Modeling and Using Context 7th International and Interdisciplina

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2011, held in Karlsruhe, Germany in September 2011. The 17 full papers and 7 short papers presented were carefully revie

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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Michael Beigl Henning Christiansen Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer Anders Kofod-Petersen Kenny R. Coventry Hedda R. Schmidtke (Eds.)

Modeling and Using Context 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference CONTEXT 2011 Karlsruhe, Germany, September 26-30, 2011 Proceedings

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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Michael Beigl Hedda R. Schmidtke Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany E-mail: {michael.beigl, hedda.schmidtke}@kit.edu Henning Christiansen Roskilde University, Denmark E-mail: [email protected] Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer University of West London, UK E-mail: [email protected] Anders Kofod-Petersen Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway E-mail: [email protected] Kenny R. Coventry Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-24278-6 e-ISBN 978-3-642-24279-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-24279-3 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011936632 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, F.4.1, H.4, J.3, J.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

Fourteen years after the first conference in 1997, the 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2011) set out to extend foundational research on context and to evaluate the status and consequences of context research, as well as to address new questions for the field. CONTEXT, the oldest conference series focusing on context, is unique in its emphasis on interdisciplinary research. Previous conferences have been held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (CONTEXT 1997), Trento, Italy (CONTEXT