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[Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this e-mail to anyone interested.] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************** Extended Paper Submission Deadline: February 19th, 2007 **************************************** UbiDeUM’2007 International Workshop on Ubiquitous and Decentralized User Modeling (in conjunction with UM'07 http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/um2007/) June 26, 2007 Corfu, Greece http://www.ubideum.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *CALL FOR PAPERS* ----------------- Everyday work and leisure activities are supported and enhanced with many computerized systems recording partial user experience. Information technologies such as web services, World Wide Web protocols and standards and mobile technologies are foundations for integrated user services available through the web or in ubiquitous environments such as smart houses, intelligent hospitals, city services, and so on. Web applications providing integrated services, such as open marketplaces, eLearning, as well as small personal computerized devices such as PDAs and smart phones that allow access to such services become widely available and even essential tools in many situations. The ongoing penetration of computers into everyday life generates so-called ubiquitous computing environments where computational power and networking capabilities are available (and used) everywhere. However, in order to provide users with personalized services in these new environments some form of user modelling capability must be considered as an essential and integral aspect. ** Ubiquitous user modelling ** describes the ongoing modelling of user behaviour within a variety of systems that share their user models and the exploitation of the models to achieve personalized and context-adapted services. The shared user models can either be used for collective or for individual adaptation goals. In contrast to other environments, in ubiquitous environments, the dynamics are typically higher, the contextual factors more diverse and the computing resources of the agents / services and their connectivity more limited. ** Decentralized user modelling ** studies how to combine fragmentary / episodic user data and make the most sense of it in the specific context while coping with limited processing resources. Unlike the first generation of web-based systems, where t he assembled service is accessed through one point (usually a web portal), in recent ubiquitous and service-oriented context specific environments, (e.g. advertisement services or multi-player online games for cell phones or mobile tourist guides) there isn’t necessarily a central integration point. Instead, the service is dynamically created or composed by several providers that must therefore coordinate and negotiate with one another in order to select the most suitable adaptation for the user. Systems that can share their user models have the ability to improve the coverage of user preferences (like combining movies preferences with books preferences and theatre preferences for leisure profile), level of detail and the reliability of the integrated user models. Consequently the quality of adaptation that may be achieved, across a range of usage scenarios, is likely to increase. The development of semantic web technologies and standards in agents and web-services enable such sharing. *THE GOAL OF THE WORKSHOP & WORKSHOP AUDIENCE* ---------------------------------------------- Currently, issues relating to ubiquitous and decentralized user modelling are gaining more and more attention from research groups representing the user modelling community, the HCI community, the multi-agent systems community, and the ubiquitous computing community. Additional communities that are active in this area include those concentrating on web services, service-oriented architectures and innovative information systems. Many of these communities are moving away from a technically focused approach and starting to consider more user-centred approaches to context awareness and adaptation is among their central research problems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together both academic and industrial researchers from these communities to discuss new and innovative approaches to ubiquitous and decentralized user modelling, to enhance the exchange of ideas and concepts, to determine the veins along the research should proceed and to go one step further towards achieving the widespread adoption personalization in ubiquitous computing. *WORKSHOP TOPICS OF INTEREST* ----------------------------- Ubiquitous user modelling implies new challenges of scalability, scrutability, privacy and trust. Furthermore, new issues of decentralization and integration have to be addressed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Generic user modelling in mobile and ubiquitous computing - Context aware ubiquitous user modelling (in mobile and distributed environments) - Construction and acquisition of distributed user models - Semantic web approaches for user modelling (i.e. user model ontologies) - Privacy, security and trust in decentralized user modelling - Personalized and adaptive applications and interfaces in decentralized and ubiquitous environments - Case studies, user experience and evaluation of ubiquitous and decentralized UM approaches - Distributed architectures and interoperability of personalized applications like recommender systems, adaptive hypermedia, e-learning, adaptive navigation guides, personalized shopping guides, etc. - Service-oriented architectures for decentralized and ubiquitous user modelling and adaptive systems - Dynamic changes and their implications on the adaptive services in decentralized and ubiquitous environments - Knowledge modelling, integration and management for personalization in constrained environments - Reasoning methods in constrained environments - Personalized content authoring, delivery and access in mobile environments - Personalized multimedia applications - Ubiquitous access to personalized applications - Challenges for user personalization in mobile/distributed environments *IMPORTANT DATES* ----------------- Workshop paper submissions deadline: February 19, 2007 **Extended** Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 12, 2007 Camera ready deadline for the UbiDeUM workshop: April 10, 2007 *WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS* --------------------- * Shlomo Berkovsky (http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~slavax/) * Keith Cheverst (http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/staff/kc/) * Peter Dolog ( http://www.cs.aau.dk/~dolog) * Dominik Heckmann (http://www.dfki.de/~heckmann) * Tsvi Kuflik (http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~tsvikak/Home.htm) * Jérôme Picault (Motorola Labs, France) * Phivos Mylonas (http://www.image.ntua.gr/~fmylonas/) * Julita Vassileva (http://julita.usask.ca) *ORGANIZATION DETAILS* ---------------------- The planned length of the workshop is one day. Accepted contributions will be published in the workshop proceedings and will be made available on the Web. Depending on the quality of the accepted contributions, a post-conference special issue journal publication will be envisaged. For long papers we plan 20 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for the discussion, and for short papers we plan 10 minutes for the presentation plus 5 minutes for the discussion. *SUBMISSION PROCEDURE* ---------------------- Prospective contributors are invited to submit full papers, short papers and posters. Please use the following e-mail address for the submission: *** ubideum@gmail.com *** A peer review process will be applied to all submissions, provided by the workshop’s Program Committee members, being selected among well-known researchers in the area. *WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS* ---------------------- All accepted papers will be published in the respective workshop proceedings, to be published by an international publisher in the form of a book with an ISSN#. *PAPER FORMAT* -------------- Workshop submissions should be formatted according to the Springer paper format. http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html but with margins of: TOP and BOTTOM - 3cm; LEFT and RIGHT - 3.5cm. The page limit is 8-10 pages for full papers, 4-5 pages for short papers, and 3 pages for poster submissions. *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* ------------------- Lora Aroyo Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Yannis Avrithis National Technical University of Athens, Greece Mathias Bauer mineway GmbH, Germany Joerg Baus Saarland University, Germany Bettina Berendt Umboldt University Berlin, Germany Boris Brandherm Saarland University, Germany Francesca Carmagnola University di Torino, Italy Pablo Castells Universidad Autononoma de Madrid, Spain Nadja de Carolis University of Bari, Italy Pedro Concejero Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Spain Cristina Gena University di Torino, Italy Anind Dey Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tatiana Gavrilova St.Petersburg State Technical University, Russia Geert-Jan Houben Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Antony Jameson DFKI, Germany Judy Kay University of Sydney, Australia Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, USA Yiannis Kompatsiaris Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece Alexander Kroener DFKI, Germany Daniel Kudenko University of York, United Kingdom Andreas Lorenz Fraunhofer-Institut, Germany Gord McCalla University of Saskatchewan, Canada Marcin Paprzycki Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland Myriam Ribiere Motorola Labs, France Ilaria Torre University di Torino, Italy Manolis Wallace University of Indianapolis, Greece Ingrid Zukerman Monash University, Australia *VENUE/ACCOMMODATION* -------------------- UbiDeUM’2007 will take place on June 26th, 2007, in Corfu Holiday Palace in Corfu, Greece. More details about the workshop venue could be found at the UM'07 web site: http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/um2007/ *CONTACT* --------- For any further information, please send an email to: ubideum@gmail.com
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