2005 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS
23-25 November 2005, Nanyang Executive Centre, Singapore.
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/cw2005

organized by:
School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
in cooperation with: EUROGRAPHICS, ACM, ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGWEB, SIGecom, SIGART, SIGGRAPH (Singapore)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper submission: 25 May 2005
Cyberworlds Exhibition submission: 1 August 2005

Cyberworlds are information worlds created on cyberspaces either intentionally or spontaneously, with or without visual design. Cyberworlds are closely related to the real world and have a serious impact on it. The conference will have four parallel tracks including but not limited to the following topics:

A1: Shared Virtual Worlds
A2: Distributed Virtual Environments
A3: Collaborative Design and Manufacturing
B1: Information Retrieval and Information Security
B2: Data Mining and Warehousing in Cyberworlds
B3: HCI and Humanised Interfaces in Cyberworlds
C1: Philosophy, Evolution, and Ethics of Cyberworlds
C2: Business Models in Cyberworlds
D1: Cyberlearning
D2: Cyberculture and Cyberarts

CW2005 will provide an opportunity for scientists and engineers from around the world to share the latest research, ideas, and developments in these fields. The conference will consist of full paper sessions, short presentations, panels, tutorials, cyber art exhibition, industrial seminars, and hands-on demonstrations where research groups, vendors, and artists will show the state-of-the-art in the field.

There will be also 3 workshops organised in parallel with the main conference program:
- 1st International Workshop on Cultural Heritage and Edutainment in Virtual Environments (CHEVE 2005) http://www.camtech.ntu.edu.sg/cyberworlds2005/index.html

- 2nd International Workshop on Web Computing in Cyberworlds (WCCW 2005) http://cse.seu.edu.cn/people/bwxu/chinese/main/Materials/CallForPapers/wccw2005cfp.htm

- 2nd International Workshop on Language Understanding and Agents for Real World Interaction (LUAR 2005) http://titech.serveftp.com/index.htm

PUBLICATION:
The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.
We will accept full papers up to 8 pages in length, including figures and short paper up to 4 pages in legth, including figures. To be included in the conference proceedings, at least one author of the accepted paper must register and present the paper at the conference. The best papers will contribute to the special issue on Cyberworlds of  The Visual Computer and to the special issue "Ubiquitous Intelligence in Cyberworlds" of the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence.

Previous Conferences: CW2002, CW2003, CW2004 (the proceedings are published by IEEE CS)

CYBERWORLDS EXHIBITION:
We will have a special session where the conference delegates will be able to present their cyberworlds. The authors will be given ~10 min to make an online large screen presentation using their own notebooks or our computer. Wired and wireless Internet will be available. Abstracts and URLs to the cyberworlds of those who register in advance (before 5 September) will be published in the conference proceedings.

TUTORIALS
Contact the Tutorial Chair Wolfgang Müeller-Wittig askwmwittig@ntu.edu.sg before 1 August 2005 if you have a tutorial proposal.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: 25 May 2005
Notice of Acceptance: 1 Aug 2005
Exhibition submission: 1 Aug 2005
Tutorial proposal: 1 Aug 2005
Camera-ready paper: 5 Sep 2005
Author's registration: 5 Sep 2005

INDUSTRIAL SEMINARS and EXHIBITION:
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 proposals and requests to cyberworlds@ntu.edu.sg or call +65 6790-4292.

Best Regards,
Alexei Sourin
Program Chair CW2005