perretg@cernvax (denis perret-gallix) (09/08/89)
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AND EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR HIGH ENERGY AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS
MARCH 19-24 1990
CENTRE DE CALCUL DE l'IN2P3
LYON/VILLEURBANNE (FRANCE)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
G. Auger GANIL Caen
K. H. Becks B.U. Wuppertal
R. Brun CERN DD Geneve
F. Etienne CPPM Marseille
V. Frigo CERN DG Geneve
D. Heuer ISN Grenoble
E. Malandain CERN PS Geneve
M. Metcalf CERN DD Geneve
M. Mouyssinat GRECO PROG. Bordeaux
P. Palazzi CERN DD Geneve
D. Perret-Gallix LAPP Annecy
M. Van Caneghem G.I.A. Marseille
J. Vermaseren NIKHEF-H Amsterdam
C. Vogel CISI Paris
W. Wojcik CCIN2P3 Lyon
BULLETIN N.I
Dear Colleague,
The ever increasing complexity of high energy and nuclear physics
experiments is now in an accelerating phase with the LEP detectors
and the planned LHC, SSC, UNK,.. experiments.
Physics simulations, equipment designs, detector and accelerator control,
on-line data taking and data analysis, all computing related activities
absorb a huge part of the financial and manpower resources of these
experiments.
Recently developed techniques of software management and expert systems
have become an essential ingredient of the success of current and
forthcoming "big" experiments.
However, these techniques and methods, to be efficient, have to be
integrated properly into our environment and well accepted and
endorsed by the community.
We are organizing an International Workshop dedicated to these topics:
" Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
for Nuclear and High Energy Physics "
The goals of this workshop are essentially threefold:
1) To present reports on recent applications or developments of these
techniques in Nuclear and High Energy Physics.
2) To update and improve our knowledge on these techniques by inviting
the best experts on software engineering and expert systems.
3) To foster collaboration across various H.E.P. and N.P. experiments
and other physics fields, on specific subjects of importance for our
domain.
SESSIONS
Session I
Software Engineering: Concepts and Techniques
CASE and Software Automation.
Application Analysis and Design.
Cognitive Engineering.
Design and Management of Data Structures.
Automatic coding and documentation.
Debugging, validity proof and performance measurement.
Software re-usability issues.
Session II
Software Engineering : Practical Applications
How to manage a million lines of codes written by a hundred physicists
scattered all over the World ?
Current status: Presentation of real-world applications,
their successes and failures.
Experience from 'Big Experiments'.
Special needs for H.E.P. and N.P.
Networks and workstations: the "Server" concept.
Session III
Languages for H.E.P. and N.P.
Procedural Language: Fortran 77 and 8x, Ada, C.
Object Oriented Programming: SmallTalk, C++, Eiffel.
AI languages: Lisp -- Prolog.
DBMS languages.
Managing applications involving several languages.
Session IV
Techniques and Tools from A.I.
Behavioral simulation of detector components and object-oriented programming.
Pattern recognition (tracks, energy bumps); event recognition and sorting.
Qualitative physics.
Neural Networks for H.E.P. and N.P.
Query and update of very large distributed relational databases.
Session V
Expert Systems
Knowledge Engineering in Physics Research.
Mainframe user "help" and documentation systems.
Aids for setting up analysis and simulation programs.
Data Management.
Real-time Expert Systems:
Accelerator control, electronic equipment test and
monitoring, user interface to data acquisition systems.
Session VI
Symbolic Manipulation Techniques.
Feynman Diagram automatic Computation and expert systems for algebra.
Higher order pertubative QCD computation.
Specific needs for large computation in H.E.P. and N.P.
Symbolic manipulation techniques for Super-Algebra.
A critical survey of Reduce, Macsyma, Schoonschip, Maple, Scratchpad II,
Form, Mathematica.
Session VII
Commercial Products Presentation
Session VIII
Demonstration
Some demo will be organized from any one willing to present their
development or products on the local computer or from some remote
equipment.
Session IX
Summary Talks, Round Table...
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If you intend to attend this workshop, please, return the following form
and a resume (2-3 pages) of your proposed contribution (if any)
before November 30, 1989 to:
Mme Michele JOUHET e-mail: JOUHET @ CERNVM
CERN EP Division Tel: (41) 22 767 2277
1211 Geneve 23 Switzerland Telex 419000
FAX: (41) 22 782 4439
I can be reached as follows:
D. Perret-Gallix e-mail: PERRETG @ CERNVM
CERN EP Division
1211 Geneve 23 Switzerland
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