<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class="">*** First Call for Papers and Call for Workshop Proposals ***</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and Using Context (CONTEXT 2015)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">2–6 November 2015, Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/context2015" class="">http://cyprusconferences.org/context2015</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The CONTEXT conferences are the world’s prime forum for presentation and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">exchange of insights and cutting-edge results from the wide range of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">disciplines concerned with context.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The main theme of CONTEXT 2015 is “Back to the roots”, focusing on the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">importance of interdisciplinary cooperations and studies of the phenomenon.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Context, context modeling and context comprehension are central topics in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">linguistics, philosophy, sociology, artificial intelligence, computer science,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">art, law, organizational sciences, cognitive science, psychology, etc. and are</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">also essential for the effectiveness of modern, complex and distributed</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">software systems.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">CONTEXT 2015 invites high-quality contributions from researchers and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">practitioners in foundational studies, applications and evaluations of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">modeling and use of context in all relevant fields. Areas of interest include,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">but are not limited to, the role of context seen from different perspectives in:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Agent-based architectures</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ambient intelligence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Cognition and perception by humans and artifacts</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Context-aware and situated systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Context modeling tools</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Communication and dialogue</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Data analysis and visualization</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Decision making</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Discourse comprehension and representation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Engineering, e.g., in transport networks, industrial plants etc.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Experimental philosophy and experimental pragmatics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• (Formal) models of context</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Human-computer interaction</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Knowledge representation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Language acquisition and processing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Learning, knowledge management and sharing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Logic and reasoning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Machine learning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ontology/ies</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Semantics and Pragmatics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Smart and interactive spaces</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Understanding art, images, music and theatre</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Proceedings</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Accepted papers and poster abstracts will be published in a volume of the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Springer LNAI series.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Submission format</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Submissions may be either full papers of up to 14 pages (in Springer LNCS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">format) or poster abstracts of 4–6 pages. Full papers may be accepted as such</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">with oral presentation, or their authors may be invited to prepare a poster</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">abstract. Detailed formatting and submissions instructions will be provided.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Conference events</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">CONTEXT 2015 will include paper presentation sessions, a poster and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">demonstration session, two days of workshops, and a doctoral consortium as</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">well as keynote talks and a panel discussion. Workshops and the doctoral</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">consortium will circulate separate calls for papers and participation, which</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">will also be available at the conference web site. All accepted authors will have</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">the option of presenting a system demonstration at the poster session.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Important dates</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Full papers and posters:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Submission deadline: June 1, 2015 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Notification: July 13, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Final version: August 17, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Workshops</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">CONTEXT 2015 workshops will provide a platform for presenting novel and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">emerging ideas in the use and the modelling of context in a less formal and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">possibly more focused way than the conference itself. The format of each</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">workshop is to be determined by the organisers, but it is expected that</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">workshops will contain ample time for general discussion and engagement by</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">all participants - not just those presenting papers. Workshops that foster</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">collaboration, discussion, group problem-solving and community-building</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">initiatives are particularly encouraged. Researchers and practitioners from</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">all relevant fields are invited to submit proposals for review.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Proposals for workshops should contain:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">1. A title and brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">content.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">2. The desired workshop length (one day, two days or a half day) and an</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">estimate of the number of attendees.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">the organisers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and areas of expertise.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">4. A list of potential members of the program committee, with an</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">indication of which members have already signed up.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">5. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">6. A description of special requirements for technical needs.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">7. An indication of whether posters are likely to be included in the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">workshop program.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Please submit proposals in plain text in the body of an email to the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">workshop organiser Samia Oussena (<span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #f5b0ff" class=""><a href="mailto:samia.oussena@uwl.ac.uk" class="">samia.oussena@uwl.ac.uk</a></span>)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">no later than March 20, 2015.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will occur no later</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">than April 1, 2015.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Organisers of accepted workshops will be responsible for publicising and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">running the workshop, including reviewing submissions and producing the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">camera-ready workshop proceedings and a possibly printed version; the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">conference website may link to online workshop proceedings. It is crucial</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">that organisers commit to all deadlines.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Workshop organisers cannot accept for publication papers that will be (or</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">policies on simultaneous submission and review. At least one organiser of an</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">accepted workshop is expected attend and lead the workshop; any participant</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">and speaker must register for the conference. The CONTEXT 2015 organisers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">will set the workshop fees, provide rooms, equipment, technical support,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">coffee and lunch breaks.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Workshop timeline</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Submission of proposals: March 20, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Notification: April 1, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Submission deadline, workshop papers: August 1, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Notification for workshop papers: September 1, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Final version of workshop papers: October 1, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Doctoral Consortium</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">TBA</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Program Chairs</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Isidora Stojanovic, UPF, Spain & CNRS, France</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Workshop Chair</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Samia Oussena, University of West London, UK</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Local Arrangements Chair</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">General Chair</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Chairs of the Community of Context</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Patrick Blackburn, Roskilde University, Denmark</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Patrick Brezillon, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Richard Dapoigny, Université de Savoie, France</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, University of West London, UK</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Hedda R. Schmidtke, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Look for updates and more details at:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">- <a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/context2015" class="">http://cyprusconferences.org/context2015</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">- <a href="https://www.facebook.com/context.conference" class="">https://www.facebook.com/context.conference</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>