Events – Smart Society Project http://www.smart-society-project.eu "Hybrid and Diversity-Aware Collective Adaptive Systems: When People Meet Machines to Build a Smarter Society" Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:56:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/favicon1.png Events – Smart Society Project http://www.smart-society-project.eu 32 32 2 SmartSociety proposals win FETLaunchpad innovation funds http://www.smart-society-project.eu/2winfetlaunchpad/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/2winfetlaunchpad/#respond Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:55:27 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=3475 Continue reading ]]> Two proposals originating from our project have successfully acquired innovation funds from FETLaunchpad! SmartNurse and WhiteRabbit were among the 16 proposals accepted from the very first Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Innovation Launchpad call, and invited to grant agreement preparation.

Brief descriptions of the projects follow:

SmartNurse is a FETLaunchpad winning proposal originated in the SmartSociety project that aims at developing (a) smart teaching assistant(s) for individualised training of student nurses. Such systems will offer information on demand (e.g. instant feedback, regulations or quick-check information, hints, …), and also provide feedback if the activities performed by the trainee during training sessions are not performed to required training goals. This application will allow student nurses to learn faster and get specific individual support.

WhiteRabbit is a FETLaunchpad winning proposal originated in the SmartSociety project that aims at developing a off-the-shelf software platform able to become a ‘privacy accountant’ that, with minimal configuration and investment, will allow to extract value from data while keeping its subjects in the loop and also complying with upcoming regulations. Such platform will allow companies to manage personal data in a quicker, less expensive and more end-user driven way.
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Innovation in the Sharing Economy http://www.smart-society-project.eu/innovation-in-the-sharing-economy/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/innovation-in-the-sharing-economy/#respond Tue, 07 Feb 2017 23:04:17 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=3446 Continue reading ]]> We are organising an event in Berlin, Germany, on the 15th of February, bringing together innovators, business angels, business developers, major industries, venture capitalists and technologists all looking forward to the next market to be disrupted thanks to a sharing economy approach.

Join us to discover how deep tech can enable new innovations in the sharing economy.

“Innovation in the Sharing Economy” is supported under the Future & Emerging Technologies Programme and hosted by EIT Digital. To learn more about the event and register your attendance please visit our Eventbrite page. You can also find details on the agenda and venue below.

 
AGENDA

12.30-13.30 : Light lunch & networking

13.30-13.35 : Welcome from EIT Digital (U. Bub)

13.35-13.45 : Blue sky talk: Beyond Sharing Economy: Service Provisioning in the Computational Humanism Era (F. Giunchiglia)

13.45-14.05 : Keynote: Towards a responsible sharing economy (A. Cañigueral)

14.05-14.35 : Startup Pitches – featuring WhiteRabbit, The Incentive Server & Augmented Collective Training

14.35-15.05 : High-impact verticals – panel with S. Anderson, S. Laepple.

15.05-15.35 : Coffee break & networking

15.35-15.55 : Keynote: The future of trust in the sharing economy (S. Green Brodersen)

15.55-16.05 : Open source corner: The SmartCollectives Toolkit (D. Miorandi)

16.05-16.30 : Innovation pilots and case studies – panel with L. Pannese, A. Grueberl, R. Chenu and K. Gal

16.30-17.00 : Fireside chat: Sharing economy, investors and a world without money – with D. Mazzella and R. van Kleji

17.00-19.00 : Beers, demo booths and networking

VENUE

EIT Digital Berlin CLC, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin, Germany

Directions and information: http://www.eitdigital.eu/about-us/locations/berlin-node/

Have questions about Innovation in the Sharing Economy? Contact SmartSociety FP7 Project (Organizer) & EIT Digital (Host)
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Responsible Governance for Healthy and Sustainable Smart Platforms http://www.smart-society-project.eu/governance_smart_platforms/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/governance_smart_platforms/#respond Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:57:07 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2988 Continue reading ]]> Smart online platforms will be a vital enabler of future economic growth across the EU and a key component of  the EU single digital market. They also promise new ways to pool and mobilise society’s resources with the potential to address various impending social and environmental crises.

However, to reap these benefits, new thinking is required around the regulation and governance of smart online platforms to ensure balanced interests, and to promote fair and safe forms of participation, particularly relating to the role played by algorithms and data in driving economies of scale.

In order to address the issues this raises, we are organising a policy event on smart online platforms on the 5th of December 2016, at the Scotland Europa Conference Centre in Brussels.

Please visit our page on the event for further details and registration.

