Taskforce on Context-Aware Computing
Funded by ARC Research Network on Enterprise Information Infrastructure
WHAT: One-day Tutorial/Seminar on Context Modeling: Representing Practices instead of Procedures by Prof. Patrick Brezillon
WHEN: Thursday - 25th October, 2007 @ 10 AM
WHERE:
Monash University, Melbourne
Caulfield Campus - Directions and Maps
Room: TBA
RSVP: Required - Please Email: Shonali Krishnaswamy
Details:
Title: Context Modeling: Representing Practices instead of Procedures
Abstract: Contextual Graphs are a context-based formalism used in various real-world applications. They allow a uniform representation of elements of reasoning and of contexts for describing different human tasks such as troubleshooting and interpretation. A contextual graph represents a task realization. Its paths represent the different ways of reaching this realization, each way corresponding to a practice developed by an actor realizing the task.
The seminar will allow to revisit the classical distinction between prescribed and effective tasks, procedures versus practices, logic of functioning versus logic of use, etc. in the light of this formalism. The position of the practice model with respect to the task model will be discussed and experimented across several examples including the troubleshooting a problem with a DVD player.
The one-day seminar is planned in the following way. First, the conceptual framework will be introduced and illustrated with a large number of examples. Second, the formalism of uniform representation called Contextual Graphs (CxGs) will be detailed and its use exemplified on several real-world application. In the second half of the seminar, participants will develop a personal example in CxGs in their domain, and these will be discussed collectively.
Biography: Dr Patrick Brezillon defended his Thèse d'Etat
(6-year duration) in 1983 on "Mathematical Modeling of Self-Oscillating
Nonlinear Systems. Application in Biology to Serotonin and Calcium Metabolisms."
He belongs now to the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 since 15 years.
The research of Dr P. Brezillon focuses since 1992 on the notion of context, and he now is considered as one of the main leader in the community interested by context by participating in the organization of the series of international and interdisciplinary conference on context (CONTEXT), giving invited talks, initiating the French Association for Context and beginning to develop a portal of Context (http://contexte.lip6.fr). After the design and development of a coherent conceptual framework for context modeling, his ideas are now formalized in a context-based formalism-called Contextual Graphs-for representing in a uniform way elements of reasoning and of contexts (http://www.cxg.fr). This formalism is used in 15 different domains concerned by reasoning in context across the world. His research is taught in a Specialization (Management of Knowledge, Contents and Contexts).
He published about 300 papers alone or with a grand total of 120 co-authors in international conference and international journals (e.g., IEEE Expert, AI Magazine, The Knowledge Engineering Review, the International Journal on Human-Computer Studies, etc.). Information is available at http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~brezil/ ) .
Dr Patrick Brezillon can be contacted via email .