david@crcge1.UUCP (Marc David) (09/26/88)
AVIGNON 89 ---------- Ninth International Workshop: Expert Systems & their Applications Avignon - France, May 29 - June 2, 1989. Specialized Conference on: SECOND GENERATION EXPERT SYSTEMS =================================== Call for Papers Following the first session on Second Generation Expert Systems organized during the 12th IMACS Congress (Paris, July 18-22, 88), a second specialized conference is organized during Avignon'89. Second Generation Expert Systems are able to combine heuristic reasoning with deeper reasoning, based on a model of the problem domain. The conference will emphasize practical and theoretical issues relating to the cooperation of these two kinds of reason- ing. TOPICS INCLUDE: --------------- - integration of different reasoning techniques; - architecture (preferably implemented) for combining heuristic reasoning and model-based reasoning; - cooperation of multiple expertise; - application of cooperative reasoning to real-world problems (e.g. diagnosis, control, planing, design); - the use of qualitative, causal or temporal reasoning tech- niques to augment heuristic reasoning; - integration of qualitative and quantitative reasoning. In addition to technical quality, papers will be evaluated by their potential to contribute to achieving the goals of Second Generation Expert Systems. SUBMISSION: ----------- Submit 6 copies of full-length papers (no longer than 5000 words; about 20 double-spaced pages) before December 12, 1988 to: ----------------- Jean-Claude Rault - Avignon'89; EC2; 269-287 rue de la Garenne 92000 Nanterre; France tel: 33 - 1 - 47.80.70.00 fax: 33 - 1 - 47.80.66.29 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ chairman: Jean-Marc David Laboratoires de Marcoussis route de Nozay 91460 Marcoussis; France tel: 33 - 1 - 64.49.14.89 fax: 33 - 1 - 64.49.06.94 Alice Agogino (University of California at Berkeley; USA); Bert Bredeweg (University of Amsterdam; The Netherlands); B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University; USA); Marie-Odile Cordier (Universite de Rennes; France); Jean-Luc Dormoy (Etudes et Recherches EDF; France); Jean-Paul Krivine (Sedco Forex Schlumberger; France); Benjamin Kuipers (University of Texas at Austin; USA); Robert Milne (Intelligent Applications; UK); Richard Pelavin (Philips Laboratories; USA); Olivier Raiman (Centre Scientifique IBM; France); Reid Simmons (Carnegie-Mellon University; USA); Luc Steels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Belgium); Jon Sticklen (Michigan State University; USA); Pietro Torasso (Universita di Torino; Italy); Louise Trave (LAAS-CNRS; France).
jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (09/30/88)
Do any working and useful "second generation expert systems" actually exist? Or are these guys just looking for new suckers to pour money in? John Nagle
bstev@pnet12.cts.com (Barry Stevens) (10/01/88)
jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) writes: > > Do any working and useful "second generation expert systems" actually >exist? Or are these guys just looking for new suckers to pour money in? > > John Nagle I have experimented with a generalized model of a large datacenter as a driver for a diagnostic expert system, to answer questions such as "Why did my job fail?" "Why is response time slow?" "Who has to be told that I'm going to change program xyz?" "Why are we over budget?" "Where are there opportunities to decrease operating costs?" The rules have been constructed, some testing done. Waiting for me to have time to deal with the complexities of asking english language questions instead of selecting from menus. Working? Sort of. Useful? Not yet. Since I'm not schooled in the scientific aspects of these things, I am not sure whether this sort of thing qualifies as a part of this discussion. UUCP: {crash ncr-sd}!pnet12!bstev ARPA: crash!pnet12!bstev@nosc.mil INET: bstev@pnet12.cts.com