[alife] CFP: IVEVA 2006

[jesus.ibanez@upf.edu]

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  CALL FOR PAPERS

  IVEVA 2006 
  The International Conference on Intelligent 
  Virtual Environments and Virtual Agents

  http://indep-day.upf.es/iveva/

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The increasing amount of Artificial Intelligence added to 
Virtual Environments during the last few years has generated 
great research works in the intersection between both disciplines. 
This is the so-called Intelligent Virtual Environments area. 
Frequently this intersection takes place through the addition 
of intelligent agents to VE. These agents are also known 
as Virtual Agents.

The IVEVA conference aims to provide a friendly environment 
to discuss ideas in Intelligent Virtual Environments and 
Virtual Agents. In this sense, the conference is intended to 
promote the exchange of ideas between AI researchers and VE 
researchers and practitioners. We believe that this exchange 
between both disciplines will lead to exciting and fruitful 
discussions. IVEVA 2006 will be held in Aguascalientes (Mexico) 
on the 30-31 of October 2006.


TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

 - Agents applications 
 - Virtual assistants, avatars, believable agents 
 - Speech and language for virtual agents 
 - Multimodal Human/Agent Interaction 
 - Communicative Agents in Intelligent Virtual Environments 
 - Design and Implementation of Intelligent Virtual Environments 
 - Web based Virtual Environments 
 - Artificial life 
 - Human machine interaction 
 - Education 
 - Telerobotics 
 - Intelligent Tutoring Systems 
 - Virtual Laboratories 
 - Intelligent Interfaces 
 - Emotion architectures 
 - Virtual Heritage 
 - Emergent Narrative 
 - Self Animate Characters 
 - Agents in Videogames 
 - Planning in Videogames 


PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be published in the IVEVA 2006 
Proceedings, under an ISBN reference. A selection of the best 
papers will be published in the "Knowledge Engineering Review" 
journal (Cambridge University Press).


IMPORTANT DATES

submission deadline:  August 2, 2006  
notification of results:  August 30, 2006   
camera ready copy due:  September 7, 2006   
IVEVA Conference:  October 30-31, 2006 


SUBMISSION

We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished 
research on the above or closely related topics. Papers may be 
up to 10 pages long. They should follow the LNCS Springer format. 
Electronic submissions should be sent to: 

jesus.ibanez at upf.edu AND cdelgado at bonaterra.edu.mx 

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