MRC 2011 - Seventh International Workshop Modeling and Reasoning in Context

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: Sunday June 26, 2010



http://events.idi.ntnu.no/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 submission will open shortly.



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 papers      Sun   June 26, 2011

Notification of authors   Mon August  1, 2011

Camera-ready copies Tue   Tue August 16, 2011

CRC updates (LaTeX only)  Tue August 23, 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



Jörg Cassens

Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems

University of Lübeck, 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-AT-easychair.org