Welcome to the Context Web. The purpose of this site is to establish a contact point on the Web for the international and interdisciplinary group of researchers who are interested in the many roles of context in a variety of fields, including:
agent-based and multiagent systems
artificial intelligence
context-aware applications
linguistics
natural language processing and interagent communication
neuroscience
philosophy
psychology
software engineering
ubiquitous computing
World-Wide Web/semantic Web applications
Questions addressed by this community include: What is context? How can it be represented? How can the current context be recognized? How can contextual knowledge be acquired? How does context impact computer and AI systems?
The context community has an associated biennial conference on context, the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT). The most recent conference was CONTEXT'07, in Denmark, August 2007. The site for CONTEXT'09 has not yet been determined.
Use the menu to the left to explore the context-related information available via this Web site, including announcements of upcoming conferences on context and other events and new context-related publications.