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From: cox@cc.gatech.edu (Michael Cox)
Subject: CFP: Representing Mental States and Mechanisms
Date: 27 Aug 1994 17:30:38 -0400
REPRESENTING MENTAL STATES AND MECHANISMS
AAAI 1995 Spring Symposium Series
March 27 - 29, 1995
Stanford University,
Stanford, California
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The ability to reason about mental states and cognitive mechanisms facilitates
performance at a variety of tasks. The purpose of this symposium is to enhance
our ability to construct programs that employ commonsense knowledge of the
mental world in an explicit representational format that can be shared across
domains and systems. Such knowledge can, for example, assist
story-understanding programs to understand characters that learn, forget, pay
attention, make a decision, and change their mind. The need to represent
knowledge of mental activity transcends usual disciplinary boundaries to
include most reasoning tasks where systems interact with users, coordinate
behaviors with autonomous agents, or consider their own beliefs and
limitations. For example, distributed problem-solving agents can use knowledge
of mental phenomena to predict and explain the behavior of cooperating agents.
In machine learning, a system's knowledge of its own mental states, capacities
and mechanisms crucially determines the reliability with which it can diagnose
and repair reasoning failures. The focus of the symposium, however, is on
representation of the mental world and the sharing/reuse of such
representations, rather than the applications that such representations
support.
Important questions to consider:
o (SHARABILITY) What tools / techniques can facilitate the sharing of
representations among researchers?
o (REUSE) What portions of the representation can be transferred
across reasoning tasks?
o (ARCHITECTURE) How can functional models of reasoning-components be
represented explicitly?
o (LOGICAL FORM) What statements can be logically asserted about the
self and its beliefs? What benefits arise from such representations?
o (APPLICATIONS) How can knowledge of mental phenomena be used in
tasks ranging from student instruction to intelligent interface
control?
o (INTROSPECTION) What must an intelligent system know about its own
mental states and processes?
PLEASE MONITOR THE WEB FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/ai/symposia/aaai-spring-95/home_page.html
The symposium will consist of invited talks, individual presentations, and
group discussion. "Key position" papers describing possible topics for
submitted papers will be available at the network address listed above. If you
wish to present, submit up to 12 pages (fewer pages are encouraged) in
12-point, with 1" margins. Others interested in attending should submit a
research abstract or position paper (3-pp. max). Financial assistance is
available for student participation.
Submit 1 postscript copy to
freed@picasso.arc.nasa.gov
or 4 hardcopies to Michael Freed, MS 262-2 NASA ARC, Moffett Field, CA, 94035.
SUBMISSION DATES:
Submissions for the symposia are due on October 28, 1994. Notification of
acceptance will be given by November 30, 1994. Material to be included in the
working notes of the symposium must be received by January 20, 1995.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Co-chairs -
Michael Cox cox@cc.gatech.edu
(Georgia Tech, AI/Cognitive-Science Group, College of Computing)
Michael Freed freed@picasso.arc.nasa.gov
(NASA Ames Research Center, Human Factors Group)
Gregg Collins (Northwestern University, Institute of the Learning Sciences)
Bruce Krulwich (Andersen Consulting, Center for Strategic Technology Research)
Cindy Mason (NASA Ames Research Center, Artificial Intelligence Group)
John McCarthy (Stanford University, Department of Computer Science)
John Self (Lancaster University, Department of Computing)
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