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Volume: 10, Issue: 8, Fri Sep  1 17:51:35 EDT 1989

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| TODAY'S TOPICS |
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(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.



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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 

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Conference Organizers:
Prof. Bernard P. Zeigler  zeigler@arizevax.bitnet
Prof. Jerzy Rozenblit     rozenblit@arizevax.bitnet
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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.
 



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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

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*** IMPORTANT : followup and general reactions ONLY to news.groups  ***
***             VOTES ONLY by E-MAIL.   Posted votes do NOT count!  ***
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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.

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*** 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.

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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
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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.

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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



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