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- From: rewari@cyber.enet.dec.com (Anil Rewari)
- Subject: CFP -- AAAI'93 Workshop: AI in Service & Support
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.060115.23291@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Keywords: Customer Service, Support
- Sender: rewari@cyber (Anil Rewari)
- Reply-To: rewari@aiag.enet.dec.com (Anil Rewari)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 06:01:15 GMT
- Lines: 107
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- AAAI-93 Workshop on AI in Service and Support: Bridging the Gap Between
- Research and Applications
-
- DESCRIPTION:
-
- The areas of customer service and support are poised to be leading areas for
- revenue growth to companies in the 90's. A 1991 market study shows that 23
- percent of high technology service organizations have already begun building
- AI based systems, and 67 percent expect to be using AI within 3 years. This
- full-day workshop will gather researchers and developers who are working on
- exploring or applying AI techniques (such as expert systems, case-based
- reasoning, model-based reasoning, intelligent information retrieval, neural
- networks, fuzzy logic, etc) in the areas of customer service and support in
- industry as well as government. The goal of this workshop is encourage
- interactions between researchers (from university and corporate
- laboratories) and developers of AI systems so as to bridge the gap between
- current research in artificial intelligence and current needs in service
- organizations.
-
- TOPICS:
-
- Papers are encouraged in, but are not limited to, the following areas:
-
- - diagnosis
- - advisory activities
- - information retrieval
- - workforce planning and dispatch
- - resource and inventory management
- - hardware and software configuration management
- - automated knowledge acquisition
- - emergency response centers
- - call center management
- - billing and account servicing, and
- - various value-added services
-
- Corporate service organizations frequently consist of geographically
- dispersed groups whose work is intertwined. Also, the rate at which new
- products are being introduced makes it harder for support personnel to be on
- top of things. Keeping this in mind, we would also encourage researchers in
- the following areas to participate by focusing on how their research could
- be applied to service and support:
-
- - Knowledge Sharing (such as that being conducted by PACT, including Stanford
- University) between functional groups such
- as engineering, service, and billing groups.
- - Machine Learning, to augment the shortcomings of knowledge-based systems
- currently in use
- - Natural-Language translation, for service groups that are located in
- different countries but use the same underlying tools or applications
- - Designing systems for serviceability
- - Groupware
- - Distributed AI, for example, for allowing various expert systems to work
- cooperatively in a help desk environment
-
- FORMAT OF WORKSHOP:
-
- This will be a full day workshop split into 4 sessions of 90 minutes each
- and will include paper sessions as well as panels. The areas of focus of the
- paper sessions and panels will depend on the range of papers accepted, and
- will be specified later.
-
-
- ATTENDANCE:
-
- Developers and reserchers interested in applying advanced Artificial
- Intelligence technology to the areas of customer service and support in
- industry as well as government. This workshop will encourage interaction
- between researchers and developers. In order to facilitate interaction,
- attendance will be limited to 50 people.
-
- SUBMISSSION REQUIREMENTS:
-
- Prospective participants should send 4 copies of papers not more than 8
- pages long (not including the title page and bibliography). A subset of the
- participants will be selected as speakers. Those who are interested in
- attending but do not want to be considered for presentations may send a
- detailed abstract describing their work and the reasons for their interest
- in this workshop.
-
- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 12, 1993
-
- NOTIFICATION DATE: April 2, 1993
-
- FINAL DATE FOR CAMERA-READY COPIES TO ORGANIZERS: April 30, 1993
-
- SUBMIT TO:
-
- Anil Rewari
- Artificial Intelligence Technology Center
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- 111 Locke Drive, LMO2-1/E12
- Marlboro, MA 01752
-
- Tel. 508-480-5568
- FAX. 508-480-5822
- email: rewari@aiag.enet.dec.com
-
- WORKSHOP CHAIR:
-
- Anil Rewari, Digital Equipment Corporation.
-
- WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
-
- Anil Rewari, Digital Equipment Corporation.
- Avron Barr, Aldo Ventures, Inc. email: barr@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- Jeff Pepper, ServiceWare, Inc.
- Frank von Martial, DETECON, Germany. email: frank@gmdzi.gmd.de
-