Reasoning About Function

Special Track to be held during
The Eleventh Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium
(FLAIRS '98)
May 17-20, 1998,
Sanibel Island, (Off Fort Myers), Florida

CALL FOR PAPERS
The explicit representation and use of function knowledge is gaining considerable attention in various research communities.
Function can abstract behavior, and relate it 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 increasinlgy used in diverse fields such as diagnosis, design and vision.

Function has been used to motivate decisions (such as in design), discriminate among choices at hand (such as in diagnosis, vision), or explain an observation (such as in explanation generation). It is being used, in addition to structure and behavior knowledge 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

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

		November 20th, 1997:  Submission of paper
		January 2nd, 1998:    Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
		Feb 16, 1998:         Camera Ready Copy due to
			                  FLAIRS '98 Program Chair.

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Maximum Length: 3000 words
Preferred Submission Method:

Fold your paper into one postscript or text file: This must be anonymous, i.e., author's name and affiliation should not be included in this file;
Put it in the users/amruth directory at ftp.cs.buffalo.edu site by anonymous ftp; The file name should be the first author's last name;
Send a mail message to amruth@ramapo.edu, listing: the name of the paper, names, affiliations, phone/fax and email addresses of all the authors, and the name of the submitted file. This step is mandatory!

Alternatively, you may send 4 hard copies of the paper to:

Amruth Kumar
Computer Science, TAS
Ramapo College of New Jersey
505, Ramapo Valley Road
Mahwah, NJ 07430-1680
Ph: (201) 529-7712

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

If you are unsure whether your work fits into the above topic, please refer to the following reports for clarification.

The Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol. 9(3), 9/94, pp 301-304.
Special Issues of `International Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence', Vol 8(2), 8/94 and Vol9(1), 1/95.

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Please direct any enquiries to:
Amruth Kumar mailto:amruth@ramapo.edu
Luca Chittaro mailto:chittaro@dimi.uniud.it
Co-Chairs