From: visser@psycho.inria.fr (W. VISSER)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: CFP IJCAI93 Workshop on Reuse of designs
Keywords: reuse, design, cognitive, AI, psychology
Date: 25 Dec 92 01:00:06 GMT
Expires: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 08:00:00 GMT
Organization: INRIA * Rocquencourt BP 105 * F-78153 LE CHESNAY CEDEX* France


IJCAI93 Workshop on
Reuse of designs: an interdisciplinary cognitive approach

Chambery, France, August 28 or 29, 1993
(previous to the main IJCAI93 conference,
August 30 to September 3, 1993)

Call for papers

The interest of reusing "old" particular solutions (cases) in problem-
solving tasks has, in recent years, led to proposals for systems
based on case-based reasoning (CBR). This workshop focuses on
two aspects of reuse: - its interest for non-routine design tasks in
which a human designer and an intelligent artificial system
collaborate, and - the need to consider data on cognitive activities
involved in these tasks so that the assistance system can be made
compatible with the human information processing system.
An important aspect of expertise in non-routine design is the
construction, organization and exploitation of a memory based on
previous experience with particular design problems (case
memory). As psychological studies show that even experts have
difficulty in accessing the case(s) relevant for solving a new
problem, proposing cases is one of the main assistance functions
that should be provided by CBR-based tools. In addition, a critical
component in such systems might assist designers in evaluating the
relevance and suitability of proposed cases.
The workshop will focus on the following topics:
- AI approaches to reuse in design, especially CBR, prototype-
based reasoning, redesign and mixed paradigms
- cognitive modeling of cases, their organization in a case memory,
and their exploitation (indexing and retrieval)
- empirical data on cognitive aspects of reuse in design activities
- methods for the acquisition of knowledge on reusable design
components (cases)
- specification and evaluation of design assistance CBR-based
tools: their "cognitive status", i.e. the consequences which data on
cognitive activities have for these tools.

Workshop format. This one-day, closed workshop will be limited to
30 participants who have made submissions.
Persons wishing to present a communication at the workshop
should submit the full length version of their paper (about 5-10,000
words). Other persons wishing to attend the workshop should
submit a short position paper (about 1000 words) specifying why
their contribution to the workshop would be of interest (based on the
research they have been conducting in the domain).

Proposed schedule. The goal of the workshop is to have a
roundtable format rather than a speaker / audience format. Some
seven communications of half an hour are planned, in order to have
discussion times of  about 15 minutes for each paper. Papers on a
same theme may be grouped together to be discussed in a same,
longer discussion session.

Submission. Five hard copies of submissions must be received by
February 28, 1993. They should take one of the two following forms:
- full length version of papers to be presented as communications at
the workshop  (about 5-10,000 words)
- short position papers to justify attendance (about 1000 words) (no
presentation at the workshop).
The first page of each paper should contain the paper title, author's
name, postal address, fax number and email address. The second
page should contain the paper title and abstract without any author
identification. Papers will be refereed and authors of accepted
papers will be given the opportunity to revise their papers prior to
the final submission.

Selection. Papers are invited to focus on the topics enumerated
above. Each paper will be evaluated by three members of an
international panel of referees. Preference will be given to papers
establishing a link between an AI and a cognitive-psychology
approach: these papers will be most likely to be selected for
presentation.

Publication. Proceedings containing the texts of the accepted
papers will be available at the Workshop. Depending on the results
of the workshop, publication of (a selected set of) papers in the form
of a special issue of a journal may be taken into consideration.

Dead-lines
- February 28, 1993: Five hard copies of submissions must be
received by this date.
- May 3, 1993: Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to
the first author.
- June 15, 1993: Three hard copies of the final revised, formatted
versions in the form of camera ready copies of accepted papers
must be received by this date.

Practical information
The application should be accompanied by the following
information:
- Full name
- Institutional affiliation
- Postal address (to which correspondence should be sent)
- Position
- Main field of specialization
- email
- telephone
- fax

Costs & Conditions of participation. Each workshop attendee must
have registered for the main conference. The fee of the workshop
are an additional 300 FF (about 60 $).
The organizers of the IJCAI93 main conference asks the workshop
organizers to insist on the following:
"No attendance to a workshop will be accepted without registration
to IJCAI93. This will be checked seriously!"

Organizing committee:
Willemien Visser - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et
en Automatique, Rocquencourt (France) - visser@psycho.inria.fr
Brigitte Trousse - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et
en Automatique, Sophia Antipolis (France) - trousse@happy.inria.fr
Katia P. Sycara - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
- Katia.Sycara@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU
Edward A. Edmonds - Loughborough University, Loughborough
(UK) - e.a.edmonds@lut.ac.uk

Correspondence
Queries / Papers:
Willemien Visser
INRIA - Batiment 18 - Rocquencourt B.P.105
78135 LE CHESNAY  CEDEX (FRANCE)
email: visser@psycho.inria.fr
fax:+ 33 - 1 - 39 63 55 30