2008 AAAI Spring Symposium Series

Call for Participation 2008 AAAI Spring Symposium Series

March 26–28, 2008 Stanford University, Stanford, California

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artiﬁcial Intelligence In cooperation with Stanford University

[email protected] www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/ An informal reception will be held on Deadlines Common to All Symposia Wednesday, March 26. A general plenary session, in which the highlights of each sympo- ❏ October 5, 2007: Submission Deadline sium will be presented, will be held on Thurs- ❏ November 2, 2007: Notification of Acceptance day, March 27. ❏ January 25, 2008: Final Electronic Camera-Ready Copy Due Symposia will be limited to between forty and sixty participants. Each participant will be expected to attend a single symposium. Work- ing notes or AAAI technical reports will be prepared and distributed to participants in each symposium. In addition to invited participants, a limited number of interested par- ties will be able to register in each symposium on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration information will be available in December. To obtain registration information, write to: AAAI Spring Symposium Series 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025-3442 USA Voice: 650-328-3123 Fax: 650-321-4457 [email protected] www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/

THE ASSOCIATION FOR the Advancement of Submission Date Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University’s Computer Science De- Submissions for the symposia are due on Oc- partment, is pleased to present its 2008 tober 5, 2007. Notification of acceptance will Spring Symposium Series, to be held Monday be given by November 2, 2007. Material to be through Wednesday, March 26–28, 2008 at included in the working notes or technical re- Stanford University in Stanford, California. port of the symposium must be received by The topics of the eight symposia in this sym- January 25, 2008. posium series are: Please see the appropriate section in each symposium description for specific submis- ■ AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management sion requirements. ■ Architectures for Intelligent Theory- Based Agents Author Formatting Instructions ■ Creative Intelligent Systems Final electronic camera copy must be submitted in AAAI style. Templates, macros, and for- ■ Emotion, Personality, and Social Behav- matting instructions are located on the AAAI iord web site: ■ Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integra- ■ www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/ tion ■ Social Information Processing ■ Symbiotic Relationships between Se- mantic Web and Knowledge Engineering ■ Using AI to Motivate Greater Participa- tion in Computer Science

2 AAAI SPRING SYMPOSIA Knowledge representation in general, and munities at present. The symposium aims to AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management rule based representations in particular, are bring together researchers and practitioners core areas of artificial intelligence. Research in from all three communities to educate and in- these areas strongly influences standards on spire each other in order to avoid pitfalls and the web like RuleML or the W3C standards provide the basis for synergetic cooperation, OWL and SWRL. Advancing the theoretical with the aim of identifying and advancing the underpinnings and practical impact of these most promising points of cross-fertilization. technologies will be an ongoing challenge. On the other hand, business rules and se- Submissions mantic business process management are growing research and application areas. Busi- Prospective participants are invited to submit ness rules strive to meet the increasing re- research papers (up to 12 pages) or position quirements of transparency and compli- papers (up to 4 pages) papers, in PDF format, ance—making sure that all stakeholders com- via the symposium website. Papers should be ply with all rules and regulations at any place prepared using the format for AAAI Press pro- and any time. Business processes are derived ceedings or technical reports. All submissions from the strategy of an enterprise, and define will be reviewed by the program committee. the requirements of information systems. Here, AI methods such as semantic modeling, Organizing Committee knowledge validation, automated planning and intelligent agents will play ever increas- Knut Hinkelmann (Chair), University of Ap- ing roles. plied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Both areas—business rules and business ([email protected]); Andreas Abec- process management—make use of model ker, FZI Research Center for Information driven knowledge representations, often in Technologies, Karlsruhe ([email protected]); conjunction with application-oriented mod- Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick eling tools. In the last few years, both com- ([email protected]); John Hall, Model munities have realized the potential of Systems Ltd. ([email protected]); knowledge representations with precise se- Martin Hepp, DERI Digital Enterprise Re- mantics. For example, OMG is bringing se- search Institute ([email protected]); mantics into business rules with semantics of Amit Sheth, Wright State University, Ohio business vocabulary and business rules (SB- ([email protected]); Barbara Thönssen, VR), although without making full use of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern benefits and standards already achieved with Switzerland ([email protected]). AI’s semantic technologies in the semantic web and ontology engineering. Similar obser- For More Information vations can be made for other aspects of rule For more information, see the supplementary based systems that have already been ad- symposium website at www.fhnw.ch/iwi/ dressed earlier within AI (for example, rule aibr2008 capture, inferencing, and explanation). While standards for business process defin- ition and execution have been put forward, there is increasing research interest in com- bining business processes with semantic technologies. In particular, the concept of semantic web services promises a new level of agili- ty in process execution where AI can contribute insights and technologies from knowledge representation, reasoning and planning. Generally, the areas of business rules, semantic technologies and business process management are addressed by different com-

