adler@slot.enet.dec.com (Mark Adler) (11/21/90)
CALL FOR PAPERS
The AAAI Workshop on
Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems
held at the
Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are
studying how to enable a heterogeneous collection of independent
intelligent systems to cooperate in solving problems requiring their
combined expertise. Heterogeneous intelligent systems can differ in
their internal structures, capabilities, and purposes. The workshop
will address issues and techniques for overcoming current limitations,
including limitations in facilitating collaboration among collections
of AI and human problem solvers. It will focus on how to develop tools
for supporting cooperation between heterogeneous intelligent systems
and shells for building cooperative knowledge-based systems. Among
the workshop's principal topics of interest are:
1. Architectures and frameworks for combining independent AI
systems to enable them collectively to solve more complex
problems.
2. Knowledge-level analyses of the components that belong to such
systems.
3. Formalisms and frameworks for representing this knowledge.
4. Identification of the types of cooperation and negotiation that
can be achieved by heterogeneous systems.
5. Descriptions of existing cooperative intelligent systems and
experiences in using these systems. These systems should make
sophisticated cooperative decisions, rather than blindly
exchanging all information through file transfer.
6. Computer environments that facilitate cooperation between people
of diverse abilities during a problem-solving process.
Attendance at the workshop has been limited to 50 people and is
primarily intended for authors of accepted papers. There may be
additional space available to those who have not submitted a paper but
are interested in the field. Those parties should submit a one page
request to the address below. Timetable
o March 1, 1991 3 copies of an extended abstract (5-8 pages)
describing unpublished work due at the address below.
o April 26, 1991 Notification letters are mailed to all who
submitted papers.
o June 17, 1991 Final draft of papers due.
o July 15, 1991 Workshop is held.
Organizing Committee
o Mark Adler, Digital Equipment Corporation
o Ed Durfee, University of Michigan
o Michael Huhns, MCC
o Evangelos Simoudis, Digital Equipment Corporation
Send papers to:
Evangelos Simoudis, Digital Equipment Corporation, 290 Donald Lynch
Blvd, DLB5-2/B4, Marlboro, MA 01752, (508)490-8141,
simoudis@aiag.enet.dec.com