1st CfP: Third Workshop on Context Awareness for Proactive Systems (CAPS'07), Guildford, United Kingdom

CAPS 2007 - 1st Call for Papers 


Third Workshop on Context Awareness for Proactive Systems
Guildford, United Kingdom, 18-19 June 2007

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CCSR/CAPS2007/  


	Following CAPS 2005 and 2006, the third Workshop on Context Awareness for Proactive Systems will be held in June 2007 at the University of Surrey, UK.
	The workshop will provide a unique platform to discuss and exchange findings of research into proactive computing and communication systems. Their connection to the physical world is increasingly driven by sensors and actuators which are used to both measure and manipulate the physical environment. The environmental data gathered is one of the major influencing factors for proactive systems, the data acts as stimuli to which these systems respond. Such responses are mainly in terms of providing users with appropriate resources, information, and services.
	To achieve this, proactive systems need to be able to understand the different contexts that apply in and for any given user/communication situation. Such context awareness is based on inference of sensor data to achieve knowledge on a users' state, emotions, activities, goals, etc. and to proactively adjust the systems behaviour. Deploying proactive systems in the increasingly embedded and ubiquitous environments further raises the need to make them context-aware.
	Context awareness poses many challenges towards proactive systems. The main objective of the workshop is to study and explore these challenges and proposed ways of meeting them. This includes research on modelling and representing context in proactive computing systems, frameworks and architectures for context gathering, handling, sensor and actuator management, context reasoning, learning, and prediction as well as on modelling, recognising and fulfilling user demand.

	CAPS invites submissions on following topics (but not limited to):
* Sensor and actuator management
* Context modelling and representation
* Context information gathering and data management
* Frameworks and architectures for context-aware systems
* Context learning and prediction techniques
* Context reasoning
* User demand recognition and modelling 
* Context-based resource, information, and service provisioning
* Infrastructures for proactive systems


SUBMISSION DETAILS
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	The submission system is open now and will close on January 21st 2007. 
	Papers should be a maximum of 10 pages (including figures and references) in LNCS camera ready style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).   
	Full papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.
Poster submissions should be a maximum of 5 pages (including figures and references). Poster papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.
	Software demonstration proposals should be a maximum of 2 pages describing the contents of the demonstration. Demonstration papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.
	All submissions will undergo a thorough review process and will be judged on quality, originality, clarity and topical content. Submitted papers should not have been previously published, in part or in full, or be under consideration of another conference or journal. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, selected papers will be published in a post-conference textbook. 
	Please indicate whether you submit your paper as full-paper, poster or demonstration proposal. 
	Submission is handled via trackchair: http://caps2007.trackchair.com/ 
 

DATES
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Submission of full papers: 21 January 2007
Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2007
Camera Ready Papers: 04 March 2007
Workshop: 18-19 June 2007
 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Mirko Presser, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Anna V. Zhdanova, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Stephanie Evans, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
 

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Heikki Ailisto, VTT, Finland
Stefan Arbanowski, FOKUS, Germany
Guy Bernard, Institut National des Telecommunications, France
David Bonnefoy, Motorola, France
Luis Campoy, Telefonica, Spain
Francois Carrez, Alcatel, France 
Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany
Olaf Drögehorn, University of Kassel, Germany 
Frank Dürr, University of Stuttgart, Germany 
Dieter Fensel, DERI, Austria
Patrik Floréen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Finland
Stefan Gessler, NEC, Germany
Robert Hänsel, Deloitte, Germany
Sandra Haseloff, University of Kassel, Germany
Paul Havinga, University of Twente, Netherlands
Heikki Helin, TeliaSonera, Finland
Laurent Herault, CEA-LETI, France
Theo Kanter, Ericsson, Sweden
Ralf Kernchen, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Mika Klemettinen, Nokia, Finland
Hong-Gee Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
Herma van Kranenburg, Telematica, Netherlands
Martti Mäntylä, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Finland
Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Bernd Mrohs, FOKUS, Germany
Christian Prehofer, Nokia, Finland
Mirko Presser, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany 
Thomas Strang, DERI, Austria
Matthias Wagner, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany
Anna V. Zhdanova, University of Surrey, United Kingdom


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Dr. Anna V. Zhdanova 

Mobile Communications Research Group 
Centre for Communication Systems Research 
University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK
Tel: +44(0)1483 689481 Fax: +44(0)1483 686011
Email: a.zhdanova@surrey.ac.uk 
Homepage: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/A.Zhdanova/  

Received on Wednesday, 18 October 2006 11:48:08 UTC