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AAAI
FALL SYMPOSIUM SERIES CFP
Regarding
the “Intelligence” in Distributed Intelligent
Systems
Location:
Arlington, VA near Washington D.C.
A look across application areas
and diverse products reveals that a re-occurring keyword is “intelligence.” In
areas such as Web Intelligence for business applications, coordination of
robotic teams for NASA’s exploration vision, DOD’s net-centric approach, and
network security, all applications are expected to incorporate “intelligence”.
The intelligence may be required for an application to succeed, or it may be
an enhancement over a “dumber” version; the keyword “intelligence” now serves
as a system or product discriminator. “Intelligence” may also emerge from
simpler interactions within the distributed system. The definition and focus
of “intelligence” also seems to be varied. One of the newest application areas
involves “humans in the loop” via distributed social intelligence. An element
of the “intelligence” in this area involves tapping into collective human
opinion.
The development of “intelligence”
is the overarching focus of the
artificial intelligence field. To this end, various paradigms have been
developed which offer approaches to support the development of “intelligence”
within an application. Among these paradigms are the bio-inspired or
bio-mimetic, social or organizational-based, algorithm-based, cognitive,
logic-based, knowledge-based, hybrid, etc. Additionally, methodologies which
are utilized to build intelligent systems may include intelligence technology
themselves.
This Symposium will provide a
venue to consider, as a set,
the (1) paradigms and associated algorithms that support intelligence and (2)
distributed systems that incorporate intelligence, with enabling methodologies
for _expression_ of intelligence on the system level. We solicit papers and proposals for panel or group
discussions dealing with, but not limited to, the following
areas:
- Bio-inspired or bio-mimetic, including artificial
immune systems, ant swarms, digital pheromones
- Organizational and social paradigms
- Emergent
intelligence
- Knowledge-based, ontology, semantic
technologies
- Cognitive-based
- Robot
teams, robot-human teams
- Web
intelligence
- Smart
network security
- Situational awareness in the net centric
organization
A key feature of this Symposium
is “distributed”; both the algorithmic support and the applications must
involve distributed elements. Our main interest is in papers that
papers that make qualitative distinctions between the power of
different architectural and algorithmic paradigms for intelligence. We are
especially interested in comparative papers, which attempt to draw qualitative
distinctions between the expressive power or the inferential capacity of these
different paradigms.
The Symposium programming will involve presentations
with significant question-and-answer time, panel sessions, and topic-oriented
group discussion sessions.
While dependent on the responses, we are interested in
presenting a mix of programming.
Organizing
Committee Members
Margaret Lyell, Intelligent Automation, Inc., Elisa
Kendall, Sandpiper Software, Walt Truszkowski, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Lalana Kagal,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jason Li, Intelligent Automation,
Inc.
Submissions
Submissions can be position statements, work in
progress, or completed work.
[The author kit is available at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php
]
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Submissions are 3-6 pages (in the AAAI format as
PDF).
Submissions can now be done in an automated manner, as
we have configured a Conference Manager for this Symposium’s papers. Please
submit your paper at
http://www.easychair.org/AAAIDIS07/
You will need to set up an account in order to submit;
please follow the directions given at the web-site.
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Dates
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Paper/Panel
Proposal/ Break-out Group
Submission May 10,
2007
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Acceptances
May 21, 2007
Symposium
November 8-11, 2007
-- The
Organizers