======================================================================= Call for Papers: MRC 2020 - Human-Centric and Contextual Systems The 11th International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context Saturday, 29th of August, 2020 Virtual Workshop at the Virtual ECAI 2020 European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29-September 5, 2020 Regular deadline: See website Late & breaking deadline: Tue, July 28 Information: http://mrc.kriwi.de/ Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrc2020 ======================================================================= Join us in Santiago de Compostela ======================================================================= Context is central to AI in general. In terms of recent concerns, context is crucial for understanding causation, for personalization, for ethical AI and for contextual AI. Research on context is vital for developments within specific areas: Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation: Mostly, context cannot be modelled a-priori but contextual information has to be inferred from data. Additionally, context features might change over time, necessitating ML approaches for dynamic adaptation of models and methods for reasoning with uncertainty. Human-Centred AI: In Human-Computer Interaction, context is crucial for human-centred approaches to systems development. Because of its transdisciplinarity, MRC is ideally suited to build bridges between AI and HCI and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and methods for human-centred approaches. Ethical and Responsible AI: Context is core to ethical and responsible approaches to AI, as reasoning about contextual parameters is inherent in human interpretation of ethical questions. Explicit context models can also help mitigate effects of algorithmic and data bias. Responsible Personalization: Context is central to enabling a collaborative partnership between humans and machines. But personalization brings risks to privacy, making context explicit helps to mitigate this. Explainable AI: With a renewed interest in explainable systems, context is also increasingly important to identify user needs and system capabilities in providing explanations of system behaviour at runtime. Autonomous Agents and Robotics: The concept of context is itself contextual and pertains to the acting agent. Context is particularly important for autonomous systems integrated in socio-technical environments. Context is inherently an interdisciplinary topic that has clear relations to linguistics and semiotics, cognitive science and psychology, mathematics and philosophy as well as other areas such as sociology and anthropology. MRC can serve as a means for integrating models and findings from these different areas. ======================================================================= Workshop Objectives ======================================================================= MRC aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities, both industry and academia, to study, understand, and explore issues surrounding context and to share problems, techniques and solutions across a broad range of areas. The workshop covers different understandings of what context is, a variety of approaches to learn about context from data, and different approaches to modelling. MRC is concerned with varying mechanisms and techniques for reasoning with context, storage of contextual information, and methods for enabling integration of context and application knowledge. MRC invites papers on all aspects of context, from theoretical approaches over modelling, reasoning, and learning to reports on applications. This year we focus on personalization, autonomy and privacy in relation to context. We explicitly invite contributions from other fields of study in order to further trans- and interdisciplinary approaches and to integrate discipline specific knowledge with AI research. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Human-Centred approaches to context * Context and explainability * Context in ethical and responsible AI * Collaboration and integration of AI in social contexts * Context, personalization and privacy * Context in conversational systems * Context and autonomy * Context and causation * Machine learning of contextual parameters * Generic and specific context models * Retrieval of context and context information * Explicit representations of context * Representation of and reasoning with uncertainty * Trans- and interdisciplinary issues of context * Socio-technical issues * Evaluation of contextualised applications * Context awareness and context sensitivity ======================================================================== Agenda ======================================================================== If you attend virtually and have an accepted paper, we would like to ask you to prepare a video with your presentation upfront, which will be made available to all workshop participants. We will invite all of you to join an online community where we can discuss the individual presentations in different discussion threads asynchronously. We will also reserve time slots at the workshop for synchronous discussions. ======================================================================= Submissions ======================================================================= Original papers should be prepared according to the ECAI formatting guidelines, and using the LaTeX Styles or Word template for ECAI 2020. Long papers are allowed eight (8) pages. Short papers, not exceeding four (4) pages, may be submitted for short or poster presentation. Late and breaking papers which highlight current developments or characterise open challenges are allowed four (4) pages. For all paper types, pages containing only references and acknowledgements are not counted towards that limit. Submissions must be original, and should not have been formally published or accepted for publication elsewhere. We also invite longer versions of papers published in short form elsewhere. 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 and made freely available. Depending on the nature of submissions, the proceedings will be published through a suitable channel such as 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. Please be advised that every workshop participant has to register for MRC through the main ECAI conference (workshop-only registrations are available). Paper submission as PDF only via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrc2020 ======================================================================= Important Dates ======================================================================= Regular paper due See website Late/breaking due Tuesday, 28th of July, 2020 Late/breaking notification Tuesday, 11th of August, 2020 Camera-ready: Tuesday, 18th of August, 2020 MRC Workshop Saturday, 29th of August, 2020 ======================================================================= Websites ======================================================================= More information can be found on the workshop website at: http://mrc.kriwi.de/ See the ECAI 2020 conference website for information about the location and registration process: http://ecai2020.eu/ Join the mailing list for MRC by visiting: https://www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/mrc Submission System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrc2020 ======================================================================= Organisation ======================================================================= Chairs * Jörg Cassens University of Hildesheim Hildesheim, Germany * Rebekah Wegener University of Salzburg Salzburg, Austria Audaxi - Discover a better way to learn. Sydney, Australia * Anders Kofod-Petersen Alexandra Institute Copenhagen, Denmark Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway Contact all chairs at: mrc2020@kriwi.de Program Committee * Juan Augusto Middlesex University, United Kingdom * Tobias Baur University of Augsburg, Germany * Tarek Richard Besold Alpha Health, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain * Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Sapienza University of Rome, Italy * Henning Christiansen Roskilde University, Denmark * Sten Hanke FH Joanneum, Graz, Austria * Martin Christof Kindsmüller Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany * Christian Kohlschein Germany * Olya Kudina TU Delft, The Netherlands * David Leake Indiana University Bloomington, USA * Amy Loutfi Örobro University, Sweden * Ana Gabriela Maguitman Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina * Tobias Meisen Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany * Grzegorz J. Nalepa AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland * Stella Neumann RWTH Aachen University, Germany * Jeannie Marie Paterson The University of Melbourne, Australia * Michaela Reisinger Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria * Myrthe L. Tielman TU Delft, The Netherlands * Harko Verhagen Stockholm University, Sweden * M. Birna van Riemsdijk University of Twente, The Netherlands * To be amended