News
October, 08th 2004: The papers are now publicly available at CEUR, Volume 114.
September, 28th 2004: The workshop is over. The organizers thank all participants for the interesting talks and vital discussions. And because of the massive encouragement, we will go for a second season in 2005 to further explore the realm of context modelling and reasoning.
September, 13th 2004: The final Agenda including detailed talk sessions is now online.
May, 29th 2004: The preliminary Agenda has been changed. The workshop will now span over two days, embracing technical program of the AI Conference. This gives the participants of the workshop time to listen to talks and to discuss on the workshop.
May, 29th 2004: Notification of acceptance is delayed for some days. Also, the deadline for camera ready copies has been shifted, to give more time for incorporating reviewer comments.
April, 26th 2004: Deadline Extension! The deadline for submissions has been extended to April, 30th 2004. Updates of uploaded papers are possible until May, 3rd 2004, 23:59 (GMT+1).
April, 13th 2004: The submission system has been activated. Please use the form at Submissions and Style. You may register your submission now and upload updates until April 26th. Please follow the instructions for style and submission.
March, 16th 2004: Call for Papers is available for download.
March, 8th 2004: A preliminary Agenda has been set up. The final date for the workshop will be proposed in late spring.
Objectives
Context and context-awareness are two of the most stressed but nevertheless
important concepts for modern information and communication systems. Determination
and assignment of context is a necessary factor to provide services and
applications that are suited to a user and the user’s current situation.
Beginning with the idea of location-based services some years ago, in the
age of mobility and mobile devices, context-awareness became a crucial point
for IT applications.
Information on context is important for supporting and automating decisions.
Further, it is expected that users get informed about the operations of
intelligent IT applications such as, e.g., shopping adviser and support
systems. Applied methods and given advices have to be explained, so the
user can understand the process and agree on decisions.
An important prerequisite for using context information is an appropriate
management. To operate within context, models and tools are needed providing
mechanisms and models for structured storage of context information, an
effective way for retrieving it, and the possibility to connect context
to depending knowledge.
Early models for context representation come from Artificial Intelligence.
Contexts are mostly represented in a logical notation. Functions and predicates
are given for each of the aspects (dimensions) of the environment. This
results in a rule system having stand-alone context objects with concrete
characteristics in their aspects. Hence, abstract and detailed requests
for matching context information are possible. But it will be difficult
to compare contexts or to retrieve similar or related contexts. Other approaches
describe context as named, aggregated structure, where simple contexts consist
of a descriptor-state-pair and complex contexts consist of aggregations
of simple and complex contexts. These are mainly application focused and
difficult to generalize to a common model.
With the use of mobile devices and current research on ubiquitous computing,
the topic of context-awareness is a major issue for upcoming IT applications.
Modeling and retrieving context provide means to be integrated in modern
knowledge management processes. Intelligent solutions are needed to apply
context, e.g., to cope with the fuzziness of context information and, especially
because of mobility, rapidly changing environments and unsteady information
sources. Advanced methodologies for concluding on or assigning a context
to a situation are to be applied, which introduces the main fields of Artificial
Intelligence mechanisms into context-aware applications.
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 contributions and invited talks, this workshop will
offer organized and open spaces for targeted discussions. As a result, a
common understanding on the topic of modeling context and ways of retrieving
it within such models shall originate.
Topics of Interest
The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Generic context models
- Retrieval of context
- Matching context and situation
- Context-awareness in applications
- Context and explanation
- Mobile context
Submissions and Style
Conference submission is electronic, in pdf or postscript format. Please, use the form below for submission.
Submitted papers must not exceed 12 pages and should conform to Springer LNCS style. Papers must be written in English. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the contribution.
Important Dates
| Submission of papers: | April 30th, 2004 | |
| Notification: | delayed | |
| Camera ready copies: | July 12th, 2004 | |
| (Preliminary) Workshop date: | Sept. 20th & 21st, 2004 |
Agenda
(Preliminary)
| 20th | Monday (morning session) |
| 09.30h | Welcome, Overview, Introduction |
| 09:50h | Invited talk: Albrecht Schmidt, on computing in context |
| 10.30h | Coffee break |
| 11.00h | A Conceptual Model for Context-aware Web Engineering (J. Wolfgang Kaltz, Jürgen Ziegler) |
| 11.20h | Formal Modeling in Context Aware Systems (Anjum Shehzad, Hung Q. Ngo, Kim Anh Pham, S. Y. Lee) |
| 11.40h | Representing and Reasoning about Context in a Mobile Environment (Marius Mikalsen, Anders Kofod-Petersen) |
| 12.00h | A Classification Framework for Storage and Retrieval of Context (B.I.J. Siljee, I.E. Bosloper, J.A.G. Nijhuis) |
| 12.20h | Brainstorm session (Topic Groups) |
| 12.50h | Lunch |
| 21st | Tuesday (afternoon session) |
| 13.30h | Welcome for second day / Wrap-up |
| 13.40h | A Context Approach of Social Networks (Patrick Brézillon) |
| 14.00h | Context Models for Managing Collaborative Software Development Knowledge
(Renata Mendes de Araujo, et al.) |
| 14.20h | Context-Aware Information Services for Health Care (Jens H. Jahnke, Yury Bychkov, David Dahlem, Luay Kawasme) |
| 14.40h | Integrated discussion session with Kal Ahmed |
| 15.30h | Coffee break |
| 16.00h | Shape Semantics from Shape Context (István T. Hernádvölgyi, Giuliana Ucelli, Martin Witzel, Olga Symonova, Loris Delpero, Raffaele de Amicis) |
| 16.20h | Person Movement Prediction Using Neural Networks (Lucian Vintan, Arpad Gellert, Jan Petzold, Theo Ungerer) |
| 16.40h | Contextualised Operational Documentation: an
Application Study in Aviation |
| 17.00h | Special track on Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in Multi-Agent Systems |
| 17.10h | A Framework for the Design of Self-Regulation of Open Agent-based
Electronic Marketplaces (Christian Hahn, Bettina Fley, Michael Florian) |
| 17.40h | Internal and external conflict resolution in organizational multi-agent
systems MOCA and INKA (Adina Nagy, Gabriela Lindemann, Matthieu Amiguet) |
| 18.10h | Wrap-up / End |
Organization
Chairs
Thomas Roth-Berghofer (DFKI
/ TU Kaiserslautern)
Stefan Schulz (IVS,
TU Berlin)
Program Committee
Kal Ahmed, Techquila, UK
Hans-Dieter Burkhard, HU Berlin
Andreas Dengel, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern
Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
Kurt Geihs, TU Berlin
Mehmet H. Göker, Kaidara, USA
Heiko Maus, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern
Keith Mitchell, Lancaster University
Albrecht Schmidt, LMU, Munich
Thomas Strang, DLR
Ralph Traphöner, empolis GmbH
Call for Papers / Download
Here, you can download the call for paper as PDF-document:
Call for Paper (135kB)
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