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CONTEXT '11

26-30 September 2011
Karlsruhe, Germany

. . . . . . . . . . . . CONTEXT '11. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  .  The Seventh International and Interdisciplinary Conference.
  . . . . . . . . on Modeling and Using Context. . . . . . . . .
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  . . . . . . September 26th - 30th, Karlsruhe, Germany. . . . .
  . . . . . . . . http://context-11.teco.edu/. . . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals. . . . . .
  . . . . . With Special Track: Commercializing Context. . . . .
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  . . Submission deadlines for full papers, posters, videos,. .
  . . . . . . and demonstration abstracts: May 8, 2011. . . . .
  . Submission deadlines for workshop proposals: March 20, 2011.

Fourteen years after the first Context conference in 1997 - and 60 years after Prior laid the foundation for the field -, the Seventh International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'11) sets out to extend foundational research on context and to evaluate the status and consequences of context research, as well as to address new questions for the field.

CONTEXT'11 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing high-quality research and applications on context. The conference will include paper, poster, and video presentations, system demonstrations, workshops, and a doctoral consortium. The conference invites researchers and practitioners to share insights and cutting-edge results from the wide range of disciplines concerned with context, including: the Cognitive Sciences (Linguistics, Psychology, Philosophy, Computer Science, Neuroscience), the Social Sciences and Organizational Sciences, and all application areas, including Medicine and Law.

The motto of the CONTEXT'11 special track "Commercialising Context" was chosen to reflect both the fact that context research has found numerous successful applications in recent years and the fact that context itself has become a product that can be sold. Context-aware services can support their users unobtrusively and offer promising revenues. However, when context is no longer something private but processed and shared through the web, profound questions are raised about privacy and the general consequences of the technology.
Yet, the new context-aware services can also be a scientific tool for context-research itself. Context-aware services offer new ways for studying social context and its interaction with other types of context on a sociologically significant scale. For linguistic studies, context-aware mobile phones and chat programs, for instance, can be a tool to automatically obtain context-annotated dialogues, with which the influence of context on meaning can be empirically assessed.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to perspectives on context from:

Analogy and Case-Based Reasoning. . . . . Knowledge Engineering and Ontologies
Autonomous Agents. . . . . . . . . . . .  Language Understanding and Production
. and Agent-based Systems. . . . . . . .  Learning
Cognitive Modeling. . . . . . . . . . . . Linguistics
Concepts and Categorization. . . . . . .  Memory, Representation and Access
Context-Aware Services and Systems. . . . Multiagent Systems
Context-Recognition. . . . . . . . . . . .  and Interagent Communication
Distributed Information Systems. . . . .  Neuroscience
Formal Semantics and Pragmatics. . . . .  Formal Ontology of Context Domains
Formal Theories of Context. . . . . . . . Organizational Theory and Design
Heterogeneous Information Integration. .  Perception
Human Decision-Making. . . . . . . . . .  Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing
. and Decision Support Systems. . . . . . Philosophical Foundations of Context
Human-Centered Computing. . . . . . . . . Problem Solving and Planning
Human-Computer Interaction. . . . . . . . Psychological experiments
Information Management. . . . . . . . . . Reasoning
Intelligent Tutoring Systems. . . . . . . Relevance Computation
Intelligent User Interfaces. . . . . . . .  and Relevance Theories
Intelligent/Semantic Web Systems. . . . . Sensor Networks and Sensing Systems
Knowledge Representation. . . . . . . . . Situated and Distributed Cognition

CONFERENCE EVENTS

CONTEXT'11 will include paper presentation sessions, a poster and 
demonstration session, two days of workshops, and a doctoral consortium as 
well as keynote talks and a panel discussion. Workshops and the doctoral 
consortium will circulate separate calls for papers and participation, 
which will also be available at the conference web site.

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA AND SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

CONTEXT welcomes original, high-quality research contributions that 
advance the state of the art in their field. Because CONTEXT'11 will be an 
interdisciplinary forum, all submissions will be evaluated not only for 
their technical merit but also for their accessibility to an 
interdisciplinary audience. Works that transcend disciplinary boundaries 
are especially encouraged.

Submissions may be for full papers (14 pages in Springer LNCS format), 
poster abstracts, videos with a video abstract, or demonstration 
abstracts. Full papers will be accepted either for oral presentation or 
for presentation at a poster session. All accepted full paper submissions 
will be published in the proceedings which appear as a volume of Springer 
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Accepted posters and 
demonstrations will be presented at the poster session. Videos will be 
presented as part of the conference program. The associated abstracts will 
be published in a brochure distributed to attendees.

See detailed author instructions at 
http://context-11.teco.edu/authors.html

IMPORTANT DATES
March 20th, 2011. . .  Deadline for Workshop Proposal Submission
May 8, 2011. . . . . . Full papers, posters, videos, demonstration abstracts
June 5, 2011. . . . .  Notification of authors
June 19th, 2011. . . . Camera-ready papers
Sept. 26.-30, 2011. .  Conference

GENERAL CHAIRS
Michael Beigl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, University of Hildesheim, Germany

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Hedda R. Schmidtke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Anders Kofod-Petersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
e-mail: context11-pch@teco.edu