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