======================================================================= Call for Papers: MRC 2016 The 8th International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context In conjunction with ECAI 2016 The 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence The Hague, The Netherlands Submission deadline: Tue, June 14, 2016 (later deadlines for papers previously submitted to ECAI) Information: http://mrc.kriwi.de/ Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrc2016 ======================================================================= Welcome to MRC 2016 ======================================================================= Context plays an increasingly important role in modern IT applications. Context sensitivity and awareness is becoming essential, not only for mobile systems, ambient computing and the internet of things, but also for a wide range of other areas, such as learning and teaching solutions, collaborative software, web engineering and health care work-flow. Advancing the use and understanding of context beyond stimuli-response systems suggests a knowledge perspective on modelling and reasoning. From an AI perspective, one of the challenges is to integrate context with other types of knowledge as a major additional source for reasoning, decision-making, and adaptation and 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. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Generic and specific context models * Explicit representations * Trans- and interdisciplinary models of context * Representation of and reasoning with uncertainty * Retrieval of context and context information * Context-based retrieval and reasoning * Socio-technical issues * Context awareness and context-sensitivity * Context awareness in applications * Evaluation of context-aware applications * Explanation and context * Mobile context * Information ageing * Context focusing and context switching * Context management ======================================================================== Agenda ======================================================================== The workshop will last one full day and will have three main types of interaction. The first type will consist of short presentations of the accepted papers. The goal of these sessions is to introduce the work of all the participants. The second type will consist of two panel discussion sessions, each dedicated to one specific issue. The suggested issues are "context awareness" and "context sensitivity", but 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 the last type, an open discussion summarising the most important lessons learned. Industry representatives are invited to display context related demonstrations during the workshop. A detailed agenda will be published on our website before the workshop. ======================================================================= Submissions ======================================================================= There are three different deadlines and procedures for submissions, depending on whether the paper was previously submitted to the main conference, and what the outcome of the submission was. Original Workshop contributions (long and short papers) - These papers should not have been previously submitted to ECAI 2016. - No special requirements, please follow the submission procedure outlined below. - Deadline: 2016-06-14 Papers not accepted for ECAI 2016 (long and short papers) - Submissions to ECAI 2016 that have not been accepted for the main conference and are revised for the workshop. - Special requirement: Please include a copy of the reviews you got from ECAI 2016 to speed up the review process at MRC and add a short note outlining the revisions made. - Deadline: 2016-06-18 Papers accepted for ECAI 2016 as short papers (long version) - The long version of papers submitted to ECAI 2016 that have been accepted as short papers for the main conference are automatically accepted for MRC 2016 as long as they fall into the scope of the workshop. - Special requirement: Please include a copy of the acceptance notification you got from ECAI 2016. - Deadline: 2016-06-25 Submitted papers must be formatted according to the camera-ready style for ECAI-2016, and submitted electronically in PDF format only through the EasyChair pages for MRC 2016. Authorship is not anonymous. Papers are allowed eight (8) pages. An additional page containing the list of references is allowed, as long as this ninth page contains only references. Short papers, not exceeding two (2) pages, may be submitted for short oral presentation. Both full and short papers will be published online in the workshop proceedings. Submissions must be original, and in particular should not previously have been formally published or accepted for publication elsewhere, with the exceptions outlined above. Three members of the program committee will review each submission. A review form will direct committee members to evaluate submissions for appropriateness, technical strength, originality, presentation, and overall evaluation, as well as recording the reviewer's confidence in the topic. The proceedings of the workshop will be published electronically on a USB stick and made freely available at a suitable online location like the CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Authors of accepted papers might be invited to submit extended versions for inclusion in a special journal issue on contextualised systems, if justified by the quantity and quality of submissions. The authors will be responsible for producing camera­-ready copies of papers in PDF format, conforming to the formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the published proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the contribution. ======================================================================= Background to MRC ======================================================================= MRC is an interdisciplinary workshop with a focus on applications within computer science. Because of this focus the workshop primarily attracts participants from within the computer science community and specifically within artificial intelligence. However, MRC has always had a strong interdisciplinary appeal and does draw from fields such as linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, mathematics, cognitive science, social sciences and psychology as well as various sub-fields within computer science. MRC has traditionally been held at either the bi-annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT) or AI-related conferences such as ECAI, IJCAI and AAAI. 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. MRC 2016 will be held at the The 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016) in The Hague, Holland. The main conference website (http://www.ecai2016.org/) has more information about the location and the registration process as well as other workshops. Participants for MRC will have to register for ECAI, since there are no workshop only registrations. In particular, at least one author of any paper accepted for presentation at MRC will have to register for ECAI. If you register for ECAI, you will also get free access to sessions of the co-located Collective Intentionality Conference. ======================================================================= Websites ======================================================================= More information about MRC and the paper submission process can be found on the workshop website at: http://mrc.kriwi.de/ Submission System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrc2016 The ECAI 2016 main conference website has more information about the location and the registration process: http://www.ecai2016.org/ The camera-ready style for ECAI and MRC 2016 can be found here: http://www.ecai2016.org/content/uploads/2015/10/ecai.tar.gz ======================================================================= Important Dates ======================================================================= Original papers due Tue June 14, 2016 Papers not accepted at ECAI due Sat June 18, 2016 Long version accepted at ECAI due Sat June 25, 2016 Notification of authors Tue June 28, 2016 Camera-ready copies Tue July 18, 2016 MRC Workshop Tue August 30, 2016 ======================================================================= Organisation ======================================================================= Chairs Jörg Cassens Institute for Mathematics and Applied Informatics University of Hildesheim, Germany Rebekah Wegener Institute for English and American Studies RWTH Aachen University, Germany Audaxi - Discover a better way to learn. Sydney, Australia Anders Kofod-Petersen Alexandra Institute Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Computer and Information Sciences Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway Contact all chairs at: mrc2016@kriwi.de Program Committee (Subject to amendments) Juan Augusto Middlesex University, United Kingdom Tarek Richard Besold Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Henning Christiansen Roskilde University, Denmark Adrian Clear Newcastle University, UK Bozidara Cvetkovic Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Martin Christof Kindsmüller University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg, Germany David Leake Indiana University, USA Ana Gabriela Maguitman Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina Stella Neumann RWTH Aachen University, Germany Thomas Roth-Berghofer University of West London, UK Sven Schwarz DFKI, Germany