We are pleased to announce two keynotes at CAPS 2006:

Dr. Herma van Kranenburg, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands Context Awareness Targeting User Needs

Mobile services and applications need to be able to react on changes in the end-user’s context, such as available resources, user preferences, user environment and situation. Context aware support functions assist in such tailoring and should preferably not only allow applications to adapt to (predicted) changes in the user context but also anticipate user intentions and goals. This advances pro-active systems into pragmatic systems. The keynote gives an overview of this vision and examples of our context aware framework and applications.

Dr. ir. Herma van Kranenburg (Herma.vanKranenburg@telin.nl) received her M.Sc. in 1988 and her Ph.D. in 1992, both in electrical engineering. She is a senior member of scientific staff at Telematica Instituut with research and management experience in several projects in the field of content engineering, mobile services, and middleware for heterogeneous IP based mobile environments. She is active in WWRF in the area of ambient awareness and personalization and a member of several program committees of international conferences, and regularly publishes papers both on a scientific and a technical popular level.

Her present research interests are in the area of context awareness, application-layer mobility support and tailoring of next-generation mobile services in a multi-access environment.

Professor Jari Porras, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Context-Awareness in Mobile Games

Context awareness is one of the trends of current application development. Ever since location based applications got into the market the context awareness has attracted developers as well as users with the promise of intelligent user centric possibilities. In this keynote a platform for rapid context aware application development is used for the creation of context aware games. The platform itself offers several sources of context data through context producers. Three games created on top of this platform are presented and evaluated from the context awareness point of view. Some details of heuristics developed for evaluating mobile games and context awareness are presented.

Jari Porras, D.Sc. (Tech.), is a professor of Distributed Systems and Wireless Communications at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland as well as the acting dean of the Information Technology Department of the University. During the summer 2006 he spends his sabbatical research period at the University of Kassel. He has published over 100 scientific articles in his expertise areas. Dr. Porras is a member of IEEE and ACM. Dr. Porras received the D.Sc. (Tech.) degree from the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland in 1998 about modeling and simulation of communication networks in distributed computing environments. His interests include wireless networks, ad-hoc networking, peer-to-peer computing, aspects of Grid computing as well as distributed computing and environments. Dr. Porras acts as the representative of Lappeenranta University of Technology in the Wireless World Research Forum and in the eMobility consortium.

The preliminary workshop programme can be found below.

You may also download the CAPS programme flyer.

Monday, June 12th 08:00   Tutorial registration and coffee  08:30   Tutorial: Recent Developments in Middleware Standardization for Mobile Computing Kimmo Raatikainen, University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, Finland  12:30   Lunch Workshop registration and coffee  13:30   Welcome  13:45   Keynote: Herma van Kranenburg, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands  14:45   Coffee break    Session Context-sensitive user needs  15:15   Goal-Based Requirements Modelling as a Basis for Adaptivity to the Service Context Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany  15:45   An Approach using memory-based reasoning for determining the behavior of mobile, location-aware services Olivier Coutand, Sian Lun Lau, Sandra Haseloff, Olaf Droegehorn, Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany  16:15   Applying Rescorla–Wagner Model to Need Awaring Multi-Agent System Ohbyung Kwon1, Keunho Choi1, Sungchul Choi2, 1Kyunhee University and 2POSTECH, South Korea  16:45   Coffee break    Session Context data management  17:15   Context-aware identity for Internet services? Pekka Jäppinen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland  17:45   The ACAS and Ambient Network Approaches to Context-Aware Networks Theo G. Kanter, Ericsson Research, Sweden  18:15   Efficient Indexing of Symbolic Location Information Tobias Drosdol, Dominique Dudkowski, Christian Becker, Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany  18:45   End of day 1  19:30   Evening event

Tuesday, June 13th 08:30   Registration and coffee  09:00   Keynote: Jari Porras, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland  10:00   Coffee break    Session Frameworks and infrastructures for context-aware proactive systems  10:30   Multimodal Interaction in Context-Adaptive systems Alexander Schneider, Andreas Lorenz, Andreas Zimmermann, Markus Eisenhauer, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany  11:00   The Quick Step to Foxtrot Tino Löffler, Stephan Sigg, Sandra Haseloff, Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany  11:30   Towards an Open Context Infrastructure Manfred Wojciechowski1, Jinhua Xiong2, 1Fraunhofer ISST, Germany and 2Chinese Academy of Sciences, China  12:00   BeTelGeuse: Tool for Context Data Gathering via Bluetooth Patrik Floréen, Joonas Kukkonen, Eemil Lagerspetz, Petteri Nurmi, Jukka Suomela, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland  12:30   Lunch    Session Context-based information, service and resource provisioning  13:30   Context Awareness: Telco Perspectives Nicoletta Salis, Carlo Alberto Licciardi, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy  14:00   Controlling Services in a Mobile Context-Aware Infrastructure Patricia Dockhorn Costa, Luis Ferreira Pires, Marten van Sinderen, Tom Broens, University of Twente, The Netherlands  14:30   Proactive Hoarding in Location-Based Systems Susanne Bürklen, Pedro José Marrón, Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany  15:00   Context-agnostic Learning for Contextual Recommendations Christian Räck, Bernd Mrohs, Stefan Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany  15:30   Closing  16:00   End of CAPS 2006