The deadline to submit papers for the I-KNOW 2008 Special Track on User Context and User Models has been extended to 28 April 2008.

UCUM 2008, taking place in Austria on 3 September, addresses the emerging field of automatic user context detection and the creation of user models based on mined context information. The goals are to reliably identify a user's context automatically in order to recommend information relevant to the task at hand, and to mine this collected context information, e.g. in order to maintain the user's profile. To reach these goals, relevant user context sensors need to be identified and user context information needs to be collected, represented, and analysed in many ways.

Topics include:

* Representation of context and observation data

* Identification and modelling of a knowledge worker's context

* Mining data from user context representations

* Web2.0 principles and technologies based on contextual data

* Management of large repositories of context and observation data

* Extending user profile modelling

* Methods and algorithms for log analysis

* Privacy and security issues

Submission can be in PDF or Word files. A style guide can be found here, while paper submission details can be found here. Accepted papers will be published within the I-KNOW '08 conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the conference before the 30 June deadline for camera-ready versions.