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Maria Gini
Amendment to the SIGMAN Charter
| In favor | 22 |
| Againts | 0 |
| Abstain | 0 |
| Position | Votes |
|---|---|
| Academic Co-Chair (2 year term) | |
| Stephen Smith | 21 |
| blank | 1 |
| Industrial Co-Chair (1 year term): | |
| Mark Boddy | 17 |
| Bernard Nadel | 4 |
| blank | 1 |
| Member-at-large (2 and 1 year term): | |
| Leslie Interrante | 14 |
| Dana Nau | 11 |
| James McDowell | 7 |
| Benchmark Secretary (1 year term): | |
| Barry Fox | 22 |
| Newsletter Secretary (2 year term): | |
| Maria Gini | 22 |
We have replaced this paragraph:
A MATERIALS AND DESIGN AREA-CHAIR, an OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTION AREA-CHAIR, a DISTRIBUTION AND FIELD SERVICE AREA-CHAIR, and an ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT AREA-CHAIR each of whom shall be elected to a two year term of office immediately prior to an annual business meeting. The duties of these AREA-CHAIRPERSONS shall include actively identifying the problems of interest in their title domain, actively identifying the SIGMAN members interested in these problems, organizing and executing workshops on the problems for the members, and representing their constituency in the SIGMAN COUNCIL.
by this new paragraph:
TWO MEMBER-AT-LARGE OFFICERS each of whom shall be elected to a two year term of office immediately prior to an annual business meeting. The duties of these officers shall include actively identifying problems of interest to the members, organizing workshops and other activities, and promoting cooperation among experts and practitioners in AI and Manufacturing.
The current executive committee of SIGMAN is as follows: Academic Co-Chair: Steve Smith The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891 phone: (412) 268-8811 fax: (412) 621-5477 e-mail: sfs@ri.cmu.edu
Industrial Co-Chair: .LP Mark Boddy Honeywell SRC MN 65-2100 3660 Technology Drive Minneapolis, MN 55418 phone: (612) 951-7438 e-mail: boddy@src.honeywell.com
Members-at-Large: Leslie Interrante MS 0722 PO Box 5800 Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, NM 87185 phone: (505) 844-0670 email: LDINTER@sandia.gov
Dana Nau Department of Computer Science University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 phone: (301) 405-2684 fax: (301) 405-6707 e-mail: nau@cs.umd.edu
Benchmark Secretary: Barry Fox McDonnell Douglas Aerospace 13100 Space Center Blvd. Houston, Tx 77062 voice: 713-244-4571 email: fox@pat.mdc.com
Newsletter Secretary: Maria Gini University of Minnesota 4-192 EE/CSci Building 200 Union St SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 phone: (612) 625-5582 fax: (612) 625-0572 e-mail: gini@cs.umn.edu
Case-Based Reasoning. Experiences, Lessons, and Future Directions, David B. Leake (ed.), AAAI Press/The MIT Press. 1996. 420 pages. $40.00. ISBN 0-262-62110-X. The book contains a collection of seventeen papers on case-based reasoning. The papers cover a good variety of examples for multiple domains and tasks, including design, education, legal reasoning, planning, decision support, and software quality control. Indexing, retrieval, situation assessment, case adaptation, and evaluation are covered mostly through examples and descriptions of systems. An extensive bibliography at the end of the book includes a large amount of current and classical references. Most of the writers are well known researchers in academia. but some of the papers describe industrial applications at places such as Lockeed Martin Palo Alto Research Lab, Sony Computer Science Lab in Tokyo, and NEC Corporation. The book includes an introduction that puts case-based reasoning in context, a nice tutorial (adapted from an earlier book by Janet Kolodner), and speculations on the future of case-based reasoning and AI.
An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms, Melanie Mitchell, The MIT Press. 1996. 205 pages. $30.00. ISBN 0-262-13316-4. The book is a well written and easy to follow introduction to genetic algorithms. The book focuses on fundamental issues more than on applications, and provides a solid presentation of the major issues and theoretical foundations, together with some useful implementation notes. The book includes thought and computer exercises at the end of each chapter. The book presents mostly material on using genetic algorithms as problem solvers, but it shows also how genetic algorithms can be used as simplified scientific models that can answer questions about nature. Genetic programming is briefly covered, and so are evolving cellular automata, methods for data analysis and prediction, and using genetic algorithms to evolve neural networks. A full chapter is devote to the theoretical foundations, something very important for anyone interested in obtaining a deeper understanding of the behaviors of genetic algorithms.
Special issue on "Intelligent design and operation of advanced
manufacturing systems" of the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.
