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- Subject: IJCAI-93 workshop on production systems and their innovative applications
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- Call for Papers
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- IJCAI-93 Workshop on Production Systems and their Innovative Applications
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- August 28, 1993
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- Chambery France
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- Production systems have successfully made the transition from a trendy research
- idea to a routinely used programming paradigm. An important cause of this
- transition has been the several orders of magnitude speedup in program
- execution achieved in the past few years by the combination of better and
- faster match algorithms, efficient compilation techniques and faster hardware
- platforms.
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- A side-effect of the increasing acceptance of production systems is that
- researchers are investigating their applicability for pattern-directed
- processing in novel and innovative application areas. Examples include
- real-time process control, maintaining integrity in databases, active
- databases, expert databases, high-level image understanding, simulation and
- analyzing results of large scientific computations. In addition, applications
- in traditional areas like expert systems and modeling human cognition are being
- scaled up in terms of the number of productions as well as the amount of data
- to be processed. These applications bring new constraints and requirements for
- production systems. Some of these requirements necessitate rethinking of the
- tradeoffs that have been previously made; others indicate that fundamental
- changes may be required.
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- The goal of this workshop is to develop a coherent view of the requirements of
- contemporary production system application efforts and to use this information
- to define the next set of research problems and issues.
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- Specifically, the workshop will be an attempt to find answers to questions like
- the following:
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- What is the mix between match and non-match computational requirements in
- contemporary production system applications and how does it influence
- implementation decisions?
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- What are the requirements for using production systems for active/expert
- databases? What is needed to support maintenance of database integrity?
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- How does the expected volume of data influence the choice of match algorithm
- both in main-memory production systems and active databases?
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- How does the performance of match algorithms vary as problems are scaled up in
- size?
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- What is required from production system implementations for supporting
- real-time process control?
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- How do response time restrictions influence the choice of match algorithm?
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- Why implicit parallelism has not yielded usable results for production systems?
- Is explicit parallelism likely to be any better?
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- Is scaling up of applications likely to increase available and/or achievable
- parallelism?
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- What are the limitations of existing production languages? Are new production
- languages needed? If so, what should they look like?
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- What are the pros and cons of contemporary production systems vis-a-vis other
- paradigms for specific applications that require pattern-directed
- processing? What would be needed to make production systems more suitable
- for these applications?
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- What are the promising new application areas?
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- What are the promising research directions for production systems?
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- This is not an exhaustive list, rather a sample of the questions the workshop
- is expected to discuss.
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- The workshop welcomes both research papers on current work and position papers
- on research directions. The emphasis of the workshop will be on identifying
- potential problems and promising research directions. The papers should be upto
- ten pages (10pt) long. Submission of a paper is not a pre-requisite for
- participation in the workshop. Interested researchers are welcome subject to
- space limitations (30-40 attendees). They should send a short description (upto
- 2 pages) of their relevant research interests. We strongly encourage
- submissions by electronic mail. Latex or postscript submissions are acceptable.
- For hardcopy submissions, please send five copies. Submissions should be sent
- to:
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- Anurag Acharya
- School of Computer Science
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891 USA
- anurag.acharya@cs.cmu.edu
- +1 (412) 268-7555
- Fax: +1 (412) 681-5739
-
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- The workshop is being organized in conjunction with the International Joint
- Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1993, which will be held in Chambery,
- France, between August 29 and September 3. Workshop attendees must register
- for IJCAI-93. Registration fee for the workshop is 300FF (about $60).
-
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- SCHEDULE:
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- Deadline for submissions: April 15, 1993
- Notification of acceptance: May 15, 1993
- Final submissions due: June 15, 1993
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- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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- Anurag Acharya Carnegie Mellon, USA
- Franz Barachini Alcatel-ELIN Research, Austria
- Eric Hanson University of Florida, USA
- Barbara Hayes-Roth Stanford, USA
- Milind Tambe Carnegie Mellon, USA
-