[Corpora-List] CFP: AAAI Workshop on What Went Wrong and Why

Tue Jan 22 18:20:26 UTC 2008

There will also be a workshop on software testing, engineering, and
quality assurance at ACL 2008 this year.  Watch this space for the
CFP.

Kevin

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