IJCAI Workshop - Edinburgh, Scotland - 2005

Second International Workshop on
Modeling and Retrieval of Context

Welcome to MRC 2005

With the use of mobile devices and current research on ubiquitous computing, the topic of context-awareness is a major issue for future IT applications. Modeling and retrieving context provides means to be integrated in modern knowledge management processes. Intelligent solutions are needed to apply context, e.g., to cope with the fuzziness of context information and, especially because of mobility, with rapidly changing environments and unsteady information sources. Advanced methodologies for determining or assigning a context to a situation are required, which brings the need for Artificial Intelligence mechanisms in context-aware applications.

The major goal of the workshop is to bring researchers, scientists from both industry and academics, and representatives from different communities together to study, understand, and explore the handling of context in IT applications. Besides contributed papers and invited talks, this workshop will offer organized and open spaces for targeted discussions. An expected result is to form a common understanding on the topic of modeling context and ways of retrieving it within such models.