 

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closing DIVERSITY 2016, proceedings http://www.smart-society-project.eu/closing-diversity-2016-proceedings/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/closing-diversity-2016-proceedings/#respond Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:21:43 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2962 Continue reading ]]> Our collaborative workshop with ESSENCE on the many aspects of Diversity in AI has successfully come to a close. A big thanks to all participants and our hard working organisers!

You can find the workshop proceeedings on the ECAI website, or directly download them from here.

To get a glimpse of what the day was like, you can follow #diversityAwareAI on Twitter.

Michael Rovatsos opens DIVERSITY 2016

Michael Rovatsos opens DIVERSITY 2016 with a quote from Marvin Minsky.

Marvin Minsky: “What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.”

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DIVERSITY 2016 – Agenda http://www.smart-society-project.eu/diversity_2016_agenda/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/diversity_2016_agenda/#respond Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:33:33 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2943 Continue reading ]]> The programme is out for our DIVERSITY 2016 workshop, to be held at ECAI on the 29th of August:

09:15-09:30 Welcome
09:30-10:00 Towards Building Ontologies with the Wisdom of the Crowd. Paula Chocron, Dagmar Gromann and Francisco José Quesada Real
10:00-10:30 A Methodology to Take Account of Diversity in Collective Adaptive Systems. Heather S. Packer and Luc Moreau
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Diversity-Aware Recommendation for Human Collectives. Pavlos Andreadis, Sofia Ceppi, Michael Rovatsos and Subramanian Ramamoorthy
11:30-12:00 Industry talk: Democracy by Design. Marcel van Hest
12:00-13:00 Invited talk by Antonella de Angeli
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:20 A Semantic Distance based Architecture for a Guesser Agent in ESSENCE’s Location Taboo Challenge. Kemo Adrian, Aysenur Bilgin and Paul Van Eecke
14:20-14:40 Interdisciplinarity as an Indicator of Diversity in a Corpus of Artificial Intelligence Research Articles. Bilge Say
14:40-15:00 Managing human diversity in diverse multi-agent collaborative intelligence systems. Mark Hartswood, Kevin Page, Avi Segal, Kobi Gal and Marina Jirotka
15:00-15:20 Analysing communicative diversity via the Stag Hunt. Robert van Rooij and Katrin Schulz
15:20-15:40 Domain-Based Sense Disambiguation in Multilingual Structured Data. Gabor Bella, Alessio Zamboni and Fausto Giunchiglia
15:40-16:10 Coffee break
16:15-17:15 Panel discussion
17:15-17:30 Wrap-up

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Atelier on the Evolution of Collective Adaptive Systems on the Web http://www.smart-society-project.eu/cas_atelier_como/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/cas_atelier_como/#respond Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:42:02 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2932 Continue reading ]]> SmartSociety is hosting an atelier at the 3rd ESSENCE Summer School on Creativity and Evolution, to be held in Como, on the 5th-9th September 2016. The subject of this atelier is the Evolution of Collective Adaptive Systems on the Web. More details follow:

Objective

Collective intelligence platforms, where large numbers of people contribute their skills, resources, and knowledge in a collaborative way, have emerged in recent years as a new type of socio-technical systems that use the creativity of their users to solve complex problems. However, digital infrastructures that support such collective intelligence are only successful and sustainable in the long term if they manage to adapt to the evolution of the ways in which they are used, and co-evolve meaningfully with their user base. The overall objective of this atelier is to build a prototypical Web-based collective intelligence system that has such adaptive capabilities. Participants will be trained in the fundamental theoretical and technological building blocks of such systems using the SmartSociety software platform, which contains many of the key components to engineering collective adaptive systems successfully.

Format

The atelier will involve daily lectures on each of the key technologies used in the SmartSociety platform, and the rest of the day group work implementation of an actual case study. The theoretical introductions will focus only very briefly on general material, and then go into aspects specific to collective adaptive systems for the most part.

Prerequisites

Participants are expected to have general mathematical literacy (background in mathematical notation, discrete mathematics, probability theory), and good programming skills. Experience with web programming (REST, Javascript, etc) is strongly recommended, as this will be extensively used in the practical part of the atelier.

