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Dates, times, and places
The 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium on Information Refinement
and Revision for Decision Making:
Modeling for Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Prediction will
be held Monday through Wednesday, March 25-27, 2002 on the Stanford Campus in
Palo Alto, California. The Symposium is part of the AAAI Spring Symposium
Series, which includes a number of other symposia on a variety of
topics.
Attendance at the Symposium is by invitation or by open registration.
Invitation is based on submission of an extended abstract or statement of
interest. The submission deadline is extended to November 9. Open registration will be
available through AAAI to a limited number of participants in late September
on a first-come first-served basis.
Important upcoming dates:
- November 9, 2001 -
Abstract Submission to Kai Goebel (goebelk@crd.ge.com)
- November 12, 2001 –
Invitations issued based on submissions
- November 28, 2001 –
Registration Information available through AAAI
- January 21,2002 -
Camera-ready papers are due
- February 15, 2002 –
Invited participants registration deadline
- March 1, 2002 - Final
(open) registration deadline
- March 25-27, 2002 –
Symposium held on Stanford campus (preliminary schedule)
Why a symposium now?
The symposium is trying to distinguish itself in several
ways from traditional monitoring and diagnosis activities. First, it
acknowledges that there is a recent thrust of using AI in diagnostics and
prognostics. Second, this thrust has been driven partly by the hardware
developments which allow unattended monitoring. This results in many new
questions from autonomous decision making to adaptation in changing
environments. Third, various diagnostic tools which now have access to a
large number of data will come to different conclusions which in turn have to
be resolved. Lastly, there is a need for decision making which should result
in an optimal action.
Who should attend?
The symposium will explore AI techniques that can be developed and deployed
within a very short time frame. We expect these technologies to enable
significant advances in diagnostics and prognostics applications. Several
communities will draw useful insights from the symposium:
- AI Researchers
– Researchers will be introduced to a fertile new application area for
AI technologies for segmentation, classification, prediction, and
decision making. They will hear about the key technical challenges
facing existing application users, and discuss what technical advances
would be most useful. Researchers will also be able to guide and inform
future research directions and funding programs.
- Potential users of
equipment service – Users will hear about existing and emerging AI
technologies with the ability to radically transform current diagnostics
and prognostics applications. In addition, they will be able to pinpoint
key technical problems for AI researchers to address.
- Software developers
– Developers will hear assessments of the current state of the art for
many relevant technologies, helping them to evaluate which technologies
to incorporate into future products. In addition, they will be able to
make important contacts in the research and applications
communities.
- Research managers
– Managers will be introduced to a technical and application domain ripe
for revolutionary advances.
Format
The Symposium will consist of three types of activities:
introductory tutorials to provide participants with a common base of
knowledge from which to work, approximately 15 short papers presenting
current technical work, and two working sessions. Specifically:
- Tutorial: A
short tutorial will be held during the first half of the second day. It
will present the conceptual background of Decision Making for
Diagnostics, focusing on unique aspects of the task. It will demonstrate
how different AI techniques come together to tackle specific problems
where one technique alone would have a hard time. Several examples will
be shown.
- Short papers:
Individual participants will present papers describing their current
technical work. The organizing committee will attempt to divide papers
evenly between purely technical papers and papers describing
applications that have stretched the limits of current technologies.
Each paper will be brief (about 15 minutes) with 10-15 minutes for discussion
and questions after each paper.
- Working sessions:
Interspersed with the papers, the symposium organizers will moderate two
sets of working sessions. The topics will be finalized during the
morning sessions to reflect the perceived interest of the audience.
Proposed topics include Modeling Issues, Information Refinement and
Revision, Diagnostic Information Fusion, Adaptation/ Reconfigurability
and other write-in topics. The second set of working sessions on Tuesday
has a similar policy. Proposed topics are Internet Supported Diagnosis,
Diagnostic Ease of Authoring / Ease of Use, Autonomous Systems,
Maintenance Planning and other write-in topics. In either case, the
results will be presented after those work-outs. Each working session
will run for 60 minutes.
Proceedings
The Proceedings will be made accessible through AAAI Press as a
Technical Report. To that end, we will need to get the copyright forms ahead
of time.
Abstracts must have been submitted by October 5, 2001 to one of the organizers. The length of an abstract should not
exceed 200 words. Upon acceptance, submit to the symposium chair by January
21:
- the camera-ready
paper (8 pages max.). Details on formatting suggestions can be found here.
- the permission
to distribute form.
- audio/vidual requests
other than an overhead projector.
Please use the following address:
Kai Goebel Symposium Chair, AAAI Spring Symposium GE Corporate Research & Development Information & Decision Technology Lab K1-5C4A One Research Circle Niskayuna, NY 12309 USA
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to AAAI by January 21:
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