[topicmapmail] MRC2005 - CfP Extended Deadline and Call for Demos (Workshop at IJCAI 2005)

[Stefan Schulz]

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                       FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
              for the Second International Workshop on

             MODELING AND RETRIEVAL OF CONTEXT (MRC2005)

             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 17th, 2005
                          EXTENDED DEADLINE


NEWS

Due to various requests, the deadline for submissions to the workshop
has been extended! The new deadline now is April 17th, 2005.

Further, we are pleased to announce the Call for Demos, being available
at the workshop homepage. The demo session will provide the opportunity
to show and discuss emerging technologies and recent research prototypes
in form of Live Demonstrations.


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. The
submission system is available on the workshop website.

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 17th, 2005 (extended!)
  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

  Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
  Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
  Shannon Bradshaw, University of Iowa, USA
  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
  Theo G. Kanter, Ericsson Research, Sweden
  Jeroen Keppens, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
  Mohamed Khedr, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt
  Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada
  Kristof Van Laerhoven, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
  Ana G. Maguitman, Indiana University, USA
  Heiko Maus, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
  Enrico Rukzio, University of Munich, Germany
  Thomas Strang, DLR, Germany