Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!fang!garry From: garry@fang.dsto.oz (Garry White) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Call for papers Keywords: Conference,Military,AI Message-ID: <1483@fang.dsto.oz> Date: 27 Mar 91 19:00:22 GMT Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation Lines: 157 This is posted on behalf of Simon Goss - ARL ... Please direct any inquiries to the address given below. ----------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IJCAI-91 WORKSHOP SITUATION AWARENESS Sydney, Australia, 24th August 1991 1. Focus of the Workshop Situation awareness, or situation assessment , are terms from the military computing literature. One definition is the knowledge, understanding, cognition and anticipation of events, factors, and variables affecting the safe, expedient and effective conduct of a mission". The problem of situation awareness is larger than C3I applications. The description above is equally appropriate to a fireman at the site of a fire, or a foreign currency trader as to the management of a a naval battle group or the control of a single tactical aircraft. Consider the specific example the phases of air combat:- a) Detection b) Classification c) Recognition/Identification d) Inference of Intention e) Threat Assessment f) Generate Tactical Options g) Evaluate and Select Options h) Execute Options i) Monitor and Evaluate Effectiveness j) Iterate on (d) If we substitute the word opportunity for threat, we have a model for business activity. The fourth step, Inference of Intention, is the activity which distinguishes this activity from simpler diagnosis- action systems; there are other agents in the environment. Situation awareness embraces a number of underlying technologies. It is somewhere between pattern classification and recognition on the one hand, and planning and plan repair on the other. It involves models of non- cooperative communication. Situation awareness has been tackled as a situated task-specific activity rather than a generic activity. This meeting seeks to provide an opportunity for workers from a range of disciplines and application domain projects to interact and address generic rather than domain specific issues. Accordingly we ask interested workers to submit papers focussed upon situation wareness in the context of the overall process rather than describing the application of a particular technology. 2. Organizing Committee Simon Goss Aircraft Systems Division Aeronautical Research Laboratory 506 Lorimer St Port Melbourne Victoria, 3207 AUSTRALIA Ph +61-3-647-7711 Fax +61-3-646-3433 email sig@dstos3.dsto.au.oz Tom Garvey Artificial Intelligence Centre SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave Menlo Park CA 94025 U.S.A. Ph +1-425-859-3486 Fax +1-415-859-6171 email garvey@ai.sri.com Ronnie Gori Combat Systems Division Weapons Systems Research Laboratory PO Box 1700 Salisbury South Australia, 5108 AUSTRALIA Ph +61-8-258-7124 Fax +61-8-259-6781 email rng@cds0.dsto.oz.au 3. Submission Details Authors should mail three (3) copies of a submission in hard copy form. Because of the short notice given, and the possible 7 to 10 day delay in airmail, submissions may be faxed (single copy) provided that the three hard copies follow immediately. Submissions should be no longer than 12 pages (excluding title page); have 1 inch margins on the top, sides and bottom; and use no smaller than 10 point type. A serif font and A4 stationary is prefered. The title page, separate from the body of the paper, should contain title, names of authors, their affiliation, address, phone, e-mail address, and an abstract of 100-200 words. Papers that do not conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send submissions to Simon Goss at the addresses given above. Please do not send submissions to Ronnie Gori or Tom Garvey. Deadline for submissions Fri May 17 Notification of acceptance/rejection Fri May 31 Revised papers due Fri June 28 4. Workshop Details A registration form will be sent to all successful applicants along with the invitation to participate in the workshop. Participants must register for both the workshop and the conference. Attendance at the workshop will be limited to 30 participants. In general only one invitation will be issued per accepted submission. To cover costs, it will be necessary to charge a fee of $US65 for each participant. Participants will be given further instructions on preparation of camera ready copy and session format when they receive notification of acceptance. Final papers will be collected into a set of proceedings and circulated to participants at the workshop.