=== Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems 2004 (AIMS'04) === ============= In conjunction with UbiComp 2004 =============== ============= September 7, Nottingham, England =============== ============ http://w5.cs.uni-sb.de/~baus/aims04 ============ Today's information technology is rapidly moving small computerised consumer devices and hi-tech personal appliances from the desks of research labs onto sales shelves and into our daily life. These include low performance PDAs, embedded computers in cameras, cars, or mobile phones, as well as high performance wearable computers and tablet PCs. Many of these devices are becoming essential tools that we rely on increasingly both in private and in professional settings. In addition, a growing number of locations are being outfitted with ubiquitous devices and networking access. This combination promises to enable new approaches to solve daily tasks and to open up new possibilities. However, in order to use these systems new interaction metaphors and methods of control are required. Well-known interaction devices, such as mouse and keyboard are oftentimes unfeasible or even unavailable, thus rendering user interfaces that rely on them inappropriate. Other resources such as power or networking bandwidth may also be limited or unreliable depending on time and location. Moreover, the physical environment and context can change rapidly throughout the interaction with mobile systems and must be taken into account appropriately. Spatial and temporal relationships between devices and users are continuously changing as well and may be a key factor to be considered when interacting with a ubiquitous infrastructure. In addition, we can expect a shift from single users towards groups, from single applications to multiple concurrent services, and from strictly personal to (semi-)public artefacts that can be configured dynamically. The resulting complexity needs to be addressed on all levels, from interface design to power issues. Within the field of Artificial Intelligence, several of these problems have been investigated for many years (such as how to make user interfaces more adaptive or how to deal with limited technical or cognitive resources). Therefore, AI methods are promising tools for building mobile and ubiquitous systems that are aware of the location and situation of their users, and that can unobtrusively adapt to these factors. AIMS 2004 will be the fifth workshop in a series of AIMS workshops held at different conferences (ECAI, IJCAI, UbiComp). Due to the very positive response to last year's AIMS, this year's workshop will again be held in conjunction with UbiComp 2004 in order to further explore the benefits of combining research from artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing. Scope The AIMS 2004 workshop intends to bring together researchers working in various areas of (applied) AI as well as in mobile and ubiquitous computing systems. The workshop aims to explore recent research and findings in AI, the development of mobile systems and their seamless integration in ubiquitous computing environments. The main objective of the workshop is a lively discussion and exchange of ideas. The scope of interest includes but is not limited to the following items (in no particular order): - location and context awareness as well as knowledge-based acquisition of contextual information - spatio-temporal issues and methods in mobile and ubiquitous applications - interaction metaphors and interaction devices for mobile and ubiquitous systems - intelligent user interfaces for mobile and ubiquitous systems - multi-modal interfaces for mobile and ubiquitous systems - user interfaces that adapt to the current situation as well as to resource availability - seamless integration of mobile systems in ubiquitous computing environments - plan-based approaches for interaction and adaptation - user modelling and cognitive modelling - trade-offs between reasoning capabilities, resource consumption and real-time constraints We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, government, and consulting. Students, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers (up to 8 pages) describing original, novel, and inspirational work. All submissions will be reviewed by an international group of researchers and practitioners. Submissions should be sent by July 05, 2004 to: Joerg Baus (baus@cs.uni-sb.de) Important dates July 05, 2004: Deadline for submissions to AIMS 2004 July 19, 2004: Notification of acceptance to authors August 9, 2004: Deadline for preparing camera-ready copies September 7, 2004: AIMS 2004 workshop at UbiComp 2004 Organising Committee: Joerg Baus (Saarland University, Germany) Christian Kray (Lancaster University, UK) Robert Porzel (European Media Lab gGmbH, Germany) Program Committee: Thomas Barkowsky (Bremen University, Germany) Andreas Butz (Saarland University, Germany) Keith Cheverst (Lancaster University, UK) Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research, USA) Antonio Krueger (Saarland University, Germany) Rainer Malaka (European Media Lab gGmbH, Germany) Thomas Rist (University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany) Albrecht Schmidt (TU Munich, Germany) Georg Schneider (University of Applied Sciences Trier, Germany) Massimo Zancanaro (IRST, Italy) Location: AIMS 2004 will be held in conjunction with the sixth conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2004) in Nottingham, UK. For more information about the main conference, refer to http:///www.ubicomp.org. The actual workshop will take place on September 7, while UbiComp will run until September 10. Workshop participants will have to register for UbiComp.