Apologies if you receive this more than once: Using Uncertainty within Computation AAAI 2001 Fall Symposium November 2-4, 2001 Sea Crest Oceanfront Resort and Conference Cente North Falmouth, Cape Cod, MA Final Call for Papers: To reason about complex computational systems, researchers are starting to borrow techniques from the field of uncertainity reasoning. In some cases, this is because the algorithms contain stochastic components. For example, Markov decision processes are now being used to model the trajectory of stochastic local search procedures. In other cases, uncertainity is used to help model and cope with the stochastic nature of inputs to (possibly deterministic) algorithms. Uncertainity and randomness have also been found to be a useful addition to many deterministic algorithms. And a number of areas like planning, constraint satisfaction, and inductive logic programming which have traditionally ignored uncertainity in their computations are waking up to the possibility of incorporating uncertainity into their formalisms. The goal of this workshop is to encourage symbiosis between these different areas. The symposium will consist of invited talks, panel discussions, individual presentations and group discussions. Those interested in making a presentation should submit a technical paper of up to 8 pages in AAAI two column proceedings format. Other participants should submit either a position paper or a research abstract of up to 2 pages. Email submissions in postscript format are encouraged. Please send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to arrive, at the very latest, by August 10, 2001. The number of participants at the symposium is limited. As submissions will be considered on a first-come basis, you are advised to submit as soon as possible.
