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CONTEXT'03
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| Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference
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Modeling and Using
Context
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Stanford, California
(USA)
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June 23-25,
2003
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(www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03)
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The Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling
and
Using Context (CONTEXT'03) will provide a high-quality forum for
discussions
about context among researchers active in artificial
intelligence and other
areas of computer science, cognitive science,
linguistics, the organizational
sciences, philosophy, and psychology.
Context affects a wide range of activities in humans and animals as well
as
in artificial agents and other computer programs. The importance of
context
is widely acknowledged, and "context" has become an area of study in
its own
right, as evidenced by the numerous workshops, symposia, seminars,
and
conferences held recently. CONTEXT, the oldest conference series
focusing on
context, is unique due to its strong emphasis on
interdisciplinary
research. Previous CONTEXT conferences have been held in
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil (CONTEXT'97), Trento, Italy (CONTEXT'99), and Dundee,
Scotland
(CONTEXT'01). Each of these brought together researchers in many
disparate
fields to discuss and report on research on context-related
topics.
The proceedings of CONTEXT'03 will be published in a Lecture
Notes series
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lnai) of SpringerVerlag, as
were those of the
previous two CONTEXT conferences.
TOPICS OF
INTEREST
To guide potential submissions, a representative sampling of
topics of
interest for CONTEXT'03 are as follows (in alphabetical order).
This is not
an exhaustive list, and other contributions are welcome,
although all
submissions must have a focus on context.
Analogy
and case-based reasoning Autonomous Agents and
Agent-based Systems
Cognitive
Modeling
Commonsense Reasoning
Context Issues in
Databases Context-aware
Applications
Contextual effects on
language Contextual effects on
problem-solving,
understanding and
production decision-making, and
categorization
Decision Support and Expert Systems Distributed
Information Systems
Formal Theories of
Context
Heterogeneous Information Integration
Human-Computer
Interaction
Information Management
Intelligent Tutoring
Systems Intelligent/Semantic Web
Systems
Interagent
Communication
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Knowledge
Representation
Machine Learning
Multiagent
Systems
Natural Language Processing
Neuroscience and
context
Organizational Theory and Design
Philosophical
Foundations
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Since CONTEXT'03 will be an
interdisciplinary forum, all submissions, in
addition to being evaluated for
their technical merit, will be evaluated for
their accessibility to an
interdisciplinary audience. Works that transcend
disciplinary boundaries are
especially encouraged. Papers will be accepted
either for oral
presentation or for presentation at a poster session.
Each submission
will be evaluated by three referees. Complete formatting
requirements and
detailed instructions for authors can be found on the
conference Web page.
Note that papers cannot be longer than 14 pages. Papers
must be submitted
electronically--no hardcopy submissions will be accepted
without prior
approval from the Program Co-Chairs well in advance of the
submission
deadline. LaTeX and Word templates are available at the conference
Web page.
Papers must be in PDF format. See the conference Web page for
instructions on converting to this format from Word, LaTeX, etc.
Submitted papers should be received by the Program Co-Chairs no later than
January 27, 2003. The conference Web page contains instructions for
submitting
papers electronically.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper
submission deadline....................................January 27, 2003
Notification of acceptance/rejection for all submissions.......March 13,
2003
Deadline for final versions of accepted papers.................April
13, 2003
Conference...................................................June
23-25, 2003
CONFERENCE
CHAIR
Fausto Giunchiglia ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Universita degli Studi
di Trento, Italy
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Patrick Blackburn
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LORIA, France
Chiara Ghidini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
University of Liverpool, UK
Roy Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
University of Maine, USA
STEERING COMMITTEE
Varol Akman
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Bilkent University, Turkey
Massimo
Benerecetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
University of Naples, Italy
Paolo
Bouquet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Universita degli Studi di Trento,
Italy
Patrick Brezillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
University of
Paris VI, France
Boicho Kokinov ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
New Bulgarian
University, Bulgaria
John Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Stanford
University, USA
Francois Recanati ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
L'Ecole Polytechnique, France
Luciano Serafini
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC), Italy
Rich Thomason ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
University of Michigan, USA
Roger
A. Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
University of Dundee,
UK
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Horacio
Arlo-Costa Carnegie Mellon University, USA
John
Barnden The
University of Birmingham, UK
Carla
Bazzanella Universit� degli Studi di Torino,
Italy
John
Bell
University of London, UK
Jose Luis Bermudez
University of Stirling, UK
Matteo
Bonifacio University of Trento, Italy
Anind K. Dey Intel
Research, California, USA
Christo
Dichev Winston Salem State
University, USA
Bruce
Edmonds Manchester
Metropolitan University, UK
Paul
Feltovich University of West
Florida, USA
Tim
Fernando Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland
Anita
Fetzer Universitaet
Stuttgart
Christopher Gauker University of
Cincinnati, USA
Alain
Giboin INRIA,
France
Avelino Gonzalez University of
Central Florida, USA
Jerry
Hobbs USC/ISI,
USA
Lucja Iwanska
LxLinks, Inc., Michigan, USA
Ruth
Kempson King's
College London, UK
David
Leake Indiana
University, USA
Mark
Maybury MITRE
Corporation, Massachusetts, USA
Bernard
Moulin Universit� Laval,
Canada
Rolf
Nossum Agder
University College, Norway
Jean-Charles Pomerol DRITT/Universite
P and M Curie, France
Marina
Sbis� University of
Trieste, Italy
Carles
Sierra Spanish Scientific
Research Council, Spain
Munindar
Singh North Carolina State
University, USA
Steffen
Staab University of
Karlsruhe, Germany
Elise
Turner University of
Maine, USA
Peter
Turney National
Research Council, Ontario, Canada
Johan van
Benthem University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Robert J. van den
Bosch Univ. Hospital Groningen, The
Netherlands
Teun A. van Dijk Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Terry
Winograd Stanford University,
USA
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Roberta Ferrario ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
COMMITTEE
Dikran Karagueuzian, Chair
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Michele King
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
John Perry
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Keith Devlin
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Elisabetta Zibetti
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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