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*** Call for Papers ***
Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop (CS-TIW 2006)
In conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Conceptual
Structures (ICCS 2006)
July 16, 2006, Aalborg University,Denmark
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Many tools have been developed in the Conceptual Structures community to
model, represent and reason about conceptual structures like Conceptual
Graphs, Formal Concepts, and related formalisms. However, such tools in
isolation are not sufficient to build comprehensive, effective knowledge
systems useful to communities and organizations. To this purpose, these
tools need to be able to interoperate with other conceptual tools and
information technologies. The goal of this workshop is to explore how to
improve this interoperability of conceptual structures tools.
=== Themes
To explore this goal, the workshop will have three main themes:
. Interoperability Requirements
What types of applications do conceptual structures tools have in real
world knowledge systems and systems development methodologies? What
requirements do these applications impose on conceptual structures tools?
What breakdowns occur in actual application practice? What (ad hoc or more
systematic) solutions have been developed to deal with these problems?
. Knowledge Systems Architectures
What components do effective knowledge systems have? What is the role of
conceptual structures tools in these systems? How to conceptualize
knowledge systems interoperability in terms of standard information
systems and software engineering methodologies? What architectural
principles should guide knowledge systems design and implementation?
. Interoperability Standards
What are the most relevant official and de facto standards affecting
conceptual structures tools interoperability? How should these standards
inform knowledge systems design? How to evaluate the standards in
practical knowledge system implementation? How can practical
interoperability experiences inform the standards setting process?
=== Topics
Topics to be addressed in the submissions, include, but are not limited
to:
. Interoperability conceptualization
. Requirements analysis
. Software integration and configuration
. Tool interfaces
. Web services
. Architectures
. Converters and wrappers
. Documentation
. Software engineering principles
. Open source methodologies
. Standards (official and de facto)
. Usability
. Evaluation methods
. Benchmarking
. Organizational issues (including intellectual property rights)
=== Submission Details
Both contributions with a theoretical and a practical focus welcome.
Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's LNCS format. For more details
see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs.
Please submit your paper through http://extra.shu.ac.uk/cs-tiw2006. In
case you have any problems with the submission, or for any other
questions, please contact the workshop chairs at
cstiw06@starlab.vub.ac.be, or through their individual e-mail addresses.
Papers will be reviewed for adherence to the workshop scope and quality by
the chairs and additional reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in
a separate ISBN-numbered proceedings by Aalborg University Press. If
accepted, the paper must be presented at the workshop.
In addition to the papers, a CD with tools, data, documentation and other
relevant material will be made available. Authors are encouraged to
provide such material with their accepted submissions.
=== Dates
. Paper submission deadline: Sunday, April 9, 2006
. Acceptance notification: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
. Paper final version due: Sunday, May 28, 2006
. Additional CD materials due: Sunday, June 25, 2006
. Workshop: Sunday, July 16, 2006
=== Invited Speaker
"Philosophy Meets Design"
. Gary Richmond, City University of New York, USA:
=== Program Chairs
. Aldo de Moor, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
(ademoor@vub.ac.be)
. Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University, UK (S.Polovina@shu.ac.uk)
. Harry Delugach, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
(delugach@cs.uah.edu)
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
International Workshop on
Planning under Uncertainty and Execution Control for Autonomous Systems
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 17TH 2006!
June 6-10th, 2006: The English Lake District, Cumbria, United Kingdomn
Held in conjunction with ICAPS'06: 16th International Conference on
Automated Planning & Scheduling
-- Overview
The variety of autonomous systems is increasing both in industry and academia
(AUV, UGV, UAV, Robots, Space Probes), which addresses a broad range of
missions (space exploration, search and rescue, defense and
security,...). Such systems must operate with limited human intervention in a
changing environment and behave efficiently in spite of mission updates,
failure recovery or resource scheduling concerns. Recent experiences show
that simple planning and execution control techniques may endanger the system
when uncertain information or limited knowledge about the environment is
available. In order to achieve a consistent or optimized behavior, planning
and execution control problems, addressed separately in the past, have to be
solved in a combined and coordinated way. The environment being partially
known by an autonomous system, plan generation and execution must consider
uncertain information, biased data, unpredicted or contingent
events. Moreover, planning and execution control have to satisfy different
time scales, depending on mission, system and environment tempos. Lastly,
uncertainty may result from approximations at the planning level or unexpected
events may occur due to a lack of control. Various theoretical and practical
aspects of planning and execution control have been studied so far (Constraint
solving, combinatorial optimization, Markov decision processes, controllable
networks, Petri nets...). However, a broad range of hybrid algorithms,
architecture designs and alternative approaches may be explored during the
workshop.
-- Scope
This multi-disciplinary workshop invites submissions from researchers in
industry and academia. Submissions on planning and execution control
techniques as well as practical experiences with experimental or deployed
systems (including undersea, ground and aerospace systems ...) are
particularly encouraged. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
Planning, scheduling and execution control techniques with uncertain,
incomplete or biased data, temporal uncertainty, spatial uncertainty or
geolocalisation issues. Robust planning, scheduling and execution control.
