UbiqUM 2006

August 28th, Riva del Garda, Italy

in conjunction with the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006)

Preliminary Program Schedule

  • 08:30 - 10:00 Session 1: Exchanging and Adapting User Models
    • Opening, Greetings (10 min.) Workshop Organizers
    • Adaptation of Ubiquitous User-Models (20+10 min.) Andreas Lorenz, Andreas Zimmermann
    • Exchanging Personal Information (15+5 min.) Christian Wartena, Peter Fennema, Rogier Brussee
    • Case-Based to Content-Based User Model Mediation (20+10 min.) Shlomo Berkovsky, Ariel Gorfinkel, Tsvi Kuflik, Larry Manevitz
  • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
  • 10:30 - 12:30 Session 2: Semantically-Enhanced Approaches
    • Ontology-Based User Modeling for Pedestrian Navigation Systems (20+10 min.) Panayotis Kikiras, Vassileios Tsetsos, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades
    • Creating Ontology for User Modelling Research (15+5 min.) Tatiana Gavrilova, Peter Brusilovsky, Michael Yudelson, Seppo Puuronen
    • An Agent-Based Approach Supporting Personal Ubiquitous Interaction (15+5 min.) Francesca Muci, Pawel Drozda, Giovanni Cozzolongo
    • Exploiting the Link Between Personal, Augmented Memories and Ubiquitous User Modeling (20+10 min.) Alexander Kröner, Dominik Heckmann, Michael Schneider
    • Web Services and Semantic Web for Adaptive Systems (15+5 min.) Francesca Carmagnola, Federica Cena, Cristina Gena, Ilaria Torre
  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  • 14:00 - 15:30 Session 3: Multi-Modality and Mobility
    • User Modelling in a Distributed Multi-Modal Application (15+5 min.) Andreas Zimmermann, Andreas Lorenz
    • Towards Situated Public Displays as Multicast Systems (20+10 min.) Hans Jörg Müller, Antonio Krüger
    • Ambient Audio Notification with Personalized Music (15+5 min.) Ralf Jung, Dominik Heckmann
    • Efficient Text Summarization for Web Browsing On Mobile Devices (15+5 min.) Gaël Dias and Bruno Conde
  • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
  • 16:00 - 17:30 Session 4: Panel, Discussions, Summary and Wrap-up

Accepted Papers

All accepted papers of the UbiqUM'06 workshop! UbiqUM'06 Accepted Papers (PDF 10.5MB)

  • "Efficient Text Summarization for Web Browsing On Mobile Devices"
    Gaël Dias and Bruno Conde
  • "Creating Ontology for User Modelling Research"
    Tatiana Gavrilova, Peter Brusilovsky, Michael Yudelson and Seppo Puuronen
  • "Exchanging Personal Information"
    Christian Wartena, Peter Fennema and Rogier Brussee
  • "Adaptation of Ubiquitous User-Models"
    Andreas Lorenz, Andreas Zimmermann
  • "User Modelling in a Distributed Multi-Modal Application"
    Andreas Zimmermann, Andreas Lorenz
  • "Web Services and Semantic Web for Adaptive Systems"
    Francesca Carmagnola, Federica Cena, Cristina Gena, Ilaria Torre
  • "Case-Based to Content-Based User Model Mediation"
    Shlomo Berkovsky, Ariel Gorfinkel, Tsvi Kuflik and Larry Manevitz
  • "Ambient Audio Notification with Personalized Music"
    Ralf Jung and Dominik Heckmann
  • "Ontology-Based User Modeling for Pedestrian Navigation Systems"
    Panayotis Kikiras, Vassileios Tsetsos and Stathes Hadjiefthymiades
  • "Exploiting the Link Between Personal, Augmented Memories and Ubiquitous User Modeling"
    Alexander Kroner and Dominik Heckmann and Michael Schneider
  • "An Agent-Based Approach Supporting Personal Ubiquitous Interaction"
    Francesca Muci, Pawel Drozda, Giovanni Cozzolongo
  • "Towards Situated Public Displays as Multicast Systems"
    Hans Jorg Muller and Antonio Kruger

Call for Papers


Please distribute the Call for Papers Call for Papers (PDF) as PDF document if possible,
otherwise as pure text document (TXT) .

NEW: In addition to the official ECAI workshop proceedings, the accepted long papers and short papers will be published under the ISSN 0944-7822 or under ISSN 1613-0073.

NEW: Short papers with 2 pages are also welcome (because of the dense formatting style).

NEW: Extended Deadline: April 15th, 2006!!!

Workshop on Ubiquitous User Modeling 2006