Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Context

CONTEXT'01: Third International Conference on Modeling and Using Context Dundee, Scotland July 27-30, 2001 http://www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-01 (mirrored at http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/context-01) The Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'01) aims at providing a high quality forum for discussions on context among researchers active in Artificial

Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Linguistics, Organizational Sciences, Philosophy, and Psychology. The importance of the notion of context is widely acknowledged, as

by the numerous workshops, symposia, and seminars on context held recently (see the Context Web Site). The CONTEXT series of conferences has a unique place among these due to its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary

The first conference in this series (CONTEXT'97) was held in Rio de

in 1997. The second conference (CONTEXT'99) was held in Trento in 1999;

http://www.cs.unitn.it/CONTEXT-99 for details. TOPICS OF INTEREST The following topics, in which contexts can be studied and/or applied, are indicative of the scope of the conference: * Case-Based Reasoning * Cognitive Modeling * Commonsense Reasoning * (Active) Databases * Decision Support Systems * Distributed Information Systems * Formal Theories of Context * Heterogeneous Information Integration * Human-Computer Interaction * Information Management * Intelligent Internet Systems * Intelligent Tutoring Systems * Knowledge Engineering * Knowledge Management * Knowledge Representation * Machine Learning * Multi-Agent Systems * Natural Language Processing * Natural Language Semantics * Organizational Contexts * Philosophical Foundations * Pragmatics This is not an exhaustive list; other contributions on context are

PUBLICATION PLANS As was the case with CONTEXT'99, the proceedings of CONTEXT'01 will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume in their series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), a subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Copies of the volume will be distributed to registered participants at the conference. Publication of an accepted paper in the proceedings will be conditional upon two things: presentation of the paper during the conference and registration of at least one of its authors at

conference. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS CONTEXT'01 is meant to provide an interdisciplinary forum. All

in addition to being evaluated for their technical and theoretical merit, will be evaluated for their accessibility to an interdisciplinary

Accordingly, works that transcend their disciplinary boundaries are especially encouraged. Each submission will be evaluated by three referees. Submissions must include in their first page: title, author's name, affiliation, complete mailing address, phone/fax numbers, e-mail address, and an abstract. Prospective authors are strongly advised to see the

paper at: * http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf or * http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.ps for the formatting requirements. It is crucial to note that papers cannot

longer than 14 pages. Detailed information for authors is available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Only electronic submissions (PostScript or PDF file only, named with the first author's name and last name, e.g. John-Doe.ps or John-Doe.pdf) are acceptable. It would be wise to use a well-known compression utility (e.g. compress or gzip) before a paper is e-mailed. If one foresees problems in submitting his/her paper in one of the allowed electronic formats and

like to send hardcopy instead, then he/she should send e-mail to one of

Program Co-Chairs well in advance of the submission deadline and seek advice. LNCS is now published both in print and in a full-text electronic version; therefore, the electronic files are indispensable. Submitted papers should be received by the Conference Chair no later than February 2, 2001: Paolo Bouquet CONTEXT'01 Conference Chair Department of Computer Science University of Trento Via Inama, 5 I-38100 Trento, Italy tel: +39 461 882135 fax: +39 461 882124 bouquet(a)cs.unitn.it http://www.cs.unitn.it/~bouquet SPECIALIZED WORKSHOPS CONTEXT'01 expands the format of CONTEXT'97 and CONTEXT'99 in that specialized workshops are planned to let participants discuss emerging, narrow, and technical issues related to context. Proposals for specialized workshops should be sent to the Workshops Chair by March 2, 2001: Massimo Benerecetti CONTEXT'01 Workshops Chair Department of Physical Sciences University of Naples "Federico II" Complesso Monte Santangelo via Cinthia 80126 Napoli, Italy Massimo.Benerecetti(a)na.infn.it A proposal should consist of the following items: workshop title, address and short bio of the workshop director, one-page synopsis of the workshop, addresses of workshop speakers who have already committed to making presentations, and tentative titles of the presentations. It is up to the workshop director to decide whether the workshop speakers also prepare written versions of their presentations. In any case, there will not be a formal written record of the workshops. A workshop director

free to prepare an informal report or a collection of handouts

the material discussed in his/her workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline February 2,

