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Computers: Object_Oriented
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Computers: Mobile_Computing
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Computers: Computer_Science
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| Description |
Scope and Topics
To better assist users, smart devices must sense and react to the user’s environment or “context.” Almost any information available at the time of an interaction between a system and a user can be seen as contextual information. Some examples are obtained through sensors: spatial information (e.g. location, orientation), temporal information (e.g. time of the day, date), who you are with, and people that are nearby, resources that are nearby (e.g. accessible devices, and hosts), etc.
Such information is used to design adaptive systems and to provide custom services to users based on their profile and preferences. Pervasive environments are the prime field for context-aware computing where many applications have emerged in the last decade.
While early models mainly addressed the modeling of context with respect to one application domain and vary in the context they represent, no uniform context model is actually achieved. This is of main interest since many applications can benefit from it.
By organizing this workshop, we aim at addressing the problem of coupling both approaches from a software engineering perspective. We look for original submissions on the following topics (but not limited to):
• Software aspects of context acquisition tools and techniques
• Object-oriented techniques applied to user modeling and context modeling
• Software frameworks for Context-aware applications
• Design patterns applied to context-aware applications
• Context in pervasive/multi-agents systems
• Context in security issues
Submission of papers
Length of papers should not exceed 8 pages in IEEE double-column format. Paper submission should be electronic. Papers exceeding the specified length or could not be viewed with Adobe Acrobat may not be reviewed. Acceptance implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.
Please send your electronic submission to iwsac04@unifr.ch in pdf format.
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| Additional Information |
Important dates
Submission deadline: May 15, 2004 ***NEW***
Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2004
Camera-ready: June 1, 2004
Early registration: May 28th, 2004
Proceedings
The proceedings of the workshop will be published and distributed during the workshop.
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