[General] 2010 International Conference on Cyberworlds. 1st CFP

2010 International Conference on Cyberworlds 20-22 October 2010, Singapore http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/SCE/cw2010 Organized by the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In cooperation with Eurographics Association and Interactive Digital Media R&D Program Office, Media Development Authority of Singapore The application for IEEE Computer Society technical co-sponsorship has been submitted. Cyberworlds are information worlds or communities created on cyberspace by collaborating participants either intentionally or spontaneously. As information worlds, they accumulate information regardless whether or not anyone is in, and they can be with or without 2D or 3D visual graphics appearance. The examples of such cyberworlds are communities created in different social networking services, 3D shared virtual environments, and multiplayer online games. Cyberworlds are closely related to the real world and have a serious impact on it. Cyberworlds have been created and applied in such areas as e-business, e-commerce, e-manufacturing, e-learning, e-medicine, and cultural heritage, etc. Cyberworlds augment and sometimes replace the real life and become a significant component of real economy. The international conferences on Cyberworlds have being organized annually since 2002 with the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society and special issues published in The Visual Computer and other research journals. 10th in the series, CW2010 will consist of paper sessions, tutorials, industrial seminars, exhibitions and hands-on demonstrations where researchers, artists, and vendors will show the state-of-the-art in the field. CW2010 will have several parallel tracks including but not limited to the following topics: - Shared virtual worlds - Collaborative spaces - Virtual humans and avatars - Intelligent talking agents - Augmented reality in collaborative spaces - Networked collaboration - Haptic interaction and rendering - Cognitive informatics - Brain-computer interfaces - EEG-based emotion recognition - E-learning in virtual collaborative spaces - Online multiplayer games - Art and heritage in cyberspace The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, placed in the IEEE Xplore and Computer Society digital libraries, and submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. The best full papers will be selected for 2 special issues of the following international journals: - The Visual Computer (Springer) - Transactions on Computational Science (Springer) Important Dates: Paper submission 30 April 2010 Notice of Acceptance 15 Jun 2010 Author registration 15 Jul 2010 Camera-ready paper 15 Jul 2010 Industrial Seminars/Exhibitions: Key industrialists are invited to share their experience in creating and applying cyberworlds to solve practical problems. Major research labs, industrial companies and other institutions are invited to set up an exhibition to present their group, the work and projects to the conference participants. Please email your requests to cyberworlds{at}ntu.edu.sg or call +65 6790-4292. General Chair and Co-Chairs: Alexei Sourin, NTU, Singapore. Dieter Fellner, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany. Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland and NTU, Singapore. Program Chair: Olga Sourina, NTU, Singapore. CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named. The contents may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us, and do not copy or use it, nor disclose its contents. Thank you. Towards A Sustainable Earth: Print Only When Necessary