CONTEXT'11 - Deadline June 24th - Call for Posters, Demos, Videos

[announce at teco.edu]

 . . . . . . . . . . . . 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, Posters, Demos, Videos . . . . . . 
 . . . . . With Special Track: Commercializing Context . . . . . 
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 . .Submission deadline for posters, videos and demonstration. .
 . . . . . . . . abstracts: June 24th, 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

INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
CONTEXT'11 will include paper presentation sessions, poster, video and demonstration sessions, two days of workshops, and a doctoral colloquium as well as keynote talks and a panel discussion. Especially the interactive sessions provide researchers with opportunities to present their lates work in front of an interdisciplinary audience. 

Posters can cover preliminary or exploratory work within the topics of the conference, report smaller projects or results not mature enough for a full paper, or present any other research that would excite discussion and benefit from this open forum. 
Demos should demonstrate the use of context technology in all aspects of everyday life, especially in scenarios involving innovative and creative solutions. We particularly encourage demonstrations that include participation by conference attendees and provoke discussion about issues within the field of research. 
Videos are ideally suited to demonstrate the practical application of research results, detail experiment procedures for ongoing research, visualize the outcome of development projects, or paint the vision for future context aware systems that are grounded in today's reality. 

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 of poster abstracts should be at most four pages in Springer LNCS format. All accepted poster abstract submissions will be published in the proceedings which appear as a volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. For a poster abstract to appear in the proceedings, at least one author must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy, to ensure that the work will be presented during CONTEXT.

All authors are encouraged to present their work in a multimodal way, therefore accepted papers and posters can be accompanied by demonstrations/videos which will be shown during the respective sessions. Authors wishing to present a demonstration/video without an accompanying paper must submit a demonstration/video abstract. The abstracts should describe cutting-edge research not described in paper submissions. Demonstration abstracts should summarize the system's behavior and significance, and should include at least one descriptive picture. If desired, they may also include the URL of an informal video on the web. Video abstracts should provide an URL to a version of the video accessible on the web. Demonstration/video abstracts should be at most two pages long. The abstracts associated with demonstrations and videos will be published in a brochure distributed to attendees 

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

IMPORTANT DATES
June 24th, 2011. . . . Posters, videos, demonstration abstracts
July 3rd, 2011 . . . . Camera-ready deadline
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