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First Call for Papers

HCCBR 2008

First International Workshop Human Centered Case-Based Reasoning

In conjunction with the The 8th International Conference on Case-Based
Reasoning (ICCBR 09), Seattle, USA, July 20-23, 2009

Submission deadline: March 27, 2008

http://events.idi.ntnu.no/hccbr2009

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hccbr2009

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Human-centered computing focuses on methodologies and technologies to
improve the interaction and performance of socio-technical systems.
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-centered 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 the social
sciences and psychology may be integrated into the design of CBR
systems. This integration ranges from psychologically plausible
knowledge models to the delivery of an attractive end user experience.

Another important research topic in human centred computing centres
around the issue 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.

Further, context sensitive processing plays a key role in many modern IT
applications. Context-awareness and context-based reasoning are
essential not only for mobile and ubiquitous computing, but also for a
wide range of other areas such as collaborative software, web
engineering, personal digital assistants, information sharing, health
care workflow and patient control, adaptive games, and e-Learning solutions.

Starting from an intelligent systems perspective, a further challenge is
to integrate context with other types of knowledge as an additional
major source for reasoning, decision-making, and adaptation and to form
a coherent and versatile architecture. There is a common understanding
that achieving desired behaviour from intelligent systems will depend on
the ability to represent and manipulate information about a rich range
of contextual factors.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners
exploring human aspects of the design, implementation, and use of
intelligent 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 lifecycle 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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Agenda

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The workshop will last one full day and will be organised into three
main parts.

The first part will consist of short presentations of the accepted
papers, grouped into two sessions. The second session will be followed
by a short open discussion period. The goal of these sessions is to
introduce the work of all participants.

The second part will consist of two panel discussion sessions, 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.

All workshop participants must register for the main ICCBR conference.
At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop.


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Topics of Interest

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The major goal of the workshop is to bring researchers from both
industry and academia, along with representatives from different
communities together to study, understand, and explore issues of human
centered design, development, and application of case-based reasoning
systems as well as the utilisation of case-based reasoning in
human-centered computing.

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

* Knowledge construction and extension
* Explicit user representations
* Mixed-initiative issues
* Representation of and reasoning with uncertainty
* Psychological, linguistic, and sociological foundations
* Socio-technical analysis and design of CBR systems
* Social awareness
* Shared conceptualisation and sense-making
* 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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Submissions

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Workshop submissions will be electronic, in PDF format only, using the
EasyChair submission system through the workshop website. Paper length
must not exceed 10 pages in the Springer LNCS format. Guidelines and
templates are available at the Springer website
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

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, as well as recording the reviewer’s confidence in
the topic.

Papers will be published in accompanying proceedings. Authors of the
best accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions for
inclusion in a special journal issue on human centered computing, if
warranted by quality and quantity of submissions.


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Important Dates

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* Submission due: Fri March 27, 2009
* Reviews due: Mon April 20, 2009
* Notification: Mon May 4, 2009
* Camera-ready copies: Mon May 25, 2009
* HCCBR Workshop: Tue July 21, 2009

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Organisation

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Chairs

Jörg Cassens
IMIS - Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems
University of Lübeck, Germany
and
Department of Computer and Information Science
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Anders Kofod-Petersen
SINTEF ICT - Information and Communication Technology
Trondheim, Norway

Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer
DFKI - German Research Center for Artifial Intelligence
Kaiserslautern, Germany


Program Committee

Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany
Patrick Brézillon, University of Paris, France
William E. Cheetham, General Electric Research, USA
Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland
Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway
Michael Herczeg, University of Lübeck, Germany
Martin Christof Kindsmüller, University of Lübeck, Germany
Ramon López de Mántaras, IIIA, CSIC, Spain
Marius Mikalsen, Sintef, Norway
Markus Nick, empolis GmbH, Germany
Sven Schwarz, DFKI, Germany
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Rebekah Wegener, Macquarie University, Australia
Marielba Zacarias, Algarve University, Portugal


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HCCBR 2008

Submission deadline: March 27, 2008

http://events.idi.ntnu.no/hccbr2009

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hccbr2009

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