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{\title Abstract Submission Guidelines}
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\b \cf0 2\super nd\nosupersub  EvAAL Competition \
(Evaluating AAL Systems through Competitive Benchmarking)\
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\b0 \cf0 http://evaal.aaloa.org\
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Track 1: Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL\
2-6 July, 2011\
Madrid, ES\
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Track 2: Activity Recognition for AAL\
9-13 July, 2011\
Valencia, ES\
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in conjunction with the AAL Forum \
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\f1 \cf0 (24-27 September 2012, Eindhoven, NL)\
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An initiative supported by the AALOA community (http://www.aaloa.org)\
and organised by the universAAL project (http://www.universAAL.org)\
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\f1 \cf0 We are pleased to announce the second EvAAL Competition. 
\f0 EvAAL is a newborn initiative that aims at bringing together both academic and industrial research communities to work together on challenging and open problems in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), with the purpose of evaluating different approaches and envisioning new research opportunities. The universAAL project organises this competition because it is an opportunity to find good solutions to relevant AAL challenges. To participate in the competition is therefore also an opportunity to influence the universAAL project. This competition is the second of several planned by universAAL to find good solutions to different challenges in the AAL domain. 
\f1 The whole initiative is organized as an AALOA project so that the AAL community is involved from the beginning and can more easily take over the continuation of EvAAL after the universAAL project finishes.\
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\f0 \cf0 During the competitions, we will collect large datasets that will be very useful as benchmarks to researcher communities for the simulation and test of their solutions. These will be significant benchmarks, because they will have been collected in a realistic environment (the living labs).\
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\f1 \cf0 The competition comprises two tracks and a final workshop:\
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\cf0 	\'95	Track 1 on Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL, to be held on the 
\f0 16-20 July, 2012 
\f1 at the Smart House Living Lab of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain\
	\'95	Track 2 on Activity Recognition for AAL, to be held on the 
\f0 9-13 July, 2012 
\f1 at the CIAmI Living Lab in Valencia, Spain\
	\'95	EvAAL workshop to be held in conjunction with the AAL Forum on the 24-27 September 2012, Eindhoven, NL (http://www.aalforum.eu/). \
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\b \cf0 Track 1 \'96 Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL\
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\f0\b0 \cf0 Localization is a key component for achieving context-awareness. Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend of location-based services and applications. In most cases, however, location information is limited by the accessibility to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), largely unavailable for indoor environments. The scope of this competition is to award the best indoor localization system from the point of view of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications. \
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\b \cf0 Track 2 \'96 
\f1 Activity Recognition for AAL
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\b0 \cf0 The automatic and unobtrusive identification of user\'92s activities is one of the challenging goals of context-aware computing. Real-time monitoring of human activities\'a0could be a useful tool for many purposes and future applications such as lifelog, healthcare or entertainment. The scope of this competition is to award the best activity recognition system from the point of view of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications.\
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\cf0 Candidate competitors are invited to submit a paper describing their system to the appropriate track. A \'93competitor\'94 can be any individual or group of individuals, from one or several organisations, working as a single team. The papers will undergo a peer review by the technical program committee members. The papers must include a description of the 
\f1 hardware, 
\f0 deployment, and algorithms and protocols used, and the description of the internal data produced and processed by the system. \
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Each paper must not exceed 4 pages (including tables, figures, etc.) and must be submitted by April 8\super th\nosupersub , 2012 using the instructions that will be published shortly on the EvAAL website (http://evaal.aaloa.org). \
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\f1 \cf0 The evaluation criteria for the competition, restrictions on the accepted technologies, and a description of the benchmarks are detailed in the technical annexes of this call, available at 
\f0 http://evaal.aaloa.org/current-competition/techannex 
\f1 (see notes below). Possible refinements of the annexes, also based on participating competitors comments, will be timely distributed to all participants.\
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\f0 \cf0 Depending on the number of accepted papers, it may be necessary to restrict participation in the competition to the best ranked papers, due to space/logistic constraints at the Living Labs. \
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\f1 \cf0 Competitors admitted to the competition are expected to:\
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\cf0 	\'95	participate to the competition in July at the living lab of the track to which they participate. The organizers will set individual appointments for each competing team in order to limit its presence at the living lab and the costs as much as possible.\
	\'95	present their work at the final EvAAL workshop that will be held in conjunction with the AAL Forum, (24-27 September 2012,Eindhoven,NL). The precise date of the workshop will be communicated as soon as possible to competitors.\
	\'95	Provide to the organizers the internal data produced by their systems during the competition and the documentation describing the deployment of their system, as requested by the organizers. These data will be published in the EvAAL website.\
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\cf0 Competing teams failing to meet these three requirements will be excluded from the competition and from the publication of the proceedings.\
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\b \cf0 The winner(s) of the competition will be announced at a special session of the AAL forum, a major event in the field of Ambient Assisted Living in Europe. 
