DAI-List Digest Monday, 29 June 1992 Issue Number 81 Topics: Schedule for AAAI-92 Workshop on Agent Cooperation CFP for Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems CFP for ICED93 Workshop on Teamwork in Design 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: Tue, 9 Jun 92 11:22:49 PDT From: simoudis@titan.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Evangelos Simoudis) Subject: CHIS Workshop Schedule Schedule for AAAI-92 Workshop on Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Agents, July 14, 1992 Introduction: 8:30-8:40 Panel 1: Representation of Multiagent Knowledge, 8:40am-10:00am Panelists: Nick Jennings, Steven Reece, Gilad Zlotkin, Anne Collinot, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz Moderator: Edmund Durfee Panel 2: Representation and Use of Heterogeneous Knowledge, 10:30-12:00 Panelists: V. Jaggannathan, Ken Barker, Scott Henderson, Michael Huhns, Lynn Parker Moderator: Mark Adler Lunch: 12:00-2:00p.m. Panel 3: Computer Supported Collaborative Work, 2:00-3:30p.m. Panelists: Andreas Lux, Mark Klein, Candace L. Sidner Moderator: Michael Huhns Panel 4: Architectures and Applications, 4:00-5:30p.m. Panelists: Faruk Polat, Dorothy L. Mammen, Susan Lander, Robert Weihmayer, Hugo Velthuijsen, Sandip Sen Moderator: Evangelos Simoudis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: t-koba@sdl.hitachi.co.jp (Takashi Kobayashi) Subject: ISADS 93 Call for Papers Date: 17 Jun 92 03:00:41 GMT ISADS 93 CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems March 30 - April 1, 1993 Hitachi System Plaza, Kawasaki, Japan Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Information Processing Society of Japan Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan In cooperation with International Federation for Information Processing International Federation of Automatic Control Scope: Continuous growth in the power, intelligence, and openness of computer, communication, and control technologies has made it possible to realize highly beneficial and dependable business and control systems. Consequently, the adaptability, reliability, and expandability of application systems are steadily improving. Also, dynamically changing social and economic situations are requiring new-age systems based on newly emerging technologies and applications. Such systems are expected to have the characteristics of a living thing composed of largely autonomous and decentralized components. The systems may thus be called Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ADS). ISADS seeks papers that will foster increased interactions among researchers and practitioners in computer, control, and other related fields from academia and industry. The scope of discussion on ADS shall include but not be limited to: - Distributed and parallel computer systems / Large scale systems; - Cooperative architectures (CSCW, ODP, DAF); - Local and wide area networks / Intelligent networks; - Fault-tolerance, real-time, expansion and maintenance, and software engineering technologies for ADS; - Heterogeneous distributed information systems; - Decentralized-control, self-organizing, and robotic systems; - Manufacturing systems; - Biological and ecological systems. Papers dealing with research, development, implementation and applications of ADS, as well as surveys of the field, are welcome. Plant Tour: A plant tour of leading-edge industries in Japan is planned as part of Symposium activities. Visits to Kawasaki Steel Corporation and Central Japan Railway Company are arranged on April 2, 1993 with the highlights as a post symposium tour. At the present, ADS have been operated at these two sites as process control system for flexible manufacturing with various-kinds small-quantities products and as traffic control system for reliable train traffic regulation with 1,100 bullet-trains in one day respectively. Keynote Address: Three distinguished speakers will deliver the keynote addresses during the Symposium, as follows: - Dr. Hiroshi Inose, Director General of National Center for Science Information Systems and Chair of Industrial Technology Council of the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) - Dr. Roland Huber, Director for the R & D Programs of the Commission of Euroean Committees - Dr. A. Nico Habermann, Professor of Carnegie-Mellon University Submission: Each paper must be limited to 6000 words(in English), full-page figures being counted as 300 words, and must include a short abstract, a list of key words, and the lead author's address. Eight (8) copies of each papers should be submitted to the Program Chair. The lead author of each submitted paper will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of the paper. One of authors will be required to present their paper at the symposium. No submission of papers via FAX or Email will be accepted. Submission Address: Domenico Ferrari, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720, U.S.A. For program information: Email: isads@tenet.berkeley.edu; FAX: +1-510-642-5775. