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AILog 2010 : Artificial Intelligence and Logistics - Workshop at ECAI 2010 | |||||||||||||||
Link: http://www.sfbtr8.spatial-cognition.de/ailog-2010/ | |||||||||||||||
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== 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ==
-------------------------------------------------- "Artificial Intelligence and Logistics (AILog)" Workshop at ECAI 2010 Lisbon, Portugal, August 17, 2010 http://www.sfbtr8.spatial-cognition.de/ailog-2010/ -------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES May 11, 2010 (extended) Paper submission deadline June 7, 2010 Notification of acceptance June 21, 2010 Camera-ready papers due August 17, 2010 Workshop at ECAI 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOTIVATION Logistics is concerned with the organization and control of processes in space and time in order to transport or manufacture goods and the coordination of the resulting flows of material and information, as well as monetary flows. Complexity and dynamics of logistic networks have reached a level that more and more prevents the processes from being entirely observable and fully controllable, caused by, e.g., a globalized economy, a shift from buyer's to seller's markets, and shorter product life cycles. Thus, recent trends in logistics point towards solutions with distributed and self-organizing processes. Such logistic networks are characterized by a wide variety of heterogeneous properties, constraints, and requirements: temporal (very quickly, just in time), economic (low cost, given budget), physical (smooth, secure travel), informational (public, secure data), environmental (low energy, ecology-preserving). Different qualities or modalities need different representations; transitions between different subsystems require interfaces between different representations, transformations of processes, and methods for their selection; knowledge about situations and goals is crucial for the selection of the most suitable strategy; etc. This manifold set of demands and the emerging uncertainty requires the inclusion of methods from artificial intelligence and cognitive science. AIL-2010 addresses the use of these AI methods in modern logistics. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop addresses researchers from logistics that utilize and develop AI approaches as well as researchers from AI that apply their work in logistics or see possibilities to connect to logistic problems or methods. We encourage contributions from the following research and application areas: Possible Research Areas: Coordination in Space and Time Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Multi Modal Interaction Cognitive Robotics Cognitive Modeling Spatial and Temporal Reasoning Ontologies Logic and Constraint Programming Ambient Intelligence Planning and Scheduling Multi Agent Systems Data Mining Case-Based Reasoning Machine Learning Human-machine Interfaces ... Possible Application Areas: Transport logistics Production planning and control Assembly and disassembly Process modeling and monitoring Process planning Intelligent manufacturing systems Production Scheduling Inventory organization and optimization Automated inspection and quality control Supply chain management Traffic management ... A special focus will be given to applying AI techniques in order to integrate and interact with humans within the logistic process, may they be users, system designers, analysts, or other stakeholders. Intelligent logistic systems will instruct users; they communicate and explain their situation and reasoning upon demand; they notify managers about anomalies or in case of an emergency; they engage in clarification dialogs upon misunderstandings. The better the human interface becomes, the more we expect logistic scenarios to become re-populated by users such that shared human-machine scenarios may benefit from human expertise and intelligence while operators are relieved from tedious automated routine. This way we move from a de-centralized view of cooperating autonomous units to an "emancipated" society of logistic units interacting among themselves and with human agents. We explicitly encourage submissions that tackle this challenge. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted papers must be in PDF format and follow the ECAI style guidelines. Technical papers must not exceed a length of 6 pages. We also welcome the submission of position papers or papers describing work in progress as short papers. Short papers must not exceed a length of 3 pages. If in doubt, submit a technical paper. For submitting your paper, please use the Easychair online submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ail2010 . The paper submission deadline is May 7. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Papers selected for presentation at the workshop will appear in the ECAI workshop proceedings. Workshop participants are required to register for the ECAI main conference. For more details, visit the workshop homepage: http://www.sfbtr8.spatial-cognition.de/ailog-2010/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITEE (tentative) Ana Bazzan (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Susanne Biundo (University of Ulm, Germany) Juergen Branke (University of Warwick, UK) Stefan Kirn (University of Hohenheim, Germany) Martin Lauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) Wilfried Sihn (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) Ingo Timm (University of Frankfurt, Germany) Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht University, Netherlands) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS Kerstin Schill Collaborative Research Center "Spatial Cognition", Bremen, Germany Bernd Scholz-Reiter Research Center "Intelligent Production and Logistics Systems", Bremen, Germany Lutz Frommberger Collaborative Research Center "Spatial Cognition", Bremen, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT For any inquiries about the workshop refer to Lutz Frommberger (lutz@sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de). |
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