Contact F. Frank Chen,
Special issue on "Petri nets applications in advanced manufacturing
systems" of the International Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Contact F. Frank Chen,
Special Issue on
"Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles and Autonomous Robots" of
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Journal
Due to the reduced costs of image acquisition devices and to the increasing
computational power of current computer systems, Artificial Vision has
recently become a very popular method to sense the surrounding environment.
A large number of research prototypes of vision-based autonomous systems have
been developed worldwide by academic, industrial, and military institutions,
each relying on different techniques.
The special issue will be published in February 1998.
Topics covered in the special issue may include, but are not limited to, the
following:
Active and Real-Time Vision,
Object Recognition and Scene Interpretation,
Sensing of Unknown Environments,
Vision-based Real-time Robot and Vehicle Navigation,
Vision-based Guidance of Unmanned Vehicles,
Intelligent Sensors and Architectures for Low-level Vision,
Description of Research Prototypes
Authors are invited to submit application-oriented papers dealing with the
various aspects of autonomous navigation, and how artificial intelligence
techniques can help this task. Send five copies of the complete manuscript,
before March 1st, 1997, to:
Alberto Broggi,
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione,
Universita` di Parma,
I-43100 Parma, Italy,
Fax: +39 - 521 - 90 5723
Email: broggi@CE.UniPR.IT
Detailed instructions are available at
http://www.ce.unipr.it/eaai
or from the
Editorial Office, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence,
Institute for Industrial Information Technology Ltd, Innovation Centre,
Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
(email: cep.journal@swan.ac.uk; fax: +44 (0) 1792 29-5811).
Fourth ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering:
Research and Applications,
August 20-22, 1997, Troy, Michigan, U.S.A.
The focus of the conference is on
the use of integrated enterprise processes, collaborative work, information
sharing, co-locating resources, and integrated frameworks and tools.
Information is available at the Web page
1997 ASME Design for Manufacturing Symposium
September 14-17, 1997, in Sacramento, California.
The theme of the symposium is "Virtual Design and Prototyping."
A conference announcement is available at
http://smartcad.me.wisc.edu/conf97.html
Papers Chair:
Dr. Jai Menon,
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,
P. O. Box 704,
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598.
Phone: (914) 784-6942, Fax: (914) 784-7667,
e-mail: menon@watson.ibm.com
Program Chair:
Prof. Rajit Gadh,
University of Wisconsin,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Madison, WI 53706.
Phone: (608) 262-9058, Fax: (608) 265-2316,
gadh@engr.wisc.edu
High quality papers in this symposium will be recommended for submission
to the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, ASME Transactions.
Papers related to research and industrial practice in
the following areas are solicited:
Assembly Modeling,
CAD and Planning Integration,
Computer Supported Collaboration / Cooperation in Design for Manufacture,
Design for Remanufacture / Service,
Design Synthesis / Generation,
Engineering Analysis for Design,
Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing,
Integrated Design,
Network-Centric CAD,
Practical Issues in DFM,
Virtual Reality in Design and Manufacturing.
Submit the papers by January 15, 1997 to the area chairs.
The list of area chairs is available on the web page.
Final papers are due at ASME Headquarters by May 1, 1997.
Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM'97),
June 16-20, 1997, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
The conference will cover a wide spectrum of issues, including
industry applications, system integration, actuators and sensors,
intelligent control, robotics, manufacturing, motion
control, vibration and noise control, micro devices and
opto-electronic systems, automotive systems,
intelligent systems and other applications as
well as new frontier fields of intelligent mechatronics
such as a fusion of mechanical systems, communication technology, and
artificial intelligence, etc.
Information is available at the Web page
http://dfs.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/AIM97/
Submit six copies of full manuscript (no more than 6 pages, 2-4 pages are
acceptable) to the contact person nearest to you by January 15,
1997.
Include author name, affiliation, address, phone/fax numbers and e-mail address
on the first page of the manuscript.
Use IEEE format (see
http://www.ieee.org/pubs/authors.html
for instructions).
The final manuscript should be submitted (by April 15, 1997)
as a postscript file because the proceedings will be published in CD-ROM.
Prof. Ren Luo,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
North Carolina State University,
Box 7911, Raleigh, NC 27695-7911, USA
Fax: +1-919-515-5523
Prof. Hannes Bleuler,
Microtechnique,
EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse
Fax: +41-21-693-3866
Prof. Kouhei Ohnishi,
Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University
3-14-1, Hiyoshi, Kohoku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223 Japan
Fax: +81-45-562-7625
A special issue of IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics covering the
multidisciplinary area of Mechatronics in Manufacturing will be published
in June 1997. The special issue will focus on all aspects of intelligent
mechatronic systems applicable to product development and manufacturing
processes. The manuscripts should be sent to:
Dr. Kok-Meng Lee,
IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics - Special Issues on Mechatronics in
Manufacturing,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0405 Fax:+1-404-894-9342
Eleventh International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning,
June 3-6, 1997, Il Palazzone, Cortona, Italy.
