Final CFP: AI2IA workshop @ IJCAI03

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                     Final Call for Participation
                                   
                           AI MOVES TO IA:
                 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence,
               Information Access, and Mobile Computing
                                   
                  Acapulco, Mexico, August 11, 2003
     Workshop Web site: http://www.dimi.uniud.it/workshop/ai2ia/
                                   
                             at IJCAI-03:
    18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                 Acapulco, Mexico, August 9-15, 2003
                       http://www.ijcai-03.org/
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OVERVIEW
========

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Access (IA) have always
been strongly interlinked fields. AI techniques have been profitably
used to implement advanced IA systems, and the huge amount of
information available through the Web discloses new possibilities to
AI researchers. In the last years, a new ingredient has been added:
the increasing availability of smaller and more pervasive computing
devices has brought to the attention the research on context
awareness, ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, interaction
with mobile devices, and embedded computing. We will refer to all
these fields as "Mobile Computing" (MC) for short.

On the one side, these rapidly growing fields will greatly benefit
from past AI research on their own. In fact, the new devices already
embed more intelligence that can (and has to) be exploited to allow a
more efficient and usable user interaction. Moreover, MC faces the
difficult problem of dealing with the real physical world out there,
and AI has been struggling with interaction with the physical world
for decades. Perception, vision, and robotics are probably the most
known AI sub-areas that dealt with this issue, but it is often claimed
that AI systems can play chess like a master whereas they have the
perception and interaction capabilities of an insect. Therefore, AI
research can fruitfully inspire the MC emerging field on both
achievements and difficulties.

On the other side, the interplay of AI and IA needs to adapt to the
new MC scenario, in which the need for information is an even more
fundamental human need. We already have evidence of IA importance
today, since after messaging (email, instant messaging, SMS, MMS, and
so on), the search for information is the second most frequent
activity of both Web users and mobile device users. Moreover, it is
easy to envisage scenarios in which people seek information by using
different kinds of devices, in different environmental situations, and
different time constraints. Finally, information will continuously be
pushed to one's own devices depending on the current location,
interests, activities, etc.: we hardly know today, what information
overload is.

FOCUS AND AIMS
==============

AI techniques (like user modeling, context modeling, intelligent
assistants, to mention just a few) seem necessary for an effective
IA. For this reasons, we intend to focus the workshop on intersections
and relationships between AI, IA, and MC. Interdisciplinary studies
are very welcome: we encourage the submission of paper addressing
issues belonging to at least two of the three AI, IA, and MC
fields. Preference will be given to papers addressing all the three
AI, IA, and MC issues.

The main goal of the workshop will be to create a forum for the
exchange of experience and knowledge among researches and developers
concerned with the use of AI for IA with mobile devices. We hope that
the workshop will serve to foster the development of an international
community interested in the workshop themes. The accepted submissions
will be included in the workshop proceedings and distributed on the
workshop Web site. Selected outstanding papers will be published later
in a journal special issue.

TOPICS
======

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

      * user modeling, personalization, and adaptive interaction
      * interaction with mobile devices (mobile phones, PDAs, ...)
      * situated interaction
      * information retrieval and filtering
      * intelligent assistants
      * summarization
      * student modelling, e-learning, and mobile devices
      * ubiquitous and pervasive computing
      * emergence of intelligence
      * embedded computing
      * environment perception and modeling
      * context awareness and context representation
      * nomadic computing
      * mobile code
      * ambient intelligence
      * intelligent agents
      * automatic ontologies
      * conceptual models and frameworks
      * visionary future scenarios

The workshop will discuss these topics in terms of existing approaches
and implementations, in terms of theoretical foundations, and on
emerging directions of research.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
=======================

There will be two kinds of paper:

      * full papers, 5 to 10 pages
      * short/position papers, 2 to 5 pages

In addition to paper presentations, we are also considering invited
talks, demos of working prototypes, discussion workgroups, and panel
discussions addressing hot topics. Electronic submission is required:
email a PDF or postscript file to ai2ia-SKCg+tzqgwRiNvkxeVW6+g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines at
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html. If any of
these requirements are a problem for you, please contact the workshop
organizers. Also, if you have any questions, just ask!

Note: To maximize interaction and an informal athmosphere, attendance
will be limited to 30-40 participants, selected on the basis of
refereed submissions. If you wish to attend but are not submitting a
paper, please send a one-page statement of interest by the submission
deadline. Participants are expected to register for the main IJCAI
conference in addition to the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES
=============================

      * Deadline for the submission: March 9, 2003.
      * Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 9, 2003.
      * Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: May 11, 2003.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
====================

Pekka Ala-Siuru
Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT Electronics)
http://www.ele.vtt.fi/people/pekka.ala-siuru/
pekka.ala-siuru-qC9aNdRlCc4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Nicholas J. Belkin
Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~belkin/belkin.html
nick-ra99jy/5+H9xEa0u/P/EHDe48wsgrGvP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Oscar Mayora-Ibarra
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Cuernavaca
http://www.mor.itesm.mx/~omayora/
omayora-crrQqJjeVWc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Stefano Mizzaro
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine
http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~mizzaro
mizzaro-SKCg+tzqgwRqE5k7x5A0cw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
=================

[To be finalized. We are in the process of contacting other potential
committee members.]

      * Pekka Ala-Siuru, Technical Research Centre of Finland
      * Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University
      * Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, University of West Florida
      * Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
      * Pertti Huuskonen, Nokia Research Center, Finland
      * Matt Jones, University of Waikato, New Zealand
      * Mun-Kew Leong, Labs. for Information Technologies, Singapore
      * Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China
      * Oscar Mayora-Ibarra, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
      * Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
      * Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy
      * Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Finland
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