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 | | From: | Thomas Roth-Berghofer | | Subject: | CfP: 2nd Int. Workshop on MODELING AND RETRIEVAL OF CONTEXT MRC 2005 at IJCAI 2005 | | Date: | Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:00:59 +0100 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
for the Second International Workshop on
MODELING AND RETRIEVAL OF CONTEXT (MRC2004)
A Two-Day Workshop to be Held at IJCAI 2005
30 July - 5 August 2005, Edinburgh (Scotland)
http://mrc2005.workshop.hm/
Paper submission deadline: April 10th, 2005
OBJECTIVES
Computing in context has become a necessity in modern and intelligent
IT applications. Context is now more than just location. It is seen
as a multi-dimensional space of environmental aspects, even including
non-physical facets like emotions. Hence, models for representing
context have evolved from using simple key-value pairs to using
current methods and techniques derived from Artificial Intelligence
and Knowledge Management, e.g., logic, object relationship models,
and ontologies.
Context and context-awareness are crucial not only for mobile and
ubiquitous computing, but span various application areas such as
collaborative software and web engineering, personal digital
assistants and peer-to-peer information sharing, health care
workflow and patient control, and adaptive games and e-Learning
solutions. In these areas, context serves as a major source for
reasoning, decision making, and adaptation, as it covers not only
application knowledge but also environmental knowledge. The
introduction of intelligent systems and automation raises additional
issues for which the use of context may be important, for example
for explaining how solutions are found, what the system is doing,
and why it operates a certain way. Applied methods and given advice
have to be explained, so that the user can understand the process
and agree on decisions.
Appropriate context management methods are an important prerequisite
for using contextual information. Therefore, advanced models,
methods, and tools are needed to provide mechanisms and techniques
for structured storage of contextual information, to provide
effective ways to retrieve it, and to enable integration of context
and application knowledge. The need for advanced methodologies for
determining or assigning a context to a situation bring the need for
Artificial Intelligence mechanisms in context-aware applications.
The use of mobile devices and current research on ubiquitous computing
make context-awareness a major issue for future IT applications.
Goals and audience
The major goal of the workshop is to bring researchers, scientists
from both industry and academics, and representatives from different
communities together to study, understand, and explore the handling of
context in IT applications. Besides contributed papers and invited
talks, this workshop will offer organized and open spaces for targeted
discussions. An expected result is to form a common understanding on
the topic of modeling context and ways of retrieving it within such
models.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Generic and specific context models
* Retrieval of context and context information
* Context-based retrieval and reasoning
* Matching context and situation
* Context-awareness in applications
* Explanation and context
* Mobile context
* Information blurring
* Context management
SUBMISSIONS
Workshop submissions will be electronic, in pdf format only. A
submission system will be available on the workshop website in
due time.
Papers must be written in English. Submitted papers must not exceed
12 pages in length. Members of the Program Committee will review the
papers. All accepted papers will be published in the working notes
of the workshop as well as at http://CEUR-WS.org.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the
workshop and present the contribution in order to be published in
the workshop proceedings.
Formatting
The submissions should conform to Springer LNCS style. Authors are
strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer llncs class files
available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
While the pages in the final camera-ready form of a paper must be
unnumbered (this is the default in llncs style), numbered pages are
preferred for reviewing. Page numbering can be turned on using the
LaTeX command \pagestyle{plain}.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: April 10th, 2005
Notification: May 8th, 2005
Camera ready copies: May 29th, 2005
IJCAI-05 workshops: July 30th - August 1st, 2005
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
The preliminary two-day schedule is available on the workshop's
website.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Stefan Schulz, mailto:schulz@sce.carleton.ca
Carleton University, Canada
David B. Leake, mailto:leake@cs.indiana.edu
Indiana University, USA
Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, mailto:trb@dfki.uni-kl.de
DFKI GmbH / TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
DEMO CHAIR
Keith Mitchell, mailto:k.mitchell@lancaster.ac.uk
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
Patrick Brezillon, University of Paris, France
Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Andreas Dengel, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Anind Dey, Intel Research Berkeley, USA
Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
Mehmet H. Göker, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, USA
Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA
Jeroen Keppens, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Kristof Van Laerhoven, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Heiko Maus, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Enrico Rukzio, University of Munich, Germany
Thomas Strang, DLR, Germany
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Dr. Thomas Roth-Berghofer - Senior Researcher
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AG Wissensbasierte Systeme (Knowledge Based Systems Group)
Technische Universitt Kaiserslautern
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Knowledge Management Department
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH
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