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MUCA: Groupe francophone de recherche sur le contexte
URL: http://www.lip6.fr/MUCA
But:
MUCA est l'acronyme de "Modélisation et Utilisation du Contexte
dans des Applications". Ce groupe vise à réunir la
communauté
francophone s'intéressant au contexte, quelque soit sa
discipline,
à conditions que les recherches soient menées en vue de
l'utilisation
explicite du contexte.
MUCA stands for "Modeling and Use of Context in Applications". The
goal of the research group is to meet together the French-speaking
community
interested by the notion of context, what ever the domain of study is,
the unique condition being that research are lead for an explicit
use of the context.
CONTEXT: International web site
URL: http://context.umcs.maine.edu
Goal:
This web site is the result of an old collaboration with Roy Turner,
webmater of this web site. The web site presents the last news about
context
in the Artificial Intelligence community and related communities. There
are general information and findings about context, a mailing list, and
the announcement of events concerning context.
The series of International and Interdisciplinary Conferences on Modeling and Using Context.
My interest for the notion of context leads me to organize events
focusing
on the notion of context in order to improve our undertstanding of this
notion in ourdifferent works. The two first main events were two
workshops
at IJCAI-93 and IJCAI-95 (Proceedings are publish as research report in
my Laboratory, e-mail me to have a copy). The first main conference, CONTEXT-97,
hold in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 1997. The second one, CONTEXT-99,
hold
in Trento (Italy). The increasingly interest for this series of
conferences
leads us after to create a Steering Committee that I chaired in 2001
for
CONTEXT-01. Now, the series of conferences has its own life and the
last
conference, CONTEXT-03, held in Stanford University (USA) in June 2003.
Other links related to context where I intervened
• http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~brezil/MUCA/Contexte.pdf
A bibliography of around 450 references is available at (a html version
is planned for very soon…). Most of the references have their abstract.
References are coming from different domains as AI, ergonomy, cognitive
science, etc.
• http://www.lip6.fr/SART
This is the web site of my last mature application. This concerns the
design and development of a Context-based Intelligent Assistant System
for operators that have in charge subway line monitoring in incential
situation.
We propose a context-based representation of knowledge and reasoning
called
contextual graphs.
• http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~brezil/ECAI-2002/tutorial.html
With Roy Turner, we present a tutorial at the European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2002) in Lyon (France), July 22th, 2002.
Materials on context will be proposed for this opportunity.
• http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~brezil/Pages2/
Publications/KER99.pdf
Brézillon P. (1999) Context in problem solving: A survey. The
Knowledge Engineering Review, 14(1): 1-34. (A preliminary draft of the
article indeed).
Although a little bit old now, this paper presents a survey of the
literature on context at that time.
• http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~brezil/DR2-2002/SurSAIC/
(in French)
This is an annex of an activity report (for my administration!) about
my project "Context-based Intelligent Assistant Systems". This annex is
regularly updated, no thanks to my administration…
Current activities:
1. Research on Contextual Graphs- Formalization of this formalism2. Study of the relationships between contextual graphs and the context-aware applications
- Extension to develop natural learning and acquisition of operators' experience on the fly, explanation generation capability
- Application of the context-based formalism in another application (discussion with several companies now)
This is a new challenge very exciting and concerned also smart devices, ubiquitous computing, etc.
Contact: Patrick.Brezillon@lip6.fr