[PlanetKR] CONTEXT'11 - Deadlines Extended, New Keynote, Four Workshops

[Hedda Schmidtke]

  . . . . . . . . . . . . CONTEXT '11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  .  The Seventh International and Interdisciplinary Conference .
  . . . . . . . . on Modeling and Using Context . . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . . September 26th - 30th, Karlsruhe, Germany . . . . .
  . . . . . . . . http://context-11.teco.edu/ . . . . . . . . . .
  . . . . . With special track: Commercializing Context . . . . .
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

NEWS
  * Keynote by Jerry Hobbs
  * Four workshops to be held on 26th and 27th: 
http://context-11.teco.edu/cfpw.html
  * Extended deadlines
     - for full papers: May 22, 2011
     - for video/poster/demonstration abstracts: June 24, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS
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
May 22nd, 2011 . . . . Full papers
June 19th, 2011. . . . Notification of authors
June 24th, 2011. . . . Posters, videos, demonstration abstracts
July 3rd, 2011 . . . . Camera-ready papers
Sept 26th-30th, 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
Kenny R. Coventry, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
e-mail: context11-pch at teco.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Thomas Bittner, University at Buffalo, USA
Patrick Brezillon, University of Paris 6, France
Jörg Cassens, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Kenny R. Coventry, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany
Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes and INP University of 
Grenoble, France
Babak A. Farshchian, SINTEF, Norway
Jacqueline Floch, SINTEF, Norway
Christian Freksa, University of Bremen, Germany
Valentin Goranko, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Pierre Grenon, The Knowledge Media Institute, United Kingdom
Anders Kofod-Petersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 
Norway
Kun Chang Lee, SKK Graduate School of Business, South Korea
Takashi Miyaki, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Aaron Quigley, The University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Robert J. Ross, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Hedda R. Schmidtke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Roy Turner, University of Maine, USA
Emile Van Der Zee, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Kristof Van Laerhoven, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Vaninha Vieira, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Rebekah Wegener, Macquarie University, Australia
Diedrich Wolter, University of Bremen, Germany