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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 06
NL-KR Digest Sun Jan 15 14:09:44 PST 1995 Volume 14 No. 6
Today's Topics:
CFP: AIEM4 AI in Economics and Management, Jan 96, Tel-Aviv
CFP: IJCAI95 Workshop on Plan Recognition, Aug 95, Toronto
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Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 18:17:21 +0200
To: gaasterl@mcs.anl.gov
From: AIEM96@taunivm.tau.ac.il
Subject: CFP: AIEM4 AI in Economics and Management, Jan 96, Tel-Aviv
Call for Papers
AIEM4 - The Fourth International Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Management.
Tel-Aviv, Israel. January 8-10, 1996
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AIEM4
The Fourth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in
Economics and Management will be held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, during
January 8-10, 1996. The conference venue is the Dan Panorama Hotel and
Convention Center on the beach front in Tel-Aviv and within walking
distance of most of the central tourist attractions in the city. The
Conference Center was opened in November 1994 and has the most modern
facilities.
Sponsorship for the workshop has been granted by AAAI, IFAC, IFORS, and
ACM and has been requested from IFIP
The workshop is organized by the Marcel and Annie Adams Institute for
Business Management Information Systems in The Faculty of Management,
Tel-Aviv University. The workshop is under the auspices of The Information
Processing Association of Israel and will be held in conjunction with
the annual conferences of the Israel Association for Artificial
Intelligence and the Israel Association for Computer Vision.
Registration for AIEM4 will provide free access to the other two events.
Topics
This series of workshops addresses issues relevant to the application of
AI technologies in economics and management. The Workshop aims to
present innovative applications and techniques, relevant research
findings, and reports on work in progress. Submissions are encouraged
from both practitioners and academics. Proposals for panel discussions
are also encouraged.
The focus of the conference is applications of AI techniques in:
* finance * banking * marketing
* economics * manufacturing * operations management
The technologies of interest include, among others:
* knowledge representation and acquisition : expert systems, knowledge-
based decision support systems
* problem solving paradigms : qualitative reasoning, case-based
reasoning, neural networks, genetic algorithms
* human-machine interface : natural language processing, hypertext,
multimedia, machine learning.
Language
English will be the official language throughout the workshop.
Translation facilities will not be available.
Instructions
Authors should submit 700 word extended abstracts, in English, typed
with double line spacing , in three copies, before May 1, 1995 to
AIEM4
c/o Dr. Moshe Zviran
Faculty of Management
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv 69978
Israel
References should be in alphabetical order. Each abstract should include
full addresses of all authors and designate one of them as
correspondent. Authors of accepted submissions will be notified by July
15 1995 and will be requested to submit full length papers by October
15, 1995. Papers not received in full by this date will not be included
for presentation
Proposals are also solicited for panel discussions. These proposals
should describe the topic, present the discussants, and suggest why the
discussion will be of interest to participants.
Proceedings
Proceedings, edited by M. Ben-Bassat and P. Ein-Dor will be published
after the workshop; copyrights of accepted papers are transferred to the
publishers.
Important Dates
May 1, 1995 extended abstracts and panel proposals due
July 15, 1995 acceptance notices
October 15,.1995 final papers due
January 8-10, 1996 conference
Steering Committee
The steering committee of the workshop is as follows:
Workshop Chair:
Prof. Phillip Ein-Dor,
Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University,
Director, The Marcel and Annie Adams Institute for Business Management
Information Systems
Program Committee Chair:
Prof. Moshe Ben-Bassat,
Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University and
President, IET Intelligent Electronics Ltd
Local Arrangements Chair:
Dr. Moshe Zviran,
Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University
Combined Conference Arrangements:
Ms. Bat-Sheva Sheizaf,
Director, Information Processing Association of Israel
International Program Committee
The following have agreed to serve on the International Program
Committee.
Paul Alpar, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
Chidnand Apte, IBM Watson Research Center
Moshe Ben-Bassat, IET Intelligent Electronics
Michel Benaroch, University of Syracuse
R. Bhaskar, IBM Watson Research Center
Tung Bui, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel-Aviv University
Yishai Feldman, Tel-Aviv University
Menachem Gutterman, Israel Discount Bank
George Kasper, Texas Tech University
Kuan-Pin Lin, Portland State University
Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto
Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California
L. F. Pau, Digital Equipment Europe
Judea Pearl, University of California Los Angeles
Leon Sterling, Case Western Reserve University
Tibor Vamos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Ljubisa Vlacic, Griffith University
Fei-Yue Wang, University of Arizona
Andrew Whinston, University of Texas
G. J. Wyatt, Herriot-Watt University
Yaakov Zahavi, Tel-Aviv University - IFORS Representative
Moshe Zviran, Tel-Aviv University
Inquiries should be directed to:
AIEM4, c/o Dr. Moshe Zviran,
Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Phone: +972-3-6408025, Fax: +972-3-6409560,
Internet: AIEM96@vm.tau.ac.il
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: bauer@dfki.uni-sb.de (Mathias Bauer)
Subject: CFP: IJCAI95 Workshop on Plan Recognition, Aug 95, Toronto
Date: 12 Jan 1995 12:07:22 GMT
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Submissions are invited for the following workshop,
to be held in conjunction with IJCAI 95
Sunday, August 20, 1995
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| The Next Generation of Plan Recognition Systems: |
| Challenges for and Insight from Related Areas of AI |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
Description:
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Plan recognition, i.e. inferring an agent's intentions and goals from
his/her observed behavior, is a crucial task in many different
application areas, including HCI/helpware, natural language understanding,
story understanding, generation and update of user models, program
recognition, student modeling, and DAI/multi-agent systems. This diversity
of plan recognition applications is mirrored in the number of research
communities that contribute to the area: planning, knowledge
representation, user modeling, intelligent tutoring systems, natural
language processing, deduction, abduction, probabilistic reasoning,
distributed AI, human-computer interaction, software engineering, and
reasoning about actions and time.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these
various communities, in order to identify research directions that
will facilitate the next generation of plan recognition systems, as
well as to identify challenging research problems that plan
recognition poses.
