Call for Participation
Spatial and Temporal Reasoning for Ambient Intelligence Systems
Monday 21 September 2009
Download: Workshop schedule , Workshop proceedings, STAMI Bibtex
Presentations:
Presentations from the workshop are available (videos/demos not included):
- Introduction to STAMI 2009, by Mehul Bhatt and Hans Guesgen. Download
- Invite talk: Designing Information, Communication, and Experiences in Ubiquitous Hybrid Worlds, by Norbert Streitz.
- A Continuous-based Model for the Analysis of Indoor Spaces, by Cyril Ray. Download
- Spatio-Temporal Outlier Detection in Environmental Data, by Berk Anbaroglu. Download
- An Ontology for Qualitative Description of Images, by Zoe Falomir. Download
- Invited talk: Spatial and Temporal Modeling for AmI Systems: Industrial Applications, by Michael Pirker.
- Qualitative Spatial and Terminological Reasoning in the Ambient Domain: Trends and Future Directions, by Joana Hois. Download
- Spatio-Temporal and Context Reasoning in Smart Homes, by Sook-Ling Chua. Download
Thank you everyone for making STAMI 2009 a success!!
Description
A wide-range of application domains within the fields of ambient intelligence and ubiquitous
computing environments require the ability to represent and reason about dynamic spatial
phenomena. Real world ambient intelligence systems that monitor and interact with an environment
populated by humans and other artefacts require a formal means for representing and reasoning with
spatio-temporal, event and action based phenomena that are grounded to real aspects of the environment
being modelled. A fundamental requirement within such application domains is the representation of
dynamic knowledge pertaining to the spatial aspects of the environment within which an agent,
system or robot is functional. At a very basic level, this translates to the need to explicitly
represent and reason about dynamic spatial configurations or scenes and desirably, integrated reasoning
about space, actions and change. With these modelling primitives, primarily the ability to perform predictive
and explanatory analyzes on the basis of available sensory data is crucial toward serving a useful
intelligent function within such environments.
Qualitative conceptualizations of space and tools/techniques for efficiently reasoning with
them being well-established, there is now a clear felt need within the community to utilise the
tools and formalisms that have been constructed in the recent years in novel application scenarios.
The emerging fields of ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing will benefit
immensely from the vast body of representation and reasoning tools that have been developed
in Artificial Intelligence in general, and the sub-field of Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in
specific. There have already been proposals to explicitly utilise qualitative spatial calculi
pertaining to different spatial domains for modelling the spatial aspect of an ambient environment
(e.g., smart homes and offices) and also to utilize a formal basis for representing and reasoning about
space, change and occurrences within such environments.
[Download: publicity poster]
Workshop Scope and Format
We encourage the submission of completed and ongoing research that demonstrates the utility
of well-established formalisms, tools and techniques from the AI or spatial and temporal fields for AmI.
The scope of the workshop encourages, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Spatial scene description ontologies
- Integrated ontologies for indoor environments (e.g., in room-space)
- Qualification techniques for quantitative spatial and temporal sensory data
- Grounding of perceptual data with formal spatial ontologies
- Qualitative abstractions of motion-patterns
- Construction of domain-independent motion patterns
- Spatial and Spatio-temporal pattern modelling and analyses
- Spatio-temporal context awareness
- Exploiting notions of spatio-temporal continuity (e.g., in learning behaviour from video)
- Behaviour monitoring and interpretation
- Cognitive vision and activity recognition
- Unified approaches for the formal modelling of space, time and change
- Reasoning with qualified spatio-temporal data (e.g., abduction with S-T data streams)
- Integration of quantitative and qualitative techniques for scene analyses
- Modelling the dynamics within an ambient environment
We encourage interested authors to contact the organisers if in doubt about the scope or the relevance of a potential submission.
Invited Talks - Academic and Industrial Perspectives
Talk 1: Designing Information, Communication, and Experiences in Ubiquitous Hybrid Worlds
Speaker: Dr. Dr. Norbert Streitz
Senior Scientist and Strategic Advisor
Smart Future Initiative (previously Fraunhofer-IPSI)
GERMANY
Summary: "It seems like a paradox but it will soon become reality: The rate at which computers
disappear will be matched by the rate at which information technology will increasingly permeate
our environment and our lives". This statement by Streitz & Nixon illustrates that new challenges
for designing the interaction of humans with computers embedded in everyday objects will arise. While
disappearance is a major aspect, "smart" artefacts are also characterized by sensors collecting data about
the environment, the devices and humans acting in this context in order to provide ambient intelligence-based support.
