CoSDEO 2013 - The Fourth Workshop on Context-Systems Design, Evaluation and Optimisation

The Fourth Workshop on Context-Systems Design, Evaluation and Optimisation
Organizers: Markus Scholz, Stephan Sigg, and Moustafa Youssef
Workshop website: http://cosdeo.teco.edu/2013/
The 4th CoSDEO-workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems, algorithms or models for the device-free, radio-based recognition of contexts. Recently, using analysis of signal distortions in a typical radio network to derive contexts such as location, type or activity of an object not outfitted with a radio, has received a growing amount of attention from researchers. The possibility to acquire context information without instrumenting users or installing special hardware and without the drawbacks of optical systems has great potential for typical applications of Ubiquitous Computing. The goal of CoSDEO 2013 is to provide a discussion venue for this growing community in which fundamental problems as well as sophisticated approaches and actual implementations can be presented. Thus, we like to encourage scientists in all stages of their research, from first experiments to readily developed and evaluated systems, to submit their original work to allow a broad discussion with established experts but also researchers relatively new to the field. Besides regular submissions, we also encourage submission of visionary papers which do not need to describe completed research but contain ideas new to the field. These may be related to novel techniques for the radio-based detection of contexts but also novel applications and designs of device-free radio-based context recognition systems.