simoudis@aiag.enet.dec.com (11/21/90)
CALL FOR PAPERS
The AAAI Workshop on
Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems
held at the
Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are
studying how to enable a heterogeneous collection of independent intelligent
systems to cooperate in solving problems requiring their combined expertise.
Heterogeneous intelligent systems can differ in their internal structures,
capabilities, and purposes. The workshop will address issues and techniques
for overcoming current limitations, including limitations in facilitating
collaboration among collections of AI and human problem solvers. It will
focus on how to develop tools for supporting cooperation between
heterogeneous intelligent systems and shells for building cooperative
knowledge-based systems. Among the workshop's principal topics of interest
are:
1. Architectures and frameworks for combining independent AI systems
to enable them collectively to solve more complex problems.
2. Knowledge-level analyses of the components that belong to such systems.
3. Formalisms and frameworks for representing this knowledge.
4. Identification of the types of cooperation and negotiation that can be
achieved by heterogeneous systems.
5. Descriptions of existing cooperative intelligent systems and experiences
in using these systems. These systems should make sophisticated
cooperative decisions, rather than blindly exchanging all information
through file transfer.
6. Computer environments that facilitate cooperation between people of
diverse abilities during a problem-solving process.
Attendance at the workshop has been limited to 50 people and is primarily
intended for authors of accepted papers. There may be additional space
available to those who have not submitted a paper but are interested in the
field. Those parties should submit a one page request to the address below.
Timetable
o March 1, 1991 3 copies of an extended abstract (5-8 pages) describing
unpublished work due at the address below.
o April 26, 1991 Notification letters are mailed to all who submitted
papers.
o June 17, 1991 Final draft of papers due.
o July 15, 1991 Workshop is held.
Organizing Committee
o Mark Adler, Digital Equipment Corporation
o Ed Durfee, University of Michigan
o Michael Huhns, MCC
o Evangelos Simoudis, Digital Equipment Corporation
Send papers to:
Evangelos Simoudis, Digital Equipment Corporation, 290 Donald Lynch Blvd,
DLB5-2/B4, Marlboro, MA 01752, (508)490-8141, simoudis@aiag.enet.dec.com