PerFab 2013 – 1st International Workshop on Personal and Pervasive Fabrication (Sep 2013, Zurich)

Dates: 9 September 2013
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Website: http://32leav.es/perfab/
Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2013

In conjunction with the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2013)

Recently, technologies for fabricating real-world objects and products that can be designed and built directly by the end-user have decreased in costs and are increasingly common. These technologies are expected to have a great impact on society. However, there is a great need to explore many novel research challenges and issues before the idea of personal fabrication becomes truly pervasive and applicable to the wider public. Our workshop is aimed at facilitating discussion and exploration of these challenges. We encourage submissions of research papers, work-in-progress papers with interesting preliminary results, and position papers. Attendance at the workshop is not limited, as anyone may register and attend. The long-term goal is to gather a community of researchers and establish this workshop as a leading forum for research dissemination in the area.

INTERACT 2013 Workshop: Urban Agriculture: A Growing Field of Research (Sep 2013, Cape Town, South Africa)

Date: 3 September 2013
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Website: http://www.urbaninformatics.net/resources/interact2013cfp/
Deadline for submission: UPDATED 19 May 2013

Growing food presents diverse challenges and opportunities within the urban environment. As cities develop, population density rises, land prices rise, and the opportunity to use land for traditional farming and gardening diminishes. Counter to this trend there are a growing number of both community gardens, city farms, ‘guerilla gardening’, effective use of rooftop gardens, pot plants, windowsill herbs and backyard gardens cropping up in different cities, all with a purpose to produce local food, supplemented in part by food co-op organisations. This workshop brings together practitioners and researchers in the field of urban agriculture and HCI to explore the different forms of growing practice and the sustainable impact of locally grown produce.

Workshop: Participatory Design for Persons with Cognitive or Sensory Impairments @ Interact2013 (Sep 2013, Cape Town)

Dates: 3 September 2013
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Website: http://interact2013impairmentsworkshop.wordpress.com/
Deadline for application: 15 May 2013

Are you interested in participatory design and do you work with users with impairments? We organize a workshop on participatory design for persons with cognitive or sensory impairments at Interact 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa. This workshop will be held on Tuesday September 3rd.

Thinking Greece, Thinking Futures: Urmadic University HotHouse 3 (June 2013, Greece)

Dates: 27-30 June 2013
Location: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Architecture
Website: http://www.theodessey.org/
Deadline for submission of expressions of interest: 15 April 2013

Following the 1st Hothouse in Brisbane (July 2011) and the 2nd Hothouse in Paris (July 2012), Hothouse 3 aims to liberate thinking and initiate projects that inquire upon, and even begin to reverse, the conditions and principles through which Greece exists in a state of crisis. The intent of ‘Hothouse’ 3 is to bring together a dynamic collection of people from Greece and around the world in order to confront these issues in a structured way; this conversation will be grounded in the identification and elaboration of local agendas, aiming to think and initiate specific projects from which beginnings and directions can grow.

This is an Urmadic University project. Each year the Hothouse moves progressively according to its context: Hothouse 3 is different in the fact that instead of talking about problems to be faced, it is actually situated in a problem.

Expressions of interest to participate in the event are invited from:

1.      Disenfranchised Greek intellectuals/designers of all ages disenchanted by the current local status quo, interested in new thinking and critical practices (limited to 20 places)
2.      Members of the Urmadic University Network (limited to 20 places)

Place numbers are open to revision (based on the volume of expressions received/selection). The event will be conducted in English.

Further information on the previous Hothouses and the Urmadic University can be found at http://www.theodessey.org/

UrbanIxD Summer School on urban interaction design (Aug 2013, Croatia)

Dates: 23 Aug – 1 Sept 2013
Location: Split, Croatia.
Website: www.urbanixd.eu
Application deadline: Monday 15 April, 2013

The UrbanIxD Summer School will be grounded in the emerging discipline of urban interaction design. The Summer School will address the domain of technologically augmented, data-rich urban environments, with a particular emphasis on human activities, experiences and behaviours.

