Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair

• Atsuto Suzuki, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

General Chairs

• Goutam Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
• Rung-Ching Chen, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan

PC Chairs

• Masafumi Matsuhara, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
• Yusuke Manabe, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan

PC Co-hairs

• Yan Pei, University of Aizu, Japan
• Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

Special Session Chair

• Cheng-Hsuing Hsieh, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan

Publicity Chairs

• Takako Hashimoto, Chiba University of Commerce, Japan
• Shih-Cheng Horng, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
• Hui Yu, University of Portsmounth, UK

Publication Chair

• Basabi Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

Local Organizing & Finance Chairs

• Jun Sasaki, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
• Hisayoshi Ito, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

Advisory Committee

• Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
• Ruo-Wei Hung, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
• Kei Ohnishi, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Registration Chairs

• Prima Oky Dicky Ardiansyah, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
• Hiroshi Mabuchi, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

Steering Committee

• Goutam Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
• Qiangfu Zhao, University of Aizu, Japan
• Robert Kozma, University of Memphis, USA
• Tadahiko Murata, Kansai University, Japan
• Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea

Objective:

The 10th International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST 2019) is a major international conference to bring together researchers, engineers, and scientists from academia and industry working in awareness science and its applications, for discussion, exchanging ideas, opinions, and most importantly to present their works and latest results. Special sessions on various subjects related to artificial intelligence, soft-computing, intelligent systems, perception, cognitive science, psychology, data analysis, IoT are welcome. Individual submissions in the following area are invited.

Topics include but not limited to the following:

Awareness Science:

Awareness mechanism and modeling, Machine learning/deep learning, Pattern recognition and image understanding, Agent computing/ontology/semantics, Neuro-computing/perception/cognition, Fuzzy logic/granular computing/rough set

Awareness Technology:

Context/situation/background/semantics awareness, Chance/opportunity awareness, Intention/emotion/preference awareness, Location/position/goal awareness, Power/energy/capability/resource awareness, Weakness/risk/danger awareness, Safety/security/privacy/trust awareness, Knowledge/tacit knowledge engineering

Awareness Related Applications:

Social network, Data/Web/Text Mining, Perception/Processing of Image/video/speech signal, Intelligent Transportation System, Patient Aware Health care system, internet of things, E-business/e-government/e-learning, Smart city/grid, Intelligent control, Intelligent robot

Call for Special Sessions:

Proposals of organizing your Special Sessions are welcome. For details, please visit conference web-site special session page at:

http://www.chishiki.iwate-pu.ac.jp/icast2019/cfss.html

Venue:

AIINA 7th, & 8th. Fl., Morioka, Iwate, Japan. http://www.aiina.jp/en/ (4mins. Walk from Morioka station, 8mins drive from Tohoku Expressway)

Paper Submission Procedure:

Electronic version of full paper (IEEE format, A4 six-page standard including figures and tables) complete with authors' affiliations should be submitted through official site. All accepted papers will be sent to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Selected papers will be recommended for post-conference publication in some Science Citation Index Expanded, EI, or Scopus journals.

Important Dates:

• June 3, 2019: Deadline of Special Session (SS) proposal
• June 28, 2019: Notification of Acceptance of SS proposal
• August 2, 2019: Deadline of paper submission (both general session and SS)
• August 30, 2019: Notification of paper acceptance
• September 17, 2019: Submission of final camera-ready papers
• September 10, 2019: Deadline for registration

Sponsor:

Japan Chapter of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (SMCS).

Supporters:

Iwate Prefectural University, Japan,

IEEE SMCS Technical Committee on Awareness Computing,

IEEE CIS Task Force on Awareness Computing,

IEEE Sendai Section,

IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT).