======================================================================= Second 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 extended: Abstracts due: Sunday July 03, 2011 Papers due: Sunday July 10, 2011 Information: http://events.idi.ntnu.no/mrc2011/ Submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=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 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 abstracts Sun July 3, 2011 Submission of papers Sun July 10, 2011 Notification of authors Thu August 4, 2011 Camera-ready copies Thu August 18, 2011 CRC updates (LaTeX only) Thu August 25, 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 Joerg Cassens Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems University of Luebeck, 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: mrc2011@easychair.org Program Committee (subject to amendment) * Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway * Tarek Richard Besold, University of Osnabrueck, Germany * Patrick Brezillon, University of Paris 6, France * Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark * Adrian Clear, Lancaster University, UK * Lorcan Coyle, lero, Ireland * Martin Christof Kindsmueller, University of Luebeck, Germany * David Leake, Indiana University, USA * Ana Gabriela Maguitman, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina * Alessandra Mileo, DERI, Ireland * Olga Murdoch, University College Dublin, Ireland * Sobah Abbas Petersen, SINTEF Technology and Society, Norway * Thomas Roth-Berghofer, University of Hildesheim, Germany * Hedda Schmidtke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany * Patricia Tedesco, University of Pernambuco, Brazil * Santtu Toivonen, Idean, Finland * Marielba Zacarias, Algarve University, Portugal