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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Apologies for cross postings</span><br class="">
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<b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">2017 International Conference on CYBERWORLDS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></p>
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<b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div>
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<b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">20-22nd September, 2017</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">In cooperation with the Eurographics Association, ACM SIGGRAPH, and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div>
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<b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(110,43,112)"><a href="http://www.cyberworlds-conference.org/" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span lang="EN-US" class="">http://www.cyberworlds-conference.org/</span></a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></p>
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<b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">Submission Deadline Extended</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">Cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that use computer technologies to augment the way we interact, participate in business and receive information throughout the world.
Cyberworlds have ever-growing impact on our lives and the evolution of the world economy. Examples include social networking services, 3D shared virtual communities and massively multiplayer online role-playing games. As the University of Chester is hosting
the 2017 conference we particularly invite submissions based on our specialist areas of virtual and augmented reality, and cybersecurity. However, a broad range of topics will be accepted for CW2017, including:</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Applications of augmented and mixed reality</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Applications of virtual reality</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Networked and shared virtual worlds</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Virtual collaborative spaces</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Shape modelling for cyberworlds</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Virtual humans and avatars</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Multimodal interaction and rendering</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Computer vision for augmented and mixed reality</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Cognitive informatics</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Brain-computer interfaces</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Affective computing</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Social computing</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Online communities</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">E-learning in cyberworlds</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Multi-user web games</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Art and heritage in cyberspace, cyber-museums</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Cyberethics and cyberlaws</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Cybersecurity</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Welfare in cyberworlds</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51)">
<span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Visual analytics in cyberworlds</span></li></ul>
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<b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">SUBMISSION CATEGORIES</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)"> include full papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages),
and poster papers (up to 4 pages). The papers must be written in good English, carefully proofread, and formatted to </span><a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(102,0,102)">IEEE
Manuscript Template</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">. Full papers and short papers will be scheduled for oral presentation (25 min full papers, 15 min short papers). Posters/demos will have to be displayed
by the authors during the poster session and will also require 1 min fast-forward slide presentation. All three categories of papers will participate in the competition for the Best Paper awards.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div>
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<b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)"> with all accepted papers will be published by Conference Publishing
Services as well as submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and reference databases of all major referencing indices (e.g., see the proceedings listed at SCI, Scopus, etc.).</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div>
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<b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)"> referenced by SCI and other major indices are currently being confirmed
for selected full papers. We have agreements with The Visual Computer (Springer), Computers & Graphics (Elsevier) and Transactions on Computational Science (Springer, LNCS Journal Subline). Selected papers will be subject to additional reviewing and the papers
have to be extended and improved with at least 30% of new content.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div>
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<b class=""><span class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">KEYNOTE TALKS:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Professor Min Chen, University of Oxford, “Myths and Promises of Data Intelligence”.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(50,50,51); text-align:justify">
<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt">Dr. Rafal Mantiuk, University of Cambridge, "Towards perceptually realistic visual experience"</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></li></ul>
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<b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">REGISTRATION</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)"> and <b class="">ORAL PRESENTATION</b> of each paper accepted for the conference
will be required to be included in the conference proceedings.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div>
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<b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">CONFERENCE VENUE: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">Chester is one of the most historic cities in the UK and many tourist
attractions are nearby. CW2017 will be held in the heart of the city at the Riverside Innovation Centre. There is a wide selection of hotels at a range of prices available to book in Chester – for more information see </span><a href="http://www.visitchester.com/" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(102,0,102)">www.visitchester.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">.
Manchester International Airport is 30 miles from Chester and can be reached in 40 minutes by road or 1hr 30 mins by rail. Liverpool Airport is 25 miles from Chester and can be reached in 35 minutes by road. Chester is also well served by the railway network
and has frequent, fast rail links to London and major cities in the UK.<b class=""> </b></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">Links to previous conferences in the Cyberworlds series can be found </span><a href="http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/assourin/CW/cw-conferences.htm" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(102,0,102)">here</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:13.5pt; color:rgb(50,50,51)">.</span></div>
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