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Issue November 2007
Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Call for Papers: Special Track on CBR @ FLAIRS'08
2. Call for Workshop Papers: IUI'08
3. Call for Papers: Special Issue on Explanation German AI Journal
4. Wiki for CCC @ ECCBR'08
5. PhD positions at FH St. Gallen, Switzerland (in German)
6. Scholarships for PhD students and PostDocs at CoR-Lab, Bielefeld
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*The 21st. International FLAIRS Conference
**Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning*
Coconut Grove Miami, Florida, USA
May 15-17, 2008
In cooperation with The American Association for Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI)
Following successful special tracks on Case-Based Reasoning at FLAIRS over
the past seven years, we are inviting papers for the Eight Special Track on
CBR at the 21st International FLAIRS Conference. CBR is an Artificial
Intelligence problem solving and analysis methodology that retrieves and
adapts previous experiences to fit new contexts. This forum is intended to
gather AI researchers and practitioners with an interest in CBR to present
and discuss developments in CBR theory and application. Submissions are
solicited on CBR topics, including but not limited to:
* Foundations of CBR
* Methods for CBR (e.g., representation, indexing, retrieval, adaptation)
* Evaluation Methods for CBR Systems and Integrations
* Practical Applications of CBR
* Textual CBR
* CBR and Creativity
* CBR and Design
* Distributed CBR
* Case Base Maintenance
* Spatio-temporal CBR
* CBR in the Health Sciences
* CBR Integrations
* Case Based Planning
* CBR & Games
Program Committee
David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory (USA)
Esma Aimeur, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim (Germany)
Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
Robin Burke, Depaul University (USA)
Bill Cheetham, GE Research (USA)
Sarah Jane Delany, Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland)
Mehmet Göker, Center for Advanced Research PWC, (USA)
Pedro González Calero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
Luc Lamontagne, Université Laval (Canada)
David B. Leake, Indiana University (USA)
Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University (USA)
Aswin Ram, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
Raja Sooriamurthi, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Frode Sørmo, Volve (Norway)
Rosina Weber, Drexel University(USA)
Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Gordon University (Scotland)
Contact
Assoc. Prof. Ian Watson
University of Auckland (New Zealand)
ian@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Dr. Santiago Ontañón
Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
santi@cc.gatech.edu
Important Dates
*Paper submissions due: 19 November 2007 *
Notification letters sent: 21 January 2008
Camera ready copy due: 21 February 2008
Submission Guidelines
Submission guidelines can be obtained by referring to the conference
website: http://www.flairs-21.info/
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The submission of regular and short papers to the 2008 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (January 13th-16th in Canary Islands, Spain) has successfully closed. There is a 40% increase in submissions compared to the last IUI conference when it was held in Europe.
IUI 2008 will be held between January 13th-16th in Canary Islands, Spain
I am pleased to announce two more tracks of submissions for demos and workshop papers at IUI 2008.
********** Demo proposal due on Thursday, 1 November 2007 ****************
The IUI demo session is intended to provide a showcase for innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about how people and computers could interact. If you can demonstrate smarter, easier to use, and more effective interfaces, we *want* to see it!
Please see the demo submission details at http://www.iuiconf.org/cfd.html
********** Workshop paper submission due on Monday, 19 November 2007 ************
Please see the details of the 6 workshops that we have put together
http://www.iuiconf.org/08workshops.html
Pearl Pu
EPFL, Switzerland
Publicity Chair for IUI'08
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Call for Papers
** Special Issue on Explanation **
http://on-explanation.net/on-explanation.net/Journal_KI.html
Journal KI - Kuenstliche Intelligenz
http://www.kuenstliche-intelligenz.de/
Deadline for Announcement of Submission: 25 November 2007
Deadline for Full Paper Submission: 1 February 2008
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The explanation concept is an umbrella term that covers quite a
variety of instances and variations. The term is used in many
disciplines for very different reasons, e.g., in cognitive science,
law, education, communication science, political sciences, etc. In
addition, many disciplines such as medicine have developed their
own style and culture for explanations.
