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Advanced Technologies for Ambient Intelligence 3rd European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning and Context-Awareness |
| June 23, 2008 | Final deadline for workshop paper submission |
| July 07, 2008 | Notification of acceptance for workshop papers |
| August 01, 2008 | Final camera ready copies to be received by workshop organizers |
| September 1, 2008 | CaCoA Workshop Day at ECCBR 2008 (in parallel) |
| Description | Objectives | Submissions | Organization | ECCBR'08 |
Workshop Schedule
| 11.30 - 12.00 am | Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop Topic, Introduction of each Participant |
| 12.00 - 12.25 am | Identifying Relevance Factors for Information Retrieval of a Dynamic
Medical Information System supporting the Differential Diagnosis Process Michael C.A. Borovicka |
| 12.25 - 12.50 am | Case Based Reasoning using semantic annotations to assist the information
retrieval on the web Wiem Yaiche Elleuch, Lobna Jéribi, Mohamed Tmar, and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou |
| 12.50 am - 1.00 pm | Wrap up, introducing topics for discussion |
LUNCH (1.00 pm - 2.30 pm)
| 2.30 - 2.55 pm | Adaptation-Guided Retrieval for a Diagnostic and Repair Help
System Dedicated to a Pallets Transfer Karim Haouchine, Brigitte Chebel-Morello, and Noureddine Zerhouni |
| 2.55 - 3.20 pm | Using a Distributed Multi-Agent Architecture for Optimizing the Performance
of a Case-Based Planning Mechanism Sara Rodríguez, Juan F. De Paz, Dante I. Tapia, and Juan M. Corchado |
| 3.20 - 3.50 pm | Discussion |
| 3.50 - 4.00 pm | Workshop Wrap-up, action topics |
The Workshop Schedule is also available in pdf.
Speaker Information |
Speakers will have 20 minutes for presentation and and 5 minutes for questions and discussion. The Workshop room will have a computer (MS PowerPoint 2003 and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 will be installed) available for making presentations. This should support both CD and memory sticks for presentation transfer.
Workshop Description
Information technology is becoming a more and more integral part of our living and working environment. The increasing mobility and pervasiveness of computing and communication enables new services and applications to improve quality of work and life. So context-sensitive processing and context-reasoning is essential not only for mobile, pervasive, and ubiquitous computing, but also for a wide range of other areas such as recommender systems, collaborative software, web engineering, information sharing, health care workflow and patient control, adaptive games, autonomic systems, and e-Learning solutions.
The dynamics of smart environments pose a significant challenge to developers. To retain usability, usefulness, and reliability, applications need to adapt to the changing environment and the context in which they are used. For example, smart user interfaces have to adapt to the available modalities for human interaction or several heterogeneous devices have to interact to realize smart environments. Summarized, ambient intelligent systems are characterized by their ability to be aware of the users, perceive their needs, and respond smart and intelligent to them. As a consequence, intelligent solutions require context awareness as well as adaptivity. These overall requirements are very hard to realize by single technologies or methodologies, and interdisciplinary approaches are necessary to achieve them all.
CBR in general, and knowledge intensive CBR in particular, appears to be a promising candidate for reasoning about situations and behavior in an ambient intelligent setting enabling context awareness statically (by domain-specific vocabulary and similarity models) as well as dynamically (by memorizing new cases and thereby improving its ability to adapt to new situations). However, those technological-driven issues should also come along with human aspects of AmI like ethical, social and economic challenges to meet the requirements of demand-oriented solutions.
This workshop aims to collect the various approaches that make use of CBR, Context Awareness, Adaptivity/Learning, and Social/Cognitive Science within the area of Ambient Intelligence to facilitate holistic and user-centric solutions.
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The major goal of this CaCoA'08 is to bring together researchers and practitioners, both from academia and industry, within the various disciplines that
constitute the fields of advanced approaches and technologies for AmI involving (especially, but not exclusively) CBR techniques and human-directed aspects.
Furthermore, it aims to combine approaches, methodologies and solutions from different fields of knowledge management and humanistic disciplines to overcome
todays and future challenges to built ambient intelligence systems.
