The Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI)
began as a workshop held in 2003 in San Sebastián (Spain) under the
Spanish Artificial Intelligence Conference. This event gathered 32
attendees and 18 papers were p- sented. The second edition, already as a
Symposium, took place in Granada (Spain) under the first Spanish
Computer Science Conference (CEDI). Later, in 2006, a s- ond workshop
was celebrated in Ciudad Real and, in 2007; the second Symposium was
organized in Zaragoza by the CEDI conference. Now we continue to work on
the organization of this event in Salamanca, a beautiful Spanish city.
The European Community and the Sixth and Seventh Framework Programs -
courage researchers to explore the generic scope of the AmI vision. In
fact, some researchers have a crucial role in this vision. Emile Aarts
from Philips describes - bient Intelligence as "the integration of
technology into our environment, so that p- ple can freely and
interactively utilize it". This idea agrees with the proposal of Mark
Weiser regarding the Ubiquitous Computing paradigm.