Awarecast 2012 - Workshop on Recent Advances in Behavior Prediction and Pro-active Pervasive Computing

Workshop on Recent Advances in Behavior Prediction and Pro-active Pervasive Computing
Website: http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/dus/Awarecast/
Behavior and context prediction breaks the border from reaction on past and present stimuli to proactive anticipation of actions. Researchers have for about one decade now considered the prediction of such stimuli to enable pro-active context computing. Research directions spread from applications for behavior and context prediction over event prediction, machine learning, architectures for prediction, data formats and algorithms.
The workshop will bring together researchers of this field and reveal important open issues. The workshop especially targets the potential of context and behavior prediction in sustainability applications. With current research challenges in sustainability and new possibilities such as crowd sourcing and mobile sensing, it is the time to advance context prediction further and improve, for instance, prediction of room level location/room occupancy, prediction of traffic condition, prediction of air quality, and prediction of energy demands. Additional challenges cover collaborative context prediction through crowd sourcing and mobile sensing, prediction based on more sensors, prediction based on remote context histories, adaptation to user behaviour changes, and prediction using resource limited devices.
Further topics address the accurate prediction of seldom events, continuous learning, user behaviour and habit changes over time, public spaces, data sets and benchmarks, sharing of prediction and time series as well as privacy and trust.
Organisers: Niklas Klein, Brian Ziebart and Stephan Sigg