dchandra@isl1.ri.cmu.edu (Dundee Navinchandra) (05/11/89)
AI IN MANUFACTURING WORKSHOPS AT IJCAI 1989
NEW DUE DATES
These announcements were originally scheduled to have gone out in March. Due to
some confusion the announcements were lost. We have moved the submission dates
well into June. Those who have sent papers in response to the previous
post on the bboards may ignore this re-announcement.
The AAAI Special Interest Group on Manufacturing (SIGMAN) will be hosting five
workshops at the upcoming International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. The Conference is being held from Aug 20-25th in Detroit,
Michigan. The SIGMAN workshops are:
Workshop 1: Concurrent Engineering Design AUG 21
Workshop 2: Manufacturing Planning AUG 22
Workshop 3: Manufacturing Scheduling AUG 23
Workshop 4: Integrated Architectures for Manufacturing AUG 24
Workshop 5: Diagnostic Systems for Manufacturing AUG 20 (Sunday)
The workshop proceedings will most probably be published in one volume under
the title "Proceedings of the AAAI Workshops on Manufacturing".
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WORKSHOP 1 - AUG 21
CONCURRENT ENGINEERING DESIGN
Call for Participation.
AIM:
The workshop addresses the issues related to concurrent design in industrial
environments. The workshop focus is to discuss in detail the software issues
related to design by a team of engineers, the support environment provided to
the individual designers and the advances in design methodology in the
mechanical and electrical engineering domain.
WARNING:
This workshop is not to be confused with, the more theoretically inclined,
AAAI-Artificial Intelligence in Design Workshops which have been held every
other year since 1984. The next Design workshop will be held at AAAI 1990.
TOPICS:
Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts for papers across a broad spectrum
of issues related, but not limited to:
- Concurrent Design Methodology, Problems, Techniques.
- System architectures for Concurrent Design. Coordination, Control and
Communication issues. Design Databases.
- Implementation of Design for the abilities, (Manufacturability,
Testability, Reliability, etc.) AI techniques.
- Knowledge/Data Representation, Feature based design, Non-Geometric
features, Design Databases, Standards.
- Case studies in Concurrent Engineering.
FORMAT
The workshop will be on day long and will take place on Monday, August 21.
There will be four Panel Discussions, two in the morning and two in the
afternoon. Each panel will begin with general remarks by the panel moderator
followed by short presentations by the panelists. General discussion will
follow. Attendance will be limited to 70.
SUBMISSIONS
Please submit one page abstracts/position-papers no later than June 27, 1989.
The focus of the submissions should be on the identification and discussion of
key issues concerning Concurrent Engineering Design, and the role/solutions
that AI techniques can provide, as well as the current status of existing
applications.
These submissions will be used to select workshop attendees. Notifications
will be mailed out by mid July.
Please send hadcopy submissions with 4 copies to:
Dr. V. Jagannathan
American Cimflex
121 Industry Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15275
U.S.A.
E-Mail: cimflex@dragon.cimds.cmu.edu
Phone: (412) 787 3001
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
V. Jagannathan, Co-Chair, American Cimflex
D. Navinchandra, Co-Chair, CMU
Nien-Hua Chao, AT&T Bell Labs
S. N. Dwivedi, West Virginia Univ.
David Gossard, MIT
Ted Kitzmiller, Boeing Adv. Tech. Center
Allen Matsumoto, American Cimflex
Sanjay Mittal, Xerox Palo Alto Research
Y.V. Ramana Reddy, W. Virginia Univ.
Marty Tenenbaum, Stanford.
Ralph Wood, GE-Corporate Research
Mike Wozny, Rensselaer Polytechnic
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WORKSHOP 2 - AUGUST 22
MANUFACTURING PLANNING
Call for Papers/Participation
This one-day workshop is to be held during the International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Detroit this August.
DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of this workshop is to identify critical issues in manufacturing
planning, applicable AI technologies, and directions for future research.
TOPICS:
The subject area, manufacturing planning, is interpreted here to include all
areas of manufacturing in which AI planning techniques might be applicable.
For example, process planning would be such an area.
One exception to the above is that this workshop will not deal with production
scheduling (which is to be handled in a separate workshop).
FORMAT:
The workshop will be divided into panels on various topics. For each topic,
short presentations will be given by the panel members, followed by extended
discussions.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Dana Nau (Committee Chair)
University of Maryland
nau@mimsy.umd.edu
Steve Ray, NIST (formerly NBS)
Keith Hummel, Allied Signal Corp.
