[Log-ic2011] CFP Log-IC 2011: Second International Workshop on Logic-Based Interpretation of Context: Modeling and Applications
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Di Jan 25 15:56:15 CET 2011
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Dear List Manager,
we would like to ask you to announce the enclosed first call for papers
for Log-IC 2011 via your mailing list.
Log-IC 2011 is the second International Workshop on Logic-Based
Interpretation of Context: Modeling and Applications, and it will be
held in conjunction with LPNMR 2011 in Vancouver, Canada, during May
16th-19th, 2011.
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Alessandra Mileo and Michael Fink
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Dr. Alessandra Mileo | Dr. Michael Fink
Postdoc Researcher | Postdoc Researcher
Digital Enterprise Research Institute | Institute of Information Systems
NUIG, Galway, Ireland | TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Email: alessandra.mileo at deri.org | Email: fink at kr.tuwien.ac.at
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First Call for Papers
Log-IC 2011
Second International Workshop on Logic-Based Interpretation of Context:
Modeling and Applications
In conjunction with LPNMR 2011
Vancouver
16-19 May 2011
http://log-ic2011.deri.ie
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Context interpretation and context-based reasoning are key factors in
the development of intelligent autonomous systems in a variety of
applications. The ability to represent contextual factors, interpret
them and combine them with other sources of knowledge are some of the
challenges to enable intelligent systems achieve correct behavior.
Much work has been done in application areas that make use of contextual
information, such as pervasive computing, logic-based sensor fusion and
data integration, distributed problem solving and societal issues in
Multi-Agent Systems. As well, theoretical foundations for context-based
reasoning have been studied.
However, there is still a great deal to do in context modeling, since
generic context models for context-aware application development need to
be further explored, as does the role of context reasoning in particular
regarding distributed evaluation and in conjunction with more recently
emerging areas such as ontologies, including semantic web data, social
features and reasoning about mental states, as well as approaches to
belief change. While implemented context-representation models are
generally ad-hoc, domain-dependent and do not support powerful
inference, declarative logic-based models often fail to provide a
representation of context-dependent data that is both general and with
good computational properties.
Context-dependent data can arise from different sources; for example it
may be gathered by sensors or collected from different knowledge sources
in different formats. The incompleteness and heterogeneous nature of
such data and the need for state-based context interpretation in dynamic
systems suggest that non-monotonic reasoning techniques could be a
powerful tool for effective context-dependent reasoning. Since in many
applications the data stems from distributed sources, we encourage
submissions addressing distributed reasoning mechanisms. Likewise,
declarative approaches to societal reasoning or agent coordination may
provide the backbone for contextual reasoning in various application
domains. Given the increasing interest in hybrid knowledge
representation formalisms as basis of the Semantic Web, we also invite
submissions where hybrid formalisms combining Description Logics and
Logic Programming as the basic representation framework for reasoning
with (distributed) contexts are proposed.
This workshop will provide a forum for researchers investigating
context-aware applications and context-based or distributed reasoning
with the goal of sharing and comparing their views on the efficacy of
different context representation and context interpretation frameworks.
Log-IC 2011 will also propose targeted discussions on the topic.
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Topics
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Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):
- Surveys of frameworks for context representation and reasoning
- Relating logic-based context models to other representation frameworks
- Formal aspects of context representation and interpretation
- Distributed reasoning formalisms and algorithms
- Paraconsistent reasoning and context interpretation
- Dealing with uncertainty in context modeling
- Logic-supported sensor fusion
- Belief revision and context-awareness
- Argumentation in context-dependent decision support
- Social features of contextual reasoning
- Ontologies and nonmonotonic reasoning in context representation
- Hybrid formalisms for reasoning within contexts or including
sub-symbolic contexts
- Contextual aspects in agent coordination
- Nonmonotonicity and context evolution
- Data integration for context-awareness
- Applications, including (but not limited to) Activity Recognition,
Diagnosis, Query
Answering, Early Warning, in various application domains, such as
Health Care,
Assisted Living, Robotics, etc.
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Submissions
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Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and must be formatted according
to the Springer LNCS/LNAI format. Regular papers (included application
papers) should not exceed 8 pages overall. The limit for short papers
and system descriptions is 4 pages in the same format. We also encourage
position papers on early-stage research (for poster or short
presentations) of at most 2 pages.
To submit a paper, send the PDF version of the paper to
log-ic2011 at lists.deri.org. Proceedings will be published online after
the workshop; publication as CEUR workshop proceedings on CEUR-WS.org is
intended.
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Important dates
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Paper submissions: March 21st, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: April 18th, 2011
Camera-ready versions: April 30th, 2011
Workshop: May 16th, 2011
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Workshop Officials
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Organization Committee:
Alessandra Mileo
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
NUIG, Galway
Ireland
Michael Fink
Institute of Information Systems
TU Wien, Vienna
Austria
Program Chairs:
Alessandra Mileo, University of Galway, Ireland
Michael Fink, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Program Committee:
- Sebastian Bader, University of Rostock, Germany
- Marcello Balduccini, Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY, USA
- Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada
- Roberto Bisiani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Pedro Cabalar Fernandez, Corunna University, Galicia, Spain
- Marina de Vos, University of Bath, UK
- James P. Delgrande, SFU, Canada
- Wolfgang Faber, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy
- Stijn Heymans, SemanticBits LLC, Herndon, VA, USA
- Joao Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Jorge Lobo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
- Bernd Ludwig, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada
- Robert Mercer, University of Western Ontario, Canada
- Tommie Meyer, Meraka Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
- Axel Polleres, University of Galway, Ireland
- Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, Las Cruzes, NM, USA
- Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France
- Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University, Japan
- Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Tran Cao Son, New Mexico State University, Las Cruzes, NM, USA
- Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy
- Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
- Nic Wilson, University College, Cork, Ireland
- Stefan Woltran, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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