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Workshop Topics

Context-sensitive processing has a key role in many modern intelligent IT applications, with context-awareness and context-based reasoningbeing essential not only for mobile and ubiquitous computing, but also for a wide range of other areas such as collaborative software, webengineering, personal digital assistants, information sharing, health care workflow and patient control, adaptive games, and e-Learningsolutions. As such, context awareness in case-based reasoning (CBR) systems is a topic of increased research.

In these areas, context serves as a major source for reasoning, decision-making, and adaptation. Consequently, achieving desired behaviors from CBR systems in these areas will depend on the ability to represent and manipulate information about a rich range of contextual factors. These factors may include not only physical characteristics of the task environment, but many other aspects such as the knowledge states (of both the application and user), emotions, etc.

This representation and reasoning problem presents research challenges to which numerous methods and techniques derived from artificialintelligence and knowledge management (e.g., logical reasoning, object relationship models, ontologies, similarity measures, and intelligent retrieval mechanisms) are now being brought to bear.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners exploring issues and approaches for context-sensitive systems involving CBR, from a broad range of areas, to share their problems and techniques across different research and application areas. The workshop will examine mechanisms and techniques for structured storage of contextual information, effective ways to retrieve, reuse, and adapt it, as well as methods for enabling integration of context and application knowledge.

Workshop Goals

The major goal of the workshop is to bring researchers, scientists from both industry and academics, and representatives from different communities together to study, understand, and explore the handling of context in IT applications, in particular, with a focus on CBR, i.e., storing, comparing, reusing and adapting previously stored contextual knowledge. As we are interested understanding and discussing new trends, ideas, and technologywe encourage also submissions of work in progress.

Besides contributed papers and invited talks, this workshop will offer organized and open spaces for targeted discussions. An expected result is to form a common understanding on the topic of modeling, comparing, and adapting context.

Additional discussions will be about integrating explanation and justification into context-aware applications to enable trustworthy systems.