-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] UbiqUM 2009 - call for papers Datum: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:33:25 -0500 Von: Tsvi Kuflik tsvika-k@bezeqint.net Antwort an: Tsvi Kuflik tsvika-k@bezeqint.net An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org

Ubiquitous User Modeling 2009 (UbiqUM 2009) (co-located with UMAP'09) UbiqUM 2009 will be the 7th International Workshop on Ubiquitous User Modelling. It will take place in Trento, Italy on Jne 22nd, 2009, as part of UMAP 2009. http://www.u2m.org/ubiqum2009/

Background and Motivation: In today's information world, small personal computerized devices, such as PDAs, smart phones and other smart appliances, become widely available and essential tools in many situations. The ongoing penetration of computers into everyday life leads to so-called ubiquitous computing environments, where computational power and networking capabilities are available (and used) everywhere to support the environment�s �inhabitants�. The strive of providing personal services to users made user modeling capability an essential part of any ubiquitous application. Ubiquitous user modelling (UbiqUM) describes ongoing modeling and exploitation of user behaviour with a variety of systems that share their user models. These shared user models can either be used for mutual or for individual adaptation goals. UbiqUM differs from generic user modelling by three additional concepts: ongoing modeling, ongoing sharing and ongoing exploitation. Systems that share their user models will improve the coverage, the level of detail, and the reliability of the integrated user models and thus allow better functions of adaptation. UbiqUM implies new challenges of interchangeability, scalability, scrutability and privacy. The workshop will focus on 2 topics: 1. User modelling in mobile and ubiquitous computing � collecting user information in a ubiquitous environment and converting it into meaningful user modelling data. This includes sub-topics, such as acquisition of distributed and context-aware user models; user modeling in intelligent environments; ubiquitous user modeling for entertainment and cultural heritage; pervasive and wearable user interfaces; privacy, security and trust in ubiquitous user modelling. 2. User model integration � combining the data acquired by various ubiquitous devices and systems. This includes topics, such as overcoming syntactic and semantic heterogeneity of distributed user models; conflict resolution in ubiquitous user modeling; user model representation, inferences with user and context models; spatial and temporal reasoning for ubiquitous user modeling; semantic web approaches and ontologies for ubiquitous user modelling, ontology mapping and alignment.

Objectives: 1.To foster interaction and exchange of ideas within the UbiqUM Community. 2.To establish a research agenda in the area of UbiqUM by mutual discussion of the challenges for UbiqUM research issues by the research community. 3.To provide an opportunity for information exchange and possible future research collaboration within the UbiqUM Community

Submission: Submitted papers should be up to 4 pages long, in LNCS format, by email, to ubiqum@googlemail.com. They should suggest novel research ideas in the workshop areas of interest, and preferably describe initial research results (if there are any).

Important Dates: �Paper submission deadline: Friday, March 27th, 2007 �Notification of acceptance: Wednesday, April 15th, 2007 �Camera-ready papers due: Friday, April 24th, 2007 �UbiqUM 2009 workshop: June 22th, 2008

Workshop Format: The suggested workshop will be a full day workshop in the following format: 09:00 � 10:00 An invited talk about state of the art in ubiquitous user modelling 10:30 � 12:30 First session with short presentations of papers/ideas (about 10 minuts per speaker), 12:30 � 14:00, Demonstration and posters session of ubiquitous user modelling applications (during lunch break), 14:00 � 15:30 Second session discussion of the 1st sesseion papers, forming list of research topics, breaking to small groups discussions of the selected topics, 15:45 � 17:00, Closing discussion about research directions of ubiquitous user modelling and possible collaboration among the workshop participants in pursuing the defined research directions.

* At least one of the authors of an accepted paper is expected to register to the workshop (separately than IUI conference), attend the workshop and present the paper/poster/demo.

Previous Workshops: �6th International Workshop on Ubiquitous and User Modelling � User Model Integration, in conjunction with AH-2008, Hannover, Germany. �5th International Workshop on Ubiquitous and User Modelling, in conjunction with IUI-2008, Gran Canaria, Spain. �Workshop on Ubiquitous and Decentralized User Modelling, in conjunction with UM-2007, Corfu, Greece. �Workshop on Ubiquitous User Modelling, in conjunction with ECAI 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy. �Workshop on Decentralized, Agent-Based and Social Approaches to User Modelling, in conjunction with UM-2005, Edinburgh, UK. �Workshop on User Modelling for Ubiquitous Computing, in conjunction with UM-2003, Pittsburgh, PA.

Workshop Co-Chairs: Shlomo Berkovsky, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Hobart, Australia. Shlomo.Berkovsky@csiro.au Francesca Carmagnola, the University of Torino, Torino Italy. carmagnola@di.unito.it Dominikus Heckmann, the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Saarbrucken, Germany. heckmann@dfki.de Tsvi Kuflik, the Management Information Systems Department, the University of Haifa. Haifa, Israel. tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il

Program Committee Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy Lora Aroyo, Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Jörg Baus, DFKI GmbH, Germany Fabian Bohnert, Monash University, Australia. Federica Cena, University of Torino, Italy Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy Alexander Kröner, DFKI GmbH, Germany Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Sergey Sosnovsky, Universitiy of Pitsburgh, USA Ilaria Torre, University of Torino, Italy Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan , Canada Andreas Zimmermann, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia.

E-Mail address to contact the co-organizers: ubiqum@gmail.com

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