SEMAIS 2012 - 3rd IUI Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems (SEMAIS 2012)

3rd IUI Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems
3rd IUI Workshop on
Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems (SEMAIS 2012)
February 14, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

Submission deadline: Jan 6, 2012
http://www.semais.org

WORKSHOP GOALS
Semantic technologies and, in particular, ontologies as formal, shareable
representations of a domain of interest play an increasingly important role
also for the design, development, and execution of user interfaces and more
generally interactive systems. Semantic models can serve a number of
different purposes in this context. They can be used as application or
interface models in model-driven design, generation at design time as well
as at runtime, and integration of user interfaces. Ontologies may enhance
the visualization and interaction capabilities of user interfaces in various
ways, e.g., by providing input assistance, intelligently clustering
information, or adapting the user interface according to the user's context.
Especially in the latter case, ontologies can be applied for representing
the various kinds of context information for context-aware and adaptive
systems. In particular, they have promised to provide a technique for
representing external physical context factors such as location, time or
technical parameters and 'internal' context such as user interest profiles
or interaction context in a consistent, generalized manner. Owing to these
properties, semantic models can also contribute to bridging gaps, e.g.,
between user models, context-aware interfaces and model-driven UI
generation.
There is, therefore, a considerable potential for using semantic models as a
basis for adaptive interactive systems. The range of potential adaptations
is wide comprising, for example, context- and user-dependent
recommendations, interactive assistance when performing application-specific
tasks, adaptation of the application functionality, or adaptive retrieval
support. Furthermore, a variety of reasoning and machine learning techniques
exist, that can be employed to achieve adaptive system behavior.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Following up the successful SEMAIS workshops at IUI 2010 and 2011, the
workshop will address, among others, the following research issues:
- Improve UI quality by using semantic models.
- Representing user models, systems and their behavior, domain knowledge and
interaction context by means of semantic models.
- Cognitively or neurally founded reasoning techniques such as activation
spreading for semantic user models.
- Context-aware interaction based on semantic models.
- Adaptation strategies and techniques based on semantic models for e.g.
recommender systems, adaptive retrieval, collaboration support systems and
others.
- Generating explanations or visualizations to increase user confidence and
support traceability.
- Scalability and performance of semantic model-based interactive systems.
- Semantic model-driven UI development.
- Generation and evolution of semantic models for interactive systems.
- Suitability of highly formal vs. light-weight semantic representations.
- Consuming linked data in user interfaces.
- Bringing ontologies together with current UI modeling languages, such as UsiXML.
- Evaluation approaches for adaptive interaction.
In this year's workshop, we especially encourage contributions that
- focus on intuitive interaction
- dynamically adapt to the user and/or group over long time periods
- leverage information contained in Linked Open Data

SUBMISSIONS AND PARTICIPATION
Prospective participants should submit the work that they intend to present
workshop on or before Jan 6 2012. Submissions should be 8-12 pages in
Springer LNCS format. We will select participants based on the abstract's
quality and the diversity of their backgrounds, aiming at an
interdisciplinary group. Accepted submissions will be published as online
proceedings at CEUR-WS.ORG. Based on the overall quality of the submissions,
selected papers will be considered for a journal special issue.

IMPORTANT DATES
- Jan 6: Submission due
- Jan 20: Notification of acceptance
- Feb 6: Camera ready version due
- Feb 14: Workshop

ORGANIZERS
Tim Hussein, University of Duisburg-Essen
Stephan Lukosch, Delft University of Technology
Heiko Paulheim, TU Darmstadt
Juergen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen
Gaelle Calvary, University of Grenoble

Program Committee
Anna Fensel, STI Innsbruck
Christina Feilmayr, University of Linz
Sean P. Goggins, Drexel University
Artem Katasonov, VTT Finland
Jörg Haake, FU Hagen
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen
Tobias Ley, Tallinn University
Steffen Lohmann, University Carlos III de Madrid
Pablo Mendes, FU Berlin
Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen
Florian Probst, SAP Research
Benedikt Schmidt, SAP Research
Dirk Veiel, FU Hagen
[to be extended]

Workshop Homepage: http://www.semais.org