Appel: 8th Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-08)

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:46:58 +0100
From: A.Nijholt at ewi.utwente.nl
Message-ID: <FA783DEE7533904091C5F59BF22169AD016450C5 at EWIEX12.dynamic.ewi.utwente.nl>
X-url: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iva2008/


Third Call for Papers

The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
(IVA-08)

 

NEWS: Authors of the best IVA-08 papers will be invited to submit an
extended


version for a special issue of the Journal Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems


on Intelligent Virtual Agents.

 

September 1-3, 2008

Tokyo, Japan

http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iva2008/

 

Conference Chairs:

Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA

Mitsuru Ishizuka, The University of Tokyo, Japan

 

IVA-08 is the major annual meeting of the intelligent virtual agents
community, attracting interdisciplinary minded researchers and
practitioners from embodied cognitive modeling, artificial
intelligence, computer graphics, animation, virtual worlds, games,
natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.

 

IVA topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Multimodal interaction with intelligent virtual agents

- Affective interaction and emotion models

- Models of personality and culture

- Conversational and non-verbal behavior

- Architectures for virtual agents and robotic agents

- Embodied cognitive modeling

- Authoring tools for building intelligent virtual agents

- Markup and representation languages

- Agents and avatars in metaverse, virtual worlds, narrative, and
  games

- Advanced 3D modeling and animation technologies

- Applications and user studies

 

The proceedings will appear in the Lecture Notes of Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI) series of Springer.

We are inviting submissions of long and short papers, and posters.

Authors of the best IVA-08 papers will be invited to submit an
extended version for a special issue of the Journal Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems on Intelligent Virtual Agents.

 

Key Dates:

Friday, April 11, 2008: Electronic submissions due

Friday,   May 16, 2008: Author notification

Tuesday, June 10, 2008: Camera ready

 

Senior Programme Committee:

 

Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany

Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, UK

Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California, USA

Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI-CNRS, France

Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany

Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University, UK

Catherine Pelachaud, University of Paris 8, INRIA, France

Seiji Yamada, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

 

Best Paper Chair:

W. Lewis Johnson, Alelo, Inc., USA

 

Anton Nijholt

University of Twente

Publicity Chair of IVA-08


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