Modeling and
Retrieval of Context
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Technical Report WS-06-12
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Modeling and
Retrieval of Context
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, Stefan Schulz,
and David B. Leake, Cochairs
Technical Report WS-06-12
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Organizing Committee
Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer
TU Kaiserslautern / DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Email: trb@dfki.uni-kl.de
David B. Leake
Indiana University, USA
Email: leake@cs.indiana.edu
Stefan Schulz
The e-Spirit Company GmbH, Germany
Email: schulz@e-Spirit.de
Demo Chair
Sven Schwarz
DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Email: Sven.Schwarz@dfki.de
Program Committee
Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Carlos Bento, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
Shannon Bradshaw, University of Iowa, USA
Patrick Brezillon, University of Paris, France
Andreas Dengel, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Anind Dey, Intel Research Berkeley, USA
Babak Esfandiari, Carleton University, Canada
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA
Jeroen Keppens, King's College London, United Kingdom
Mohamed Khedr, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt
Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada
Kristof Van Laerhoven, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Ana G. Maguitman, Indiana University, USA
Heiko Maus, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA
Markus Nick, IESE, Germany
Enrico Rukzio, University of Munich, Germany
Thomas Strang, DLR Germany and UIBK Austria
York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Rich Thomason, University of Michigan, USA
Roy Turner, University of Maine, USA
Christopher Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, New York, USA
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Additional Reviewer
Anders Kofod-Petersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
This AAAI–06 Workshop was held July 16–17, 2006,
in Boston, Massachusetts USA
Contents
Preface / vii
Usability in Context-Aware Applications / 1
Anind K. Dey
Capturing Regular Human Activity through a Learning Context Memory / 3
Philipp H. Mohr, Nick Ryan, and Jon Timmis
Context-aware Dialog Strategies for Multimodal Mobile Dialog Systems / 9
Jeongwoo Ko, Fumihiko Murase, Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg,
Masahiko Tateishi, and Ichiro Akahori
Contextual Retrieval of Digital Content in Topic Maps / 16
Christo Dichev, Darina Dicheva, and Jan Fischer
Explicit Representation and Retrieval of Contextual
Knowledge for Real-World Agents / 23
Roy M. Turner
Personalized Information Retrieval in Context / 28
David Vallet, Miriam Fernández, Pablo Castells,
Phivos Mylonas, and Yannis Avrithis
Structured Contexts with Lightweight Ontology / 33
Hongwei Zhu and Stuart E. Madnick
Task-Centric Document Recommendation via
Context-Specific Terms / 38
Surendra Sarnikar and J. Leon Zhao
Context-Aware Service Integration for Elderly Care
in a Smart Environment / 44
Wan-rong Jih, Jane Yung-jen Hsu, and Tse-Ming Tsai
Preserving Context with Context Capsules / 49
Mike Spence and Siobhán Clarke
Towards Conceptual Foundations for Context-Aware Applications / 54
Patrícia Dockhorn Costa, João Paulo A. Almeida, Luís Ferreira Pires,
Giancarlo Guizzardi, and Marten van Sinderen
Utilizing Sentence Function Tagging to Retrieve Related Text Excerpts / 59
Tim Musgrove and Robin Walsh
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