forbus@P.CS.UIUC.EDU (Kenneth Forbus) (09/26/86)
Call for Participation Workshop on Qualitative Physics May 27-29, 1987 Urbana, Illinois Sponsored by: the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and Qualitative Reasoning Group University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Organizing Committee: Ken Forbus (University of Illinois) Johan de Kleer (Xerox PARC) Jeff Shrager (Xerox PARC) Dan Weld (MIT AI Lab) Objectives: Qualitative Physics, the subarea of artificial intelligence concerned with formalizing reasoning about the physical world, has become an important and rapidly expanding topic of research. The goal of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for researchers in the area to communicate results and exchange ideas. Relevant topics of discussion include: -- Foundational research in qualitative physics -- Implementation techniques -- Applications of qualitative physics -- Connections with other areas of AI (e.g., machine learning, robotics) Attendance: Attendence at the workshop will be limited in order to maximize interaction. Consequently, attendence will be by invitation only. If you are interested in attending, please submit an extended abstract (no more than six pages) describing the work you wish to present. The extended abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee. No proceedings will be published; however, a selected subset of attendees will be invited to contribute papers to a special issue of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering. There will be financial assistance for graduate students who are invited to attend. Requirements: The deadline for submitting extended abstracts is February 10th. On-line submissions are not allowed; hard copy only please. Any submission over 6 pages or rendered unreadable due to poor printer quality or microscopic font size will not be reviewed. Since no proceedings will be produced, abstracts describing papers submitted to AAAI-87 are acceptable. Invitations will be sent out on March 1st. Please send 6 copies of your extended abstracts to: Kenneth D. Forbus Qualitative Reasoning Group University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield Avenue Urbana, Illinois, 61801 -------