Sustainable Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures: From Collaborative Design to Digital Fabrication (July 2013, Lisbon)

Dates: 8-12 July 2013
Location: ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon
Website: sttf2013.iscte-iul.pt
Deadline for Applications: 1 April 2013

STTF2013 invites you to apply for a one week intensive programme of social and technical methods, in a transdisciplinary environment that will engage participants in both conceptual and practical activities with all four pillars of sustainability as background.

STTF2013 is intended for Master and PhD students, researchers, and professionals from STS, Product and Service Design, Social Sciences and Humanities, Architecture and Engineering, Communication and Media, Environmental Studies, Economics and Management, Computer Sciences, and others.

BioTRIZ Workshop (March 2013, Bath UK)

Dates: 6-8 March 2013
Location: Bath, UK
Website: http://biotriz.com
Deadline for expression of interest: ASAP

We invite you at the workshop, which will take place in Bath (UK) 6-8 March 2013: “Theory of invention and Bio-inspired design”. THIS IS A SEMI-CONSULTANCY WORKSHOP: ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE WELCOME TO BRING THEIR PROJECTS AND COME BACK WITH FEASIBLE RESULTS.

You can find the  workshop schedule at: http://biotriz.com/sites/default/files/BioTRIZ_TRIZ%20workshop_three_day_modular_2013.pdf

You can have a look at the feedback from the last workshop  to get the impression of what it looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5rhcu8zKIA  and about our recent project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma-618g9Fj8

Participants of the workshop get the comprehensive course materials in electronic form, DVD with animations and videos, workbook and certificate of attendance.

The price includes lunches, hot and cold drinks. Price: £330+VAT per day (you can choose the days to attend). There is a 50% discount for PhD and Masters students and 20% discount for academics in case they choose to attend all three days. There is also a discount for a group of representatives from the same company/organisation (please contact us to discuss).

Please contact the organizers via http://biotriz.com ASAP in case you are interested as we are finalizing the list of the participants.

EMSS 2013: The 25th European Modeling and Simulation Symposium

EMSS 2013- CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The 25^TH European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2013)

(http://www.msc-les.org/conf/EMSS2013 )

Dates and Location

23-25 September 2013

Athens, Greece, in cooperation with the I3M 2013 MultiConference

Key Dates

Extended Abstracts, April 15^th 2013

Acceptance Notification, May 15^th 2013

Camera Ready Papers, June 15^th 2013

Indexing

The EMSS proceedings will be submitted to Thomson ISI.

Conference Aim

The European Modeling and Simulation Symposium is one of the most important Simulation Appointment in Europe. As tradition the conference focuses on Modeling & Simulation in Industry taking into consideration both applications and theoretical approaches. This event is the ideal framework for setting up European Community and International Projects and it could be used as a framework for hosting project review meeting and project exploitation. The audience includes both users, vendors and scientists operating in applying advanced techniques to industry, business and services. The International Program Committee will accept two types of camera-ready papers: extended paper (10 pages, 2 columns); regular paper (6 pages, 2 columns).  Please refer to the on line authors instruction section.

Conference Topics

Topics of interest are included in the following areas, nevertheless different topics concerning Modeling & Simulation are welcome.

-       Modeling & Simulation In Industry and in Industrial Engineering

-       Effective Design by Modeling & Simulation

-       Modeling & Simulation in Business, Economy, Finance and Commerce

-       Modeling & Simulation Methodologies, Techniques and Applications

-       Discrete and Combined Simulation

-       Industrial Processes Modeling & Simulation

-       Industrial Engineering

-       Agent Directed Simulation

-       Petri Nets based Modelling & Simulation

-       Simulation and Artificial Intelligence

-       Workshop on Cloud Manufacturing

-       Simulation Optimization Approaches in industry, services and logistics processes

-       Human-centred and Human-focused Modelling and Simulation

-       Workshop on Soft Computing and Modelling & Simulation

-       Workshop on Cloud Computing

-       Simulation Approaches in Logistics Systems

-       Modelling and Simulation in and for Education

 

Detailed topics description and current list of tracks/workshops at http://www.msc-les.org/conf/EMSS2013/index_file/EMSS_Tracks.htm

 

Contact and Information

For further information please contact Francesco Longo (f.longo@unical.it) or emss@msc-les.org

We look forward to welcoming you in Athens, Greece

Best Regards,

EMSS 2013 Organization Committee

 

 

I-WISH 2013: The International Workshop on Innovative Simulation for Healthcare

IWISH 2013- CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The International Workshop on Innovative Simulation for Healthcare (IWISH 2013)

(http://www.msc-les.org/conf/IWISH2013)

Location

September 23-25, 2013

Athens, Greece, in cooperation with the I3M 2013 MultiConference.

