hlaasri@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr (Hassan Laasri) (01/21/91)
2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
AAAI-91 WORKSHOP ON BLACKBOARD SYSTEMS
Sponsored by AAAI
One day between July 14-20, 1991 (to be fixed later)
Anaheim, California, USA
DESCRIPTION
The blackboard paradigm is a powerful technique for implementing
applications requiring multilevel reasoning, flexible control, or the
integration of diverse problem solving expertise into a common
framework.
Blackboard applications have moved from the original speech
understanding and signal processing areas to new applications in
model-based diagnosis, network control, intelligent tutoring
systems, the pilot's associate program, dynamic resource allocation,
materials processing, and even weather prediction. More complex and
diverse applications have become possible with the appearence of
stable university and commercial blackboard frameworks (AGE, BB-1,
GBB, ATOME, etc.). Recent workshops have featured extensions of these
frameworks for plan-based control, real-time, and parallel processing.
The Fifth Workshop on Blackboard Systems, like its predecessors,
provides an informal forum where researchers in blackboard technology
and developers of blackboard-based applications can exchange ideas,
experiences, problems, and inspirations. The aims of the workshop
include: sharing the latest research results in an informal setting,
informing participants of other researchers working on similar problems
or using similar approaches, and identifying common unsolved research
issues.
TOPICS
Topics of interest for the workshop include:
- blackboard frameworks, control mechanisms, and techniques
- real-time, parallel, and distributed blackboard approaches
- performance measures for blackboard systems and applications
- integrating dramatically different systems via blackboards
- user interfaces and explanation facilities for blackboard systems
- application development and debugging facilities for
blackboard systems
- issues in developing blackboard-based applications
- novel blackboard-based applications.
Submissions presenting comparison data between blackboard technology and
other AI methodologies or among alternate blackboard-based approaches
are particularly encouraged. We also seek submissions describing
substantial applications with some degree of maturity.
FORMAT
The workshop is one-day long and will take place during AAAI, July 14--20,
1991. Dan Corkill will present a "state of the art" address to open the day.
Accepted papers will be grouped into three panels based on content; each
panel will consist of a series of informal paper presentations followed by a
general discussion period. A member of the Workshop Committee will chair
each panel. A set of discussion questions, to be addressed by the presenters
and keyed to each panel, will be distributed beforehand. An informal
proceedings containing complete versions of accepted papers will be
distributed at the workshop.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Workshop invitations will be issued on the basis of extended
abstracts 10 pages or less in length. Graduate students and
researchers from academy as well as from industry with preliminary results
are encouraged to participate. Each extended abstract will be reviewed
by members of the Workshop Committee. At most, 2 invitations will be
issued for each accepted abstract. In keeping with an informal
workshop, the total number of invitations will be limited to 30--35.
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
Larry Baum Boeing Computer Services
Dan Corkill Blackboard Technology Group
Keith Decker University of Massachusetts (co-chair)
Raj Dodhiawala FMC Corporate Technology Center
Lee Erman Cimflex Teknowledge
V. Jagannathan Cimflex Teknowledge
Brigitte Laasri Alcatel Alsthom Research Center
Hassan Laasri Alcatel Alsthom Research Center (chair)
Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts
Penny Nii Stanford University
IMPORTANT DATES
March 8, 1991 Extended abstracts must be received
April 15, 1991 Notification of invitation or rejection
May 20, 1991 Completed papers must be received
Between July 14-20, 1991 Workshop date (to be fixed later)
SEND FOUR COPIES OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS TO:
Keith S. Decker
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
U.S.A.
Internet: Decker@CS.UMass.Edu
Phone: (413) 545-3444
FAX: (413) 545-1249
--- OR TO:
Hassan Laasri
Alcatel Alsthom Recherche
Division Informatique
Route de Nozay
91460 Marcoussis
France
Internet: hlaasri@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr
Phone: (33 1) 64 49 17 79
FAX: (33 1) 64 49 06 94
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