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Workshop on Personalization in Mobile and Pervasive Computing


The workshop will be collocated with the UMAP’09, http:// 
umap09.fbk.eu/, June 22-26, 2009,Trento, Italy.


Objective

The objective of the workshop is to bring active researchers and  
practitioners together and to facilitate discussions on current  
research results and issues and emerging research topics in supporting  
personalization in mobile and pervasive computing. The workshop aims  
to answer the following focused questions by stimulating and involving  
as many active researchers in this field as possible:
-          What are the unique issues, difficulties, and potential  
solutions for personalization in mobile and pervasive computing?
-          What are the roles of domain knowledge and ontology for the  
personalization and efficient and effective ways of employing them?
-          Assuming our surroundings will be filled with smart  
objects, how does a system address the added complexity of  
personalization and what are the possible solutions?


Topics of Interest

Personalization for mobile and pervasive computing faces many  
challenges in areas of user modeling, adaptation and prediction. The  
topics of interest include but not limited to the following topics:
-          Mobile and pervasive intelligent personal assistants
-          User preference mining in a mobile and pervasive context
-          User intention prediction
-          Situation-awareness
-          Domain knowledge and ontology for mobile user modeling and  
personalization
-          Personalized mobile learning
-          Adaptivity through indoor/outdoor location awareness
-          Data acquisition and process
-          Personalized division of computation between the phone and  
cloud
-          Personalized power preservation
-          Mobile and pervasive group personalization
-          User studies and experiences
-          Social issues such as privacy


Submission Guidelines

Full papers should be no more than 5 pages. The submissions must  
conform to theSpringer LNCS style. Papers should be submitted via  
email [log in to unmask] The accepted papers will be  
published online.


Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: March 30th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: April 30th, 2009
Camera-ready copy of accepted paper: May 15th, 2009


Organizing Committee

Doreen Cheng, Computer Science Lab, Samsung R&D Center, San Jose, CA,  
USA,[log in to unmask]
Kinshuk, School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca  
University,Athabasca, Canada, [log in to unmask]
Alfred Kobsa, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences,  
University ofCalifornia, Irvine, USA, [log in to unmask]
Kurt Partridge, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, USA, [log in to unmask]
Zhiwen Yu, Academic Center for Media Stidies, Kyoto University, Kyoto,  
Japan,[log in to unmask]


Program Committee

Andreas Zimmermann, Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany
Antonio Krüger, University of Münster, Germany
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin and ChangingWorlds, Dublin,  
Ireland
Dominik Heckmann, German Artificial Intelligence Center, Saarbrücken,  
Germany
Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan
Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, England
Max van Kleek, MIT CSAIL, Boston, MA, USA.
Miguel Nussbaum, Catholic University of Chile, Chile
Stephen J.H. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan



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