Update:

The SAGAware2011 workshop has been successfully held in UbiComp2011 in Beijing. All papers can be found in SAGAware2011 repository in ACM Digital Library and some presentations are available online below

 

Keynote Talks:

Programmatic Utilities of Sensor Data 
Sumi Helal (University of Florida)

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Geeks in the Kitchen: The Ambient Kitchen as a Platform for Context Aware Computing Research  
Patrick Olivier (Newcastle University)

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Papers and Presentations:

•  Cooperation in Static and Mobile Sensor-Based Platforms for Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness  
Hajar Mousannif (Cadi Ayyad University)
Ismail Khalil (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University)

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•  Assurance-Oriented Activity Recognition  
Eunju Kim (University of Florida)
Sumi Helal (University of Florida)
Chris Nugent (University of Ulster)
Jae Woong Lee (University of Florida)

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•  Inhabitant Prediction in Smart Houses  
Rachid Kadouche (Université de Sherbrooke)
Bessam Abdulrazak (Université de Sherbrooke)

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•  Time Handling for Real-Time Progressive Activity Recognition  
George Okeyo (University of Ulster)
Liming Chen (University of Ulster)
Hui Wang (University of Ulster)
Roy Sterritt (University of Ulster)

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•  Activity Recognition: An Evolutionary Ensembles Approach

Muhammad Fahim (Kyung Hee University)
Iram Fatima (Kyung Hee University)
Sungyoung Lee (Kyung Hee University)
Young-Koo Lee (Kyung Hee University)

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•  A Bag-of-Features-Based Framework for Human Activity Representation and Recognition
Mi Zhang (University of Southern California)
Alexander A. Sawchuk (University of Southern California)

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•  Context- and Activity-Awareness in Collaborative Environments  
Afsaneh Doryab (IT University of Copenhagen)
Jakob E. Bardram (IT University of Copenhagen)

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•  Rule-Based Context-Aware Adaptation Using a Goal-Oriented Ontology  
Hongyuan Wang (Jilin University)
Rutvij Mehta (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Sam Supakkul (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Lawrence Chung (The University of Texas at Dallas)

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•  Dynamic Multi-Component Based Activity Detection and Recognition Within Smart Homes  
Xin Hong (University of Ulster)
Chris D. Nugent (University of Ulster)
Steven Devlin (University of Ulster)
Maurice D. Mulvenna (University of Ulster)
Jonathan G. Wallace (University of Ulster)
Suzanne Martin (University of Ulster)

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•  Goal-Oriented Sensor Selection for Intelligent Phones (GOSSIP)
Veronika Koltunova (University of Waterloo)
Jesse Hoey (University of Waterloo)
Marek Grześ (University of Waterloo)

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•  Towards a Feasibility-Driven Uncertainty-Aware Layered Architecture for Recognizing Complex Domestic Activity  
Michele Dominici (INRIA, Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique)
Bastien Pietropaoli (INRIA, Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique)
Frédéric Weis (Université de Rennes 1 & IRISA)

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•  HMM Based Semi-Supervised Learning for Activity Recognition  
Marjan Ghazvininejad (Sharif University of Technology)
Hamid R. Rabiee (Sharif University of Technology)
Nima Pourdamghani (Sharif University of Technology)
Parisa Khanipour (Sharif University of Technology)

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Ubiquitous computing aims to enable and support anywhere, anytime, context-aware applications. Sensing, interpretation and integration of events, behaviours and environmental states have been key to the success of such ubiquitous systems. Over the past two decades, there has been a constant shift of sensor observation modeling, representation, interpretation and usage, namely from low-level raw observation data and their direct/hardwired usage, data aggregation and fusion, to high-level formal context modeling and context-based computing. It is envisioned that this trend will continue towards a further higher level of abstraction, allowing situation, activity and goal modeling, representation and inference, thus realizing the vision of ubiquitous computing.

The proposed workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from relevant fields to present and disseminate the latest accomplished and/or ongoing research on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness (SAGAware) and their novel application in ubiquitous computing. It aims to facilitate knowledge transfer and synergy, bridge gaps between different research communities/groups, lay down foundation for common purposes, and help identify opportunities and challenges for interested researchers and technology and system developers.

Details about the background and rationale of this workshop can be found here.