CoMoRea 2011 - 8th IEEE Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea)

8th IEEE Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea)
at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom'11)
Seattle, USA 21-25 Mar 2011

http://www.nexus.uni-stuttgart.de/COMOREA

Call for Papers (as PDF, as Text)

Important Dates
Paper submissions: October 31, 2010
Notification: January 7, 2011
Camera Ready Version: January 28, 2011
Workshop day: March 21 or 25, 2011
Workshop Scope
There is a high interest in context-aware applications that intelligently support user tasks by acting autonomously on behalf of users. Behavior of context-aware applications depends not only on their internal state and user interactions but also on the context sensed during their execution. Some early models of context information already exist, however many research issues related to context information modeling are still not fully addressed. Existing context models vary in types of context information they can represent. While some models take the user’s current situation, e.g. “in a meeting”, into account others model the physical environment, i.e. locations. A more generic approach to context modeling is needed in order to capture various features of context information including a variety of types of context information, dependencies between context information, quality and provenance of context information and context histories. In addition, to ease software engineering problems encountered in programming context-aware applications, appropriate abstractions are necessary to support discovery and reuse of context information as well as scalable methods of context processing and management.
This workshop’s aim is to advance the state of the art in context modeling and reasoning and also discuss fundamental issues in context processing and management. The goal is to identify concepts, theories and methods applicable to context modeling and context reasoning as well as system-oriented issues related to the design and implementation of context-aware systems. Particular attention will be paid to hybrid approaches to context modeling, e.g. an integration of non-ontology based context models with ontology based context models.

Workshop Committee
Workshop co-chairs
Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Daniele Riboni, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Matthias Wieland, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
Program Committee
Anand Ranganathan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Bin Guo, Institut Telecom SudParis, France
Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany
Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Daniele Riboni, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Frank Dürr, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Ghita Kouadri Mostefaoui, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany
Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany
Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Martin Bauer, NEC Heidelberg, Germany
Markus Endler, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Massimo Valla, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy
Matthias Wieland, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
Oliver Brdiczka, PARC, USA
Waltenegus Dargie, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Weishan Zhang, Aarhus University, Denmark
Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Poly-technical University, Xi An, China