The resulting issues are discussed based on the distinction between "system-oriented, importunate smartness",
implying more or less automatic behaviour of smart environments, and "people-oriented, empowering smartness", where the
empowering function is in the foreground. The latter approach can be summarized as "smart spaces make people smarter" which
is achieved by keeping "the human in the loop" and empowering people to be in control, making informed decisions and taking
actions. Whatever type of smartness will be employed, representations of people, content and contexts play a central role.
Last but not least, privacy issues in sensor-based smart environments are being discussed ranging from being a legal and
moral right to becoming a commodity and privilege. The approaches and concepts will be illustrated with examples taken from
different research projects ranging from smart rooms over cooperative buildings to hybrid cities.
Talk 2: Spatial and Temporal Modeling for AmI Systems: Industrial Applications
Speaker: Michael Pirker
Corporate Technology
SIEMENS AG, Munich
GERMANY
Summary: The talk presents two ongoing research projects at Siemens Corporate Research and Technology in the domain of
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Public Surveillance. One key feature in both domains is the ability to detect
and identify specific behavioral patterns of persons. While AAL applications mainly focus on providing assistance
functionalty to the user, Public Surveillance applications aim at detecting (and possibly preventing) potentially
dangerous situations. To this end adequate models (e.g. of human behavior or processes) have to be constructed,
taking into account spatial context and temporal dependencies. These models can be evaluated using standard approaches
such as DL-reasoning, whereas alternative methods (e.g. graph-based spatial reasoning, or abductive reasoning) may turn
out to be more flexible and performant.
Submission Requirements
Electronic submissions are solicited in PDF format. The
papers, starting with title, authors' names, affiliations, postal and
email addresses, followed by keywords, and concluding with relevant
bibliographic references, should fit on 6 to 12 single-spaced
typewritten A4 or 8.5 x 11 inch pages, in the form of an extended
abstract or complete research, survey, or position paper. Interested authors should submit their paper in PDF format
by email to Mehul Bhatt at (bhatt@informatik.uni-bremen.de). Please use 'COSIT-09-AMI' in the subject-line of your email. The papers *must* use the
Springer Lecture Notes
style for formatting the paper.
Information for authors of LNCS articles can be accessed directly from Springer at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Please feel free to contact the organisers if in doubt about any aspect of the session or its requirements or if your submission is not acknowledged .
Attendance and Publication
The workshop aims to bring together researchers in spatial and temporal reasoning and the ambient intelligence communities.
Up to 40 participants will be selected to attend the workshop, contributing and
participating in discussions.
Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings to be distributed at COSIT 2009 and will also be
available online after the conference. Screening will be based on reviews and relevance to the workshop goals. Each paper
will be peer reviewed by at least two experts in the topical area. Papers may also be accepted as posters.
Special Issue: Select contributions will be invited for publication as a part of a Special Issue of the
Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation that has been planned to build on the results of this and other thematically related events.
The invited papers will be subject to extensions and another round of reviews as per the journal rules and the issue will be released in 2010.
Details will be announced *selectively* in due time.
Important Dates
Full paper submission: May 20, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2009
Camera-Ready copy due: July 15, 2009
Registration
All accepted authors and interested participants are required to register for the workshop. Registrations will be part of the main registration process
for COSIT 2009 and will be announced in due time at the main conference website at http://www.cosit.info/.
Registration fees cover lunch, dinner and coffee-breaks.
Workshop Co-Chairs
Mehul Bhatt (primary contact)
SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
Universität Bremen
P.O. Box 330 440, 28334 Bremen, Germany
bhatt@informatik.uni-bremen.de
Hans W. Guesgen
School of Engineering and Advanced Technology
Massey University, Private Bag 11222
Palmerston North, New Zealand
h.w.guesgen@massey.ac.nz
Advisory and Program Committee
- Abdul Sattar (Griffith University, Australia)
- Andre Trudel (Acadia University, Canada)
- Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK)
- Björn Gottfried (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Christian Freksa (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
- Frank Dylla (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Jochen Renz (Australian National University, Australia)
- Lars Kulik (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Lina Khatib (PSGS/NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