Stephen C. Y. Lu, University of Illinois
SUBMISSIONS:
Those interested in participating should submit a one- or two-page extended
abstract, along with a list of related publications. The submission deadline
will be June 27, and attendees will be notified in mid July. Submissions should
be sent to:
Dana S. Nau
Computer Science Department
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
ATTN: SIGMAN PLANNING
WORKSHOP
Attendees will be selected by the organizing committee, based on the
committee's evaluation of the submissions.
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WORKSHOP 3 - AUGUST 23
MANUFACTURING SCHEDULING
DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of this workshop is to identify the key issues in the scheduling of
production in manufacturing facilities, the applicable AI techniques, the
current status of existing applications, and the directions for future
research.
FORMAT:
There will be four 1.5 hour sessions (two morning sessions with a break,
followed by a lunch break (possibly working lunch), followed by two afternoon
sessions with a break) in the one day workshop. Each session will begin with a
few overview remarks from one of the program committee who has refereed the
papers for that session and will act as its chairman. This will be followed by
a brief position statement (5 minutes) by each of those (4 or 5) who have had
papers accepted for that session topic. This will be followed by an open
discussion. Open discussion of the issues is intended to occupy the bulk of
each session, and will be mediated by the session chairman.
TOPICS:
The sessions will be organized in response to the interest of the participants
as reflected in papers submitted. Suggested topics include ... predictive
scheduling, reactive scheduling, interactive scheduling, MRP-
level/quarterly/monthly scheduling, weekly/daily scheduling, hourly/real-time
scheduling, schedule construction, schedule repair, constraint-based
scheduling, expert system schedulers, fuzzy scheduling, genetic scheduling,
simulated annealing scheduling, ....
SUBMISSIONS
Three page single-spaced submissions must be received by 27 June 89.
Notification will not be later than 16 July 89, with final copy submission by 1
August 89. Proceedings will be available at IJCAI prior to the start of the
workshop. Focus should be on the identification and resolution of scheduling
issues using AI techniques, rather than broad surveys or implementation details
(unless implementation is the issue). Preference will be given to those who
describe work which tests identifiable theory under realistic conditions.
ATTENDANCE
Participation will be limited to 50 with roughly 20 having the opportunity to
formally present and everyone having a chance to contribute (the discussion
period allows for 240 minutes to be shared among 50 participants). Invitations
will be primarily issued to those who provide substantive submissions.
Remaining places will be filled by those who respond by 27 June 89 with a one
page resume (including recent publications) which demonstrates the ability to
contribute to the discussion periods. Domain experts are welcome to respond in
this fashion. The committee will have the final choice concerning the
invitation of participants.
COMMITTEE
Karl Kempf (AAAI-SIGMAN Industrial Co-Chair) - Intel Corporation,
Stephen Smith - CMU,
Barry Fox - NASA, one other t.b.a.
CONTACT:
Karl Kempf
Intel Corporation / SC9-22
2250 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA, 95052
Phone 408-765-2961
FAX 408-765-9936
kkempf@td2cad.intel.com
kkempf@sc9.intel.com
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WORKSHOP 4 - AUGUST 24
INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURES FOR MANUFACTURING
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
The workshop on Integrated Architectures for Manufacturing aims at bringing
together participants from industry and academia interested in finding ways in
which Artificial Intelligence can be used to effectively coordinate and
integrate organizational decision making in manufacturing. To achieve such a
level of integration it is necessary to develop a manufacturing systems
architecture that supports appropriate representation and distribution of the
manufacturing knowledge, as well as protocols that enable cooperative decision
making. This task represents an enormous challenge given the complexity of
manufacturing tasks, the need to integrate a huge array of numerical, symbolic
and pictorial data, the need to be able to represent entities such as 3D
geometries and abstract design features, the need to define the proper
interactions not only among the various organizational functions, but also
interactions (and reactions to) with a dynamically changing competitive
environment.
TOPICS:
The topics to be discussed will focus on the interests of the participants as
evidenced by their submissions. Some general topics include:
- What does it mean to integrate activities both within production and
across the manufacturing product life cycle?
- What is an appropriate architecture that supports the above?
- How can the achievement of global organizational goals be supported
while maintaining autonomous decision making in different parts of
the organization?
- What are the strategies to support negotiation to resolve conflicts?
FORMAT:
The workshop is 1-day long and will take place on Thursday, August 24. There
will be four sessions, two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Each
session will begin with general remarks by the session chairperson followed by
a presentation, 5 to 10 minutes, by the selected participants. General
discussion will follow. Attendance will be limited to 60.
Suggested panel topics are presented below. The final selection of panel
topics, however, will be determined by the issues addressed in the submissions.
Submissions targeted for a particular panel in the present list should indicate
so in the title page.
