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.edubareiss@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.