From: perretg@dxcern.cern.ch (Denis Perret-Gallix)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: AI-HENP-93 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:46:19 GMT
Expires: Sat, 1 May 1993 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics


                    THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON

              SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

          AND EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR HIGH ENERGY AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS

                                1993

                          October 4 - 8

                 OBERAMMERGAU, Oberbayern, Germany



              FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS



Dear Colleagues,

This is a first announcement for the third workshop in a series started
in Lyon in March 1990 and continued in La Londe in January 1992.
The enthusiasm and interest of the participants showed clearly that this
type of meeting was filling a real need for discussion and information.
The workshop will take place in a nice resort, about 100 km from Munich,
in Bavaria.

The inviting village

Oberammergau is a village with approximately 5000 inhabitants - farmers,
woodcarvers, businessmen, and craftsmen. It is surrounded by green meadows
and natural hills, wooded mountains up to 1700 m. As soon as one sees the
characteristic Kofel mountain, one will know that the destination is nearby:
one of the most charming parts of the upper Ammer Valley in the Werdenfels
County. This is the place where the range of varied hills of the Bavarian
Lower Alps meet the mountains of the Ammergauer Alps. That is where the
romantic nature of the village Oberammergau helps to forget everyday-life
amidst a wonderful landscape.
Oberammergau, world-wide known as a holiday village and the Passion Play
village, shows still intact farms in its center. Around the farms are
first-class hotels, comfortable inns, family pensions, private homes,
and holiday apartments. Walking through the village, one will stumble on
shops with highly artistic woodcarvings in all forms and varieties.

The main topics of the five full days WORKSHOP are:

  - Software development for "Big Sciences"
  - Networks and distributed computing
  - Methods and techniques of artificial intelligence
  - Symbolic manipulation techniques

Special emphasis will be laid on:

(A)  Group: Software Engineering

  (1) Subgroup: Languages and Systems

        - Conventional languages, Fortran 90, C, ...
        - Object Oriented Languages, C++, Objective-C, ...
        - Mixed languages environment
        - Operating systems HEPIX, HEPVM, ...
        - Network wide application software maintenance
        - Porting packages between languages and OS.
        - Data Base maintenance (updating, access protection)
        - Data description and representation

  (2) Subgroup: CASE
                Tools for developing, maintaining and designing
                software projects.

        - Intelligent editors
        - Maintenance of multi-version application: CMZ, Historian, ...
        - On-line documentation
        - Symbolic debuggers
        - Data representation
        - Software design and simulation
        - System simulation for real-time application
        -

  (3) Subgroup: Interactive Analysis

        - Event server
        - Workstation <-> Mainframe cooperation
        - Graphical user interface
        - Interactive analysis packages PAW, Reason, IDAL, ...
        -

 (B)  Group: Artificial Intelligence

   (1) Subgroup: Languages, Systems

        - AI languages
        - Mixing AI languages, OOL and conventional languages in
          applications
        - Expert system development tools
        -

  (2) Subgroup: Expert Systems

        - Off-line support
        - Hardware testing and maintenance
        - On-line assistance
        - Real-time expert systems
        - Electronic log-book
        - Testing expert systems: validation and verification
        - Embedding E.S. support in detectors or systems

  (3) Subgroup: Pattern Recognition Methods, Optimization Problems

        - Track and shower recognition
        - Event selection
        - Fuzzy-logic in pattern recognition
        - Genetic algorithms
        -

   (4) Subgroup: Neural Networks

        - Algorithms for off-line pattern recognition
        - Algorithms for fast triggering
        - Test of "Silicon Neural Network" prototypes
        - Neural network training


(C)  Group: Symbolic Manipulation Techniques

  (1) Subgroup: Languages and tools

        - Schoonschip, Form, Reduce, Mathematica, Scratchpad II,
          GAL, Maple, ... a critical review.
        - Graphics for diagrams display and multi-dimensional
          function representation
        - Database for intermediate computations and results,
          integrals, sub-diagrams, ...
        -

  (2) Subgroup: Packages for Feynman Diagrams Computation

        - Grace/Chanel/Bases/Spring, CompHEP, FeynArt/FeynCalc
          Physica, HIP, ...
        - Diagram generation
        - Symbolic diagram computation
        - Symbolic/numeric integral computation
        - Event Generator
        -

 (3) Subgroup: Advanced Feynman Diagrams Computation

        - methods and algorithms of higher order calculations
        - symbolic manipulation for N-loop calculations
        - numerical methods for N-loop calculations
        - Particular problems in specific process
        -

 (3) Subgroup: Quantum Field Theory and Super-Algebra and other
               Field
       - applications in Quantum Field Theory
       - calculations in supersymmetry theories (SUSY, SG, Strings, ... )
       - application in other physics research
       -

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Talks for the topical workshops will be selected by the Organizing
Committee on the basis of a detailed abstract to be submitted before:

                       May 1, 1993.

A poster session will be organized.

IMPORTANT DATES:
----------------
Preliminary registration before: May 1, 1993
Submission of abstracts before: May 1, 1993
Notification of acceptance of a paper before: July 1, 1993
Final manuscripts before: October 8, 1993
Final registration before: September 1, 1993

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                    THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON

              SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

          AND EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR HIGH ENERGY AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS

                                1993

                          October 4 - 8

                 OBERAMMERGAU, Oberbayern, Germany


                      PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION


NAME:                                     FIRST NAME:

LABORATORY:                               COUNTRY:

ADDRESS:

TEL:             FAX:                 TELEX:              E-MAIL:


WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRESENT A TALK ?

                       YES/NO

TALK TITLE:



Please indicate GROUP and SUBGROUP from list above (e.g. A.1):
_______________________________________________________________________
To be considered by the organizing committee, send an extended abstract
                     before May 1, 1993 to:

Verena Offermann           or          Karl-Heinz Becks
Physics Department                     Physics Department
University of Wuppertal                University of Wuppertal
Postfach 100127                        Postfach 100127
D 5600 Wuppertal 1                     D 5600 Wuppertal 1
       GERMANY                                GERMANY

Tel: (49) 202 439 2733                 Tel: (49) 202 439 2607
Fax: (49) 202 439 2811                 Fax: (49) 202 439 2811
E-mail:                                E-mail:
offermann@physik.uni-wuppertal.dbp.de  becks@physik.uni-wuppertal.dbp.de
                                       or BECKS at VXCERN