Programme

Monday 5th September
15:30-17:00 Lecture: Introduction to Collective Adaptive Systems
Michael Rovatsos, University of Edinburgh

Tuesday 6th September
11:00-13:00 Lecture: Overview of SmartSociety Platform
Tommaso Schiavinotto, U-Hopper Srl
14:30-17:00 Lab: Experimentation with Orchestration Manager

Wednesday 7th September
11:00-13:00 Lecture: Introduction to semantic privacy technologies
Ronald Chenu-Abente, University of Trento
14:30-17:00 Lab: Experimentation with Peer Manager

Thursday 8th September
11:00-13:00 Lecture: Introduction to incentive mechanisms
Michael Rovatsos, University of Edinburgh
14:30-17:00 Lab: Experimentation with Incentives Manager

Friday 9th September
11:00-13:00 Lecture: Value-sensitive design
Mark Hartswood, University of Oxford
14:30-17:00 Lab: Completion of implementation
17:30-19:30 Final presentation

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DIVERSITY 2016 deadline extended to the 17th of June http://www.smart-society-project.eu/diversity_deadline_extended/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/diversity_deadline_extended/#respond Mon, 13 Jun 2016 22:12:14 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2929 Continue reading ]]> logoECAI2016We are still accepting submissions for the International Workshop on Diversity-Aware Artificial Intelligence (DIVERSITY 2016) at ECAI 2016, sponsored by SmartSociety and ESSENCE. The deadline has been extended to the 17th of June. For submission instructions and further details please see here.

The workshop seeks to explore diversity as a phenomenon that both poses a challenge for AI in terms of dealing with and managing diversity in an intelligent system (or ecosystem of intelligent human and/or artificial agents) and presents an opportunity in terms of leveraging diversity (for example through processes like crowdsourcing and collaborative knowledge production) to achieve human-like (and human-friendly) capabilities in more open-ended, incrementally evolving, and interactive AI systems.

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Imaginary’s May 2016 Newsletter – New App Launch in Crema, Italy http://www.smart-society-project.eu/imaginarys-may-2016-newsletter-new-app-launch-in-crema-italy/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/imaginarys-may-2016-newsletter-new-app-launch-in-crema-italy/#respond Sat, 07 May 2016 21:18:55 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2904 Imaginary, our industry partner in charge of Work Package 9 (Proof of Concept and Validation), has released its May 2016 Newsletter. This issue announces SmartSociety's new ride-sharing app launch in the Italian district of Crema.

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IMG_1495Imaginary, our industry partner in charge of Work Package 9 (Proof of Concept and Validation), has released its May 2016 Newsletter. Among a number of Imaginary’s activities, this issue announces SmartSociety’s new ride-sharing app launch in the Italian district of Crema! If you happen to be living in the area, you can subscribe here!

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Submissions for DIVERSITY 2016 now open http://www.smart-society-project.eu/diversity2016_submissions/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/diversity2016_submissions/#respond Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:46:44 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2898 Continue reading ]]> logoECAI2016We are now accepting submissions for the International Workshop on Diversity-Aware Artificial Intelligence (DIVERSITY 2016) at ECAI 2016, sponsored by SmartSociety and ESSENCE.

The workshop seeks to explore diversity as a phenomenon that both poses a challenge for AI in terms of dealing with and managing diversity in an intelligent system (or ecosystem of intelligent human and/or artificial agents) and presents an opportunity in terms of leveraging diversity (for example through processes like crowdsourcing and collaborative knowledge production) to achieve human-like (and human-friendly) capabilities in more open-ended, incrementally evolving, and interactive AI systems. For more details, please see the original announcement, here.

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International Workshop on Diversity-Aware Artificial Intelligence (DIVERSITY 2016) at ECAI 2016 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/diversity_2016/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/diversity_2016/#respond Sat, 05 Mar 2016 20:42:02 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2776 Continue reading ]]>

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*** Daily Agenda is now out ***

Organisers

Michael Rovatsos, The University of Edinburgh, mrovatso@inf.ed.ac.uk
Ronald Chenu-Abente, University of Trento, chenu@disi.unitn.it

Background

Diversity is pervasive in human nature and culture, and is deeply rooted in the variation of natural traits and experience among individuals, the collectives they form, and the environments they inhabit. When humans reason individually, they maintain different representations, conceptualisations, and theories, and apply different rules of inference, learning, and decision making. When they interact with each other to combine their skills or resources, to coordinate their activities, and to resolve conflicts between their individual objectives, they exchange information and knowledge, negotiate and align their individual views, and adapt to each other’s behaviour dynamically. Arguably, diversity is not only a phenomenon that humans have to deal with, but it is also the vehicle for achieving some of the most impressive products of human intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence, on the other hand, has so far largely relied on a certain degree of homogeneity, not necessarily in terms of the components involved in a method or system, but in terms of the process that combines them. While various areas within AI have already developed methods that can cope with and/or exploit diversity to some extent, for example

  • electronic markets where individual agents have different goals and aim to maximise their own profit,
  • hybrid robot architectures that involve different layers of representation and reasoning,
  • knowledge sharing infrastructures where different agents use different domain ontologies, and
  • machine learning systems that combine different sources of data and/or learning units,

more often than not, these systems still involve a “monolithic”, global approach to integration. This usually derives from a global task context, a common intermediate representation layer, or a global output to be produced by the integrated system.