AAAI SPRING SYMPOSIA 3 The focus of the Architectures for Intelligent Submission Information Theory-Based Agents symposium is the defin- Please send submissions (up to 6 pages in ition of architectures for intelligent theory- AAAI format) in PDF format to Marcello Bal- based agents. These architectures typically duccini at [email protected]. Please in- comprise languages, knowledge representa- dicate if submitting a full paper or a system tion methodologies, reasoning algorithms, description. and control loops. The motivation of the symposium is the consideration that a number of reasonably Organizing Committee rigorous architectures have been designed, Marcello Balduccini, Texas Tech University; but not implemented, that allow one to prove Chitta Baral, Arizona State University; important properties about the agents and Thomas Eiter, Vienna University of Technolo- their behavior, while other reasonably rigor- gy; Alfredo Gabaldon, National ICT Australia; ous architectures have been implemented Stuart C. Shapiro, University at Buffalo; without attendant proofs about their agents. Francesca Toni, Imperial College London. Unfortunately, there has not yet been much interaction among the groups working on these two classes of architectures. The lack of For More Information communication contributes to slowing the For more information, see the supplementary development of an otherwise interesting and symposium website at krlab.cs.ttu.edu/ ~mar- potentially very important area. We would cy/aita08. like to provide a forum to bring together researchers from these two groups, promote interaction, and stimulate the investigation of the relationships among the different approaches. We solicit papers that: 1. Describe specific architectures; 2. Compare architectures; 3. Survey the state-of-the-art. We particularly welcome papers that include an overview of languages, knowledge representation methodologies, reasoning algorithms, and control loops used in the architectures considered. Papers on the description of specific architectures can be focused on one or more of these topics, but it is rec- ommended that they still include an overview of the architecture. We also welcome 2-page descriptions of working systems. During the symposium, time will be allocated for demonstrations of the systems. Architectures for Intelligent Theory-Based Agents

4 AAAI SPRING SYMPOSIA Creative Intelligent Systems Although it seems clear that creativity plays an ■ Social aspects of creativity, including the re- important role in developing intelligent sys- lationship between individual and social tems, it is less clear how to model, simulate, creativity, diffusion of ideas, collaboration or evaluate creativity in such systems. In oth- and creativity, formation of creative teams, er words, it is often easier to recognize the and simulating creativity in social settings. presence and effect of creativity than to describe or prescribe it. The purpose of this sym- Submissions posium is to explore the synergies between creative cognition and intelligent systems in a Persons interested in contributing to the sym- cross-disciplinary setting that fosters coopera- posium must submit an expression of intent tion both in designing creative systems and in by August 15. Contributions will be accepted creatively designing systems. This focus on cre- based upon reviews of abstracts and final pa- ativity in the context of intelligent systems has pers should be no longer than 8 pages (AAAI the potential for increasing innovation in ex- format). For questions, to express interest in isting fields of research as well as for defining participating (either as an attendee or as a new fields of study, including (1) artificially contributor), or to submit abstracts, email creative systems, (2) computational models [email protected]. of human creativity, and (3) intelligent systems for supporting creativity. Organizing Committee Artificially creative wystems: development of new types of intelligent systems that produce Dan Ventura, Brigham Young University; or simulate creativity using novel approaches Mary Lou Maher, National Science Founda- to reasoning, searching, and representing tion; Simon Colton, Imperial College knowledge. These systems may be inspired by human creativity or by the possibilities of ar- For More Information tificial systems beyond human capabilities. For more information, see the supplementary Computational models of human creativity: symposium website at ax- construct cognitive models of human creativ- on.cs.byu.edu/CreativeAI. ity that can be the basis for computational creativity. Intelligent systems for supporting creativity: produce user interfaces, interaction design, decision support, and data modeling techniques that lead to the development of intelligent assistants that support the user in being more creative. To guide potential participants, the following is a (representative) list of possible topics that could be included in the symposium. ■ Paradigms for understanding creativity, including heuristic search, analogical reasoning, and re-representation; ■ Creativity in different disciplines, including design, art, music, and science; ■ Perspectives on creativity, including models of human behavior, intelligent systems, and creativity-support tools; ■ The role of creativity in learning, innovation, improvisation, and other pursuits; ■ Factors that enhance creativity, including conflict, diversity, knowledge, intuition, re- ward structures, and technologies

