sww@edsdrd.eds.com (Scott Woyak) (01/12/91)
Call for Participation
Third Workshop on Object-Oriented Programming in AI
AAAI-91 Workshop: Anaheim, California - July 14-19, 1991
This workshop will gather researchers who are applying object-oriented
programming in AI. The workshop will focus on the merits of OOP for knowledge
representation, object-oriented AI programming tools, and environments,
knowledge-based applications, and other areas of AI. The participants will
identify where OOP is appropriate and where it is inappropriate. The
discussion will also cover how specific features of OOP are beneficial.
TOPIC: Some of the areas of AI that OOP is being used for are:
- knowledge representation
- integrating multiple paradigms
- Cooperatng, intelligent agents
- model-based reasoning
- constraint propagation
- simulation
- other knowledge-based applications
In addition to the discussion of the utility of OOP in these areas, the
following topics are relevant:
- comparison of objects and frames
- use of objects to integrate rules, logic, and procedural knowledge
- OO approaches to knowledge base design
- comparison of OOP inheritance and AI inheritance
- objects and pattern matching
- object classes and AI classification
- OO protocols for tasks such as inference
- efficiency issues for OO architectures
- implementing object-oriented systems in AI programming languages
- implementing knowledge-based systems in OOP languages.
FORMAT: This will be a full day workshop. Selected participants will give a
mixture of short (10 min) and long (20 min) presentations in the morning. In
the afternoon, several working groups will meet concurrently for two hours,
each discussing a specific area of OOP in AI. The groups will then report to
the workshop.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Workshop invitations will be issued on the basis of
three types of submissions: (1) position paper, 2 pages if you just want to
attend; (2) short papers, 5 pages or less if you want to make a short
presentation (10 min); and (3) long paper, 15 pages or less if you want to make
a long presentation (20 min). All papers should be in camera-ready quality.
The papers will be reviewed by members of the Workshop Committee. Accepted
papers will emphasize the tools for developing object-oriented AI systems
and/or the merits of OOP in an implemented AI system. Papers with an
application orientation should focus on the underlying OOP architecture. In
keeping with an informal workshop, the total number of invitations will be
limited to 40 people. The deadline for submission is March 8, 1991.
Notification of invitation or rejection will be mailed by April 15, 1991.
SEND FIVE (5) COPIES OF EACH SUBMISSION TO:
Zhongmin Li
Utah State University, UMC-2830
Logan, UT 84322-2830
(801) 750-3528 Fax: (801) 750-2693
ZLI@cc.usu.edu
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Dilip K. Barman, Brown University; Jean-Paul A. Barthes
University of Technology of Campiegne, France; Brian L. Donnell, NASA/Johnson
Space Center; Zhongmin Li (chair), Utah State University; and Scott W. Woyak
(co-chair), EDS Research and Development.
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