Key Dates

Extended Abstracts, April 15^th 2013

Acceptance Notification, May 15^th 2013

Camera Ready Papers, June 15^th 2013

ISI Indexing

The I-WISH  proceedings will  be submitted to Thomson ISI.

Workshop Aim

A holistic view of healthcare leads to an interdisciplinary field of research ranging from life-science to management disciplines. The increasing computational power and the tight integration of natural and computational sciences open the doors to new paradigms in life science research. The huge complexity of biological systems let deterministic and deductive methods reach its limitations, thus large scale simulations together with advanced methods of modeling are new tools to get insight into the huge diversity of healthcare. This workshop, part of the I3M Multiconference, aims to bring together scientists from engineering, natural and life sciences to stimulate discussion on new methods and topics in the emerging field of health care. Tracks shall cover the main aspects of health care. It shall not only provide a forum for presentation of novel approaches and methods of advanced simulation for both modeling and analysis but also provide meaningful results and applications. We welcome high-quality, original scientific contributions and will consider them for publication. The International Program Committee will accept two types of camera-ready papers: extended paper (10 pages, 2 columns); regular paper (6 pages, 2 columns). Please refer to the on line authors instruction section.

Workshop Topics

Application of Multiple Operations Research Techniques (MORT) for Healthcare

Modeling and Simulation of physical systems

Healthcare and Public Health M&S

Studying biomechanical problems for cardiothoracic and cardiovascular clinical problems: Models, designing tools, simulation environments and critical condition prediction for surgical interventions.

Computer aided diagnostics and therapy

Cellular and Molecular Models in Medicine

Modeling and Simulation of physical systems

Management of Healthcare

Modeling and Simulation for Biosciences and Bioinformatics

Modeling and Simulation for Cognitive Computation

 

Detailed topics description and current list of tracks/workshops at http://www.msc-les.org/Conf/iwish2013/index_file/IWISH_Tracks.htm

Contact and Information

For further information please contact Francesco Longo (f.longo@unical.it), Marina Massei (massei@itim.unige.it) or iwish@msc-les.org .

We look forward to welcoming you in Athens, Greece

Best Regards,

IWISH 2013 Organization Committee

3rd IEEE Intl Workshop on Social Implications of Pervasive Computing (March 2013, San Diego USA)

Location: San Diego, California, USA
Dates: 18-22 March 2013
Website: http://www.sipc2013.blogspot.com
Deadline for submissions: 30 October 2012

Held in conjunction with the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications – PerCom 2013 (http//www.percom.org/).

The technology associated with Pervasive Computing is progressively approaching levels of sufficient accuracy, dependability and suitable cost. As a result, we will soon see a shift from implementations in controlled research laboratories to implementations in real world everyday applications; the next stage in the development of pervasive computing. Pervasive technologies have the potential for literal pervasive use in almost all public, personal and commercial aspects of our lives. This ubiquity will enable and lead to, the emergence of new, unprecedented applications on a previously unseen scale. The benefits of this technology are numerous and wide ranging, but alongside this are the implications of the technology, brought about by the scale of pervasive computing and its use.

Research into the social aspects of pervasive computing has thus far generally focused on the positive applications of the technology, with insufficient discussion of its potential high impacting social consequences. The intention of this workshop is to focus on and explore the social implications of pervasive computing, and from this to develop theories, methods and guidelines to encourage the technology to achieve maximum benefit, with minimal consequence. If the implications of pervasive computing are to prevented/minimised, research must be discussed and conducted now, while the technology is still in development. This will lead to guidance for the wider pervasive computing community, and provide with sufficient time to consider the impact of the technology being developed.