AAAI SPRING SYMPOSIA 5 Recent years have witnessed increased interest the necessary knowledge-bases? in modeling emotion and personality in cog- ■ What are the best data sources for architec- nitive, agent and robot architectures. Increas- ture development and validation? ingly, the focus has been on exploring the role ■ How can we validate models and architec- of affective factors in social behavior. These tures? include emotions, moods, personality traits, and attitudes. Researchers and practitioners in ■ What are the emerging standards in affec- areas such as social robotics, game develop- tive artificial characters, robots and sys- ment, affective HCI, and synthetic agents are tems? increasingly recognizing the importance of these affective factors in developing believ- Submissions able, realistic and robust agents, and effective Interested participants should submit papers human-machine interfaces. of not more than 8 pages (AAAI conference The Emotion, Personality, and Social Be- format) to [email protected] by October 5. havior symposium seeks to bring together re- Submitters will receive notification of accep- searchers in diverse relevant areas such as af- tance/rejection by November 2. fective computing, believable agents, game design, robotics, social computing, and the arts, to examine the roles of emotions, Organizing Committee moods, personality traits and attitudes in me- Ian Horswill, Northwestern University diating social behavior among biological and ([email protected]); Eva Hudlicka, Psy- artificial agents. The symposium will provide chometrix Associates ([email protected]); a forum for interdisciplinary interactions ad- Christine Lisetti, Florida International Uni- dressing fundamental issues in modeling af- versity ([email protected]); Juan fect and personality in social behavior. To fa- Velasquez, MIT ([email protected]) cilitate interaction, moderated panels, small working groups, and open discussion will be emphasized, rather than the traditional paper For More Information sessions. For more information, see the supplementary symposium website at psychometrixassoci- Topics ates.com/AAAI08.html Relevant topics include: ■ How do we understand the interactions between emotion, personality, and social behavior? ■ What can they tell us about cognitive / cognitive-affective architecture? Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior Emotion, Personality, ■ How can we make compelling artificial characters? ■ How can we make systems that facilitate social interaction among humans or among humans and artificial characters? ■ How can considerations of affective factors contribute to more effective human-computer interaction in general? ■ How do intrapsychic cognition-emotion interactions manifest at the interpersonal level? ■ Methods and techniques for more system- atic approaches to design ■ What are the best approaches to developing

6 AAAI SPRING SYMPOSIA Semantic Scientiﬁc Knowledge Integration Interest in and requirements for the next gen- ■ Knowledge representation foundations for eration of information technology for science e-science are expanding. E-science has become a grow- ■ Ontologies and ontology environments ing subject of discussion covering topics such aimed at science integration applications as grid computing for science and knowledge- ■ Knowledge provenance / meta data /anno- enhanced scientific data retrieval. Within in- tation for e-science dividual science areas, we are experiencing the emergence of virtual observatories such as ■ AI-based scientific workflow those in astronomy, heliophysics, geophysics ■ AI-supported virtual observatories and solar-terrestrial physics, where virtual dis- ■ AI-supported community and collabora- tributed collections of scientific data are tion for scientific application made available in a transparent manner. The ■ Knowledge-based extraction of scientific goal of such efforts is to provide a scientific data and data models research environment that provides software tools and interfaces to interoperating data ■ AI-based scientific interoperability archives. While initial goals for these efforts ■ Scientific semantic web services may include relatively simple uses of AI tech- ■ AI-supported scientific grid computing niques, the medium and long range goals for ■ Query languages for science these efforts require full scale semantic integration of scientific data, thus they present in- ■ AI-based mapping and merging of scientif- teresting motivations for and tests of artificial ic schemas intelligence techniques. Concurrent with the growing demand for Submissions next generation information technology for Papers or extended abstracts as well as posi- science is a growth in semantic technologies. tion statements are welcome. Email 2-6 page While knowledge representation languages submissions in PDF format to ss- and environments continue to evolve, some [email protected]. Submissions have reached a stable state in terms of reach- will be judged on technical merit and on po- ing recommendation status from standards tential to generate discussion and create com- bodies. This recommendation status has at- munity collaboration. The organizers will tracted the interest of startup companies as prepare a technical report summarizing the well as established companies and a number workshop. of academic and commercial tools and environments are now available for use. In this workshop, we are interested in Chairs bringing together the semantic technologies Deborah L. McGuinness community with the scientific information ([email protected]) and Peter Fox technology community in an effort to build ([email protected]) the general semantic science information community. The workshop has multiple goals including obtaining requirements for AI re- For More Information searchers from the scientific community, in- For more information, see the supplementary forming the computational science commu- symposium website at www.ksl.stanford.edu/ nity of AI research efforts that are ready for peopledlm/sss08 use now or with additional research, and providing a forum for current collaborative efforts to present their work.

