From reitz Tue Apr 12 14:01:33 1994 Received: from picpoul.lirmm.fr (picpoul.lirmm.fr [193.49.105.12]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.4/8.6.4) with ESMTP id OAA11144 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 1994 14:01:32 +0200 Received: from localhost (reitz@localhost) by picpoul.lirmm.fr (8.6.4/8.6.4) id OAA04346 for reitz@lirmm.fr; Tue, 12 Apr 1994 14:07:20 +0200 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 14:07:20 +0200 From: Philippe Reitz Message-Id: <199404121207.OAA04346@picpoul.lirmm.fr> To: reitz Subject: CFP IJCAI'95 Status: RO Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 11:18:58 PST From: Rick Skalsky Subject: IJCAI-95 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: IJCAI-95 IJCAI-95 will take place at the Palais de Congres, Montreal, August 20-25 1995. The biennial IJCAI conferences are the major forums for the international scientific exchange and presentation of AI research. The Conference Technical Program will include workshops, tutorials, panels and invited talks, as well as tracks for paper and videotape presentations. PAPER TRACK: SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES Topics of Interest Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to: * Architectures and languages for AI (e.g. parallel hardware and software for building AI systems) * Artistic, entertainment and multimedia applications. * Automated reasoning (e.g. theorem proving, abduction, automatic programming, search, context management and truth maintenance systems, constraint satisfaction, satisfiability checking) * Cognitive modeling (e.g. user models, memory models) * Connectionist and PDP models * Distributed AI, autonomous agents, multi-agent systems and real-time issues. * Intelligent teaching systems * Knowledge Engineering and Principles of AI applications (e.g. for design, manufacturing control, grand challenge applications) * Knowledge representation (e.g. logics for knowledge, action, belief and intention, nonmonotonic formalisms, complexity analysis, languages and systems for representing knowledge) * Learning, knowledge acquisition and case-based reasoning * Logic programming (e.g. semantics, deductive databases, relationships to AI knowledge representation) * Natural language (e.g. syntax, semantics, discourse, speech recognition and understanding, natural language front ends, generation systems, information extraction and retrieval) * Philosophical foundations * Planning and reasoning about action (including the relation between planning and control) * Qualitative reasoning and naive physics (e.g. temporal and spatial reasoning, model-based reasoning, diagnosis) * Reasoning under uncertainty (including fuzzy logic and fuzzy control) * Robotic and artificial life systems (e.g. unmanned vehicles, vision/manipulation systems) * Social, economic and legal implications * Vision (e.g. color, shape, stereo, motion, object recognition, active vision, model-based vision, vision architectures and hardware, biological modeling). Timetable Submissions must be received by 6th January 1995. Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened. Authors should note that ordinary mail can sometimes be considerably delayed, especially over the new year period, and should take this into account when timing their submissions. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection: successful authors will be notified on or before 20th March 1995. Unsuccessful authors will be notified by 27th March 1995. Notification will be sent to the first author (or designated author). Camera ready copies of the final versions of accepted papers must be received by the publisher in the USA by 24th April 1995. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work. General Authors should submit six (6) copies of their papers in hard copy form. All paper submissions should be to the following address. Electronic or fax submissions cannot be accepted. IJCAI-95 Paper Submissions, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445, Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA. 94025, USA. (telephone (415) 328-3123, email ijcai@aaai.org). Appearance and Length Papers should be printed on 8.5'' x 11'' or A4 sized paper. They must be a maximum of 15 pages long, each page having no more than 43 lines, lines being at most 140mm long and with 12 point type. Title, abstract, figures and references must be included within this length limit. Papers breaking these rules will not be considered for presentation at the conference. Letter quality print is required. (Normally, dot-matrix printout will be unacceptable unless truly of letter quality. Exceptions will be made for submissions from countries where high quality printers are not widely available.) Title Page Each copy of the paper must include a title page, separate from the body of the paper. This should contain: * Title of the paper * Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses (where these exist) of all authors. The first postal address should be one that is suitable for delivery of items by courier service * An abstract of 100-200 words * A set of keywords giving the area/subarea of the paper and describing the topic of the paper. This information, together with the title of the paper, will be the main information used in allocating reviewers. * The following declaration: ``This paper has not already been accepted by and is not currently under review for a journal or another conference. Nor will it be submitted for such during IJCAI's review period.'' Policy on Multiple Submissions IJCAI will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during IJCAI's review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience. Review Criteria Papers will be subject to peer review, but this review will not be ``blind'' (that is, the reviewers will be aware of the names of the authors). Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results and the quality of the presentation. The decision of the Program Committee, taking into consideration the individual reviews, will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers selected will be scheduled for presentation and will be printed in the proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference. Distinguished Paper Awards The Program Committee will distinguish one or more papers of exceptional quality for special awards. This decision will in no way depend on whether the authors choose to enhance their paper with a video presentation. Other Calls Calls for tutorial and workshop proposals and video presentations for IJCAI-95 will be issued shortly. For questions or comments, (415) 328-3123, email ijcai@aaai.org From brezil@laforia.ibp.fr Mon Oct 31 15:30:14 1994 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id PAA16103 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 1994 15:30:13 +0100 Received: from laforia.ibp.fr (laforia.ibp.fr [132.227.60.10]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.8/jtpda-5.0) with SMTP id PAA10890 ; Mon, 31 Oct 1994 15:30:23 +0100 Received: from [132.227.201.89] (mac19-LAFORIA-46-0-2.ibp.fr) by laforia.ibp.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1+RC++) id AA10494; Mon, 31 Oct 94 15:25:11 +0100 Message-Id: <9410311425.AA10494@laforia.ibp.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 15:29:45 +0000 To: gracq@ibp.fr From: brezil@laforia.ibp.fr (Brezillon Patrick) Subject: CFP of the IJCAI-95 Workshop on Context Status: RO CALL FOR PAPERS IJCAI-95, Montreal (Canada), August 20th, 1995 Workshop on Context in Knowledge and Reasoning Modelling Objective --------- The first goal of the workshop, which will be associated with the 14th IJCAI in Montreal, Canada (August 1995), is to address the acquisition, explicit representation, reasoning with, and explanation of context in knowledge- based systems (KBSs). Conversely, the second goal is the use of context to refine the acquisition of knowledge, its representation and its explanation while reasoning in KBSs. Such problems are found in various technical domains as problem solving, knowledge modelling, sharing and reuse of knowledge, etc. As context is widely applicable to knowledge-based systems, the workshop will examine context accross various problem solving domains (e.g., diagnosis, design, planning, knowledge sharing and reuse, intelligent tutoring, etc.). To address the goals of the workshop, it is essential to assemble a multi-disciplinary group of researchers and developers strongly concerned with the importance of context in KBSs. Context is already used in different forms in AI. For example, in computational linguistics, context is essen- tial in providing the right meaning in a text. Context is explicitly represented in various logical formalisms. Previously, context was implicitly represented through other means. For example, screening clauses are used to represent contexts and constrain reasoning in rule-based systems to effect desired results. In addition, Cognitive Scientists have long debated the general meaning and the significance of context in the environment. However, issues such as the modelling, explicit representation and use of context in knowledge-based problem solving, reasoning and explanation remain open questions. The workshop will continue in the same spirit of the workshop entitled "Using Knowledge in its Context", previ- ously held at IJCAI-93 (Chambery, France). (A report on this workshop will appear soon in AI Magazine.) Hence, this workshop will address the following questions: o In problem solving, how context can be: - acquired, - represented, - reasoned with, and - explained? o In problem solving, how to exploit context to improve the: - acquisition, - representation, - reasoning about, and - the explanation of knowledge? o In cooperative systems, how context can improve the coope- ration between a human and a machine in problem solving? PROPOSED SCHEDULE: ----------------- Papers received: January 3rd, 1995 Author notification: February 1st, 1995 Final papers received: March 1st, 1995 Preprints distributed: April 1st, 1995 Begin e-mail discussions: April 15th, 1995 Workshop: August 20th, 1995 Call for book chapters: September 30th, 1995 Revised papers: December 30th, 1995 Submission to a Publisher: December 30th, 1995 Participants will be selected on the basis of submitted papers (10 pages maximum in four copies) by three referees. Papers must include in the first page: the title, author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number, e-mail, an abstract of 300 words maximum and up to five keywords. Proceeding preprints in the form of a University Paris VI-95 technical report will be mailed to the participants three months before the workshop in order to encourage discussions by e-mail. Our goal is to encourage participants to take a position and at the one-day workshop merge similar approaches, discuss remaining differences and defend any controversial positions.The workshop will be limited to 30 active participants. Additional information will be available from the organizers by request. Attendees are required to register for the main IJCAI-95 conference. