Call for Papers for 9th Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning
(CoMoRea'12) – http://www.nexus.uni-stuttgart.de/COMOREA

@ 10th Annual IEEE Intl. Conference on Pervasive Computing and
Communications, March 19-23 2012, Lugano, Switzerland


Important Dates
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Paper submissions: October 30, 2011
Notification: December 21, 2011
Camera ready version: tbd
Workshop: March 19, 2012


Abtract
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There is a growing interest in context-aware applications that
intelligently support user tasks by acting autonomously on behalf of users.
Behavior of context-aware applications depends not only on their internal
state and user interactions but also on the context sensed during their
execution. Some early models of context information already exist, however
many research issues related to context information modeling are still not
fully addressed. Existing context models vary in types of context
information they can represent. While some models take the user’s current
situation, e.g. “in a meeting”, into account others model the physical
environment, i.e. locations. A more generic approach to context modeling is
needed in order to capture various features of context information
including a variety of types of context information, dependencies between
context information, quality of context information and context histories.
In addition, to ease software engineering problems encountered in
programming context-aware applications, appropriate abstractions are
necessary to support discovery and reuse of context information as well as
scalable methods of context processing and management. This workshop’s aim
is to advance the state of the art in context modeling and reasoning and
also discuss fundamental issues in context processing and management. The
goal is to identify concepts, theories and methods applicable to context
modeling and context reasoning as well as system- oriented issues related
to the design and implementation of context-aware systems.

In particular, the following topics are of interest to this workshop:
* Context modeling techniques
* Domain-specific context models
* Ontology-based approaches to context modeling and reasoning
* Hybrid context models (integration of various modeling techniques)
* Advanced issues in context modeling, including issues of information
quality, ambiguity, and provenance
* Context reasoning algorithms, their complexity and accuracy
* Discovery and reuse of context information
* Privacy of context information
* Distributed and scalable context management
* Experiences with using context models to build context-aware applications
* Tool support for context modeling and development of context model-
based applications
* Balance of autonomy with user control


Workshop Committee
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Workshop co-chairs:

Daniela Nicklas, Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Daniele Riboni, University of Milano, Italy
Matthias Wieland, Universität Stuttgart, Germany

Programme committee:

Anand Ranganathan, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, P. R. China
Frank Dürr, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Gregor Schiele, University of Mann-heim, Germany
Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Markus Endler, Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Martin Bauer, NEC Heidelberg, Ger-many
Massimo Valla, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy
Oliver Brdiczka, PARC, USA
Waltenegus Dargie, Technical Uni-versity of Dresden, Germany
Weishan Zhang, China University of Petroleum, P. R. China
Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytech-nical University, P. R. China


Submissions
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Submitted papers will be refereed by the workshop Programme Committee.
Accepted papers will appear in the PerCom’12 Workshops proceedings pub-
lished by IEEE Computer Society Press. No-shows of accepted workshop papers
will not being published via the IEEE Digital Library The papers should be
in the IEEE format and should be no more than 5 pages in length. Research
papers must be an original unpublished work and not under review elsewhere.
Experience reports must be stated as such and a comprehensive discussion of
the taken approach, experiences, and its assessment is expected. For each
accepted paper, a full conference registration is required. Papers should
be submitted via the EDAS CoMoRea page: http://edas.info/N11349