Introduction

Ubiquitous sensors, devices, networks and information are paving the way towards a smart world in which computational intelligence is distributed throughout the physical environment to provide reliable and relevant services to people. This ubiquitous intelligence will change the computing landscape because it will enable new breeds of applications and systems to be developed and the realm of computing possibilities will be significantly extended. By enhancing everyday objects with intelligence, many tasks and processes could be simplified, more efficient and more enjoyable. Ubiquitous computing is to create such intelligent/smart environments, services and applications.

Research on ubiquitous intelligence is an exciting field covering many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist to move from the current computing services to the ubiquitous intelligent/smart things. UIC 2023 is the next edition of the successful series, previously held as UIC 2022 in Haikou China, UIC 2021 in Atlanta USA, UIC 2020 Melbourne AU, UIC 2019 Leicester UK, UIC 2018 Guangzhou China, UIC 2017 San Jose USA, UIC 2016 Toulouse France, UIC 2015 Beijing China, UIC 2014 Bali Indonesia, UIC 2013 Vietri sul Mare Italy, UIC 2012 Fukuoka Japan, UIC 2011 Banff Canada, UIC 2010 Xi’an China, UIC 2009 Brisbane Australia, UIC 2008 Oslo Norway, UIC 2007 Hong Kong, UIC 2006 Wuhan China, UIC 2005 Nagasaki Japan, and UIC 2004 Taipei.

The 20th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2023) will include a highly selective program of technical papers, accompanied by workshops, demos, panel discussions and keynote speeches. We welcome high quality papers that describe original and unpublished research advancing the state of the art in ubiquitous intelligence and computing. Topics for submissions include but are not limited to the following:

Topics

Track 1: Intelligent/Smart Object & Interaction

    AutoID technologies such as RFID/iBeacon
    Embedded Chips, Sensors, and Actuators
    MEMS, NEMS, Micro and Biometric Devices
    Printed Electronics and Pasted Circuits
    Wearable Devices & Embodied interaction
    Materials, Textiles, Fabrics, Furniture, etc.
    Embedded Software and Agents
    Interaction to Smart Objects and Devices
    Smart Object OS and Programming
    Novel Interaction Models for Smart Objects
    Self-explanatory Smart Objects

Track 2: Intelligent/Smart Environment & Application

    Intelligent Traffic and Transportation
    Intelligent Energy Consumption
    Intelligent Environmental Protection
    Smart Healthcare and Active Assisted Living
    Smart Education and Learning
    Pervasive Games and Entertainment
    Smart Public Safety and Security
    Virtual Personal Assistants, Cognitive Experts

Track 3: Intelligent/Smart Systems & Services

    Sensor, Ad Hoc, and P2P Networks
    Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems
    Smart Systems Programming Models
    Intelligent Services and Architectures
    Cognitive computing in ubiquitous systems
    Human Activity Recognition
    Adaptive, Autonomic & Context-aware Systems
    Autonomous Cars, Assistive Driving
    Big Data in Ubiquitous Systems
    Nature-inspired Intelligent Systems
    Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
    Chatbots, Cyborgs, Embodied Agents

Track 4: Personalization and Social Aspects

    Social Computing and Crowd Computing
    Mobile Crowd Sensing and Sourcing
    Affect/Emotion/Personality/Mind Computing
    Location-Based Social Networks
    Human Mobility Modeling and Mining
    Human Centered Computing
    Context-aware Computing
    Recommendation Systems for Ubiquitous Comp
    Human-centric Design & Sensing
    Socially Aware and Community-aware Systems
    Security, Privacy, Safety and Ethical & Legal Issues
    Smart Object-mediated Behaviour Modelling