*** CALL FOR RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS, INDUSTRY, SHORT AND DEMO PAPERS ***
9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION
AND CREATIVITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS
(KICSS 2014)
Elias Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus
6-8 November, 2014
http://kicss2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy/
Proceedings will be published by Springer
*** Submission Deadline: 10th September 2014 (Hard Deadline!)***
Following the tradition of previous conferences on Knowledge, Information and
Creativity Support Systems, KICSS 2014 will cover all aspects of knowledge
management, knowledge engineering, intelligent information systems, and creativity
in an information technology context, including computational creativity and its
cognitive and collaborative aspects. Papers reporting original unpublished research
results on theoretical foundations, IT implementations of decision support and
expert systems, as well as case studies of successful applications of the above-
mentioned ideas in various fields are equally solicited.
The list of conference topics includes but is not limited to:
Anticipatory networks, systems, and decisions
Autonomous creative systems
Cognitive foundations of knowledge
Cognitive and psychological issues in creativity research
Cognitive foundations of knowledge
Collaborative activities in Living Labs
Collaborative idea generation and creativity
Collaborative knowledge creation
Collaborative working environments fostering creativity
Complex system modelling
Computer supported creativity
Creative approaches to model technological evolution
Creative business models
Creative conflict resolution
Creative coordination and cooperation mechanisms
Creative decision processes
Creative interaction techniques
Creative model building
Creative reasoning and decision making
Creative research environments and their performance
Creative social computing
Creative visualisation of data and knowledge
Creativity in finance
Creativity in augmented reality
Creativity in health care
Creativity in mobile applications
Creativity in social media
Creativity in the Cloud
Creativity measurement
Creativity support systems
Creativity transfer and stimulation
Creativity vs. rationality
Creativity-enhancing interfaces
Creativity-oriented information system architectures
Decision sciences
Decision support systems (DSS)
Discovering opportunities, threats and challenges
Foresight support systems (FSS)
Future Internet and knowledge-based society
Future exploration and modelling
Future perspectives of knowledge, information, and creativity support
Game-theoretical aspects of knowledge
General creative systems (GCS)
Group recommendation, and advise
Heuristics and general problem solving
Identifying real options in complex business environments
Information fusion
Information quality
Intelligent analysis of Big Data
Knowledge extraction, creation, and acquisition
Knowledge in multi-agent systems
Knowledge integration
Knowledge management in business, industry, and administration
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Knowledge verification and validation
Living Lab support systems (LLSS)
Machine learning and creativity
Malicious creativity in the web, its discovery and remedy
Mathematical models of creative processes
Multi- and interdisciplinary approaches in creativity research
Multicriteria decision making
Natural language analysis
Non-monotonic reasoning
Ontology creation and management
Open innovation
Organizational learning
Preference modelling
Reasoning about knowledge
Recommender systems
Scientific information management
Search for a compromise in multicriteria decision making and collaborative games
Social Computing
Social factors of collaborative creativity
Software-based stimulation of creativity
Supervised and semi-supervised learning
Trust modeling
Uncertainty modelling
Virtual environment design
Visual Analytics and Intelligent User Interfaces
Web intelligence tools
World models
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: September 10, 2014 (hard deadline)
Author Notification Due: September 17, 2014
Camera-Ready Versions Due: September 22, 2014
Submission
Short, industrial/demo and research-in-progress papers
should not exceed 6 pages according to the above format.
Up to 2 additional pages may be allowed at extra charge.
The KICSS 2014 papers can be submitted via Easychair.
Proceedings
The KICSS 2014 (Post-) Proceedings will be published in the Springer
Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, ISSN 2194-5357,
indexed by ISI Proceedings, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, Ulrich’s, EI-Compendex,
DBLP, MetaPress, Springerlink, see more here. The Post-Proceedings will
contain all the accepted papers, in any category.
The authors of the selected best papers presented at the conference will be
invited to submit the revised and extended versions of their contributions to
special issues of high-rank scientific journals.
Organization
Conference Chairs
Susumu Kunifuji, JAIST, Japan
George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Andrzej M.J. Skulimowski, P&BF and AGH, Poland
Local Organizing Chair
George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Award Chairs
Susumu Kunifuji, JAIST, Japan
Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Thammasat University, Thailand
Invited Session Chairs
Tomoko Kajiyama, JAIST, Japan
Vincent Cheng-Siong Lee, Monash University, Australia
Takaya Yuizono, JAIST, Japan
Program Committee
Chi-Hung Chi, CSIRO, Australia
João Clímaco, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Simon Colton, University of London, UK
Eugene Dubossarsky, Presciient, Australia
Mark Embrechts, RPI, USA
Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University, USA
John Garofalakis, University of Patras, Greece
Tessai Hayama, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Hidehi Hayashi, Naruto University of Education, Japan
Hidehiko Hayashi, Naruto University of Education, Japan
Christopher Hinde, Loughborough University, UK
Josef Jablonsky, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic
Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute – PAS, Poland
Hideaki Kanai, JAIST, Japan
Takashi Kawaji, Ohtsuki City College, Japan
Takahiro Kawaji, Ohtsuki City Colledge, Japan
Thomas Koehler, TU Dresden, Germany
Paul Kwan, University of New England, USA
Vincent Cs Lee, Monash University, Australia
Antoni Ligeza, AGH, Poland
Ahmad Lotfi, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Akinori Minaduk, Kushiro Prefecture University, Japan
Motoki Miura, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Kazunori Miyata, JAIST, Japan
David C. Moffat, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Anna Mura, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Toyohisa Nakada, Niigata University of Interenational and Information Studies, Japan
Kazushi Nishimoto, JAIST, Japan
Maciej Nowak, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic
Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Australia
Francois Pachet, CSL Sony Paris, France
Robert Pearson
Przemyslaw Pukocz, AGH, Poland
Pawel Rotter, AGH, Poland
Jose L. Salmeron, University Pablo de Olavide, Spain
Jagannathan Sarangapani, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Eric Schai, SCU, USA
Hsu-Shih Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Mikifumi Shikida, JAIST, Japan
Marcin Skowron, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria
Johan Suykens, K.U. Leuven, ESAT-SCD, Belgium
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH, Poland
I-Hsien Ting, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Brijesh Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia
Yongui Wang, Nanjiing University, China
Michal Wozniak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Fan Wu, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
Takashi Yoshino, Wakayama University, Japan
Atsuo Yoshitaka, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Takaya Yuizono, JAIST, Japan
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Australia
Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Constantin Zopounidis, Technical University of Crete, Greece