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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="">2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBERWORLDS (CW2018)</span><br class="">
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Singapore, 3-5 October, 2018<br class="">
Organized by Fraunhofer Singapore<br class="">
In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH, </span>Eurographics Association, </font></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span class=""><font face="Arial" class="">and International Federation for Information Processing</font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Arial" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Conference web page: </span><a href="http://www.cyberworlds-conference.org/" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span lang="EN-US" class="">www.cyberworlds-conference.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class="">
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CW 2018 SCOPE:<br class="">
Created intentionally or spontaneously, cyberworlds are information spaces and communities that </span></font></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Arial" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">use </span>computer technologies to augment the way we interact, participate in business and receive </font></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Arial" class="">information throughout the world. CW 2018 is the 17th conference organized annually since 2002. </font></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">CW 2018 will consider the following tracks and topics:<br class="">
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GENERAL TRACK:<br class="">
Applications of virtual and augmented reality;  Networked and shared virtual worlds; </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Arial" class="">Virtual collaborative spaces;  Shape modeling for cyberworlds;  Virtual humans and avatars;  </font></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Multimodal interaction and rendering;  Computer vision for augmented and mixed reality;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Social computing;  Online communities;  Cyber-learning;  Multi-user web games;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Art and heritage in cyberspace;  Cyber-museums;  Cyberethics and cyberlaws; </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Arial" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Welfare in cyberworlds;  </span>Data mining and warehousing in cyberworlds;  </font></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Arial" class="">Visual analytics in cyberworlds</font></div>
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COGNITIVE HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION:<br class="">
Cognitive informatics;  Human factors in transportation, maritime, industry 4.0;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Neurorehabilitation and neuroplasticity; Affective computing;  Mobile BCI;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Machine and deep learning for EEG-based algorithms;  Multi-modal Interfaces; </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Neurofeedback systems and games;  BCI applications<br class="">
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CYBERSECURITY AND BIOMETRICS:<br class="">
Security protocols;  Authentication protocols;  Privacy protocols;  Password security;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Security of personal data; Content protection and digital rights management;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Risk and reputation management;  Identity and trust management; Information hiding and anonymity;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Privacy, security and trust in social media;  Security of embedded systems; Behavioral biometrics;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Performance evaluation of biometric systems;  Multi-biometrics;  Quality of biometric data; </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Biometric template protection;  Presentation attack detection;  Emerging biometrics<br class="">
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CYBER CITIES AND CYBER MANUFACTURING:<br class="">
Real-time analytics, modelling, and simulation for the future smart cities and urban mobility;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">3D city modelling, processing and simulation;  Predictive analytics and machine learning for future healthcare;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Medical Computing for future healthcare;  Visual Computing for active ageing;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Cyber-physical systems technologies;  Computer vision for industry 4.0 / smart manufacturing;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Optical inspection for industry 4.0 / smart manufacturing;  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Virtual and Augmented Reality for the future smart cities and smart manufacturing<br class="">
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SUBMISSION CATEGORIES: full (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and poster papers (up to 4 pages)<br class="">
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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS with all accepted papers will be published by Conference Publishing Services </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">as well as submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Arial" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">reference databases </span>of all major referencing indices including EI Compendex, Scopus, and SCI</font></div>
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SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES will consider for publications extended versions of all accepted full papers:<br class="">
Computers & Graphics (Elsevier);  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">The Visual Computer (Springer);  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Transactions on Computational Science (Springer, LNCS);  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier);  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Arial" class="">Journal of Future Generation Systems (Elsevier);  </font></span></div>
<div class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="Arial" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">International Journal of Art, Culture, and Design Technologies (IGI Global)<br class="">
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IMPORTANT DATES:<br class="">
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Monday 7 May            Papers (Full/Short) submission<br class="">
Monday 25 June         Papers (Full/Short) notification<br class="">
Monday 2 July             Poster papers submission<br class="">
Monday 16 July           Poster papers notification<br class="">
Monday 30 July           Author registration<br class="">
Wednesday 30 July     Camera-ready papers submisson to CPS<br class="">
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Conference flyer for downloading: </span><a href="http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/assourin/cw/cw2018/flyer.pdf" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span lang="EN-US" class="">http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/assourin/cw/cw2018/flyer.pdf</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class="">
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CONTACT:<br class="">
Program Chair: Alexei Sourin </span><a href="mailto:cw2018@easychair.org" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span lang="EN-US" class="">cw2018@easychair.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class=""><br class="">
Conference URL: </span><a href="http://www.cyberworlds-conference.org/" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span lang="EN-US" class="">www.cyberworlds-conference.org</span></a></font></div>
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