geo@manta.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (George Bray) (03/22/91)
IJCAI-91 Workshop Call for Papers
Workshop Title:
Software Engineering for Knowledge-Based Systems
Contacts
Please direct all submissions to Dr. Jansen
Asia Pacific:
Dr. Bob Jansen
CSIRO Division of Information Technology PO Box 1599
North Ryde
NSW 2113
Australia
ph: +61 2 887 9489
fax: +61 2 888 7787
email: jansen@syd.dit.csiro.au
North America :
Professor John Carlis
Department of Computer Science
University of Minneapolis
207 Church St. SE
Minneapolis
Minnesota 55455
USA
ph: +1 612 625 6092
fax: +1 612 625 0572
email: carlis@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
Europe:
Mr. Jyrki Kontio
Development Manager
Knowledge Technology
Nokia Research Centre
PO Box 156 SF-02101
Espoo
Finland
ph: +358 0 43 76 15 86
fax: +358 0 45 52 091
email: J_Kontio@eurokom.ie
Brief Description
The rule-based paradigm used in the building of many Knowledge-Based
systems implies that rule-based systems are self-documenting and facilitate
the addition of knowledge to the knowledge-base in an ad-hoc manner (the
No-Function-in-Structure principle).Several first generation Knowledge-Based
systems built using this paradigm are being rebuilt because the maintenance
experience has shown that the paradigm is invalid .. The maintenance of
these systems became increasingly difficult to the point that an expensive
re-construction effort was seen as the only solution to the burgeoning
maintenance problem.Analysis of the maintenance problem indicates that
it falls in that class of problems usually associated with information
systems constructed with little, if any, application of software engineering.
Recent research has indicated that software engineering has a major part to
play in the design and construction of Knowledge-Based systems, and that
similar benefits gained from applying software engineering to Information
Systems would be applicable to the organization. The application of software
engineering to Knowledge-Based systems facilitates the integration of
Knowledge-Based Systems with conventional Information Systems and the system
maintainability.Research in this area should be directed to such issues as:
how much of software engineering is applicable to Knowledge-Based
Systems; what methodologies are needed; in what fashion does the application
of software engineering facilitate the interfacing of knowledge acquisition
to knowledge representation/processing; how are accepted knowledge acquisition
strategies affected by the application of software engineering; how is
knowledge representation affected by software engineering; etc.This workshop
aims to bring together researchers involved with the software engineering
of Knowledge-Based systems. It is aimed at people working with Knowledge-Based
Systems having experience in: design methodologies ; maintenance; structured
knowledge acquisition; knowledge representation; knowledge modelling.
The workshop will run for two consecutive days, with the first day consisting
of keynote presentations concluding with a panel session, open to the general
public, and the second day consisting of a set of presentations and discussion,
strictly limited to 20 people, on the basis of one author per accepted
submission over the two days. Each submission will be refereed by the committee
which will select the presentations for both days. It is intended to publish
the proceedings with each attendee on the second day receiving a pre-published
copy.
Interested researchers are invited to submit four copies of an extended
abstract of no more than two A4 pages. Paper copies only will be accepted.
Late submissions will be returned unopened
Schedule
Closing date for abstracts 15 May 91
Notify acceptance of submission 1 June 91
Firm deadlines:
-workshop proceedings in final form to arrive in Sydney for copying by July 15
at the absolute latest.
-workshop registration form and the $US65.00 fee from participants to be
received by IJCAI no later than July 15
Preliminary Agenda
Day 1 - 24 August 1991
1000 - 1630 five one hour keynote presentations by prominent researchers
in this field
1630 panel session
1730 close
Day 2 - 25 August 1991
0900 introduction
Session 1 - Design Methodologies
0915 presentation & discussion
0945 presentation & discussion
1015 morning tea
1030 discussion
Session 2 - Knowledge Acquisition
1100 presentation & discussion
1130 presentation & discussion
1200 lunch
1300 discussion
Session 3 - Knowledge Representation
1330 presentation & discussion
1400 presentation & discussion
1430 afternoon tea
1445 discussion
Session 4 - Maintenance
1515 presentation & discussion
1545 presentation & discussion
1615 discussion
1645 general discussion
1745 conclusions
1800 end workshop