Besides contributed papers and invited talks, it will offer organized and open spaces for targeted discussions. An expected result is to form a common understanding on the topics of modeling, comparing, and adapting context for the Ambient Iintelligenence application domain. Additional discussions will include the use of context in recommender systems; the applications of CBR to pervasive computing, autonomic systems, and ubiquitous computing; and the use of sensed and real-world features in CBR systems.
CaCoA'08 will build on the success of last years CBR and Context Awareness workshop (CaCoA'07) and (CaCoA'06). CaCoA'07 featured an invited talk, three paper presentations, and a substantial discussion session. Last years accepted submissions were published online with CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Attendance last year was 15 people. Our discussions revolved around outlining the intersections between CBR and Context Awareness, defining the necessary terminologies, and discussed how context-awareness should be better branded to the wider CBR community. Most of the participants agreed to continue working on these topics and return to ICCBR07 with updates of their work. Thanks to the positive feedback we received we expect to attract a larger audience this year.
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We prefer interdisciplinary submissions that should attempt to address issues relating to CBR and Context Awareness for Ambient Intelligence from a technical or human-directed viewpoint. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Context-aware Smart Home solutions
- Reasoning in dynamic device environments
- Usability, usefulness, and reliability of AmI applications
- Multi-modal user interfaces
- Minimal-invasive sensing and human-computer interaction (HCI)
- Ethical, social and economic impact of AmI (acceptance, perspectives, informational self-determination, loss of control, privacy)
- Smart human interaction with autonomous systems
- Collecting and analysing histories of behaviour
- Security and trust implications for AmI solutions
- Service matchmaking (practicable)
- Responsive and pro-active architectures
- Adapting experiences and feedback learning (life cycles)
- User-centric explanations (to advance smart behavior)
- Communication strategies for AmI applications
- Collaborative filtering techniques for context awareness
- CBR methods for modeling of and reasoning about context
- Philosophical, social, and psychological accounts of ambient intelligence and CBR
- Advanced user modeling techniques
- Traditional relevant areas of KM (KR, planning, decision-making, uncertainty)
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The first call for papers for CaCoA 2008 has been released (also available in text and pdf formats). We invite paper submissions including descriptions of works in progress, research contributions, and position statements. Submissions should attempt to address issues relating to Context Awareness and CBR for Ambient Intelligence The workshop aims to provide a forum for scientists and practitioners exploring ambient intelligence, from a broad range of disciplines, to share their problems and techniques across different research and application areas. Workshop papers should be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 10 pages. Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Submissions should be made through the workshop conference management system (EasyChair). For further information contact the workshop organizers.
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the program committee. Submissions must be identified as either research or application papers and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to their category. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review criteria for application papers will include practical or economic significance, potential to lead to more powerful technology, technical quality, and clarity.
Organization
Workshop Chairs |
- Jan-Oliver Deutsch, University of Hildesheim, Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory
- Jens Mänz, University of Hildesheim, Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory
- Sven Schwarz, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Knowledge Management Group, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Jörg Cassens, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
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Program Committee |
- Anders Kofod-Petersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Enric Plaza, AIRI, Barcelona, Spain
- Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany
- Lorcan Coyle, Systems Research Group, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Marielba Silva Zacarias, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
- Markus Nick, empolis GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Matthias Brucke, OFFIS Oldenburg, Germany
- Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany
- Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
- Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Thomas Sauer, rjm Business Solutions GmbH, Germany
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In order to achieve the workshop goals, we propose to incorporate the following activities in the workshop schedule:
- Presentation of peer-reviewed research and application papers
- Discussion of the research and application papers
- A panel discussion session dedicated to one specific issue
- Discussion session, with the intention of summarizing the workshop contribution
ECCBR 2008
CaCoA'08 is colocated with the
9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in Trier, Germany, September
1-4, 2008. ECCBR'08 is following a series of successful European conferences
and workshops. This four-day conference will be held at the University of Trier,
Germany. 15 years after the First European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
in the European Academy Otzenhausen, which is very close to Trier, this conference
will especially be devoted to the past, present, and future of CBR.
Contact us
To contact us about submissions or any questions about the workshop, please mail to:
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The CaCoA Pictures |
The background cacoa image and the cacoa-themed imagery were created from Mariana Reyes' beautiful photo of Cacoa Beans.
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