simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu (Moderator: Paul Fishwick) (09/02/89)
Volume: 10, Issue: 8, Fri Sep 1 17:51:35 EDT 1989 +----------------+ | TODAY'S TOPICS | +----------------+ (1) Call for Papers: AI, Simulation and Planning (2) Call for Votes: comp.infosystems (3) Traffic (Highway) Simulation Software * Moderator: Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida * Send topical mail to: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu OR post to comp.simulation via USENET * Archives available via FTP to bikini.cis.ufl.edu, login as 'anonymous', use your last name as the password, change directory to pub/simdigest. * Simulation Tools available by doing above and changing the directory to pub/simdigest/tools. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 17:55:55 -0400 From: Paul Fishwick <fishwick@fish.cis.ufl.edu> To: simulation@ufl.edu Subject: Call For Papers ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS AI, SIMULATION AND PLANNING IN HIGH AUTONOMY SYSTEMS March 26 - 27, 1990 --------------------------------------------------- Conference Organizers: Prof. Bernard P. Zeigler zeigler@arizevax.bitnet Prof. Jerzy Rozenblit rozenblit@arizevax.bitnet --------------------------------------------------- Sponsoring Agencies: The University of Arizona, College of Engineering and Mines, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Martin Marietta Data Systems and McDonnell Douglas Corporation. In Cooperation With: AT&T, Bell Canada, IEEE Computer Society, Information Machines, NASA-Ames Research Center, Rand Corporation and Siemens Corporate Research. Increasing the autonomy of systems in automation and robotics is a key element in system engineering with such goals as: - reducing the need for human intervention and supervision in remote or hazardous environments. - relieving humans of attending to complex procedures not directly related to their primary objectives. - providing knowledgeable assistance in executing higher level decision making functions. - increasing the rate of decision making beyond that reasonably supportable by a human controller. At the intersection of computers, control, information, and management, design for high autonomy requires the tools of AI and Simulation to successfully integrate decision making and physical layers. Typical issues raised include design stage testability, multi-abstraction model/knowledge bases, discrete/continuous and symbolic/numeric interfaces, self-embedded model construction, and self-planning under behavior constraints. The conference will feature invited and contributed papers in the technical areas of: simulation-evaluated planning and scheduling, qualitative reasoning, device modelling for operations/diagnostics/repair, knowledge-based simulation and design, multi-agent computer architectures and parallel simulators, discrete event dynamic systems, quality assurance issues, intelligent control, model-based perception, model reuse and evolution, embedded learning and adaptation, and related topics. Papers describing applications are also solicited in such areas as autonomous vehicles, telerobotics, factories of the future, design support environments, mission planning support, logistics, wargaming, and in particular, novel applications which fuse modelling paradigms, e.g. combined cognitive/social/natural models and combined neural/symbolic processing. Persons wishing to present papers should submit four copies of an abstract. Abstracts should be not more than three double-spaced pages, including figures and representative citations. Abstracts must be received not later than Friday, November 17, 1989. Mail abstracts to The Office of Engineering Professional Development, University of Arizona, Box 9 Harvill Building, Tucson, AZ 85721, (602) 621-3054 or FAX: (602) 621-1443. Accepted papers will be determined by December 15, 1989. Proceedings will be published in a form permitting wide distribution. Selected papers may be published in a special issue of a major journal. ------------------------------ Organisation: University of Technology, Delft The Netherlands. To: comp-simulation%hp4nl@uunet.UU.NET Path: dutrun!winfave From: dutrun!winfave@uunet.UU.NET (Alexander Verbraeck) Newsgroups: comp.simulation Subject: CALL FOR VOTES: creation of comp.infosystems Date: 30 Aug 89 22:47:32 GMT Reply-To: dutrun!winfave@uunet.UU.NET (A.Verbraeck) Followup-To: news.groups Distribution: world Organization: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands CALL FOR VOTES creation of comp.infosystems *********************************************************************** *** IMPORTANT : followup and general reactions ONLY to news.groups *** *** VOTES ONLY by E-MAIL. Posted votes do NOT count! *** *********************************************************************** Based on an original proposal, and four weeks of discussion (between July 7 and August 6), I would like to announce a "call for votes" on the formation of a new newsgroup "comp.infosystems". This newsgroup will be UNmoderated. The purpose of this group will be to provide a forum for the discussion of issues and events which are of interest to the information systems community as a whole. The field of INFORMATION SYSTEMS at the moment does not have it's own forum for discussion. Not only is it missing on USENET, also on other networks an area for discussions and exchange on topics like design of information systems, decision support systems, organizational impact of information systems, support tools for designing information systems, research methods in information systems, information planning, etc. is lacking. SUBJECTS COVERED The information systems community is dealing with "fields related to design, construction, evaluation, use and maintenance of dataprocessing, storage and communication systems, including the hardware, the software, as well as the human and organizational aspects and the complex of their industrial, commercial, administrative, social, and political impacts" (definition by UNESCO). Subjects that are covered in this area are: - IS design methodologies; - Organizational problem solving; - Decision Support Systems, Management Information Systems (whatever their definition); - Implementation of IS; - Management of IS. This definition, and for that, this discipline, does not exclude possible overlap with other newsgroups. However, the focus is clearly different. It is not the machine, or the piece of software that is central, but the combination of hardware, software and people in an organizational setting. POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION The following is a partial list of topics which can be discussed on comp.infosystems: - design of information systems - decision support systems - management information systems - all other types of information systems - organizational impact of information systems - research methods in information systems - information analysis - information planning - management of information systems - management of the IS development process - developing and choosing . programs, . necessary hardware, . communications, . user interfaces, . human procedures, . organizational changes, . database design, etc. for solving organizational problems. - information systems methodologies - development methods - diagramming techniques - tools in the IS field - information systems life cycle - prototyping and 4th generation languages - testing large information systems - CASE tools - discussions on IS standards - education in the IS field - conferences and workshops: announcements and reports - IS book reviews CROSSPOSTING TO BITNET The IS professionals and IS researchers have just discovered the Usenet communications medium. Once in a while there are questions in comp.databases, comp.misc, comp.ai, comp.soft-eng or comp.cog-eng that are in fact about information systems. One of the reasons for the low number of IS discussions could be that most existing groups give a wrong "feeling" when posting reactions or questions to them. I tried it several times, and got some reactions, all by e-mail, because the replyers thought the newsgroup was not the right place to have the discussion. Lots of IS professionals were (are?) working on non-Unix machines like IBM mainframes that do not run 'rn' and are connected only to Bitnet or Earn. Most of my IS-colleagues from all over the world have Bitnet numbers and run their e-mail system on an IBM mainframe. For that reason we shall crosspost from and to a listserver on an IBM mainframe. In that way non-Unix users will be able to participate in the discussions (with a slight delay of course). VOTING This "call for votes" for comp.infosystems is being issued on August 30, 1989, and will last for 30 (thirty) days, ending on September 29, 1989. Votes received prior to August 30, 1989, or after September 29, 1989 do not count. *********************************************************************** *** IMPORTANT : VOTES ONLY by E-MAIL. Posted votes do NOT count! *** *********************************************************************** What follows are relevant excerpts from "the rules." Please read them carefully before voting: > The voting period should last for at least 30 days, no matter what the > preliminary results of the vote are. The exact date that the voting period > will end should be stated in the call for votes. Only votes that arrive > on the vote-taker's machine prior to this date may be counted. > ONLY votes MAILED to the vote-taker will count. Votes posted to the net > for any reason (including inability to get mail to the vote-taker) and > proxy votes (such as having a mailing list maintainer claim a vote for > each member of the list) may not be counted. > Votes may not be transferred to other, similar proposals. A vote shall > count only for the EXACT proposal that it is a response to. In particular, > a vote for or against a newsgroup under one name shall NOT be counted as > a vote for or against a newsgroup with a different name or charter, > a different moderated/unmoderated status or (if moderated) a different > moderator or set of moderators. > Votes MUST be explicit; they should be of the form "I vote for the > group foo.bar as proposed" or "I vote against the group foo.bar > as proposed". The wording doesn't have to be exact, it just needs to > be unambiguous. In particular, statements of the form "I would vote > for this group if..." should be considered comments only and not counted as votes. > The Result > 1) At the completion of the 30 day voting period, the vote taker must post > the vote tally and the E-mail addresses and (if available) names of the > votes received to news.announce.newgroups and any other groups or mailing > lists to which the original call for votes was posted. > 2) AFTER the vote result is posted, there will be a 5 day waiting period > during which the net will have a chance to correct any errors in > the voter list or the voting procedure. > 3) AFTER the waiting period, and if there were no serious objections that > might invalidate the vote, and if 100 more YES/create votes are received > than NO/don't create, a newgroup control message may be sent out. > If the 100 vote margin is not met, the group should not be created. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Verbraeck e-mail: Delft University of Technology winfave@hdetud1.bitnet Department of Information Systems winfave@dutrun.uucp PO Box 356, 2600 AJ The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ To: comp-simulation@uunet.uu.net Path: grapevine!panarthea.sun.com!koreth From: koreth%panarthea.EBay@Sun.COM (Steven Grimm) Newsgroups: comp.simulation Subject: Traffic (highway) simulation software Date: 1 Sep 89 15:52:37 GMT Sender: grapevine!news@EBay.Sun.COM Reply-To: sgrimm@Sun.COM (Steven Grimm) Distribution: world Organization: Sun Microsystems Federal, Milpitas, CA I'm looking for software to simulate the flow of traffic along a stretch of highway under various conditions. Does such a beast exist? Code (preferably in C) or pointers to code would be great. Please reply by E-Mail; I will summarize responses here if there's interest. --- This message is a figment of your imagination. Any opinions are yours. Steven Grimm Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st sgrimm@sun.com ...!sun!sgrimm ------------------------------ END OF SIMULATION DIGEST ************************