From logan@cajun19.cacs.usl.edu Thu Feb 3 17:59:43 EST 1994 Article: 20526 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20526 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!rouge!logan From: logan@cajun19.cacs.usl.edu (Raj L. Loganantharaj) Subject: Call for papers: AAAI-94 workshop on Spatial and temporal reasoning Message-ID: <1994Feb2.215850.9283@usl.edu> Keywords: time, temporal reasoning, spatial reasoning Sender: anon@usl.edu (Anonymous NNTP Posting) Organization: The Center for Advanced Computer Studies Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 21:58:50 GMT Lines: 109 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % CALL FOR PAPERS % % AAAI-94 WORKSHOP ON SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL REASONING % % Seattle, Washington % % During AAAI 94 Conference (July 31 - August 4) % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The AAAI-94 Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning AAAI and the organizers of the Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning invite you to participate in a workshop examining the common aspects of the theory and application of temporal and spatial models in a spectrum of apparently disparate areas such as planning, robot control and guidance, natural language understanding, assembly plant sequencing and scheduling, temporal databases, and concurrent and distributed programming. The workshop will bring together researchers sharing a common interest in exploring spatial or temporal problems but from widely different viewpoints emphasizing highly dynamic problem domains. Researchers should submit papers representing current results, surveying the interactions between two or more areas of spatial and temporal research, or taking a position on proposed research directions that can have significant impact on one or more of the relevant fields. The organizers will favor contributions which span both spatial and temporal; both theory and application; both distributed systems and AI; or otherwise represent a synthesis of domains or techniques. Topics Suggested topic areas include, but are not limited to: 0 Commonalties, differences, or integration of Spatial and temporal reasoning Temporal knowledge representation and reasoning about concurrency. Spatial or temporal ontologies. Spatial or temporal constraint satisfaction. Spatial or temporal beliefs and uncertainty. Qualitative and quantitative spatial and temporal reasoning. 0 Extensions of the situation calculus. 0 Expressiveness and other evaluations of logics for time and space. 0 Propagation algorithms for spatio-temporal constraints and statistical analysis. 0 Implementations of temporal and spatio-temporal logics. 0 Temporal and active data bases and temporal expert systems. Workshop Format The workshop will be organized in a manner designed to maximize the opportunity for interaction and exchange among the participants. Using a varied format of invited presentations, keynote address, panel, and open discussion, participants are expected to become involved in the discussion, potentially leading to new insights about the interfaces between space and time, AI and Systems, and other related domains. Attendance} : Approximately 40 participants will be selected to attend the workshop, contributing and participating in discussions. Their papers will be included in the Workshop Working Notes to be distributed; twelve will be selected for actual presentation. Participants will be screened on the basis of reviews and relevance to the workshop goals. As indicated in the foregoing Description, papers incorporating a synthesis or spanning more than one traditional area will be favored; a mix of views will be sought. Submission Requirements Papers should be sent to Frank Anger or Rasiah Loganantharaj, whose complete addresses appear below. Electronic submissions are solicited in Tex, Latex, or PostScript format. The work should fit on 4 to 8 single-spaced typewritten 8.5 x 11 inch pages in the form of extended abstract or complete research, survey, or position paper. All papers should contain relevant bibliographic references. Submission Deadline : March 18, 1994. Notification Date : April 8, 1994 Final Date for camera-ready copies: April 29, 1994. Submit To : Frank D. Anger or Rasiah Loganantharaj Frank D. Anger Rasiah Loganantharaj Dept. of Computer Science Center for Adv. Computer Studies Univ. of West Florida USL, Box 44330 Pensacola, FL 32514 USA Lafayette, LA 70504 USA (904) 474-3022; Fax: (904) 474-3129 (318) 231-5345; Fax: (318) 231-5791 fdang@dcs106.dcsnod.uwf.edu logan@cacs.usl.edu Workshop Chairs: Frank D. Anger and Rasiah Loganantharaj Workshop Committee Tony Cohn Hans W. Guesgen} Gerard Ligozat Univ. of Leeds Univ. of Auckland LIMSI/CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sud agc@scs.leeds.ac.uk hans@cs.auckland.ac.nz ligozat@limsi.fr Nikki Pissinou Rita V. Rodriguez Andre Trudel CACS, USL CS, Univ of W. Florida Acadia Univ. pissinou@cacs.usl.edu rrodrigu@dcs106.dcsnod.uwf.edu trudel@acadiau.ca