Topics Topics of interest include AI-based foundations and applications in scientific integration applications such as the following:

AAAI SPRING SYMPOSIA 7 The label social media has been attached to a Evolution of social media: Under what cir- quickly growing number of web sites, such as cumstances do social media and peer-pro- blogs, wikis, Flickr, and Del.icio.us, whose duction sites become successful? What impli- content is primarily user-driven. In the cations does this have for information-shar- process of using social media sites, users are ing and learning within communities? contributing content and adding metadata in Algorithms: Before we can harness the pow- the form of: (1) tags: content annotation user of the social information processing, we ing free-form keywords; (2) ratings: passive or need new approaches to structured data active evaluation of content; and (3) social analysis, specifically algorithms for synthesiz- networks: where users designate others as ing various types of data and metadata. friends so as to track their activities. The con- nections between content, users and metada- Submissions ta create layers of rich interlinked data that will revolutionize information processing. Papers or extended abstracts of maximum New applications will include personalized length of six pages in AAAI conference paper information discovery; applications that ex- format should be submitted as e-mail attach- ploit the “wisdom of crowds,” for example, ments to [email protected] and gutelius@ emergent semantics and collaborative infor- ai.sri.com. Please see the general symposium mation evaluation; deeper analysis of com- information for guidelines about the AAAI munity structure to identify trends and ex- conference paper format. perts, and many others. Social media facilitate new ways of inter- Organizing Committee acting with information — what we call social information processing. Social information pro- Kristina Lerman (USC Information Sciences cessing allows users to collaborate implicitly Institute); David Gutelius (SRI International); by leveraging the opinions and knowledge Srujana Merugu (Yahoo Inc.); and Bernardo generated by others. In addition to collabora- Huberman (HP Labs).

Social Information Processing tive problem solving, social information processing may lead to wholly new kinds of For More Information knowledge, that emerge from the distributed For more information, see the supplementary activities of many users. symposium website at The Social Information Processing sympo- www.isi.edu/~lerman/sss07. sium will bring together researchers from academe and industry, who are interested in the emergent field of social information processing. We are soliciting papers on the topics below and others related to these: Tagging: While tagging helps users organize and manage their own content, collective tagging may lead to an informal classification system dubbed a “folksonomy.” How can users be helped or encouraged to tag content? What part does tagging play in the evolution of social media? Social networks: Users create networks for personal use — to track friends’ activities or the opinions of respected others. Globally, an information ecosystem may arise through the interactions among users, and between users and content. A community of users interested in a specific topic may emerge over time, with linkages to other communities giving insight into relationships between topics.

8 AAAI SPRING SYMPOSIA The challenges that have confronted the de- general discussions. It is likely that some time Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering Symbiotic Relationships between velopers of intelligent systems for the past will be set aside for demonstrations, and pos- four decades are compounding as the AI com- sibly a panel discussion. munity now attempts to build systems that can be distributed on the Internet in nearly Submissions endless ways. There is a strong symbiotic relationship between intelligent systems and the Extended abstracts should be submitted by 5 semantic web. October. Abstracts can be up to 2 pages of 11 The Symbiotic Relationships between Se- point font and 1.5 line spacing. PDF files by mantic Web and Knowledge Engineering e-mail only should be sent to Derek Sleeman: symposium (SWKE) will bring together re- [email protected]. Queries should searchers and application developers from be directed to Edward Thomas (ethomas@csd. the area of semantic web (SW) and knowl- abdn.ac.uk). edge engineering (KE). Its goal is to promote the exchange of knowledge and ideas, and to Cochairs highlight possible future developments and challenges. The intention is to promote mul- Mark Musen (Stanford Medical Informatics) tidisciplinary research that will eventually be ([email protected]) and Derek Sleeman beneficial for both the SW and KE fields. The (Aberdeen) ([email protected]) KE community brings three decades of exten- sive knowledge acquisition and intelligent Program Committee systems development to the table; the SW Harith Alani (Southampton, UK), Jim Blythe community has much to learn from this. At (ISI, US), David Corsar (Aberdeen, UK), that same time, the SW community has artic- Natasha Noy (Stanford, US), Guus Schreiber ulated a very bold research agenda and is be- (Amsterdam, NL), York Sure (Karlsruhe, Ger- ginning to develop some eye-catching appli- many), Edward Thomas (Aberdeen, UK) cations as well as some important new technologies. Clearly, the SW community can of- fer techniques and ideas that are of For More Information considerable benefit to the KE community. For more information, see the supplementary symposium website at www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ Topics ~sleeman/sss-08 SWKE is a highly interdisciplinary activity, and we very much hope that the contributions to the symposium will reflect this. We encourage submissions, which include the following topics: ■ Ontology management systems ■ Web search engines ■ Building intelligent systems from compo- nents ■ Mapping engines ■ Cognitive support for developing widely distributed systems ■ Visualization of knowledge on the semantic web Challenging applications which clearly in- volve use of both the SW and the KE technologies will be particularly welcome. The session will be a mixture of invited keynote talks, contributed presentations and

