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                        C A L L   F O R   PAPERS

         FIRST AUSTRALIAN WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

                           in conjunction with

     Eighth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'95)

                                Hosted by 

                     Department of Computer Science
          University College, The University of New South Wales
                    Australian Defence Force Academy
                     Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia

                            13th November 1995
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1. Purpose of the Workshop

The Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSSs) Workshop is concerned
with the design, implementation, maintenance and use of computer systems 
which can support difficult decision making in areas of much uncertainty, 
incomplete information, human judgement, preferences and risks. The 
workshop will address the topics of: the nature of IDSSs, recent IDSSs 
which have been built, experiences with using recent IDSS development tools, 
methodologies for building IDSSs, issues with building Cooperating IDSSs, 
knowledge representation for IDSSs, Reasoning Methods for IDSSs
and approaches for maintaining IDSSs.

2. Organising Committee (in alphabetical order)

Mr. Andrew Blair            University of Technology, Sydney
Prof. John K. Debenham      University of Technology, Sydney
Dr. John Zeleznikow         La Trobe University, Melbourne


3. Programme Committee (in alphabetical order)

Mr. Andrew Blair            University of Technology, Sydney
Dr. Frada Burstein          Monash University, Melbourne
Prof. John K. Debenham      University of Technology, Sydney
Mr. Kim Horn                Australian Gilt Securities Limited, Sydney
Dr. Richard Kowalczyk       CRA ATD, Perth
Prof. Jean-Charles Pomerol  Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
Dr. John Zeleznikow         La Trobe University, Melbourne


4. Workshop Outline

This workshop will be a full-day workshop on 13th November 1995 at AI'95 in 
Canberra, Australia.  The proceedings of this workshop will be published by 
AI'95. If the workshop papers are of a high standard, then an International
Publisher will be approached to publish these papers. 

The cost of workshops is set at $75 for conference attendees and $150 for
others.

5. Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit four copies of their paper by August 18 
describing either theoretical or practical work in any areas of IDSSs. 
Papers submitted should be double-spaced in 12 point Times Roman 
and not exceed 15 pages. Topics of interest include, but are 
not limited to:

* Nature of IDSSs
* Recent tools for the development of IDSSs
* Knowledge Representation for IDSSs
* Reasoning Methods for IDSSs
* Methodologies for building IDSSs 
* Applications of IDSSs
* Cooperating IDSSs
* Integration of Heterogeneous Components in IDSSs
* Maintenance of IDSSs

Papers which are submitted will be reviewed by at least two referees. 
Advice of acceptance will be sent to authors by 8th of September. 
Those people who have their paper accepted to the workshop will 
be required to submit their camera-ready paper version by the 
30th of September. The workshop will be limited to approximately 
20 people.
 

6. Submission of Paper
 
Four copies of the full paper must be sent to:

AI'95 IDSS Workshop Organising Committee
c/- Professor John K. Debenham
School of Computing Sciences,
University of Technology, Sydney                                        
PO Box 123, Broadway, 
Sydney, NSW 2007, 
Australia 


7. Workshop Contact

All queries on this workshop should be directed to:

          idss-request@socs.uts.EDU.AU

Members of the organising committee will respond to your queries.


8. Important Dates

18th August 1995        Deadline for Full Paper
8th  September 1995     Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
30th September 1995     Deadline for camera-ready paper version
13th November 1995      Workshop