All these kinds of explanation have in common that they are part of
communication. Communication takes place among agents, which can be
human as well as software agents. Communication has always a certain
purpose and this should be a guideline for the explanation, because
it provides a way for evaluation the success of the explanation.
Evaluation criteria can therefore be of different character.
For several reasons computer support is needed, as in general for
socio-technical processes.
Furthermore it is clear that meaningful explanations require a
certain amount of intelligence and therefore artificial intelligence
(AI) is challenged. Already around in 1990ies explanations in expert
systems have been popular. Their purpose was to increase the
acceptance of results of expert systems, e.g., by justification of
unexpected consequences. The technique applied at that time was
mainly parsing by going backwards through the chain of arguments.
With this method, however, many results could not be explained.
Today the time seems to be right going towards a more comprehensive
approach.
Theoretical Aspects
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In this category one finds a number of principal questions that deal
with the nature and the success of explanations and provide the basis
for computer support. We mention some:
- Cognitive background
- Objective of explanations (e.g. instruction, convincing someone)
- Explanation and understanding
- Explanation and acceptance
- Explanation and teaching
- Details versus generality
- The role of explanation in dialogues
- The presentation of explanations: how can explanations be
presented? How do user characteristics influence the way
explanations are presented?
- Explanation and influence factors
- Explanations and decisions
- From the cognitive to the formal
- Explanation and truth: Has an explanation to be exact or has it
even to be true? Can an explanation with lies be successful? Do
they need to be lies under certain circumstances in order to make
communication successful?
- Explanations as parts of processes and for improving them
- Explanations and experiences: have they to be generated ad-hoc or
can one use experience (CBR technology)?
- Purpose, success and evaluation of explanations
- Explanation and procedural programs
Practical Tasks and Systems
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Explanations in special disciplines
- Law
- Medicine
- Natural Sciences
- Software Engineering
- PR, Marketing
Practical structural questions:
- Explanation and Knowledge Management
- Explanation and CBR
- Integration of explanation into reasoning processes
Contributions
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Contributions to all mentioned subjects are welcome. Because
explanations cannot be regarded in isolation it is of central
interest to study the integration into a context. For practical
systems it is of interest to see how this integration is
performed and what the role of explanation is. For that,
reported experiences are of importance.
In all we hope to get a better understanding for this subject
that is so central for (intelligent) communication.
Submission Details
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Contributions to all submission categories of the Journal are
welcome (scientific contributions/state of the art overviews,
project reports, book reviews, summaries of PhD theses, discussion
statements, dictionary entries of interesting aspects). All
submissions should be comprehensible for a broader AI audience.
The submissions should describe original contributions, and should
not have been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions based on
conference papers should be extended and should include a reference
to the corresponding proceedings. All submissions will be reviewed
by at least two reviewers. The maximal length of a scientific
contribution/state of the art overview is 7 pages in the final
format (incl. figures), 3-4 pages for project reports, and 2 pages
for the other categories. A LaTeX style file for the submission can
be found here:
http://www.kuenstliche-intelligenz.de/index.php?id=%3ANO-3015.
(The final version will be reformatted by the publisher.) Please
indicate the character count, your postal address, email address,
and phone number upon your submission.
More detailed information is available at
http://on-explanation.net/on-explanation.net/Journal_KI.html
For submissions, please directly contact the guest editors. We ask
interested authors to submit abstracts in advance.
Guest Editors
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Dr. Thomas Roth-Berghofer
German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence DFKI GmbH
Trippstadter Straße 122
67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
mailto:trb "at" dfki.uni-kl.de
Prof. Michael M. Richter
Universität Kaiserslautern
P.O. Box 3049
67618 Kaiserslautern, Germany
mailto:richter "at" informatik.uni-kl.de
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The First Computer Cooking Contest (CCC) @ ECCBR 2008 provides a Wiki for sharing ideas and links to material between participating teams:
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https://www.wi2.uni-trier.de/cccwiki
Please contact the organizing team in order to get the login data.
