-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: 5th IEEE Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea'08)' Datum: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:45:02 +0200 Von: Daniela Nicklas nicklas@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de Antwort an: Daniela Nicklas nicklas@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de Organisation: Universität Stuttgart An: wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

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Call for Paper ======================================================================== 5th Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea'08) co-located with the Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Hong Kong, 17 – 21 March 2008 ======================================================================== http://www.percom.org http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/COMOREA

Workshop Scope

There is a growing interest in context-aware applications that intelligently support user tasks by acting autonomously on behalf of users. Behaviour of context-aware applications depends not only on their internal state and user interactions but also on the context sensed during their execution. Some early models of context information already exist, however many research issues related to context information modeling are still not fully addressed. Existing context models vary in types of context information they can represent. While some models take the user’s current situation, e.g. “in a meeting”, into account others model the physical environment, i.e. locations. A more generic approach to context modeling is needed in order to capture various features of context information including a variety of types of context information, dependencies between context information, quality of context information and context histories. In addition, to ease software engineering problems encountered in programming context-aware applications, appropriate abstractions are necessary to support discovery and reuse of context information as well as scalable methods of context processing and management. This workshop’s aim is to advance the state of the art in context modeling and reasoning and also discuss fundamental issues in context processing and management. The goal is to identify concepts, theories and methods applicable to context modeling and context reasoning as well as system-oriented issues related to the design and implementation of context-aware systems. Particular attention will be paid to hybrid approaches to context modeling, e.g. an integration of non-ontology based context models with ontology based context models.

In particular, the following topics are of interest to this workshop:

* Context modeling techniques * Domain-specific context models * Ontology-based approaches to context modeling and reasoning * Hybrid context models (integration of various modeling techniques) * Advanced issues in context modeling, including issues of information quality and ambiguity * Context reasoning algorithms, their complexity and accuracy * Discovery and reuse of context information * Privacy of context information * Distributed and scalable context management * Experiences with using context models to build context-aware applications * Tool support for context modeling and development of context model-based applications * Balance of autonomy with user control

Submissions

Submitted papers will be refereed by the workshop Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the PerCom 08 Workshops proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Submitted papers should address at least one of the workshop topics. The papers should be in the IEEE format and should be no more than 5 pages in length. Research papers must be an original unpublished work and not under review elsewhere. Experience reports must be stated as such and a comprehensive discussion of the taken approach, experiences, and its assessment is expected. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair CoMoRea page, http://www.easychair.org/CoMoRea08/

The authors of accepted papers of outstanding quality will be encouraged to submit an extended version to the PMC Special Issue on Context Modelling, Reasoning and Management.

Important Dates

Paper submissions: September 28, 2007 Notification: November 23, 2007 Camera ready version: December 21, 2007 Workshop: March 17 or 21, 2008

Program Committee

Daniela Nicklas, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Karen Henricksen, NICTA, Australia -- chairs –

Anand Ranganathan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Daniele Riboni, University of Milan, Italy Daqing Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research,Singapore Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui, Oxford University Computing Lab, UK Gregor Schiele, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia John Bateman, Bremen University, Germany Martin Bauer, NEC Heidelberg, Germany Oliver Brdiczka, INRIA, France Ricky Robinson, NICTA, Australia Waltenegus Dargie, Technical University of Dresden, Germany