motoda@harl86.harl.hitachi.co.jp (Motoda Hiroshi) (11/30/89)
Call for Participation: Second circular
FIRST JAPANESE KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
WORKSHOP
Co-Sponsored by
Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Kansai Institute of Information System
In Cooperation with
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Information Processing Society of Japan
Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Japan Society for Software Science and Technology
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication
Engineers
Kyoto International Conference Hall (Kyoto)
October 25 - 26, 1990
Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo)
October 29 - 31, 1990
A problem in the process of building knowledge-based systems is
acquiring and modeling appropriate problem-solving knowledge. The
objective of this workshop is to assemble theoreticians and
practitioners of AI who recognize the need for developing methods and
systems that assist the knowledge acquisition process.
The workshop will be in two parts: a two-day open meeting in Kyoto and
three-day closed workshop in Tokyo. To encourage vigorous interaction
and exchange of ideas the closed workshop will be kept small - about
40 participants, one author for each paper accepted. Some papers will
be presented at the open meeting and the remainder in the closed
workshop. There will be Tutorial and invited talk sessions in the open
workshop.
Papers are invited for consideration in all aspects of knowledge
acquisition for knowledge-based systems, including (but not restricted
to):
o Transfer/modeling of expertise - systems that obtain and model
knowledge from experts.
o Transfer/modeling of expertise - manual knowledge acquisition
methods and techniques.
o Apprenticeship, explanation-based, and other learning systems;
integration of such systems with other knowledge acquisitIon
techniques.
o Methods for capturing design knowledge and requirements
o Issues in cognition and expertise that affect the knowledge
acquisition process.
o Extracting and modeling of knowledge from text.
o Eliciting and modeling knowledge from multiple sources.
o Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques within a single
system; integration of knowledge acquisition systems with other
systems (hypermedia, database management systems, simulators,
spreadsheets...).
o Knowledge acquisition methodology and training.
o Validation of knowledge acquisition techniques; the role of
knowledge acquisition techniques in validating knowledge-based
systems.
Five copies of a draft paper (up to 20 pages) should be sent to
Hiroshi Motoda before February 28th, 1990. Acceptance notices will be
mailed by May 30th. Camera-ready copies should be returned before
August 15th. A preprint volume will be distributed at the workshop.
There will be travel-and-expense awards for the best paper submitted
by students from overseas countries to cover a part of their travel
expenses. Please note if the paper should be considered for this
award.
Workshop Co-chairmen:
John Boose Brian Gaines
Advanced Technology Center Department of Computer Science
Boeing Computer Services University of Calgary
john@boeing.com gaines@calgary.cdn
Hiroshi Motoda Riichiro Mizoguchi
Advanced Research Laboratory Institute of Scientific and
Hitachi, Ltd. Industrial Research
Kokubunji, Tokyo 185, Japan Osaka University
motoda@harl.hitachi.co.jp miz@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
International Program Committee
Tom Addis, University of Reading, UK
Guy Boy, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de Toulouse, France & NASA AMES
Jeffrey Bradshaw, Boeing Computer Services
B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University
William Clancey, Institute for Research on Learning, CA
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Thomas Gruber, Stanford University
Koichi Hori, University of Tokyo
Nancy Johnson, Brunel University, UK
Georg Klinker, Digital Equipment Corp.
Shigenobu Kobayashi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yves Kodratoff, CNRS, France, & George Mason University
Marc Linster, GMD. Bonn, Germany
John McDermott, Digital Equipment Corporation
Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University
Katharina Morik, GMD, Bonn, Germany
Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University
Mark Musen, Stanford University
Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin
Ross Quinlan, Sydney University, Australia
Alain Rappaport, Neuron Data, USA
Mildred Shaw, University of Calgary
Hirokazu Taki, Institute for New Generation Computer Technology
Masanobu Watanabe, NEC Corporation
Bob Wielinga, University of Amsterdam, Holland
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