\b0 The organizers intend to provide a prize for the best entries.\
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The organizers encourage submissions from both academia and industry (there are no restrictions to the composition of competing teams) with the aim of seeking innovative localization and activity recognition solutions for AAL applications that represent leading-edge research prototype development. Please check the EvAAL web site (http://evaal.aaloa.org) for more information and regular updates on progress with the competition.\
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\f0\b \cf0 Contact: info@evaal.aaloa.org\
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\b0 \cf0 Important Dates\
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Paper Submission Deadline: April 8\super th\nosupersub , 2012\
Acceptance Notification: May 4\super th\nosupersub , 2012\
Camera Ready Deadline: June 30\super th\nosupersub , 2012\
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Organizing Committee:\
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General Chair\
Dr. Stefano Chessa, (University of Pisa and ISTI-CNR, Italy)\
Local Committee co-Chairs:\
	Dr. Juan Carlos Narajo Martinez (ITACA, Spain)\
	Dr. Dario Salvi (Polytecnic University of Madrid, Spain)\
Publication co-Chairs:\
	Dr. Reiner Wichert (Fraunhofer IGD, Germany)\
	Dr. Stefan Knauth (Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany)\
Publicity co-Chairs:\
	Dr. Casper Dhal Marcussen (Region Syddanmark, Denmark)\
	Dr. Francesco Potort\'ec (ISTI-CNR, Italy)\
Dataset Management Chair:\
	Dr. Juan Pablo Lazaro (TSB Soluciones Tecnologicas, Spain)\
Software Tools Chair:\
	Dr. Dario Salvi (Polytecnic University of Madrid, Spain)\
Financial Chair:\
	Dr. Francesco Furfari (ISTI-CNR, Italy)\
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Track 1 Technical Program Committee (Indoor Localization for AAL):\
Chair: Dr.Paolo Barsocchi (ISTI-CNR, IT)\
Members:\
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\f2 \cf2 Prof. Adriano Moreira (University of Minho, Portugal)\
Dr. Ivan Martinovic (University of Oxford, UK) \
Prof. Rainer Mautz (ETH, Swiss)\
Prof. Binghao Li (University of New South Wales, Australia)\
Prof. Neal Patwari (University of Utah, USA)\
Prof. Cesar Benavente-Peces (
\f0 \cf0 Polytechnic University of 
\f2 \cf2 Madrid)\
Prof. Dante I. Tapia (University of Salamanca, Spain)\
Dr. Hanke Sten (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria)\
Dr. Francesco Furfari (CNR-ISTI, Italy)\
Prof. Stefan Knauth (Stuttgart University, Germany)\
Prof. Tom\'e1s Ruiz-L\'f3pez (University of Granada, Spain)\
Dr. Andreas Braun (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)\
Dr. Patricial Abril (
\f0 \cf0 Polytechnic University of
\f2 \cf2  Madrid)\
Dr. Francesco Potort\'ec (CNR-ISTI, Italy)\
Dr. Ma Pilar Sala Soriano (
\f0 \cf0 Polytechnic University of Valencia
\f2 \cf2 , Spain) \
Dr. Michele Girolami (CNR-ISTI, Italy)\
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\cf0 Prof. Filipe Meneses (University of Minho, Portugal)\
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\cf2 Dr. Dario Salvi (
\f0 \cf0 Polytechnic University of 
\f2 \cf2 Madrid)\
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Track 2 Technical Program Committee (Activity Recognition for AAL):\
Chair: Dr. Juan Antonio \'c1lvarez Garc\'eda (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)\
Members:\
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\cf0 Dr. Alessio Micheli, University of Pisa\uc0\u8232 Dr. Alexander Kroener, DFKI\u8232 Dr. Arantxa Renter\'eda, Tecnalia\u8232 Prof. Cecilio Angulo, Technical University of Catalonia\u8232 Dr. Daniel Roggen, ETHZ\u8232 Prof. Diane J. Cook, Washington State University\u8232 Dr. Francesco Furfari, CNR\u8232 Dr. Francesco Potorti, CNR\u8232 Dr. Juan Antonio Alvarez, University of Sevilla\'a0 (TPC Chair)\u8232 Dr. Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster\u8232 Dr. Kazuya Murao, Kobe University\u8232 Dr. Mohammad-Reza (Saied) Tazari, Fraunhofer IGD\u8232 Dr. Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer IGD\u8232 Dr. Roberta Giannantonio, Telecom Italia\u8232 Prof. Roozbeh\'a0Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas\u8232 Dr. Stefano Chessa , University of Pisa\
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Notes:\
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\cf0 	\'95	In order to have a smooth organization of the competition, the competitors will be requested to interface their competing artefacts with the measurement tools (that will be provided by universAAL project) that will be used in the competition. To this purpose there will be a shepherding phase in which the EvAAL organizer will help competitors to implement this integration. \
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\f1 \cf0 	\'95	The evaluation criteria for the competition, restrictions on the accepted technologies, and a description of the benchmarks are described in the technical annexes of this call (one for the localization track and one for the activity recognition track). Refinements of technical annexes based on competitors requests will be timely distributed to all participants.  The technical annexes are available in: \
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\f0 \cf0 http://evaal.aaloa.org/current-competition/techannex \
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