MRC 2011 - Seventh International Workshop Modeling and Reasoning in Context

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Category context; ambient systems; artificial intelligence; linguistics

Deadline: June 26, 2011 | Date: September 26, 2011-September 27, 2011

Venue/Country: Karlsruhe, Germany

Updated: 2011-06-10 05:16:31 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Call for Papers: MRC 2011
The 7th International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context
In conjunction with CONTEXT 2011
The 7th International and Interdisciplinary
Conference on Modelling and Using Context
Karlsruhe, Germany
Submission deadline: Sunday June 26, 2010
http://events.idi.ntnu.no/mrc2011/
Welcome to MRC 2011
Context has moved from the researchers workbench to become a major selling point
in applications, devices and smart environments. Indeed, context sensitive
processing plays a key role in many modern IT applications, with context-
awareness and context-based reasoning essential not only for mobile and
ubiquitous computing, but also for a wide range of other areas such as
collaborative software, web engineering, personal knowledge management,
information sharing, health care workflow and patient control, adaptive games,
and e-Learning solutions.
One of the challenges, from an intelligent systems perspective, is to integrate
context with other types of knowledge for reasoning, decision-making, and
adaptation to form a coherent and versatile architecture. There is a common
understanding that achieving desired behaviour from intelligent systems will
depend on the ability to represent and manipulate information about a rich range
of contextual factors.
These factors may include not only physical characteristics of the task
environment, but, possibly more importantly, many other aspects including
cognitive factors such as the knowledge states (of both the application and
user) or emotions, and social factors such as networks, relations, roles, and
hierarchies. This representation and reasoning problem presents research
challenges to which methodologies derived from areas such as artificial
intelligence, knowledge management, human-computer interaction, semiotics and
psychology can contribute solutions.
Despite the value of diverse approaches to context, integrating findings from
the social sciences into the design of context-aware systems and building
psychologically plausible knowledge models remains problematic. Furthermore, it
is difficult to deal with uncertainty on different levels, from interpretation
of uncertain sensor input data through to identification of contexts with fuzzy
borders.  Moreover, the ability of the system to use explanations, both as a
part of its reasoning and as a means of communication with the user requires
further consideration.
Workshop Objectives
The Modelling and Reasoning in Context workshop series aims to bring together
researchers and practitioners from different communities, both in industry
and academia, to study, understand, and explore issues surrounding context.
By considering modelling and reasoning approaches for context-sensitive systems
from a broad range of areas, the workshop will facilitate the sharing of problems,
techniques, and solutions. The workshop covers different understandings of what
context is, different approaches to modelling context, mechanisms and techniques
for structured storage of contextual information, effective ways to retrieve it,
and methods for enabling integration of context and application knowledge.
MRC provides a forum to exchange and discuss issues and ideas in a friendly,
cooperative environment. The focus of this years workshop is on commercialising
context and the impact of this on context models. Areas of interest include, but
are not limited to:
* Generic and specific context models
* Explicit representations of context
* Representation of and reasoning with uncertainty
* Retrieval of context and context information
* Context-based retrieval and reasoning
* Socio-technical issues
* Approaches to the integration of findings from the social sciences
* Context awareness and context-sensitivity
* Context awareness in applications
* Evaluation of context-aware applications
* Explanation and context
* Mobile context
* Issues of time, dynamics and information ageing
* Context focusing and context switching
* Context management
Agenda
The workshop will last two full days and will be organised into three main
parts.
The first part will consist of short presentations of the accepted papers,
grouped into sessions. Each session will be followed by a discussion period. The
goal of these sessions is to introduce the work of all the participants.
The second part will consist of three panel discussion sessions, each dedicated
to one specific issue. The suggested issues are "perception", "context
awareness", and "context sensitivity", but these are subject to change dependent
on the interests of the attendees and the nature of submissions. The goal of
these panels is to discuss the various approaches to each of these basic issues
and to identify the critical problems in need of attention and the most
promising research directions.
The workshop will be concluded with an open discussion summarising the most
important lessons learned.
Submissions
Workshop submissions are electronic, in PDF format only, using the EasyChair
submission system. Paper submission will open shortly.
Paper length should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS format. Guidelines
and templates are available on the web at
http://www.springer.de/comp/ncs/authors.html.
Papers will be published in accompanying proceedings and online. Provided
that the quantity and quality of submissions justifies a special journal issue
on context aware systems, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit
extended versions for such a publication.
All workshop participants must register both for this workshop and the main
conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop.
Background to MRC
MRC was first held at the German AI conference KI in 2004. Subsequent workshops
have been held at IJCAI, AAAI, CONTEXT, HCP and ECAI (2010).
These workshops have been successful in raising awareness about the importance
of context as a major issue for future intelligent systems, especially for the
use of mobile devices and current research on ubiquitous computing. At the same
time, advances in methodologies for modelling and retrieving context have been
made and MRC continues to provide a venue for the discussion and furthering of
research into issues surrounding context.
Websites
More information about MRC and the paper submission system can be found on the
workshop website at:
http://events.idi.ntnu.no/mrc2011/
Submission System:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrc2011
Join the mailing list for MRC by visiting:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mrc-discuss/
The CONTEXT 2011 main conference website has more information about the
location and the registration process as well as other workshops:
http://context-11.teco.edu/
Important Dates
Submission of papers      Sun   June 26, 2011
Notification of authors   Mon August  1, 2011
Camera-ready copies Tue   Tue August 16, 2011
CRC updates (LaTeX only)  Tue August 23, 2011
MRC Workshop              Mon/Tue September 26-27, 2011
Correctly formatted camera ready versions of manuscripts typeset using LaTeX can
be updated up to one week after the camera ready version has been submitted if
(and only if) they pass EasyChair's check and compile without errors when
uploaded. You will have to submit a working version by the normal camera ready
deadline, this helps you to check whether your LaTeX code compiles without
errors. It also gives us a version to work with. Note that this applies to
LaTeX users only since, out of experience, Word documents need much more fine
tuning on our side, so we need the additional time.
Organisation
Chairs
Jörg Cassens
Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems
University of Lübeck, Germany
Rebekah K. Wegener
Centre for Language in Social Life
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Anders Kofod-Petersen
SINTEF Information and Communication Technology
Trondheim, Norway
Contact all chairs at: mrc2011easychair.org