Important Dates

Demo, Poster and Video Abstracts

June 24th, 2011

Notification of Acceptance (Papers)

June 19th, 2011

Notification of Acceptance (Demo, Poster, Video)

July 4th, 2011

Camera-Ready Papers

July 8th, 2011

Workshop Dates

Sept. 26th and 27th, 2011

Main Conference Dates

Sept. 28th - 30th, 2011

More CONTEXT

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CONTEXT'07
Proceedings '99-'07

Publisher

CONTEXT '11: The Seventh International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context

http://context-11.teco.edu/

With Special Track: Commercializing Context

Submission deadlines for demo, video and poster abstracts: June 24th, 2011

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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 and Agent-based Systems	Language Understanding and Production
Cognitive Modeling	Learning
Concepts and Categorization	Linguistics
Context-Aware Services and Systems	Memory, Representation and Access
Context-Recognition	Multiagent Systems 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 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 and Relevance Theories
Intelligent User Interfaces	Sensor Networks and Sensing Systems
Intelligent/Semantic Web Systems	Situated and Distributed Cognition
Knowledge Representation	Ubiquitous Computing

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

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

All abstracts must be submitted electronically as PDF files via the submission webpage. Submissions cannot exceed two pages for demos and videos and four pages for posters in the Springer LNAI format. Detailed formatting and submissions instructions, as well as LaTeX and Word templates, can be accessed through the author instructions page.

MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS POLICY

CONTEXT'11 will not accept any contribution which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

June 24, 2011	Abstracts for posters, videos, and demonstrations
June 19, 2011	Notification of acceptance
July 8th, 2011	Camera-ready papers
Sept. 26.-30, 2011	Conference

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