[General] Cyberworlds 2012: Call for Participation

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2012 International Conference on CyberWorlds 25-27 September 2012, Darmstadt, Germany http://www.gris.tu-darmstadt.de/cw2012/ Early Registration deadline: 13 Jul 2012 Confirmed Invited Speakers: Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada, http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~marina/Newweb/index.htm Intelligent Decision Making for Multi-Sensor Pattern Recognition and CyberSecurity Reinhard Klein, University of Bonn, Germany http://cg.cs.uni-bonn.de/en/people/prof-dr-reinhard-klein/ title) Johannes Behr, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de/en/Institut/Abteilungen/Visual-Computing-System -Technologies Program: A list of accepted papers can be found on http://www.gris.tu-darmstadt.de/cw2012/ The program consists of full and short papers, and invited peer-reviewed papers in two special sessions. Demos: A demo program will show State of the Art in applied research on Graphics, Vision, Virtual and Augmented Reality. Social Event: Although a local brewery (http://darmstaedter.de/de/home) is important, Darmstadt is mainly known as City of Science (http://www.darmstadt.de/sprachversionen/english/location/science/index.htm# c6061), city of culture (http://www.darmstadt.de/darmstadt-erleben/kultur/index.htm) and city of Jugendstil (http://www.darmstadt.de/darmstadt-erleben/jugendstil/index.htm). Combining all good things, the social program will take place on the Mathildenhöhe (see google!) with a mixture of culture and food. CyberWorlds: Created intentionally or spontaneously, cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that immensely augment the way we interact, participate in business and receive information throughout the world. Cyberworlds seriously impact our lives and the evolution of the world conomy by taking such forms as social networking services, 3D shared virtual communities and assively multiplayer online role-playing games. 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, Transactions on Computational Science, and International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies. Cyberworlds 2012 is organized by Fraunhofer IGD and TU Darmstadt, Germany, in cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS Association and supported by the IFIP Workgroup Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds. The 2012th International Conference on Cyberworlds will address a wide range of research and development topics, but not limited to the following topics: * Shared virtual worlds * Virtual collaborative spaces * Shape modeling for cyberworlds * Virtual humans and avatars * Intelligent talking agents * Networked collaboration * Haptic interaction and rendering * Computer vision, augmented, mixed and virtual reality * Human-computer interfaces * Cognitive informatics * Brain-computer interfaces * EEG-based emotion recognition * E-learning in virtual collaborative spaces * Multi-user web games * Art and heritage in cyberspace, cyber-museums * Cyberworlds and their impact on the real worlds * Cyberethics and cyberlaws * Cybersecurity * Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds * Social networking Special Sessions: * Arts, Design and Virtual World: see also http://artsvirtualworlds.artsmachine.com * Applied Visual Computing Proceedings: The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE, placed in the IEEE Xplore and Computer Society digital libraries, and submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Special issues of the following international journals will be formed from extended journal versions of the best papers: * The Visual Computer * Transactions on Computational Science * International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies To be included in the conference proceedings and special journal issues, at least one author of the accepted paper must register and present the paper at the conference. Please email your requests to cyberworlds2012(at)igd.fraunhofer.de. Honorary Chair Tosiyasu L. Kunii, University of Tokyo, Japan General Chair Dieter Fellner, Fraunhofer IGD and TU Darmstadt, Germany Program Chairs Arjan Kuijper, Fraunhofer IGD and TU Darmstadt, Germany Alexei Sourin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore