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". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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?