DAI-List Digest Friday, 13 December 1991 Issue Number 63 Topics: CFP for AAAI Workshop on Cooperation 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, 12 Dec 91 11:13:02 PST From: simoudis@titan.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Evangelos Simoudis) Subject: announcing AAAI workshop AAAI Workshop on Cooperation among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems to be held at the Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence I. Description The purpose of this workshop, which is being held for the second consecutive year during the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), is to bring together researchers who are studying ways 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. Customary AI systems are developed to stand alone, and so are not equipped to reason about how and when to cooperate in solving problems beyond their individual scopes. This workshop will address issues and techniques for overcoming current limitations, including limitations in supporting collaboration among collections of AI and human problem solvers. It will focus on how to develop tools for supporting cooperation among heterogeneous intelligent systems and shells for building cooperative knowledge-based systems. II. Topics Among the workshop's principal topics of interest are: 1. Studies of the types of cooperation and negotiation that can be achieved by heterogeneous systems. 2. Knowledge-level analyses of the components that belong to such systems, and formalisms for representing this knowledge. 3. Architectures and frameworks for combining independent AI systems to enable them collectively to solve more complex problems. 4. Issues related to the integration of heterogeneous database systems as information providers in problem-solving environments. 5. Intelligent computer environments that facilitate cooperation among people of diverse abilities during a problem-solving process, including developments in intelligent groupware systems. III. Format Our goal this year is to continue promoting a dialogue between researchers exploring the use of technology to enhance human cooperation and researchers studying cooperation among AI systems. This year, instead of paper presentations, we plan to present and analyze results through a series of panel discussions. Each panel will comprise authors of selected papers and will be led by a member of the workshop's organizing committee. We expect to have panels on topics such as negotiation, architectures, and degrees of cooperation. IV. Attendance Workshop attendance will be limited to about 40 people. Attendance will be by invitation only. Prospective attendees will be expected to submit either a full-length paper (maximum 10 pages) or a single page description of their research interests and how they relate to the workshop's topics. Approximately 20 of the prospective attendees will be panelists. The organizing committee will be looking for papers with previously unpublished results. We will strive for an equal mix of papers that describe theoretical results and applications. V. Submission Requirements Submit four copies of an extended abstract (5-8 pages) by March 13, using 12 pt font and 8.5" x 11" page size. Abstracts should be sent in hard copy form. Final papers are limited to a maximum of 10 pages in length, 12 pt font and 8.5" x 11" page size, not including references and figures. A set of working notes will be produced and then distributed during the workshop. VI. Submission Deadline: March 13, 1992. VII. Notification date: April 3, 1992. VIII. Final date for camera-ready copies: April 17, 1992. IX. Submit to: Evangelos Simoudis Lockheed AI Center 3251 Hanover Street O/96-20 B/254F Palo Alto, CA 94304 simoudis@titan.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com X. Committee: Mark Adler (co-chair) Digital Equipment Corporation LMO2/E12 111 Locke Drive Marlboro, MA 01752 adler@aiag.enet.dec.com Ed Durfee Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 durfee@caen.engin.umich.edu Michael Huhns MCC 3500 West Balcones Center Drive Austin, TX 78759-6509 huhns@mcc.com (512) 338-3651