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CONTEXT'03 <SPAN
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| Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference
on <BR>
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Modeling and Using
Context <BR>
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Stanford, California
(USA) <BR>
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June 23-25,
2003 <BR>
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(www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03) <BR>
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<BR> The Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling
and<BR> Using Context (CONTEXT'03) will provide a high-quality forum for
discussions<BR> about context among researchers active in artificial
intelligence and other<BR> areas of computer science, cognitive science,
linguistics, the organizational<BR> sciences, philosophy, and psychology.<BR>
<BR> Context affects a wide range of activities in humans and animals as well
as<BR> in artificial agents and other computer programs. The importance of
context<BR> is widely acknowledged, and "context" has become an area of study in
its own<BR> right, as evidenced by the numerous workshops, symposia, seminars,
and<BR> conferences held recently. CONTEXT, the oldest conference series
focusing on<BR> context, is unique due to its strong emphasis on
interdisciplinary<BR> research. Previous CONTEXT conferences have been held in
Rio de Janeiro,<BR> Brazil (CONTEXT'97), Trento, Italy (CONTEXT'99), and Dundee,
Scotland<BR> (CONTEXT'01). Each of these brought together researchers in many
disparate<BR> fields to discuss and report on research on context-related
topics.<BR><BR> The proceedings of CONTEXT'03 will be published in a Lecture
Notes series<BR> (http://www.springer.de/comp/lnai) of SpringerVerlag, as
were those of the<BR> previous two CONTEXT conferences.<BR><BR>TOPICS OF
INTEREST<BR><BR> To guide potential submissions, a representative sampling of
topics of<BR> interest for CONTEXT'03 are as follows (in alphabetical order).
This is not<BR> an exhaustive list, and other contributions are welcome,
although all<BR> submissions must have a focus on context.<BR><BR> Analogy
and case-based reasoning Autonomous Agents and
Agent-based Systems<BR> Cognitive
Modeling
Commonsense Reasoning<BR> Context Issues in
Databases Context-aware
Applications<BR> Contextual effects on
language Contextual effects on
problem-solving,<BR> understanding and
production decision-making, and
categorization<BR> Decision Support and Expert Systems Distributed
Information Systems<BR> Formal Theories of
Context
Heterogeneous Information Integration<BR> Human-Computer
Interaction
Information Management<BR> Intelligent Tutoring
Systems Intelligent/Semantic Web
Systems<BR> Interagent
Communication
Knowledge Engineering and Management<BR> Knowledge
Representation
Machine Learning<BR> Multiagent
Systems
Natural Language Processing<BR> Neuroscience and
context
Organizational Theory and Design<BR> Philosophical
Foundations<BR><BR><BR>SUBMISSION OF PAPERS<BR><BR> Since CONTEXT'03 will be an
interdisciplinary forum, all submissions, in<BR> addition to being evaluated for
their technical merit, will be evaluated for<BR> their accessibility to an
interdisciplinary audience. Works that transcend<BR> disciplinary boundaries are
especially encouraged. Papers will be accepted<BR> either for oral
presentation or for presentation at a poster session.<BR><BR> Each submission
will be evaluated by three referees. Complete formatting<BR> requirements and
detailed instructions for authors can be found on the<BR> conference Web page.
Note that papers cannot be longer than 14 pages. Papers<BR> must be submitted
electronically--no hardcopy submissions will be accepted<BR> without prior
approval from the Program Co-Chairs well in advance of the<BR> submission
deadline. LaTeX and Word templates are available at the conference<BR> Web page.
