Subject: Call for papers
From: [email-masked] (Srinivas Gutta)
Date: 17 Oct 1995 15:52:46 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.ai

C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

                       Second International Workshop on
                     Intelligent Adaptive Systems (IAS-96)
                        May 19, 1996, Key West, Florida
 
                     http://aic.gmu.edu/~iimam/ias96.html
 
In conjunction with FLAIRS-96 (Ninth Annual Florida Artificial Intelligence Rese
arch Symposium, May 20-22).
 
Recently, there has been significant interest in developing intelligent systems
or agents capable of dynamically adapting their parameters, knowledge-base, or m
ethodology in order to accomplish a given task. Research in this area includes f
lexible networking, engineering design, optimization, speech recognition, comput
er vision, distributed database systems, software testing and medical diagnoses.
 
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on the develo
pment of fundamental strategies and methodologies needed for the development of
intelligent adaptive systems. The workshop seeks high quality submissions in whi
ch there are links between the presented work, the workshop topic, and potential
 applications. Papers with real-world applications are very welcome.
 
This workshop will explore problems that involve:
* Analyzing the role of adaptive planning and execution monitoring in problem-so
lving.
* Handling unanticipated events and maintaining appropriate focus in real-world
engineering systems.
* Analyzing the relationship between the computational cost associated with the
adaptive process and the robustness of the system.
* Controlling the adaptive process (what is the strategy? what is needed?, what
is expected?, is it bias?, etc.).
* Mechanisms for encountering dynamics in open agent society and coordination pr
otocols among agents.
* Adaptation methodologies for distributed systems.
* Dynamic validation and verification for data mining systems.
 
Program Committee Chair
 
Imam, I.F.              George Mason University, USA
 
Program Committee Members
 
Demazeau, Y.            Laboratorie LIFIA/IMAG, France
Gordon, D.              Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Hamilton, H.            University of Regina, Canada
Hassan, A.,             Electronic Research Institute, Egypt
Pazzani, M.             University of California Irvine, USA
Ram, A.                 Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Tecuci, G.              George Mason Un., USA & Romanian Academy, Romania
Turner, R.              University of Maine, USA
Van de Velde, W.        Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Whitehall, B., L.       United Technologies Research Center, USA

SUBMISSIONS
 
Paper submissions should not exceed eight single-spaced pages, with 1 inch margi
ns, 12pt font. The cover page must show author(s) full address, email and includ
e abstract (200 words maximum) and keywords (5 maximum). Electronic submissions
are strongly encouraged and should be sent to [email-masked]. Otherwise, thre
e copies of each paper should be sent to the contact address below. The papers w
ill comprise a set of working notes (proceedings), copies of which will be avail
able at the workshop.
SCHEDULE
 
Paper submissions due                   January 15, 1996
Acceptance notice                       March 1, 1996
Camera ready version                    April 1, 1996
Workshop                                May 19, 1996

CONTACT ADDRESS
 
Ibrahim F. Imam
Department of Computer Science
George Mason University
4400 University Dr.
Fairfax, VA 22030
e-mail: [email-masked]