From morris@cs.fit.edu Fri Aug 26 19:32:06 EDT 1994 Article: 23936 of comp.ai Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!MathWorks.Com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tcad.ee.ufl.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!zeno.fit.edu!tuck.cs.fit.edu!morris From: morris@cs.fit.edu (Robert Morris) Subject: CFP Workshop on Model Based Reasoning Message-ID: Sender: news@zeno.fit.edu (USENET NEWS SYSTEM) Nntp-Posting-Host: tuck.cs.fit.edu Organization: Florida Institute of Technology X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 19:26:37 GMT Lines: 74 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION WORKSHOP: INNOVATIONS IN MODEL-BASED REASONING LOCATION: Melbourne Beach, Florida WORKSHOP DATE: April 26, 1995 Organizing Committee: Robert Morris Florida Institute of Technology Ethan Scarl (Co-chair) Boeing Computing Services Avelino Gonzalez University of Central Florida Invited Speaker: Peter Struss Technical University of Munich Workshop Description: This workshop will serve as a forum to define and explore issues related to, and present innovative applications of, reasoning based upon knowledge about the structure and function of a system (Model-Based Reasoning, or MBR). The workshop is planned as a one-day event to immediately precede FLAIRS-95 (The Eighth Annual Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium, April 27-29). The workshop will be conducted as a combination of paper presentations, an invited talk, and a panel discussion. The format will provide ample time for the exchange of ideas. The workshop registration fee will be waived for those who register for the FLAIRS-95 conference. Among topics of interest to the workshop are the following: Inference mechanisms that take advantage of explicit structural and behavioral knowledge; target system complexity; qualitative/quantitative, analog/discrete, and mixed domains; computational limits and speed/accuracy tradeoffs; principles of model construction; types of uncertainty in models; problems and solutions in knowledge acquisition; functional/physical model relationships; and innovative applications and systems which employ MBR. Acceptance will be limited to 30 papers and 10 or fewer presentations. There will be a proceedings of all accepted submissions. More formal publication will be pursued if there is sufficient interest. Single page abstracts of each attendee's paper or work in MBR will be distributed prior to the workshop. Submission Guidelines: The submission format will be short, self-contained papers of no more than 2000 words. Three copies of submitted papers should be sent to Robert Morris Computer Science Program Florida Institute of Technology 150 W. University Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901 morris@cs.fit.edu Important Dates: Deadline for Submission : 15 November 1994 Notification to Participants : 1 January 1995 Workshop Date : 26 April 1995