CIAO2010 is concerned with the relationship between context, information and ontologies. Papers are invited on all aspects of the relationship between context, information and ontologies.

Understanding context is crucial to delivering the right information, in the right format, at the right time, and in turn to enhancing the productivity of knowledge work. Meanwhile, ontologies can be used to describe context; whilst in some cases context may influence the interpretation of a particular ontology.

As well as the typical context-aware applications in ubiquitous and ambient intelligent systems, the notion of context has special relevance in relation to the interaction of context and user activity, and in particular, the influence and role of context in knowledge processes. Thus, a context-aware environment may analyze and detect the user’s current work through observations, understand and learn what he does, relate user actions to available resources, and support the user with suggestions.

This workshop will consider all the research challenges related to representing, managing, using and learning contextual information, bringing together researchers interested in the use of context for information delivery and the role of context in knowledge processes.

Specific current key research topics, which are relevant for CIAO2010 include but are not limited to:
Ontologies and frameworks for describing and managing user context
The application of context in relation to processes
The application of context to the identification of tacit knowledge
Techniques for learning context through an analysis of user interaction.
The interaction of context and user personalization
Visualization tools for context
Context usage in applications
Techniques for measuring the value and effectiveness of context management