[ACT-R-users] LAST CFP: Context 2003

[Roberta Ferrario]

    LAST REMINDER: DEADLINE FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION IS APPROACHING:
MONDAY, JANUARY 27  

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       |                          CONTEXT'03                          |
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       |   Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on   |
       |                  Modeling and Using Context                  |
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       |                  Stanford, California (USA)                  |
       |                       June 23-25, 2003                       |
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       |           (www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03)            |
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 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 a Lecture Notes
series
 (http://www.springer.de/comp/lnai) of Springer­Verlag, as were those of
the
 previous two CONTEXT conferences.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

 To guide potential submissions, a representative sampling of topics of
 interest for CONTEXT'03 are as follows (in alphabetical order). 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       Contextual effects on
problem-solving,
    understanding 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


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

 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 on the
 conference Web page. 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 at the
conference
 Web page. Papers must be in PDF format.  See the conference Web page
for
 instructions on converting to this format from Word, LaTeX, etc.

 Submitted papers should be received by the Program Co-Chairs no later
than
 January 27, 2003. The conference Web page contains instructions for
submitting
 papers electronically.

IMPORTANT DATES

 Paper submission deadline....................................January
27, 2003
 Notification of acceptance/rejection for all submissions.......March
13, 2003
 Deadline for final versions of accepted papers.................April
13, 2003
 Conference...................................................June
23­25, 2003

CONFERENCE CHAIR

 Fausto Giunchiglia (fausto at cs.unitn.it)
 Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy 

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

 Patrick Blackburn (Patrick.Blackburn at loria.fr)               
 LORIA, France

 Chiara Ghidini (C.Ghidini at csc.liv.ac.uk)
 University of Liverpool, UK

 Roy Turner (rmt at umcs.maine.edu)
 University of Maine, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE

 Varol Akman (akman at cs.bilkent.edu.tr)
 Bilkent University, Turkey

 Massimo Benerecetti (bene at cs.unitn.it)
 University of Naples, Italy

 Paolo Bouquet (bouquet at cs.unitn.it)
 Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy

 Patrick Brezillon (Patrick.Brezillon at lip6.fr)
 University of Paris VI, France

 Boicho Kokinov (bkokinov at nbu.bg)
 New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria

 John Perry (john at csli.stanford.edu)
 Stanford University, USA

 Francois Recanati (Francois.Recanati at ehess.fr)
 L'Ecole Polytechnique, France

 Luciano Serafini (serafini at irst.itc.it)
 Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC), Italy

 Rich Thomason (rich at thomason.org)
 University of Michigan, USA

 Roger A. Young (R.A.YOUNG at dundee.ac.uk)
 University of Dundee, UK


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 Horacio Arlo-Costa     Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 John Barnden           The University of Birmingham, UK
 Carla Bazzanella       Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
 John Bell              University of London, UK
 Jose Luis Bermudez     University of Stirling, UK
 Matteo Bonifacio       University of Trento, Italy
 Anind K. Dey           Intel Research, California, USA
 Christo Dichev         Winston Salem State University, USA 
 Bruce Edmonds          Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
 Paul Feltovich         University of West Florida, USA
 Tim Fernando           Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
 Anita Fetzer           Universitaet Stuttgart
 Christopher Gauker     University of Cincinnati, USA
 Alain Giboin           INRIA, France
 Avelino Gonzalez       University of Central Florida, USA
 Jerry Hobbs            USC/ISI, USA
 Lucja Iwanska          LxLinks, Inc., Michigan, USA
 Ruth Kempson           King's College London, UK
 David Leake            Indiana University, USA
 Mark Maybury           MITRE Corporation, Massachusetts, USA
 Bernard Moulin         Université Laval, Canada
 Rolf Nossum            Agder University College, Norway
 Jean-Charles Pomerol   DRITT/Universite P and M Curie, France
 Marina Sbisà           University of Trieste, Italy
 Carles Sierra          Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain
 Munindar Singh         North Carolina State University, USA
 Steffen Staab          University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 Elise Turner           University of Maine, USA
 Peter Turney           National Research Council, Ontario, Canada
 Johan van Benthem      University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 Robert J. van den Bosch        Univ. Hospital Groningen, The
Netherlands
 Teun A. van Dijk       Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
 Terry Winograd         Stanford University, USA


PUBLICITY CHAIR

 Roberta Ferrario (ferrix at cs.unitn.it)
 Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE

  Dikran Karagueuzian, Chair (dikran at roslin.stanford.edu)
  Michele King  (mking at csli.stanford.edu)
  John Perry (john at csli.stanford.edu)
  Keith Devlin (devlin at csli.stanford.edu)
  Elisabetta Zibetti (ezibetti at psych.stanford.edu)


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