Workshop proposal submission deadline March 2,

Notification of acceptance/rejection for all submissions April 2,

Deadline for final versions of accepted papers (in LNAI May 4,

format) Conference July 27-30,

INVITED SPEAKERS Patrick Blackburn, Computerlinguistick, University of Saarland, Germany Herbert Clark, Psychology Department, Stanford University Jerry Hobbs, SRI International, Menlo Park, California Alex Lascarides, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland John Perry, Philosophy Department, Stanford University, California CONFERENCE CHAIR Paolo Bouquet (bouquet(a)cs.unitn.it) PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Rich Thomason (rich(a)thomason.org) Varol Akman (akman(a)cs.bilkent.edu.tr) WORKSHOPS CHAIR Massimo Benerecetti (Massimo.Benerecetti(a)na.infn.it) PUBLICITY CHAIR Roy Turner (rmt(a)umcs.maine.edu) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Roger Young (r.a.young(a)dundee.ac.uk) STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bouquet (bouquet(a)cs.unitn.it) Patrick Brezillon (Patrick.Brezillon(a)lip6.fr) Rich Thomason (rich(a)thomason.org) Varol Akman (akman(a)cs.bilkent.edu.tr) Roger Young (r.a.young(a)dundee.ac.uk) Gilles Fauconnier (faucon(a)cogsci.ucsd.edu) Fausto Giunchiglia (fausto(a)cs.unitn.it) Carlo Penco (penco(a)nous.unige.it) Francois Recanati (recanati(a)poly.polytechnique.fr) Luciano Serafini (serafini(a)itc.it) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Paolo Bouquet (bouquet(a)cs.unitn.it) Patrick Brezillon (Patrick.Brezillon(a)lip6.fr) Rich Thomason (rich(a)thomason.org) Varol Akman (akman(a)cs.bilkent.edu.tr) Roy Turner (rmt(a)umcs.maine.edu) Massimo Benerecetti (Massimo.Benerecetti(a)na.infn.it) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Roger Young (r.a.young(a)dundee.ac.uk) Neil Cooper (n.l.cooper(a)dundee.ac.uk) Roy Dyckhoff (rd(a)dcs.st-and.ac.uk) Alex Lascarides (alex(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Wayne Murray (w.s.murray(a)dundee.ac.uk) Nick Taylor (nick(a)cee.hw.ac.uk) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Daniel Andler Universite de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France Horacio Arlo Costa Carnegie Mellon University, USA Kent Bach San Francisco State University, USA Carla Bazzanella Universitè di Torino, Italy David Beaver Stanford University, USA Matteo Bonifacio Arthur Andersen Italia, Italy Cristiano Castelfranchi National Research Council, Italy Jean-Charles Pomerol DRITT, UPMC, France Herbert Clark Stanford University, USA Christo Dichev North Carolina A&M State University Bruce Edmonds Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Paul Feltovich Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, USA Tim Fernando Trinity College, Ireland Anita Fetzer Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany Michael Fisher Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Claude Frasson University of Montreal, Canada Chiara Ghidini Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Alain Giboin Unite de Recherche Sophia-Antipolis, France Pat Hayes The University of West Florida, USA Jerry Hobbs SRI International, USA Lucja Iwanska Wayne State University, USA Ruth Kempson King's College, UK Ewan Klein University of Edinburgh, UK Yves Kodratoff Université Paris-Sud, France Boicho Kokinov New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria Jose Luis Bermudez University of Stirling, UK Mark Maybury MITRE Corporation, USA Bernard Moulin Université Laval, Canada John Mylopoulos University of Toronto, Canada Rolf Nossum Agder University College, Norway John Perry Stanford University, USA Stefano Predelli Universitetet i Oslo, Norway Marina Sbisa Universitè di Trieste, Italy Carles Sierra CSIC-Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain Munindar Singh North Carolina State University, USA Steffen Staab University of Karlsruhe, Germany Robert Stalnaker MIT, USA Jason Stanley Cornell University, USA Mike Tanenhaus University of Rochester, USA SPONSORS Dundee City Council