Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!tartarus.uchicago.edu!kris From: kris@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Kristian J. Hammond) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Case-Based Reasoning Workshop Message-ID: <1877@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 16 Feb 89 21:34:14 GMT Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Reply-To: kris@tartarus.uchicago.edu () Distribution: na Organization: U. Chicago Computer Science Dept. Lines: 91 Workshop Announcement The Information Science and Technology Office (ISTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring a Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning for invited researchers and interested government employees on May 31st - June 2nd in Pensacola Beach Florida. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together current and potential researchers in the area of Case-Based Reasoning to review the latest research results in this field, to keep the government research community abreast of current technology and to discuss the future of the Case-Based paradigm for a new generation of expert systems. Last year's very successful workshop centered around exposing the wide variety of research in the area of Case-Based Reasoning and making connections between the different research groups that now exist. The goal of this year's workshop is to follow up on last year's success and identify the issues and ideas that define Case-Based Reasoning as well as outline its future directions. The primary content of the workshop will center around issue oriented panels and invited speakers as well as poster sessions and program demonstrations. Our current panels include: 1) Indexing and retrieval: Algorithms and vocabularies for organizing memory. 2) Causal reasoning and explanation in CBR. 3) The structure and content of a case. 4) Transforming cases: What does it mean to "tweak"? 5) Analogy and CBR. 6) Uses of cases: What does a case buys you. 7) CBR in advesarial domains. 8) Applications and validation: Evaluating success in CBR? 9) Similarity judgements in case retrieval. Our invited speakers include Roger Schank, Edwinna Rissland and Janet Kolodner. Any researcher who would like to present at the workshop or help organize a panel is asked to send an abstract of not more than 4 pages to: CBR Workshop c/o Dr. Kristian Hammond University of Chicago Department of Computer Science 1100 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Abstracts should be in no later than March 31st. Final acceptance will be out April 21th. We also encourage researchers to use the poster session to outline new directions of work in CBR as well as provide overviews of existing research programs. Also, any researchers who would like to present a program demonstration should contact Dr. Hammond as soon as possible so that any needed machines can be made available. As with other DARPA sponsored workshops, a full proceedings of the workshop will be made available to those who attend. A follow-up collection of papers associated with the specific panels will also be made available. The aim of these papers will be to define the ideas and issues outlined in the panels and provide a consistent reference and terminology for guiding future work. Our workshop site is: Holiday Inn 165 Ft. Pickens Rd. Pensacola Beach, FL. 32561 (904) 932-5361 Check-in/registration is scheduled for the evening of May 30 and check-out is June 2. Those who wish to stay longer may do so at the regular seasonal rate. The room rate has been negotiated for $70.00/night and each individual is responsible for their own reservations. Be sure to identify yourself as a member of the DARPA Case-Based Reasoning Workshop. Reservations received after 5/10/89 will be provided on a space available basis. The registration fee has been tentatively set at $125, which will cover the cost of the proceedings, dinner on the night of the 31st and coffee breaks. If you have any questions regarding registration information please contact Mary Sullivan at (703) 276-3532 or sully@vax.darpa.mil Kristian J. Hammond Department of Computer Science University of Chicago Kris@anubis.uchicago.edu