HCCBR 2011 - HCCBR 2011 First International Workshop Human Centred Case-Based Reasoning

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Deadline: June 15, 2011 | Date: September 12, 2011

Venue/Country: London, U.K.

Updated: 2011-06-04 09:07:32 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

First International Workshop Human Centred Case-Based Reasoning

Held at The 19th International Conference on Case-Based

Reasoning (ICCBR 11), Greenwich, UK, September 12-15, 2011

Submission deadline: June 15, 2011

http://events.idi.ntnu.no/hccbr2011

Human-centred computing focuses on methodologies and technologies to improve the

interaction within and performance of socio-technical systems. In this regard,

intelligent systems are not longer considered to be black boxes that provide a

full solution to a problem on their own, instead, problem solving is seen as an

interactive process. Case-Based Reasoning would appear to be a natural fit for

such integrated human/computer systems.

A number of important questions are raised by human-centred approaches. It is

important to gain a better understanding of how each part of the combined system

can help to extend the capabilities of the other. It is also of interest to

examine how human knowledge modelling and construction can best be supported

through technology.

Many of these issues are already being addressed in other disciplines, however,

the question remains as to how findings from human-computer interaction, the

social sciences and psychology may be integrated with the design of CBR systems.

This integration ranges from psychologically plausible knowledge models over a

focus on usability of fielded systems to the delivery of an attractive end user

experience.

Another important research topic in human centred computing considers issues of

communication and, in particular, explanations. Problem descriptions, as well as

other input, can be incomplete and changing. As a consequence, there has to be

communication between human and software agents. Communication requires mutual

understanding that can be essentially supported by explanations.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners exploring

human aspects of the design, implementation, and use of CBR-systems, from a

broad range of areas, to share their problems and methodologies across different

research and application areas. The workshop will examine methods, mechanisms,

and techniques to keep the human in the centre of attention during the whole

life-cycle of an intelligent system, from initial problem description through to

knowledge acquisition and modelling and on to interactive use and maintenance.

Topics

Suggested topics for contributions include, but are not limited to:

* Knowledge construction and extension

* Explicit user representations

* Personalisation

* Mixed-initiative issues

* Representation of and reasoning with uncertainty

* Psychological, linguistic, and sociological foundations

* Socio-technical analysis and design of CBR systems

* Evaluation of user aspects of CBR systems

* Context awareness and context-sensitivity

* Explanation generation and usage

* Adaptation of results

* Visualisation of results and processes

Format

The workshop will last half a day and will be organised into two main parts.

The first part will consist of lightning presentations of the accepted papers.

The goal of this sessions is to introduce the work of all participants.

The second part will consist of two panel discussions, each dedicated to one

specific issue. The suggested issues are "Analysis and Design" and

"Implementation and Use", 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, to

identify the critical problems in need of attention and to identify the most

promising future research directions.

The panels will be comprised of authors of accepted paper. Each panelist is

given the task to describe his take on the issue in form of a short, 5 minute

kick off talk. The panel will then engage in open discussion with the floor.

The workshop will be concluded with an open discussion summarising the most

challenging issues and the most important lessons learned.

Submissions

Workshop submissions are electronic, in PDF format only, using the EasyChair

submission system. You can reach the submission page from the HCCBR web pages as

well as the ICCBR conference pages.

Paper length must not exceed 10 pages in the Springer LNCS format. Guidelines

and templates are available on the web at

http://www.springer.de/comp/ncs/authors.html

Three members of the program committee will review each submission. A review

form will direct submitters to evaluate submissions for appropriateness,

technical strength, originality, presentation, and overall evaluation.

Papers will be published in accompanying proceedings and online.

All workshop participants must register for the main ICCBR 2011 conference. At

least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop.

Websites

More information about HCCBR and the paper submission procedure can be found

on the workshop website at:

http://events.idi.ntnu.no/hccbr2011/

The ICCBR 2011 main conference website has more information about the location

and the registration process as well as other workshops:

http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr11/

The submission system can be found at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccbr2011

Important Dates

Submission of papers June 15, 2011

Reviews due Mon June 27, 2011

Notification Mon July 4, 2011

Camera-ready copies Fri July 15, 2011

CRC updates (LaTeX only, see note) Fri July 22, 2011

HCCBR Workshop Mon September 12, 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 does also give 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. No exceptions will be made.

Organisation

Chairs

Joerg Cassens

Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems

University of Luebeck, Germany

Anders Kofod-Petersen

Department of Computer and Information Science

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Thomas Roth-Berghofer

Institut fuer Informatik

University of Hildesheim, Germany

Contact all chairs at: hccbr2011idi.ntnu.no