Track:
Software Technology Track
Minitrack: Artificial
Intelligence and Pervasive Computing
Technology
Pervasive Computing brings about a new generation of computing,
where computers meld into the background of our lives. The
proliferation of new mobile devices that take advantage of
wireless communications, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs)
and smart phones, enables a new class of advanced software
applications that heightens the demand for distributed and
collaborative problem solving. As we venture into the realm of
Pervasive Computing, there are many questions that remain to be
answered. To be fully pervasive and blend into our daily
activities, solutions need to be context aware, behaviour aware,
and intelligent. Hence, they need to borrow concepts from familiar
disciplines such as databases and artificial intelligence. This
workshop on “Artificial Intelligence and Pervasive Computing
Technology” aims to gather input and feedback through the
collection of high-quality contributions that reflect and advance
the state-of-the art of ubiquitous and pervasive application
systems with an eye on artificial intelligence. We invite
submissions that address theoretical, technical, and practical
issues of Artificial Intelligence and Pervasive Computing.
Pervasive Computing brings about a new generation of computing,
where the personal computing era emerges and technology recedes
into the background of our lives. The proliferation of new mobile
devices that take advantage of wireless communications, such as
personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones, enables a new
class of advanced applications and heightens the demand for
distributed and collaborative problem solving. One of the main
characteristics of pervasive computing applications is that the
design and development of effective services should take into
account the characteristics of the context from which a service is
requested and the profile of the user who initiates the request.
The challenges in Pervasive Computing include i) the ubiquity of a
vast collection of heterogeneous, small, embedded, and mobile
devices, which are all enabled to communicate in a seamless way;
ii) the self-organization and evolution of their population and
interoperation, the ability to perceive and interpret their
situation locally or via distributed communications; iii) the
ability to overcome the traditional end-to-end paradigm for
connections and to take advantage of communication opportunities;
iv) the autonomy of their goal-oriented behaviour, the dynamic
nature and context adaptation of services they offer, the ad-hoc
interoperability of services, and the different modes of user
interaction upon those services.
Pervasive Computing Environments are physical environments
saturated with computing and communication resources, yet
gracefully integrated with human users. These environments involve
the construction of massively heterogeneous distributed computing
systems that feature a large number of autonomous entities (or
agents). These entities could be devices, applications, services,
databases, users, or other kinds of agents.
The unique computational environment of Pervasive Computing
demands unconventional thinking in its application design and
development. Researchers are actively seeking solutions that
address the grand challenges in this environment. To solve
complex, real-world problems, pervasive systems often must
integrate component technologies, such as planning, reasoning,
language, dialogue, perception, goal-driven action, and learning.
These topics have been extensively studied in the field of
Artificial Intelligence. Prototypical examples of such integrated
systems include software agents, autonomous robots, robots that
interact with humans, intelligent tutoring systems, and virtual
characters. This minitrack will bring together the research
communities in computer science, artificial intelligence, and
engineering.
As we venture forward into the realm of Pervasive Computing, there
are many questions that remain. This workshop on “Pervasive
Computing Technology and Applications” aims to gather input and
feedback concerning the aforementioned challenges through the
collection of high-quality contributions that reflect and advance
the state-of-the art of ubiquitous and pervasive application
systems. We invite submissions that address theoretical,
technical, and practical issues of Artificial Intelligence and
Pervasive Computing.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:
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Pervasive computing and communication architectures
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Smart devices and intelligent environments
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Wearable computers
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Middleware services and agent technologies
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Sensors and RFID in pervasive systems
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Positioning and tracking technologies
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Enabling technologies for pervasive computing (e.g., wireless BAN,
PAN)
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Programming paradigms for pervasive systems
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User interfaces and interaction models
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Trust, security and privacy issues in pervasive systems
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Novel/innovative pervasive computing applications
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Evolutionary computation (e.g., swarm intelligence)
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Information integration and extraction
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Knowledge acquisition and ontologies in pervasive systems
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Knowledge representation and reasoning
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Machine learning and data mining in pervasive systems
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Artificial life
Minitrack Co-chairs:
Yu (Cathy) Jiao (Primary Contact)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008 MS 6085
Oak Ridge TN 37831
Office Phone: 865-574-0647
Departmental Phone: 865-576-1758
Departmental Fax: 865-576-0003
E-mail: jiaoy@ornl.gov
Thomas E. Potok
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008 MS 6085
Oak Ridge TN 37831
Office Phone: 865-574-0834
Departmental Phone: 865-576-1758
Departmental Fax: 865-576-0003
E-mail: PotokTE@ornl.gov
Ali R. Hurson
325 Computer Science Building
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409
Office Phone: 573-341-6201
Departmental Phone: 573-341-4492
E-mail: hurson@mst.edu
