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Context and context-awareness are crucial not only for mobile and ubiquitous computing, but for spanning various application areas: collaborative software and web engineering, personal digital assistants and peer-to-peer information sharing, health care workflow and patient control, and adaptive games and e-Learning solutions. In these areas, context serves as a major source for reasoning, decision making, and adaptation, as it covers not only application knowledge but also environmental knowledge. Appropriate context management methods are an important prerequisite for using contextual information. Therefore, advanced models, methods, and tools are needed to provide mechanisms and techniques for structured storage of contextual information, to provide effective ways to retrieve it, and to enable integration of context and application knowledge. 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. 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 context and ways of retrieving it within such models.
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