From valdes+@CS.CMU.EDU Wed Nov 10 13:00:35 EST 1993 Article: 398 of cmu.cs.cognitive-science Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu cmu.cs.cognitive-science:398 Newsgroups: cmu.cs.cognitive-science Path: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!CARMEN.KBS.CS.CMU.EDU!valdes From: valdes+@CS.CMU.EDU (Raul Valdes-Perez) Subject: Call for papers Message-ID: Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: carmen.kbs.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 11:31:47 -0500 Lines: 225 SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS A I A 9 4 The Second International Round-Table on ABSTRACT INTELLIGENT AGENT: SITUATION ASSESSMENT ------------------------------------------------- Organized by ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and the Environment) in cooperation with IBS (Institute of Systems Research) of the Polish Academy of Sciences Date: 23-25 February 1994 Place : Rome, ITALY, ==================== ============ CHAIRMAN: ADAM MARIA GADOMSKI (Italy) CO-CHAIRS: GEORGE RZEVSKI (UK) ANDRZEJ STRASZAK (Poland) JAN M. ZYTKOW (USA) Scientific Committee: '''''''''''''''''''''' Chair: A.M.Gadomski ENEA,CRE Casaccia Italy Co-Chair: J.M.Zytkow Wichita State Univ. USA J. Attardi Univ.of Pisa/ICSI Berkeley Italy/USA Y. Demazeau LIFIA/CNRS France J.A.Feldman ICSI Berkeley USA M. Gadomska Indep. Consultant Italy F. Giunchiglia IRST-Trento Italy H.J.van den Herik Univ. of Limburg Netherlands H. Hong Habrin Ins.of Tech. P.R.China N.K.Kasabow Univ. of Otago New Zealand G. Kersten Carleton Univ. Canada J. Komorowski Univ. of Trondheim Norway M.Y.Kiang Arizona St.Univ. USA R. Michalski George Mason Univ. USA V. Nanni ENEA, CRE Casaccia Italy D. Nardi Univ.Sapienza Roma Italy M. Olivetti-Belardinelli Univ.Sapienza Roma Italy C. Peyralbe Cap Gemini Inn. France M.M.Richter Univ. of Kaiserslautern Germany P.S.Rosenbloom Univ.of Southern California USA G. Rzevski Open Univ. UK W-M.Shen MCC-Texas USA R. Soto Monterrey Tech. AICen. Mexico A. Straszak IBS,Pol.Academy of Sciences Poland L. Stringa IRST-Trento Italy W. Van De Velde Vrije Brussel Univ. Belgium G. Zlotkin MIT USA ORGANIZATION CHAIR: Claudio Balducelli ENEA (Italy) Local Organizing Committee : ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' M.L.Borrello, F.Fontana, F.R.Picchia, G.Vicoli "...one of the central goals of AI is to develop artificial agents that embody all the components of intelligence ..." J.Laird & P.S.Rosenbloom, AI Mag.,Winter 1991 SCOPE ===== The AIA Round-table is an international periodical forum of researchers and practitioners from different fields to confront recent results and opinions on formal and integrated construction of domain and carrier independent intelligent systems ( abstract intelligent agents). In the near future, an abstract intelligent agent will be the basic conceptual element of different knowledge-based software systems and an important reference framework for identification of intelligent behavior of real-world (natural) systems. The goal of the AIA Round-Table can be viewed from two different perspectives: In the ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE, it is promotion of all these ideas which can lead to model-based design of reasoning modules for highly autonomous robots or other KB software systems, for example intelligent: plant-operator support system, management decision-support, CIM/CASE conceptual design support, tutoring systems, groupware/cooperation/coordination software tools. All these systems should autonomously support humans in the specifica- tion and solving of complex, incomplete, and ill-defined problems situated in the real-world. An AIA is a key theoretical base for the performance of this task. In the SOCIO-COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE, AIA can be considered as an abstract conceptual frame for modeling the behavior of living organism recognized as intelligent. It can provide a conceptual and terminological "bridge" between natural (evolutional) and artificial (designed) systems for their simulations, as well as for teaching, diagnosis and treatment. These applications should be interesting for psychology, sociology, organization research or economy. Contrary to physical systems which behave according to externally observed initial states and physical laws, the behavior of an intelligent agent also depends on its unobserved and variable "mental" states represented by such abstract concepts as information, goal, preference, knowledge. According to AIA93 conclusions, they form a conceptual web which can be interpreted as the architecture of AIA. The goal-oriented intelligent reasoning