welch@osu-eddie.UUCP (Arun Welch) (05/19/86)
Call for Participation
WORKSHOP ON
HIGH LEVEL TOOLS FOR KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS
Sponsored by
The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research
The Ohio State University (OSU-LAIR)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Columbus, Ohio
October 7-8, 1986
It has become increasingly clear to builders of knowledge based systems that no
single representational formalism or control construct is optimal for encoding
the wide variety of types of problem solving that commonly arise and are of
practical significance. The structures specific to diagnosis appear ill
adapted for use in design and planning tasks, and those for prediction seem
unsuitable for intelligent data retrieval. Thus there appears to be a need for
task-specific constructs at levels of organization above those of rules,
frames, and predicate calculus, and their associated control structures. In
addition to problem solving, there is a similar move for higher-level tools for
knowledge acquisition and explanation.
The objective of this workshop is to bring together theoreticians and builders
of knowledge based systems in order to explore the prospects for tools for
specifying structures at these higher levels. Presentations are invited on all
aspects of high level tools for knowledge-based systems, including (but not
restricted to) these topics:
- The powers and limitations of existing knowledge engineering tools
and techniques.
- Delineating the "natural kinds" of knowledge based problem solving
that can provide the basis for task specific tools.
- Matching AI techniques to tasks.
- Design proposals for high level knowledge engineering tools.
- Integrating task-specific tools into "toolboxes" for building systems
that perform complex problem solving tasks.
Four copies of an extended ABSTRACT (up to 8 pages, double-spaced) should be
sent to the workshop chairman before July 1, 1986. Acceptance notices will be
mailed by August 1. Revised abstracts should be returned to the chairman by
September 1, 1986, so that they may be bound together for distribution at the
workshop.
Workshop Chairman: Organizing Committee:
B. Chandrasekaran, William J. Clancey, Stanford University
OSU-LAIR Lee Erman, Teknowledge Inc.
Richard Fikes, Intellicorp
John Josephson, OSU-LAIR
Allen Sears, DARPA
For information and local arrangements, contact:
Charlie Huff Bev Mullet
(614) 422-0054 (614) 422-0248
EMail: Huff@Ohio-State.ARPA EMail: Mullet-B@Ohio-State.ARPA
Huff-C@Ohio-State.CSNET
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Department of Computer and Information Science
The Ohio State University
2036 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210