DAI-List Digest Tuesday, 3 November 1992 Issue Number 97 Topics: Socialization Concurrency Control for Distributed Knowledge Bases Intelligent Agents Free Computists' Communique Trial CFP for Intelligent Agents for Simulation CFP for Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence CFP for COOCS 93 Conf. on Organizational Computing Systems 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: schuette@quip.eecs.umich.edu (R. Wade Schuette) Subject: Socialization Date: 2 Oct 92 01:52:30 GMT engelson-sean@CS.YALE.EDU (Sean Philip Engelson) writes: > >.... The key to >solving any problem is always the algorithm and its analysis. The goal is >always to characterize precisely a set of problems and demonstrate an >algorithm that solves them with reasonable efficiency. ... > >In general we think it is a mistake for AI research to focus on central >mental function and ignore input and output. In the long run, machines >will not be treated as intelligent unless they can perceive and manipulate >the objects around them. ... In the interest of provoking a discussion, let me argue that the fastest way to solve a problem is to cheat, ie, peek, ie ask someone who already knows the answer. I agree with the input and output, but I'd carry it quite a bit farther, and argue that machines will not BE intelligent if they don't interact with the other intelligent agents, including people, around them. Sooner or later any intelligent machine will figure out Godel's work, realize that an unknown amount of it's own data on the world is colored by observer bias it cannot detect, and start asking other observers for what THEY see to start comparing notes and calibrating its own perception. Then, unless the world has dramatically changed from today, it will further realize that funding is uncertain, resources are scarce, other entities would like to disassemble it for parts for their own growth, and that survival depends on developing friends in high places. In short, sooner or later, an intelligent system will become social. There is very strong evidence that THAT algorithm can solve problems which are social in nature (such as survival) that no amount of computing inside the box is ever going to solve. Comments, anyone? R. Wade Schuette +1 (313) 996-7479 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: 881244y@dragon.acadiau.ca (C.Yeo) Subject: Concurrency Control for Distributed Knowledge Bases Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1992 23:02:18 GMT I am looking for materials relating to concurrency control issues for Distributed Knowledge Bases vs. Distributed Databases. Thanks. Choon Lin, Yeo e-mail: yeo.choon.lin@acadiau.ca Acadia SUB Box 6732 Wolfville, Nova Scotia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: amw@cs.bham.ac.uk (Andy Wood) Subject: Intelligent Agents Date: 27 Oct 92 12:22:44 GMT Does anybody have any experience of creating intelligent software agents? My final year project involves creating a diary/calendar/scheduler application that can `intelligently' organise meetings, so the two areas that I'm particularly interested in are : Pattern spotting and extrapolation of data, and conflict resolution. Thanks in advance, Andy Wood : amw@uk.ac.bham.cs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: laws@ai.sri.com (Kenneth I. Laws) Subject: Free Computists' Communique Trial Date: 1 Nov 92 18:10:53 GMT Greetings! I publish The Computists' Communique, a service to members of Computists International since 4/91. For a limited time, I can now offer free trial subscriptions to internet readers. (I'm posting this to comp.ai; feel free to repost to AI-related lists and bulletin boards.) Computists International is a career-oriented mutual-aid association for AI/IS/CS researchers and software developers. Our weekly online newsletter, The Computists' Communique, covers research funding sources, job opportunities, FTPable resources, research news, market trends, entrepreneurial advice, and plenty of other good stuff. 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In domains where other intelligent entities play an important role, the simulator must model the behavior of these entities. One such domain is battlefield simulation; to train a unit commander effectively, the simulator must be populated with autonomous agents representing friendly and opposing forces. These forces are called Computer Generated Forces (CGF). Under the sponsorship of the US Army Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command, the Institute for Simulation and Training is hosting the third in a series of conferences on computer generated forces and behavior representation. These conferences serve as a focal point for the exchange of research ideas in the area of intelligent agent design for simulation. Contributions are solicited in the areas of autonomous agent design, behavior representation, human behavior modeling, and applications. