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.