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www.computercookingcontest.net, ccc-org2008 'at' uni-trier.de
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Doktorandenstellen
Institut für Informations- und Prozessmanagement
Fachhochschule St. Gallen, Schweiz
Das Institut für Informations- und Prozessmanagement (http://www.ipmsg.ch/) vertritt den Bereich Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Fachhochschule St. Gallen und ist neben der Lehre im Bachelorstudium, der berufsbegleitenden Weiterbildung und Dienstleistungsprojekten für Unternehmen auch in der angewandten Forschung tätig.__
Am Institut läuft zur Zeit ein nationales Forschungsprojekt, das im Verbund mit anderen Partnern durchgeführt wird (www.hera-projekt.ch ). Weitere nationale bzw. EU-Projekte sind beantragt.
Zur Mitarbeit im obigen sowie in den anstehenden Forschungsprojekten suchen wir Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden, die Interesse an einem oder mehreren der folgenden Themenstellungen haben:
- Modellgetriebene Ansätze (z.B. für das Management-Controlling, Requirements Engineering, Compliance Management und IT-Management)
- Einsatz von Referenzmodellen für die Effizienzsteigerung modellgetriebener Ansätze
- Semantic Web (Web Services, Ontologien, Social Semantic Desktop)
- E-Government
Die Stelleninhaber werden in den laufenden Forschungsprojekten mitarbeiten und sich dabei auf ein bestimmtes Thema für ihre Promotion fokussieren, die aus formalen Gründen am Fachbereich Informatik und Informationswissenschaft der Universität Konstanz erfolgen wird, wo der Forschungsleiter des Instituts, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Reimer, das Promotionsrecht besitzt.
In einem gewissen Umfang sollen die Stelleninhaber auch Aufgaben in der Lehre übernehmen.
Bewerberinnen und Bewerber sollten ein abgeschlossenes Informatikstudium (Diplom- oder Masterabschluss) besitzen, die Fähigkeit zu selbstständigem Arbeiten aufweisen sowie Interesse an anwendungsnahen Forschungsthemen haben.
Die Einstellung erfolgt für zunächst auf 3 Jahre (mit Möglichkeit zur Verlängerung). Für weitere Auskünfte steht Ihnen Prof. Dr. Ulrich Reimer gerne zur Verfügung:
ulrich.reimer fhsg.ch
+41 71 288 7659
Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen schicken Sie bitte an: ulrich.reimer fhsg.ch
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The CoR-Lab has been established at Bielefeld University, Germany, as a research centre for intelligent systems and human-machine interaction. The CoR-Lab forms a strategic partnership between Bielefeld University and the Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Germany. It will pursue fundamental research in the field of cognitive robots and intelligent systems, where the Honda humanoid robot ASIMO is available as an advanced technological platform. A particular focus of the CoR-Lab will be the interdisciplinary integration of expertise in engineering, computer science, brain science, and cognitive sciences, including the humanities and social sciences.
The Graduate School that is associated with the CoR-Lab provides an exciting and stimulating environment for enthusiastic students and creative postdocs, allowing them to pursue research in international teams in close collaboration with an industrial research institute. We invite applications from students and researchers who hold an academic degree (MSc/Diploma/Ph.D.) and share our dreams. Fluency in English is required.
A complete application should include certificates and transcripts of records of the completed course of studies, a CV, a cover letter providing information about the qualification and the motivation to do research in the Graduate School, as well as a short description of the research interests with regard to the research areas of the
Graduate School.
For more information please see:
http://www.cor-lab.de/graduate_school
Please send your application until 30 November 2007 (preferably in PDF format)
to the Managing Director of the Graduate School:
Bielefeld University
CoR-Lab Graduate School
Dr. Carola Haumann
33594 Bielefeld
Germany
email: chaumann 'at' cor-lab.uni-bielefeld.de
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