AHA 2015 - Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Ambient Assistance and Healthy Ageing

The European Commission defined "Health, demographic change and wellbeing" as one of the six "Grand Challenges" of the European Union. But a look on demographic statistics shows, that this is or will become a challenge of the entire world. Endeavors are made in in various directions to meet that challenge, amongst which the fields of "Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)" and "Healthy Ageing (HA)"are rather prominent.
The workshop focuses on intends to reveal the existing and potential contributions, which can be made by the modeling community to these fields. In particular it focuses on Conceptual Modeling within the context of designing and developing systems for assisting humans in their everyday live and in healthy ageing.
Special attention will be paid to
Open Models, i.e. models that are broadly understood, can be freely accessed according to the principles of "open source", and may be developed cooperatively,
Domain specific modeling languages, supporting tools and related meta-modeling frameworks,
The relevant contexts to be covered by modeling approaches,
Learning Systems based on Cognitive Modeling and knowledge integration,
Model based Reasoning under uncertainty.
The workshop aims at bringing together people from academia and practice, and from the open model initiative, to discuss the state of the art, on-going projects and open research questions in the field of modeling for human assistance. Thus, it will be a platform for exchanging ideas and initiating new co-operations and projects.
The discussions will be heated-up by short invited impulse talks (15 min) and refined in working sections. Best practices in using (meta-) modeling tools will be illustrated by the use of meta-modeling frameworks.
Questions to be discussed are, among others, which modeling method may be useful for which purpose, how the requirements of the end users can be met by using modeling techniques and how to relate modeling tools to common standards in the fields of Ambient Assistance, Ambient Assisted Living and Healthy Ageing.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We solicit submission of original research, as well as experience and vision papers, from both researchers and practitioners. The submissions should address one or more of the following topics without being limited to these but with clear links to Ambient Assisted Living or Healthy Ageing:
Conceptual Modeling Methods
Domain Specific Modeling Languages
Domain Ontologies
Contexts, Context Models and their integration
Exploiting Natural Language Processing Techniques for Learning Systems
Conceptual Model Based Reasoning
Understandability Management
Meta-modeling frameworks
Open Model Initiatives
Interfaces to Assistance Systems
Modeling in the context of Activity Recognition
Best Practices
Experiences with Modeling Tools
Experiences with Meta-modeling Frameworks