DAI-List Digest Sunday, 4 October 1992 Issue Number 93 Topics: Announcing a New DAI Book Announcement for ICIS '92 CFP for NGITS'93 Please send submissions to DAI-List@mcc.com. Send other requests, such as changes in your e-mail address, to DAI-List-Request@mcc.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 09:49:47 PDT From: gasser@usc.edu (Les Gasser) Subject: Announcement: New DAI Book You may wish to note the forthcoming book on DAI: DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THEORY AND PRAXIS Edited by: Nicholas M. Avouris CEC Joint Research Center Ispra, Italy Les Gasser University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 [ca. 230pgs, to appear mid-December, 1992] CONTENTS Introduction (N.M. Avouris and L. Gasser) An Overview of DAI (L. Gasser) DAI Approaches to Coordination (L. Gasser) Using Reactive Multi-Agent Systems in Simulation and Problem Solving (J. Ferber and A. Drogoul) Object-Based Concurrent Computation and DAI (L. Gasser and J-P. Briot) A Software Engineering Perspective on Multi-Agent Systems Design: Experience in the Development of MADE (G.M.P. O'Hare and M.N. Wooldridge) Prototyping Multi-Agent Systems: A Case Study (G. Lekkas and M.H. Van Liedekerke) User Interface Design for DAI Applications: An Overview (N.M. Avouris) Methodological Issues of DAI Applications Interface Design: Transparency Analysis (L.E. Hall and N.M. Avouris) ARCHON: Theory and Practice (N. Jennings and T. Wittig) EMMA: An Architecture for Enterprise Modeling and Integration (K. Sycara and M. Roboam) Teaching Distributed Artificial Intelligence (J. Rosenschein) List of Authors and Affiliations Index ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 20:00:08 -0500 Subject: ICIS'92 From: denise langione The Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) will be held December 13-16, 1992 at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas, Texas. The Conference is focused on research related to the use and management of information and information technology within organizations. A world-wide community of information system scholars and practitioners will attend. This year's conference will offer 5 parallel tracks including: 11 paper sessions; 22 tutorials, panels, and workshops; and 8 sessions on research-in-progress. Plenary speakers will be Professor F. Warren McFarlan of the Harvard Business School, and Les Alberthal, CEO of Electronic Data Systems. The theme of ICIS '92 will be: "The Year 2001: An Information Technology Odyssey." The conference will look ahead to the potential roles that Information Technology (IT) can play in business, society, and education, including the pursuit of quality management and an educated populace. ICIS '92 provides a forum to explain research that demonstrates IT's potential contribution to the 21st Century. For further information and registration details, please contact: ICIS-Dallas Headquarters: (214) 692-3252 On Bitnet: B3LR0001@SMUVM1 On Internet: B3LR0001@SMUVM1.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 20:00:40 -0500 Subject: CFP for NGITS'93 From: saseg@violet.berkeley.edu (Arie Segev) Call for Papers NGITS '93 The International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems June 28 - 30, 1993 Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL General Information: A current view in the research community is that next generation information and systems will be complex, intelligent, cooperative and will utilize various multimedia technologies. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussing issues related to the realization of these next generation systems. These issues include but are not limited to: * Architecture of NGITS systems. * Paradigms for the design and implementation of NGITS (software repositories, application generators, and object orientation). * Knowledge and data management issues in NGITS. * Multimedia technologies. * Intelligent information systems. * Cooperation and collaboration in NGITS. * Computer vision and its use in NGITS. * The user's perspectives: NGITS interfaces. * Interdisciplinary research required for NGITS. * Industrial applications of NGITS. We solicit contributions of two types: * Research papers (extended abstracts limited to 10 double-spaced pages) * Position papers (about any of the relevant issues). The workshop will feature paper presentations, discussions, and panels based on position papers submitted, a "feedback from the industry perspective" panel, and invited speakers. All accepted papers will appear in a conference proceedings. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. Information for Authors: In order to promote the paperless society, we shall strive to handle the submission and review processes by electronic mail. All contributions should be submitted to: ngits@ie.technion.ac.il AND ngits@isr.berkeley.edu If you intend to submit a research or position paper, please send an electronic mail notice of this intention as early as possible, but no later than November 1, 1992. Important Dates: November 1, 1992 : (preferably sooner) Intention to Submit. January 24, 1993 : Research and Position Paper Due. March 5, 1993 : Notification of Acceptance. April 15, 1993 : Camera-Ready Copies Due. June 28-30, 1993 : The Workshop. Workshop Co-Chairs: Opher Etzion Arie Segev Technion- Israel Institute University of California at Berkeley of Technology, Haifa, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ISRAEL USA Steering Committee: Daniel Berry Dov Dori Opher Etzion Bezalel Gavish Shimon Nof Arie Segev Peretz Shoval Program Committee: Daniel Berry, Software Engineering Institute, CMU and Technion, Israel Alfred Bruckstein, Technion, Israel Umesh Dayal, DEC-CRL, USA Dov Dori, Technion, Israel Frank Eliassen, University of Tromso, Norway Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel Frank Friedman, Temple University, USA Bezalel Gavish, Vanderbilt University, USA Matthias Jarke, Rwth Aachen, Germany Shimon Nof, Purdue University, USA Tamer M. Ozsu, University of Alberta, Canada Shmuel Peleg, Hebrew University, Israel Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA Arie Segev, U.C. Berkeley, USA Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel Yannis Vassiliou, University of Crete, Greece