Aim: to foster interaction and collaboration in theory and applications, to provide a discussion forum for scientists from different disciplines and practitioners from companies where they can inspire and learn from each other, meet new people, form new research alliances and plan new joint research projects.

Format: A single track for talks in the conference center with enough time for discussions outside the conference hall. All participants stay in the workshop hotel and book their room through Registration & accommodation. Participation fees are not charged to such participants, they pay the costs for accommodation and catering to the hotel at the hotel. The room rates for participants include the costs of the conference hall, admission to the sessions, coffee/refreshments breaks and social events of the conference. 

Venue: Grand Hotel San Michele near Cetraro on the West, Tyrrhenian sea coast of Southern Italy. Photo gallery

Time: Amalea is organised twice per year: 

• Amalea - early summer (June) https://sites.google.com/view/amalea/home (9-15 June 2024) 

• Amalea2 - late summer (September) https://sites.google.com/view/amalea2/home (8-14 Sept. 2024)

Archive: https://sites.google.com/view/amalea-archive/home

Program committee: more names will be added

Marco Aiello (Stuttgart, DE)

Enrique Alegre Gutierres (Leon, ES)

Athos Antoniades (Limassol, CY)

Erhardt Barth (Lübeck, DE)

Gyan Bhanot (New Jersey, USA)

Michael Biehl (Groningen, NL)

Kerstin Bunte (Groningen, NL)

Mario Cannataro (Catanzaro, IT)

Anna Carbone (Torino, IT)

Luigia Carlucci Aiello (Rome, IT)

Modesto Castrillon Santana (Las Palmas, ES)

Dante R. Chialvo (San Martin, AR)

Anthony Cohn (Leeds, UK)

Alberto Del Bimbo (Firenze, IT)

Schahram Dustdar (Vienna, AT)

Nicola Fabiano (Rome, IT)

Pedro Galindo (Cadiz, ES)

Wolfgang Gentzsch (Regensburg, DE)

Javier Gonzalez Jimenez (Malaga, ES)

Hossein Khiabanian (New Jersey, USA)

Stiliyan Kalitzin (Utrecht, NL)

Danilo Mandic (London, UK)

Thomas Martinetz (Lübeck, DE)

Daniele Nardi (Rome, IT)

C. L. Max Nikias (Los Angeles, USA)

Arkadiusz Orlowski (Warsaw, PL)

Constantinos Pattichis (Nicosia, CY)

Nicolai Petkov (Groningen, NL)

Petia Radeva (Barcelona, ES)

Alessia Saggese (Salerno, IT)

Rafael Munoz Salinas (Cordoba, ES)

Guido Sanguinetti (Trieste,IT)

Christos N. Schizas (Nicosia, CY)

Nicola Strisciuglio (Enschede, NL)

Joao Tavares (Porto, PT)

Carlos Travieso Gonzalez (Las Palmas, ES)

Mario Vento (Salerno, IT)

Christian Wolf (Grenoble, FR)

Dietlind Zuehlke (Koeln, DE)

Organisation committee:

Nicolai Petkov (Groningen, NL) (N.Petkov at rug dot nl)

You can submit an abstract using this abstract submission form. After submitting the form you will receive an email with a link that you can use to edit your submission.

Talks (presenting author marked by *)

... TBA after all slots are filled

Panel: 'Impact of Generative AI and its Ethical Implications', chaired by C.L. Max Nikias (president emeritus of USC)

Book presentation: 'The Shallow and the Deep' by Michael Biehl.

Generic schedule, Mo-Fr: The talks are 30 or 60 min, including discussion

10:00-11:00 Talks, 11:00-11:30 Refreshments; 11:30-12:30 Talks

12:30-17:00 lunch break (lunch at the beach restaurant)

17:00-17:30 Refreshments; 17:30-19:30 Talks

20:30-22:00 Dinner at the hotel restaurant

Social events: Welcome drinks, Calabrian dinner, Pizza and BBQ dinner, Gala dinner

Registration:

Only participants are admitted who stay in the workshop hotel and book their room through the registration and accommodation form. Participation fees are not charged to such participants, they pay the costs for accommodation and catering to the hotel at the hotel. The registration and accommodation form is only for room reservation, not for payment. Participants who want to pay in advance by receiving an invoice, please, contact the organisation who will request the hotel to issue an invoice.

Accommodation - room prices  per day on full board basis (breakfast, lunch and dinner with water and house wine included). These room rates for participants also include the costs of the conference hall, admission to the sessions, coffee/refreshments breaks and social events of the conference. :

Room type Price for Price for 

1 person 2 persons

Double standard       179 Euro 269 Euro

Double with sea view 189 Euro 279 Euro

Superior 199 Euro 289 Euro  (a bedroom for 2 persons + a sitting room)

Suite (fully booked) 209 Euro 299 Euro  (a bedroom for 2 persons + a sitting room and 

a terrace overlooking the sea.) 

The above prices do not include the city tax (1,20 Euro per day per person).

Destination: Gran Hotel San Michele, Cetraro (Calabria), Italy

Air: The nearest airport, Lamezia Terme (SUF) is 75 km from the hotel. The hotel can arrange for transfer, see below. Alternatively, you can fly to Naples (NAP) or Rome and then continue by train to Cetraro or Paola. The hotel can arrange for transfer from Paola and Cetraro train stations, see below.

Train: Cetraro has a train station on which regional trains stop. Fast trains stop at Paola train station that is about 21 km from the hotel. From Paola you can travel by a regional train to Cetraro or use the shuttle service directly to the hotel. The hotel can arrange for transfer from Cetraro and Paola train stations, see below.

For train timetables and electronic tickets see https://www.trenitalia.com

If you, for instance use as a query on that site 'From: Napoli Centrale | To: Cetraro' the system will give you possible connections with their total travel time. You are advised to use a fast train, called Freccia or Intercity from Napoli Centrale to Paola. To go from Paola train station to the hotel you can either use a regional train from Paola to Cetrao (10 min.) in the result of your querry or skip that train and use the shuttle service to reach the hotel. If on departure you use a fast train from Paola to go to your next destination, you are advised to use the shuttle service to go from the hotel to Paola train station - if you instead use a reginal train (Regionale) from Cetraro to Paola, it may have a delay and you may miss the connection with the fast train.

Possible routes: International participants can fly to Lamezia Terme or Naples or Rome.

From Lamezia Terme airport, the easiest way is to ask the hotel to arrange for transfer.

From Naples or Rome, one can take a fast train to Paola that is 21 km from the hotel. There are also regional trains to Cetraro. The hotel can arrange for transfer from Paola and Cetraro train stations.

Transfer: one-way prices to be shared by actual number of passengers (except Cetraro)

Lamezia Airport: car (3 pax): Euro 95, minibus (8 pax): Euro 127

Paola train station: car (3 pax): Euro 50, Minibus (8 pax): Euro 77

Cetraro train station: Euro 5 per person

Supplement for night shuttle services (between 1.00 am and 5.00 am): 30 Euro.

If you want to use any of these options you can fill in this transfer booking form.

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