Third International Workshop on Ontologies in Distributed and Interactive Systems

Chaired by: Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Christophe Gravier

Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
1-6th November, 2009

Proceedings published in a special OTM'09 volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer Verlag.


WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION 

The Ontologies in Distributed and Interactive Systems workshop (ODIS'09) will be the third in a series of international workshops dedicated to applications of ontologies to solve practical challenges in designing interactive and distributed systems. It is a unique forum for all of those interested in the convergence of knowledge representation and reasoning and Human Computer Interaction (HCI).

The workshop is a merger of two previous successful workshops: IEEE Ontologies in Interactive Systems at the British HCI conference (Liverpool, U.K, September 2008, https://www.cs.tcd.ie/ontoract08/) and the IEEE/ACM Workshop on Applied Ontologies in Distributed Systems (WAODS'08), International Conference on Soft Computing as Trans-disciplinary Science and Technology, CSTST'08, (Paris, France, October 2008, http://waods.Telecom-st-etienne.fr/).

The ODIS'09 workshop is an application-oriented, multi-disciplinary discussion forum for researchers and application developers from diverse disciplines of computer and social sciences who share an interest in using various forms of knowledge representation and reasoning to solve complex HCI challenges and managing user interaction in interactive and distributed systems.

The workshop will seek original contributions from the fields of: Knowledge representation and reasoning, Human-Computer Interaction, Multimodal Interaction, Distributed Systems, Adaptive Systems, Dialog Systems, Expert Systems, Semantic web, Information Retrieval and Multimedia Information Retrieval, Ubiquitous Computing, Smart Places, Pervasive environments, Ambient Intelligence, Assisted Living, Remote Care, Usability and Accessibility design, Software Engineering and Application Development, as well as usability and field studies.

In continuation with previous editions of the workshop, the ODIS'09 workshop will be particularly interested in discussing the following themes:

  • the use of knowledge based technologies for the digital inclusion of disfranchised (e.g. elderly and special needs) users in the digital society (see the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Inclusion in the Digital Economy program at: http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/digitaleconomy/index.asp)
  • the use of semantic technology to increase the integration between the middleware/distributed systems layer and the interaction/user level.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) one or more of the following themes:

  • Ontologies for user modeling, adaptation and personalisation
  • Ontologies in interactive and multimodal systems
  • Ontologies in middleware and distributed systems
  • Ontologies in expert and decision support systems
  • Ontologies for ambient intelligence, smart places and pervasive environments
  • Ontologies for accessibility, assistive technology and assisted living
  • Ontologies for e-health, tele-care and self-care
  • Ontologies in information retrieval and multimedia information retrieval systems
  • Ontologies in information management systems
  • Ontologies in recommender and expert systems
  • Ontologies in e-learning, tutoring and dialogue systems
  • Ontologies in web applications and web services
  • Various applications of ontologies (e.g. Intelligent Transport Systems, etc.)

For an example of relevant papers, please refer to previous workshop proceedings published on the IEEE Computer Society and ACM digital library:

http://xplqa.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=4756181&isYear=2008
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1456223.1456348


IMPORTANT DATES

  • Abstracts Submission Deadline:  June 22, 2009   EXTENDED DEADLINE July 2, 2009 - 23:59 CET
  • Paper Submission Deadline: June 29, 2009   EXTENDED DEADLINE July 5, 2009 - 23:59 CET
  • Acceptance Notification: August 05, 2009
  • Camera ready received: August 15, 2009
  • Registration Deadline: August 20, 2009
  • OTM 2009 event: November 1-6, 2009

 

   
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as a special Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume of the OTM'09 Workshop proceedings.

Author instructions can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Long paper: up to 10 pages.
Short paper: up to 6 pages.

Papers submitted to ODIS'09 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression by at least 3 expert reviewers from the international program committee. All submissions must be in English.

Submissions should be in PDF format.

Failure to comply with the above formatting instructions and page limits will lead to the outright rejection of the submission without review.
Each accepted submission requires at least one author of the paper to attend the workshop.

The paper submission site is located at : http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper/odissub/


WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

  Workshop Chairs:

    Matt-Mouley Bouamrane
    University of Manchester , U.K.
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    Christophe Gravier
    Telecom Saint-Etienne, Université de Saint-Etienne, Université de Lyon, France
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  Workshop Co-chairs:

    Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France
    Jacques Fayolle, Telecom Saint-Etienne, Université de Saint-Etienne, Universite de Lyon, France
    Simon Harper, University of Manchester , U.K.
    Saturnino Luz, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland,
    Masood Masoodian, University of Waikato, New-Zealand


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  Ahmed Alasoud, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
  Mariano Alcaniz, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
  Alberto Anguita Sanchez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  Mikel Egana Aranguren, University of Manchester, U.K.
  Mikael Ates, Telecom Saint-Etienne, Université de Saint-Etienne, Université de Lyon, France
  Soren Auer, University of Leipzig, Germany
  Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
  John Breslin, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway, Ireland
  Tobias Buerger, Salzburg Research Institute, Austria
  Luis Carrico, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  Smitashree Choudhury, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway, Ireland
  Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
  Maciej Dabrowski, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway, Ireland
  Bertrand David, Ecole Centrale Lyon, France
  Kerstin Denecke, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
  Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  Piotr Gawrysiak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
  Chirine Ghedira, LIRIS UMR 5205 CNRS, INSA de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
  Mahmoud Ghorbel, Laboratoire Handicom, Evry, France
  Andrew Gibson, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  Ralf Heese, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany
  Dennis Hooijmaijers, University of South Australia,
  Pokorny Jaroslav, FEE CTU Prague, Czech Republic
  Nophadol Jekjantuk, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.
  Simon Jupp, University of Manchester, U.K.
  Rachid Kadouche, Laboratoire DOMUS - Université de Sherbrooke (QC), Canada
  Shuaib Karim, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  Jay Kola, University of Manchester, U.K.
  Harald Kosch, University Passau, Germany
  Frederique Laforest, LIRIS UMR 5205 CNRS, INSA de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
  Dave Lambert, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, U.K.
  Jiangang Ma, Victoria University, Australia
  Kristina Masuwa-Morgan, Canterbury Christ Church University, U.K.
  Mounir Mokhtari, Laboratoire Handicom, Evry, France
  Zeljko Obrenovic, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI), Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Martin O'Connor, Stanford, USA
  Federica Paganelli, Italian National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, Italy
  Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.
  Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
  Vassilios Peristeras, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway, Ireland
  Bram Pellens, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium
  Pit Pichappan, Al Imam University, Saudi Arabia
  Michel Plantie, Centre de recherche LGI2P, Ecole des Mines d'Alµes, France
  Daniele Radicioni, Universitµa di Torino, Italy
  Thomas Risse, L3S research center, Hannover, Germany
  Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway, Ireland
  Aman Shakya, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
  Victoria Uren, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, U.K.
  Thierry Villemur, LAAS CNRS, France
  Pinar Wennerberg, Siemens Knowledge Management, Germany
  Yeliz Yesilada, University of Manchester, U.K.
  Fouad Zablith, Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, U.K.