Article 17993 of comp.ai: Xref: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:17993 Path: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!eddie.mit.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!keele!lulu!martyn From: martyn@lulu (Martyn Fletcher) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: CFP: Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems (CKBS'94) conf. Date: 22 Jul 1993 16:02:50 GMT Lines: 201 Distribution: world Message-ID: <22mdna$l0o@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lulu.cs.keele.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A Call for Papers CKBS'94 International Working Conference on COOPERATING KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS June 15 - 17, 1994 University of Keele, England Dear Colleagues, Introduction ------------ CKBS'94, the second International Working Conference on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems (CKBS) will be held, from June 15 to 17 (Wednesday to Friday) in 1994 at the University of Keele. A special emphasis will be placed this year on a CKBS approach to intelligent manufacturing systems, but papers from other areas are also invited. The objective of the CKBS series of conferences is to bring the researchers from Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), Distributed Databases (DDB) and industry together to discuss issues and solutions of real-world problems that are inherently distributed. Such problems can benefit from a CKBS type approach, which amalgamate ideas from DAI and DDB for high-performance and robust solutions. Examples of interesting application domains are: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Air-traffic Control, Telecommunications Network Management, Distributed Sensor Networks, Distributed Decision-making Systems, Distributed Banking Systems, Distributed Office Procedures, Distributed Fault Diagnosis. CKBS'94 is the successor to CKBS'90 which was held at Keele in 1990, and in which both DAI and DDB researchers participated. CKBS'90 was considered by the attendees to be very successful and led to the formation of the International Special Interest Group CKBS-SIG, which is managed by the DAKE Centre at Keele. Conference Themes ---------- ------ For CKBS'94, we have selected the application domain of intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS) as a special theme, because of a growing need for a CKBS approach in many areas of this field, such as agent-based and flexible manufacturing, concurrent engineering design and knowledge and systems integration for manufacturing. A number of Programme Committee members are researchers in the IMS area. It is hoped that the conference will provide a forum for the cross-fertilisation of ideas leading to better solutions of CKBS problems in the various branches of IMS and other application domains. Finally, despite our special focus on research in intelligent manufacturing systems, we invite papers from other application domains as well. In fact we may run in the conference different streams, one for the research related to intelligent manufacturing and other(s) for the other domains, depending on the number of quality papers received. If necessary, the conference could be extended to Saturday, June 18. Topics of Interest ------ -- -------- We seek not only papers from completed research work, but also papers on novel ideas even if the work is not yet complete. In addition, we would also like to see papers describing industrial problems of interest. It may be observed here that the CKBS research distinguishes itself from the traditional multi-agent research by having a stronger emphasis on real-world problems, where issues such as performance, reliability, consistency, organisational constraints, security and end-user facility are important. The conference wishes to address three important (though not necessarily disjoint) areas which should comprise the CKBS technology of the future: (i) techniques, (ii) applications, and (iii) systems infrastructures - the latter providing the essential core technologies for the support of CKBS applications and techniques. A partial list of topics of interest to this conference is: CKBS Techniques * Agent Modelling * Representations of Knowledge, Beliefs, Behaviours, Reasonings and Learning * Planning, Task Decomposition and Scheduling * Cooperation, Coordination and Negotiation * Result Integration and Disparity Management * Preferences and Constraints Propagation * Coherence and Performance Optimisation * Languages and Communications Protocols Real-world Applications * Application Requirements * Experience with CKBS Applications * Application Simulations * CKBS Prototypes * Imaginative Case Studies * Cooperating and Active Databases * Cooperative Transactions and User-interfaces * Cooperative Concurrent Design Infrastructures for CKBS Applications * Generalised Models and Architectures * Interoperable Environments * Directory Systems, Knowledge Consistency and Systems Integrity * Flexibility, Adaptability and Scalability * Systems Resilience, Reliability and Recovery * Systems Responsiveness and Reconfigurability * Systems Development Methodology * System Development Shells and Tools Inclusion of topics in different areas is meant to give a flavour, but not a definitive classification; also some topics can fit into more than one area. Submission and Selection ---------- --- --------- The list of topics cited above is only a guide; your paper need not belong to any of these topics, provided it falls in the general CKBS area explained earlier. If you have any doubt, please contact the address given below. Please submit an extended abstract, not exceeding 2000 words, to reach here by February 14, 1994. The abstract should include a comprehensive summary of the intended full paper to help evaluation. Email submission is preferred. If you intend to submit a poster on your work or project, or if you wish to demonstrate your system, please write to us (preferably by email), again by February 14. We shall make the necessary arrangements for you. As was in CKBS'90, papers will be accepted for presentation on the basis of extended abstracts, and will be selected again (full papers) - following their presentation at the conference - for publication as proceedings. A special feature of the conference will be the extensive discussion of ideas, for which specific time will be reserved for each presentation. The authors will have a chance to revise their papers before submission for the final selection, in the light of the comments received during the conference. Further Information ------- ----------- CKBS'94 will be a fully residential conference, as was CKBS'90, giving greater opportunity for the delegates to get to know each other and more time for discussion and the exchange of ideas. Key Dates * Abstracts (under 2000 words) by Feb 14, 1994. * Intention for Posters and Demonstrators by Feb 14, 1994. If you are interested to receive further information on this conference, please contact: Prof. S.M. Deen. DAKE Centre (Department of Computer Science), University of Keele, Keele, Staffs, ST5 5BG, England. Tel: +44 782 583076, Fax: +44 782 713082 Email: deen@cs.keele.ac.uk Programme Committee --------- --------- S. Misbah Deen [Chairman] Mohamed M. Bayoumi (Canada) Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Sharma Chakravarthy (USA) Keith Clark (UK) Daniel D. Corkill (USA) Rose Dieng (France) Jim Doran (UK) Edmund H. Durfee (USA) Kari-Pekka Estola (Finland) Brian Gaines (Canada) David Griffiths (UK) Michael Hatzopoulos (Greece) Hans Haugender (Germany) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Ichiro Inasaki (Japan) Toru Ishida (Japan) V. Jagannathan (USA) Paul Kearney (UK) Larry Kerschberg (USA) Stefan Kirn (Germany) Mark Klein (USA) Victor R. Lesser (USA) Witold Litwin (France) Peter B. Luh (USA) E. H. Mamdani (UK) Rainer Manthey (Germany) Yoshio Matsumoto (Japan) Rainer Mittmann (Germany) Heinz Jurgen Mueller (Germany) Erich J. Neuhold (Germany) Douglas H. Norrie (Canada) H. Van Dyke Parunak (USA) Charles Petrie (USA) Gunter Schlageter (Germany) Pierre-Yves Schobbens (Belgium) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Munindar P. Singh (USA) Larry M. Stephens (USA) Katia Sycara (USA) Makoto Takizawa (Japan) Shinsuke Tamura (Japan) Edwin Van Leeuwen (Australia) Sponsors -------- DTI (Department of Trade and Industry, UK) CEC ESPRIT (anticipated) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++