[agents] [Agents] CFP: The 1st International Workshop on Uncertainty in AmI

[Michael O'Grady]

Call for Papers

UncertaintyAmI 2013 - The 1st International Workshop on Uncertainty in AmI
http://www.uncertaintyami.org

In conjunction with the 2013 International Joint Conference on Ambient 
Intelligence (AmI 2013), December 2-4, 2013, Dublin, Ireland
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Abstract
Advances in sensing, communication, and intelligence technologies in 
recent years have promoted the research theme of “ambient intelligence”; 
that is, making the real world environment sensitive and responsive to 
people’s needs and goals with the help of invisible sensors and 
actuators embedded in the environment. Ambient intelligence has thrived 
in many human beneficial application domains including ambient assisted 
living, traffic control, commercial promotion, and tourist guide, to 
name a few. However, the possibility of the widespread deployment of 
such applications remains unclear. One of the most critical reasons 
behind this is the uncertainty of perceived sensor data and the 
associated consequences of triggering unsatisfactory (or 
life-threatening in emergency situations) actions. The uncertainty is 
not simply due to technical limitations of physical sensors or 
environmental interference, but can be introduced by a crude rule system 
or an over-fitted artificial intelligence model, or even by human users 
(e.g., by dislodging or physically blocking the sensors). In any event, 
ambient intelligence services cannot assume that their data is “clean”, 
and must therefore adopt some explicit approach to mitigating 
uncertainty both in input and output.

This workshop aims to bring together representative members of the 
industrial and scientific communities that have experience in and 
concern over the impact of uncertainty in real-world ambient 
intelligence system design. We will discuss the state of the art 
uncertainty resolving techniques including Fuzzy logics, various 
statistical correlation models, Baysian models, and evidence theories, 
to name a few. We will lead a discussion on understanding of the 
uncertainties, how to make uncertainty more informative to applications, 
and thus how to program with uncertainty.

Interesting Topics
This workshop is open to any topics related to uncertainty issues 
encountered in ambient intelligence. Examples include but are not 
limited to:
• Detecting and classifying sensor faults
• Dealing with non-technical uncertainty issues caused by human 
interactions with sensors in real-world environments over a long period
• Aggregating uncertain data from heterogeneous sources
• Reasoning and classification in the face of uncertainty
• Characterising uncertainty in knowledge representation
• Uncertainty in the sensor web
• Designing and developing uncertainty-resistant applications
• Experiences of what difficulties that uncertainty has brought for 
existing application designs
• Programming with uncertainty
• Applications or case studies that demonstrate approaches to mitigating 
uncertainty

Important Dates
• Submission deadline: 14 September 2013
• Acceptance notification: 20 September 2013
• Camera ready version: 10 October 2013
• Workshop date: 3 December 2013

Submission guideline
Interested authors can submit full technical papers with maximum 12 
pages or short position papers with maximum 6 pages through EasyChair. 
Paper submissions for all categories should follow the Springer 
guidelines for Proceedings, which is available in this link 
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. The 
proceedings of the workshops will be published by Springer under their 
Communications in Computer and Information 
Science:http://www.springer.com/series/7899.

Workshop organisers
• Juan Ye, University of St Andrews, UK
• Graeme Stevenson, University of St Andrews, UK
• Michael O’Grady, University College Dublin, IE