[alife] CFP: IVEVA 2008 - The International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Environments and Virtual Agents

[Jesus Ibanez]

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   IVEVA 2008
   The International Conference on Intelligent
   Virtual Environments and Virtual Agents

   Date: June 26-27, 2008
   Location: Nanjing, China
   Web:  http://iveva2008.eegame.cn

   Special issue of IJVR (http://www.ijvr.org)
   Co-located Event Edutainment’08 (http://edutainment2008.eegame.cn/)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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 2008 will be held in Nanjing (China) on
June 26-27, 2008, co-located with:Edutainment’2008
(http://edutainment2008.eegame.cn/)


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 by IJVR (International
Journal of Virtual Reality, IPI Press in USA), please use the
paper template of the journal provided on the web site of
IJVR (http://www.ijvr.org)


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: April 1, 2008
Notification of results: May 1, 2008
Camera-ready copy May 15, 2008
IVEVA Conference: June 26-27, 2008


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. Electronic submissions should be sent to:
iveva08 at cad.zju.edu.cn


COMMITTEE

Conference co-chairs:

Jesús Ibáñez-Martínez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Carlos Delgado Mata, Universidad Panamericana, México
Zhigeng Pan, Zhejiang University, China

Program Committee Co-chairs

Yongzhao Zhan, Jiangsu University, China
Zhiliang Wang, Beijing University of Science and Technology, China

Local Organizing Committee Co-chairs

Ruchuan Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Ruwei Yun, Nanjing Normal University, China

Publicity Co-chairs

Jayfus Doswell, The Juxtopia Group, USA
Zhen Liu, Ningbo University, China

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