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CALL FOR PAPERS

* International workshop on:
Space, Time, and Ambient Intelligence (STAMI) at AAAI 2013, Bellevue, Washington, US.

* Workshop theme:
Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Human Activity Interpretation

www. http://tinyurl.com/stami-2013

* Dates in 2013
Full papers - March 28
Notification - April 19
Workshop date - July 14 or 15

* Keynote speakers
- Prof. Anthony (Tony) Cohn (University of Leeds, UK)
- Prof. Henry Kautz (University of Rochester, US)
Info. http://tinyurl.com/stami-13-keynotes

* Workshop Co-Chairs
- Mehul Bhatt (University of Bremen, DE)
- Hans W. Guesgen (Massey University, NZ)
- Diane J. Cook (Washington State University, US)

* Program Committee

(to be completed)

- Bernd Neumann (University of Hamburg, Germany)
- Diane J. Cook (Washington State University, USA)
- Frank Dylla (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Hans Guesgen (Massey University, New Zealand)
- Hedda Schmidtke (Carnegie Mellon University - Moffet Field, USA)
- Joachim Hertzberg (University of Osnabrück, Germany)
- Juan Carlos Augusto (Middlesex University, United Kingdom)
- Kai Kunze (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
- Mehul Bhatt (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Nico Van de Weghe (Ghent University, Belgium)
- Philippe Muller (Université Paul Sabatier, Frane)
- Reinhard Moratz (University of Maine, USA)
- Seng Loke (La Trobe University, Australia)
- Stefan Woelfl (University of Freiburg, Germany)

Contact. { bhatt AT informatik.uni-bremen.de, h.w.guesgen AT massey.ac.nz, cook AT eecs.wsu.edu }
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Detailed Call
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The International Workshop on Space, Time, and Ambient Intelligence (STAMI 2013) will be co-located with the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference (AAAI-13), Bellevue, Washington USA. July 14–18, 2013.

A wide-range of applications within the purview of ambient intelligence, smart environments, cognitive assistance systems, and pervasive and ubiquitous computing require the ability to represent and reason about dynamic spatial phenomena. Systems concerned with observing, interpreting, and interacting in an environment populated by humans and artefacts require a formal means for representing and reasoning with spatio-temporal, event, and action driven phenomena that occur in the environment. The Space, Time, and Ambient Intelligence workshop addresses basic research questions concerned with operationalising "commonsense situational awareness" for assistive technologies within the purview of ambient intelligence and smart environments. Commonsense situational awareness in this context is interpreted as "the perception of elements within the volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning, the explanation of their present (observed) status, and the ability to project the same in the near future."

This workshop has a special focus on the topic of "spatio-temporal aspects of human activity interpretation." We especially welcome research concerned with monitoring and interpretation of people interactions, real-time commonsense situational awareness involving aspects such as scene perception and understanding, perceptual data analytics, and prediction and explanation-driven high-level control of autonomous systems. In this context, basic topics deemed important include activity and process models, behavior and intention interpretation, spatial learning, modelling and reasoning about space, events, actions, interaction, spatio-temporal dynamics, and commonsense reasoning about spatio-temporal change.

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Dates
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Full paper - March 28
Notification - April 19
Camera ready - May 9

AAAI-13 Early Registration- May 17
AAAI-13 Late Registration - June 14
Workshop date - July 14 or 15

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Topics of Interest
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**Space, Action and Change**
Basic research questions relevant to the formal modelling of, and reasoning about, space, actions and change, spatio-temporal dynamics, commonsense reasoning about spatio-tempora change may be addressed.

- Qualitative Modelling, Reasoning
- Dynamic Spatial Systems
- Reasoning about Space, Actions and Change
- Spatio-Temporal Abduction
- Spatio-Temporal Continuity
- Qualitative Abstractions of Motion Patterns
- Spatio-Temporal Groundings for Patterns
- Spatio-Temporal Data-Mining
* Sensor Stream Analyses.
* Event Extraction / Individuation
* Sensor Data Fusion
* Stream Annotation, Pattern Mining
- Commonsense Inference about Space and Change
- Non-Monotonic Reasoning, Spatio-Temporal Belief Revision

**Spatio-Temporal Context**
- Scene Description Ontologies
- Situational Context Modelling
- Ontological Modelling of Context
- Models of Indoor Enviornments
- Language-based descriptions of Indoor Spaces

**Activity, Behaviour, Interaction Interpretation**
- Activity and Process Models
- High-level Activity Analyses
- Modelling of Moving Objects
- Abnormality Detection
- Posture, Gesture Analysis


**Applications Domains, Frameworks**
Fundamental research papers may potentially address scenarios / use-cases from specific application areas of interest. From an application perspective, STAMI is centered on the thematic aspects connected to the formal modelling of Space and Interaction within practical systems for pervasive and ubiquitous computing, and Spatial Assistance Systems in general.

- Spatial Assistance Systems (SAS)
* design of / for smart environments
* decision support tools
- Location-based Services
- Analytical and Simulation Platforms
- Spatial Data Access Frameworks
- Spatial Data Management Frameworks
- Interfaces for Ambient Intelligent Systems
- Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
- Smart / Intelligent Environments
- Pervasive Advertising, Shopping
- Ambient Healthcare Systems
- Industry Compliance, Interoperability
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Interaction Design

Contact. { bhatt AT informatik.uni-bremen.de, h.w.guesgen AT massey.ac.nz, cook AT eecs.wsu.edu }
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