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Suhayya Abu-Hakima, National Research Council (Canada) Patrick Brezillon, University Paris 6 (France) B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University (USA) William Clancey, Institute of Research on Learning (USA) REVIEW COMMITTEE Dean Allemang, Swiss PTT Telecom (Switzerland) Guy Boy, EURISCO (France) Irina Ezhkova, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) Brian Gaines, University of Calgary (Canada) Fausto Giunchiglia, IRST and University of Trento (Italy) Herbert Jaeger, University of Bielefeld (Germany) Bob Jansen, CSIRO (Australia) Laurent Karsenty, EURISCO (France) Amruth Kumar, University of Buffalo,(USA) Cecile Paris, University of Brighton (UK) Dan Suthers, Learning Research and Development Center (USA) Roy Turner, University of New Hampshire (USA) Main contact address of the Organizing Committee: Patrick Brezillon LAFORIA, Box 169, Phone: (33-1) 44 27 70 08 University Paris VI, Fax: (33-1) 44 27 70 00 4, Place Jussieu F-75252 PARIS Cedex 05 France E-mail: brezil@laforia.ibp.fr _______________________________________________________________ Patrick BREZILLON, E-mail: brezil@laforia.ibp.fr LAFORIA - IBP, Box 169, University Paris VI, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 PARIS Cedex 05, France Phone: +33 1 44 27 70 08 - Fax: +33 1 44 27 70 00 ________________________________________________________________ From kqml-owner@cs.umbc.edu Tue Dec 20 03:59:13 1994 Received: from algol.cs.umbc.edu (daemon@algol.cs.umbc.edu [130.85.100.2]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id DAA25498 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 1994 03:59:11 +0100 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by algol.cs.umbc.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA24617 for kqml-outgoing; Mon, 19 Dec 1994 21:38:52 -0500 From: Timothy Finin Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 21:38:38 -0500 Message-Id: <199412200238.VAA26934@topdog.cs.umbc.edu> To: kqml@cs.umbc.edu Subject: IJCAI Workshop on Basic Ontological Issues in Knowledge Sharing Sender: owner-kqml@cs.umbc.edu Precedence: bulk Status: RO From: doug@csi.uottawa.ca (Doug Skuce) To: srkb@cs.umbc.edu Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 11:04:52 -0500 Precedence: bulk CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Basic Ontological Issues in Knowledge Sharing To be held in conjunction with IJCAI95 Aug 19-21, 1995 (probably 19-20, to be confirmed) Montreal, Canada There is rapidly growing interest in ontologies. Recently there have been workshops on ontologies at LaJolla, (Nov 1994), on implemented ontologies, ECAI-94 in Amsterdam (August 1994), on knowledge sharing and information interchange at IJCAI-93 in Chambery (August 1993), and the workshop on formal ontology in Padova Italy (March 1993). This workshop will thereby contribute to the continuum of current research on knowledge sharing, particularly to the development of generic and shareable ontologies. Consequently, it will cover a wide range of research topics ranging from knowledge modeling to knowledge sharing, including philosophical issues about the fundamentals of ontological representations. Thus, it should be of interest to all researchers working in knowledge representation, engineering, theory, philosophy and AI, etc The workshop will be held during IJCAI95 at at time and place to be determined. Attendees are expected to register for IJCAI and will be charged an additional $50US for the workshop. Organizing Committee: Doug Skuce (chair) University of Ottawa, Ottawa.(doug@csi.uottawa.ca) Nicola Guarino LADSEB-CNR, National Research Council, Padova, Italy (guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it) Lorne Bouchard Universite du Quebec a Montreal (lhb@info.uquam.ca) Program Committee: John Bateman (bateman@gmd.de) Institut fur Integrierte Publikations und InformationSsystems, Darmstadt Jeff Bradshaw (jbrad@grace.rt.cs.boeing.com) Boeing Corp. Seattle Lorne Bouchard (lhb@info.uquam.ca) University de Quebec a Montreal, Montreal Brian Gaines (gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca) University of Calgary Nicola Guarino (guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it) LADSEB-CNR, National Research Council, Padova, Italy Tom Gruber (gruber@eit.com) (Enterprise Integration Technologies) Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. Pat Hayes (phayes@cs.uiuc.edu) Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL. Graeme Hirst (gh@ai.toronto.edu) University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Ed Hovy (hovy@venera.isi.edu) Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California Fritz Lehmann (fritz@rodin.wustl.ed) GRANDAI Software, Irvine, CA Nicholaas Mars (mars@cs.utwente.nl) University of Twente, Twente, NL Guy Mineau (mineau@ift.ulaval.ca) University of Laval, Quebec, Canada Tony Sarris (tony@ontek.com) Ontek Corp, Laguna Hills, CA Doug Skuce (doug@csi.uottawa.ca) University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada John Sowa (sowa@ranch.poly.edu) State University of New York at Binghamton Following is a list of possible topics in the form of questions. Any other topics of related interest will be considered: What "ontologies" are available that others might want to use, i.e that are either sharable now or could be with some effort? What research groups (or individuals?) are currently "developing" ontologies?