Papers must be in PDF format. See the conference Web page for<BR>
instructions on converting to this format from Word, LaTeX, etc.<BR><BR>
Submitted papers should be received by the Program Co-Chairs no later than<BR>
January 27, 2003. The conference Web page contains instructions for
submitting<BR> papers electronically.<BR><BR>IMPORTANT DATES<BR><BR> Paper
submission deadline....................................January 27, 2003<BR>
Notification of acceptance/rejection for all submissions.......March 13,
2003<BR> Deadline for final versions of accepted papers.................April
13, 2003<BR> Conference...................................................June
23<SPAN class=536111911-19122002>-</SPAN>25, 2003<BR><BR>CONFERENCE
CHAIR<BR><BR> Fausto Giunchiglia (fausto@cs.unitn.it)<BR> Universita degli Studi
di Trento, Italy <BR><BR>PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS<BR><BR> Patrick Blackburn
(Patrick.Blackburn@loria.fr)
<BR> LORIA, France<BR><BR> Chiara Ghidini (C.Ghidini@csc.liv.ac.uk)<BR>
University of Liverpool, UK<BR><BR> Roy Turner (rmt@umcs.maine.edu)<BR>
University of Maine, USA<BR><BR>STEERING COMMITTEE<BR><BR> Varol Akman
(akman@cs.bilkent.edu.tr)<BR> Bilkent University, Turkey<BR><BR> Massimo
Benerecetti (bene@cs.unitn.it)<BR> University of Naples, Italy<BR><BR> Paolo
Bouquet (bouquet@cs.unitn.it)<BR> Universita degli Studi di Trento,
Italy<BR><BR> Patrick Brezillon (Patrick.Brezillon@lip6.fr)<BR> University of
Paris VI, France<BR><BR> Boicho Kokinov (bkokinov@nbu.bg)<BR> New Bulgarian
University, Bulgaria<BR><BR> John Perry (john@csli.stanford.edu)<BR> Stanford
University, USA<BR><BR> Francois Recanati (Francois.Recanati@ehess.fr)<BR>
L'Ecole Polytechnique, France<BR><BR> Luciano Serafini
(serafini@irst.itc.it)<BR> Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC), Italy<BR><BR>
Rich Thomason (rich@thomason.org)<BR> University of Michigan, USA<BR><BR> Roger
A. Young (R.A.YOUNG@dundee.ac.uk)<BR> University of Dundee,
UK<BR><BR><BR>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<BR><BR> Horacio
Arlo-Costa Carnegie Mellon University, USA<BR> John
Barnden The
University of Birmingham, UK<BR> Carla
Bazzanella Universitą degli Studi di Torino,
Italy<BR> John
Bell
University of London, UK<BR> Jose Luis Bermudez
University of Stirling, UK<BR> Matteo
Bonifacio University of Trento, Italy<BR>
Anind K. Dey Intel
Research, California, USA<BR> Christo
Dichev Winston Salem State
University, USA <BR> Bruce
Edmonds Manchester
Metropolitan University, UK<BR> Paul
Feltovich University of West
Florida, USA<BR> Tim
Fernando Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland<BR> Anita
Fetzer Universitaet
Stuttgart<BR> Christopher Gauker University of
Cincinnati, USA<BR> Alain
Giboin INRIA,
France<BR> Avelino Gonzalez University of
Central Florida, USA<BR> Jerry
Hobbs USC/ISI,
USA<BR> Lucja Iwanska
LxLinks, Inc., Michigan, USA<BR> Ruth
Kempson King's
College London, UK<BR> David
Leake Indiana
University, USA<BR> Mark
Maybury MITRE
Corporation, Massachusetts, USA<BR> Bernard
Moulin Université Laval,
Canada<BR> Rolf
Nossum Agder
University College, Norway<BR> Jean-Charles Pomerol DRITT/Universite
P and M Curie, France<BR> Marina
Sbisą University of
Trieste, Italy<BR> Carles
Sierra Spanish Scientific
Research Council, Spain<BR> Munindar
Singh North Carolina State
University, USA<BR> Steffen
Staab University of
Karlsruhe, Germany<BR> Elise
Turner University of
Maine, USA<BR> Peter
Turney National
Research Council, Ontario, Canada<BR> Johan van
Benthem University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands<BR> Robert J. van den
Bosch Univ. Hospital Groningen, The
Netherlands<BR> Teun A. van Dijk Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain<BR> Terry
Winograd Stanford University,
USA<BR><BR><BR>PUBLICITY CHAIR<BR><BR> Roberta Ferrario (ferrix@cs.unitn.it)<BR>
Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy<BR><BR>LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
COMMITTEE<BR><BR> Dikran Karagueuzian, Chair
(dikran@roslin.stanford.edu)<BR> Michele King
(mking@csli.stanford.edu)<BR> John Perry
(john@csli.stanford.edu)<BR> Keith Devlin
(devlin@csli.stanford.edu)<BR> Elisabetta Zibetti
(ezibetti@psych.stanford.edu)<BR><BR><BR>
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