Call For Abstracts AAAI Spring Symposium, 25-27 March 2002, Palo Alto, CA
Information Refinement and Revision for Decision Making: Modeling for Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Prediction Many companies have discovered the value of preserving and maintaining their corporate knowledge as they are collecting large amount of process data and business information. This collection is accelerated by the use of advanced and less expensive sensors, massive information storage, and internet-facilitated access. As a result, diagnostic decision makers are faced with the daunting task of extracting relevant morsels from this information hodge-podge, dealing with conflicting information, repudiating stale and outdated information, and evaluating the merits of a found solution. Automated decision-making systems also need to heed the effect of degrees of redundancy in the information considered, which may skew the decision pursued. In addition, temporal effects play a major role in the decision making process not only because information integrity fades over time but also because new information needs to be factored in. Although this new information does not exist at the time of the system design, one must provide a system maintenance plan to account for it. Ways to judge the relevance of this new information and optimization issues need to be discussed in this context. Finally, the quality and uncertainty of the newly found system and its resulting decisions need to be evaluated. This workshop will explore some of the following topics within that context: * Conflict resolution * Information half-life * Adaptive optimization * Uncertainty management * Distributed evolutionary agents * Temporal information updating * Link discovery in large databases * Distributed resource management * Aggregation of heterogeneous information * Distributed multiple hypothesis management * Automated updating of classification systems * Maintenance of decision making units over time * Multi-criteria decision making based on changing information * Postponement of commitments in design analysis * Interactive tradeoff analysis between search and decision Submissions Potential participants should submit an abstract (>= 150 words) electronically to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Oct. 5 More information is available at the web site http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~goebel/ss02/index.html Organizing Committee: * Alice Agogino, UC Berkeley; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 5136 Etcheverry Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1740 * Piero Bonissone, GE CRD; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; GE Corporate Research & Development; One Research Circle; K1-5C32A; Niskayuna, NY 12309; * Kai Goebel, GE CRD; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; GE Corporate Research & Development; One Research Circle; K1-5C4A; Niskayuna, NY 12309; * Soundar R.T. Kumara, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dept. of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 363 Leonhard Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 * Karl Reichard, Penn State; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Applied Research Laboratory, 229 ARL Building, University Park, PA 16802 * George Vachtsevanos, Georgia Tech; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 * Xenofon Koutsoukos, Xerox PARC; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304
