Call for Papers
IWSAC'04
First International Workshop on Software Aspects of Context
July 19-23, 2004, Beirut, Lebanon
In conjunction with the ACS/IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS'2004)
Scope
To better assist users, smart devices must sense and react to the user’s environment or “context.” Almost any information available at the time of an interaction between a system and a user can be seen as contextual information. Some examples are obtained through sensors: spatial information (e.g. location, orientation), temporal information (e.g. time of the day, date), who you are with, and people that are nearby, resources that are nearby (e.g. accessible devices, and hosts), etc.
Such information is used to design adaptive systems and to provide custom services to users based on their profile and preferences. Pervasive environments are the prime field for context-aware computing where many applications have emerged in the last decade.
There is another community more interested in developing context-based formalism for representing knowledge and reasoning. For example, it is possible along these approaches to represent practices, which are contextualized versions of the procedures established by the enterprise. If the first approach is more known as tangible computing, the second one is more concerned by social computing.
While early models mainly addressed the modeling of context with respect to one application domain and vary in the context they represent, no uniform context model is actually achieved. This is of main interest since many applications can benefit from it.
By organizing this workshop, we aim at addressing the problem of coupling both approaches from a software engineering perspective. We look for original submissions on the following topics (but not limited to):
- Software aspects of Context acquisition tools and techniques
- Object-oriented techniques applied to user modeling and context modeling
- Software frameworks for Context-aware applications
- Design patterns applied to context-aware applications
- Context in pervasive/multi-agents systems
- Context in security issues
The main questions that we would like to debate in this one-day workshop are around: How to model context in an efficient way using object-oriented techniques in order to improve software usability? And how to change our viewpoint on context-based applications?
Submission of papers
IWSAC’04 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Length of papers should not exceed 8 pages in IEEE double-column format. Paper submission should be electronic. Papers exceeding the specified length or could not be viewed with Adobe Acrobat may not be reviewed. Acceptance implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.
Please send your electronic submission to iwsac04@unifr.ch in pdf format.
Important dates
Submission deadline: May 5, 2004
Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2004
Camera-ready: June 1, 2004
Workshop organizers
Ghita Kouadri Mostéfaoui (primary contact)
Department of Informatics
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
iwsac04@unifr.ch
Patrick Brézillon
LIP6
Université Paris 6, France
Program committee
Christian Becker (University of Stuttgart, Germany )
Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, U.A.E)
Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Jihad M. Jaam (University of Doha, Qatar)
Anind K. Dey (Intel Research Berkeley, USA)
Djamel Djenouri (CERIST, Algeria)
Lyes Khelladi (CERIST, Algeria)
Harry Chen (University of Maryland, USA)
Daniela Nicklas (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Workshop location
The workshop will be held in the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS) at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon.