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- Subject: CKBS-SIG : Tutorial and Workshop on CKBS (Sept, 23-25)
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 15:20:40 GMT
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- Organization: University of Keele, England
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- Final Call for Registration
- Tutorial and Workshop on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems
- September 23-25, 1992, Keele University
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- The UK Special Interest Group on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems
- (CKBS-SIG( UK)) sponsored by the UK Department of Trade and Industry, invites
- you to register for a tutorial and workshop to be held at Keele University
- from September 23 to 25, 1992.
-
- Tutorial [Wednesday, September 23, 2-5p.m]
-
- Topic: Multi-agent Systems
- Presenter: Dr. Donald Steiner, Siemens, Germany
- Dr. Steiner worked in some large US projects
- before joining Siemens to work on multi-agent
- systems.
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- Workshop [Thursday & Friday, September 24-25, 1992]
-
- Papers to be presented : attached
-
- A draft workshop proceedings will include drafts/handouts, as available, of
- the presentations at the workshop. The full papers will be reviewed
- subsequently following their presentation at the workshop, and those
- selected will constitute t he final workshop proceedings. The copies of the
- final proceedings will be mailed to the attendees in due course.
-
- Final Registration Form
-
- Due a the large number of good quality papers received, we had to extend the
- workshop into 2 days ( Sept 24 & 25) as originally planned, with a
- consequential sm all increase in fee. We regret this inconvenience.
-
-
- Background
-
- In CKBS a number of intelligent computer systems cooperate together to solve
- problems that cannot be solved otherwise. CKBSs may be described as the
- next generation of intelligent systems, with a wide range of industrial
- application areas, such as air traffic control, telecommunications network
- management, distributed sensor networks, distributed monitoring and fault
- diagnostics, intelligent manufacturing systems and so on. The focus of
- CKBS is applied multi-agent systems where the techniques of distributed
- artificial intelligence and distributed dat abases blend together to provide
- good solutions to real world problems.
-
- The first international conference on this theme was the CKBS'90 held at
- Keele in October 1990. The conference was considered by the participants to
- be a valuab le forum for the cross fertilisation of ideas in this area and at
- their suggestion a special interest group, CKBS-SIG International, was formed
- (managed by the DA KE Centre at Keele), in order to provide a nucleus for
- further activities in this area. The CKBS-SIG(UK) is a subgroup of this
- larger SIG. Attendance is welcome from members of CKBS-SIG International
- and also from other interested researchers. The activity committee of the
- workshop will consist of:
-
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- Prof. S.M. Deen (Keele University) [Chairman]
- Prof. J. Doran (University of Essex)
- Dr. D. Griffiths(British Telecom)
- Dr. P. Kearney (Sharp Laboratories, Europe)
- Prof. I. Mamdani (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London)
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- Papers to be presented
- WorkshopSoneCooperatingpKnowledgetBasedeSystemsmber 24-25, 1992,
- Keele University
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- Partial list of expected paper titles in an abbreviated form
-
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- o The recently proposed DARPA (US Department of Defence) language for
- multi-agent systems
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- o Design issues in a CKBS approach to telecommunications diagnostics
-
- o Optimisation in an intelligent data-network routing system
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- o Some issues in Air Traffic Control
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- o Applying CKBS techniques to electronic Mail
-
- o Knowledge Consistency
-
- o Distributed help desk system
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- o An architecture for cooperative intelligent information systems
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- o Prolog for multi-agent systems
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- o ESPRIT KBS-SHIP project
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- o Negotiation for cooperating agents
-
- o Rule-based multi-agent system
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- FINAL REGISTRATION FORM
- Tutorial and Workshop on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems
- September 23-25, 1992, Keele University
-
-
- Name (including title) : ................................................
- Affiliation (for badge) : ...............................................
-
- Address : ...............................................................
- ...............................................................
- ...............................................................
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- SGES(BCS Specialist group on Expert Systems) Membership Number:............
- ..
- Phone: ............... Fax: ................. Email: ....................
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- Tutorial Registration Fee (23 September)
- includes handouts and afternoon tea/coffee
-
- Student 25 pounds O
- Academic 35 pounds O
- SGES Member 45 pounds O
- Other 55 pounds O
- Surcharge for registering after 18 September 15 pounds O
-
-
- Workshop Registration Fee (24-25, September)
-
- Includes lunch, Tea/Coffee, draft workshop proceedings and the final workshop
- proceedings
-
- Student and Academic 50 pounds O
- SGES Member 65 pounds O
- Other 80 pounds O
- Surcharge for registering after 18 September 15 pounds O
-
- Accommodation
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- 22 pounds per night (includes breakfast), $33 per night with bathroom
- facilities (limited supply)
-
- September 22 22 pounds O or 33 pounds O
- September 23 22 pounds O or 33 pounds O
- September 24 22 pounds O or 33 pounds O
- September 25 22 pounds O or 33 pounds O
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- Total : ...............pounds
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- * students and academics from recognised institutions only.
- Please tick the appropriate boxes above.
-
- Payment must be made to the University of Keele, in pounds sterling drawn on
- a British Bank or by Eurocheque or Bankers Draft. Cheques must be crossed.
- Payment can alternatively be made by credit card
-
- Please tick ACCESS O VISA O MASTERCARD O EUROCARD O
-
- Card Number ................................. Expiry.Date...................
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- Signature ................................................................
-
-
- Please note full payment must accompany the registration form; there is no
- pro- vision for invoicing. Please send your forms with payment to:
-
- Mark Walsh (CKBS-SIG Secretary),
- DAKE Centre, University of Keele, Keele, Staffs. ST5 5BG. UK.
- Phone: +44 782 583410, Fax: +44 782 713082, Email: mark@cs.keele.ac.uk
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