From: tsatsoul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: CFP: AAAI'93 Workshop in AI & Systems Eng.
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:32:09 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

			Call for Participation

			 AAAI-93 Workshop on 
		 AI Models for Systems Engineering

			 Washington, DC

Systems Engineering (SE) can be defined as the iterative process of top-down
design and bottom up synthesis and analysis, development, operation, mainte-
nance and enhancement of a real-world product or system that satisfies, in an 
"optimal" manner, the full range of the requirements for the product or system. 
It encompasses the whole life-cycle of a product or system, from initial need 
perception, to requirements formulation, to partitioning into subsystems, to 
design, testing, and integration of subsystems, documentation, fielding, 
maintenance, and system enhancements and requirements modification. 


Systems Engineering contains elements of the Product Realization Process (PRP),
concurrent engineering and design.  SE is more complex than the Product
Realization Process, since it addresses many non-functional requirements for a
product.  It uses concurrent engineering to allow the integration of many
technologies and functional and non-functional specifications, but involves a
lot more.  SE is broader than design, since it starts with the first idea of a
product, and continues long past the fielding of a system.  

Recently Systems Engineering has been recognized as the process responsible for
the orderly evolution of human-made systems.  Because of the increasing
complexity of human-made systems, the integrated approach of Systems
Engineering is now seen as one possible solution to the creation of successful,
globally competitive products.  Systems Engineering is also recognized as an
imperative for the completion of extremely large engineering projects, as, for
example,  the Space Station or mass transit systems.

Because of its complexity and its reliance on human expertise and experience,
SE can benefit from techniques and models developed in AI.  Expert Systems,
Case-Based Design, Qualitative Modeling and Decision Theory are just some of
the techniques that could be used to help systems engineers.  The intent of
this one-day workshop is to bring together SE and AI researchers and
practitioners and to foster better interaction between the two groups.  The
goal is to expose AI researchers to Systems Engineering, make systems engineers
aware of AI techniques, and showcase attempts to integrate the two disciplines.

Topics include:
o What are the fundamental problems in SE?
o What are some examples of successful application of AI to SE? Why did the
integration work?
o What are some examples of unsuccessful application of AI to SE? Why didn't
the integration work?
o Panel discussions about possible future applications of AI to SE;
prototypical domains; expected cost versus benefits.

Attendance:  Practicing systems engineers and researchers in SE and AI are
encouraged to attend. The attendance will be limited to approximately 40
people.  Attendance will be by invitation only.  Approximately half of the
attendees will be invited to make a short (10 minute) presentation and
participate to an ensuing panel discussion.

Format: Our goal is to promote a dialogue between AI practitioners and systems
engineers, and to pose questions rather than provide answers.  Presentations
will be brief (10 minutes maximum), and will be followed by a panel discussion
between the authors and the audience, directed by a panel leader who will be a
member of the workshop's organizing committee. Workshop notes will be
distributed to all participants.

Submission Requirements:  If you wish to present, submit four copies of an
extended abstract (three to five pages) by March 12, 1993 using twelve point
font and 8.5'' x 11'' page size, not including references and figures. 
Abstracts should be sent in hard copy only.  Final papers are limited to a
maximum of ten pages in length using twelve point font and 8.5'' x 11'' page
size, including references and figures.  If you only wish to attend and
participate in the discussions, send a one-page description of your interests.

Submission Deadline:  March 12, 1993
Notification Date:  April 2, 1993
Final Date for Camera-Ready Copies:  April 30, 1993
Submit to Workshop Chairperson:
Dr. Costas Tsatsoulis
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
tsatsoul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
TSATSOUL@UKANVAX.BITNET
(913) 864-4615
(913) 864-7749
FAX: (913) 864-7789

Program Committee:
o Dr. Julian Holtzman, Dept. of Engineering Management, University of Kansas
	(holtzman%turing@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu)
o Dr. David Oliver, General Electric Corporate Research and Development
	(oliverdw@crd.ge.com)
o Dr. W. Perry Alexander, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Cincinnati 
	(alex@thor.ece.uc.edu)
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