(e.g. Cyc, Pangloss, Japanese ED Project, Lilog, Ontek) What ontologies are available online for browsing? Or in any other form so that people can start sharing and comparing them. What should we do with these at this time? Can they be "studied" somehow? Is it possible to draw any conclusions yet from any existing ontologies?? Is there any "methodolog for "building" ontologies, or is it just informal at present? Can there be such a methodology? What tools exist to aid in ontology construction and comparison? Who is using these and for what? How can such ontologies be shared? compared? integrated? agreed upon? Is anyone doing any of these yet? Do we need some kind of standardized format, apart from formal languages like KIF? Can we hope to exchange kbs without agreed upon ontologies? How far must such agreement go? Must it be formal? Should standards committees be formed to work toward proposing certain ontologies as standards? Or is this premature? Is there such a thing as a truly "general" ontology? Particularly, one that "works" in all the major natural languages? Do we have any useful theories as yet? What is the role of"formal" ontologies? Is metaphysics useful, e.g. are ontologies such as Bunge's relevant? What if many "ontologies" emerge (like programming languages) because of cultural or other differences? Will we need "translators"? Will this become another kind of MT problem, or is it in fact part of the MT problem? Can ontologies be "automatically" discovered by some kind of learning from texts? If so, what corpora should be used? What is the relation between ontologies and linguistics? Are top-level concepts and properties just semantic primitives? Are Wordnet or Roget useful? What is the role of terminology, or terminography, as it is now starting to be called? (e.g. ISO committees that are working toward the standardization of terms, in particular the terminology of terminology itself.) How is an "ontology" different from a list of well-defined terms? What is the relevance of semi-formal definition methodologies like Mel'cuks ECD? How would standardized ontologies differ from other standards such as product definition standards or database standards? What is the role of KIF? Other "exchange" formats? The WWW? Workshop Format: The workshop will be 2 days in length, 9-12 and 1:30-5 each day. It will be limited in attendance to 30 people, to permit informal discussion. 20 papers will be accepted for discussion. All papers must be submitted electronically; no paper copies will be available. Hence it will be assumed that attendees have read those papers of interest to them in advance, and are ready to discuss them. The presentations therefore should be short summaries, 10 minutes maximum. Following each presentation up to 20 minutes will be allowed for discussion. Thus discussion will be the most important activity. Submission and Refereeing: Papers must be submitted electronically to D. Skuce as Latex, RTF (to be loaded into Word) or Postscript by April 15. Papers which do not print on a Laserjet 4M will be returned with the error message so that the author may fix the problem (hence submit early). Length must not exceed 10 printed pages. The committee will have the results of refereeing by June 1. All papers submitted will be accessible via a WWW site. A timetable for presentations will be available about one month before the workshop. The IJCAI95 home page is: http://ijcai.org/ For further information contact: _______________________________________________________________________ Send mail to majordomo@cs.umbc.edu to subscribe/unsubscribe to the kqml mailing list. Send a message with the body "help" for more information. Archives are at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/mail/ From reitz Thu Dec 22 14:02:32 1994 Received: from serane.lirmm.fr (serane.lirmm.fr [193.49.105.20]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id OAA29093 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 14:02:31 +0100 Received: (reitz@localhost) by serane.lirmm.fr (8.6.9/8.6.4) id NAA25699 for reitz@lirmm.fr; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 13:59:43 +0100 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 13:59:43 +0100 From: Philippe REITZ Message-Id: <199412221259.NAA25699@serane.lirmm.fr> To: reitz Subject: IJCAI Workshop : Adaptation and Learning in Multiagent Systems Status: RO Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 17:42:35 -0600 From: Sandip Sen Subject: IJCAI-95 Workshop CFP: Adaptation and Learning in Multiagent Systems IJCAI-95 Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Multiagent Systems August 21, 1995 Workshop Description Coordination of the activities of multiple agents, whether selfish or cooperative, is essential for the viability of any system in which multiple agents share resources. Learning