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18th INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Acapulco, Mexico, August 11, 2003

AI Moves to IA: Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence, Information Access,
and Mobile Computing

http://www.dimi.uniud.it/workshop/ai2ia/
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[Overview] [Focus and aims] [Topics] [Submissions] [Dates]
[Organizing committee] [Program committee] [Final program] [Papers]

Overview

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information Access (IA) have always been strongly interlinked fields. AI techniques have been profitably used to implement advanced IA systems, and the huge amount of information available through the Web discloses new possibilities to AI researchers. In the last years, a new ingredient has been added: the increasing availability of smaller and more pervasive computing devices has brought to the attention the research on context awareness, ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, interaction with mobile devices, and embedded computing. We will refer to all these fields as "Mobile Computing" (MC) for short.

On the one side, these rapidly growing fields will greatly benefit from past AI research on their own. In fact, the new devices already embed more intelligence that can (and has to) be exploited to allow a more efficient and usable user interaction. Moreover, MC faces the difficult problem of dealing with the real physical world out there, and AI has been struggling with interaction with the physical world for decades. Perception, vision, and robotics are probably the most known AI sub-areas that dealt with this issue, but it is often claimed that AI systems can play chess like a master whereas they have the perception and interaction capabilities of an insect. Therefore, AI research can fruitfully inspire the MC emerging field on both achievements and difficulties.

On the other side, the interplay of AI and IA needs to adapt to the new MC scenario, in which the need for information is an even more fundamental human need. We already have evidence of IA importance today, since after messaging (email, instant messaging, SMS, MMS, and so on), the search for information is the second most frequent activity of both Web users and mobile device users. Moreover, it is easy to envisage scenarios in which people seek information by using different kinds of devices, in different environmental situations, and different time constraints. Finally, information will continuously be pushed to one's own devices depending on the current location, interests, activities, etc.: we hardly know today, what information overload is.

Focus and aims

AI techniques (like user modeling, context modeling, intelligent assistants, to mention just a few) seem necessary for an effective IA. For this reasons, we intend to focus the workshop on intersections and relationships between AI, IA, and MC. Interdisciplinary studies are very welcome: we encourage the submission of paper addressing issues belonging to at least two of the three AI, IA, and MC fields. Preference will be given to papers addressing all the three AI, IA, and MC issues.

The main goal of the workshop will be to create a forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researches and developers concerned with the use of AI for IA with mobile devices. We hope that the workshop will serve to foster the development of an international community interested in the workshop themes. The accepted submissions will be included in the workshop proceedings and distributed on the workshop Web site. Selected outstanding papers will be published later in a journal special issue.

Topics

Suggested topics include but are not limited to: The workshop will discuss these topics in terms of existing approaches and implementations, in terms of theoretical foundations, and on emerging directions of research.

Submission Instructions

There will be two kinds of paper: In addition to paper presentations, we are also considering invited talks, demos of working prototypes, discussion workgroups, and panel discussions addressing hot topics. Electronic submission is required. Please email a PDF or postscript file to ai2ia@dimi.uniud.it. Submissions should be formatted according to the guidelines at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/macros-link.html. If any of these requirements are a problem for you, please contact the workshop organizers. Also, if you have any questions, just ask!

Note: To maximize interaction and an informal athmosphere, attendance will be limited to 30-40 participants, selected on the basis of refereed submissions. If you wish to attend but are not submitting a paper, please send a one-page statement of interest by the submission deadline. Participants are expected to register for the main IJCAI conference in addition to the workshop.

Important Dates and Deadlines

Organizing Committee

Pekka Ala-Siuru
Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT Electronics)
http://www.ele.vtt.fi/people/pekka.ala-siuru/
pekka.ala-siuru@vtt.fi

Nicholas J. Belkin
Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~belkin/belkin.html
nick@belkin.rutgers.edu

Oscar Mayora-Ibarra
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Cuernavaca
http://www.mor.itesm.mx/~omayora/
omayora@itesm.mx

Stefano Mizzaro
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine
http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~mizzaro
mizzaro@dimi.uniud.it

Program Committee

Final Program

This is the AI2IA workshop agenda. Each presenter has 20' for paper presentation and 5' for questions. At the end of each session, a 10' group discussion is scheduled.

9:10-10:10 Session 1: Intelligent Mobile Access

10:10-11:10 Session 2: Profiles in Mobile Environments

11:10-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Session 3: Technologies for Addressing General Problems in Intelligent Access

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:50 Session 4: General Issues for Intelligent Access

15:50-16:10 Break

16:10-17:00 General discussion about future directions for mobile computing with AI and IA

17:00 - 17:10 Workshop Closing

Papers

From the following links you can download the camera ready of the papers. You can also download all the papers as a single zipped file (5.8 Mbytes).

We had a very succesful workshop in Acapulco. At the end of the workshop, the participants wrote some directions on the more important issues for MC, AI and IA future. Here is the document.

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