[UAI] Call for Participation: AAAI Workshop on Fielding Applications of Artificial Intelligence, July 2004, San Jose, California

[Cheetham, William E (Research)]

>                       Call For Participation
> 
>       Workshop on Fielding Applications of Artificial Intelligence
>         Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
> 
>               Sunday or Monday, July 25-26, 2004 
>       San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, California
>               http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~goebel/faai/index.htm
> 
> Dear Colleagues:
> 
> You are invited to submit a short submission (max 4 pages) to the workshop
> "Fielding Applications of Artificial Intelligence".
> 
> 1. Objectives
> This workshop will focus on how to apply artificial intelligence (AI)
> techniques to solving real world problems. The workshop will 
> 1) Leverage the descriptions of deployed applications from conferences
> like AAAI and IAAI to create best practices for people fielding
> applications of AI (a document describing these best practices will be
> available for review before the workshop takes place), 
> 2) Allow people to present issues and best practices from their current
> work,
> 3) Compile what has been learned from multiple peoples past and present
> experience fielding AI applications, and 
> 4) Produce a list of issues critical to success and best practices for
> dealing with those issues that should be of interest to people attending
> AAAI or IAAI. 
> 2. Topics
> We solicit submissions including but not limited to: 
> *     Selecting the scope of problem to be solved 
> *     Determining the value of an AI system (Predicting return on
> investment) 
> *     Business Goals for AI (e.g. create a product, service, internal
> productivity, or gain understanding) 
> *     Determining the AI technique, if any, to use for a given problem 
> *     Planning for knowledge maintenance 
> *     Assembling a team with the needed skills 
> *     Six sigma for AI 
> *     Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering of AI 
> *     Gaining user support and easing their fears 
> *     Gaining financial support 
> *     Cultural Issues 
> *     Collecting and cleaning data 
> *     Creating a working system 
> *     User Interface Design 
> *     Verification and Validation (e.g. of learning systems, acceptance
> testing, etc.) 
> *     Training users 
> *     Piloting for measurement and feedback 
> *     Measuring actual return on investment 
> *     Monitoring and maintenance of AI systems 
> *     Keeping the system in use 
> *     How to expand on success 
> *     Reasons good systems fail 
> *     Status updates on past IAAI deployed applications or other fielded
> applications 
> *     Analysis or surveys on why AI system(s) succeeded or failed 
> 3. Format
> This workshop will include 
> *     An invited talk that will show issues that are critical to the
> success or failure of AI applications by summarizing multiple fielded
> applications, 
> *     Multiple presentations on selected submissions, and 
> *     A panel session on issues in fielding AI systems and best practices
> for dealing with these issues. 
> 4. Attendance
> Attendance is limited to 65 invitees. 
> 5. Submission Requirements
> Please submit a short (max 4 pages) Postscript, pdf, MSWord, or hardcopy
> submission, using AAAI's double-column format. Accepted submissions will
> be permitted to revise their submission to have longer lengths. Accepted
> paper submissions will be included in a AAAI Press technical report.
> Please email or send hardcopy submissions to: 
>       William Cheetham
>       General Electric Company
>       Building K1, Room 5C21A
>       1 Research Circle
>       Niskayuna, NY 12309
>       [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>       (518) 387-5222
> Please include your complete address, phone, and FAX numbers in your
> submission. 
> 6. Dates
> Submission deadline: March 12, 2004
> Notification date: April 16, 2004
> Camera-ready deadline: May 18, 200
> Workshop: July 25 or 26, 2004 (San Jose, California)
> 
> 
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