dvm@yale.UUCP (Drew Mcdermott) (04/28/88)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
WORKSHOP ON PLAN RECOGNITION
AAAI-88, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Wednesday, August 24.
Radisson-St. Paul Hotel
Plan recognition is a touchstone issue for Artificial Intelligence,
which has generated thorny problems and theoretical results for years.
The class of problems we have in mind is to infer a goal-based
explanation of the behavior of one or more actors. This class can
be extended to closely related problems like inferring an author's
plans from a text, inferring a programmer's plans from his code, or
inferring explanations of new bug types from case histories.
Problems of this sort often seem to lie at the heart of intelligence,
because people can apparently select just the right explanatory
principles from large knowledge bases. For that reason, this problem
area has encouraged interest in nontraditional control structures such
as marker passing, parallelism, and connectionism. To date, however,
no decisive solutions have been obtained.
The workshop will aim at bringing together individuals working in all
the active areas related to plan recognition, as well as individuals
trying to exploit research results for practical applications. This
interaction should prove fruitful for both groups.
Contributors interested in participating in this workshop are requested
to submit a 1000-2000 word extended abstract of their work, describing
its relevance to the topic of plan recognition. The workshop attendance
will be limited to 35, and all participants will present their work,
either in an oral presentation, or in a poster session. Abstracts will
be refereed by the organizing committee. Copies of the chosen abstracts
will be sent to each participant prior to the workshop. Presenters shall
have the opportunity to expand their abstracts for inclusion in a workshop
proceedings to be published later.
Extended abstracts should be received prior to June 3, 1988. Mail them
to:
Jeff Maier
TASC
2555 University Blvd.
Fairborn, Ohio 45324
(513)426-1040
Authors will be notified of the status of their papers by July 8, 1988.
Organizing Committee:
Larry Birnbaum, Yale University
Doug Chubb, US Army, Center for Signals Warfare
Jeff Maier, TASC
Drew McDermott, Yale University
Bob Wilensky, UC Berkeley
Steve Williams, TASC