silvia miksch vvunfdasgaardtuwienacat aime05 call participation tenth conference artificial intelligence medicine july 23 27 2005 aberdeen uk wwwcsdabdnacukaime05 colocated ijcai2005 european society artificial intelligence medicine aime established 1986 two main goals 1 foster fundamental applied research application artificial intelligence ai techniques medical care medical research 2 provide forum reporting significant results achieved biennial conferences additionally aime assists medical industrialists identify new ai techniques high potential integration new products major activity society series international conferences marseille fr 1987 protaras cyprus 2003 held biennially last 18 years aime05 conference unique opportunity present improve international state art ai medicine research applications perspective purpose aime05 include invited lectures contributed full short papers system demonstrations tutorials workshops aime 05 highlights invited speakers frank van harmelen paul lukowicz frank van harmelen artificial intelligence department vrije universiteit amsterdam ontology mapping way medical tower babel dealing large amounts heterogeneous data one crucial challenges modern computer science medical informatics exception handling patient data different sources searching large volumes research literature integrating information systems require able integrate data different sources using different vocabularies recent years ontologies touted new promising solution old problem hierarchically organised shared vocabularies formalise semantics terms promise mapping ontologies provides solution dealing heterogeneous datasources talk survey different approaches ontologymapping covering linguistic statistical logical methods state art illustrated number recent applications employ ontology mappings specifically medical domain end talk hopefully answer extent ontology mapping way terminological tower babel bio frank van harmelen professor knowledge representation reasoning vrije universiteit amsterdam awarded phd department ai edinburgh research metalevel reasoning studied mathematics computer science amsterdam research modelling representation different forms knowledge reasoning found large variety ai systems interest applications theory made key contributions commonkads methodology developing knowledgebased system providing formal basis conceptual models recent years active developments around semantic web one five books first text book semantic web technology involved numerous european semantic web projects one designers w3c standard ontology language owl program chair ecai 2002 general chair 2004 international semantic web conference chair semantic web track 2005 world wide web conference paul lukowicz institute computer systems networks university health sciences medical informatics technology umit hall tirol human computer interaction contextaware wearable systems today nearly situation guaranteed piece useful information somewhere network includes trivial everyday things like restaurant menus transportation delays building plans relevant rescue personnel patient records needed example emergency medics multimedia manuals maintenance assembly work however today people use connected devices predominantly conventional telephony email access scheduling occasional photograph despite strong push service providers accessing online information mobile environment still exception large degree limited use mobile connected devices attributed inadequacies current interaction paradigm talk describe new approach solving problem called contextaware wearable systems systems attempt automatically recognize needs user deliver correct information correct time place discrete nondisturbing way simplest case context used model users needs system might time location advanced applications would include user activity walking standing going work performing particular maintenance task environment state eg examination specific patient background information users schedule habits talk work context recognizing using simple sensors accelerometers unltrasonic location microphones etc mounted users outfit environment presented specific applications health care related areas discussed bio paul lukowicz holds msc computer science msc physics phd computer science university karlsruhe germany 1999 till 2003 senior researcher eth zürich charge wearable computing laboratory since 2003 professor computer engineering university health sciences medical informatics technology hall insbruck austria research interest include ubiquitous system architectures context awareness novel applications enabled two emphasis healthcare related areas also worked parallel computing systems optical interconnects paul lukowicz active number european union sponsored research project doctoral consortium important new feature aime conferences doctoral consortium organized elpida keravnou held first time context aime httpwwwcsdabdnacukaime05doctoral_consortiumshtml early registration registration aime 05 standard rate finishes june 30 2005 looking forward meet aberdeen silvia miksch vienna austria programme committee chair jim hunter aberdeen united kingdom organizing committee chair wed 06 aug 2008 145135 0200 uai aime 05 call partizipation