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                                               Cyberworlds 2013

                                               Call for Papers

                October 21-23, 2013, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

                http://www.vc.media.yamanashi.ac.jp/cw2013/Top.html

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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, 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 multiple journals,including The Visual Computer and Springer Transactions on Computational Science. Cyberworlds 2013 will be organized by the Society for Art and Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and EUROGRAPHICS, and supported by IFIP.

The topics covered by Cyberworlds 2013 will include but are not limited to

- Networked and shared virtual worlds

- Virtual collaborative spaces

- Shape modeling for cyberworlds

- Virtual humans and avatars

- Multimodal interaction and rendering

- Computer vision for augmented and mixed reality

- Cognitive informatics

- Brain-computer interfaces

- Affective computing

- Social computing

- Online communities

- E-learning in cyberworlds

- Multi-user web games

- Art and heritage in cyberspace, cyber-museums

- Cyberethics and cyberlaws

- Cybersecurity

- Welfare in cyberworlds

- Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds

- Visual analytics in cyberworlds

* Publication *

Subumission categories include full paper (up to 8 pages), short paper (up to 4 pages) and posters (1 page). All accepted submissions will be included in the conference proceedings to be published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and placed in the IEEE Xplore and Computer Society digital libraries, and submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Selected full papers will be included in the special issues of The Visual Computer,Springer Transactions on Computational Science and International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies

* Important Dates *

- Paper (full and short) submission        May 17, 2013

- Poster submission                                      June 30, 2013

- Authors notification                                  July 19, 2013

- Authors registration                          August 2, 2013

- Camera-ready paper                                                 August 2, 2013

* Organization *

Honorary Chair:

 -Tosiyasu L. Kunii (Morpho, Inc., The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Steering Committee Coordinator:

 -Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

General Chair:

 -Issei Fujishiro (Keio University, Japan)

Program Co-Chairs:

-Xiaoyang Mao (University of Yamanashi, Japan)

-Lichan Hong (Google Research, USA)

Special Session Co-Chairs:

-Gianluca Mura (Politecnico di Milano University, Italy)

-Lichan Hong (Google Research, USA)

Publicity and Finance Chair:

-Masahiro Toyoura (University of Yamanashi, Japan)

Contact:

cw2013@ml.yamanashi.ac.jp