1999 AAAI Spring Symposium on AI in Equipment Maintenance Service &Support

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Artificial Intelligence 
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Dates, times, and places

Attendance at the Symposium is by invitation or by open registration. Invitation is based on submission of an extended abstract or statement of interest. The submission deadline is past. Open registration will be available through AAAI to a limited number of participants in early September on a first-come first-served basis. 

Important upcoming dates: 

• October 30, 1998 - Abstract Submission 
• November 13, 1998 – Invitations issued based on submissions 
• December 15, 1998 – Registration Information available through AAAI 
• January 29, 1999 - Camera-ready papers are due
• February 5, 1999 – Invited participants registration deadline 
• February 26, 1999 - Final (open) registration deadline
• March 22-24, 1999 – Symposium held in "History 303" 

Why a symposium now?

Who should attend? 
The symposium will explore AI techniques that can be developed and deployed within a very short time frame. We expect these technologies to enable significnt advances in equipment service applications. Several communities will draw useful insights from the symposium: 

• AI Researchers – Researchers will be introduced to a fertile new application area for AI technologies for segmentation, classification, prediction, and decision making. They will hear about the key technical challenges facing existing application users, and discuss what technical advances would be most useful. Researchers will also be able to guide and inform future research directions and funding programs. 
• Potential users of equipment service – Users will hear about existing and emerging AI technologies with the ability to radically transform current equipment service applications. In addition, they will be able to pinpoint key technical problems for AI researchers to address. 
• Software developers – Developers will hear assessments of the current state of the art for many relevant technologies, helping them to evaluate which technologies to incorporate into future products. In addition, they will be able to make important contacts in the research and applications communities. 
• Research managers – Managers will be introduced to a technical and application domain ripe for revolutionary advances. 

Format

• Tutorial: A short tutorial will be held during the first half of the second day. It will present the conceptual background of Soft Computing Techniques relevant for equipment service, focusing on unique aspects of the task. It will demonstrate how different AI techniques come together to tackle specific problems where one technique alone would have a hard time. Several examples will be shown. 
• Short papers: Individual participants will present papers describing their current technical work. The organizing committee will attempt to divide papers evenly between purely technical papers and papers describing applications that have stretched the limits of current technologies. Each paper will be brief (about 15 minutes) with 10-15 minutes for discussion and questions after each paper. 
• Working sessions: Interspersed with the papers, the symposium organizers will moderate two sets of working sessions. The topics will be finalized during the morning sessions to reflect the perceived interest of the audience. Proposed topics inlcude Modeling Issues, Diagnostic Information Fusion, Adaptation/ Reconfigurability and other write-in topics. The second set of working sessions on Tuesday has a similar policy. Proposed topics are Internet Supported Diagnosis, Diagnostic Ease of Authoring / Ease of Use, Autonomous Systems, Maintenance Planning and other write-in topics. In either case, the results will be presented after those work-outs. Each working session will run for 60 minutes. 

Proceedings 
The Proceedings can be obtained through AAAI Press. Please refer to  "AI in Equipment Maintenance Service and Support", 1999 AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report SS-99-04, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 1999. 

Abstracts must have been submitted by October 30, 1998 to one of the organizers. The length of an abstract should not exceed 200 words. Upon acceptance, submit to the symposium chair by January 29: 

• the camera-ready paper (8 pages max.). Details on formatting suggestions can be found here.
• the permission to distribute form.
• audio/vidual requests other than an overhead projector.

Kai Goebel
Symposium Chair, AAAI Spring Symposium
GE Corporate Research & Development
Information Technology Lab
K1-5C4A
One Research Circle
Niskayuna, NY 12309
USA

• an abstract
• an electronic version of the paper

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       Investigation of the XYZ Algorithm  
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About AAAI 

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