624 web page: http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~jcaug/
email: jc.augusto@ulster.ac.uk
Dr. Pablo A. Haya Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Department of Computer Science, Room B-207 Tomas y Valiente, 11. EPS. Campus de Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid Phone: + 34 91 497 2267 Fax:+ 34 91 497 2235 web page: http://www.eps.uam.es/~phaya email: pablo.haya@uam.es