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 Papers reporting original unpublished research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