Dear UAI members, On behalf of the program committee of the 15th Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI, having some 3000 members), I am happy again to announce that we are organizing international workshops in/from 2001. Because JSAI2001 is the first international experience for JSAI annual conferences, each workshop organizer is aiming at creating and enhancing new and meaningful directions in/from AI. We would appreciate it if you circulate and spread the URL http://www.gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp/staff/osawa/JSAIworkshops.html for all the workshops (including the links to each workshop CFP) or its content attached to this mail, and more highly if you submit papers and join the workshop. This CFP has the general information about all workshops in JSAI2001, for supporting the preparation of people who may submit papers to one (or more) of the workshops. CFPs into more details will be released from each workshop. URLs of some workshops are already included in the CFP I am sending. Looking forward to seeing you in the hot-spring resort Matsue, and sincerely appreciating for your attentions Yukio OHSAWA, JSAI2001 Workshops Chair - - Associate Professor, Graduate School of Systems Management, University of Tsukuba - - Researcher of TOREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation Address: GSSM, University of Tsukuba, 3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112-0012 Japan Fax: +81-3-3942-6829 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************************************************** *************************** Call for Papers ******************************* *************************************************************************** JSAI 2001 International Workshops Date: 21 --22 May 2001 Co-located with the Fifteenth Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2001), 22-25 May, 2001, Matsue (a Hot Spring Resort), JAPAN *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** 1. International workshops from JSAI The JSAI Annual conferences have been organized since 1987 to enhance studies on artificial intelligence, mainly of Japanese domestic researchers, with sessions mostly of presentations/discussions in Japanese. The presentations in these series of events became the seeds of various later success of fundamental and applied studies, not only in the area of AI but also to authorized and newly recognized relevant areas, e.g. business applications, robot soccer games etc. JSAI2001 will be the first JSAI conference having international sessions/ workshops, co-located with the main conference. This aims at having people looking at various current AI studies/trends from various aspects stimulate each other, in an environment where new meaningful directions are desired. The international workshops are intended to focus attentions to specific and new research issues/topics, and to informal and exciting presentations and discussions on problems important even though not authorized yet, and ideas interesting even though not yet established. Rather than accepting matured results, we would like to supply you with places to help new ideas and new meaningful directions grow. 2. Workshops to be Organized (links for information of each workshop will be completed soon) 1) Social intelligence Design http://www.synsophy.go.jp/sid2001/ Organizer: Prof. Toyoaki Nishida (The University of Tokyo), [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems (AESCS) http://www.gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp/staff/osawa/AESCS.html Organizer: Prof. Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy), [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Rough Set Theory and Granular Computing Organizer: Prof. Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane Medical University), [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4) Chance Discovery (more information) http://www.gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp/staff/osawa/CDworkshop.html Organizer: Prof. Yukio Ohsawa (University of Tsukuba), [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5) JSAI KDD Challenge 2001 (JKDD01) (more information) http://wwwada.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/pub/washio/jkdd/jkddcfp.html Organizer: Prof. Takashi Washio (Osaka University), [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. For Important Dates, see the CFP of each workshop please. 4. Other Information - - Information for participants will be announced, on a Web page linked from the official Web page for JSAI2001 http://www.kdel.info.eng.osaka-cu.ac.jp/~kitamura/JSAI2001/index.html - - The workshop notes will be published from Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), as one separate from the CD-ROM conference proceedings. 5. Workshops Co-chairs (a subcommittee of the program committee of JSAI2001) Workshops chair Yukio Ohsawa, University of Tsukuba (Japan), [EMAIL PROTECTED] Workshops co-chair Helmut Prendinger, The University of Tokyo (Japan), [EMAIL PROTECTED] Workshops co-chair Mayumi Kamata, IBM Japan (Japan), [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Address your e-mail to co-chairs above if the relevance of your inquiry is common to all workshops. Otherwise please ask the organizer of each workshop.
