The Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'03) will provide a high-quality forum for discussions about context among researchers active in artificial intelligence and other areas of computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, the organizational sciences, philosophy, and psychology.
Context affects a wide range of activities in humans and animals as well as in artificial agents and other computer programs. The importance of context is widely acknowledged, and ``context'' has become an area of study in its own right, as evidenced by the numerous workshops, symposia, seminars, and conferences held recently. CONTEXT, the oldest conference series focusing on context, is unique due to its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research. Previous CONTEXT conferences have been held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (CONTEXT'97), Trento, Italy (CONTEXT'99), and Dundee, Scotland (CONTEXT'01). Each of these brought together researchers in many disparate fields to discuss and report on research on context-related topics.
| The proceedings of CONTEXT'03 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series from Springer-Verlag, as were those of the previous two CONTEXT conferences. | |
To guide potential submissions, a representative sampling of topics of interest for CONTEXT'03 is as follows. This is not an exhaustive list, and other contributions are welcome, although all submissions must have a focus on context.
| Analogy and Case-Based Reasoning | Autonomous Agents and Agent-based Systems |
| Cognitive Modeling | Commonsense Reasoning |
| Context Issues in Databases | Context-Aware Applications |
| Contextual Effects on Language Understanding | Contextual Effects on Problem-Solving, |
| and Production | Decision-Making, and Categorization |
| Decision Support and Expert Systems | Distributed Information Systems |
| Formal Theories of Context | Heterogeneous Information Integration |
| Human-Computer Interaction | Information Management |
| Intelligent Tutoring Systems | Intelligent/Semantic Web Systems |
| Interagent Communication | Knowledge Engineering and Management |
| Knowledge Representation | Machine Learning |
| Multiagent Systems | Natural Language Processing |
| Neuroscience and Context | Organizational Theory and Design |
| Philosophical Foundations |
Since CONTEXT'03 will be an interdisciplinary forum, all submissions, in addition to being evaluated for their technical merit, will be evaluated for their accessibility to an interdisciplinary audience. Works that transcend disciplinary boundaries are especially encouraged. Papers will be accepted either for oral presentation or for presentation at a poster session.
Each submission will be evaluated by three referees. Complete formatting requirements and detailed instructions for authors can be found in the author instructions. Note that papers cannot be longer than 14 pages. Papers must be submitted electronically--no hardcopy submissions will be accepted without prior approval from the Program Co-Chairs well in advance of the submission deadline. LaTeX and Word templates are available in the author instructions. Papers must be in PDF format.
Submitted papers should be received by the Program Co-Chairs no later than January 27, 2003. Click the Submit a Paper menu item at left for instructions on submitting a paper electronically.
| Paper submission deadline | January 27, 2003 |
| Notification of acceptance/rejection for all submissions | March 13, 2003 |
| Deadline for final versions of accepted papers (in LNAI format) | April 7, 2003 |
| Conference | June 23-25, 2003 |
A workshop on ``Barwise and Situation Semantics'' will be co-located with CONTEXT'03 on June 26. More information is available here.
| Fausto Giunchiglia (fausto@dit.unitn.it) | Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy |
| Patrick Blackburn (Patrick.Blackburn@loria.fr) | LORIA, France |
| Chiara Ghidini (C.Ghidini@csc.liv.ac.uk) | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Roy Turner (rmt@umcs.maine.edu) | University of Maine, USA |
| Varol Akman (akman@cs.bilkent.edu.tr) | Bilkent University, Turkey |
| Massimo Benerecetti (bene@cs.unitn.it) | University of Naples, Italy |
| Paolo Bouquet (bouquet@cs.unitn.it) | Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy |
| Patrick Brézillon (Patrick.Brezillon@lip6.fr) | University of Paris VI, France |
| Boicho Kokinov (bkokinov@nbu.bg) | New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria |
| John Perry (john@csli.stanford.edu) | Stanford University, USA |
| François Recanati (Francois.Recanati@ehess.fr) | L'Ecole Polytechnique, France |
| Luciano Serafini (serafini@irst.itc.it) | Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC), Italy |
| Rich Thomason (rich@thomason.org) | University of Michigan, USA |
| Roger A. Young (R.A.YOUNG@dundee.ac.uk) | University of Dundee, UK |
| Horacio Arlo-Costa
Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
John Barnden
The University of Birmingham, UK |
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| Carla Bazzanella
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy |
John Bell
University of London, UK |
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| Jose Luis Bermudez
University of Stirling, UK |
Matteo Bonifacio
University of Trento, Italy |
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| Anind K. Dey
Intel Research, California, USA |
Christo Dichev
Winston Salem State University, USA |
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| Bruce Edmonds
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
Paul Feltovich
University of West Florida, USA |
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| Tim Fernando
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
Anita Fetzer
Universitaet Stuttgart |
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| Christopher Gauker
University of Cincinnati, USA |
Alain Giboin
INRIA, France |
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| Avelino Gonzalez
University of Central Florida, USA |
Jerry Hobbs
USC/ISI, USA |
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| Lucja Iwanska
LxLinks, Inc., Michigan, USA |
Ruth Kempson
King's College London, UK |
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| David Leake
Indiana University, USA |
Mark Maybury
MITRE Corporation, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Bernard Moulin
Université Laval, Canada |
Rolf Nossum
Agder University College, Norway |
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| Jean-Charles Pomerol
DRITT/Universite P and M Curie, France |
Marina Sbisà
University of Trieste, Italy |
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| Carles Sierra
Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain |
Munindar Singh
North Carolina State University, USA |
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| Steffen Staab
University of Karlsruhe, Germany |
Elise Turner
University of Maine, USA |
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| Peter Turney
National Research Council, Ontario, Canada |
Johan van Benthem
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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| Robert J. van den Bosch
Univ. Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands |
Teun A. van Dijk
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Terry Winograd
Stanford University, USA |
| Roberta Ferrario (ferrix@cs.unitn.it) | Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy |
| Dikran Karagueuzian, Chair (dikran@roslin.stanford.edu) | |
| Michele King (mking@csli.stanford.edu) | |
| John Perry (john@csli.stanford.edu) | |
| Keith Devlin (devlin@csli.stanford.edu) | |
| Elisabetta Zibetti (ezibetti@psych.stanford.edu) |