Call for Papers: ER-Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Ambient Assistance and Healthy Ageing Stockholm 19-22 October 2015 Submission deadline: April 27, 10pm, MET. Publication in Springer LNCS http://hbms-ainf.aau.at/aha2015/ http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aha2015 SCOPE AND GOALS The European Commission defined “Health, demographic change and wellbeing” as one of the six “Grand Challenges” of the European Union. But a look on demographic statistics shows, that this is or will become a challenge of the entire world. Endeavors are made in in various directions to meet that challenge, amongst which the fields of “Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)” and “Healthy Ageing (HA)” are rather prominent. The workshop focuses on intends to reveal the existing and potential contributions, which can be made by the modeling community to these fields. In particular it focuses on Conceptual Modeling within the context of designing and developing systems for assisting humans in their everyday live and in healthy ageing. Special attention will be paid to: • Open Models, i.e. models that are broadly understood, can be freely accessed according to the principles of “open source”, and may be developed cooperatively, • Domain specific modeling languages, supporting tools and related meta-modeling frameworks, • The relevant contexts to be covered by modeling approaches, • Learning Systems based on Cognitive Modeling and knowledge integration, • Model based Reasoning under uncertainty. The workshop aims at bringing together people from academia and practice, and from the open model initiative, to discuss the state of the art, on-going projects and open research questions in the field of modeling for human assistance. Thus, it will be a platform for exchanging ideas and initiating new co-operations and projects. The discussions will be heated-up by short invited impulse talks (15 min) and refined in working sections. Best practices in using (meta-) modeling tools will be illustrated by the use of meta-modeling frameworks. Questions to be discussed are, among others, which modeling method may be useful for which purpose, how the requirements of the end users can be met by using modeling techniques and how to relate modeling tools to common standards in the fields of Ambient Assistance, Ambient Assisted Living and Healthy Ageing. TOPICS OF INTEREST We solicit submission of original research, as well as experience and vision papers, from both researchers and practitioners. The submissions should address one or more of the following topics without being limited to these but with clear links to Ambient Assisted Living or Healthy Ageing: • Conceptual Modeling Methods • Domain Specific Modeling Languages • Domain Ontologies • Contexts, Context Models and their integration • Exploiting Natural Language Processing Techniques for Learning Systems • Conceptual Model Based Reasoning • Understandability Management • Meta-modeling frameworks • Open Model Initiatives • Interfaces to Assistance Systems • Modeling in the context of Activity Recognition • Best Practices • Experiences with Modeling Tools • Experiences with Meta-modeling Frameworks SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Since the proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series, authors must submit manuscripts using the LNCS style. The page limit for submitted full papers (as well as for final, camera-ready papers) is 14. The page limit for short papers communicating current and on-going research or experiences is 7. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or exceeding the page limit will not be reviewed and automatically rejected. A paper submitted to AHA 2015 may not be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for AHA 2015. Submitted papers must demonstrate to be aware of the state-of-the art literature in conceptual modeling by properly citing relevant papers in the field. AHA-2015 uses EASY-CHAIR for paper-management. Therefore, please upload your submission at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aha2015 . PROGRAM COMMITTEE Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria (chair) Ulrich Frank, Universität Essen-Duisburg, Germany (co-chair) Fadi Al Machot, AAU Klagenfurt, A Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye Nat. Univ., UA Hans-Georg Fill, Univ. Wien, A Athula Ginige, Univ. of Western Sydney, AUS Marion A. Hersh, University of Glasgow, UK Dimitris Karagiannis, Univ. Wien, A Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, D Stephen Liddle, BYU Provo, USA Elisabeth Métais, Laboratory CEDRIC, Paris, F Judith Michael, AAU Klagenfurt, A Yuichi Kurita, Hiroshima University, JP Oscar Pastor, Univ. Politécnica of Valencia, ES Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt-Univ. Berlin, D Elmar Sinz, Univ. Bamberg, D Vladimir Shekhovtsov, "KhPI", Kharkiv, UA Josefine Sullivan, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SV Markus Stumptner, Univ. of South Australia, AUS Farouk Toumani, Blaise Pascale Univ., F Tatjana Welzer, Univ. of Maribor, SLO CONTACT Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria e-mail: heinrich.mayr@aau.at