Dear All,
Let me update the information about the symposium on Chance Discovery, AAAI-FSS02 to come to Sea Creat (Massachusetts) November 15-17 2002. Brochures and important dates are posted on https://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/2002/fss-02.html and the program is open with revisions: http://www.miv.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~matumura/aaai-fss-cd-02.html If you are new to chance discovery, let me show its short scope: Chance events are rare or novel events with potentially significant consequences for decision-making, i.e., events to be conceived as a risk or an opportunity. This symposium will be devoted to questions: - - - How may we predict, identify or explain chance events and their consequences? ("chance discovery") and - - - How may we assess, prepare for or manage them? ("chance management"). If you are working on relevant areas, e.g., - - - agent systems and planning with emergent behaviors - - - human-computer or agent-environment interactions - - - complex systems - - - WWW Awareness - - - knowledge discovery and data mining - - - statistics and data analysis - - - information retrieval - - - risk/crisis analysis, prediction, assessment and management - - - marketing theory and demand forecasting for innovative products - - - opportunity identification in business - - - social trends analysis - - - social psychology - - - natural disaster prediction and management - - - management and decision sciences - - - philosophy of forecasting - - - abductive reasoning in scientific theories, etc, please do not miss the deadlines of registration. All attendees must preregister. Please complete in full and submit to AAAI, by 5 PM, Pacific time, September 20, 2002 (invited attendees) or 5 PM, Pacific time, October 18, 2002 (general registration). See you in Sea Crest, Yukio Ohsawa, University of Tsukuba 3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112-0012 Japan, Fax: +81-3-3942-6829 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
