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                	    Call for Papers

  Second Japanese Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems
  Workshop

        	            Sponsored by 
		Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 


			In Cooperation with 
          Information Processing Society of Japan
          Japan Society for Software Science and Technology
          The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication
          Engineers

			    Venue & Date
          Kobe International Conference Hall (Kobe)
                      November 9 - 11, 1992

          Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd. (Hatoyama)
                      November 12 - 13, 1992

A problem in the process of building knowledge-based systems is
acquiring and modeling appropriate problem-solving knowledge. The
objective of this workshop is to assemble theoreticians and
practitioners of AI who recognize the need for developing methods
and systems that assist the knowledge acquisition process.

The workshop will be in two parts: a three-day open meeting in Kobe
and two-day workshop in Hatoyama (near Tokyo).  A major goal of the
workshop is to encourage vigorous interaction and exchange of idea.
Consequently, the workshop participation in Hatoyama will be kept
small - about 40 participants. This will be done by limiting
workshop participation to one of the authors for any given paper,
although some exceptions can be made based upon requests to the
organizers. In addition, persons not submitting papers can request
to participate by sending a summary of their research and/or
publications in knowledge acquisition to the organizers. Acceptance
for participation in the Hatoyama workshop will be decided upon by
the organizers. Papers will be presented at both workshops. There
will be tutorial and invited talk sessions in the open workshop.
Best paper awards are available for foreign students to cover a
part of their travel expenses (100,000 yen/person).

Papers are invited for consideration in all aspects of knowledge
acquisition for knowledge-based systems, including (but not restricted
to):

 o Transfer/modeling of expertise - systems that obtain and model
   knowledge from experts.
 o Transfer/modeling of expertise - manual knowledge acquisition       
   methods and techniques.
 o Apprenticeship, explanation-based, and other learning systems;
   integration of such systems with other knowledge acquisition   
   techniques.
 o Methods for capturing design knowledge and requirements
 o Issues in cognition and expertise that affect the knowledge
   acquisition process.
 o Extracting and modeling of knowledge from text.
 o Eliciting and modeling knowledge from multiple sources.
 o Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques within a single
   system; integration of knowledge acquisition systems with other 
   systems (hypermedia, database management systems, simulators, 
   spreadsheets...).
 o Knowledge acquisition methodology and training.
 o Validation of knowledge acquisition techniques; the role of 
   knowledge acquisition techniques in validating knowledge-based 
   systems.

Five copies of a draft paper (up to 20 pages) should be sent to
Riichiro Mizoguchi before March 31st, 1992. Acceptance notices will be
mailed by June 30th. Camera-ready copies should be returned before
August 31st. A preprint volume will be distributed at the workshop.

Workshop Co-chairmen:

Riichiro Mizoguchi                     Hiroshi Motoda
Institute of Scientific and            Advanced Research Laboratory
Industrial Research                    Hitachi, Ltd.
Osaka University                       motoda@harl.hitachi.co.jp
8-1, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, 567 Japan     
miz@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp            

John Boose                             Brian Gaines
Advanced Technology Center             Department of Computer Science
Boeing Computer Services               University of Calgary
john@atc.boeing.com                    gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

Ross Quinlan
Basser Department of Computer Science
University of Sydney
quinlan@basser.cs.su.oz.au


Local Arrangement Committee

Teruo Koyama(National Center for Information Science)
Takahira Yamaguchi(Faculty of Engineering, University of Shizuoka)
And all the members of SIG-KBS of JSAI


International Program Committee

Thomas R. Addis, University of Reading, UK
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Univ. Kaiserlautern, Germany
Nathalie Aussenec, IRIT, CNRS, France
Guy Boy, Centre d'Etudes et de Rech. de Toulouse, NASA AMES, USA
Jeffrey Bradshaw, Boeing Computer Services, USA
I. Bratko, Ljubljana, Jugoslawia
B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University, USA
William Clancey, Institute for Research on Learning, USA
Paul Compton, University of New South Wales, Australia
John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Michael J. Freiling, Wyatt Software, USA
Jean Gabriel Ganascia, Universite Paris VI, France
Thomas Gruber, Stanford University, USA
Koichi Hori, University of Tokyo, Japan
Bob Jansen, ESTRO, The Netherlands
Catherine Kitto, Boeing Computer Services, USA
Georg Klinker, Digital Equipment Company, USA
Shigenobu Kobayashi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Yves Kodratoff, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Jae K. Lee, Korea Adv Inst of Science and Technology, Korea
Marc Linster, GMD, St. Augustin, Germany
Sandra Marcus, Boeing Computer Services, USA
John McDermott, Digital Equipment Corporation, USA Mary Meyer, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, USA
Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University, USA
Katharina Morik, GMD, Bonn, Germany
Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA
Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Alain Rappaport, Neuron Data, USA
Thomas Rothenfluh, Zurich ,Switzerland
Franz Schmalhofer, DFKI Kaiserlautern, Germany
Gus Schreiber, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nigel Shadbolt, University of Nottingham, The Netherlands
Mildred Shaw, University of Calgary, Canada
Duncan Smeed, University of Strathclyde, UK
Ingeborg Solvberg, Trondheim, Norway
Maarten van Someren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hirokazu Taki, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
Masanobu Watanabe, NEC Corporation, Japan
Thomas Wetter, IBM Heidelberg, Germany
Bob Wielinga, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Brian Woodward, University of Calgary, Canada