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Intelligent agent architecture Integrated architectures Real-time systems Distributed and parallel implementations Proposed standard CGF architectures Behavior description/representation Agent programming languages Expert systems Object oriented programming Planning and problem solving Learning agents Coordination and cooperation among multiple agents Spatial reasoning Route planning Planning viewpoints Modeling human behavior Validating behavior realism Representation of specific behavior doctrines Operator interfaces for semi-autonomous agents Applications CGF Air traffic control Driving simulation Emergency management SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Interested authors should submit a 1-2 page extended abstract to the Conference Chair for review by the Program Committee by 1 December 1992. Please include the authors' names and addresses on the abstract. The Program Committee will select papers for the conference on the basis of the abstracts and notify all submitters of their decisions by 4 January, 1993. Selected authors will be asked to submit camera-ready papers of no more than 12 pages by 1 February 1993. Correspondence relating to the submission will be sent to the first author unless otherwise requested. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will be distributed at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts due at IST: 1 December 1992 Author notification: 4 January 1993 Final papers due: 1 February 1993 Conference date: 17-19 March, 1993 LOCATION The conference will be located at the Holiday Inn, 6516 International Drive, Orlando, Florida, 32819, (407) 351-3500. Please note that this conference immediately preceeds the 8th Workshop on Standards for the Interoperability of Defense Simulations, which is scheduled for 22-24 March 1993 and is located at the same hotel. REGISTRATION Registration forms will be sent to all authors submitting abstracts. To help defray the cost of the conference and the proceedings, a nominal registration fee of $50 for government attendees and $75 for all others will be charged. CONFERENCE AND PROGRAM CHAIRS For information regarding the conference, or to submit and abstract, contact the Conference Chair: Daniel E. Mullaly Institute for Simulation and Training 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300 Orlando, FL 32826 (407) 658-5023 dmullaly@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu Program committee Chair: Brian F. Goldiez (same address) (407) 658-5015 goldiez@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 18:18:52 GMT From: Miguel Filgueiras Subject EPIA'93 Call for papers EPIA'93 SIXTH PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Porto, Portugal October 6 - 8, 1993 Sponsored by the Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Association (APPIA) The Sixth Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'93) will be held on October 6-8, 1993, in Porto. Despite its name, and like previous issues, EPIA'93 will be run as an international conference, English being the official language. The scientific programme will include tutorials, invited talks and paper presentations. Invited speakers and (provisonal) titles for their talks are: David H.D. Warren, University of Bristol "Andorra-I: and-parallelism plus or-parallelism in Prolog plus FGHC" Les Gasser, University of Southern California "Organizations as Complex Dynamic Design Problems" Yoav Shoham, University of Stanford "Software Agents: micro and macro considerations" Submissions of papers are invited in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to: * Applications * Architectures and languages for AI * Automated reasoning * Connectionist and PDP models * Distributed AI * Knowledge representation * Learning and knowledge acquisition * Logic programming * Natural language processing Papers must be written in good English and must not exceed 15 A4 pages. Papers should include an abstract and keywords to define a topic. Submitted papers (or any portion thereof) should not have been previously published and should not be under review for a journal or a refereed conference or workshop. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference. Four copies of each sumbmitted paper should be received on or before 19 March 1993 by one of the Programme Chairmen. No submissions of papers by e-mail or fax will be accepted. