juggy@BOEING.COM (Vasudevan Jagannathan) (01/07/87)
Call for Participation
Workshop on Blackboard Systems: Implementation Issues
In the past couple of years a wide variety of black-
board systems have been built to address a wide variety of
problems. The goal of this workshop is to study the design
and implementation issues in blackboard systems and to
understand the diversity which exists in such systems.
Specific issues that will be focused on are:
1. Control Issues: What is the approach taken to control
the problem solving and rationale for choice?
2. Organization Issues: What are the mechanisms available
for organizing knowledge in such systems? If the system is
distributed what are the communication issues that play a
critical role in the development of the system.
3. Parallelism and Concurrency Issues: What scope is
present in the system to exploit parallelism at the applica-
tion level, at the system level?
4. Performance issues: What benchmarks are available for
evaluating the performance, and what are the bottlenecks
affecting performance?
5. Development Environment: Does the system provide any
help in developing the actual application?
To encourage vigorous interaction and exchange of ideas
between those attending, the workshop will be limited to
approximately 30 participants. The workshop is scheduled on
July 13th, 1987, Monday, as a parallel activity during AAAI
1987, and will last for a day.
All submitted papers will be refereed with respect to
how well they identify and discuss the factors affecting the
design and implementation of blackboard systems. Authors
should discuss their design decisions (why a particular
approach was selected); what worked, what did not and why;
the advantages, disadvantages and limitations of their
approach; and what they would recommend to others developing
such systems. Preference will be given to those papers that
discuss approaches that have been demonstrated in real
applications.
Submission Details: Five copies of an extended abstract,
double spaced draft up to 4000 words, should be submitted to
the workshop chairman before April 1, 1987. Acceptances
will be mailed by May 1, 1987. Final copies of the extended
abstract will be required by June 1, 1987 so that they may
be informally bound together for distribution before the
workshop.
Workshop Chairman: V. Jagannathan, M/S 7L-64, The Boeing
Advanced Technology Center, Boeing Computer Services, P.O.
Box 24346, Seattle, WA 98124-0346. Telephone: (206)865-3240.
E-mail:juggy@boeing.com.