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- From: dieng@picsou.inria.fr (Rose Dieng)
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- Subject: Call for participation (IJCAI Workshop)
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- Date: 3 Dec 92 18:40:54 GMT
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- Organization: INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (Fr)
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- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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- IJCAI'93 Workshop on Using Knowledge in its Context
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- Context of the proposal:
- Advances in multidisciplinary research are leading
- towards a new generation of intelligent assistant
- systems which are context-sensitive.It is hypothe-
- sized that 'knowledge' has a contextual component.
- If its importance is acknowledged , contextual
- component is rarely represented explicitly in
- available knowledge representations , and not used
- in subsequent processing of knowledge. There is a
- gap between what is known and what is done . For
- instance , this situation is particularly critical
- for intelligent assistant systems where knowledge
- in context is a key component. Thus , acquisition,
- representation and exploitation of knowledge in
- context would have a major contribution in all IAS
- areas such as knowledge representation, knowledge
- acquisition,explanation,maintenance,documentation,
- learning , human-computer communication and vali-
- dation / verification. A computational capability
- that understand,represent and reason about context
- will be very valuable and of immense benefit to
- many AI problems.
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- Goal :
- This workshop will bring together leading resear-
- chers involved in the notion of context and its use
- in advanced information systems . The workshop will
- focus on computational principles and mechanisms
- for eliciting, modelling, and using the contextual
- aspect of knowledge,as well as techniques and tools
- for contructing context-sensitive systems. We will
- address the problem through questions relevant to
- the theme of knowledge in context such as:
- - What is context ?
- - How the notion of context can be modeled?
- - How context can be encapsulated in representation
- formalisms?
- - What are the cognitive aspects linked to the
- notion of context?
- - How does context influence human dialogues and
- how can it be taken into account in IASs?
- - How to exploit the notion of context in human-
- computer interaction ( assistance to user, expla-
- nations, etc.)?
- - What is the role of the notion of context in a
- computer-supported cooperative work?
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- The workshop will be open to participants from
- different disciplines such as , cognitive science,
- knowledge representation , knowledge acquisition,
- explanations,knowledge assimilation, human computer
- interaction and navigation. Topics may concern (but
- not limited to):
- - context-sensitive explanations (from experts,from
- documents)
- - context-sensitive human computer interaction(user
- model, visualisation, navigation aid, cooperative
- explanation) , acquisition and representation of
- knowledge in context (domain expert, document)
- - context-sensitive information document management
- - context- sensitive architecture of the system
- (customisable & flexible, situated agents)
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- Schedule :
- papers received: February 1st, 1993
- author notification: March 1st, 1993
- final papers received: April 1st, 1993
- preprints distributed: May 1st, 1993
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- Participants will be selected on the basis of sub-
- mitted papers (10 pages maximum). Four paper copies
- are required. Papers must include: author's name(s),
- affiliation, complete address mailing,phone and fax
- number, and e-mail.
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- Preprints will be mailed to participants before the
- workshop in order to work before the workshop, by
- e-mail if possible . Our aim is that participants
- present a synthetical or controversal point of view
- of that work. The workshop will be limited to 30
- active participants. Additional information will be
- sent by the chair person on request.
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- Organizing Committee:
- Alem L., CSIRO, D.I.T. (Australia)
- Boy G., EURISCO (France)
- Brezillon P., University Paris 6 (France)
- Clancey W.J., IRL (USA)
- Dieng R., INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France)
- Jansen B., CSIRO (Australie)
- Vercoustre A.M., INRIA Rocquencourt (France)
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- Chairperson:
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- Patrick Brezillon
- LAFORIA, Box 169, Phone: (33-1) 44 27 70 08
- University Paris VI, Fax: (33-1) 44 27 70 00
- 4, Place Jussieu E-mail: brezil@laforia.ibp.fr
- F-75252 PARIS Cedex 05
- France
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