The main goal of Qualitative Reasoning research is
the development of methods and algorithms for the determination of the
qualitative behavior of incompletely specified systems.
The integration of QR methods and techniques with traditional mathematical
modeling enables the construction of tools which automate a broad spectrum
of the reasoning skills that are exhibited by human experts when performing
a problem-solving activity.
Papers are invited on any area relevant to QR, including (but not limited to):
QR techniques,
Knowledge acquisition,
Task-level reasoning,
QR in applications,
Relation to other techniques,
QR methods in other disciplines,
Methodological issues.
Submit six copies of full papers (no more than 5000 words,
excluding references and abstract) or abstracts (no more that 1000
words, excluding references) to the workshop chair by IJanuary 31\fP.
For electronic submission, send title and abstract by January 15 and then
ftp paper by January 31 following the instructions you will receive.
Liliana Ironi, Istituto di Analisi Numerica (IAN-CNR),
via Abbiategrasso 209, 27100 PAVIA (ITALY),
Phone: (39) 382 - 529600,
Fax: (39) 382 - 529566,
e-mail: liliana@supers1.ian.pv.cnr.it
Information on the workshop is available at
http://www.ian.pv.cnr.it/~qr97/ .
More information on the QR research community is available at
http://ai-www.aist.nara.ac.jp/doc/qphysics/ .
1997 IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning
(ISATP'97)P: Towards Flexible and Agile Assembly and Manufacturing,
August 7-9, 1997, Marina del Rey, California
Assembly and task planning plays a key role for integrating design and
manufacturing.
The symposium will provide an international forum
which draws together researchers working on different aspects of the
problem of assembly and task planning in the robotics and
manufacturing context. Participants will enjoy high quality of focused
and in-depth discussions on the subject matters of their interest with
the single tracks dedicated respectively to assembly and manufacturing
planning areas.
Papers are solicited for all aspect of theories,
applications, and case studies related to assembly and task planning
as applied to robotics and manufacturing.
Submit 4 copies of full paper (accepted papers will be in
IEEE format limited to 6 pages) by February 14, 1997 to:
For Assembly:
Dr. Daniel Whitney, Program Chair,
MIT Room E40-243,
77 Mass Ave.,
Cambridge, MA 02139.
Phone: (617)253-6045
Email:dwhitney@mit.edu
For Task Planning:
Dr. Damian Lyions,
Philips Laboratories,
Philips Electronics North America Corporation,
Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510.
Phone: (914) 945-6444 / FAX: (914) 945-6141
Email: dml@philabs.philips.com
The Second World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology,
December 1-4, 1996, Marriott Hotel at the Capitol, Austin, Texas.
http://WWW.fernuni-hagen.de/DVT/Workshops/IDPT.html
International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems,
December 16-18, 1996,
National Centre for Software Technology, Bombay, India.
For information contact:
KBCS-96 Secretariat,
National Centre for Software Technology,
Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9,
Juhu, Bombay 400 049, India.
Phone: +91 (22) 620 1606
Fax: +91 (22) 621 0139
kbcs@konark.ncst.ernet.in
http://konark.ncst.ernet.in/~kbcs/kbcs96.html .
Creative Collaboration in Virtual Communities,
14-15 February 1997, Key Centre of Design Computing, University of Sydney.
For information visit
http://www.arch.su.edu.au/kcdc/
or email to vc97@arch.usyd.edu.au.
AAAI 1997 Spring Symposium Series,
March 24-26, 1997, Stanford University, California. Contact: SSS-97,
AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025; 415-328-3123;
FAX: 415-321-4457; email: sss@aaai.org; URL:
http://www.aaai.org .
EUROPIA`97, Sixth International Conference on the
Application/Implications of Computer
Networking in Architecture, Construction, Design, Civil Engineering and
Urban Planning,
2-3 April 1997, Department of Architecture,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH1 1JZ Scotland.
For information visit the web site
http://www.caad.ed.ac.uk/europia/
or contact Richard Coyne, University of Edinburgh, richard@caad.ed.ac.uk.
American Nuclear Society Seventh Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote
Systems,
27 April-1 May 1997, Augusta, Georgia.
For information visit the web site
http://www.srs.gov/general/news-notes/ans/robotic_topical.html
Models and Applications for Design,
Special Track to be held during
the Tenth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium
(FLAIRS'97)
May 10-14th, 1997, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
For information visit the Web site
http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~prabhaka/MAD-Track.html
or contact Sattiraju Prabhakar, University of Technology, Sydney,
prabhakar@socs.uts.edu.au.