and adaptation are invaluable mechanisms by which agents can evolve coordination strategies that meet the demands of the environments and the requirements of individual agents. Researchers in the field of Distributed Artificial Intelligence have thus far mainly concentrated on developing coordination off-line that can then be used by agents to coordinate their activities. These pre-fabricated coordination strategies can quickly become inadequate if the system designer's model of the world is incomplete/incorrect or if the environment in which the agents are situated can change dynamically. Coordination strategies that incorporate learning and adaptation components will be more robust and effective in these more realistic scenarios. Researchers in machine learning and adaptive systems have been addressing issues concerned with learning and adapting from past experience, observation, failures, etc. Whereas most of these research have focused on techniques for acquisition and effective use of problem solving knowledge from the viewpoint of a single autonomous agent, a few recent investigations have opened the possibility of application of some of these techniques in multiagent settings. Most of these recent results, however, use existing learning techniques to show that individual agents can respond to the uncertainties inherent in the environment and/or uncertainties imposed by the behavior of other agents. The goal of this workshop is to focus on research that will address unique requirements for agents learning and adapting to work in the presence of other agents. Recognizing the applicability and limitations of current machine learning research as applied to multiagent problems as well as developing new learning and adaptation mechanisms particularly targeted to these class of problems will be of particular relevance to this workshop. We would particularly welcome new insights into this class of problems from other related disciplines, and thus would like to emphasize the inter-disciplinary nature of the workshop. Topics of interest Among others, papers of the following kind are welcome: 1) Benefits of adaptive/learning agents over agents with fixed behavior in multiagent problems. 2) Exploration of the applicability of case-based, explanation-based, and inductive learning systems in novel multiagent problems. 3) Characterization of learning and adaptation methods in terms of modeling power, communication abilities, knowledge requirement, processing abilities of individual agents. 4) Use of multiple learning and adaptation strategies by agents to meet the diverse requirements of coordination in multiagent settings. 5) Developing learning and adaptation strategies for environments with cooperative agents, selfish agents, partially cooperative (will cooperate only if individual goals are not sacrificed) and for environments that can contain mixture of these types of agents. 6) Analyzing and constructing algorithms that guarantee convergence and stability of group behavior. 7) Analyzing effects of knowledge acquisition mechanism on responsiveness of agents or groups to addition/deletion of other agents from the environment. 8) Study of adaptive behavior in team games, where one group of cooperative agents are pitted against another group of cooperative agents. 9) Inter-disciplinary research on multi-agent learning and adaptation (including, but not limited to, research in organizational theory, psychology, sociology, and economics). 10) Description of practical multiagent learning systems that solves specific tasks with intelligent agents. Workshop participation Participation will be by invitation only, and will be limited to approximately 35 people. Submission Requirements: Those who wish to attend the workshop should submit either: 1) a brief statement of interest (1 page) which should include a short description of own previous work related to the topic of the workshop including references of relevant published papers.; or 2) those who wish to present current research at the workshop should submit an extended abstract (no longer than 6 pages) focusing on the main contribution of the work in preference to introductory material, literature review, etc. Please include a list of keywords (e.g, group learning, reactive agents, evolutionary strategies, etc.), the authors' electronic and physical address information, and indicate if you would like to display a poster at the workshop. Postscript versions of statements of interests or extended abstracts should be submitted electronically to sandip@kolkata.mcs.utulsa.edu by March 13, 1995. Submissions and questions regarding this workshop can be directed to: Sandip Sen Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences, University of Tulsa, 600 South College Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74104-3189. OFFICE: 918-631-2985 FAX: 918-631-3077. e-mail: sandip@kolkata.mcs.utulsa.edu Important Dates Deadline for submission of papers: March 13, 1995 Notice of acceptance to participants: April 3, 1995 Camera-ready papers due: April 21, 1995 Workshop date: August 21, 1995 Organizational details All workshop participants are required to register for the main IJCAI conference. Each participant in the workshop will be charge a fee of $50 in addition to the normal IJCAI-95 conference registration fee. Participants will be selected by the workshop organizers after reviewing all submissions. Preference will be given to researchers submitting research papers to the workshop, but we also expect to be able to select a number of from authors of submitted statement of interests who can contribute significantly to the discussion in the workshop. Further information about IJCAI-95 and related activities can be obtained from the IJCAI home page at http://ijcai.org. From kqml-owner@cs.umbc.edu Fri Jan 6 19:05:51 1995 Received: from algol.cs.umbc.edu (daemon@algol.cs.umbc.edu [130.85.100.2]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id TAA18501 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 19:05:46 +0100 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by algol.cs.umbc.