[ACT-R-users] 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence

[Juan Carlos Augusto]

Call for Papers

2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence
(AITAmI'07) - Hyderabad, India. 6-7th January 2007
Co-located with IJCAI 2007 ( http://www.ijcai-07.org/ )

Important Dates:
    Sept 25th: paper submission deadline
    Oct 23th: notification of evaluation
    Nov 15th: camera ready submission

Web page:
www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~jcaug/aitami07.htm


Sponsors: This event is sponsored by
               Siemens AG
               Nokia NRC - Tampere
               Philips Research - Eindhoven

Background and Goals:  Imagine a future where human environments respond to 
human preferences and needs. In this world, devices equipped with simple 
intelligence and the abilities to sense, communicate, and act will be 
unremarkable features of our world.  We will expect the car to warn us of 
hazards, track our location and provide timely route advice.  We will speak 
to simple machines and hold conversations with more complex systems, such as 
intelligent homes that will help us monitor conditions, track routine tasks, 
and program the behaviour of the heat, the lights, the garden watering and 
the entertainment centre.  Analogous systems at work will make simple 
decisions in our stead ranging from scheduling meetings to negotiating for 
common services over the web. Such systems will also acquire, and adapt to 
our preferences over time.  In sum, we will come to view simple software 
intelligence as an ambient feature of our environment.

The infrastructure for ambient intelligence is fast coming on line. 
Computational resources are cheap and becoming cheaper, while ubiquitous 
network access has started to appear.  Market forces will soon produce 
applications.  We take the view that ambient intelligence is imminent and 
inevitable, and that the time is ripe to take stock. This workshop will 
provide that opportunity by gathering researchers in a variety of AI 
subfields together with representatives of commercial interests to explore 
the technology and applications for ambient intelligence.

Areas of interest: include, but are not limited to the following:

- human interaction with autonomous systems
- modelling complex environments (smart homes, hospitals, transportation, 
museums, etc)
- self-adaptive systems
- context awareness
- responsive/active architecture
- applications (health, defence,  etc.)
-  innovative applications of AI to Ambient Intelligence
- agent-based approaches to AmI
- traditional relevant areas of AI
  (knowledge representations, reasoning about actions, spatio-temporal 
reasoning, planning, uncertainty, learning, belief revision, vision, etc.)

This workshop will complement previous events, such as the International 
Conference on Smart Homes and Telecare, the AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium 
Workshop on Persistent Assistants and the European Symposium on Ambient 
Intelligence. This workshop differs in that it will focus on the special 
relevance of AI technology to the goals of Ambient Intelligence, and on the 
most likely avenues for practical application. AITAmI'07 will provide an 
open forum based on a variety of presentations: research papers, keynotes, 
panels and industrial demos.  This event will provide a continuation to 
AITAmI'06 held during ECAI'06.

Submission Details: Authors wishing to participate as speakers in this event 
should format their papers following the same formatting guidelines than for 
the main conference. More details of the submission process will be given in 
the web page of the event.

Publications: all papers accepted will be published in the proceedings of 
the event.  A volume will be published after the event with extended and 
improved versions of selected papers.

Co-Chairs:
 J.C. Augusto (U. of Ulster, UK)
    jc.augusto 'at' ulster.ac.uk
 D. Shapiro (Applied Reactivity, Inc.)
    dgs 'at' appliedreactivity.com
 I. Satoh (NII, Japan)
    ichiro 'at' nii.ac.jp

Program Committee
B. de Ruyter (Philips, The Netherlands)
M. Bohlen  (State Univ. of NY, USA)
A. Butz (Univ. of Munich, Germany)
V. Callaghan (Univ. of Essex, UK)
J. Cheng (Saitama University, Japan)
C. Combi (Univ. of Verona, Italy)
D. Cook (U. of Texas, USA)
A.K. Dey  (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA)
M. Divitini (Norwegian Univ. of Science)
Ch. Fernstrom (Xerox Research)
M. Freed, (NASA-Ames, USA)
B. Gottfried (Univ.Bremen, Germany)
H. Guesgen (Univ. of Auckland, NZ)
P. Huuskonen (Nokia, Finland)
A. Kameas  (Computer Tech.Inst, Greece)
H. Kautz  (U. of Washington, USA)
J. Krumm (Microsoft Research, USA)
J. Ma (Hosei University, Japan)
J. Plomp (VTT Electronics, Finland)
H. Raffler (Siemens AG, Germany)
A. Sattar  (Griffith University, Australia)
M. Sasikumar (CDAC Mumbai, India)
K. Stathis (Univ. of London, UK)