Topics:
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Since the emphasis of the workshop is on an interdisciplinary exchange
of ideas, the workshop solicits submissions both from researchers in plan
recognition and from researchers in other disciplines whose ideas bear
on an issue of importance to plan recognition work.
Topics of interest can be roughly divided into three categories:
1. ideas and tools from other disciplines that can contribute
to the area of plan recognition.
2. desirable properties of plan recognition systems and peculiarities
of plan recognition in the various subdisciplines
3. implementation and evaluation of plan recognition systems.
Within the first category, researchers from other disciplines might
present new work that could be of use to plan recognition researchers.
This might include:
o Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: representation of plans,
plan hierarchies, actions, uncertain knowledge, temporal reasoning,
representation languages, inference mechanisms, and other
representation/reasoning issues
o Planning: reactive planning, planning from second principles, plan
evaluation and debugging, and other recent developments in planning
and their potential impact on plan recognition
o Multi-agent Systems: the affect of multiple agents on plan recognition,
representational aspects of multi-agent plans, recognition of group
and collaborative plans, individual versus shared beliefs
o User Modeling: recognition of user characteristics that affect plan
recognition, such as knowledge, beliefs, and preferences.
o Software Engineering: Principles and tools for developing large systems
o Other Disciplines: contributions relevant to plan recognition work
Within the second category, researchers might focus on the plan recognition
problem itself. Submissions in this category might include:
o Classification of various instances of the plan recognition problem
according to common structures and issues
o Necessary properties of plan recognition systems for applications in
natural language understanding, tutoring, program understanding, help
systems, etc.
o Scope and applicability of existing tools and theoretical approaches
o Identification of problems that limit the current capability of plan
recognition systems
o Challenges that plan recognition poses for other disciplines
o New applications of plan recognition
o Novel interactions of plan recognizers and systems such as plan
generators, user modeling components, etc. (The presentation of
actually implemented systems is strongly encouraged.)
o Other issues relevant to plan recognition
Within the third category, participants might share their experiences
with implementation of plan recognition systems and their inclusion
in large-scale applications. This might include:
o Roadblocks to implementation of real-world plan recognition systems
and identification of required tools and facilities for easing the
implementation task (such as representation languages, shell systems, etc.)
o Description of implemented systems, including their limitations and
difficulties encountered
o Evaluation of plan recognition systems, including both evaluation
standards and identification of a set of prototype problems for evaluation.
o Other issues related to constructing and utilizing real-world systems.
Format:
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The workshop will consist of a series of talks organized into sessions, the
topics of which will be determined by the submissions. There will
be ample time for discussions. Papers will be collected and assembled
into a workshop proceedings that will be distributed to the registered
participants.
Attendance will be limited to at most 30-40 people. Please note that all
workshop participants are expected to register for the main IJCAI
conference! In addition to the normal conference registration fee, 50 US-$
will be charged for each participant.
Submission Requirements:
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Potential participants should either submit a full paper (maximum 5 pages)
for possible presentation at the workshop or should submit a statement of
interest (1-2 pages) outlining their research and their reasons for
participation. Email submission of PostScript files is strongly encouraged.
If you must submit hardcopy, please include 4 copies. Send your submissions to
Mathias Bauer (see below).
Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: February 12, 1995
Notification of acceptance: April 10, 1995
Final version of papers: April 24, 1995
Actual Workshop: August 20, 1995
Program Committee
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Mathias Bauer (Chair)
German Research Center
For Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
bauer@dfki.uni-sb.de
Sandra Carberry (Co-chair) Diane Litman (Co-chair)
University of Delaware AT&T Bell Laboratories
Department of Computer Science 600 Mountain Avenue, Rm 2B-412
Newark, DE 19716, USA Murray Hill, NJ 07974,USA
carberry@cis.udel.edu diane@research.att.com
James Allen (University of Rochester, USA)
Eugene Charniak (Brown University, USA)
Enrico Franconi (IRST, Italy)
James Greer (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Hitoshi Iida (ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Labs, Japan)
Lewis Johnson (ISI, USA)
Erik Sandewall (University of Linkoeping, Sweden)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Linda Wills (Georgia Tech, USA)
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