3rd International Workshop on Visions on Internet of Cultural Things and Applications

Scope

The adoption of Future Internet (FI) technology, and in particular of its most challenging components like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Services (IoS), can constitute the basic building blocks to progress towards unified ICT platforms for a variety of applications within the large framework of smart cities.

The combination of the Internet and emerging technologies such as near-field and BLE communications, real-time localization, and embedded sensors lets us transform everyday objects into smart objects that can understand and react to their environment.

In the last years, Cultural Heritage has turned out to be one of the most suitable domains in which such achievements can be profitably exploited, since it characterizes a domain where several aspects have to be considered at the same time. In line with SITIS tradition of promoting interdisciplinary research, the international workshop on Visions on Internet of Cultural Things and Applications, VICTA ’16, aims to be a profitable informal working day to discuss together hot topics about Internet of Things and its applications within the Smart City and the Cultural Heritage domain.

This third edition will be organized by DATABENC, the High Technology district for Cultural Heritage in Campania region, Italy. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and applied papers on their research in the following topics.

Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

  • Internet of Things,
  • Internet of Knowledge,
  • Internet of Data,
  • Innovative ICT solutions within Cultural environments (e.g. museums, exhibitions, etc.);
  • Smart Objects and Smart Environments,
  • Smart City solutions,
  • Knowledge classification and semantic representation in Cultural environments;
  • Embedded platforms and sensors,
  • Multimedia systems, applications and services for Cultural Heritage
  • Multimedia recommendations and User profiling techniques,
  • Interactive 3D media and immersive environments,
  • Data in social networks,
  • Data mining analytics applied to Smart Cities;
  • Data collection and management,
  • Semantic-Web data,
  • Big Data in Cultural Heritage applications;
  • User studies, such as museum and sites applications, human interfaces, interaction and usability;
  • e-Learning: Tools for Education, Documentation and Training in Cultural Heritage

Workshop Co-Chairs

Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Angelo Chianese, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Program Committee

Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Flora Amato, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Angelo Chianese, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Salvatore Cuomo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Pasquale De Michele, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Jay E. Jung, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Chun-Wei Tsai, National Ilan University, Taiwan
Paolo Benedusi, In.Tel.Tec. Spa Sistemi Informativi, Italy
Silvia Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Tsivi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel
Martin White, University of Sussex, UK

Contact

francesco.piccialli@unina.it

Journal Special Issues

Publication Chair: Francesco Piccialli

The Special Issues:

  • “Ambient Intelligence as key factor for a sustainable Cultural Heritage domain” of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI), IGI Global
  • “Mobile Technologies for Cultural Heritage: Trends and Challenges” of the International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communication (IJMCMC), IGI Global

will select high-quality papers (more than 50% of new material) from the third edition of International Workshop on Visions on Internet of Cultural Things and Applications – VICTA ‘16.

Selected high-quality papers in the area of the Internet of Multimedia Things applied to the Cultural Heritage domain will be selected to submit an extended (more than 50% of new material) on the special issue:

  • “Visions and Challenges on Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT)“, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer

The BEST paper of the VICTA workshop will be selected to submit and extended version (more than 50% of new material) on the special issue:

  • “The Interent of Cultural Things: Towards a Smart Cultural Heritage”, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier