... LAST Call for Papers: ODIS'09 Ontologies in Distributed and Interactive Systems Third International workshop Final Deadline Extention for submission: 5th of July 2009 http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/odis09 Collocated with OTM to Meaningful and Ubiquitous Computing Conference, VILAMOURA, ALGARVE, PORTUGAL, 1-6 November 2009 Proceedings published in a special OTM'09 volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer Verlag IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission Deadline : July 5, 2009 (Final Deadline) Acceptance Notification : 1st of August, 2009 Camera Ready Due : August 15th, 2009 Registration Due : August 25, 2009 OTM Conferences : November 1 - 6, 2009 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 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 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.) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES… Long paper: up to 10 pages, Short paper: up to 6 pages in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) Submit papers at: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper/odissub/ WORKSHOP CHAIRS… Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Manchester , U.K., mBouamrane@cs.man.ac.uk Christophe Gravier, Telecom Saint-Etienne, Université de Saint-Etienne, Universite de Lyon, France christophe.gravier@Telecom-st-etienne.fr 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.