SAGAware 2011 - International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness (SAGAware2011)

International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness

(SAGAware2011)

At the 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp2011)

September 17-21, 2011, Beijing, China

http://scm.ulster.ac.uk/~e225739/SAGAware2011/

**** Important Dates

Submission deadlines: June 16, 2011

Acceptance notification: June 28, 2011

Camera ready version: July 11, 2011

Workshop date: September 18, 2011

Workshop Co-chairs

Liming Chen, University of Ulster, UK

Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Christian Becker, Mannheim University, Germany

William K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Parisa Rashidi, Washington State University, USA

**** Scope

Ubiquitous computing aims to enable and support anywhere, anytime, context-aware applications.

Sensing, interpretation and integration of events, behaviours and environmental states are key to the

success of such ubiquitous systems. Over the past two decades, there has been a constant shift of sensor

observation modeling, representation, interpretation and usage, namely from low-level raw

observation data and their direct/hardwired usage, data aggregation and fusion, to high-level formal

context modeling and context-based computing. It is envisioned that this trend will continue towards a

further higher level of abstraction, allowing situation, activity and goal modeling, representation

and inference, thus realizing the vision of ubiquitous computing.

The proposed workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from relevant fields to

present and disseminate the latest accomplished and/or ongoing research on Situation, Activity and

Goal Awareness (SAGAware) and their novel application in ubiquitous computing. It aims to facilitate

knowledge transfer and synergy, bridge gaps between different research communities/groups, lay down

foundation for common purposes, and help identify opportunities and challenges for interested

researchers and technology and system developers.

Topics

Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

*** Approaches, methodologies, methods and theoretical foundation

- Context and situation modelling, representation and inference

- Goal and activity modelling, representation and recognition

- Modelling, representation and inference of the relationships between context, situations,

activities and goals

*** Technologies, mechanisms, tools and middleware

- Transition from low-level SEB observations to high-level contexts, situations, activities and goals

- Goal, activity and situation composition and manipulation

- Goal, activity and situation storage, retrieval and management

- Service-based or agent-based middleware

*** System, application, case study, use cases and evaluation

- Generic system architecture or framework

- Application development methodology

- Real world application design, implementation and deployment

- Cased studies for novel goal-driven, situation-aware applications

- Use cases and evaluation of approaches, technologies and systems

**** Submission & Publication ****

Interested authors can submit Full Technical Papers with maximum 10 pages or Short Position Papers,

mainly "work in progress" with maximum 5 pages, online at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sagawar... by the submission deadline. All

submissions should follow ACM Ubicomp format (templates are available at

http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2011/templates.html). Accepted papers must be presented at the

workshop and will appear in the ACM digital library and the supplemental proceedings. High-quality

papers will be invited to be published, after revision and extension, in a special issue of the

International Journal of Pervasive computing and Communications (IJPCC).

*** Contact

Liming Chen (coordinating chair)

School of Computing and Mathematics

University of Ulster -AT- Jordanstown

Shore Road, Newtownabbey

County Antrim, BT37 0FS

United Kingdom

Bessam ?

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Bessam Abdulrazak, Ph.D.,

Professeur Adjoint

Directeur du Centre de Recherche sur les Habitats Intelligents

Département d'informatique (D4-2008)

Faculté des sciences

Université de Sherbrooke

2500 boulevard de l'Université

Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1, Canada

Courriel : Bessam.Abdulrazak -AT- USherbrooke.ca

Tel: +1 (819) 821 - 8000 ext. 62860

Fax: +1 (819) 821 - 8200

Web: http://pages.usherbrooke.ca/babdulrazak

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