[news.announce.conferences] Workshop on TMS Applications

inoue@icot21.icot.or.jp (Inoue Katsumi) (04/21/91)

                         WORKSHOP ON THE
           APPLICATIONS OF REASON MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS


             Research Instituut voor Kennis-Systemen
                   Maastricht, The Netherlands
                      24-25th October 1991

                    Post activity of ECAI-90

The workshop on Reason Maintenance Systems held at the last  ECAI
in  Stockholm,  whilst  successful,  highlighted the need for the
presentation of more work on the use of RMSs.  A  great  deal  of
theoretical  work  on  RMSs  has been published over the last few
years but less work on experience  with  using  such  systems  in
practice.   To  help redress this balance it was proposed, at the
ECAI RMS meeting, that a workshop dedicated  to  applications  of
RMS be held.

The workshop will be organised to encourage the exchange  of  ex-
pertise  and ideas.  A small number of papers (six or seven) will
be presented with plenty of time  allowed  for  discussion.   The
number  of  participants  will be strictly limited and attendance
will be by invitation only. Potential participants are  requested
to  submit an extended abstract (not more than 2000 words) to the
program chair.  Invitation to attend or present a completed paper
to  the  workshop will be based on the abstract submitted.  It is
emphasised that the workshop is about the application of RMS  and
this will be taken into account in refereeing the submissions.

The workshop will be held on Thursday (24th October)  and  Friday
(25th October).

Further Details Available From Program Chair:

G Kelleher
Research Instituut voor Kennis-Systemen
Tongersestraat 6
Postbus 463
6200 AL, Maastricht
The Netherlands

Telephone: + (31) 43-253433
Fax :      + (31) 43-253155
email: gerry@riks.nl

Program Committee:
P Dague (IBM, Paris), O Dressler (SIEMENS,  Munich),  J  Galliers
(Cambridge  University,  Cambridge),  K  Inoue  (ICOT,  Tokyo), P
Morris (Intellicorp, Palo Alto), C Petrie (MCC, Austin), M  Rein-
frank (SIEMENS, Munich).

Dates:

Deadline for abstracts : June 14th 1991
Notification of acceptance (by) : August 12th 1991