DAI-List Digest Wednesday, 28 November 1990 Issue Number 21 Topics: CFP for AAAI-91 Workshop on Cooperation among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems CFP for the 5th AAAI Workshop on Blackboard 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 18:16:40 PST From: Evangelos Simoudis Subject: Call for Papers for AAAI-91 Workshop CALL FOR PAPERS The AAAI Workshop on Cooperation among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems to be held at the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are studying how to enable a heterogeneous collection of independent intelligent systems to cooperate in solving problems requiring their combined expertise. Heterogeneous intelligent systems can differ in their internal structures, capabilities, and purposes. The workshop will address issues and techniques for overcoming current limitations, including limitations in facilitating collaboration among collections of AI and human problem solvers. It will focus on how to develop tools for supporting cooperation between heterogeneous intelligent systems and shells for building cooperative knowledge-based systems. Among the workshop's principal topics of interest are: 1. Architectures and frameworks for combining independent AI systems to enable them collectively to solve more complex problems. 2. Knowledge-level analyses of the components that belong to such systems. 3. Formalisms and frameworks for representing this knowledge. 4. Identification of the types of cooperation and negotiation that can be achieved by heterogeneous systems. 5. Descriptions of existing cooperative intelligent systems and experiences in using these systems. These systems should make sophisticated cooperative decisions, rather than blindly exchanging all information through file transfer. 6. Computer environments that facilitate cooperation between people of diverse abilities during a problem-solving process. Attendance at the workshop has been limited to 50 people and is primarily intended for authors of accepted papers. There may be additional space available to those who have not submitted a paper but are interested in the field. Those parties should submit a one page request to the address below. Timetable o March 1, 1991 3 copies of an extended abstract (5-8 pages) describing unpublished work due at the address below. o April 26, 1991 Notification letters are mailed to all who submitted papers. o June 17, 1991 Final draft of papers due. o July 15, 1991 Workshop is held. Organizing Committee o Mark Adler, Digital Equipment Corporation o Ed Durfee, University of Michigan o Michael Huhns, MCC o Evangelos Simoudis, Digital Equipment Corporation Send papers to: Evangelos Simoudis, Digital Equipment Corporation, 290 Donald Lynch Blvd, DLB5-2/B4, Marlboro, MA 01752, (508)490-8141, simoudis@aiag.enet.dec.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 15:08:42 +0100 From: hlaasri@crcge1.cge.fr (Hassan Laasri) Subject: Call for Papers for the 5th Blackboard Systems Workshop CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AAAI-91 WORKSHOP ON BLACKBOARD SYSTEMS DESCRIPTION The blackboard paradigm is a powerful technique for implementing applications requiring multilevel reasoning, flexible control, or the integration of diverse problem solving expertise into a common framework. Blackboard applications have moved from the original speech understanding and signal processing areas to new applications in model-based diagnosis, network control, intelligent tutoring systems, the pilot's associate program, dynamic resource allocation, materials processing, and even weather prediction. More complex and diverse applications have become possible with the appearence of stable university and commercial blackboard frameworks (AGE, BB-1, GBB, ATOME, etc.). Recent workshops have featured extensions of these frameworks for plan-based control, real-time, and parallel processing. The Fifth Workshop on Blackboard Systems, like its predecessors, provides an informal forum where researchers in blackboard technology and developers of blackboard-based applications can exchange ideas, experiences, problems, and inspirations. The aims of the workshop include: sharing the latest research results in an informal setting, informing participants of other researchers working on similar problems or using similar approaches, and identifying common unsolved research issues. TOPICS Topics of interest for the workshop include: - blackboard frameworks, control mechanisms, and techniques - real-time, parallel, and distributed blackboard approaches - performance measures for blackboard systems and applications - integrating dramatically different systems via blackboards - user interfaces and explanation facilities for blackboard systems - application development and debugging facilities for blackboard systems - issues in developing blackboard-based applications - novel blackboard-based applications. Submissions presenting comparison data between blackboard technology and other AI methodologies or among alternate blackboard-based approaches are particularly encouraged. FORMAT The workshop is one-day long and will take place during AAAI, July 14--20, 1991. Dan Corkill will present a "state of the art" address to open the day. Accepted papers will be grouped into three panels based on content; each panel will consist of a series of informal paper presentations followed by a general discussion period. A member of the Workshop Committee will chair each panel. A set of discussion questions, to be addressed by the presenters and keyed to each panel, will be distributed beforehand. An informal proceedings containing complete versions of accepted papers will be distributed at the workshop. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Workshop invitations will be issued on the basis of extended abstracts 10 pages or less in length. Graduate students and researchers with preliminary results are encouraged to participate. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by members of the Workshop Committee. At most, 2 invitations will be issued for each accepted abstract. In keeping with an informal workshop, the total number of invitations will be limited to 30--35. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE Larry Baum Boeing Dan Corkill Blackboard Technology Group Keith Decker University of Massachusetts (co-chair) Raj Dodhiawala FMC Lee Erman Cimflex Teknowledge V. Jagannathan American Cimflex Hassan Laasri CGE Research Center (chair) Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts Brigitte Laasri CGE Research Center Penny Nii Stanford IMPORTANT DATES March 8, 1991 Extended abstracts must be received April 15, 1991 Notification of invitation or rejection May 20, 1991 Completed papers must be received July 14-20, 1991 Workshop date SEND FOUR COPIES OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS TO: Keith S. Decker Department of Computer and Information Science University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 U.S.A. Internet: Decker@CS.UMass.Edu Phone: (413) 545-0156 FAX: (413) 545-1249 -- OR -- Hassan Laasri Laboratoires de Marcoussis Centre de Recherches de la CGE Route de Nozay 91460 Marcoussis France Internet: hlaasri@crcge1.cge.fr Phone: (33 1) 64 49 17 79 FAX: (33 1) 64 49 06 94