Submission Date: Nov 19th.
	
	Function may be treated as an abstraction of behavior. It relates
	behavior to human notions of utility, i.e., purpose/goal. It forms a
	useful bridge between objective and quantifiable knowledge about a
	component (of a device/organization/organism/environment/argument),
	and subjective notions of its use/purpose. Hence, function is being
	increasingly used in diverse fields such as diagnosis, design and
	vision. 
	
	Function has been used to motivate decisions, discriminate among
	choices at hand, or explain an observation. Functional knowledge is
	being used in addition to knowledge about structure and behavior in
	domains as varied as Electrical, Aerospace, Industrial and Chemical
	Engineering, Mechatronics, Architecture, Law, Medicine, Human
	Physiology, and Software Engineering. 
	
	Papers are invited for the special track from researchers in all 
	fields/domains on topics including:
	 * Reasoning techniques that use function
	 * Representation formalisms for function
	 * Applications of reasoning about function: reports, results
	
	STRAF 2000 is the sixth in a series of special tracks held since 1995 at
	the annual FLAIRS conference. Selected papers from the first three
	STRAFs were published as a special issue of the journal AI in Engineering
	(Vol 12(4), 10/98). 
	Papers from STRAF 2000 will be included in the proceedings of the
	FLAIRS conference, to be published by AAAI Press.
	
	
	IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
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	November 19th, 1999:  Submission of paper
	January 5th, 2000:    Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
	March 3, 2000:        Camera Ready Copy.
	
	SUBMISSION DETAILS:
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	Recommended Length: 10 double-spaced pages (2000-3000 words)
	
	Submission Procedure:
	 1) Format the paper according to the guidelines posted at the
	    STRAF 2000 web site.
	    The paper should be anonymous.
	 2) Enter information about your paper and yourself on-line at
	    the STRAF 2000 web site.
	 3) Submit the paper in one of the following two ways:
	     * Electronically, as a single postscript or text file, 
	       by anonymous ftp. (Directions on the STRAF 2000 Web page)
	       This is the preferred method.
	     * By hard copy: send 4 copies to:
	          Dr. James McDowell
	          Mad Dog Composites, Inc.
	          3890 Knotwood Dr
	          Holt, MI 48842-8722
	          USA
	          Telephone: 888-208-0451 (toll-free)
	    In either case, your paper must be anonymous. Author's name 
	    and affiliation should be included as a separate page/email.
	
	FOR MORE INFORMATION:
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	The STRAF 2000 web site is:
	   http://orion.ramapo.edu/~csconf/straf/
	The STRAF series web site is:
	   http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~chittaro/straf.html (STRAF Series Web Site)
	The Conference web site is:
	    http://www.flairs.com/flairs2000.html
	
	Please direct enquiries to:
	Luca Chittaro (chittaro@dimi.uniud.it)
	Amruth Kumar (amruth@ramapo.edu) 
	James McDowell (maddog@grafix-net.com)
	Co-Chairs