KRIMS II

Knowledge-based Interactive Multimedia Systems (IMS) possess and utilise knowledge about their own Means and about the Function of user sessions:

• Means denote the available communication channels, their contents and characteristics. They comprise the user interface on one side (both input and presentation components) and available interfaces to information sources (static repositories as well as dynamic computational agents) on the other.
• The Function of user sessions denotes the mapping of the actual information needs of users to the capabilities of the IMS. It comprises models of users and their goals as well as of instantiated tasks, including multimedia information search, retrieval, composition and presentation.

IMS must support users in achieving their goals and performing their tasks. They must be able to represent and reason about user intentions, abilities, beliefs, actions and plans, in order to collaborate with users effectively during determination of content and communication of information:

• Concerning determination of content, IMS must be able to assist users in navigating possibly open and heterogeneous information worlds, locating information sources, and retrieving, integrating and organising information efficiently and effectively.
• As far as communication of information is concerned, to design and materialize a presentation, IMSs must reason about different communication means (e.g. how to choose between, and how to co- ordinate, different media and modalities), the function of presentations, and the context of interactions with users.

Major topics to be addressed by KRIMS II include:

• knowledge representation schemes for multimedia information repositories supporting interactivity in content determination and/or communication of information.
• knowledge representation for interactive multimedia information content determination, integration, co-ordination and presentation.
• methodologies and systems for construction and maintenance of knowledge bases for interactive multimedia systems.
• methodologies and systems for construction and maintenance of interactive multimedia DBMS.

Each submission should include a title page containing the title, author(s), affiliation(s), submitting author's mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address, as well as an abstract and keywords indicating the topic areas listed above that best describe the contribution.

Submissions must not exceed 12 pages, excluding the title page and the bibliography, with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt) using LaTeX or Microsoft Word. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit compressed (gzip, zip,...) PostScript versions of their papers electronically as binary email attachments to one of the members of the organising committee. Hardcopy submissions should be sent in 5 copies.

Authors are encouraged to submit their workshop papers simultaneously for public discussion to the Area Intelligence User Interfaces of the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI, http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/). The ETAI is a new kind of electronic journal using open and posteriori reviewing. Formally, the rules work as follows. In the ETAI, you first have the article discussed for three months, then you have a chance to revise it based on the feedback, and then you decide whether to submit it for refereeing in the ETAI or in some other journal.

Marcus Herzog

email: herzog@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, Technical University of Vienna

Paolo Petta

email: Paolo.Petta@ofai.at, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence

George Vouros

email: georgev@aegean.gr, University of the Aegean , Department of Mathematics