Tenth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, 1996

May 21-24, 1996 --- Stanford Sierra Camp, Fallen Leaf Lake, California, USA.
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Sponsored by: American Association for Artificial Intelligence, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Inc., and Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University

Call for Paper and Abstracts

Following the continued success of the Qualitative Reasoning (QR) Workshops, the tenth international workshop will be held at the Stanford Sierra Camp, Fallen Leaf Lake, California. Papers are invited on any area with topics relevant to Qualitative Reasoning, including (but not limited to):

QR techniques (knowledge representations and problem solving methods) (E.g., qualitative simulation; ontologies; management of multiple models; reasoning over time; mathematical formalizations of QR; qualitative algebraic reasoning; qualitative dynamics; qualitative kinematics; qualitative optimization)
Knowledge acquisition (E.g., model building tools and techniques; automated model construction and machine learning; acquisition from data)
Task-level reasoning (E.g., design/planning; monitoring; diagnosis and repair; explanation; tutoring and training; process control/supervision); verification)
QR issues in real applications (E.g., dealing with real-time; large scale models and scaling; different knowledge sources; descriptions of real applications)
Relation with other techniques (integrating other techniques with QR techniques) (E.g., fuzzy reasoning and uncertainty; quantitative models/methods; system dynamics and bond-graphs; signal processing; qualitative interpretation of numerical information; coodination of adaptive numericalmethods)
QR issues in other disciplines (E.g., chemistry; biology; medicine; physics; cognitive science; engineering; economics; ecology; environmental science and engineering)
Methodological issues (E.g., classifying and relating QR approaches; evaluating QR approaches; criteria for selecting methods)

We also invite abstracts on applications of qualitative reasoning techniques to practical problems. These may include abstracts of unpublished work, papers appearing elsewhere, and descriptions of fielded systems. The purpose of inviting submissions of abstracts is to encourage discussion of applications of qualitative reasoning to real-world problems. We encourage such submissions even if the authors do not plan to attend the workshop but would like to publicize the work to the research community.

Submission

Full Papers

Papers will be selected according to their quality, significance, originality, and potential to generate discussion. A paper must not exceed 5000 words (max. 12 pages), excluding references and abstract.

Abstracts

Abstracts will be selected according to their relevance to the field. An abstract must not exceed 1000 words (max. 3 pages), excluding references. An author of abstracts should indicate whether he/she wishes to attend the workshop.

We encourage electronic submission. Submit a postscript file to qr96-submit@ksl.stanford.edu with the subject "full paper" or "abstract".

If submitting hard copies, mail six copies (one copy only if submitting by fax) to one of the workshop co-chairs.

Proceedings

The proceedings of the workshop containing all the accepted papers and abstracts will be published by AAAI Press as a AAAI Technical Report.

Participation

To promote an active discussion among participants, attendance at the workshop will be by invitation only. People who wish to attend the workshop without submitting a paper or an abstract should send a letter or email to the chairs describing their background and research interests by the paper submission deadline. Limited financial assistance may be available for students interested in attending.

Further information

Organization

Workshop Co-chairs

Adam Farquhar axf@ksl.stanford.edu
Yumi Iwasaki iwasaki@ksl.stanford.edu

	            
	Knowledge Systems Lab, m/c 9020
	Dept. of Computer Science
	Gates Bldg. 2A
	Stanford University
	Stanford, CA 94305
	USA
	Tel: (415) 723-3444
	Fax: (415) 725-5850

Program committee

    Bert Bredeweg          University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Adam Farquhar          Stanford University, USA
    Liliana Ironi          Istituto Analise Numerica - CNR, Italy
    Yumi Iwasaki           Stanford University, USA
    Takashi Kiriyama       University of Tokyo, Japan
    Brian Williams         NASA Ames Research Center, USA
    Feng Zhao	           Ohio State University, USA

Schedule

Submission deadline: January 22, 1996
Notifications sent: March 4, 1996
Camera-ready copy due: April 8, 1996
Workshop: May 21-24, 1996

This information is also available over the WWW at http://ksl-web-web.stanford.edu/projects/htw/qr96/. More information on the qualitative reasoning research community is available at http://ai-www.aist-nara.ac.jp/doc/qphysics/.

This file was last updated on May 2, 1996 by

Yumi Iwasaki@ksl.stanford.EDU