[mod.ai] Conference - Expert Systems In Government

camis..duke@MITRE.ARPA (07/02/86)

The Second Annual Expert Systems in Government Conference, sponsored by
the Mitre Corporation and the IEEE Computer Society in association with
the AIAA National Capital Section will be held October 20-24, 1986 at
the Tyson's Westpark Hotel in McLean, VA.  The tentative program, subject
to changes and additions, is as follows:

October 20-21  Tutorials

Monday, October 20

Full Day Tutorial: 	Advanced Topics in Expert Systems
		   	by Kamran Parsaye, IntelligenceWare, Inc.

Morning Tutorial:  	Knowledge Base Design for Rule Based Expert Systems
		   	by Casimir Kulikowski, Rutgers University

Afternoon Tutorial:	Knowledge Base Acquisition and Refinement
		   	by Casimir Kulikowski, Rutgers University

Tuesday, October 21

Morning Tutorial:	Distributed Artificial Intelligence
			by Kamal Karna,
			Computer Communications & Graphics Associates, Inc.
			and
			Barry Silverman, George Washington University

Morning Tutorial: 	Introduction to Common Lisp
			by Carl Hewitt, MIT AI Lab

Afternoon Tutorial:	Lisp for Advanced Users
			by Carl Hewitt, MIT AI Lab

Afternoon Tutorial:	The Management of Expert System Development
			by Nancy Martin, Softpert Systems


October 22-24  Technical Program

Wednesday, October 22

9 - 10:30
Conference Chairman's Welcome
Keynote Address: Douglas Lenat, MCC
Program Agenda

11am - 12pm

Track A: Military Applications I

Bonasso, Benoit, et al.;
An Experiment in Cooperating Expert Systems for Command and Control

Major R. Bahnij, Major S. Cross;
A Fighter Pilot's Intelligent Aide for Tactical Mission Planning

G. Loberg, G. Powell
Acquiring Expertise in Operational Planning: A Beginning

Track B: Systems Engineering

R. Entner, D. Tosh; Expert Systems Architecture for Battle Management

H. Hertz; An Attribute Referenced Production System

B. Silverman; Facility Advisor: A Distributed Expert System Testbed for
Spacecraft Ground Facilities

12pm - 1pm Lunch, Distinguished Guest Address, The Honorable Charles Rose

1pm - 2:30pm

Track A: Knowledge Acquisition I

J. Boose, J. Bradshaw; NeoETS: Capturing Expert System Knowledge

K. Kitto, J. Boose; Heuristics for Expertise Transfer

M. Chignell; The Use of Ranking and Scaling in Knowledge Acquisition

Track B: Expert Systems in the Nuclear Industry

D. Sebo et al.; An Expert System for USNRC Emergency Response

D. Corsberg; An Object-Oriented Alarm Filtering System

J. Jenkins, W. Nelson; Expert Systems and Accident Management

3pm - 5pm

Track A: Expert Systems Applications I

R. Tong, et al.; An Object-Oriented System for Information Retrieval

D. Niyogi, S. Srihari; A Knowledge-based System for Document Understanding

R. France, E. Fox; Knowledge Representation in Coder

Track B: Diagnosis and Fault Analysis

M. Taie, S. Srihari; Device Modeling for Fault Diagnosis

Z. Xiang, S. Srihari; Diagnosis Using Multi-level Reasoning

B. Dixon; A Lisp-Based Fault Tree Development Environment

Panel Track:
1pm - 5pm	Management of Uncertainty in Expert Systems
Chair: 		Ronald Yager, IONA College
Participants: 	Lofte Zadeh, UC Berkeley
		Piero Bonissone, G.E.
		Laveen Kanal, University of Maryland


Thursday, October 23

9am - 10:30am

Track A: Parallel Architectures

L. Sokol, D. Briscoe; Object-Oriented Simulation on a 
Shared Memory Parallel Architecture

H. Sowizral; A Basis for Distributed Blackboards

J. Gilmer; Parallelism Issues in the CORBAN C2I Representation

Track B: Aerospace Applications of Expert Systems

J. Popolizio, J. Feinstein; Space Station Security: An Expert Systems Approach

D. Zoch; A Real-time Production System for Telemetry Analysis

J. Schuetzle; A Mission Operations Planning Assistant

P. Roach, D. Brauer; Ada Knowledge Based Systems

F. Rook, T. Rubin; An Expert System for Conducting a 
Sattelite Stationkeeping Maneuver

Panel Track: Star Wars and AI; Chair: John Quilty, Mitre Corp.