Integrated Manufacturing Architectures: What does it mean? Since this is a
rather recent topic that may mean different things to different people, it is
important to discuss possible definitions of the concept, its essential
characteristics, its function, its scope, the key issues that need to be
addressed, the role of AI techniques and other related questions.
Are current manufacturing organizational structures obsolete? In current
manufacturing organizations, materials and information are passed serially from
one department to the next and the hierarchical mode of organization
predominates. Future enterprises will employ a flexible informational
infrastructure, where each function becomes a knowledge center capable of
teaming with other nodes and operating in parallel in support of the enterprise
business strategy. Integration requires more than just technology. Success
demands the true integration of "people and machines", where the quality of
human interaction becomes as important as product quality. This will
necessitate not only the realignment of departmental charts, but also reward
systems, career paths and management style.
How should manufacturing knowledge be represented and distributed throughout
the organization? The applications of most large manufacturing enterprises have
their own dedicated databases. Although there is redundant data in most of
these data bases, it cannot be automatically shared because the definition of
the data elements are slightly different, and moreover the semantics, even for
key concepts such as part, subassembly, tolerance, varies from function to
function. These problems are circumvented today by the human translation
process and manual adaptation of the information passed from one function to
the next. Hence, one of the important issues is the development of reference
models for the enterprise and the incorporation of adequate translation
strategies for communication between functions.
What kinds of coordination patterns give rise to different production
strategies? New production strategies, such as Just in Time (JIT), have
recently been advocated and adopted by companies. There is, however, no
general understanding of the coordination patterns necessary for the successful
employment of a strategy. For example, some of the requirements for effective
use of JIT are close working arrangements with suppliers, and full quality
assurance since poor quality parts or materials result in severe manufacturing
problems and, in theory, JIT allows no time for checking incoming parts. These
JIT requirements imply specific coordination patterns with material suppliers.
Related questions are under what circumstances are different production
strategies appropriate, and whether there exist Manufacturing Architectures
that support the flexible adaptation of different coordination patterns by the
organization to produce different production behaviors.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Katia Sycara (Chair), Carnegie Mellon
Dan Corkill, Univ. of Massachussetts
Les Gasser, Univ. of Southern California
Victor Lesser, Univ. of Massachussetts
Charles Marshall, Digital Equipment Corporation.
Richard Mayer, Texas A and M Univ.
Van Parunak, ITI Univ. of Michigan
Steve Smith, Carnegie Mellon
Marty Tenenbaum, Schlumberger and Stanford
SUBMISSIONS:
There will be two kinds of submissions:
- Submission of 6 copies of a 2-3 page single-spaced position paper no
later than June 27. The focus of the submissions should be on
identification and discussion of key issues concerning Integrated
Manufacturing Architectures, and the role/solutions that AI
techniques can provide, as well as the current status of existing
applications. These submissions will be given first priority in
selecting presenters.
- Submission of 6 copies of a one-paragraph expression of interest in
participation that demonstrates the ability of the potential
participant to contribute to the discussions. Domain experts are
encouraged to respond in this fashion.
All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. Presenters and
participants will be selected on the strength of their submissions.
Participants will be notified my mid July . Final copy submissions will be made
by the end of July. Proceedings will probably be available at the workshop.
Please mail papers to:
Katia P. Sycara
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA. 15213
Phone: (412) 268-8825
katia@isl1.ri.cmu.edu
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WORKSHOP 5 - AUGUST 20 (Sunday)
(note: This workshop was originally scheduled for the 25th)
DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of this workshop is to assess status, technologies, and future
directions for the successful application of AI to diagnostic problems in
manufacturing. The manufacturing focus is understood broadly and covers the
creation or use of diagnostic systems throughout the product lifecyle - from
design through production to field service.
The workshop is structured around three panels: Innovative Applications, Tools
and Techniques, and Pragmatics (i.e. Knowledge Acquisition, Validation and
Verification, User Interfaces, and System Integration). The panels will be
followed by a discussion/debate on the status of diagnostic technology (To what
extent is it ready for deployment?) and future directions (What are the
unresolved issues?).
PARTICIPATION:
Those interested are asked to send 1 page abstracts and a biographical note to
the to the workshop chair by June 27. Abstracts should focus on a core issue
relevant to one of the panels.
Attendance will be limited to 75. Panelists will be selected from those
submitting abstracts. Notifications will be mailed by the end of July.
WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Gary Kahn
Carnegie Group Inc.
5 PPG Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
SCHEDULE
08:30-9:00 Introductions
09:00-10:30 Panel: Innovative Applic.
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Panel: Tools and Techniques
12:15-01:45 Lunch Break
01:45-03:15 Panel: Pragmatics
03:30-05:00 Discussion: Ready for Prime Time, or Not?