We believe that there is a huge potential in bringing the insights from work on problems that involve diversity – like those listed in the examples above – together to gain a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of diversity, as well as to develop principled methodological approaches that will enable us to better utilise diversity in future AI systems.

Workshop Description

The workshop seeks to explore diversity as a phenomenon that both poses a challenge for AI in terms of dealing with and managing diversity in an intelligent system (or ecosystem of intelligent human and/or artificial agents) and presents an opportunity in terms of leveraging diversity (for example through processes like crowdsourcing and collaborative knowledge production) to achieve human-like (and human-friendly) capabilities in more open-ended, incrementally evolving, and interactive AI systems.

We aim to bring together researchers from different communities that have each addressed diversity in different ways, such as

  • hierarchical and hybrid inference systems (combining representation and reasoning mechanisms),
  • semantic web and ontologies (interoperability of information sources, ontology alignment),
  • non-monotonic and defeasible reasoning (reasoning about conflicting and changing information),
  • mechanism design and social choice (reaching agreement in the presence of conflict of interest),
  • language evolution and emergent semantics (evolving shared symbol and concept spaces),
  • cross-lingual approaches to natural language understanding (integrating different natural languages),
  • teamwork and collaborative multiagent systems (integrating heterogeneous knowledge/behaviours),
  • human-AI/human-robot collaboration (aligning agents’ views and objectives with those of humans),
  • crowdsourcing and human computation (managing diverse contributions of large human collectives).

The workshop will provide an open forum for researchers from these (and other) areas to contribute their insights on diversity in order to develop a shared agenda for the future study of diversity in AI. We welcome submissions on all aspects of diversity, ranging from theoretical foundations to practical applications, case studies, and surveys. The workshop will be heavily discussion-based, with relatively short paper presentations and a focus on formulating key research questions and a longer-term research agenda for the area. To enable high-quality discussion and debate, a key evaluation criterion will be the focus of papers contributed to the workshop on the diversity “angle“ of the research reported. Specifically, papers should clearly identify

  • what type of diversity or aspects of diversity the reported research investigates or accommodates,
  • the methods the paper proposes to deal with and/or exploit diversity,
  • how the proposed method combines and/or exceeds existing diversity-oriented capabilities, and
  • what key challenges in terms of diversity it leaves open for future research.

Beyond this key requirement, we deliberately impose no restrictions on methodological approach, or maturity of the research. In particular, the workshop aims to be inclusive with regard to the types of diversity considered, including (but not limited to) diversity of representations, algorithms, systems infrastructures, datasets, agent behaviours, skills and capabilities, preferences and objectives, but also users, user populations, cultures, contexts of use, application domains, user interfaces, etc.

Also, in keeping with the Special Topic of ECAI 2016 Artificial Intelligence for Human Values, we particularly invite papers that address the ethics and social impact of AI applications related to diversity, for example addressing issues related to the social dynamics of diversity in systems comprising of humans and artificial agents, the emergence of “digital divides“ and the implications of diversity on the cohesiveness of these systems, diversity-aware accountability and privacy methods, or the potential risks and benefits of diversity-aware AI in terms of promoting human diversity in various domains.

Paper submission

We invite full (8-12 pages) and short (4-6 pages) papers for presentation at the workshop, to be submitted through the workshop’s Easychair web site using the ECAI format (which can be downloaded together with instructions from this page). Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two Programme Committee members, and authors will be expected to produce final versions of their papers in good time before the workshop.

All accepted papers will be made available online prior to the workshop, and distributed to all participants in hardcopy. If a sufficiently high number of high-quality papers is received, we will aim to produce a special issue in a high-quality journal where revised versions of the papers will be published alongside invited papers.

Important dates

The following is a (tentative) timeline of key dates:

  • Paper submission deadline – 14th June 2016 extended to 17th June 2016
  • Author notification – 28th June 2016 30th June 2016
  • Camera-ready versions – 15th July 2016
  • Workshop – 29th or 30th August 2016

Agenda

The following is the workshop agenda for the 29th of August:

