Call for Papers
Third International Conference on
Modeling and Using Context
Dundee, Scotland
July 27-30, 2001
http://www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-01
The Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and
Using Context (CONTEXT'01) aims at providing a high quality forum for
discussions on context among researchers active in Artificial Intelligence,
Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Linguistics, Organizational Sciences,
Philosophy, and Psychology.
The importance of the notion of context is widely acknowledged, as evidenced
by the numerous workshops, symposia, and seminars on context held recently
(see the Context Web Site). The CONTEXT series of conferences has a unique
place among these due to its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research.
The first conference in this series (CONTEXT'97) was held in Rio de Janeiro
in 1997. The second conference (CONTEXT'99) was held in Trento in 1999; see
http://www.cs.unitn.it/CONTEXT-99 for details.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The following topics, in which contexts can be studied and/or applied, are
thought to be indicative of the scope of the conference:
* Case-Based Reasoning
* Cognitive Modeling
* Commonsense Reasoning
* (Active) Databases
* Decision Support Systems
* Distributed Information Systems
* Formal Theories of Context
* Heterogeneous Information Integration
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Information Management
* Intelligent Internet Systems
* Intelligent Tutoring Systems
* Knowledge Engineering
* Knowledge Management
* Knowledge Representation
* Machine Learning
* Multi-Agent Systems
* Natural Language Processing
* Natural Language Semantics
* Organizational Contexts
* Philosophical Foundations
* Pragmatics
Needless to say, this is not an exhaustive list; other contributions on
context are welcome.
PUBLICATION PLANS
As in CONTEXT'99, the Proceedings of CONTEXT'01 will be published by
Springer-Verlag as a volume in their series ``Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI)'' (subseries of ``Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS)''; visit http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html for the
LNCS/LNAI home page) and will be distributed to the registered participants
during the conference. Publication of an accepted paper in the Proceedings
will be conditional upon two things: presentation of the paper during the
conference and registration of at least one of its authors at the
conference.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
CONTEXT'01 is meant to provide an interdisciplinary forum. All submissions,
in addition to being evaluated for their technical and theoretical merit,
will be evaluated for their strength to be accessible to an
interdisciplinary community. Accordingly, works that transcend their
disciplinary boundaries are especially encouraged.
Each submission will be evaluated by three referees.
Submissions must include in their first page: title, author's name,
affiliation, complete mailing address, phone/fax numbers, email, and an
abstract. Prospective authors are strongly advised to see the sample paper
at:
* http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf or
* http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.ps
to have a precise idea of the formatting requirements. It is especially
crucial to observe that papers cannot be longer than 14 pages. Detailed
information is available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Only electronic submissions (PostScript or pdf file only, named with the
first author's name and last name, e.g. John-Doe.ps or John-Doe.pdf) are
acceptable. It would be wise to use a well-known compression utility (e.g.
compress or gzip) before a paper is emailed. If one foresees problems in
submitting his/her paper in one of the allowed electronic formats and would
like to send hardcopy instead, then he/she should send email to one of the
Program Co-Chairs well in advance of the submission deadline and seek
advice. LNCS is now published, in parallel to the printed books, in
full-text electronic version and therefore the electronic files are
indispensable.
Submitted papers should be received by the Conference Chair no later than
February 2, 2001:
Paolo Bouquet
CONTEXT'01 Conference Chair
Department of Computer Science
University of Trento
Via Inama, 5
I-38100 Trento, Italy
tel: +39 461 882135
fax: +39 461 882124
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cs.unitn.it/~bouquet
SPECIALIZED WORKSHOPS
CONTEXT'01 expands the spectrum of CONTEXT'97 and CONTEXT'99 in that
specialized workshops are planned to let participants discuss emerging,
narrow, and technical issues related to context. Proposals for specialized
workshops should be sent to the Workshops Chair by March 2, 2001:
Massimo Benerecetti
CONTEXT'01 Workshops Chair
Department of Physical Sciences
University of Naples "Federico II"
Complesso Monte Santangelo
via Cinthia
80126 Napoli, Italy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A proposal should comprise the following items: workshop title, address and
short bio of the workshop director, one-page synopsis of the workshop,
addresses of workshop speakers who have already committed themselves to
making a presentation, tentative titles of the presentations. It is up to
the workshop director to decide whether the workshop speakers also prepare
written accounts of their presentations.
In any case, there will not be a formal written record of the workshops. A
workshop director is free to prepare an informal report or a collection of
handouts incorporating the material discussed in his/her workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline February 2, 2001
Workshop proposal submission deadline March 2, 2001
Notification of acceptance/rejection for all submissions April 2, 2001
Deadline for final versions of accepted papers (LNAI format) May 4, 2001
Conference July 27-30, 2001
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Paolo Bouquet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS
Rich Thomason ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Varol Akman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Massimo Benerecetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Roy Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Roger Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
STEERING COMMITTEE
Paolo Bouquet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Patrick Brezillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Rich Thomason ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Varol Akman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Roger Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Gilles Fauconnier ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Fausto Giunchiglia ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Carlo Penco ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Francois Recanati ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Luciano Serafini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Paolo Bouquet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Patrick Brezillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Rich Thomason ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Varol Akman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Roy Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Massimo Benerecetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
Roger Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Roy Dychoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Wayne Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Alex Lascarides ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Nick Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Daniel Andler Universite de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France
Kent Bach San Francisco State University, USA
Carla Bazzanella Universit� di Torino, Italy
David Beaver Stanford University, USA
Matteo Bonifacio Arthur Andersen Italia, Italy
Cristiano Castelfranchi National Research Council, Italy
Jean-Charles Pomerol DRITT, UPMC, France
Herbert Clark Stanford University, USA
Christo Dichev North Carolina A&M State University
Bruce Edmonds Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Paul Feltovich Southern Illinois Univ. School of Medicine, USA
Tim Fernando Trinity College, Ireland
Anita Fetzer Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
Michael Fisher Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Claude Frasson University of Montreal, Canada
Chiara Ghidini Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Alain Giboin Unite de Recherche Sophia-Antipolis, France
Pat Hayes The University of West Florida, USA
Jerry Hobbs SRI International, USA
Lucja Iwanska Wayne State University, USA
Ruth Kempson King's College, UK
Ewan Klein University of Edinburgh, UK
Yves Kodratoff Universit� Paris-Sud, France
Boicho Kokinov New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria
Jose Luis Bermudez University of Stirling, UK
Mark Maybury MITRE Corporation, USA
Bernard Moulin Universit� Laval, Canada
John Mylopoulos University of Toronto, Canada
Rolf Nossum Agder University College, Norway
John Perry Stanford University, USA
Stefano Predelli Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
Marina Sbisa Universit� di Trieste, Italy
Carles Sierra CSIC-Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain
Munindar Singh North Carolina State University, USA
Steffen Staab University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Robert Stalnaker MIT, USA
Jason Stanley Cornell University, USA
Mike Tanenhaus University of Rochester, USA
Robert Young NC State University, USA
