kris@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Kristian J. Hammond) (02/17/89)
Workshop Announcement The Information Science and Technology Office (ISTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring a Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning for invited researchers and interested government employees on May 31st - June 2nd in Pensacola Beach Florida. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together current and potential researchers in the area of Case-Based Reasoning to review the latest research results in this field, to keep the government research community abreast of current technology and to discuss the future of the Case-Based paradigm for a new generation of expert systems. Last year's very successful workshop centered around exposing the wide variety of research in the area of Case-Based Reasoning and making connections between the different research groups that now exist. The goal of this year's workshop is to follow up on last year's success and identify the issues and ideas that define Case-Based Reasoning as well as outline its future directions. The primary content of the workshop will center around issue oriented panels and invited speakers as well as poster sessions and program demonstrations. Our current panels include: 1) Indexing and retrieval: Algorithms and vocabularies for organizing memory. 2) Causal reasoning and explanation in CBR. 3) The structure and content of a case. 4) Transforming cases: What does it mean to "tweak"? 5) Analogy and CBR. 6) Uses of cases: What does a case buys you. 7) CBR in advesarial domains. 8) Applications and validation: Evaluating success in CBR? 9) Similarity judgements in case retrieval. Our invited speakers include Roger Schank, Edwinna Rissland and Janet Kolodner. Any researcher who would like to present at the workshop or help organize a panel is asked to send an abstract of not more than 4 pages to: CBR Workshop c/o Dr. Kristian Hammond University of Chicago Department of Computer Science 1100 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Abstracts should be in no later than March 31st. Final acceptance will be out April 21th. We also encourage researchers to use the poster session to outline new directions of work in CBR as well as provide overviews of existing research programs. Also, any researchers who would like to present a program demonstration should contact Dr. Hammond as soon as possible so that any needed machines can be made available. As with other DARPA sponsored workshops, a full proceedings of the workshop will be made available to those who attend. A follow-up collection of papers associated with the specific panels will also be made available. The aim of these papers will be to define the ideas and issues outlined in the panels and provide a consistent reference and terminology for guiding future work. Our workshop site is: Holiday Inn 165 Ft. Pickens Rd. Pensacola Beach, FL. 32561 (904) 932-5361 Check-in/registration is scheduled for the evening of May 30 and check-out is June 2. Those who wish to stay longer may do so at the regular seasonal rate. The room rate has been negotiated for $70.00/night and each individual is responsible for their own reservations. Be sure to identify yourself as a member of the DARPA Case-Based Reasoning Workshop. Reservations received after 5/10/89 will be provided on a space available basis. The registration fee has been tentatively set at $125, which will cover the cost of the proceedings, dinner on the night of the 31st and coffee breaks. If you have any questions regarding registration information please contact Mary Sullivan at (703) 276-3532 or sully@vax.darpa.mil Kristian J. Hammond Department of Computer Science University of Chicago Kris@anubis.uchicago.edu
bareiss@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu (Ray Bareiss) (11/08/90)
CALL FOR PAPERS 1991 DARPA Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning May 8-10, 1991 The Information Science and Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is sponsoring a Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning for invited researchers and interested government employees on May 8-10, 1991 at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia. The purpose of the workshop is to assess the state of the art and provide a snapshot of ongoing research in Case-Based Reasoning. The workshop is intended to bring active researchers together to review the latest research results in this field, to keep the government research community abreast of current technology, and to discuss the future of the case-based paradigm for a new generation of knowledge-based systems. The 1989 workshop was centered around a set of issue-oriented panels that discussed fundamental problems of Case-Based Reasoning, including case representation, indexing, similarity assessment, and case adaptation. The goal of this year's workshop is to discuss the progress of researchers towards solving these problems in the context of Case-Based Reasoning systems. Consequently, the program committee will prefer papers that discuss implemented systems over those that discuss unimplemented ideas. Papers that are concrete and concise will be preferred over those that are philosophical and/or abstract. Since AI research is largely an experimental science, it is anticipated that these papers will describe experiments performed and the measures applied to evaluate the experimental results. Papers that discuss specific applications where integration and/or scalability issues were solved in novel ways and program demonstrations are also encouraged. Researchers interested in demonstrating programs should contact Ray Bareiss to arrange for the needed computer equipment. A second goal of the workshop will be to provide challenges for future research by encouraging interaction between researchers and potential beneficiaries of their research, such as industrial designers, instructional designers, and builders of large software systems. Researchers who would like to present at the workshop are asked to submit five copies of their papers to: CBR91 Workshop c/o Ray Bareiss Institute for the Learning Sciences Northwestern University 1890 Maple Avenue Evanston, IL 60201 Submitted papers should be camera-ready, not exceeding twelve single-spaced pages including figures and bibliography. Formatting instructions will be sent via surface mail along with a hard copy of this announcement. It is the intention of the program committee to accept papers for publication as submitted, i.e., without revision. People who wish to attend without presenting should submit a brief statement of interest. The submission deadline is January 18, 1991; notification of acceptance will be made by February 28, 1991. As with other DARPA/ISTO sponsored workshops, a full proceedings of the workshop will be made available to those who attend. Workshop Program Committee: Ray Bareiss, Northwestern University (chair) Kris Hammond, University of Chicago Janet Kolodner, Georgia Institute of Technology Bill Mark, Lockheed AI Center Chris Riesbeck, Northwestern University Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University Note: We encourage distribution of this announcement to interested colleagues who are active in case-based reasoning research. Contact Romina Fincher by telephone (703)614-4001 or email fincher@darpa.mil if you would like copies of this announcement sent elsewhere.