09:15-09:30 Welcome
09:30-10:00 Towards Building Ontologies with the Wisdom of the Crowd. Paula Chocron, Dagmar Gromann and Francisco José Quesada Real
10:00-10:30 A Methodology to Take Account of Diversity in Collective Adaptive Systems. Heather S. Packer and Luc Moreau
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Diversity-Aware Recommendation for Human Collectives. Pavlos Andreadis, Sofia Ceppi, Michael Rovatsos and Subramanian Ramamoorthy
11:30-12:00 Industry talk: Democracy by Design. Marcel van Hest
12:00-13:00 Invited talk by Antonella de Angeli
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:20 A Semantic Distance based Architecture for a Guesser Agent in ESSENCE’s Location Taboo Challenge. Kemo Adrian, Aysenur Bilgin and Paul Van Eecke
14:20-14:40 Interdisciplinarity as an Indicator of Diversity in a Corpus of Artificial Intelligence Research Articles. Bilge Say
14:40-15:00 Managing human diversity in diverse multi-agent collaborative intelligence systems. Mark Hartswood, Kevin Page, Avi Segal, Kobi Gal and Marina Jirotka
15:00-15:20 Analysing communicative diversity via the Stag Hunt. Robert van Rooij and Katrin Schulz
15:20-15:40 Domain-Based Sense Disambiguation in Multilingual Structured Data. Gabor Bella, Alessio Zamboni and Fausto Giunchiglia
15:40-16:10 Coffee break
16:15-17:15 Panel discussion
17:15-17:30 Wrap-up

Financial Support

The workshop is sponsored by the ESSENCE (www.essence-network.com) and SmartSociety (www.smart-society-project.eu) projects, which will provide extensive financial support to participants, in particular PhD students and junior researchers who wish to participate. To be eligible for such support, interested individuals should submit a short or full paper, and email Michael Rovatsos (mrovatso@inf.ed.ac.uk) with a one-page case for support, providing a short bio, describing their interest in the workshop, and specifying the requested amount together with a justification of the anticipated expenses.

Committees

Workshop Organisers

Michael Rovatsos, The University of Edinburgh, mrovatso@inf.ed.ac.uk
Ronald Chenu-Abente, University of Trento, chenu@disi.unitn.it

Steering Committee

Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Peter Gardenfors, University of Lund, Sweden
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
Asuncion Gomez Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Ben Kuipers, University of Michigan, USA
Ariel Procaccia, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC Barcelona, Spain
Luc Steels, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Michael Wooldridge, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Gerhard Weiss, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Programme Committee

Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
Gabor Bella, University of Trento, Italy
Sofia Ceppi, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble, France
Kobi Gal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Fabien Gandon, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
Mark Hartswood, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Nick Hawes, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Catholijn Jonker, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Ian Kash, Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Nicolas Maudet, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, France
Fiona McNeill, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Roberto Navigli, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Iyad Rahwan, MIT, USA
Subramanian Ramamoorthy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Katharina Reinecke, University of Washington, USA
Robert van Rooij, ILLC University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Carlos Ruiz, TAIGER S.A., Spain
Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC Barcelona, Spain
Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Labs, Israel
Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina, Italy
Remi van Trijp, Sony Computer Science Labs Paris, France

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Smart-Watch Life Saver wins best paper award at ISWC 2015! http://www.smart-society-project.eu/smart-watch-best-paper/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/smart-watch-best-paper/#respond Sat, 12 Sep 2015 19:59:18 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2537 Continue reading ]]> Agnes Grünerbl, Gerald Pirkl, Eloise Monger, Mary Gobbi, and Paul Lukowicz have won the Best Paper Award, and Honorable Mention Award (Top 3% out of 121 submissions), at the ISWC 2015 conference for their work on:

Smart-Watch Life Saver:
Smart-Watch Interactive-Feedback System for Improving Bystander CPR

This potentially life saving technology, uses a smart-watch to unobtrusively guide its user in efficiently delivering CPR, and is SmartSociety’s first step in developing the Smart Nurse project.

The 19th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2015) was a conference dedicated to cutting-edge research in wearable technologies, and took place on 7-11 September in Osaka, Japan.

You can find the paper through our website, here, or in the conference proceedings, here.

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SmartSociety at ICT DAYS http://www.smart-society-project.eu/smartsociety-at-ict-days/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/smartsociety-at-ict-days/#respond Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:19:09 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2479 Continue reading ]]> logo-ictdays-2015

SmartSociety is taking part in ICT DAYS, an initiative by the University of Trento‘s DISI (Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science), dedicated to the broad subject of Information and Communication Technology.

ICT DAYS has had many years of success since its launch on 2009. It serves as a meeting point for companies and university students, organizes a hackathon and attracts prospective students through its Education Day. The initiative also features a series of communicative events, such as seminars, demos and contests.

SmartSociety’s panel on the 19th of March is titled:

Collaboration between humans and machines: Promises and Perils

Abstract: In today’s hybrid society we are unconsciously observed and continuously assisted by ICT systems. How to make sure that this takes place with the right coordination and ethical control? The panel will report insights from the project SMARTSOCIETY funded by the EC under FP7 Future Emerging Technologies programme.