International Conference on Integrated and Sustainable Industrial
Production (ISIP'97), May 14-16, 1997, Lisbon, Portugal.
Contact: ISIP'97 / 6 PPP/AC, Ordem dos Engenheiros,
Av. Antonio Augusto de Aguiar 3 - D, 1097 LISBOA CODEX, PORTUGAL.
Tel. (351-1-) 3562438; Fax (351-1-) 3524632
Fifth IASTED International Conference Robotics and Manufacturing,
May 28-31, 1997 Cancun, Mexico.
For information visit the Web site
http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~warwodad/
iasted.html
or email to iasted@cadvision.com.
Genetic Programming 1997 Conference, (tentative dates)
July 13-16, 1997, Stanford University, California.
In cooperation with the ACM/SIGART, and AAAI.
Contact: GP-97, AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive,
Menlo Park, CA 94025; 415-328-3123; FAX: 415-321-4457; email: gp@aaai.org;
http://www.aaai.org .
or
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/-koza/
AAAI-97, Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
August 27-31 1997, Providence, Rhode Island. Contact: AAAI-97,
445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025; 415-328-3123; FAX: 415-321-4457;
email: ncai@aaai.org; URL:
http://www.aaai.org .
IAAI-97, Ninth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of
Artificial Intelligence,
August 28-30, 1997, collocated with AAAI-97, Providence, Rhode Island.
Contact: IAAI-97, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025;
415-328-3123; FAX: 415-321-4457; email: iaai@aaai.org;
URL:
http://www.aaai.org .
KDD-97, Third International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining,
(tentative dates and location) August 15-17, 1997, Newport Beach, California.
Contact: KDD-97, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025;
415-328-3123; FAX: 415-321-4457; email: kdd@aaai.org;
URL:
http://www.aaai.org .
AAAI 1997 Fall Symposium Series,
November 7-9, 1997, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Contact: FSS-97, AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025;
415-328-3123; FAX: 415-321-4457; email: fss@aaai.org;
URL:
http://www.aaai.org .
Call for Participation
International Symposium on Automotive Technology and Automation.
Special Session on
Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles and Autonomous Robots,
June 16-19, 1997, Florence, Italy.
This special session will provide a forum for users,
researchers, and developers of robotics and machine vision systems
with special emphasis on automotive applications.
Papers are solicited on all major aspects of machine vision for
autonomous agents, including:
Image Segmentation, Image Sequence Analysis, Active and Real-Time Vision,
Low-level Vision, Object Recognition, Pattern Analysis,
Vision-based Real-time Robot and Vehicle Navigation,
Massively Parallel Architectures for Low-level Vision,
Intelligent Sensors for Low-level Vision,
Vision-based Guidance of Unmanned Vehicles,
Hardware Neural Solutions, Applications.
Submit a preliminary abstract (title and summary - 150 words) by
October 31. Submit 6 copies of full paper (8
single-spaced typewritten pages including title page, abstract,
references, and diagrams) to the conference secretariat by
December 20, 1996.
Each paper must have a tile page with title, full name
of all authors, complete address(es) including
affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and Email.
No email or fax submissions.
Authors of the best papers may be asked to submit an extended version
of their papers for possible inclusion in a Special Issue of the International
Journal "Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence".
Further information can be found via WWW at
http://www.ce.unipr.it/eaai .
Papers not submitted to the ISATA conference can be considered for
publication in the Special-Issue: in this case the deadline for the
submission of full papers is March 1st, 1997.
For more information contact:
ISATA Secretariat,
32A Queen Street, Croydon, London, CRO 1SY, UK,
Phone: +44 181 681 3069
Fax: +44 181 686 1490
Email: 100270.1263@compuserve.com
http://WWW.spincom.com/isata
http://www.secs.oakland.edu/SECS_prof_orgs/ISPE/CE97.htm
To contribute submit a full paper or extended abstract (no more than
10 single spaced pages) to the conference General Chair, by
January 1, 1997 (preferably by E-mail in plain ASCII or PostScript).
Final camera-ready papers must be received by April 15, 1997.
Conference General Chair:
Dr. Subra Ganesan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, U.S.A.
E-Mail: ganesan@oakland.edu,
Tel: (810) 370 2206, Fax: (810) 370 4625
Announcements
4th International Conference and Exhibition on Information Systems,
Logistics Integration, Concurrent Engineering, Electronic Commerce '96
(ILCE'96),
October 14-17, 1996, Paris, France.
For information contact: ILCE Initiatives, 87/89 rue du Governeur General
Eboue, 92130 Issy-les-Molineaux, France.
phone: +33 1. 40 93 46 43
phone: +33 1. 40 93 03 33