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From: kyokota@ss151.icot.or.jp (Yokota Kazumasa)
Subject: [CFP] Preliminary Program of FGCS'94 Workshop on HCKB
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                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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                        Preliminary Program
                                of
                          FGCS'94 Workshop
                                on
                Heterogeneous Cooperative Knowledge-Bases

        [in conjunction with FGCS'94, Dec.13(Tue), 14(Wed), 1994]
                                   
                 Date: December 15 (Thu), 16 (Fri), 1994
                   Place: Shoenbach Sabo, Tokyo, Japan


                (L) means long  presentation (30 minutes)
                (S) means short presentation (20 minutes)


December the 15th (Thursday)

 9:30- 9:40     Opening

 9:40-10:40     Invited Talk:

                Michael N. Huhns (MCC),
                "Global Information Management via Local Autonomous Agents"

10:40-12:00     Cooperation Framework:

                (L) Akira Aiba, Kazumasa Yokota, and Hiroshi Tsuda
                (ICOT, Japan),
                "Heterogeneous Distributed Cooperative Problem Solving
                System Helios and Its Cooperation Mechanisms"

                (S) Keith L. Clark and Tzone I. Wang (Imperial College, UK),
                "Distributed Object Oriented Logic Programming"

                (L) Paul-Andre Tourtier (INRIA, France),
                "A Flexible Facilitator-based Cooperation Framework"

12:00-13:30     Lunch

13:30-14:30     Invited Talk:

                Mike Papazoglou (Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia),
                "Using Reflection as a Means of Achieving Cooperation"

14:30-15:20     Applications (1):

                (L) Shusaku Tsumoto and Hiroshi Tanaka 
                (Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ., Japan),
                "Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge-Bases in Medical
                Domain"

                (S) Hiroshi Tsuda and Akira Aiba (ICOT, Japan),
                "Heterogeneous Natural Language Understanding in Helios"

15:20-15:50     Coffee Break

15:50-17:30     Knowledge Sharing and Databases:

                (L) Hideaki Takeda, Kenji Iino, and Toyoaki Nishida
                (NAIST, Japan),
                "Agent Communication with Multiple Ontologies"

                (L) Michael R. Genesereth, Narinder P. Singh, and
                Mustafa A. Syed (Stanford Univ., U.S.A.),
                "A Distributed and Anonymous Knowledge Sharing Approach to
                Software Interoperation"

                (S) Juhnyoung Lee (Univ. of Virginia, U.S.A.) and
                Cheol Su Lin (Sogang Univ., Korea),
                "Database Supports for Future Process Control"

                (S) C.H.C. Leung (Victoria Univ. of Technology, Australia),
                "A Flexible Paradigm for Semantic Integration in
                Cooperative Heterogeneous Databases"


December the 16th (Friday)

 9:00-10:00     Invited Talk:

                Gio Wiederhold (Stanford Univ., U.S.A.),
                "Ontology Algebra" (tentative)

10:00-11:40     Comminication and Cooperation:

                (L) Takao Terano (Tsukuba Univ., Japan),
                "Learning from Problem Solving and Communication:
                A Computational Model for Distributed Knowledge Systems"

                (L) Shuji Narazaki, Hiroomi Yamamura, and Norihiko Yoshida,
                (Kyushu Univ., Japan),
                "Strategies for Selecting Communication Structures in
                Cooperative Search"

                (S) Yasuhiko Kitamura, Ken-ichi Teranishi, and Takaaki
                Okumoto (Osaka City Univ., Japan), 
                "Communication Resource Sharing in Diffusing Search"

                (S) Toru Ishida (Kyoto Univ., Japan),
                "Bridging Humans via Agent Networks"

11:40-13:10     Lunch

13:10-14:10     Invited Talk:

                Les Gasser (Univ. of Southern California, U.S.A.),
                "Agent Organizations for Information Management/Commerce: 
                The Next Frontier"

14:10-15:10     CSCW:

                (S) Hisayuki Masui, Masakazu Nomoto, and Yahiko Kambayashi 
                (Kyoto Univ., Japan),
                "Dynamic Active Rules in Cooperative Work Environment"

                (S) Susumu Kunifuji, Hideki Nagata, Masayuki Sato, and
                Naotaka Kato (JAIST, Japan),
                "Creative Group Decision Support System for Research and
                Development Management"

                (S) Rose Dieng (INRIA, France),
                "Agent-Based Method for Building a Cooperative
                Knowledge-Based System"

15:10-15:40     Coffee Break

15:40-17:00     Applications (2):

                (L) R. L. Grossman, W. Kohn, and A. Nerode
                (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A.),
                "Using High Performance Distributed Object Stores
                for Predicate Management Support of Cooperative 
                Autonomous Agents Controlling Large Complex Systems"

                (S) Edwige Pissaloux and Brigitte Hoeltzener (Univ.
                Paris XI, France),
                "Towards a Formal Representation of the Knowledge
                Encompassed in Aerial Images"

                (L) A. Prat, J.Lores, K.Sanjeevan, and J. Catot 
                (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain),
                "A Multi-Agent Distributed Architecture and Tools for
                Deveroping Integrated Statistical Software"

17:00-17:10     Closing


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For more detail information, contact:
    
        Akira Aiba (workshop secretariat)
        ICOT
        Mita Kokusai Bldg. 21st fl.
        4-28, Mita 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan
        TEL: +81-3-3456-2514    FAX: +81-3-3456-1618
        Internet: aiba@icot.or.jp