11am - 12pm
Plenary Address: 
B. Chandrasekaran; The Future of Knowledge Acquisition

12pm - 1pm Lunch

1pm - 2:30pm

Track A: Inexact and Statistical Measures

K. Lecot; Logic Programs with Uncertainties

N. Lee; Fuzzy Inference Engines in Prolog/P-Shell

J. Blumberg; Statistical Entropy as a Measure of Diagnostic Uncertainty

Track B: High Level Tools for Expert Systems

S. Shum, J.Davis; Use of CSRL for Diagnostic Expert Systems

E. Dudzinski, J. Brink; CSRL: From Laboratory to Industry

D. Herman, J. Josephson, R. Hartung; Use of the DSPL
for the Design of a Mission Planning Assistant

J. Josephson, B. Punch, M. Tanner; PEIRCE: Design Considerations
for a Tool for Abductive Assembly for Best Explanation

Panel Track: Application of AI in Telecommunications
Chair: Shri Goyal, GTE Labs
Participants:	Susan Conary, Clarkson University
		Richard Gilbert, IBM Watson Research Center
		Raymond Hanson, Telenet Communications
		Edward Walker, BBN
		Richard Wolfe, ATT Bell Labs

3pm - 5pm

Track A: Expert System Implementations

S. Post; Simultaneous Evaluation of Rules to Find Most Likely Solutions

L. Fu; An Implementation of an Expert System that Learns

R. Frail, R. Freedman; OPGEN Revisited

Track B: Expert System Applications II

R. Holt; An Expert System for Finite Element Modeling

A. Courtemanche; A Rule-based System for Sonar Data Analysis

F. Merrem; A Weather Forecasting Expert System

R. Ahad, A. Basu; Explanation in an Expert System

W. Vera, R. Bozolcz; AI Techniques Applied to Claims Processing

Panel Track: Command and Control Expert Systems
Chair:		Andrew Sage, George Mason University

Participants: 	Peter Bonasso, Mitre
		Stephen Andriole, International Information Systems
		Paul Lehner, PAR
		Leonard Adelman, PAR
		Walter Beam, George Mason University
		Jude Franklin, PRC


Friday, October 24

9am - 12pm: Classified Track
Classified Working Session:  The community building expert systems for
classified applications is unsure of the value and feasibility of some
form of communication within the community.  This will be a session
consisting of discussions and working sessions, as appropriate, to
explore these issues in some depth for the first time, and to make
recommendations for future directions for the classified community.

9am - 10:30am

Track A: Military Applications

K. Michels, J. Burger; Missile and Space Mission Determination

J. Baylog; An Intelligent System for Underwater Tracking

J. Neal et al.; An Expert Advisor on Tactical Support Jammer Configuration

Track B: Expert Systems in the Software Lifecycle

D. Rolston; An Expert System for Reducing Software Maintenance Costs

M. Rousseau, M. Kutzik; A Software Acquisition Consultant

R. Hobbs, P. Gorman; Extraction of Data System Requirements

Panel Track: Next Generation Expert System Shells
Chair: Art Murray, George Washington University
Participants:	Joseph Fox, Software A&E
		Barry Silverman, George Washington University
		Lee Erman, Teknowledge
		Chuck Williams, Inference
		John Lewis, Martin Marietta Research Labs

11am - 12pm

Track A: Spacecraft Applications

D. Rosenthal; Transformation of Scientific Objectives
into Spacecraft Activities

M. Hamilton et al.; A Spacecraft Control Anomaly Resolution Expert System

Track B: Knowledge Acquistion and Applications

E. Tello; DIPOLE - An Integrated AI Architecture

H. Chung; Experimental Evaluation of Knowledge Acquisition Methods

Panel Track: Government Funding of Expert Systems
Chair: Commander Allen Sears, DARPA


Conference Chairman: Kamal Karna
Unclassified Program Chairman: Kamran Parsaye
Classified Program Chairman: Richard Martin
Panels Chairman: Barry Silverman
Tutorials Chairman: Steven Oxman


Registration information can be requested from 
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