ethan@bcsaic.UUCP (Ethan Scarl) (03/21/90)
* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *
Second AAAI Workshop on
MODEL-BASED REASONING
Boston, MA, USA Monday, July 30, 1990 Sponsored by AAAI
There are advantages for design, analysis, monitoring, diagnosis, and control
in systematically representing and reasoning about the structure and function
of a system. This workshop is a forum for defining and exploring issues
associated with reasoning from knowledge of a target system's structure and
function, more recently called Model-Based Reasoning (MBR). This includes
control, planning, analysis, theory construction, tutoring, and
design/redesign, as well as the more familiar areas of monitoring and
diagnosis.
The workshop seeks papers which offering insight into fundamental problems
associated with MBR, some of which are listed below. Although analyses of
experiences with MBR may be of interest, this is not a forum for discussing
system implementations or applications.
We encourage papers which contribute to the understanding of issues such as
the following:
* The range of inference mechanisms that exploit explicit structural and
behavioral knowledge; their power and limitations; their requirements upon
structural representations and behavioral simulations; factors leading to
the success or abandonment of MBR
* Target system complexity as a fundamental obstacle; types of complexity; the
use of structure in highly interconnected systems; the absence of physical
structure
* Qualitative/quantitative, analog/discrete, and mixed domains; coping with
computational limits and speed/accuracy tradeoffs; hierarchical and other
organizational principles; geometric knowledge; feedback or other
time-dependencies; embedded software
* Principles of model construction; problems and solutions in knowledge
acquisition; functional/physical model relationships; uncertainty or
incompleteness in models; mixed heuristic/model knowledge
* Inference of structure from behavior; open systems or environments
To facilitate discussion, acceptance will be limited to 30 papers and 10 or
fewer presentations. There will be a proceedings of all accepted submissions.
More formal publication will be pursued if there is sufficient interest.
There will be a commentator for each presented paper, and single paragraph
abstracts of each attendee's paper or work in MBR will be distributed prior to
the workshop.
If sufficient interest is expressed by participants, there may be an
evening session for "system" demonstrations on video or slides.
The workshop's organizing committee consists of: Randy Davis, MIT; Johan de
Kleer, Xerox PARC; Richard Doyle, JPL; Dan Dvorak, U of Texas; David Franke, U
of Texas; Ben Kuipers, U of Texas; Ethan Scarl (chair), Boeing Computer
Services; Mark Shirley, Xerox PARC; Dan Weld, U of Washington; and Brian
Williams, Xerox PARC.
The submission format will be short, self-contained papers of no more than
2000 words (the proceedings version of accepted papers may be longer).
Extensions and condensations of work already submitted to AAAI or elsewhere is
permissible, so long as duplications are noted. Submissions should include
postal addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers for all authors, plus a
stamped self-addressed card if such acknowledgement is desired. Three copies
of submitted papers should be sent to Ethan Scarl at Boeing Computer Services,
P.O. Box 24346, M/S 7L-64 Seattle, Washington, 98124-0346, (206) 865-3255,
865-2964 [fax]. Papers without illustrations may be sent via email as latex
or plain ASCII to ethan@atc.boeing.com.
Important dates: April 2, 1990 Papers must be received
May 21, 1990 Notification of acceptance mailed
June 15, 1990 Abstracts due for early distribution
July 10, 1990 Revised papers must be received
July 30, 1990 Workshop