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be made by 21 May, 1993. Camera-ready copies of accepted papers are due on or before 18 June 1993. Arrangements are being made for the proceedings to be published by Springer-Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, as in previous years. Tutorial proposals are invited on all aspects of AI. They should include the following information: * A summary of the tutorial (up to 1 A4 page) * Background needed for attending and expected audience * Brief curriculum vitae of proposer (2 A4 pages maximum) Tutorial proposals must reach one of the Programme Chairmen on or before 3 May, 1993. Email or fax submissions of tutorial proposals (but NOT of papers) may be made. Official Language: English. Programme Committee: Antonio Porto, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Armando Matos, Universidade do Porto David Warren, University of Bristol Ernesto Costa, Universidade de Coimbra Eugenio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto Jean-Louis Lassez, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM Luis Moniz Pereira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Programme Chairmen: Miguel Filgueiras, Luis Damas Centro de Informatica U.P. R. do Campo Alegre 823 4100 Porto / Portugal email: mig@ncc.up.pt Fax: +315-2-6003654 Tel: +351-2-6001672 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 01:26:25 -0500 Subject: CFP for COOCS 93 Conf. on Organizational Computing Systems From: "Peter de Jong" Call for Papers COOCS 93 Conference on Organizational Computing Systems Sponsored by ACM SIGOIS and IEEECS TC-OA in cooperation with IFIP WG 8.4 Sheraton Silicon Valley --- Milpitas (near San Jose), California November 1-4, 1993 As we move toward globally distributed businesses, widespread mixed-media computing systems and highly mobile workers, the availability of information within an organization becomes increasingly critical. Advances in tools, technologies, and methodologies that facilitate the use of information systems in organizations will improve the way information is made available and used. This conference is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the use, management, and movement of information within organizations. The scope of the conference is intended to cover areas related to this goal, including but not limited to: Organizational computing systems Distributed AI, Expert Systems and Multiagent Models Object and Database Models and Systems Parallel, Distributed and Open Information Systems Computer-Supported Collaboration Task Analysis, Modeling, Planning and Coordination Social Aspects of Integrating and Using Information Analysis of Organizational Structure and Dynamics to organizational utilization of computers Multimedia Information, Storage, Retrieval and Portability and the Mobile Office Organizational Impact of Large Distributed Applications Submissions to the conference can be in the form of papers, demonstration, panel, workshop or tutorial proposals. Papers can take two forms. Research Investigations present original work in any of the areas of interest to the conference. Case studies discuss projects which introduce innovative tools, technologies or methodologies into particular organizational settings, and critically analyze the results and impact of the project. Papers should not exceed 12 ACM camera-ready pages. It is possible that some papers will be presented at the conference in poster sessions. Demonstration proposals should be 3-5 pages long, and include enough information to allow the committee to judge the relevance and significance of the work. Please include machine requirements. Panel proposals should motivate the subject of the panel, and give brief biographical sketches of each of the proposed panel members. Workshop and Tutorial proposals should motivate the workshop/tutorial and its relevance to this conference. For tutorials, provide an outline and a brief biosketch of the proposers. For workshops, motivate the workshop, indicate how you would select participants, and outline the format of the workshop. Proposals for both half-day and full-day workshops and tutorials are welcome. Authors should submit five copies of their manuscript, in English, together with a cover sheet, to the Program Chair by March 1, 1993. The cover sheet should contain (i) submission type; (ii) title, (iii) names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses (if available) of all authors; (iii) contact author; (iv) keywords and abstract. Information on paper format can be obtained from the Program Chair. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions due: March 1, 1993 Author notification: June 7, 1993 Manuscripts due: August 13, 1993 General Chair: Peter de Jong (IBM, USA) Conference Committee: Robert Allen (Bellcore, USA) Fred Lochovsky (HKUST, Hong Kong) Doug Vogel (U. Arizona, USA) Carson Woo (U. British Columbia, Canada) Workshops: Michael Muller (Bellcore, USA) Program Chair: Simon Kaplan Department of Computer Science University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 USA phone: +1 217 244 0392 email: kaplan@cs.uiuc.edu fax: +1 217 333 3501 Program Committee: Graham Button (Xerox EuroPARC, UK) Prasun Dewan (Purdue U., USA) Bob Ensor (AT Bell Labs, USA) Anthony Finkelstein (Imperial College, UK) Dave Gedye (SunLabs, USA) Saul Greenberg (U. Calgary, Canada) Hiroshi Ishii (NTT, Japan) Gail Kaiser (Columbia U., USA) John King (U.C. Irvine, USA) Dan Kogan (Intel Corp., USA) Jintae Lee (U. Hawaii, USA) Dave Marca (DEC, USA) Ray Panko (U. Hawaii, USA) Ken Pier (Xerox PARC, USA) Tom Rodden (Lancaster U., UK) Sunil Sarin (Xerox, USA) Allan Shepherd (HP Labs, USA) John Smith (U. North Carolina, USA) Terry Winograd (Stanford U., USA) Mike Wish (AT Bell Labs, USA)