tony@alberta.UUCP (Tony Marsland) (12/18/88)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on New Directions in Game-tree Search
Edmonton, Canada
28 - 31 May 1989
The workshop has two distinct components. In the evenings the 6th
World Computer Chess Championship will be held. This is an opportun-
ity to see first-hand the true state of the art in chess programming.
Hardware/Software from all major manufacturers, universities and
research laboratories will compete in public competition. A special
application form for the authors of chess programs is included in the
March issue of the International Computer Chess Association Journal.
During the afternoons, formal presentations on theoretical
aspects, discussion groups led by panels of experts, and detailed
presentations by chess program designers are planned. This workshop is
being organized and hosted by the Canadian Information Processing
Society as part of their Annual Congress.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of computer chess (and other
complex games, like GO) including, but not limited to:
search algorithms knowledge representation
search analysis knowledge acquisition
parallelism program design
planning databases
learning historical perspectives
Both original research and survey papers will be considered. The
organizing committee is interested in both full papers (of about 4000
words, to be reviewed for inclusion in a special workshop proceedings
or to be published in the ICCA Journal), and 1500-word extended
abstracts (for oral presentation only). Please send 4 copies of the
paper/abstract to:
Dr. Tony Marsland
Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton
CANADA T6G 2H1
to be received no later than 1 March 1989. All items received will be
acknowledged, and notification of disposition will be sent before 15
April 1989.
Further information can be obtained by electronic mail to
tony@alberta.cdn or ihnp4!alberta!tony or tama@ualtamts.bitnet