Dundee.Navinchandra@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU (01/08/89)
CALL FOR VOTES
The AAAI Special Interest Group in Manufacturing (SIGMAN) is planning
on starting a USENET discussion group on AI in Manufacturing. The
purpose of the newsgroup is to allow people to exchange ideas, ask
questions and share experiences.
Topics of discussion will include AI applications in: production
planning, management, diagnosis, robotics, design, software tools and
other manufacturing related issues. As SIGMAN's membership consists of
both academic and industrial people, we expect the newsgroup to help
in the exchange of ideas between universities and industries.
To start our newsgroup we need to know how many people out there would
be interested in reading and contributing to it. If you feel you
would be interested in such a newsgroup send your vote to:
Arpanet: dchandra@isl1.ri.cmu.edu
Please include possible names for the newsgroup. Here are some
I could think of: (comp.org.aaai-sigman, comp.ai.sigman,
comp.ai.manufacturing)
Thank you,
D. Navinchandra
Editor, SIGMAN Newsletter.
BACKGROUND
The AAAI Special Interest Group in Manufacturing (SIGMAN) was formed
in 1987. The purpose of the group is to foster communication and
interaction among researchers and practitioners in the fields of AI
and manufacturing. Manufacturing is broadly interpreted to encompass
the manufacturing product life cycle which includes: Materials,
Design, Operations, Production, Distribution, Field Service, Sales,
Organization and Management issues.
The objectives for this group include:
1. Sponsorship of workshops which focus on AI principles underlying
manufacturing applications. (For example, we sponsored a Design
workshop and a Production Planning and Scheduling workshop at AAAI-88.
We will also be sponsoring a workshop on AI in Manufacturing at the
1989 AAAI Stanford Symposia.)
2. Editing of a newsletter which contains research briefs enabling
the rapid dissemination of project information, abstracts, new product
information, and success / failure stories.
3. Liaison with other manufacturing related organizations (e.g., IEEE,
SME, ORSA / TIMS).
4. Construction of standard problem sets to ensure adequate comparative
measures of alternative approaches to a problem.