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From: "Dan Corkill,COINS,UMass 413/545-0156" <unido!uunet!cs.umass.EDU!CORK>
To: mod-ki@unido.uucp
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 10:43 EST
Subject: IJCAI-89 Workshop on Blackboard Systems

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                         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
                 IJCAI-89 Workshop on Blackboard Systems
 
                            Sponsored by AAAI
 
                       Wednesday, August 23, 1989
                        Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
 
Description
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The  blackboard  paradigm  is  a  powerful  technique  for  implementing
today's ambitious AI applications and  for integrating  diverse  problem
solving expertise into a common framework.

The Third Annual Workshop on Blackboard Systems, like its  predecessors,
provides an informal forum where researchers  in  blackboard  technology
and  developers  of  blackboard-based   applications   exchange   ideas,
experiences, problems,  and  inspirations.  The  aims  of  the  workshop
include: allowing participants to share  the  latest  results  of  their
research  in  an  informal  setting,  informing  participants  of  other
researchers working on similar problems or using similar approaches, and
identifying common unsolved research issues.

Topics
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Topics of interest for the workshop include:

 * blackboard systems/shells;
 * blackboard control mechanisms/techniques;
 * real-time, parallel, and distributed blackboard approaches;
 * performance measures for blackboard systems/applications;
 * user interfaces/explanation facilities for blackboard systems;
 * application development/debugging facilities for blackboard systems;
 * problems associated with fielding a blackboard-based application;
 * novel blackboard-based applications.

Submissions presenting comparison data between blackboard technology and
other AI methodologies or among  alternate  blackboard-based  approaches
are particularly encouraged.

Format
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The workshop is one-day long and will take place  on  Wednesday,  August
23.  Accepted papers will be grouped into three panels based on content.
Each panel will consist of a  series  of  informal  paper  presentations
followed by a general discussion period. A chair for each panel will  be
selected from members of the Workshop Committee. As with previous years,
a proceedings containing complete versions of the accepted  papers  will
be distributed at the workshop.

Submission Information
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Workshop invitations will be issued on the basis of  extended  abstracts
10 pages or less in length.  Each extended abstract will be reviewed  by
members of the Workshop Committee. At most, 2 invitations will be issued
for each accepted abstract. In keeping with an  informal  workshop,  the
total number of invitations will be limited to 30--35 people.

Workshop Committee
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Larry Baum, Boeing ATC           Kevin Gallagher, UMass (co-chair)
Roberto Bisiani, CMU             Barbara Hayes-Roth, Stanford
Daniel Corkill, UMass (chair)    V. Jagannathan, American Cimflex
Raj Dodhiawala, FMC              Victor Lesser, UMass
Robert Engelmore, Stanford       Penny Nii, Stanford
Lee Erman,Teknowledge

Important Dates
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May    12, 1989   Extended abstracts must be received
July    3, 1989   Notification of invitation or rejection
July   28, 1989   Completed papers must be received
August 23, 1989   Workshop date

Send four copies of extended abstracts to:
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Daniel D. Corkill
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
U.S.A.

Internet: Cork@CS.UMass.Edu

Phone: 413/545-0156
FAX: 413/545-1249
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