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From: ethan@unido.atc.boeing.com (Ethan Scarl)
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 90 18:12:59 PST
Subject: MBR Workshop at AAAI-90.  Please post as appropriate
Keywords: Termine

mod-ki message 0415
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                          * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *
 
                           Second AAAI Workshop on
 
                            MODEL-BASED REASONING
 
Boston, MA, USA          Monday, July 30, 1990        Sponsored by AAAI
There are advantages for design, analysis, monitoring, diagnosis, and 
control in systematically representing and reasoning about the structure 
and function of a system.  This workshop is a forum for defining and 
exploring issues associated with reasoning from knowledge of a target 
system's structure and function, more recently called Model-Based 
Reasoning (MBR).  This includes control, planning, analysis, theory 
construction, tutoring, and design/redesign, as well as the more familiar 
areas of monitoring and diagnosis.
 
The workshop seeks papers which offering insight into fundamental 
problems associated with MBR, some of which are listed below.  Although 
analyses of experiences with MBR may be of interest, this is not a forum 
for discussing system implementations or applications.
 
We encourage papers which contribute to the understanding of issues such 
as the following:
 
* The range of inference mechanisms that exploit explicit structural and
  behavioral knowledge; their power and limitations; their requirements
  upon structural representations and behavioral simulations
  factors leading  to the success or abandonment of MBR
* Target system complexity as a fundamental obstacle; types of
  complexity; the use of structure in highly interconnected systems; the
  absence of physical structure
* Qualitative/quantitative, analog/discrete, and mixed domains; coping
  with computational limits and speed/accuracy tradeoffs; hierarchical
  and other organizational principles; geometric knowledge; feedback or
  other time-dependencies; embedded software
* Principles of model construction; problems and solutions in knowledge
   acquisition; functional/physical model relationships; uncertainty or
   incompleteness in models; mixed heuristic/model knowledge
* Inference of structure from behavior; open systems or environments
 
To facilitate discussion, acceptance will be limited to 30 papers and 10 
or fewer presentations.  There will be a proceedings of all accepted 
submissions. More formal publication will be pursued if there is 
sufficient interest. There will be a commentator for each presented 
paper, and single paragraph abstracts of each attendee's paper or work in 
MBR will be distributed prior to the workshop.
 
If sufficient interest is expressed by participants, there may be an
evening session for "system" demonstrations on video or slides.
 
The workshop's organizing committee consists of: Randy Davis, MIT; Johan 
de Kleer, Xerox PARC; Richard Doyle, JPL; Dan Dvorak, U of Texas; David 
Franke, U of Texas; Ben Kuipers, U of Texas; Ethan Scarl (chair), Boeing 
Computer Services; Mark Shirley, Xerox PARC; Dan Weld, U of Washington; 
and Brian Williams, Xerox PARC.
 
The submission format will be short, self-contained papers of no more 
than 2000 words (the proceedings version of accepted papers may be 
longer). Extensions and condensations of work already submitted to AAAI 
or elsewhere is permissible, so long as duplications are noted.  
Submissions should include postal addresses, email addresses, and phone 
numbers for all authors, plus a stamped self-addressed card if such 
acknowledgement is desired.  Three copies
of submitted papers should be sent to Ethan Scarl at Boeing Computer 
Services, P.O. Box 24346, M/S 7L-64 Seattle, Washington, 98124-0346, 
(206) 865-3255, 865-2964 [fax].  Papers without illustrations may be sent 
via email as latex or plain ASCII to ethan@atc.boeing.com.
 
Important dates:   April 2, 1990           Papers must be received
                   May 21, 1990            Notification of acceptance 
mailed
                   June 15, 1990           Abstracts due for early 
distribution
                   July 30, 1990           Workshop
 
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