[AISWorld] CfP, Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Ambient Assistance and Healthy Ageing, Stockholm, Oct. 2015

[Ulrich Frank]

ER-Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Ambient Assistance and Healthy Ageing
hbms-ainf.aau.at/aha2015/
Stockholm, Oct. 19th - 22nd, 2015

SCOPE AND GOALS
The European Commission defined “Health, demographic change and 
wellbeing” as one of the six “Grand Challenges” of the European Union. 
But a look on demographic statistics shows, that this is or will become 
a challenge of the entire world. Endeavors are made in in various 
directions to meet that challenge, amongst which the fields of “Ambient 
Assisted Living (AAL)” and “Healthy Ageing (HA)” are rather prominent.
The workshop focuses on intends to reveal the existing and potential 
contributions, which can be made by the modeling community to these 
fields. In particular it focuses on Conceptual Modeling within the 
context of designing and developing systems for assisting humans in 
their everyday live and in healthy ageing.
Special attention will be paid to

- Open Models, i.e. models that are broadly understood, can be freely 
accessed according to the principles of “open source”, and may be 
developed cooperatively,
- Domain-specific modeling languages, supporting tools and related 
meta-modeling frameworks,
- The relevant contexts to be covered by modeling approaches,
- Learning Systems based on Cognitive Modeling and knowledge integration,
- Model based Reasoning under uncertainty.

The workshop aims at bringing together people from academia and 
practice, and from the open model initiative, to discuss the state of 
the art, ongoing projects and open research questions in the field of 
modeling for human assistance. Thus, it will be a platform for 
exchanging ideas and initiating joint projects.
The discussions will be heated-up by short invited impulse talks (15 
min) and refined in working sections. Best practices in using (meta-) 
modeling tools will be illustrated by the use of meta-modeling frameworks.
Questions to be discussed are, among others, which modeling method may 
be useful for which purpose, how the requirements of the end users can 
be met by using modeling techniques and how to relate modeling tools to 
common standards in the fields of Ambient Assistance, Ambient Assisted 
Living and Healthy Ageing.

CONTACT
Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
e-mail: heinrich.mayr at aau.at
AHA 2015 – Call for Papers

TOPICS OF INTEREST
We solicit submission of original research, as well as experience and 
vision papers, from both researchers and practitioners. The submissions 
should address one or more of the following topics without being limited 
to these but with clear links to Ambient Assisted Living or Healthy Ageing:

- Conceptual Modeling Methods
- Domain Specific Modeling Languages
- Domain Ontologies
- Contexts, Context Models and their integration
- Exploiting Natural Language Processing Techniques for Learning Systems
- Conceptual Model Based Reasoning
- Understandability Management
- Meta-modeling frameworks
- Open Model Initiatives
- Interfaces to Assistance Systems
- Modeling in the context of Activity Recognition
- Best Practices
- Experiences with Modeling Tools
- Experiences with Meta-modeling Frameworks

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Since the proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series, 
authors must submit manuscripts using the LNCS style. The page limit for 
submitted full papers (as well as for final, camera-ready papers) is 14. 
The page limit for short papers communicating current and on-going 
research or experiences is 7.
Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or exceeding the page limit 
will not be reviewed and automatically rejected.
A paper submitted to AHA 2015 may not be under review for any other 
conference or journal during the time it is being considered for AHA 
2015. Submitted papers must demon-strate to be aware of the state-of-the 
art literature in conceptual modeling by properly citing relevant papers 
in the field.
AHA-2015 uses EASY-CHAIR for paper-management. Therefore, please upload 
your submission at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aha2015.

IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop/Conference: 2015-10-19 - 2015-10-22
Paper Submission: 2015-04-27
Notification: 2015-05-25
Camera Ready: 2015-06-15
Author registration: 2015-07-01

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria (chair)
Ulrich Frank, Universität Essen-Duisburg, Germany (co-chair)

Fadi Al Machot, AAU Klagenfurt, A
Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye Nat. Univ., UA
Hans-Georg Fill, Univ. Wien, A
Athula Ginige, Univ. of Western Sydney, AUS
Marion A. Hersh, University of Glasgow, UK
Dimitris Karagiannis, Univ. Wien, A
Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, D
Stephen Liddle, BYU Provo, USA
Elisabeth Métais, Laboratory CEDRIC, Paris, F
Judith Michael, AAU Klagenfurt, A
Yuichi Kurita, Hiroshima University, JP
Oscar Pastor, Univ. Politécnica of Valencia, ES
Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt-Univ. Berlin, D
Elmar Sinz, Univ. Bamberg, D
Vladimir Shekhovtsov, "KhPI", Kharkiv, UA
Josefine Sullivan, The Royal Institute of Tech-nology, Stockholm, SV
Markus Stumptner, Univ. of South Australia, AUS
Farouk Toumani, Blaise Pascale Univ., F
Tatjana Welzer, Univ. of Maribor, SLO


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Prof. Dr. Ulrich Frank
Chair of Information Systems and Enterprise Modelling
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems
University of Duisburg-Essen
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