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA20602 for kqml-outgoing; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 12:42:21 -0500 From: Timothy Finin Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 12:42:17 -0500 Message-Id: <199501061742.MAA15370@topdog.cs.umbc.edu> To: kqml@cs.umbc.edu Subject: IJCAI Workshop: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages Sender: owner-kqml@cs.umbc.edu Precedence: bulk Status: RO AGENT THEORIES, ARCHITECTURES, AND LANGUAGES Call for Papers - An IJCAI-95 Workshop Montreal, Quebec, August 1995 http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/mike/atal95.html Introduction The past decade has been witness to an explosion of interest in the issues surrounding the design and implementation of agents that can make deci- sions, interact with other agents, and act autonomously and rationally in time-constrained, open, multi-agent environments. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the agent-level, micro aspects of this emerging technology. The workshop will address the issues of agent specification via agent theories, the ability of agents to model other agents, and the ability of agents to make decisions in multi-agent environments. Thus, we intend to explore agent architectures, methodologies for realising agents, agent decision-making theories, inter-agent communi- cation and natural language discourse, software tools for programming and experimenting with agents. In particular, the workshop will focus on the link between theories for agents, agent modeling, and agent decision- making, and the realisation of such theories using software architectures or languages. The workshop aims to bring together researchers working in agent design, planning, multi-agent systems, language understanding, and decision theory. Note that we discourage the submission of papers that address macro-level aspects of agent technology (such as cooperative prob- lem solving or cooperation protocols). Such papers address mainstream Dis- tributed AI issues, and there are other more appropriate outlets for such work. The 1995 workshop is to be held at the IJCAI conference in Montreal, Que- bec, between 19 and 21 August 1995. (Dates are yet to be finalised.) The workshop will build on the success of two workshops held at the 1994 Euro- pean Conference on AI: the workshop on Decision Theory for DAI Applica- tions, and the workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. The proceedings of the latter were published by Springer-Verlag, under the title `Intelligent Agents', as Volume 890 of their `Lecture Notes in AI' series. It is expected that polished versions of papers from the 1995 workshop will be published in a similar way. The workshop has the following main themes: o Agent theories: How do the various components of an agent's cognitive makeup conspire to produce rational behaviour? What is the relation- ship between these components? What formalisms are appropriate for expressing aspects of agent theory? Do we need logic-based formalisms? If not, is another type of mathematical framework appropriate? How are we to model bounded rationality? What properties are desirable for an agent communication language? o Agent decision making: What are appropriate formalisms for expressing aspects of agenthood and decision-making in multi-agent situations? What is the relationship between the dimensions of representation (e.g., symbolic versus numeric) and the problem-solving paradigm (search in a problem space, logical inference to prove a goal, rational choice of action in decision theory and game theory) in decision-making? How do results in decision-theoretic planning fit into the framework? How can different decision-making paradigms be combined (e.g., symbolic versus utilitarian approaches)? o Agent modeling: What paradigms and theories should modeling be based on: should it be logical, knowledge-theoretic, decision-theoretic, game-theoretic? Are theoretical models developed for agent modeling of relevance for practical applications, such as intelligent tutoring systems? What are the relationships between models and communicative acts? How do concerns of real-time performance and reactivity change the nature of agent modeling? o Agent architectures: What structure should an agent have? Is reactive behaviour enough, or do we need deliberation as well? How can we integrate reactive and deliberative components cleanly? What is the relationship between an agent's decision-making model and its archi- tecture? How can we synthesise an agent from an agent specification? How