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 1, 1992 Acceptance Notification: October 22,1992 Final Version Due: December 29, 1992 General Co-Chairs: Stephen S. Yau (U. of Florida, USA) Fax: +1-904-392-1220 Email: yau@cis.ufl.edu Masanori Ozeki (RTRI, Japan) Atsunobu Ichikawa (NIES, Japan) Program Committee: Chair: Domenico Ferrari (UCB, USA) (see submission address) Vice Chair: Kane Kim (UCI, USA) Vice Chair: Radu Popescu-Zeletin (T. U. Berlin, Germany) Vice Chair: Takashi Masuda (Tokyo U., Japan) Vice Chair: Masami Ito ( Nagoya U., Japan) Norman Caplan (NSF, USA) Jung W. Cho (KAIST, Korea) Jose B. Cruz (UCI, USA) Newton Faller (UFRJ, Brazil) Toshitaka Hidaka (Kyoto U., Japan) Kei Hiraki (Tokyo U., Japan) Jyh-Sheng Ke (Inst. Info. Ind., Taiwan) Hermann Kopetz (T. U. Vienna, Austria) Larry H. Landweber (U. Wisconsin, USA) Gerard Le Lann (INRIA, France) P. F. Linington (U. of Kent, England) Mike Liu (Ohio State U., USA) Kinji Mori (Hitachi, Japan) Yoshikazu Nishikawa (Kyoto U., Japan) G. L. Reijns (T. U. Delft, Netherlands) Harry Rudin (IBM, Switzerland) C. V. Ramamoorthy (UCB, USA) Werner Sammer (Siemens, Germany) Luca Simoncini (U. of Pisa, Italy) Norihisa Suzuki (IBM, Japan) Hideyuki Tokuda (Keio U., Japan) Cheng-Wei Wang (Beijing Inst. Sys .Eng., China) Operation Committee Chair: Singi Domen (Hitachi, Japan) Executive Secretary: Kinji Mori (Hitachi, Japan) Fax: +81-44-966-6823; Email: kmori@sdl.hitachi.co.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Frank Bauert Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 13:10:10 GMT Message-Id: <6341.9206091310@oak.eng.cam.ac.uk> Subject: ICED93 - Workshop on Teamwork in Design Workshop on Theory and Methods for Teamwork in Design Next year, the 9th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED93 will be held from August 17-19 in The Hague, the Netherlands One of the suggested topics of this conference is multidisciplinary teamwork in product development. We sent in a proposal for a workshop on Theory and Methods for Teamwork in Design. Important aspects of today's competition in manufactured products are complexity, high quality, and short development time. The application of quality function deployment, integrated computer systems and concurrent engineering are but a few examples of ideas developed in research and industrial practice to improve product designs to meet these demands. Any of the methods used, manual or computer-based, will have to be able to support the coordinated work of teams of experts, in all phases of the product life cycle. To date, there is no coherent theory about the interactions between the people, the (organisational and design) environment, and the variety of design problems which characterize teamwork in typical design situations. The aim of the workshop is to provide a vehicle for intensive discussion on selected conference papers treating the methods and computational supports used by teams of designers and other specialists during product development. The issues to be discussed at the workshop will include, but are not limited to: * What are the variables that distinguish teamwork from nonteamwork, and how do they affect design? * How can we capture processes involving teamwork in design? * What software/hardware configurations are available or planned to support teamwork? We would like to attract especially those who have done work in * human aspects of teamwork * analysis of design activities within groups * groupware: shared electronic sketching facilities, software for video conferencing, applications of multimedia/hyperdocuments in design/manufacture If you are interested in presenting a paper in the workshop, please send in three copies of the abstract of your paper before the 1st of September 1992 to the conference organisation for review (see contact address or ask us for further information ( both can send you a brochure about ICED93)). Please add the following heading to your abstract: "Intended for the workshop on teamwork in design". Acccepted papers will be published in the proceedings. The workshop is open for attendence, not only to those presenting a paper, but to all conference participants. We hope you will be able to contribute to the workshop. We are looking forward to hearing from you or see you at the ICED93, sincerely, Frank Bauert (E-mail: fb@uk.ac.cam.eng) Amaresh Chakrabarti (E-mail: ac123@uk.ac.cam.phx) Lucienne Blessing (E-mail: lsb@uk.ac.cam.eng) Engineering Design Centre Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK CONTACT ADDRESS: ICED 93 c/o Klvl - Congress Office PO Box 30424 2500 GK The Hague The Netherlands Telephone + 3170 391 98 90 Telefax + 3170 391 98 40