DAI-List Digest Tuesday, 30 June 1992 Issue Number 82 Topics: AI/DAI in Telecommunications at ICC'93 Agenda for ECAI-92 Workshop on DAI Request for Works in Pursuit and Evasion 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: rw02@gte.com (Robert Weihmayer) Subject: Session on AI/DAI in Telecommunications at ICC'93 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 17:31:18 EDT I am coorganizing a session on advanced AI applications for telecommunications systems. Being partial to the DAI community I would like to see some submissions from its members. If anyone is interested please contact me. My session description and the ICC'93 call for papers are included below. SESSION TITLE: Knowledge-based Technologies for Next Generation Networks and Services ORGANIZER: Robert Weihmayer, GTE Laboratories Incorporated Adam Irgon, Bellcore CONTACT INFORMATION: GTE Laboratories Incorporated Bellcore 40 Sylvan Road 444 Hoes Lane Waltham, MA O2254, USA Piscataway, NJ 08854 Tel: 617-466-2811 Tel: 908-699-3830 fax: 617-890-9320 fax: 908-699-6636 internet: weihmayer@gte.com adam@ctt.bellcore.com ABSTRACT: The knowledge-based paradigm has penetrated mainstream computing and has led to systems and solutions that address many significant business and technical problems in today's networks. Expert system techniques and tools have been sucessfully applied in areas such as component and network diagnostics and troubleshooting. This success has paved the way for a number of developments in the artificial intelligence community, some with near term application potential, such as case-based reasoning and connectionist-based control systems, and some with longer term applicability to telecommunications, such as means-end analysis (planning), cooperative distributed problem solving, and knowledge discovery, to name a few. At the same time we are seeing the emergence of broadband telecommunication and computing networks with new requirements for intelligent systems for network control, as well as for operations management, service creation and delivery, etc. The conjunction of those requirements and the availability of knowledge-based technologies that can offer solutions to enable the evolution of our networks towards integral broadband switching and transmission with integrated end-to-end network management is the focus of this session. We will present six papers that explore current and next generation knowledge-based applications, systems and architectures for services, interfaces, network configuration and management, and operations support areas. The goal of this session will be to cover a broad range of AI technologies in a context of significant applications for the evolution towards broadband networks. Robert Weihmayer weihmayer@gte.com GTE Laboratories Inc. 40 Sylvan Road Senior Member of Technical Staff Waltham, MA 02254, USA Phone: (617) 466-2811 IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC '93 May 23-26, 1993 Geneva / Switzerland Communications Technology that Unites Nations FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ICC'93 will include the following 32 "hot topics" sessions sponsored by the indicated Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society. Original technical papers addressing these and related areas are invited. Communications Software (HT1: Software for Customization and Personalization of Communication Services, HT2: Application and Management of Object-Oriented Techniques) Communication Switching (HT3: Switching for Broadband ISDN, HT4: Traffic Considerations in ATM Multiplexing) Communications Systems Engineering (HT5: Modeling and Simulation of PCS Radio Systems, HT6: Spread Spectrum Communication Systems) Communication Theory (HT7: Bandwidth-Efficient Modulation, HT8: Spread-Spectrum Multiple Access) Computer Communications (HT9: Network Architecture & Control for Intelligent Networks and Services, HT10: Communication Protocols for Wireless and Multiple Access) Data Communications Systems (HT11: Protocols for Multimedia Networks, HT12: Advanced Modulation and Coding) Interconnection within High Speed Digital Systems (HT13: Advanced Computer/Communications Systems Architectures, HT14: High Performance Interconnection Technologies) Multimedia Services and Terminals (HT15: Multimedia Systems and Applications, HT16: Multimedia Personal Communication Services) Network Operations and Management (HT17: Survivable Network Architectures, Management & Control, HT18: Programmable Platforms for Network & Service Mngt.) Optical Communications (HT19: Wavelength-Division-Multiplex Technologies in Optical Networks, HT20: Impact of Optical Amplifiers on Broadband Optical Networks) Quality Assurance Management (HT21: Software Quality and Productivity Improvements, HT22: New Risks to Network Integrity) Radio Communications (HT23: Mobile and Personal Radio Communications, HT24: Efficient Radio Spectrum Techniques for PCS) Satellite and Space Communications (HT25: Advanced Space Communication Systems, HT26: Future Public Satellite Communication Systems) Signal Processing and Communication Electronics (HT27: Signal Processing in Wireless Communication Systems, HT28: Speech and Video Compression) Signal Processing and Recording (HT29: Trellis Coded Modulation, HT30: Equalization) Transmission Systems (HT31: Photonic Transport Networks, HT32: SDH-SONET Experiences) INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS The title page must include the name, complete return address, telephone, telex and fax numbers of the author to whom all correspondence will be sent, a 100-word abstract, the designation of the COMSOC Technical Committee to which the paper is most closely related, and (if appropriate) the hot topic session number. All other pages should be marked with the title of the paper and the name of the first author. The manuscript should not exceed 3000 words. Six double-spaced copies of the manuscript, in English, must be received (be sure to use air mail, not first class mail from the USA!) by the Technical Program Committee Secretary on schedule at this address: Dr. Thomas Mittelholzer SCHEDULE ICC'93 TPC Secretary Complete Manuscript Due: 31 August 1992 ISI ETF F103 Notification of Acceptance: 20 December 1992 ETH-Zentrum Camera-Ready Manuscript Due: 25 February 1993 CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland Financial assistance will be available for students who present papers and come from outside the region where ICC'93 will be held. Thanks to private contributions, some financial assistance will also be available for participants from eastern Europe who present papers at ICC'93. (ICC'93 is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Switzerland Section.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1992 11:39 CET From: Thies Wittig ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GMBH Subject: Agenda for DAI workshop at ECAI 92 Time Subject: Speaker 9:00 General Intro to WS Wittig 9:30 AI and Applications Milne 10:00 Taxonumy and Census Parunak 10:30 ISSUE 1: Coordination & Negotiation i) Application-oriented presentations 10:30 Jennings 10:45 Bomarius 11:00 Eisinger ii) On theories & methods 11:15 Tidar 11:30 Ephrati 11:45 Cesta 12:00 iii) Panel Discussion (J. Mueller, J. Ayel) 13:00 LUNCH BREAK 14:30 ISSUE 2: Accessing & Integrating Knowledge i) Appl oriented presentations 14:30 Reinders ii) On theories & methods 14:45 Huhns 15:00 iii) Panel Discussion (Y. Demazeau) 15:45 ISSUE 3: Architecture i) Application-oriented presentations 15:45 Lekkas ii) On theories & methods 16:00 Cesta 16:15 iii) Panel Discussion (P. Raulefs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: thanh@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (L Y Thanh) Subject: works in pursuit and evasion ? Date: 30 Jun 92 03:54:14 GMT Organization: Curtin University of Technology I am doing research (leading to a Ph.D. thesis) on the subject of evading one or more opponents in an unstructured environment. The objective is to design an intelligent agent capable of exploring the environment for a purpose of finding a location suitable for concealing the agent's presence - thus avoiding capture. I would be interested in finding out about any work done on any aspect of this problem. Any references, suggestions, comments on others' attempts are welcome. [Huhns: The most recent works in this area that I am aware of are Richard E. Korf, "A Simple Solution to Pursuit Games," in Working Papers of the Eleventh International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Glen Arbor, MI, February 25-29, 1992, pp. 183-194. Ran Levy and Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, "A Game Theoretic Approach to the Pursuit Problem," in Working Papers of the Eleventh International Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Glen Arbor, MI, February 25-29, 1992, pp. 195-213.]