are we to reason about reactive systems? o Agent languages: What are the right primitives for programming an intelligent agent? How are these primitives related to the theory of an agent, or its architecture? Can we realistically hope to execute agent specifications in complex, perhaps multi-modal languages? What are the important aspects of an agent language with respect to agent decision-making? What properties are desirable for an agent communica- tion language? Papers that cross theme boundaries are of particular interest. Examples might include a paper that demonstrated how a particular architecture or language embodied some theory of agency, or a paper that gave the semantics for an implemented agent communication language. Topics of Interest Agent Theories Agent Architectures intentions methodologies time, desires, beliefs, and goals architectures & decision-making situated automata theory deliberative architectures specification/verification of agents reactive architectures executing logical agent specifications hybrid architectures agent communication languages BDI architectures Agent Decision-Making Agent Modeling decision models and decision procedures real-time modeling decision-making under uncertainty modeling with incomplete planning and decision theory information rationality & bounded rationality interleaving modeling with performance Agent Languages communicative acts & modeling game-theoretic modeling agent specification languages decision-theoretic modeling the agent-oriented paradigm knowledge-theoretic modeling agent-based computing logical modelling Submission Details Those wishing to participate in the workshop should submit four hard copies of an original paper of up to five thousand words (approximately thirteen pages maximum), to reach the organising committee chair no later than April 3rd, 1995. The first page should include the full name and contact details (including email, full postal address, and telephone number if pos- sible) of at least one author. A detailed description of other formatting requirements, (including a LaTeX style package), is available either from the workshop WWW site (see below) or on request from the organisers. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent no later than May 8th, and will be delivered by email where possible. Pre-proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. It is expected that polished versions of selected papers will be formally published soon after the workshop is held. Those wishing to attend without presenting a paper should send any member of the organising committee a brief summary of their reasons for interest in the workshop. Note that attendance will, of necessity, be limited. Everyone attending the workshop will be required to register for the main conference. Organising Committee Michael Wooldridge (CHAIR) Nicholas Jennings Department of Computing Department of Electronic Engineering Manchester Metropolitan University Queen Mary & Westfield College Chester Street Mile End Road Manchester M1 5GD, U.K. London E1 4NS, U.K. Email M.Wooldridge@doc.mmu.ac.uk Email N.R.Jennings@qmw.ac.uk Tel (+44 1 61) 247 1531 Tel (+44 1 71) 975 5349 Fax (+44 1 61) 247 1483 Fax (+44 1 81) 981 0259 Klaus Fischer, Joerg P. Mueller German Research Center for AI German Research Center for AI (DFKI GmbH) (DFKI GmbH) Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany Germany Email kuf@dfki.uni-sb.de Email jpm@dfki.uni-sb.de Tel (+49 681) 302 5328 Tel (+49 681) 302 5331 Fax (+49 681) 302 5341 Fax (+49 681) 302 5341 Piotr Gmytrasiewicz Milind Tambe 306 Nedderman Hall Information Sciences Institute CSE Department University of Southern California University of Texas at Arlington 4676 Admiralty Way Arlington, TX 76019-0015 Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Email piotr@cse.uta.edu Email tambe@isi.edu Tel (+817) 273 3334 Tel (+310) 822 1511 Fax (+817) 273 3784 Fax (+310) 823 6714 Program Committee Michael Beetz (USA) ** Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italy) ** Phil Cohen (USA) Ed Durfee (USA) ** Tim Finin (USA) ** Michael Fisher (UK) John Fox (UK) ** Michael Georgeff (Australia) ** Joachim Hertzberg (D) Lewis Johnson (USA) ** Sarit Kraus (Israel) ** Anand Rao (Australia) Charles Rich (USA) ** Jeff Rosenschein (Israel) ** John Self (UK) Yoav Shoham (USA) ** Candace Sidner (USA) ** Munindar Singh (USA) Donald Steiner (D) ** Kurt Sundermeyer (D) ** Michael Wellman (USA) Further Details See the following WWW page: http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/mike/atal95.html Alternatively, contact any member of the organising committee. _______________________________________________________________________ Send mail to majordomo@cs.umbc.edu to subscribe/unsubscribe to the kqml mailing list. Send a message with the body "help" for more information. Archives are at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/mail/ X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Date: Mon, 6 Feb 95 09:45:43 GMT From: david@renault.fr (Jean Marc David 33-1 41 04 94 86) CALL FOR PAPERS INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS IJCAI'95 WORKSHOP Montreal, Canada Saturday August 19, 1995 Global competition and rapid technological advances in communication, computing and flexible machinery are bringing about unprecedented changes in manufacturing and management