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 IEEE Computer Society Administrative Office 1730 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036-1903 (202) 371-0101