vdasigi@valhalla.wright.edu (Venu Dasigi) (11/27/90)
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)
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.
People wishing to discuss their work at the workshop
should submit extended abstracts of papers (about 4
single-spaced pages); abstracts of work in progress are
encouraged. Those who present their work at the workshop
will also be asked to participate in panel discussions to
maximize interaction with the audience. All potential par-
ticipants should submit a short (less than 1-page) summary
of their work and a list of relevant publications. Five
copies of the submission should be mailed so as to arrive
by March 1, 1991 to Venu Dasigi, Department of Computer
Science, Wright State University Research Center, 3171
Research Boulevard, Dayton, OH 45420.
vdasigi@cs.wright.edu. (513)259-1395/873-3201.
Important Dates:
March 1, 1991: Abstracts and/or other material to arrive.
April 15, 1991: Acceptance/Participation notices to be sent.
May 15, 1991: Early registration deadline.
June 14, 1991: Late registration deadline.
One day during July 14-19, 1991: Workshop.
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)
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Venu Dasigi vdasigi@cs.wright.edu
Dept. of CS&Eng, Wright State U, 3171 Research Blvd, Dayton, OH 45420vdasigi@desire.wright.edu (Venu Dasigi) (11/27/90)
From article <1990Nov26.183443.6249@cs.wright.edu>, by vdasigi@valhalla.wright.edu (Venu Dasigi): > > 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) > > Call for Participation .... > > People wishing to discuss their work at the workshop > should submit extended abstracts of papers (about 4 > single-spaced pages); abstracts of work in progress are > encouraged. Those who present their work at the workshop > will also be asked to participate in panel discussions to > maximize interaction with the audience. All potential par- > ticipants should submit a short (less than 1-page) summary > of their work and a list of relevant publications. Five > copies of the submission should be mailed so as to arrive > by March 1, 1991 to Venu Dasigi, Department of Computer > Science, Wright State University Research Center, 3171 > Research Boulevard, Dayton, OH 45420. > vdasigi@cs.wright.edu. (513)259-1395/873-3201. > The email address: vdasigi@cs.wright.edu may have temporary problems. An alternative address is: vdasigi@valhalla.wright.edu --- Venu Dasigi Venu Dasigi vdasigi@valhalla.wright.edu Dept. of CS&Eng, Wright State U, 3171 Research Blvd, Dayton, OH 45420