practices. The global manufacturing company of the future will have to be lean, customer-driven, environment-conscious. It will have to be capable of rapidly adapting its products, processes and alliances in reaction to changes in market demands, technologies, raw material availabilities, legislations, etc. As companies strive to attain these elusive objectives, they are turning to radically new manufacturing philosophies and concepts (e.g. Lean Manufacturing, Agile Manufacturing, Virtual Manufacturing, Holonic Manufacturing, etc.). It is expected that Artificial Intelligence will play a key role in delivering the decision support tools required to turn these visionary concepts and philosophies into practice. Over the past decade, Artificial Intelligence techniques have found their way into practically all areas of manufacturing, from product and process development, production management, procurement, quality control, distribution all the way to recycling/re-manufacturing and are playing a critical role in helping integrate these functionalities both within and across enterprises. This one-day workshop aims at bringing together experts in all areas of Intelligent Manufacturing. It will provide a forum to review the latest advances in the field and assess the challenges that lie ahead. Areas of interest are many and include (but are not limited to): AI in Design and Engineering, AI in Production Planning and Control, AI in Recycling and Re-manufacturing, AI Architectures for Intra- and Inter- Enterprise Integration, AI in Business Process Re-engineering, etc. Based on paper submissions, the organizers plan to identify 4 or 5 sets of related issues which will serve as a basis for the organization of focused panels. Each panel will include 4 or 5 short paper presentations followed by open discussions. Panel topics are expected to provide a balance between discussions of key technical issues/advances and broader discussions on the role of AI in supporting new manufacturing concepts such as Agile Manufacturing, Virtual Manufacturing, Virtual Enterprises, Holonic Manufacturing, etc. The panels will also be complemented by poster sessions during breaks to give everyone a chance to present their work. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Those interested in participating should submit four copies of a 2-4 page extended abstract/position statement/progress report along with a list of related publications by *March 17, 1995* and their complete address (including e-mail). Electronic submissions will only be accepted if in plain ascii format. Participants will be selected by the program committee based on their submissions. Invitations to participate will be sent by April 5, 1995. Selected participants will be requested to submit a longer camera-ready contribution for inclusion in the workshop proceedings by April 28, 1995 (format: maximum of 12 pages on 8.5''x11'' or A4 sized paper with 12 point type). Revised versions of the best papers from the workshop may also be considered for inclusion in an appropriate journal or in a published collection. Submissions and inquiries should be sent to: Norman M. Sadeh (workshop chair) Co-Director Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory Center for Integrated Manufacturing Decision Systems The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 U.S.A. Phone: +1(412)268-8827 Fax: +1(412)268-5569 Email: sadeh@cs.cmu.edu WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION Program Committee: - Mark Boddy (Honeywell, USA) - Jean-Marc David (Renault, France) - Barry Fox (Mc Donnell Douglas, USA) - Maria Gini (Univ, of Minnesota, USA) - Norman Sadeh (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA), chair Advisory Committee: Guy Doumeingts (Univ. of Bordeaux, France), Mark S. Fox (Univ. of Toronto, Canada), Les Gasser (Univ. of Southern California, USA), Mike Gilmore (BICC, UK), Fumihiko Kimura (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Jae K. Lee (KAIST, Korea), Claude Lepape (ILOG, France), and Stephen F. Smith (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA). SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline: March 17, 1995 - Acceptance notification: April 5, 1995 - Final camera-ready contributions due by: April 28, 1995 - Distribution of papers to other panelists: June 15, 1995 - Workshop: August 19, 1995 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION The registration fee for this one-day workshop is $50. In addition, workshop participants must register for the IJCAI conference. Additional information about IJCAI'95 can be obtained by sending e-mail to: ijcai@aaai.org or via the World Wide Web at http://ijcai.org/ijcai-95. From: Peter Turney Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:01:01 +0500 Subject: Workshop on Data Engineering for Inductive Learning On August 20, 1995, there was a workshop at IJCAI-95 on the topic of Data Engineering for Inductive Learning (DEIL). Some of the problems discussed in the DEIL workshop overlap with the concerns of the Machine Learning community. The papers presented at the workshop are now available on the web as compressed PostScript files: http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/DEIL/ The web site includes abstracts in HTML, papers in PostScript, the original CFP for the workshop, and pointers to related material.