[Sigia-l] FINAL CFP CYBERWORLDS 2011- deadline 29 May

[gianluca.mura at polimi.it]

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
2011 International Conference on CyberWorlds
4-6 October 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada
http://cw2011.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/

SUBMISSION DEADLINE IN FIVE DAYS:
May 29, 2011, midnight, CST

In Cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS Association
Endorsed by IEEE VGTC Committee for IEEE technical co-sponsorship
Proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS
Organized by the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary,
with support from Informatics Circle of Research Excellence iCORE and
School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,Singapore.

Conference papers will be published in the proceedings printed by IEEE  
Computer Society.

Two special journal issues by Springer: The Visual Computer and  
Transactions on Computational Science are confirmed.

In addition, selected papers with appropriate content will be  
considered for two Inderscience Journals:
International Journal of Arts and Technology and Journal of Biometrics.

The conference runs in-cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS  
Association and IEEE VGTC Computer Society technical co-sponsorship  
has been endorsed.

Cyberworlds are information worlds or communities created on  
cyberspace by collaborating participants either intentionally or  
spontaneously.
As information worlds, they accumulate information regardless whether  
or not anyone is in, and they can be with or without 2D or 3D visual  
graphics appearance.
The examples of such cyberworlds are communities created in different  
social networking services, 3D shared virtual environments, and  
multiplayer online games.
Cyberworlds are closely related to the real world and have a serious  
impact on it.
Cyberworlds have been created and applied in such areas as e-business,  
e-commerce, e-manufacturing, e-learning, e-medicine, and cultural  
heritage, etc.
Cyberworlds augment and sometimes replace the real life and become a  
significant component of real economy.

The international conferences on Cyberworlds have being organized  
annually since 2002 with the proceedings published by IEEE Computer  
Society and special issues published in The Visual Computer and other  
research journals.

11th in the series, CW2011 will consist of paper sessions, tutorials,  
industrial seminars, exhibitions and hands-on demonstrations where  
researchers, artists, and vendors will show the state-of-the-art in  
the field.
CW2011 will have several parallel tracks including but not limited to  
the following topics:
- Shared virtual worlds
- Virtual collaborative spaces
- Shape modeling for cyberworlds
- Virtual humans and avatars
- Intelligent talking agents
- Networked collaboration
- Haptic interaction and rendering
- Cognitive informatics
- Human-computer interfaces
- Computer vision, augmented, mixed and virtual reality
- Face and emotion recognition
- E-learning in virtual collaborative spaces
- Online multiplayer games
- Art in cyberspace, cyber-museums
- Cyberethics and cyberlaws
- Cybersecurity and biometrics
- Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds
- Social networking

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer  
Society, placed in the IEEE Xplore and Computer Society digital  
libraries, and submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex),  
Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.

The best full papers will form 4 special issues of the following  
international journals:
- The Visual Computer (Springer)
- Transactions on Computational Science (Springer)
- International Journal of Arts and Technology (Inderscience)
- Journal of Biometrics (Inderscience)

Important Dates:
Paper submission     29 May 2011
Notice of Acceptance 16 June 2011
Author registration  15 July 2011
Camera-ready paper   15 July 2011

Industrial Seminars/Exhibitions: Key industrialists are invited to  
share their experience in creating and applying cyberworlds to solve  
practical problems.
Major research labs, industrial companies and other institutions are  
invited to set up an exhibition to present their group, the work and  
projects to the conference participants.
Please email your requests to  <mailto:cw2011 at cpsc.ucalgary.ca>  
cw2011{at}cpsc.ucalgary.ca or call +403 220-5105.

General Chair and Co-Chairs:
Marina Gavrilova, UofC, Canada
Alexei Sourin, NTU, Singapore
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland and NTU, Singapore


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