Call for papers

 

Goals and motivations

  • Can computers help cooking?
  • Can "machine learning" help cooking?
  • Can "neural networks" help cooking?
  • Can "knowledge representation" help cooking?
  • Can "reasoning" help cooking?
  • Can "planning" help cooking?
  • Can "another field of AI" help cooking?

This ``Cooking with Computers'' workshop aims at gather researchers from many as possible fields of AI. A core application domain, which is cooking, is fixed and the main objective of this workshop is to show how some AI existing approaches could be used to solve problems in this domain.

Since 2008, the International Case-Base Reasoning community organises the Computer Cooking Contest. The main goal of Computer Cooking Contest participants is to design systems able to propose new recipes fitting specific requests by adapting existing recipes. Contributions to the Computer Cooking Contest are mainly Case-Based Reasoning oriented. Our goal with this workshop is to go one step further in the exploration of what computers and especially AI can do for cooks!

Our motivation lies in the fact that there is numerous other initiatives investigating how specific topics of AI can contribute to cooking (see for example: the Cooking and Eating Activities Workshop or the Food and Design Interaction Workshop. These initiatives are always domain-specific. Our goal is to set up a cross-domain event to promote communication between researchers of various domains of AI.

Submission topics

This workshop is widely open to all AI researchers, whatever their sub-topic of research are. It is an opportunity for AI researchers to confront their approaches on a common application and a way to highlight some possible interactions between AI fields. Expected submissions include (but are not limited to):

  • Machine learning (categorizing cooking elements, e.g. what is a soup?, ...).
  • Neural networks (prediction of cooking times, ...).
  • Classification (organising recipes, organising procedures, ...).
  • Knowledge representation (representing recipes, cooking procedure, domain knowledge, flavours and subjective informations, ...).
  • Knowledge extraction (extracting cooking knowledge, building ontologies, building inference mechanisms, ...).
  • Reasoning (using inference mechanisms for adapting recipes, creating new recipes, dealing with nutritional aspects, ...).
  • Semantic Web (sharing cooking resources, etc.).
  • Video annotation (identifying in a cooking video what is cooked, or the sequence related to a given preparation, ...).
  • Planning / workflows (improving the presentation of preparation steps to users, ...).
  • Human-Machine Interfaces (designing next generation cooking assistants, ...).

Submission format

We invite the following kinds of contributions:

  • full research or application papers (10 pages) describing recent research outcomes, mature work, prototypes, applications, or methodologies.
  • short position papers (up to 6 pages) describing early work and new ideas that are not yet fully worked out.
  • demo outlines (2 pages) describing the demonstration of a software prototype in the poster and demo session during the workshop. It must be remarked that demonstrations are widely open to any kind of contribution: cooking system, innovative website, personal assistant application, video, cooking robots, etc.
  • poster descriptions (2 pages) outlining a poster to be presented in the poster and demo session during the workshop.

All submissions must be written in English, following ECAI 2012 submissions guidelines.

Please, submit papers on the following Submission Website.

Available resources

The attendees can use any data sources they want. But for facilities, the workshop organisers provide some data, through the WikiTaaable semantic wiki, which contains:

  • An ontology of the domain of cooking, including a set of hierarchies (of ingredients, diets, dish types, actions, etc.), ingredient description, nutritional data, weight conversion resources, etc.
  • A set of (about 1500) recipes described by their ingredients and the preparation process. These recipes are semantically annotated: ingredients are attached to their corresponding concept in the ontology. The preparation process is formally represented by a graph containing the sequence of actions applied to the ingredients involved in the recipe.

Review criteria

All the submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Review criteria include: scientific significance, technical quality, clarity and, above all, originality of the approach.

Registration policy

All workshop participants are required to register for both the workshop and the main conference.

Proceedings

All papers will be published online, in the ECAI 2012 workshop proceedings.

Audience

This workshop aims at gathering researchers from as many as possible fields of AI around the topic of cooking. All research groups that usually participate to AI conferences are welcome to show how their approaches can solved a specific problem in a common fixed application domain.

Other information

Organizers are open to any proposition to turn this workshop in an entertaining event of ECAI 2012. Best paper(s) will be invited to participate to the "Computer Cooking Contest" workshop, held 3 days after this workshop (3rd September 2012) during the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR),in Lyon, France.