[AISWorld] Extended Deadline: HCCBR - ICCBR 2011 Workshop Human Centred Case-Based Reasoning

[Thomas Roth-Berghofer]

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.

The submission deadline for the ICCBR 2011 workshop on Human Centred
Case-Based Reasoning has been extended to June 15, 2011.

In addition, we would like to point out that we encourage submission of
short papers in form of extended abstracts for the lightning talks given
in the workshop.

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                          Call for Papers

                             HCCBR 2011

   First International Workshop Human Centred Case-Based Reasoning

       Held at The 19th International Conference on Case-Based
     Reasoning (ICCBR 11),  Greenwich, UK, September 12-15, 2011

            Extended submission deadline: June 15, 2011

                http://events.idi.ntnu.no/hccbr2011/

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Human-centred computing focuses on methodologies and technologies to
improve the interaction within and performance of socio-technical
systems. In this regard, intelligent systems are not longer considered
to be black boxes that provide a full solution to a problem on their
own, instead, problem solving is seen as an interactive process.
Case-Based Reasoning would appear to be a natural fit for such
integrated human/computer systems.

A number of important questions are raised by human-centred approaches.
It is important to gain a better understanding of how each part of the
combined system can help to extend the capabilities of the other. It is
also of interest to examine how human knowledge modelling and
construction can best be supported through technology.

Many of these issues are already being addressed in other disciplines,
however, the question remains as to how findings from human-computer
interaction, the social sciences and psychology may be integrated with
the design of CBR systems. This integration ranges from psychologically
plausible knowledge models over a focus on usability  of fielded systems
to the delivery of an attractive end user experience.

Another important research topic in human centred computing considers
issues of communication and, in particular, explanations. Problem
descriptions, as well as other input, can be incomplete and changing. As
a consequence, there has to be communication between human and  software
agents. Communication requires mutual understanding that can  be
essentially supported by explanations.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners
exploring human aspects of the design, implementation, and use of
CBR-systems, from a broad range of areas, to share their problems and
methodologies across different research and application areas. The
workshop will examine methods, mechanisms, and techniques to keep the
human in the centre of attention during the whole life-cycle of an
intelligent system, from initial problem description through to
knowledge acquisition and modelling and on to interactive use and
maintenance.


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Topics
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Suggested topics for contributions include, but are not limited to:

* Knowledge construction and extension
* Explicit user representations
* Personalisation
* Mixed-initiative issues
* Representation of and reasoning with uncertainty
* Psychological, linguistic, and sociological foundations
* Socio-technical analysis and design of CBR systems
* Evaluation of user aspects of CBR systems
* Context awareness and context-sensitivity
* Explanation generation and usage
* Adaptation of results
* Visualisation of results and processes


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Format
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The workshop will last half a day and will be organised into two main parts.

The first part will consist of lightning presentations of the accepted
papers. The goal of this sessions is to introduce the work of all
participants.

The second part will consist of two panel discussions, each dedicated
to one specific issue. The suggested issues are "Analysis and Design"
and "Implementation and Use", but these are subject to change dependent
on the interests of the attendees and the nature of submissions. The
goal of these panels is to discuss the various approaches to each of
these basic issues, to identify the critical problems in need of
attention and to identify the most promising future research directions.

The panels will be comprised of authors of accepted paper. Each
panelist is given the task to describe his take on the issue in form of
a short, 5 minute kick off talk. The panel will then engage in open
discussion with the floor.

The workshop will be concluded with an open discussion summarising the
most challenging issues and the most important lessons learned.


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Submissions
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Workshop submissions are electronic, in PDF format only, using the
EasyChair submission system. You can reach the submission page from the
HCCBR web pages as well as the ICCBR conference pages.

Paper length must not exceed 10 pages in the Springer LNCS format.
Guidelines and templates are available on the web at
http://www.springer.de/comp/ncs/authors.html

In addition to full papers, we encourage authors to submit position
papers in form of extended abstracts. These short papers should not
exceed 2 pages in the LNCS format.

Three members of the program committee will review each submission. A
review form will direct submitters to evaluate submissions for
appropriateness, technical strength, originality, presentation, and
overall evaluation.

Papers will be published in accompanying proceedings and online.

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Workshop Organisers
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Jörg Cassens (Primary organiser)
IMIS - Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems
University of Lübeck, Germany

Anders Kofod-Petersen
Department of Computer and Information Science
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Thomas Roth-Berghofer
Institut für Informatik
University of Hildesheim, Germany

All chairs can be contacted via mail to hccbr2011 at idi dot ntnu dot no.