FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ONTOLOGIES IN INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS
ONTORACT'08
https://www.cs.tcd.ie/ontoract08/

held in conjunction with HCI 2008, 1st of September 2008, Liverpool, U.K.
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CALL FOR PAPER:

Scope of the workshop

The aim of ONTORACT'08, First International Workshop on using Ontologies in Interactive Systems, is to stage a multi-disciplinary event, bringing together researchers and application developers from a variety of disciplines, but who all have in common the use of ontologies as an essential part of managing user interaction and interactive systems.

Topics of interest, include but are not limited to:

* Ontologies for accessibility and assistive technology
* Ontologies for digital inclusion of elderly and special need users
* Ontologies for user modelling, adaptation and personalisation
* Ontologies for multimodal interaction
* Ontologies in web applications
* Ontologies in pervasive environment
* Ontologies in Intelligent transport systems
* Ontologies in healthcare
* Ontologies and tutoring and dialogue systems
* Ontologies and recommender systems
* Ontologies for information retrieval
* Various applications of ontologies in interactive systems

Workshop Proceedings:

All submissions will be published by the IEEE Computer Society in a special ONTORACT'08
workshop proceedings volume. In addition, all the papers will also be available through
IEEE Xplore�? and through the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library.

Authors of selected papers presented at the workshop will be invited to submit extended version
of their submission for inclusion in a journal special issue.

Submission Guidelines

* Long paper: up to 10 pages
* Short paper: up to 6 pages

Paper submissions will be handled via EasyChair

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontoract08

Important Dates

* Long & short paper submission: 12th of July 2008
* Notification of Acceptance: 1st of August 2008
* Camera-ready papers: 15th of August 2008
* Workshop: 1st of September 2008

Contact

If you have any enquiry, please contact:

Matt-Mouley Bouamrane with email title: "ONTORACT'08 enquiry":
mBouamrane [at] cs [dot] man [dot] ac [dot] uk

Program Chairs:

* Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
* Saturnino Luz, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Masood Masoodian, University of Waikato, New Zealand