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From: geller@hertz.njit.edu (James Geller)
Subject: FINAL CFP: 3rd Int. Wrkshp.: Parallel Processing for AI (at IJCAI)
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                             FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
                             (with correct dates!)

                                    PPAI-95
                       Third International Workshop on
                Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence

                              August 20-21, 1995
                      (Sunday and Monday before IJCAI-95)
                               Montreal,  Canada

   [Except for the above dates,  this call is identical to the  previously
   distributed call.]

   The Third International Workshop on Parallel Processing for  Artificial
   Intelligence  will  be  held  in  Montreal,  Canada in conjunction with
   IJCAI-95.  This workshop follows in its format two successful workshops
   on the same topic, held at IJCAI-91 and IJCAI-93.

   At IJCAI-93, Parallel AI was finally established in the main stream  of
   Artificial  Intelligence.   This  fact  is  supported  by the number of
   papers and activities in the Proceedings that pertain to  Parallel  AI,
   and by the Computers and Thought Award given for work in Massive Paral-
   lelism.

   The intent of this workshop is to bring together  hardware  architects,
   AI  researchers,  and  application  engineers  who  are  engaged  in or
   interested in parallel artificial intelligence.  Through key  presenta-
   tions and ample discussions,  it is hoped that the workshop will facil-
   itate the exchange of ideas among  researchers and contribute to bridg-
   ing the gap between hardware architects and AI researchers.  The granu-
   larity of  parallelism  discussed  at  the  workshop  will  range  from
   coarse-grain to fine-grain parallel processing.

   The program committee invites submission of high quality  contributions
   on   parallelism in AI.  Topics of interest include but are not limited
   to the following:

   --  Parallel Algorithms for AI
         Parallel Search, Problem Solving, Planning, Constraint-Satisfact-
	 ion, Decision Making, Natural Language Processing, Vision,  etc.   
   -- Parallel Inference Systems
         Parallel  Knowledge   Representation  and   Reasoning,   Parallel 
	 Deduction, Automated Theorem Proving, Concurrent Logic Languages, 
	 Implementations,  Performance  Evaluations,  etc.   
   -- Massive Parallelism for AI
         Massively  Parallel  Machines  (Architecture,  Benchmarks, etc.),
         Spreading  Activation,   Connectionism,   Bulk  Data  Processing,
         Memory-Based Reasoning, etc.  
   -- HW and SW for Parallel AI
         Parallel Architectures, Parallel Implementations of AI Languages,
         System Level support for AI, High Speed Disk I/O, etc.  
   -- Progress reports from major parallel AI projects (RWC, HPCC, etc.).

   Please submit two (2) copies  of  a  detailed  abstract  (approx.  1500
   words)  or  a  full  paper (limited to 5000 words) to each of the three
   workshop chairmen listed below (i.e., a total of six copies)  by  March
   1,  1993.  Please send, if possible, an e-mail version of your paper to
   the chairmen as well (Plain Latex, or ASCII, or Compressed Postscript).
   All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Infor-
   mal proceedings containing accepted contributions will be  made  avail-
   able  for  the workshop. Similarly, as for the previous PPAI workshops,
   we intend to publish a book afterwards based on  selected  papers  from
   the  workshop.   The  previous books were published by North-Holland in
   the Machine Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Series (volumes 14 and
   15).

 
                                  SCHEDULE

   Papers due: March 1, 1995 Notification of  Acceptance:  April  1,  1995
   Camera-ready edition due: April 20, 1995


                                REGISTRATION

   WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION IS NOT POSSIBLE  WITHOUT  REGISTRATION  FOR  THE
   MAIN  IJCAI-95  CONFERENCE.   In addition, each attendee needs to pay a
   small registration fee for the workshop.  See the  IJCAI  brochure  for
   the exact amount.


                               WORKSHOP FORMAT

   The workshop will run for two days.  It will consist of several invited
   talks  for  hot topics, panels/discussions, and technical sessions with
   submitted papers.  Basically, this inherits  the  format  used  in  the
   IJCAI-93  workshop,  which  was  proven to be effective.  Two potential
   topics for invited talks are the HPCC and RWC  initiatives.   In  addi-
   tion,  we  are  planning to organize special topic sessions on specific
   problems which are of interest to a majority of the workshop attendees.
   All  presentations  will  be  limited in length, so that ample time for
   discussion is left after each individual paper.   Additional  time  for
   discussion will be allocated at the end of each session.


                          PPAI-95 WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

   Matt Evett,        Florida Atlantic University (USA)
   James Geller,      New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
   James Hendler,     University of Maryland (USA)
   Hiroaki Kitano,    Sony Computer Science Lab. (Japan) and CMU (USA)
   Franz Kurfess,     New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
   Andrew Sohn,       New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
   Christian Suttner, Technical University Munich (Germany)
   David Waltz,       NEC Corporation (USA)


                           PPAI-95 WORKSHOP CHAIRS

   Hiroaki Kitano
   Sony Computer Science Laboratory
   3-14-13 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa
   Tokyo, 141 Japan
   Phone: (+81) 3-5448-4380
   Fax: (+81) 3-5448-4273
   E-mail: kitano@csl.sony.co.jp
   
   Christian Suttner
   Technische Universitaet Muenchen
   Institut fuer Informatik
   D-80290 Muenchen, Germany
   Phone: +49-89-521098
   Fax: +49-89-526502
   E-mail: suttner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
   
   James Geller
   New Jersey Institute of Technology
   CIS Department
   323 Dr. King Blvd.
   Newark, NJ 07102, USA
   Phone:  (201) 596-3383
   Fax: (201) 596-5777
   Phone Messages: (201) 596-3366
   E-mail: geller@vienna.njit.edu          
   

-- 
 James Geller
 New Jersey Institute of Technology / CIS Department
 Newark, NJ 07102
 email: geller@hertz.njit.edu /fax: (201) 596-5777 /voice: (201) 596-3383