AAAI SPRING SYMPOSIA 9 In the past few years, many universities have ■ Generating interest through game playing experienced a dramatic decline in undergrad- and machine learning uate computer science enrollments. Although ■ Motivating CS-based multidisciplinary the dot-com bust and job off-shoring have of- work with AI (for example, computational ten been cited as causes for this decline, there biology, algorithmic game theory, compu- is also mounting evidence that computer sci- tational economics, and so on) ence is being equated simply with “program- ■ The relationship of AI to the rest of the CS ming” and is losing its intellectual excitement curriculum to students who are unaware of the wide vari- ety of options in the discipline. ■ Means for disseminating educational mate- In reality, the field of computer science now rials outside the university offers far more options than it did even a ■ The use of AI in special teaching environ- decade or two ago. Moreover, many of these ments for introductory courses (for exam- diverse options are rooted in AI and are po- ple, Karel the Robot, Alice, and so on) tentially quite exciting to students. Examples ■ Other planned or deployed educational include robotics, game-playing, machine initiatives involving AI learning, and work overlapping computational biology and economics. Such a rich set of AI-related directions for Submission Information study provides the opportunity to greatly en- We welcome prospective participants to sub- hance the appeal of computer science to new mit either full papers (up to 6 pages), students. The challenge lies in finding appro- short/position papers (1–2 pages), or panel priate means for exposing students to such op- proposals (up to 2 pages, clearly indicating tions, providing curriculum to stimulate their the names, affiliations, and email addresses interest in the field, and disseminating success- for all panelists). Where appropriate, partici- ful educational materials to other educators. pants are strongly encouraged to demonstrate Using AI to Motivate Greater Using AI to Motivate The goal of this ymposium is to identify educational projects at the symposium ways that topics in AI may be used to moti- and/or provide hands-on experiences for oth- vate greater student participation in computer symposium participants (please indicate er science by highlighting fun, engaging, and this with paper submissions). Selected papers intellectually challenging developments in (both long and short) from the symposium Participation in Computer Science Participation AI-related curriculum. We seek to examine AI- will be published as an AAAI technical report. related programs and curriculum that can All submissions should be in PDF format capture student interest early in their under- adhering to AAAI style, and should be sent to graduate years and/or be suitable for deploy- Mehran Sahami at [email protected]. ment at an even earlier stage in the education pipeline (for example, high schools). The symposium aims to bring together ed- Organizing Committee ucators, researchers, and curriculum designers Mehran Sahami (chair), Stanford University; to discuss successful tactics and strategies in Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Bal- using AI-based educational resources to help timore County; Zachary Dodds, Harvey increase the intellectual excitement of CS and Mudd College; Jeffrey Forbes, Duke Universi- promote greater participation in the field. In ty; Timothy T. Huang, Middlebury College; addition to paper presentations, the sympo- Caitlin Kelleher, Carnegie Mellon University; sium will include invited speakers, panels, Tom Lauwers, Carnegie Mellon University; and hands-on demonstrations. Todd W. Neller, Gettysburg College; Illah R. Some specific topics that contributors are Nourbakhsh, Carnegie Mellon University invited to address include (but are not limited to) the following: For More Information ■ AI-themed assignments in introductory For more information, see the supplementary curricula symposium website at ■ The use of robotics and other tangible me- ai.stanford.edu/~sahami/SSS08/ dia in CS curricula

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