Uncertainty and constraints in AI planning, constraint based models,
constraint solving for planning under uncertainty, constrained optimization
techniques and specific consistency management methods (model decomposition,
propagation algorithms, arc-consistency...). Search techniques for planning
under uncertainty, including anytime, online and continuous search; generic
versus domain specific heuristics; hybrid search techniques (local search,
branch and bound, binary searches, greedy algorithms, global search, repair,
.). Time-constrained and time-dependent search techniques. Hybridized
planning approaches: planning and scheduling, planning and execution,
scheduling and execution monitoring, energy-aware planning; planning and
control methods, including model-predictive or adaptive control. Planning
with domain constraints of activities (land, air, undersea, space and other
systems of interest with autonomous behaviors). Real-world applications in
various domains, including undersea, land, air and space. Decision theoretic
planning with uncertainty for autonomous systems. Probabilistic approaches,
Markov Decision Processes, Modeling with Bayesian networks. Planning in
multi-agent systems, including planning for cooperative/collaborative agents;
plan coordination under uncertainty; and robust distributed planning /
execution control / scheduling.
-- Format
The workshop format will consist of technical presentations based on accepted
papers, followed by a discussion session on each paper, led by an assigned
moderator. As for "Planning Under Uncertainty for Autonomous Systems (2005)",
a commentary process will be implemented inspired from the "Int. Workshop on
P&S of Space (2000)". This process allows authors to have relevant feedback on
the paper. This is also an excellent way to initiate discussions between
author and attendees. Position papers will be briefly presented.
-- Submissions
Submissions may be regular papers (10 pages) or short position papers (2
pages). Position papers should focus on relevance to application domain,
positioning, and innovative ideas. For all papers, the format should conform
to the AAAI style template. Papers will be reviewed by at least two referees.
Submissions, in PDF format only, should be sent by email to
mailto:christophe.guettier@sagem.com using the subject line ICAPS'06 Workshop
Submission.
All workshop attendees must be registered for ICAPS'06.
-- Important Dates
The schedule of important dates for the workshop is as follows:
Paper submission deadline 17 March 2006
Notification of acceptance 7 Avril 2006
Camera-ready version deadline 18 April 2006 (hard)
Workshop date 6-7 June 2006
Workshop Chair
Christophe Guettier
SAFRAN SA
Paris, France
christophe.guettier@sagem.com
Co-Chair :
Mark Boddy
Adventium Labs
USA
mark.boddy@adventiumlabs.org
-- Programme Committee
Roy Turner (University of Maine - USA)
Patrick Fabiani (ONERA, France)
Felix Ingrand (LAAS/CNRS, France)
Wheeler Ruml (Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
David Ferguson (Canergie Mellon University - USA)
Gerard Verfaillie (ONERA, France)
Eric Jacopin (CREC Saint-Cyr - France)
Neil Yorke Smith (SRI International, USA)
Mark Wallace (Monash University - Australia)
Abdel-Illah Mouaddib (Universite de Caen - France)
Alessandro Saffiotti (Orebro University - Sweden)
Mark Wallace (Monash University - Australia)
Russel Knight (Jet Propulsion Lab - USA)
Nicolas Meuleau (NASA Ames Research Center - USA)
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Patrick J. Coppock
Researcher: Philosophy and Theory of Language
Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia
Italy
phone: + 39 0522.522404 : fax. + 39 0522.522512
email: coppock.patrick@unimore.it
www: http://coppock-violi.com/work/
faculty: http://www.cei.unimore.it
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ECAI 2006
17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
RIVA DEL GARDA, Italy
August 28th - September 1st 2006
http://ecai2006.itc.it/
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Deadlines for ECAI poster submission:
10 March 2006
For more information, please visit the conference website:
http://ecai2006.itc.it
ECAI'06 posters
Submissions
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Poster submissions (deadline March 10th) should be sent
directly
to the email-address ECAI06posters@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
(2 pages in the regular paper format, pdf only). Contrary to
papers, poster submissions are not anonymous. Authors are
free to add links to background material if they wish to
do so.
Together with your poster submission please provide the
following information (plain text in the email): title,
abstract, authors, name and email address of all authors,
area(s)and keywords taken from the ECAI keyword list.
If you have submitted a full paper with the option 'accept
as poster if rejected', then you do NOT need to also submit
a poster.
The decision about acceptance as poster will be made on the
basis of your paper submission in this case.
Style guide
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The style required for poster submissions (2 pages) can be
dowloaded from the conference website at
http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/aree/index.php?section=43&area=11.
The style for ECAI-06 and PAIS-06 papers and posters is the
same as the one already used for ECAI-04 and ECAI-02.
The same style is also used for the camera-ready
paper version for the technical programme of ECAI-2006 and
PAIS-2006.
It is highly recommended to submit posters using the final
camera-ready formatting style. Poster submissions must not
exceed two pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of
unformatted papers are limited to 2400 words including
footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and
bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as
600 words. (Please note that for some papers five
camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 2400 words
in practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without
review. Authors submitting unformatted posters must include a
word count on their paper.
Submissions violating the formatting guidelines will be
excluded from the reviewing process.
Accepted posters will have 2 pages in the regular ECAI-06
proceedings. By submitting a poster the authors agree that
at least one of them will present the poster during the
conference.