Scope

The ICCASA 2019 conference (co-located with ICTCC 2019 conference) sponsored by EAI, Tien Giang University (TGU) and Nguyen Tat Thanh University (NTTU) is a place for highly original ideas about how CAS is going to shape networked computing systems of the future. Hence, it focuses on rigorous approaches and cutting-edge solutions which break new ground in dealing with the properties of context-awareness. Its purpose is to make a formal basis more accessible to researchers, scientists, professionals and students as well as developers and practitioners in ICT by providing them with state-of-the-art research results, applications, opportunities and future trends.

One of the hot topics in ICT is currently undergoing rapid advancements and emerging on the spot as one of the priority research areas, whose research activities are booming recently: context-aware systems (CAS), which is primarily inspired by the human autonomic nervous system. CAS is characterized by its self-* facets such as self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, self-protection and so on whose context awareness used to dynamically control computing and networking functions.

The overall goal of CAS is to realize nature-inspired autonomic systems, that can manage themselves without direct human interventions. Meeting this grand challenge of CAS requires a rigorous interdisciplinary approach to context-aware systems.

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Topics

We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:

1. Fundamentals of Context-aware systems

Context-aware models
Context-aware control
Context-aware algorithms
Context-aware networks
Context-aware computing
Context-awareness calculi
Context-awareness representation
Context-awareness-based systems
Logic in context-awareness
Context-awareness reasoning
Formal methods of context-awareness
Context-awareness-based optimization and swarm Intelligence

2. Context-aware Systems

Routing, transport, and reliability issues of context-aware systems
Data dissemination and replication in context-aware systems
Applications and middleware support, mobile social networking applications
Mobility models and statistical analysis of mobility traces
Context and social awareness mechanisms and algorithms
Co-existence of opportunistic networks with infrastructure mobile wireless networks
Service composition in autonomic and opportunistic networks
Cognition-driven information processing and decision making
Performance modeling, scaling laws, and fundamental limits for autonomic and opportunistic communications
Game-theoretic insights to the operation of autonomic and opportunistic networks
Participatory and urban sensing in autonomic and opportunistic networks
Trust, security, and reputation in context-aware systems
Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and prototypes, measurement data from real experiments
Socio-economic models for autonomic and opportunistic communications

3. Context-aware Technologies

Context-aware information retrieval
Context-aware profiling, clustering and collaborative filtering
Machine learning for context-aware information retrieval and ontology learning
Context-aware e-learning/tutoring
Ubiquitous and context-aware computing
Use of context-aware technologies in UI/HCI
Context-aware advertising
Recommendations for mobile users
Context-awareness in portable devices
Context-aware services
Social Agents and Avatars
Emotion and Personality
Virtual Humans
Autonomous Actors
Awareness-based Animation
Social and Conversational Agents
Inter-Agent Communication
Social Behavior
Crowd Simulation
Understanding Human Activity
Memory and Long-term Interaction

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Publication

All registered papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

ICCASA proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to
- Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 2.497)

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:
- EAI Endorsed Transactions on Context-aware Systems and Applications.