CFP: 1st Intl Workshop on New Trends in Real-Time AI

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

             CALL FOR PAPERS
       1st International Workshop on
 New Trends in Real-Time Artificial Intelligence
               (NTeRTAIn)
   (To be held in conjunction with ECAI 2006)
    http://ntertain.gti-ia.dsic.upv.es/

CONCEPT:

The aim of this workshop is to establish a common ground where
researches with interests in Real-Time Systems (RTS), Artificial
Intelligence (AI) or Real-Time Artificial Intelligence (RTAI) may
share their knowledge and experiences regarding the development of
architectures, systems, and applications dealing with real-time
environments.

The control of time-constrained environments can be achieved by
applying several different methodologies, most of them within the
RTS domain. The introduction of AI techniques is specially useful
when environments are complex, uncertain, and/or not completely
specified---in general, when certain degree of 'intelligence' is
expected from the application. However, AI technologies are not
trivial to use in this context, specially because intelligent
algorithms tend to have unbounded costs.

On the other hand, when AI theories are applied to realistic
problems in the real-world domain (logistics, transportation,
utility management, etc.), real-time processing requirements usually
show up. Such requirements can be fulfilled by applying well-known
results from the RTS field, although normally these results have to
be first adapted to the AI domain.

Although RTAI should be a natural meeting point between AI and RTS,
in several occasions researchers from these two fields use basic
terminology with different semantics. For example, from the
Real-Time Systems perspective, "real-world", "on-line" and
"real-time" are different topics, but they can be used as synonyms
in current AI literature. Another example is the concept of
"real-time environment", which is normally associated with quick
responses in AI, whilst it implies explicit time restrictions in
RTS.

In this context, we would like to establish a forum where any
researcher with experience in applying some intelligent approach to
a real-time environment will be able to share his/her experience and
results with researchers with similar problems but different
approaches and backgrounds.

SCOPE:

The scope of this workshop includes, but it is not restricted to,
the following topics:
 - real-time issues: predictability, scheduling, etc., applied onto
   (or using) AI techniques.
 - AI issues: in general, any application of AI technology to a
   time-restricted problem: RTAI, Real-Time Agents, Real-Time
   Multi-agent Systems, etc.
- infrastructures: architectures, middleware, operating systems,
   developing tools, etc. related to RTAI.
- application of AI techniques on realistic systems: robotics,
   industrial applications, etc.

SUBMISSION:
We are welcoming and encouraging the submission of original,
non-published papers, regarding either new developments in the
workshop topic or position papers summing up past and future
research & development lines in the field.
Papers should be written in English, must not exceed 12 pages, and
formatted according to the ECAI 2006 style described in
http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/images/ecai2006.pdf (LATEX users:
http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/images/ecai2006.zip).

The proposed papers should be submitted by means of the "Paper
submission" section of the workshop webpage
(http://ntertain.gti-ia.dsic.upv.es/).

ATTENDANCE TO THE WORKSHOP:
The First New Trends in Real-Time Artificial Intelligence is a one
day workshop and it will be held in Riva del Garda on August 28th,
immediately prior to the start of the 17th European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence. Attendance to the workshop will be limited.
At least one author of each paper is required to attend the workshop
and present the work.

PROCEEDINGS:
Printed proceedings will be available at the workshop.
Afterward, a selection of workshop papers will be extended and newly
revised in order to be published in a special issue of the
"Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence" (EAAI)
journal.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission deadline: April 15th, 2006
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 10th, 2006
Camera-ready paper submission: May 24th, 2006
Workshop date: August 28th, 2006

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Botti, Vicente J. (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Carrascosa, Carlos (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Garc=EDa-Fornes, Ana (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Terrasa, Andres (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (incomplete):
Botti, Vicente J. (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Burns, Alan (University of York, UK)
Carrascosa, Carlos (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Crespo, Alfons (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Decker, Keith S. (University of Delaware, USA)
Doherty, Patrick (Link=F6ping University, Sweden)
Durfee, Edmund H. (University of Michigan, USA)
Garc=EDa-Fornes, Ana (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Goddard, Steve (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Gonz=E1lez Harbour, Michael (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
Gutmann, Jens-Steffen (Sony Corporation, Japan)
Lesser, Victor (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Musliner, David J. (Honeywell Laboratories, USA)
Raja, Anita (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Terrasa, Andres (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)

More information at: 1st NTeRTAIn Workshop NTeRTAIn webpage:
http://ntertain.gti-ia.dsic.upv.es/

* Vicente J. Botti
* Departamento de Sistemas Informaticos y Computacion
* Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
* P.O. Box 22012
* 46071 Valencia (SPAIN)
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