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- Subject: CAIA-93 CFP: 9th IEEE Conf on AI for Applications
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- CALL FOR PAPERS
-
- CAIA-93
- The Ninth IEEE Conference on
- Artificial Intelligence for Applications
- Disneyworld Hilton -- Orlando, Florida
- March 1-5, 1993
-
- The conference is devoted to advancing the application of artificial
- intelligence techniques to real world problems. Two kinds of papers are
- appropriate: case studies of AI applications that solve significant
- problems and stimulate the development of useful techniques, and papers on
- novel AI techniques and principles that enable more ambitious real-world
- applications. This conference provides a forum for such synergy between
- applications and AI techniques. Emphasis at this year's conference will
- be on new AI paradigms that can or have had an impact on applications.
-
- Papers describing significant unpublished results are solicited in two
- areas:
-
- * Applications Papers. Contributions stemming from the general areas of
- industry, science and engineering, business, government, law, etc.
- Application papers must: (1) Justify the use of the AI technique, based on
- the problem definition and an analysis of the application's requirements;
- (2) Explain how AI technology was used to solve a significant problem; (3)
- Describe the status of the implementation; (4) Evaluate the effectiveness
- of the application and the technique used.
-
- Short papers describing systems in use (up to 1000 words, extended
- abstract) will also be accepted for presentation in these application
- tracks.
-
- * Enabling Technology Papers. Contributions focusing on techniques and
- principles that facilitate the development of practical AI applications
- that can be scaled to handle increasing problem complexity. Topics
- include, but are not limited to: knowledge representation, reasoning,
- search, knowledge acquisition, learning, constraint programming, planning,
- (including artificial neural nets, genetic algorithms, nearest neighbors,
- etc.), validation and verification, project management, natural language
- processing, speech, robotics, data discovery and database mining,
- multimedia and virtual reality applications, intelligent interfaces,
- integration, problem-solving architectures, programming environments,
- exploitation of parallelism, and general tools.
-
- Papers should be limited to 5000 words. Papers significantly longer that
- this will not be reviewed. The first page of the paper must contain the
- following information (where applicable) in the order shown:
-
- * Title.
- * Author's name and affiliation (specify student status).
- * Contact information (name, postal address, phone and email address).
- * Abstract: A 200 word abstract that includes a clear statement
- describing the paper's original contributions and what new lesson is
- imparted.
- * AI topic: One or more terms describing the relevant AI areas, e.g.
- knowledge acquisition, explanation, diagnosis, etc.
- * Domain area: One or more terms describing the problem domain area, e.g.
- mechanical design, factory scheduling, education, medicine, etc.
- * Language/Tool: Underlying programming languages, systems and tools used.
- * Status: Development and deployment status, as appropriate.
- * Effort: Person-years of effort put into developing the particular aspect
- of the project being described.
- * Impact: A 20 word description of estimated or measured (specify) benefit
- of the application developed.
-
- Papers will be accepted in two forms: long papers and short papers. Papers
- accepted for publication will be allotted seven pages (long papers) or
- four papers (short papers) in the conference proceedings. The best papers
- accepted will be considered for a special issue of IEEE EXPERT to appear
- late in 1993. Awards will be presented to best paper and best student
- paper at the conference.
-
- In addition to papers, we will be accepting the following types of
- submissions:
-
- * Proposals for Panel Discussions. Provide a brief description of the
- topic (1000 words or less). Indicate the membership of the panel and
- interest in organizing/moderating the discussion.
-
- * Proposals for Tutorial Presentations. Proposals for the three hour
- tutorials of both an introductory and advanced nature are requested.
- Topics should relate to the management and technical development of useful
- artificial intelligence applications. Tutorials which analyze classes of
- applications in depth or examine techniques appropriate for a particular
- class of applications are of particular interest.
-
- Each tutorial should include the following:
-
- * Detailed topic outline and extended abstract (about 3 pages).
- * Intended audience and assumed background knowledge.
- * Half-page synopsis of focus, topics, and benefits to audience.
- * Full professional vita (including lecture/tutorial experience and a
- one-paragraph summary.
-
- * Proposals for Workshops. Proposals are sought for one day workshops to
- be held in conjunction with the conference. These workshops can focus on a
- specific application domain (e.g. aerospace applications) or on a
- technical subarea (e.g. intelligent real time problem solving). Workshop
- organization and attendance will be governed by the organizers. Submit
- proposals to the Workshop Chair.
-
- Important Dates
- * August 31, 1992: Four copies of papers, and three copies of all the
- proposals are due. Submissions not received by that date will be returned
- unopened. Electronically transmitted materials will not be accepted.
-
- * October 30, 1992: Author notifications mailed.
-
- * December 14, 1992: Accepted papers due to IEEE. Accepted tutorial
- notes due to Tutorial Chair.
-
- * March 1-2, 1993: Conference tutorial program.
-
- * March 3-5, 1993: Conference technical program.
-
- Submit Papers and Panels to:
- David Waltz
- Thinking Machines Corporation
- 245 First Street
- Cambridge, MA 02142-1214
- Phone: 617-234-2050
- Fax: 617-234-4444
- Email: waltz@think.com
-
- Submit Tutorial or Workshop Proposals to:
- Peter Selfridge
- AT&T Bell Labs
- 2B-425
- 600 Mountain Avenue
- P.O. Box 636
- Murray Hill, NJ 07974
- Phone: 908-582-6801
- Email: pgs@research.att.com
-
- For registration and additional conference information, contact:
- CAIA-93
- IEEE Computer Society
- 1730 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
- Washington, DC 20036-1903
- Phone: 202-371-1013
-
-
- General Chair:
- Jan Aikins, Aion Corporation
-
- Program Chair:
- David Waltz,
- Thinking Machines Corporation, and Brandeis University
-
- Tutorial/Workshop Co-Chairs:
- Donald McKay, Paramax Systems Corporation
- Peter Selfridge, AT&T Bell Laboratories
-
- Publicity Chair:
- Curt Hall, Intelligent Software Strategies
-
- Local Arrangements Chair:
- Doug Dankel, University of Florida
-
-
- Program Committee:
- Chid Apte, IBM
- Ralph Barletta, Cognitive Systems
- Madeleine Bates, Bolt, Beranek & Newman
- Vasant Dhar, NYU
- Bob Engelmore, Stanford University
- Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Brad Goodman, Mitre Corporation
- Mark Goodman, Cognitive Systems, Inc. and Brandeis University
- Paul Haley, The Haley Enterprise
- Larry Harris, AI Corporation
- Phil Hayes, Carnegie Group, Inc.
- Se June Hong, IBM
- Anthony Maddox, Northeastern University
- Patti Maes, MIT Media Lab
- Rob Milne, Intelligent Applications (Scotland)
- Bernadette Kowalski Minton, Aion Corporation
- Steve Minton, NASA Ames Research Center
- Fumio Mizoguchi, Tokyo Science University
- Peter Norvig, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
- Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California
- James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
- Elaine Rich, MCC
- Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts
- Oliver Selfridge, GTE Laboratories
- Howard E. Schrobe, Symbolics, Inc.
- Candy Sidner, DEC Cambridge Research Laboratory
- Craig Stanfill, Thinking Machines Corporation
- Oliver Vadas, Pulp and Paper Research Insititute of Canada
-
- Partial list of invited speakers:
- Patrick Winston, MIT and Ascent Technology
- "Learning and Database Mining"
-
- Wendy Lehnert, University of Massachusetts
- "What We've Learned from the DARPA Natural Language Initiative"
-
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