includes many activities and functions such as: conceptualization, recognition, decision-making, learning, discovery, situation assessment and planning.These activities applied recursively and repeatedly are necessary generic elements of of AIA "behavior". The specific subject of the AIA94 meeting is SITUATION ASSESSMENT, one of the fundamental "mental" functions of intelligent system interacting with its environment. AIA views every situation in the context of its goal-oriented activity. Situation assessment is a repetitive and recursive phase of AIA reasoning, it produces initial data for the planning phase, and it may also be viewed as a problem specification before problem solving. TOPICS ====== The topics of the meeting regard: - a 'situation assessment' (S-A) on different abstraction levels, domain independent, and applied in different domains of intelligent agent activities, - S-A in the contexts of the agent's possibilities, preferences, motivations, emotions and goals. - general problems of AIA construction, Contributions to the following subjects are welcome: - architecture of intelligent agents in different contexts, - the role of consciousness of AIA, - formal structure of S-A in physical and abstract environments, - S-A in learning, discovery, autonomous robot task execution, - S-A in multi-agent worlds; organization management, cooperation, negotiation, tutoring, - S-A in plant supervision and control, in emergency management, under risk and stress, - S-A and the frame problem in artificial intelligence. Debate Sessions --------------- The debate sessions will also concern more general topics, such as: paradigms, methodologies and methods for AIA conceptualization and analysis, terminology, hierarchy and recursive nature of AIA "mental" functions, as well as AIA visions of physical and social environments. The Round-Table is open to all new ideas and new points of view related to the concept AIA. International periodical AIA Round-Table wishes to offer an intellectual challenge for practitioners and researchers.The organizers strongly encourage the participation of those who acquired their experience working across disciplinary boundaries. AIA94 Chairman IMPORTANT DATES and REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION: ================================================== As soon as possible: Submit via e-mail or fax the EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: ------------------------------------------------------ Provisional TITLE .................................... Name of author(s) .................................... Address .............................................. ...................................................... Tel, Fax E-mail ........... .......... ......... Classification: a) survey paper b) research paper c) contribution to the debate sessions ------------------------------------------------------- Due to the character of the Round-Table the number of participants is limited. December 17,1993 (DEADLINE): 1-2 pages summary of the contribution or full paper ( 5-15 pages ). Full paper submissions will be given preference. The submission may be by e-mail or post-mail. Via e-mail it can also be sent as a post-script file. The authors of submissions accepted by Scientific Committee will be invited to participate in the Round-Table. January 15,1994: Acceptance notification Authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare a working paper for the Preprints of AIA94. February 10,1994: Camera ready copy for inclusion in the preprints. The Proceedings of AIA94 will be published after the Round -Table. The intention of the organizers is to publish the AIA94 conclusions in one of AI journals. The Round-Table fee is It.Lire 270.000. It includes all AIA94 materials, coffee, lunches and a social dinner. FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: ========================== A.M. Gadomski: E-mail: gadomski_a@eca401.enea.it, Fax. +39-6-30486038, Tel. +39-6-30486047 INN - RIN, ENEA - CRE Casaccia, Sp.88, Via Anguillarese 301, 00060 Roma, ITALY J.M. Zytkow: E-mail: zytkow@wise.cs.twsu.edu Fax. +316-689-3984 Tel. +316-689-3925 Dep. of Computer Science, Wichita State University Wichita, KS 67260-0083, USA C. Balducelli: E-mail: balducelli@eca401.enea.it FORM OF THE SUBMISSION: ________________________________________________________________ TITLE Name of author(s) (Position) Affiliation Address, Tel, Fax, E-mail Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Classification: a) survey paper b) research paper c) contribution to the Debate Sessions Date . . . __________________________________________________________________