john@bcsaic (John Boose) (01/08/90)
FIRST JAPANESE KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS WORKSHOP Co-Sponsored by Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. Kansai Institute of Information System In Cooperation with American Association for Artificial Intelligence Information Processing Society of Japan Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Japan Society for Software Science and Technology The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Kyoto International Conference Hall (Kyoto) October 25 - 26, 1990 Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo) October 29 - 31, 1990 A problem in the process of building knowledge-based systems is acquiring and modeling appropriate problem-solving knowledge. The objective of this workshop is to assemble theoreticians and practitioners of AI who recognize the need for developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge acquisition process. The workshop will be in two parts: a two-day open meeting in Kyoto and three-day closed workshop in Tokyo. To encourage vigorous interaction and exchange of ideas the closed workshop will be kept small - about 40 participants, one author for each paper accepted. Some papers will be presented at the open meeting and the remainder in the closed workshop. There will be Tutorial and invited talk sessions in the open workshop. Papers are invited for consideration in all aspects of knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, including (but not restricted to): o Transfer/modeling of expertise - systems that obtain and model knowledge from experts. o Transfer/modeling of expertise - manual knowledge acquisition methods and techniques. o Apprenticeship, explanation-based, and other learning systems; integration of such systems with other knowledge acquisitIon techniques. o Methods for capturing design knowledge and requirements o Issues in cognition and expertise that affect the knowledge acquisition process. o Extracting and modeling of knowledge from text. o Eliciting and modeling knowledge from multiple sources. o Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques within a single system; integration of knowledge acquisition systems with other systems (hypermedia, database management systems, simulators, spreadsheets...). o Knowledge acquisition methodology and training. o Validation of knowledge acquisition techniques; the role of knowledge acquisition techniques in validating knowledge-based systems. Five copies of a draft paper (up to 20 pages) should be sent to Hiroshi Motoda before February 28th, 1990. Acceptance notices will be mailed by May 30th. Camera-ready copies should be returned before August 15th. A preprint volume will be distributed at the workshop. There will be travel-and-expense awards for the best paper submitted by students from overseas countries to cover a part of their travel expenses. Please note if the paper should be considered for this award. Workshop Co-chairmen: John Boose Brian Gaines Advanced Technology Center Department of Computer Science Boeing Computer Services University of Calgary john@boeing.com gaines@calgary.cdn Hiroshi Motoda Riichiro Mizoguchi Advanced Research Laboratory Institute of Scientific and Hitachi, Ltd. Industrial Research Kokubunji, Tokyo 185, Japan Osaka University motoda@harl.hitachi.co.jp miz@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp International Program Committee Tom Addis, University of Reading, UK Guy Boy, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de Toulouse, France & NASA AMES Jeffrey Bradshaw, Boeing Computer Services B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University William Clancey, Institute for Research on Learning, CA Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France Thomas Gruber, Stanford University Koichi Hori, University of Tokyo Nancy Johnson, Brunel University, UK Georg Klinker, Digital Equipment Corp. Shigenobu Kobayashi, Tokyo Institute of Technology Yves Kodratoff, CNRS, France, & George Mason University Marc Linster, GMD. Bonn, Germany John McDermott, Digital Equipment Corporation Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University Katharina Morik, GMD, Bonn, Germany Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University Mark Musen, Stanford University Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin Ross Quinlan, Sydney University, Australia Alain Rappaport, Neuron Data, USA Mildred Shaw, University of Calgary Hirokazu Taki, Institute for New Generation Computer Technology Masanobu Watanabe, NEC Corporation Bob Wielinga, University of Amsterdam, Holland -- Good health is merely the slowest rate at which one can die.
humphrey@suesun.nlm.nih.gov (Susanne M Humphrey) (04/06/91)
2nd ASIS Workshop on Classification Research Organized by the ASIS Special Interest Group on Classification Research (SIG/CR) Call for Participation The American Society for Information Science Special Interest Group on Classification Research (ASIS SIG/CR) invites submissions for the 2nd ASIS Classification Research (CR) Workshop, to be held at the 54th Annual Meeting of ASIS in Washington, DC. The Workshop will take place Sunday, October 27th, 1991, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ASIS '91 continues through Thursday, October 31. The CR Workshop is designed to be an exchange of ideas among those engaged in active research or practice in the creation, development, management, representation, display, comparison, compatibility, theory, and application of classification schemes. Emphasis will be on semantic classification, in contrast to statistically-based schemes. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Warrant for concepts in classification schemes. - Concept acquisition. - Basis for semantic classes. - Automated techniques to assist in creating classification schemes. - Statistical techniques used for developing explicit, nonstatistically-based semantic classes. - Relations and their properties. - Inheritance and subsumption. - Knowledge representation schemes. - Classification algorithms. - Procedural knowledge in classification schemes. - Reasoning with classification schemes. - Software for managing classification schemes. - Data structures and programming languages for classification schemes. - Comparison and compatibility between classification schemes. - Previously-named topics, highlighting specific applications such as subject analysis, database navigation, information retrieval, natural language understanding, expert systems, and image processing. The CR Workshop welcomes submissions from various disciplines. Attendance will be by invitation only. Those interested in participating are invited to submit a short (1-2 page single-spaced) position paper, summarizing their substantive work in the above areas or other areas related to semantic classification schemes, and a statement briefly outlining the reason for wanting to participate in the workshop. Submissions may include background papers as attachments. Those selected as presenters will be invited to submit expanded versions of their position papers and to speak to those papers in brief presentations during the workshop. All position papers (both expanded and short papers) will be published in proceedings to be distributed prior to the workshop. The workshop registration fee is $30.00 per person, and includes a copy of the proceedings and lunch and refreshments. Submissions should be sent by email, or diskette accompanied by paper copy, or paper copy only (fax or postal), to arrive by May 1, 1991, to Barbara Kwasnik: Barbara Kwasnik, Co-Chair Raya Fidel, Co-Chair School of Information Studies Graduate School of Library and 4-206 Center for Science and Technology Information Science Syracuse University University of Washington, FM-30 Syracuse, NY 13244 Seattle, WA 98195 Internet: bkwasnik@suvm.acs.syr.edu Internet: fidelr@vax1.u.washington.edu Phone: (315) 443-2911 Phone: (206) 543-1888 Fax: (315) 443-5806