From: kumar@moose.cs.umn.edu (Vipin Kumar)
Subject: Call for Participation: Parallel Processing for AI
Apparently-To: comp-parallel@uunet.uu.net
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:08:46 GMT



                            CALL FOR PAPERS 

                                PPAI-93 
                    Second International Workshop on 
             Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence  

                      August 29 or 30 (TBA), 1993 
                            (During IJCAI-93)  
                            Chambery, France 


The Second International Workshop on Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelli-
gence will be held in Chambery, France in conjunction with IJCAI-93.

In recent years we have seen the emergence of parallel machines. In spite of the
wide acceptance of parallel processing as a major technology for modern  comput-
ing,  only a few AI applications have been successfully implemented on  parallel
machines.

The intent of this workshop is to bring together hardware architects, AI resear-
chers,  and application engineers who are engaged in or interested  in  parallel
artificial intelligence. Through key presentations and ample discussions,  it is
hoped that the workshop will facilitate the exchange of ideas among  researchers
and contributes to bridging the gap between hardware architects and AI research-
ers.  The granularity of parallelism discussed at the workshop  will  range from
coarse-grain to fine-grain parallel processing. 

The program committee invites submission of high quality contributions on  para-
llelism in AI.  Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

* Parallel Algorithms for AI 
  Parallel Search, Problem Solving, Planning, Constraint-directed Reasoning, 
  Decision Making, Natural Language Processing, Vision, etc.

* Parallel Inference Systems 
  Parallel Deduction, Automated Theorem Proving, Concurrent Logic Languages, 
  Implementations, Performance Evaluations, etc.

* Massive Parallelism for AI 
  Massively Parallel Machines  (Architecture,  Benchmarks, etc.),  Spreading
  Activation, Connectionism, Bulk Data Processing, etc.


Please submit two (2) copies of a detailed abstract  (approx. 1500 words)  or  a
full paper (limited to 5000 words) to each of the three workshop chairmen listed
below (i.e., a total of six copies) by March 15, 1993. Please send, if possible,
e-mail versions of your paper to the chairmen as well. All submitted papers will
be reviewed by the workshop committee. 
It is our intent to publish a workshop proceedings to be made  available  at the
workshop.

Important dates:

* Papers due: March 15, 1993
* Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 1993
* Camera-ready version due: May 15, 1993

For participation, each attendee must have registered  for the  main  conference
and needs to pay an additional 300 F (approx. 60 US$) for the workshop.

 
   PPAI-93 Workshop Committee:  

Wolfgang Bibel,    Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany) 
James Hendler,     University of Maryland, (USA)  
Tetsuya Higuchi,   Electrotechnical Lab.   (Japan) 
Laveen N. Kanal,   University of Maryland, (USA)  
Hiroaki Kitano,    Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and NEC Corporation (Japan) 
Vipin Kumar,       University of Minnesota, (USA)  
Ewing L. Lusk,     Argonne National Lab.  (USA) 
Dan Moldovan,      University of Southern California (USA) 
Johann Schumann,   Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany) 
Christian Suttner, Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany) 
David Waltz,       Thinking Machines Corporation (USA)


Please submit papers to the PPAI-93 secretariats at the following addresses: 

   Workshop Chairs: 

Hiroaki Kitano             Vipin Kumar              Christian Suttner 
Software Engineering Lab.  Computer Science Dept.   Institut fuer Informatik 
NEC Corporation            200 Union Street, S.E.,  Augustenstr. 46 RGB 
2-11-5 Shibaura            University of Minnesota  Technische Universitaet M.
Minato, Tokyo 108 Japan    Minneapolis, MN 55455    8000 Muenchen 2 
email:
kitano@spls26              kumar@cs.umn.edu         suttner@informatik
       .ccs.mt.nec.co.jp                                    .tu-muenchen.de 
tel: +81-3-5476-1087       tel: +1-612-624-8023     tel: +49-89-521098 
fax: +81-3-5476-1083       fax: +1-612-625-0572     fax: +49-89-526502