CFP: AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Multimodal Reasoning

[Ron Sun]

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CFP: AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Multimodal Reasoning

There are a number of AI reasoning modes or paradigms that have widespread
application, e.g. case-based reasoning, constraint-based reasoning, model-based
reasoning, rule-based reasoning. The symposium will encourage integration of
these reasoning modes, and interaction among the corresponding research
communities. Topics include, but are not limited to:

     *Combining reasoning methods in a single application
     *Using one form of reasoning to support or guide another
     *Compiling one form of reasoning experience into another form of
reasoning knowledge
     *Transferring successful methods from one form of reasoning to another
     *Interoperability of applications based on different reasoning technology
     *Switching among alternative forms of reasoning
     *Comparing and evaluating reasoning alternatives for specific problem
domains
     *Identifying categories, structures, or properties of knowledge or
tasks for which different reasoning techniques are appropriate or
advantageous
     *Systematically relating reasoning formalisms
     *Demonstrating practical advantages of a multimodal approach for real
problems
     *Identifying and exploiting commonalities

Papers grounded in specific problems or domains will be welcome. More general
or theoretical insights will also be appropriate. The Symposium will encourage
building on the specific experiences of the attendees towards general
principles of
multimodal reasoning architecture, multimodal both in the sense of combining
modes, and in the sense of being relevant to multiple modes.

Submissions

Submit an abstract of a new paper or a summary of previous relevant work.
Submissions should be no more than four pages, single column, 12 point type.
Include an illustrative example. E-mail PostScript of submissions to
multimodal at cs.unh.edu.

The symposium web page is at: www.cs.unh.edu/ccc/mm/sym.html.

General information about the Spring Symposia can be obtained at:

http://aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/1998/sssparticipation-98.html

Organizing Committee

Eugene Freuder (chair), University of New Hampshire, ecf at cs.unh.edu
Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts
Peter Struss, Technical University of Munich
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California

Program Committee

Rene Bakker, Telematics Research Centre
Karl Branting, University of Wyoming
Nick Cercone, University of Regina
Ashok Goel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Vineet Gupta, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
David Leake, University of Indiana
Amnon Meisels, Ben Gurion University
Robert Milne, Intelligent Applications Ltd
Pearl Pu, Ecole Polytechnique F=E9d=E9rale de Lausanne
Ron Sun, University of Alabama
Jerzy Surma, Technical University of Wroclaw
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University