*************** CALL FOR PAPERS ****************** ================================================== Workshop on Ubiquitous User Modeling (UbiqUM'06) ================================================== in conjunction with ECAI-2006 (http://u2m.org/ubiqum2006) August 28th, Riva del Garda, Italy General Information: -------------------- Ubiquitous user modeling describes ongoing modeling and exploitation of user behaviour with a variety of systems that share their user models. The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic and industrial researchers from the communities of user modeling and ubiquitous computing to discuss the most innovative approaches to ubiquitous user modeling, to enhance the exchange of ideas and concepts, to determine the veins the research should proceed, and to go one step further towards personalization in ubiquitous computing and to enable ongoing model sharing. Topics of Interest: ------------------- Ubiquitous user modeling implies new challenges of scalability, scrutability and privacy. Furthermore, new issues of decentralization, communication and integration have to be addressed. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * User modeling in mobile and ubiquitous computing * Distributed and externalized user modeling * Integrated reasoning and inferences with user and context models * Spatial and temporal reasoning for ubiquitous user modeling * Construction and acquisition of distributed user models * Conflict resolution for ubiquitous user modeling * User modeling in intelligent environments like smart homes or smart cars * Semantic Web approaches and ontologies for distributed user modeling * Ubiquitous user modeling for entertainment and cultural heritage * Personalized user interfaces in pervasive computing * Privacy, security and trust in ubiquitous user modeling Furthermore, the interoperability of applications like recommender systems, adaptive hypermedia, e-learning, adaptive navigation guides or personalized shopping guides is of special interest. Submission Guidelines: ---------------------- Full papers with up to 6 pages and short papers with up to 3 pages are accepted for the UbiqUM workshop. The style files can be found at our webpage, where the submission process is described in detail. Important Dates: ---------------- * Paper submission deadline: April 10th, 2006 * Notification of acceptance: May 10th, 2006 * Final papers due: May 24th, 2006 * UbiqUM 2006 workshop: August 28th, 2006 Organizing Committee: --------------------- Shlomo Berkovsky - University of Haifa, Israel Dominik Heckmann - DFKI GmbH, Germany Antonio Krüger - University of Münster, Germany Tsvika Kuflik - University of Haifa, Israel Program Committee: ------------------ Liliana Ardissono, Italy Jörg Baus, Germany Boris Brandherm, Germany Peter Brusilovsky, USA Francesca Carmagnola, Italy Nadja De Carolis, Italy Vania Dimitrova, UK Peter Dolog, Germany Yaniv Eytani, USA Tatiana Gavrilova, Russia Cristina Gena, Italy Dina Goren-Bar, Israel Nicola Henze, Germany Judy Kay, Australia Alexander Kröner, Germany Andreas Lorenz, Germany Gordon McCalla, Canada Marcin Paprzycki, Poland Francesco Ricci, Italy Andreas Schmidt, Germany Ilaria Torre, Italy Julita Vassileva, Canada Stephan Weibelzahl, Ireland Ingrid Zukerman, Australia Further Information: -------------------- * Webpage: http://u2m.org/ubiqum2006 * Contact: ubiqum@gmail.com * ECAI: http://ecai2006.itc.it * Venue: Riva del Garda, Italy