CFP: CONTEXT'03, the Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context

============================================================== We apologize for multiple copies of this call for papers ============================================================= | CONTEXT'03 | | Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on | Modeling and Using Context | | Stanford, California (USA) | June 23-25, 2003 | | (www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03) | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ 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 (fausto(a)cs.unitn.it) Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Patrick Blackburn (Patrick.Blackburn(a)loria.fr) LORIA, France Chiara Ghidini (C.Ghidini(a)csc.liv.ac.uk) University of Liverpool, UK Roy Turner (rmt(a)umcs.maine.edu) University of Maine, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Varol Akman (akman(a)cs.bilkent.edu.tr) Bilkent University, Turkey Massimo Benerecetti (bene(a)cs.unitn.it) University of Naples, Italy Paolo Bouquet (bouquet(a)cs.unitn.it) Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy Patrick Brezillon (Patrick.Brezillon(a)lip6.fr) University of Paris VI, France Boicho Kokinov (bkokinov(a)nbu.bg) New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria John Perry (john(a)csli.stanford.edu) Stanford University, USA Francois Recanati (Francois.Recanati(a)ehess.fr) L'Ecole Polytechnique, France Luciano Serafini (serafini(a)irst.itc.it) Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC), Italy Rich Thomason (rich(a)thomason.org) University of Michigan, USA Roger A. Young (R.A.YOUNG(a)dundee.ac.uk) University of Dundee, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Horacio Arlo-Costa Carnegie Mellon University, USA John Barnden The University of Birmingham, UK Carla Bazzanella Università 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 Université Laval, Canada Rolf Nossum Agder University College, Norway Jean-Charles Pomerol DRITT/Universite P and M Curie, France Marina Sbisà 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 (ferrix(a)cs.unitn.it) Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Dikran Karagueuzian, Chair (dikran(a)roslin.stanford.edu) Michele King (mking(a)csli.stanford.edu) John Perry (john(a)csli.stanford.edu) Keith Devlin (devlin(a)csli.stanford.edu) Elisabetta Zibetti (ezibetti(a)psych.stanford.edu) ********************************************************* * For more information, see www.context.umcs.maine.edu. * *********************************************************