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 Papers reporting original unpublished research results on theoretical foundations, IT implementations of decision support and expert systems, as well as case studies of successful applications of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