For more information, please visit the event website.

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Imaginary’s February 2015 Newsletter http://www.smart-society-project.eu/imaginarys-february-2015-newsletter/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/imaginarys-february-2015-newsletter/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:08:30 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2466 Imaginary, our industry partner in charge of Work Package 9 (Proof of Concept and Validation), has released its February 2015 Newsletter. Continue reading ]]> Imaginary, our industry partner in charge of Work Package 9 (Proof of Concept and Validation), has released its February 2015 Newsletter. This issue mentions SmartSociety’s new ride-sharing app, which has been developed for use in a study on incentivizing users through gamification, as well as for the testing of human-centric matching algorithms.

For more information on this, as well as Imaginary’s recent and upcoming events, including their participation in CeBIT 2015 (Hannover, 16-20 March), please click here.

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HAIDM 2015 submission deadline extended & SmartSociety co-organises HAIDM at AAMAS for the second year in a row http://www.smart-society-project.eu/haidm-2015-submission-deadline-extended-smartsociety-co-organises-haidm-at-aamas-for-the-second-year-in-a-row/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/haidm-2015-submission-deadline-extended-smartsociety-co-organises-haidm-at-aamas-for-the-second-year-in-a-row/#respond Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:57:32 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2402 HAIDM 2015). Submission deadline extended to he 23rd. Continue reading ]]> SmartSociety is co-organising the Fourth International Workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models (HAIDM 2015) which is co-located with AAMAS 2015 (4th or 5th of May). SmartSociety had also organised HAIDM 2014.

The deadline for paper submission to HAIDM 2015 has been extended to the February the 23rd.

Topics covered by this year’s HAIDM include amongst others:

  • Trust between humans and agents
  • Smart society applications including energy systems, ride-sharing, healthcare augmentation, and disaster response
  • Coalition formation and optimisation models involving models of agents and humans
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Citizen science
  • Enhanced models of human behaviour and theory of human behaviour
  • Applications of human behaviour models,
  • Behavioural game theory
  • Techniques for learning human behaviour
  • Quantitative and qualitative studies of human-agent interaction

Important Dates:
11th February: 23rd of February:  Submission deadline
10th March: Notifications
19th March: Deadline for Camera-Ready copies

For more details, including the submission procedure, visit the HAIDM 2015 site here.

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SmartSociety at Smart City World Congress Expo2014 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/smartsociety-at-expo2014/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/smartsociety-at-expo2014/#respond Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:58:16 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=2328 Continue reading ]]> Vincenzo Maltese, our project leader, gave an invited talk at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2014 (Barcelona, Spain), titled A hybrid Society is already happening.

Download: http://bit.ly/1XCYTme

The Smart City Expo World Congress is the international event on smart cities, bringing together over 400 cities around the world, more than 200 companies, 400 speakers and the leading institutions and experts in urban transformation. You can find more details on the event here, and watch a video of the presentation here, or below:

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EASSS 2014 16th European Agent Systems Summer School. http://www.smart-society-project.eu/easss2014/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/easss2014/#comments Sat, 24 May 2014 16:31:33 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=1988 Continue reading ]]> Old Harbor, Chania, CreteSmartSociety’s Michael Rovatsos is part of the scientific committee for the 16th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2014).

EASSS 2014 will be held at the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece , from the 14th July to the 18th July 2014. Primarily focussed on single and multi-agent systems, this year’s school will feature additional courses covering topics related to social intelligence. It will be co-organised by the European Network for Social Intelligence and serves as their official Summer School.

Please note the deadline for early registration, which is the 31st May 2014. You can view the school’s complete schedule here.

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Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models 2014 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/haidm-2014/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/haidm-2014/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:59:24 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=1837 Continue reading ]]> The 3rd International Workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models will be held in conjunction with AAMAS 2014 at Paris, France on 5th-9th May, 2014. This workshop aims to establish a forum for researchers to discuss common issues that arise in designing and modelling human-agent interaction in different domains. Read about it here!

SmartSociety is proud to have co-organised this event!

Important Dates

Submission deadline: February 10th, 2014
Notification of acceptance: March 3, 2014
Workshop takes place: May 6th, 2014

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SocInfo 2014: The 6th International Conference on Social Informatics http://www.smart-society-project.eu/socinfo14/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/socinfo14/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:14:41 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=1826 Continue reading ]]> socinfo2014_logo_transparent_small

The 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014) will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from November 10th to November 13th. SocInfo is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from Computer Science, Informatics, Social Sciences and Management Sciences to share ideas and opinions, and present original research work on studying the interplay between socially-centric platforms and social phenomena. The ultimate goal of Social Informatics is to create better understanding of socially-centric platforms not just as a technology, but also as a set of social phenomena. To that end, they are inviting interdisciplinary papers, on applying information technology in the study of social phenomena, on applying social concepts in the design of information systems, on applying methods from the social sciences in the study of social computing and information systems, on applying computational algorithms to facilitate the study of social systems and human social dynamics, and on designing information and communication technologies that consider social context.

This year’s special purpose of the conference is to to bridge the gap between the social sciences and computer science. SocInfo aspires to a conference that is equally attractive to computer scientists and social scientists by putting emphasis on the methodology needed in the field of computational social science to reach long-term research objectives.

The event will also offer tutorials, workshops and keynote talks that will be tailored to address the collaboration between the two research cultures in an era when social interactions are ubiquitous and span offline, online and augmented reality worlds.

Visit their official site for information on the Calls for Papers and Workshops, research areas and more.

Important dates

Full paper submission: August 8, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time)
Notification of acceptance: October 3, 2014
Submission of final version: October 10, 2014
Conference dates: November 10-13, 2014

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FoCAS Summer School 2014 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/focas-summer-school-2014/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/focas-summer-school-2014/#respond Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:52:00 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=1131 Continue reading ]]> summer-school-2014

FoCAS has announced a summer school taking place on Crete, Greece between Monday June 23 and Friday June 27, 2014:

http://focas.eu/summer-school-2014/

Details are to be announced soon.

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Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration through the Synergy of Human and Machine Reasoning, Call for Papers http://www.smart-society-project.eu/mastering-data-intensive-collaboration-through-the-synergy-of-human-and-machine-reasoning-call-for-papers/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/mastering-data-intensive-collaboration-through-the-synergy-of-human-and-machine-reasoning-call-for-papers/#respond Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:45:45 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=1041 http://idt-14.kesinternational.org This session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different scientific fields and research communities to exchange experiences and discuss the topic of how data-intensive and cognitively-complex sense making and decision making within diverse types of teams can be facilitated and augmented. Continue reading ]]> 18-20 June 2014 @ at 6th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies, Chania, Greece. http://idt-14.kesinternational.org

Important Dates

Submissions due: February 7, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: February 28, 2014 Upload of Final
Publication Files: March 10, 2014

Aim and Scope

Contemporary collaboration settings are often associated with huge, ever-increasing amounts of multiple types of data, which may vary in terms of relevance, subjectivity and importance, ranging from individual opinions to broadly accepted practices. In such settings, collective sense making is crucial for well-informed decision making. This sense making process may both utilize and provide input to intelligent information analysis tools.

This session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different scientific fields and research communities to exchange experiences and discuss the topic of how data-intensive and cognitively-complex sense making and decision making within diverse types of teams can be facilitated and augmented. The session will offer a venue for targeted discussion on the development and evaluation of innovative services that shift in focus from the mere collection and representation of large-scale information to its meaningful assessment, aggregation and utilization. Of particular interest are approaches that bring together the reasoning capabilities of the machine and the humans in contemporary collaborative settings.

In parallel, much interest is given to larger issues surrounding analytical practices and data sharing practices in the above settings.

Submissions are expected to cover a number of main themes (research issues), including:

  • Innovative approaches to the exploration, delivery and visualization of the pertinent information.
  • Novel collaboration tools and platforms for handling ill-defined domains.
  • Collaborative sense making of real-world multi-faceted data.
  • Novel mechanisms for understanding collaborative patterns and
    intelligent probing.
  • Advances in cloud computing and scalable high-performance data
    mining for data-intensive collaboration.

Co-chairs:
Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras & CTI, Greece Lydia Lau,
University of Leeds, UK Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras, Greece

Submissions:
See: http://idt-14.kesinternational.org/submission.php

Contact:
Nikos Karacapilidis
University of Patras & CTI
GR 26500 Rion-Patras, Greece
Tel: (+30)-2610-997906
nikos@mech.upatras.gr
http://www.mech.upatras.gr/~nikos/

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First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing, Call for Papers http://www.smart-society-project.eu/first-international-workshop-on-multiagent-foundations-of-social-computing/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/first-international-workshop-on-multiagent-foundations-of-social-computing/#respond Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:15:41 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=723 The First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing is Co-located with AAMAS 2014. Much of the recent excitement in social computing is driven by data analytics and business models. What is still lacking, however, is a deeper conceptual understanding of social computing -- e.g., relating to its conceptual bases, information and abstractions, design principles, and platforms. This event invites papers that take an explicitly multiagent perspective in addressing these gaps and do so in thought-provoking ways. Continue reading ]]> May 5-9, 2014 @ Paris, France

