Emmanuel S. Sardis
National Technical University of Athens - NTUA
Greece
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Anastasios Doulamis
Technical University of Crete
Greece
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Nikolaos D. Doulamis
National Technical University of Athens - NTUA
Greece
e-mail Visual supervision and workflow event analysis is critical in many industrial applications for assistive living. Methods, tools and algorithms that aim to detect and recognize high level concepts and their respective spatiotemporal and causal relations in order to identify semantic video activities, actions and procedures have been in the focus of the research community over the last years. This research area has strong impact on many real-life applications such as surveillance environments, industrial environments, sensor networks, and recognition/ identification of workflow processes. However, such computing environments bring new challenges in the area of multimedia, computer vision, sensors data manipulation, artificial intelligence and multi-agents systems using, for example, algorithms, systems and architectures able to perform workflow recognition of objects, humans, and general actions that are triggered by sensors, that should be performed under a step by step way, or under unpredictable ways. These intelligent systems should be constructed in a way that could be applied in many human/object activities that fulfill real time, or almost real time conditions.

An interesting case of the aforementioned environments are multimedia systems which are one of the most complex and popular applications that are nowadays proposed to the users. Their complexity derives mainly from the fact that multimedia systems have to process huge amounts of data, while respecting real-time deadlines. Also industrial networks of sensors need data evaluation and manipulation in order to control and identify business processes execution.

Multi agent systems are able to manipulate and evaluate by intelligent algorithms the added value of the above systems and inform real time the end user for the performed workflows that taking place in the perspective environments. We assert that a layer of software agents, that co-ordinate the distribution of work via negotiation, is the proper software abstraction for the development of cross-organizational workflow management systems. We support our assertion by describing: the use of software agents to provision distributed workflows; the role of agents to facilitate workflow interoperability; agent-based techniques for visualization and verification of decentralized processes. Distributed architectures and per sensor data manipulation could benefit the overall system performance for real time requirements and end user applicability, in urgent and difficult industrial conditions. We are interested in original papers and case studies describing advances in all areas of security and privacy in pervasive and ambient intelligence environments, including but not limited to:

› Semi-supervised Approaches for Workflow Events Identification using Artificial Intelligence-AI Technologies
› Efficient Object/Human Tracking Algorithms and AI Manipulation and Enhancement
› Models for Human/Object Behavior Recognition and Intelligent Event Analysis
› Event Characterization and Prediction through AI
› Models for Workflow Description and Recognition
› Adaptation and Relevance Feedback Algorithms for Workflow Event Analysis
› Multimedia and Objects Detection/Classification for Workflow Events Detection and Characterization
› Domain Knowledge and Ontological Systems for Workflow Modeling of Human/Objects Behaviors for Efficient Detection/ Recognition
› Architectures and Systems Implementations in the Aforementioned Areas
› Methods and Distributed Architectures Able to Handle Workflow Dynamics in Complex Multimedia Environments
› Case Studies in respect to Workflows Detection in Pervasive, Industrial, Surveillance Environments
› International and European Initiatives in the Area of Cognitive Systems and Artificial Intelligence
› Software Modeling and Systems Simulation Techniques Regular Paper Submission: September 9, 2010
Authors Notification: October 22, 2010
Final Paper Submission and Registration: November 3, 2010 Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
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