<div>PLEEEEEASE TAKE ME OFF YOUR EMAIL LIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div> <div>PLEEEEEASE TAKE ME OFF YOUR EMAIL LIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div> <div>PLEEEEEASE TAKE ME OFF YOUR EMAIL LIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div> <div>PLEEEEEASE TAKE ME OFF YOUR EMAIL LIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div> <div>PLEEEEEASE TAKE ME OFF YOUR EMAIL LIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div> <div>PLEEEEEASE TAKE ME OFF YOUR EMAIL LIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<BR><BR><B><I>"Kevin B. Cohen" <kevin.cohen@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">There will also be a workshop on software testing, engineering, and<BR>quality assurance at ACL 2008 this year. Watch this space for the<BR>CFP.<BR><BR>Kevin<BR><BR>On Jan 21, 2008 7:26 PM, <CYNTHIA.THOMPSON@US.PWC.COM>wrote:<BR>><BR>> AAAI-08 Workshop on<BR>> What Went Wrong and Why: Lessons
from AI Research and Applications<BR>><BR>> CALL FOR PAPERS<BR>> Submissions due: April 7th, 2008<BR>><BR>><BR>> Bugs, glitches, and failures shape research and development by charting the<BR>> boundaries of technology; they identify errors, reveal assumptions, and<BR>> expose design flaws. When a system works we focus on its input/output<BR>> behavior, but when a problem occurs, we examine the mechanisms that<BR>> generated behavior to account for the flaw and hypothesize corrections. This<BR>> process produces insight and forces incremental refinement. In a sense,<BR>> failures are the mother of necessity, and therefore the grandmother of<BR>> invention.<BR>><BR>> Unfortunately, bugs, glitches, and failures are rarely mentioned in academic<BR>> discourse. Their role in informing design and development is essentially<BR>> lost. The first What Went Wrong and Why workshop during the 2006 AAAI spring<BR>> symposium [1,2]
started to address this gap by inviting AI researchers and<BR>> system developers to discuss their most revealing bugs, and relate problems<BR>> to lessons learned. Revised versions of the articles and the invited talks<BR>> will be published as a special issue of the AI-Magazine in Summer 2008 [3].<BR>><BR>> The first workshop clarified that WWWW experiences can be studied at three<BR>> different levels of abstraction: the Strategic (AI research in general),<BR>> Tactical (research area) and Execution (project or implementation) levels.<BR>> An additional category turned out to be the study of how, why and when<BR>> failures occur in the first place.<BR>><BR>> The second workshop will continue our analysis of failures in research. In<BR>> addition to examining the links between failure and insight, we would like<BR>> to determine if there is a hidden structure behind our tendency to make<BR>> mistakes that can be utilized to
provide guidance in research.<BR>><BR>> As such, we invite researchers to submit papers (8 pages in AAAI format)<BR>> connecting problems they have encountered to lessons learned on the tactical<BR>> or execution level. We would also welcome papers on the study of failures<BR>> themselves. We encourage authors to elaborate on what they believe was the<BR>> source cause of the failure, how the problem helped them arrive at a better<BR>> solution, and to suggest a broader categorization of failures and how to<BR>> utilize them. Papers should be submitted to<BR>> submission@whatwentwrongandwhy.org<BR>><BR>> Important Dates<BR>> * Submissions Due: April 7, 2008<BR>> * Notifications: April 21, 2008<BR>> * Final Papers Due: May 5, 2008<BR>> * Workshop: July 13 or 14, 2008 (TBA) in Chicago at AAAI 2008<BR>><BR>><BR>> Chairs: Mehmet H. Göker and Daniel Shapiro<BR>> Mehmet H. Göker, PricewaterhouseCoopers, CAR,
(mehmet.goker@us.pwc.com)<BR>> Daniel Shapiro, CSLI/Stanford University, & Applied Reactivity, Inc.<BR>> (dgs@stanford.edu)<BR>><BR>> Program Committee<BR>><BR>> David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory)<BR>> Ralph Bergmann (Universität Trier, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik II)<BR>> Carl Hewitt (MIT EECS - emeritus)<BR>> Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (University Pierre et Marie Curie, LIP6)<BR>> David Leake (Indiana University, Computer Science Department)<BR>> Doug Lenat (Cycorp Inc.)<BR>> Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (CSIC Artificial Intelligence Research Institute)<BR>> Edwina Rissland (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Computer<BR>> Science)<BR>> Ted Senator (SAIC)<BR>><BR>> References:<BR>><BR>> [1] Shapiro, D., Göker, M. (eds.), 'What Went Wrong and Why: Lessons<BR>> From AI Research and Applications', Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium,<BR>> March 27-29, 2006, Stanford, CA. Technical Report
SS-06-08, AAAI Press,<BR>> Menlo Park, 2006.<BR>><BR>> [2] A. Abdecker, R. Alami, C Baral, T. Bickmore, E. Durfee, T. Fong,<BR>> M. Göker, N. Green, M. Liberman, C. Lebiere, J. Martin, G. Mentzas, D.<BR>> Musliner, N. Nicolov, I. Nourbakhsh, F. Salvetti, D. Shapiro, D.<BR>> Schreckenghost, A. Sheth, L. Stojanovic, V. SunSpiral, R. Wray, "AAAI Spring<BR>> Symposium Reports" , AI Magazine, VOl 27, Nr. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 107-112,<BR>> American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Menlo Park, 2006<BR>><BR>> [3] Shapiro, D. Göker, M. (eds.), 'Special Issue on What Went Wrong<BR>> and Why", AI Magazine, Vol. 29, Number 2, Summer 2008 (to appear)<BR>><BR>> _________________________________________________________________<BR>> The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to<BR>> which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged<BR>> material. Any review, retransmission,
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