Context interpretation and context-based reasoning are key factors in the development of intelligent autonomous systems in a variety of applications. The ability to represent contextual factors, interpret them and combine them with other sources of knowledge are some of the challenges to enable intelligent systems achieve correct behavior. Much work has been done in application areas that make use of contextual information, such as pervasive computing, logic-based sensor fusion and data integration, distributed problem solving and societal issues in Multi-Agent Systems. As well, theoretical foundations for context-based reasoning have been studied. However, there is still a great deal to do in context modeling, since generic context models for context-aware application development need to be further explored, as does the role of context reasoning in particular regarding distributed evaluation and in conjunction with more recently emerging areas such as ontologies, including Semantic Web data, social features and reasoning about mental states, as well as approaches to belief change.
Log-IC 2011 provided a forum for researchers investigating context-aware applications and context-based or distributed reasoning to share and compare their views on the efficacy of different context representation and context interpretation frameworks. Like the first Log-IC workshop (in Potsdam, 2009), it was held in conjunction with LPNMR (organized in Vancouver, Canada, May 16-19, 2011) with the additional advantage of reaching out to the logic programming community, facilitating collaboration between different formalisms for context-based reasoning.
Besides regular and short papers accepted for presentation, the workshop program consisted of invited talks by Pedro Cabalar (Corunna University, Spain), Thomas Eiter (TU Wien, Austria), and Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam, Germany). These proceedings contain abstracts of the invited talks and the four papers that were accepted for publication by our Programme Committee. Acceptance was based on a blind reviewing process where every submission had been evaluated by three reviewers. Research topics covered by contributions in this volume include various aspects of context-based reasoning, for instance privacy preservation, model streaming, and inconsistency management, as well as issues of inter-context communication.
The organizers wish to thank the all the authors who submitted papers, our invited speakers, the members of the Programme Committee, the reviewers, all participants and everyone who contributed to the success of this workshop. We are also grateful to the LPNMR local Organization Chair Aaron Hunter and the people of EasyChair for making our lives easier in organizing the workshop.
May 2011
ISSN 1613-0073 °c 2011 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. ISSN 1613-0073 c 2011 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. °
(Vienna University of Technology, Austria)