geller@hertz.njit.edu (James Geller)
Sun, 25 Dec 1994 05:51:33 GMT
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
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CALL FOR PAPERS
PPAI-95
Third International Workshop on
Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence
2 Days During the Period: August 19-21, 1995
(Before IJCAI-95)
Montreal, Canada
The Third International Workshop on Parallel Processing for Artificial
Intelligence will be held in Montreal, Canada in conjunction with
IJCAI-95. This workshop follows in its format two successful workshops
on the same topic, held at IJCAI-91 and IJCAI-93.
At IJCAI-93, Parallel AI was finally established in the main stream of
Artificial Intelligence. This fact is supported by the number of
papers and activities in the Proceedings that pertain to Parallel AI,
and by the Computers and Thought Award given for work in Massive Paral-
lelism.
The intent of this workshop is to bring together hardware architects,
AI researchers, and application engineers who are engaged in or
interested in parallel artificial intelligence. Through key presenta-
tions and ample discussions, it is hoped that the workshop will facil-
itate the exchange of ideas among researchers and contribute to bridg-
ing the gap between hardware architects and AI researchers. The granu-
larity of parallelism discussed at the workshop will range from
coarse-grain to fine-grain parallel processing.
The program committee invites submission of high quality contributions
on parallelism in AI. Topics of interest include but are not limited
to the following:
-- Parallel Algorithms for AI
Parallel Search, Problem Solving, Planning, Constraint-Satisfact-
ion, Decision Making, Natural Language Processing, Vision, etc.
-- Parallel Inference Systems
Parallel Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Parallel
Deduction, Automated Theorem Proving, Concurrent Logic Languages,
Implementations, Performance Evaluations, etc.
-- Massive Parallelism for AI
Massively Parallel Machines (Architecture, Benchmarks, etc.),
Spreading Activation, Connectionism, Bulk Data Processing,
Memory-Based Reasoning, etc.
-- HW and SW for Parallel AI
Parallel Architectures, Parallel Implementations of AI Languages,
System Level support for AI, High Speed Disk I/O, etc.
-- Progress reports from major parallel AI projects (RWC, HPCC, etc.).
Please submit two (2) copies of a detailed abstract (approx. 1500
words) or a full paper (limited to 5000 words) to each of the three
workshop chairmen listed below (i.e., a total of six copies) by March
1, 1993. Please send, if possible, an e-mail version of your paper to
the chairmen as well (Plain Latex, or ASCII, or Compressed Postscript).
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Infor-
mal proceedings containing accepted contributions will be made avail-
able for the workshop. Similarly, as for the previous PPAI workshops,
we intend to publish a book afterwards based on selected papers from
the workshop. The previous books were published by North-Holland in
the Machine Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Series (volumes 14 and
15).
SCHEDULE
Papers due: March 1, 1995 Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 1995
Camera-ready edition due: April 20, 1995
REGISTRATION
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT REGISTRATION FOR THE
MAIN IJCAI-95 CONFERENCE. In addition, each attendee needs to pay a
small registration fee for the workshop. See the IJCAI brochure for
the exact amount.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop will run for two days. It will consist of several invited
talks for hot topics, panels/discussions, and technical sessions with
submitted papers. Basically, this inherits the format used in the
IJCAI-93 workshop, which was proven to be effective. Two potential
topics for invited talks are the HPCC and RWC initiatives. In addi-
tion, we are planning to organize special topic sessions on specific
problems which are of interest to a majority of the workshop attendees.
All presentations will be limited in length, so that ample time for
discussion is left after each individual paper. Additional time for
discussion will be allocated at the end of each session.
PPAI-95 WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
Matt Evett, Florida Atlantic University (USA)
James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
James Hendler, University of Maryland (USA)
Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Lab. (Japan) and CMU (USA)
Franz Kurfess, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
Andrew Sohn, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)
Christian Suttner, Technical University Munich (Germany)
David Waltz, NEC Corporation (USA)
PPAI-95 WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Hiroaki Kitano
Sony Computer Science Laboratory
3-14-13 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa
Tokyo, 141 Japan
Phone: (+81) 3-5448-4380
Fax: (+81) 3-5448-4273
E-mail: kitano@csl.sony.co.jp
Christian Suttner
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Institut fuer Informatik
D-80290 Muenchen, Germany
Phone: +49-89-521098
Fax: +49-89-526502
E-mail: suttner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
James Geller
New Jersey Institute of Technology
CIS Department
323 Dr. King Blvd.
Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Phone: (201) 596-3383
Fax: (201) 596-5777
Phone Messages: (201) 596-3366
E-mail: geller@vienna.njit.edu
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James Geller
New Jersey Institute of Technology / CIS Department
Newark, NJ 07102
email: geller@hertz.njit.edu /fax: (201) 596-5777 /voice: (201) 596-3383
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