arvind@utcsri.UUCP (04/20/87)
From: Moshe Vardi <vardi@ibm.com>
Subject: Conference on Theoretical Aspects of reasoning about Knowledge
Call for Papers
The Second Conference on
THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF REASONING ABOUT KNOWLEDGE
March 6-9, 1988, Monterey, California
The 2nd Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about
Knowledge, sponsored by the International Business Machines
Corporation and the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, will be held March 6-9, 1988, at the Asilomar
Conference Center in Monterey, California. While traditionally
research in this area was mainly done by philosophers and
linguists, reasoning about knowledge has been shown recently to
be of great relevance to computer science and economics. The aim
of the conference is to bring together researchers from these
various disciplines with the intent of furthering our theoretical
understanding of reasoning about knowledge.
Some suggested, although not exclusive, topics of interest are:
Semantic models for knowledge and belief
Resource-bounded reasoning
Minimal knowledge proof systems
Analyzing distributed systems via knowledge
Knowledge acquisition and learning
Knowledge and commonsense reasoning
Knowledge, planning, and action
Knowledge in economic models
You are invited to submit ten copies of a detailed abstract (not
a complete paper) to the program chair:
Moshe Y. Vardi
IBM Research
Almaden Research Center K53-802
650 Harry Rd.
San Jose, CA 95120-6099, USA
Telephone: (408) 927-1784
Electronic address: vardi@ibm.com, vardi@almvma.bitnet
Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of significance,
originality, and overall quality. Each abstract should 1)
contain enough information to enable the program committee to
identify the main contribution of the work; 2) explain the
importance of the work - its novelty and its practical or
theoretical implications; and 3) include comparisons with and
references to relevant literature. Abstracts should be no longer
than ten double-spaced pages.
Program Committee:
J. Barwise (Stanford University)
P. van Emde Boas (University of Amsterdam)
H. Kamp (University of Texas at Austin)
K. Konolige (SRI International)
Y. Moses (Weizmann Institute of Science)
S. Rosenschein (SRI International)
T. Tan (University of Chicago)
M. Vardi (IBM Almaden Research Center)
The deadline for submission of abstracts is August 31, 1987.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by November 1, 1987
(authors who supply an electronic address might be notified
earlier). The accepted papers will be due by December 15, 1987.
Proceedings will be distributed at the conference, and will be
subsequently available for purchase through the publisher.
We hope to allow enough time between the talks for private
discussions and small group meetings. In order to ensure that
the conference remains relatively small, attendance will be
limited to invited participants and authors of accepted papers.
Support for the conference has been received from IBM and AAAI
for partial subsidy of participants' expenses; applications for
further support are pending.