Since I came to this position, I've been interested in seeing how we can increase the involvement and participation of AI researchers and practitioners in countries with few or no members. Now that progress is underway on other fronts, I'm hoping SIGART can devote serious attention to this issue. Although SIGART has members in many different countries, so far local SIGART chapters have been organized in only two: Turkey and Australia. It is an understatement to say that there is tremendous opportunity for growth! Recently, I've been corresponding with Guy Boy, director of EURISCO in Toulouse, France. As Executive-Vice Chair of ACM-SIGCHI, he led a SIGCHI International Advisory Task Force. In their study, they addressed a variety of questions: • Relationship with other national and international organizations. The establishment of formal cooperations including joint memberships and joint sponsorships of conferences. • Language and cultural differences. Concerns with lack of materials other than in English and differences in writing , methods of evaluation, and reviewers' patterns of ratings. • SIG-sponsored international scientific projects. Having scientific projects is a way to transfer know-how and keep local research groups together in some countries. • Developing countries and economic disparities. Access to up-to-date literature and participation in international meetings is an issue where finances are limited. SIG dues are unaffordable for some. • Networking, collaborative projects, and mobility. Communication and awareness of local and regional activities and funding sources need to be fostered. • Society status and international issues. Addressing international needs may impose additional SIG infrastructure and staffing requirements. If you are a member of SIGART from somewhere outside of North America, I' d like to invite you to participate with us in a similar SIGART International Advisory Task Force that will begin to operate in the first few months of 2001. If you are interested, just send me an email message at jbradshaw@ai.uwf.edu. I hope that by working together we can find ways to better serve the AI research community throughout the world.
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As I write this letter, I’m on my way to Autonomous Agents 2000, which is being held June 3-7 in Barcelona, Spain (www.iiia.csic.es/agents2000/). This conference is the fourth in the series and, significantly, is the first one to be held outside the United States. Carles Sierra (General Chair), Maria Gini and Jeff Rosenschein (Technical Program CoChairs), co-organizers Keith Decker, Wiebe van der Hoek, Josep Puyol-Gruart, Michael Beetz, Gerhard Kraetzschmar, Pere Garcia, Jiming Liu, and Hyacinth Nwana, along with many of you as reviewers and contributors have put together an outstanding program.
写这封信的时候，我正在前往参加将于6月3日至7日在西班牙巴塞罗那举行的“自主代理2000”大会(www.iiia.csic.es/agents2000/)的路上。这次会议是该系列的第四次会议，而且值得注意的是，这是第一次在美国以外举行的会议。Carles Sierra(总主席)、Maria Gini和Jeff Rosenschein(技术项目联合主席)、共同组织者Keith Decker、Wiebe van der Hoek、Josep puyll - gruart、Michael Beetz、Gerhard Kraetzschmar、Pere Garcia、jimming Liu和Hyacinth Nwana，以及你们中的许多评论者和贡献者，共同打造了一个出色的项目。
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a meeting I had been looking forward to all year with great anticipation: not only would it be my first visit to Hong Kong, but it would also be a chance to meet firsthand many additional members of the agent research community in that part of the world. I was not disappointed. It was especially impressive to see the number of students doing research who were able to attend. It made me think about the value of having meetings of this sort in various parts of the world, in addition to the major international conferences, giving more of us a chance to present our work and to connect with other researchers than would be possible otherwise. I discussed the idea of helping to facilitate new meetings in different areas of the world with several people at the meeting and got a positive enough response that I thought it would be worth talking about more widely. Jörg Müller and I would appreciate hearing from any of you who would be interested in helping to organize regional conferences or workshops on AI-related topics, especially if you live outside of the United States and western Europe. SIGART is well-equipped to help you make such events happen with a minimum of hassles. It was great to start the new millennium by attending Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2000 in New Orleans. Fortunately, given the relative quiet that attended the debut of the year 2000, the program committee had already nixed the suggestion that an expert be invited to speak about any Y2K disasters that had occurred during the previous week. Instead we saw the an excellent collection of technical presentations, along with a talk on " The Emotion Machine " by Marvin Minsky and " Artists Augmented by Agents " by Ernest Edmonds. My personal thanks for a great meeting to Doug Riecken, David Benyon, Henry Lieberman and the rest of the organizing and program committee. Next year' s meeting will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico in January. Watch for details on http://www.iuicong.org in the coming months. Also, don't forget Finally, I had a very interesting email forwarded to me recently from Alisa Rivkin of ACM. It read: " On your SIGs page you mention SIGART However, that Web-site is awfully outdated. Can you please tell me if SIGART is still active? And if not, what its replacement is? " To our friend …
