[agents] FINAL DEADLINE [June 23th]: 3rd CaCoA Workshop on CBR & Context-Awareness @ ECCBR'08

[Jan-Oliver Deutsch]

Apologies for multiple copies due to cross-posting


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              Final deadline for submissions: 23th of June 2008

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Call for Papers

3rd Workshop on Context Awareness and CBR
CaCoA'08 - Advanced Technologies for Ambient Intelligence

In conjunction with the 9th European Conference on Case Based Reasoning
September 1-4, 2008, Trier, Germany

Workshop Website: http://www.iis.uni-hildesheim.de/cacoa08
Conference: http://www.wi2.uni-trier.de/eccbr08/index.php

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI) solutions require context awareness (of both the
environment and user) to anticipate the humans' goals and needs to behave
proactively. Adaptivity and feedback learning are used to advance AmI in
order to make it smart and intelligent, while context-sensitive processing
takes more and more a key role in many modern intelligent IT applications
including context awareness. Context reasoning is also essential for AmI, and
can be supported adequately by CBR techniques representing and manipulating
situated information. Moreover, demand-oriented and holistic solutions require
taking into account relevant human aspects (e.g. social, economic or ethical)
to avoid possible refusals of such systems.

This workshop will bring together industry and academic researchers and
scientists to study, understand, and explore the handling of context in
intelligent applications, with a particular focus on ambient intelligence and
human-directed aspects. Besides contributed papers and invited talks, this
workshop will offer organized and open spaces for targeted discussions. The
workshop will explore (but is not limited to) the following topics along the
(pair wise) intersections of context awareness, case-based reasoning, and AmI:

- Context-aware Smart Home solutions
- Reasoning in dynamic device environments
- Usability, usefulness, and reliability of AmI applications
- Multi-modal user interfaces
- Minimal-invasive sensing and human-computer interaction (HCI)
- Ethical, social and economic impact of AmI (acceptance, perspectives,
   informational self determination, loss of control, privacy)
- Smart human interaction with autonomous systems
- Collecting and analysing histories of behaviour
- Security and trust implications for AmI solutions
- Service matchmaking (practicable)
- Responsive and pro-active architectures
- Adapting experiences and feedback learning (life cycles)
- User-centric explanations (to advance smart behavior)
- Communication strategies for AmI applications
- Collaborative filtering techniques for context awareness
- CBR methods for modeling of and reasoning about context
- Philosophical, social, and psychological accounts of ambient intelligence and
   CBR
- Advanced user modeling techniques
- Traditional relevant areas of KM (KR, planning, decision-making, uncertainty)

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  Submissions
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We invite paper submissions including descriptions of works in progress, research
contributions, and position statements. Submissions should attempt to address
issues relating to Context Awareness and CBR for Ambient Intelligence. The
workshop aims to provide a forum for scientists and practitioners exploring
ambient intelligence, from a broad range of disciplines, to share their problems
and techniques across different research and application areas. Workshop papers
should be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the
final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 10 pages (tentative). Authors'
instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Submissions should be made through the workshop conference management system
(see website for detail). For further information contact the workshop organizers.

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  Deadlines and Dates
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- June 23, 2008:       Deadline for workshop paper submission
- July 07, 2008:       Notification of acceptance for workshop papers
- August 01, 2008:     Final camera ready copies due
- September 1-4, 2008: Workshops held at ECCBR 2008 (in parallel)

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  Workshop Organizers
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Jan-Oliver Deutsch, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Jens Mänz, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Sven Schwarz, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
Jörg Cassens, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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Workshop Committee
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Anders Kofod-Petersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Enric Plaza, AIRI, Barcelona, Spain
Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Lorcan Coyle, Systems Research Group, University College Dublin, Ireland
Marielba Silva Zacarias, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Markus Nick, empolis GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Matthias Brucke, OFFIS Oldenburg, Germany
Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany
Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
Thomas Sauer, rjm Business Solutions GmbH, Germany