19-25 Aug 2017
Melbourne, Australia
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Call for Papers: MRC 2017
The 9th International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context
In conjunction with IJCAI 2017
The International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence
Melbourne, Australia
August 19-25, 2017
Submission deadline: May 16, 2017
Information: http://mrc.kriwi.de/
Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrc2017
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Join us in Melbourne
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Context plays an increasingly important role in modern IT applications.
Context sensitivity and awareness is becoming essential, not only for
mobile systems, ambient computing and the internet of things, but also for
a wide range of other areas, such as learning and teaching solutions,
collaborative software, web engineering, mobility logistics and health
care work-flow. Advancing the use and understanding of context beyond
stimuli-response systems suggests a knowledge perspective on modelling and
reasoning.
For autonomous systems, recognising contextual information is vital if the
system is to exhibit behaviour that is appropriate for the situation at
hand. At the same time, such systems might change contextual parameters
that are relevant for human and non-human agents present. Therefore, it is
important to be able to predict changes in context that are due to the
actions of intelligent systems to avoid clashing with user needs and
expectations.
From a general AI perspective, one of the challenges is to integrate
context with other types of knowledge as a major additional source for
reasoning, decision-making, and adaptation and to form a coherent and
versatile architecture. There is a common understanding that achieving
desired behaviour from intelligent systems will depend on the ability to
represent and manipulate information about a rich range of contextual
factors.
These factors may include not only physical characteristics of the task
environment, but, possibly more importantly, many other aspects including
cognitive factors such as the knowledge states (of both the application
and user) or emotions, and social factors such as networks, relations,
roles, and hierarchies. This representation and reasoning problem presents
research challenges to which methodologies derived from areas such as
artificial intelligence, knowledge management, human-computer interaction,
semiotics and psychology can contribute solutions.
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Workshop Objectives
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MRC aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different
communities, both in industry and academia, to study, understand, and
explore issues surrounding context and to share their problems, techniques
and success stories across different areas. By considering modelling and
reasoning approaches for contextualised systems from a broad range of
areas, the workshop will facilitate the sharing of problems, techniques,
and solutions. The workshop covers different understandings of what
context is, different approaches to modelling context, mechanisms and
techniques for (structured) storage of contextual information, effective
ways to retrieve it, and methods for enabling integration of context and
application knowledge.
MRC invites papers on different aspects of context, on theory as well as
on applications. We particularly invite contributions on topics of
autonomy and context. We also explicitly invite contributions from other
fields of study in order to further trans- and interdisciplinary
approaches.
MRC provides a forum to exchange and discuss issues and ideas in a
friendly, cooperative environment. Areas of interest include, but are not
limited to:
* Context and autonomy
* Context and smart data
* Generic and specific context models
* Explicit representations of context
* Context and visualisation
* Trans- and interdisciplinary issues of context
* Representation of and reasoning with uncertainty
* Retrieval of context and context information
* Socio-technical issues
* Evaluation of contextualised applications
* Explanation and context
* Information ageing
* Context focusing and context switching
* Context management
* Context awareness and context-sensitivity
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Submissions
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Submitted papers must be prepared according to the formatting guidelines,
LaTeX Styles and Word template for IJCAI 2017, and submitted
electronically in PDF format only through the EasyChair pages for MRC
2017. Authorship does not need to be anonymous, but you are free to submit
papers with identifying information removed.
Submissions must be original, and should not have been formally published
or accepted for publication elsewhere. We also invite longer versions of
papers published in short form elsewhere. Papers have to be submitted on
the 16th of May, 2017 at the latest.
Long papers are allowed eight (8) pages. An additional page containing the
list of references is allowed, as long as this ninth page contains only
references. Short papers, not exceeding three (3) pages, may be submitted
for short oral presentation.
Three members of the program committee will review each submission. A
review form will direct committee members to evaluate submissions for
appropriateness, technical strength, originality, presentation, and
overall evaluation, as well as recording the reviewer's confidence in the
topic.
Author notification will be sent out on the 6th of June, 2017.
The proceedings of the workshop will be published electronically and made
freely available. Depending on the nature of submissions, the proceedings
will be published through a suitable channel such as the CEUR Workshop
Proceedings. Authors of accepted papers might be invited to submit
extended versions for inclusion in a special journal issue on
contextualised systems, if justified by the quantity and quality of
submissions.
The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of
papers in PDF format, conforming to the formatting guidelines, for
inclusion in the published proceedings. At least one author of each
accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the
contribution.
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Important Dates
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Papers due: May 16
Notification: June 6
Camera-ready: June 20
MRC Workshop: August 19.-21. (one day, exact date tbd)
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Websites
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More information about MRC and the paper submission process as well as paper
templates can be found on the workshop website at:
http://mrc.kriwi.de/
Submission System:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrc2017
The IJCAI 2017 main conference website has more information about the
location
and registration process:
http://ijcai-17.org/
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Organisation
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Chairs
Jrg Cassens
Institute for Mathematics and Applied Informatics
University of Hildesheim, Germany
Rebekah Wegener
Institute for English and American Studies
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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Sydney, Australia
Anders Kofod-Petersen
Alexandra Institute
Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway
Contact all chairs at: mrc2017@kriwi.de
Program Committee (subject to amendments)
Juan Carlos Augusto Middlesex University, UK
Tarek Richard Besold University of Bremen, Germany
Henning Christiansen Roskilde University, Denmark
Adrian Clear Northumbria University, Newcastle University, UK
Bozidara Cvetkovic Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Martin Christof Kindsmller University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg,
Germany
Christian Kohlschein RWTH Aachen University, Germany
David Leake Indiana University, USA
Ana Gabriela Maguitman Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Tobias Meisen RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Stella Neumann RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Maite Taboada Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada
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Background to MRC
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MRC is an interdisciplinary workshop with a focus on applications within
computer science. Because of this focus the workshop primarily attracts
participants from within the computer science community and specifically
within artificial intelligence. However, MRC has always had a strong
interdisciplinary appeal and does draw from fields such as linguistics,
semiotics, philosophy, mathematics, cognitive science, social sciences and
psychology as well as various sub-fields within computer science.
MRC has traditionally been held at either the bi-annual International and
Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT) or
AI-related conferences such as ECAI, IJCAI and AAAI. These workshops have
been successful in raising awareness about the importance of context as a
major issue for future intelligent systems, especially for the use of
mobile devices and current research on ubiquitous computing. At the same
time, advances in methodologies for modelling and retrieving context have
been made and MRC continues to provide a venue for the discussion and
furthering of research into issues surrounding context.
MRC 2017 will be held at the the International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017) in Melbourne, Australia. The main
conference website has more information about the location and the
registration process as well as other workshops. Participants for MRC will
have to register for IJCAI. In particular, at least one author of any
paper accepted for presentation at MRC will have to register for the
workshop at IJCAI.
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Agenda
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The workshop will last one full day and will have three main types of
interaction.
The first type will consist of short presentations of the accepted papers.
The goal of these sessions is to introduce the work of all the
participants.
The second type will consist of two panel discussion sessions, each
dedicated to one specific issue. The suggested issues are "Recognising
Context in Autonomous Systems" and "Changing Context with Autonomous
Systems", but are subject to change dependent on the interests of the
attendees and the nature of submissions. The goal of these panels is to
discuss the various approaches to each of these basic issues and to
identify the critical problems in need of attention and the most promising
research directions.
The workshop will be concluded with the last type, an open, but guided
discussion summarising the most important lessons learned.
Industry representatives are invited to display context related
demonstrations during the workshop.
A detailed agenda will be published on our website before the workshop.
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