From beschta@zfe.siemens.de Tue Dec 21 18:03:27 EST 1993 Article: 5295 of news.announce.conferences Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:5295 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!sparky!rick From: beschta@zfe.siemens.de (Anton Beschta) Subject: CFP: International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems Message-ID: <1993Dec16.205620.8800@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Organization: Corporate Research & Development, Siemens AG Munich, West Germany Distribution: news Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 20:56:20 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 102 X-Md4-Signature: 8b5c2afce63863e8682b69bfb38a2fd8 ======== QR '94 ======== Eighth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems June 7-10th, 1994 --- Nara-Ken New Public Hall, Nara, Japan Call for Papers Following the continued success of the Qualitative Reasoning (QR) Workshops, the eighth international workshop will be held at Nara-Ken New Public Hall, Nara, Japan. Papers are invited on any topic relevant to Qualitative Reasoning, including (but not limited to): * Ontologies and cognitive modeling (e.g., space, time, fluids, etc.) * Explanation, causality and teleology * Mathematical formalization of QR * Management of multiple models (formalization, architecture, studies) * Model building tools * Qualitative interpretation of numerical information * Task-level reasoning (e.g., design, diagnosis, etc.) * Practical applications of QR (e.g., real time systems, tutoring) * Integration with other techniques (e.g., dynamics, uncertainty, etc.) * Methodologies for selecting/classifying QR methods Papers will be selected according to their quality, significance, originality, and potential to generate discussion and will be published as working papers only; no copyright will be requested. A paper must not exceed 5000 words, excluding references and abstract. To promote an active discussion amongst participants, attendance at the workshop will be by invitation only. People who wish to attend the workshop without submitting a paper should send a letter describing their background and research interests to the workshop chair by the paper submission deadline. Limited financial assistance may be available for students interested in attending. Submission: Submit six copies to: Professor Tetsuo Tomiyama Program Chair, QR '94 Department of Precision Machinery Engineering The University of Tokyo Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan Telephone: +81-3-3812-2111 ext. 6454/7695 Fax: +81-3-3812-8849 E-mail: tomiyama@pe.u-tokyo.ac.jp In addition to ordinary postmail submissions, E-mail (containing either a LaTeX file using 12pt,article or a postscript file) and fax submissions will be accepted this year. However, please be reminded that if you submit a paper by E-mail or fax, you should not assume that your paper has been received and printed without problems until you receive an acknowledgment from the program chair; make sure that your LaTeX file should be self-contained and error-free, for the program chair will not try to fix LaTeX files that cause errors, etc. Schedule: Submission deadline: January 15, 1994 Notifications sent: February 28, 1994 Camera-ready copy due: April 15, 1994 Workshop: June 7-10, 1994 Program Committee: Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam Brian Falkenhainer, Xerox PARC Boi Faltings, EPFL, LIA-DI Yumi Iwasaki, Stanford University Takashi Kiriyama, University of Tokyo (Program Vice Chair) Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University Hiroshi Motoda, Hitachi HARL Toyoaki Nishida, NAIST (Workshop Chair) Peter Struss, Technical University of Munich Tetsuo Tomiyama, University of Tokyo (Program Chair) Daniel S. Weld, University of Washington For further information please contact: Professor Toyoaki Nishida Workshop Chair, QR '94 Graduate School of Information Science Nara Institute of Science and Technology 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-01, Japan Telephone: +81-7437-2-5260 Fax: +81-7437-2-5219 E-mail: nishida@is.aist-nara.ac.jp -- --- There are two ways of writing error-free programs. But only the third one works! --- Anton Beschta e-mail: beschta@zfe.siemens.de Siemens Corporation, ZFE BT SE 15 phone: +49 89 636 47587 Corporate Research and Development fax: +49 89 636 42284 Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, 81730 Munich, Germany