-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Paper: CoMoRea'07 Datum: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:45:25 +0200 Von: Daniela Nicklas nicklas@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de Antwort an: Daniela Nicklas nicklas@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de Organisation: Universität Stuttgart An: wolf wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 4th Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea) | | at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing | | and Communication (PerCom'07), New York, USA. | | http://nexus.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/COMOREA | | | | Call for Paper | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Workshop Scope ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Context-aware applications intelligently support user tasks by acting autonomously on behalf of users and this autonomy is based on evaluation of context information. Some models of context information already exist, however many research issues related to context information modeling are still not fully addressed. A 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. Hybrid approaches to context modeling -- such as approaches that combine ontology-based modeling with alternative modeling techniques -- also need to be explored, as many of the current solutions are too limited to capture the richness of context information and support the necessary reasoning. 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. It is also necessary to increase user acceptance of autonomously adapting applications by developing methods of balancing autonomy of context-aware applications with user control.

This workshop’s aim is to advance the state-of-the-art in context information modeling, reasoning and management, and in methods that balance autonomy of context-aware applications with user control. The goal is to identify concepts, theories and methods applicable to context modeling and reasoning, as well as system-oriented issues related to the design and implementation of context-aware systems. CoMoRea will provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss recent research results and ongoing work. A strong emphasis will be put on experiences with context modeling and the management of the context information. The workshop will foster exchange of experiences and collaboration among researchers.

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

Publication ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Submitted papers will be refereed by the workshop Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the PerCom 07 Workshops proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Submissions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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/CoMoRea07/

Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper submissions due by: September 29, 2006 * Paper selections due by: November 25, 2006 * Final papers due to IEEE: December 22, 2006 * Workshop date: March 19 or 23, 2007

Organizers: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-chairs: Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia Daniela Nicklas, Stuttgart University, Germany

Program Committee: Jalal Al-Muhati, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia John Bateman, Bremen University, Germany Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy Oliver Brdiczka, INRIA, France Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui, University of Montréal, Canada Daniela Nicklas, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany Gregor Schiele, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center, Germany Anand Ranganathan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Karen Robinson, National ICT Australia Daqing Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore