AAAI'06 Workshop - Boston, USA - July 16-17, 2006

Third International Workshop on
Modeling and Retrieval of Context

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This is the final Agenda for the workshop. We also have a downloadable Version (PDF).

Day 1

8:45 Technical preparations / setup
9:00 Welcome and Overview (Thomas Roth-Berghofer)
9:15 Introduction of participants
9:30Capturing Regular Human Activity Through a Learning Context Memory (slides)
Philipp Mohr
10:00 Personalized Information Retrieval in Context (slides)
David Vallet
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Invited talk
Usability in Context-Aware Applications (slides)
Anind Dey
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Topic acquisition for Topic Groups discussions We will select three or four topics that are of interest to the symposium attendees and assign each topic to a discussion group. Groups will discuss them privately and later report their results.
14:00 Context-aware Dialog Strategies for Multimodal Mobile Dialog Systems (slides)
Jeongwoo Ko
14:30 Contextual Retrieval of Digital Content in Topic Maps (slides)
Christo Dichev
15:00 Explicit Representation and Retrieval of Contextual Knowledge for Real-World Agents (slides)
Roy Turner
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Poster Session
Context-Aware Service Integration for Elder Care in A Smart Environment
Wan-rong Jih
Preserving Context with Context Capsules
Mike Spence
Towards Conceptual Foundations for Context-Aware Applications
Patricia Dockhorn Costa
Utilizing Sentence Function Tagging to Retrieve Related Text Excerpts
Tim Musgrove
17:00 Topic Groups start discussions
19:00 Joint dinner at a restaurant Traditionally, we–the organizers–try to find a nice restaurant where we–all workshop attendees–can talk about a bit more than this workshop.

Day 2

9:15 Welcome (TRB)
9:30 Task-Centric Document Recommendation via Context- Specific Terms (slides)
Surendra Sarnikar
10:00 Demo Session (Sven Schwarz) The demo session will start with a short presentation (max. 3 minutes each) to all of the workshop participants in order to provide a quick overview.

Desktop Context Inference with Onlife
Edison Thomaz
Contextual Retrieval of Digital Content in Topic Maps
Christo Dichev
Capturing Regular Human Activity Through a Learning Context Memory
Philipp Mohr
A Formal Data Structure Based on Intuitionistic Type Theory for Contexts in Engineering Systems
Richard Dapoigny
Personalized Information Retrieval in Context
Pablo Castells
User Context Observation
Sven Schwarz

10:30Coffee break
11:00 Demo Session continued
11:30 Structured Contexts with Light-Weight Ontology (slides)
Hongwei Zhu
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Preparation of results of Topic Groups discussions
Each topic group should collect its results and prepare to make a short presentation for discussion. Groups should use PowerPoint (or similar) as a way of documenting their results for further discussion and (optionally) as the basis for proposing follow-on workshops on promising topics.
14:30 Presentation of results of the Topic Groups discussions
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Wrap-up and Closing