MRC is an interdisciplinary workshop with a focus on applications within computer science. Because of this focus the workshop primarily attracts participants from within the computer science community and specifically within artificial intelligence. However, MRC has always had a strong interdisciplinary appeal and does draw from fields such as linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, mathematics, cognitive science, social sciences and psychology as well as various sub-fields within computer science.

MRC has traditionally been held at either the bi-annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT) or AI-related conferences such as ECAI, IJCAI and AAAI. These workshops have been successful in raising awareness about the importance of context as a major issue for future intelligent systems, especially for the use of mobile devices and current research on ubiquitous computing. At the same time, advances in methodologies for modelling and retrieving context have been made and MRC continues to provide a venue for the discussion and furthering of research into issues surrounding context.

MRC 2016 will be held at the The 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016) in The Hague, Holland. The main conference website has more information about the location and the registration process as well as other workshops. Participants for MRC will have to register for ECAI, since there are no workshop only registrations. In particular, at least one author of any paper accepted for presentation at MRC will have to register for ECAI. If you register for ECAI, you will also get free access to sessions of the co-located Collective Intentionality Conference.