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AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium Series 2ND Call for Participation
March 21-23, 2005 Stanford University, California, USA
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CHALLENGES TO DECISION SUPPORT IN A CHANGING WORLD
Submission Deadline: October 27, 2004
One of the most daunting challenges faced by decision support systems
is a perpetual change in their environment. Existing decision support
methodologies, tools, and frameworks are often difficult to scale up
and adapt to changing knowledge, work-flow, and operational setting.
Successful decision support systems need to fulfill the following
three requirements in their design and implementation: First, the
representation and reasoning techniques need to incrementally
incorporate new subject matter knowledge along with new methods for
information integration, organization, monitoring, and analysis.
Second, the systems need to adjust to changing policies, regulations,
standards, evolving operating procedures, different decision makers
and target groups, and diverse operational settings. Third, the
systems need to effectively operate in a distributed infrastructure,
built on heterogeneous and evolving computing and networking
platforms.
Adaptive Systems that have to cope with change need to include
methodologies that go outside single theories. For example, systems
that are based on probabilistic or decision-theoretic principles will
be typically unable to cope with change by themselves, as neither
probability theory nor decision theory say much about how decision
models are constructed, let alone how they should be modified. The
general AI concepts of perception, learning, control, abstraction, and
personalization must be inherently designed into the methodological,
architectural, and operational aspects of adaptive systems, from
application design through software and hardware infrastructure
support.
This symposium aims at bringing together researchers with experience
or interest in building adaptive decision support systems. Since some
domains, such as biomedicine, deal with numerous modes of reasoning,
this symposium aims at providing a coherent forum that will highlight
various issues involved and will facilitate cross-disciplinary
diffusion of methods in reasoning about and adapting to change. The
central themes for the symposium are: (1) Practical fielding of
adaptive decision support systems, and (2) Crucial technologies for
successful adaptive decision support systems. We encourage submissions
that address (but are not limited to) relevant issues in the domains
of biomedicine, finance and business, and military/government/homeland
security. In particular, we welcome submissions that address the
challenges faced and the solutions involved, what worked, what did
not, and why. We also welcome contributions that chart out new
research agendas and identify specific crucial issues.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
The symposium will consist of formal paper presentations, as well as
interdisciplinary panel and discussion sessions. Potential
participants are invited to submit either a 6-page full paper (5,000
words maximum) or a 1-2 page extended abstract (1,500 words maximum)
outlining their relevant research activities and how they see their
contribution to the symposium. Please submit papers in PDF format to
the co-chairs Marek Druzdzel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or Tze-Yun Leong
([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Please direct all correspondences to the
co-chairs as well.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
David Aha, Naval Research Laboratory ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Riccardo Belazzi, Universita degli Studi di Pavia ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
F. Javier Diez, UNED ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Marek J. Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh (co-chair) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linda van der Gaag,Universiteit Utrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Peter Haddawy, Asian Institute of Technology ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tze-Yun Leong, National University of Singapore (co-chair) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Peter Lucas, University of Nijmegen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Kim Leng Poh, National University of Singapore ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
