AIList-REQUEST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis) (05/24/88)
Return-Path: <@AI.AI.MIT.EDU:Kahn.pa@Xerox.COM> Received: from Xerox.COM (TCP 1500006350) by AI.AI.MIT.EDU 23 May 88 17:57:33 EDT Received: from Semillon.ms by ArpaGateway.ms ; 23 MAY 88 14:48:09 PDT Date: Mon, 23 May 88 14:48:09 PDT From: Ken Kahn <Kahn.pa@Xerox.COM> Subject: Workshop on Open Systems at Xeroxc PARC To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Message-ID: <880523-144809-5419@Xerox> Xerox PARC will be hosting a AAAI-sponsored workshop on Open Systems from June 1 through June 3. The morning sessions will be in PARC auditorium and open to the public. Open systems pose challenging problems at the level of software design and the description of their behavior. Since they are often incrementally modified by introducing new functionality and improving existing modules, they create problems of coordination, commonality, and trust barriers. So far, insights, studies, and algorithms for their design have appeared in a rather disjoint fashion, with many researchers unaware of advances in related disciplines. Among the topics that we plan to discuss in this workshop are: Natural and Artificial Open Systems, Design Constrains for Open systems, Programming Languages Issues and Knowledge Markets. Wednesday June 1, 10am - 11am Organizational Knowledge Processing by Carl Hewitt, 11-12 discussion Thursday June 2, 9am - 10am Open Systems and Software Engineering by Alan Perlis Friday June 3, 9:30 - 11:30 Knowbots and Knowledge Markets by Mark Stefik and Danny Bobrow The workshop is organized by Bernardo Huberman and Mark Stefik. For more information contact Bernardo Huberman <Huberman.pa@Xerox.Com> Directions to reach PARC: The Auditorium is located at 3333 Coyote Hill Road in Palo Alto, between Page Mill Road (west of Foothill Expressway) and Hillview Avenue, in the Stanford Research Park. To get here, take Page Mill Road to Coyote Hill Road. PARC is the only building on the left, just over the crest of Coyote Hill. Park in the large lower lot if visitor parking is full and enter the auditorium at the upper level of the building. (The auditorium is located down the stairs to the left of the main doors).