CfP: AAAI-00 Workshop on
                 Intelligent Lessons Learned Systems
               www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/AAAI00-ILLS-Workshop

OBJECTIVES: Lessons learned (LL) systems capture and store
experiential knowledge for reuse in subsequent decision-making
tasks. This is a central focus of knowledge management (KM) efforts in
government and commercial organizations, and many systems for lessons
learned (and related) systems are maintained on the WWW or intranets.
Several open AI research issues (e.g., knowledge representation) exist
concerning the development, evaluation, and deployment of these types
of systems.  This motivates the need for more dialogue among AI and KM
researchers, and with developers of LL and similar systems, to
identify existing approaches, explain their limitations, and suggest
AI techniques for improving their utility.

TOPICS: 
- Text processing (e.g., textual cbr, latent 
  semantic indexing, natural language) techniques for LL systems
- AI techniques (e.g., case-based reasoning, machine learning,
  information retrieval, information extraction) for representing
  (e.g., ontologies), acquiring, retrieving, and maintaining lesson
  repositories and related KM objects
- Intelligent KM processes for LL and related systems
  (e.g., for knowledge sharing, acquisition, communication, 
  capture, storage, and reuse of experience)
- Surveys/critiques of LL, best practices, and alert systems
- Integrated LL systems

FORMAT: This workshop will include invited talks by experts on LL
systems who will overview the state-of-the-art on related issues, KM
experts on corporate/organizational memories, and AI experts who have
investigated LL tools.  Selected submissions will also be invited for
presentation.  However, a majority of time will be devoted to focussed
discussion topics on intelligent LL systems.  A panel session will
address potential uses of LL repositories.

ATTENDANCE: Limited to 50 attendees

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Please submit a short (max 4 pages)
Postscript or Word submission, using AAAI's double-column format, or a
brief statement of interest.  Accepted paper submissions will be
included in a AAAI Press technical report.  Please email or send
hardcopy submissions to:

   Rosina Weber
   Naval Research Laboratory, Code 5510
   4555 Overlook Ave, SW
   Washington, DC 20375-5337
   weber@aic.nrl.navy.mil
   +1 (202) 767-2685 | +1 (202) 767-3172 (FAX)

DATES

Submission deadline: 10 March 2000
Notification date: 24 March 2000
Camera-ready deadline: 26 April 2000
Workshop: 30 or 31 July (Austin, Texas); to be finalized by AAAI

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

* David W. Aha (co-chair), NRL, aha@aic.nrl.navy.mil
* Kevin Ashley, U. Pittsburgh, ashley+@pitt.edu
* Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International U., becferi@fiu.edu
* L. Karl Branting, U. Wyoming, karl@index.uwyo.edu
* Jay Liebowitz, U. Maryland @ Baltimore County, liebowit@umbc.edu
* J. Robert Lucas, Joint Warfighting Center, lucasr@jwfc.acom.mil
* Andre Valente, FasTV.com, avalente@fastv.com
* Rosina Weber (co-chair), U. Wyoming, weber@aic.nrl.navy.mil