jj@medulla.cis.ohio-state.edu (John Josephson) (02/24/91)
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REMINDER
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AAAI 1991 Workshop
Towards Domain-Independent Strategies for Abduction
to be held at
the 9th National Conference on AI
(one day during July 14-19, 1991)
Upcoming deadline: Submissions should be sent so as to arrive by March
1, 1991. If you are anticipating any problem with this deadline,
please get in touch with Venu Dasigi by e-mail or phone.
All potential participants should submit a short (less than 1-page)
summary of their work and a list of relevant publications. (Easy! You
can send by e-mail.)
Those wishing to discuss their work at the workshop should submit
extended abstracts of papers (up to approximately 4 single-spaced
pages); abstracts of work in progress are encouraged.
Send 5 copies to: Venu Dasigi, Department of Computer Science, Wright State
University Research Center, 3171 Research Boulevard, Dayton, OH 45420.
E-mail: vdasigi@cs.wright.edu
Phone: 513-259-1395 or 513-873-3201.
Acceptance notices will be sent April 15, 1991.
Here again is the Call for Participation.
Call for Participation
The workshop will focus on applications of abductive
inference with the objective of discerning which computa-
tional strategies have what degree of domain dependence.
Two types of work will be of interest in the workshop:
that which examines abductive processing in more than one
domain, and that which describes a particular application
of abduction from an engineering perspective, with an eye
to what can be generalized and applied to other domains.
Treatments of other aspects of abduction, such as its
characterizations, models, causality, explanatory nature,
etc. are encouraged insofar as they address the main
focus. Of interest are issues of identifying, character-
izing or clarifying procedural (information processing
strategy) aspects of abduction. That is, there appears to
be consensus that medical diagnosis or determining struc-
tures of chemical compounds are (logically) abductive
problems, but it is not clear whether MYCIN or DENDRAL
should considered to be (procedurally) abductive systems.
It is also hoped that this workshop might serve to relate
existing theory to applications and implementations.
Most of the applications of abduction that have
appeared in the literature so far are in diagnosis, plan
recognition and natural language processing. It appears
that other applications, notably in speech processing,
vision (e.g., object recognition) and even plan genera-
tion, etc. are possible and are being currently investi-
gated. One of the aims of this workshop is to encourage
participants to share their preliminary investigations in
such areas, and discuss what interesting issues underlie
them, and whether most such issues are common to different
applications. The schedule also includes a keynote talk by
Harry Pople.
Organizing Committee:
Michael Coombs (mcoombs@nmsu.edu)
Venu Dasigi (vdasigi@cs.wright.edu) - Correspondent
Jerry Hobbs (hobbs@ai.sri.com)
John Josephson (jj@cis.ohio-state.edu) - Chair
Yun Peng (ypeng@algol.cs.umbc.edu)