Social computing broadly refers to computing-supported approaches that facilitate interactions among people and organizations. Social computing has emerged as an exciting multidisciplinary area of research, driven by the wealth of easily available information and the success of online social networks and social media. Social computing applications are characterized by high interactivity among users, user-generated content, and in cases such as Wikipedia, more open governance structures. Much of the recent excitement in social computing is driven by data analytics and business models. What is still lacking, however, is a deeper conceptual understanding of social computing — e.g., relating to its conceptual bases, information and abstractions, design principles, and platforms. This event invites papers that take an explicitly multiagent perspective in addressing these gaps and do so in thought-provoking ways.

The First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing is Co-located with AAMAS 2014

Important Dates

  • Submission: January 22, 2014
  • Notification: February 19, 2014
  • Camera-ready due: March 5, 2014
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Collective Intelligence 2014, Call for Papers http://www.smart-society-project.eu/collective-intelligence-2014-call-for-papers/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/collective-intelligence-2014-call-for-papers/#respond Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:14:57 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=717 Collective Intelligence 2014 is an interdisciplinary conference seeking to bring together researchers from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence of many types. The conference will take place at MIT. Continue reading ]]> June 10-12, 2014 @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Collective Intelligence 2014 is an interdisciplinary conference seeking to bring together researchers from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence of many types.

The conference will take place at MIT and consist of:

  • Invited talks from prominent researchers in different areas related to collective intelligence such as engineering, psychology, management, political science, information science, and sociology
  • Oral presentations
  • Poster/Demo sessions
  • “Ignite” sessions in which practitioners (e.g. policy makers) connect with researchers around collective-intelligence-based solutions to real-world problems

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Extended abstract submission deadline:  January 15, 2014
  • Notification of acceptance / rejection:  February 15, 2014
  • Conference dates:  June 10-12, 2014

Also see Collective Intelligence 2012.

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ICT 2013 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/ict2013/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/ict2013/#respond Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:08:39 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=361 ICT 2013! Continue reading ]]> ICT_2013SmartSociety took part in ICT 2013! More than 5000 researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, industry representatives, young people and politicians got together for this event!

The ICT 2013 event was organised by the European Commission in partnership with the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the EU, and the official sponsors of the Presidency.

For information on some of the best this event had to offer visit this page.

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FoCAS on multi-disciplinary approaches for smart, green and integrated transport http://www.smart-society-project.eu/focas-on-multi-disciplinary-approaches-for-smart-green-and-integrated-transport/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/focas-on-multi-disciplinary-approaches-for-smart-green-and-integrated-transport/#respond Fri, 08 Nov 2013 09:00:39 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=359 FoCAS on multi-disciplinary approaches for smart, green and integrated transport" on the 7th Nov 2013. Continue reading ]]> focas_ictSmartSociety took part in the event “FoCAS on multi-disciplinary approaches for smart, green and integrated transport” on the 7th Nov 2013, as part of ICT 2013, held at Vilnius, Lithuania. This networking session organised by FoCAS specifically considered how multi-disciplinary approaches can best be used to address societal challenges, and also proceeded to identify some limitations.

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DEMOFest Glasgow http://www.smart-society-project.eu/demofest-glasgow-13/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/demofest-glasgow-13/#comments Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:45:17 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=240 DEMOFest Glasgow on the 5th Nov 2013. Continue reading ]]> sicsa_DEMOFest_13-14SmartSociety is attending DEMOFest Glasgow tomorrow! The 6th annual DEMOfest is hosted by the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) in association with Scotland IS. Read about it here and meet us there.

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1st FoCAS inter-project meeting http://www.smart-society-project.eu/1st-focas-inter-project-meeting/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/1st-focas-inter-project-meeting/#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:20:05 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=212 FoCAS inter-project meeting took place on June 4-5 at the Centre for Genomics Research, Barcelona. Continue reading ]]> cropped-focas-web-logo2The first FoCAS inter-project meeting took place on June 4-5 at the Centre for Genomics Research, Barcelona.

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2nd Social-IST Workshop http://www.smart-society-project.eu/2nd-social-ist-workshop/ http://www.smart-society-project.eu/2nd-social-ist-workshop/#respond Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:00:43 +0000 http://www.smart-society-project.eu/?p=199 here to find out more! Continue reading ]]> Social-IST_timthumb

The 2nd Social-IST Workshop took place on May 29 in Edinburgh. Click here to find out more!

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