这是我怀着极大的期待期待了一整年的会议:这不仅是我第一次访问香港，而且也是一个与香港代理商研究界的许多其他成员直接会面的机会。我没有失望。尤其令人印象深刻的是，有很多做研究的学生能够参加。这让我想到在世界各地举办这种会议的价值，除了主要的国际会议之外，它给了我们更多的机会来展示我们的工作，并与其他研究人员建立联系。我在会上与几个人讨论了帮助促进在世界不同地区举行新会议的想法，并得到了足够积极的回应，我认为值得更广泛地讨论。Jörg m ller和我非常感谢任何有兴趣帮助组织人工智能相关主题的区域会议或研讨会的人，特别是如果你住在美国和西欧以外的地方。SIGART设备齐全，可以帮助您以最少的麻烦完成此类活动。在新奥尔良参加智能用户界面(IUI) 2000是开启新千年的好机会。幸运的是，考虑到2000年伊始的相对平静，计划委员会已经否决了邀请专家就前一周发生的Y2K灾难发表演讲的建议。相反，我们看到了一系列优秀的技术演示，以及马文·明斯基(Marvin Minsky)关于“情感机器”的演讲和欧内斯特·埃德蒙兹(Ernest Edmonds)关于“代理增强的艺术家”的演讲。我个人要感谢Doug Riecken、David Benyon、Henry Lieberman以及组织和项目委员会的其他成员。明年的会议将于明年1月在新墨西哥州的圣达菲举行。在未来几个月关注http://www.iuicong.org的详细信息。还有，别忘了最后，我最近收到一封来自ACM的Alisa Rivkin的非常有趣的邮件。它是这样写的:“在你的签名页面上你提到了SIGART，然而，这个网站已经过时了。你能告诉我SIGART是否仍然有效吗?如果不是，它的替代品是什么?”致我们的朋友……
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Airport as the supervisor of the security checkpoint removed the little Rug Warrior™ robot's printed manual from its box. Reading directly from the cover he said, very slowly, and very seriously, " Rug Warrior? " My initial surprise in his reading ability was quickly replaced by horror as I realized the contextual implications of the phrase. " It's just a name… " I stammered. " It's not mili-tary…it doesn't fight…the best it can do is act like a moth! " My interrogator offered no sign of sympathy. " Turn it on, please, " he ordered in the same serious monotone. I turned it on. By sheer chance, the program running at the moment it was switched on was one which beeped at a different frequency depending on the amount of light detected by the photo sensors on the robot. More light, lower frequency beeping. " beep, beep… " the robot chirped. The security supervisor leaned over the table to get a closer look at the robot. As he did so, he cast a shadow on the robot. Less light, higher frequency beeping. " BEEP, BEEP! " the robot cried. He immediately jumped back and up about ten feet, with the skill of a gymnast. We all know, after all, that bombs beep louder when they're about to explode. " TURN IT OFF! " he commanded, a trace of panic in his voice. Now I'm screwed. I desperately tried to explain that it was just beeping in response to the amount of light. " You see these little yellow things here are photoresistors, which detect…. " " Turn it off! " he repeated. I obeyed. " You're going to have to get a representative from your airline to clear you through security , " he stated, adamantly. " How do I do that? " They didn't teach us this in terrorist school. " Go to the gate and get someone to come here. " By this point, the airline had finished paging our flight, and was paging me. I ran to the gate. " I'm Chris Welty, " I said. " They won't let me through security unless someone from the airline clears me. " She looked up from the boarding passes she was sorting manually, with a quizzical look on her face. " Didn't you already clear airport security? " Of course she was an innocent bystander, it was not …
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Community showing a way their and to policymakers, advisors, and They the misconception woodfuel use always leads to environmental degradation and showed that together as cooperatives has their in wood harvesting and adopt kilns. Conference participants that local cooperatives have set up tree nurseries for native species and explored the use of invasive trees to Charcoal production is still one of the biggest (and most destructive) forest uses in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. A promising approach is to move from laissez-faire, open-access production systems to organized groups based on clear territorial control and responsibility. In a policy brief published in 2021, the FFF and CIFOR-ICRAF documented the advantages of forming charcoal groups, such as the Choma Charcoal Association in Zambia and the Kenya Charcoal Producer Association, which are leading efforts to put charcoal production on a sustainable footing and improve the livelihoods of members. international conferences and Africa 2021.
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Perhaps one of the most celebrated and significant recent developments in information systems in business has been business process reengineering (BPR; e.g., Hammer 1990 and Davenport 1993). Businesses now have entire departments of reengineering with vice presidents of reengineering or their equivalent reported in about half of Fortune 500 companies. Staffs in those departments have been reported to be as large as 150 people.1 Business process reengineering has ubstantial support for reengineering efforts has been incorporated into reengineering tools.2 Recently re-searchers have focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) in developing those tools.3 However, little research has been conducted on the extent to which those research developments have been captured in current reengineering tools. In addition, the research literature on the application of AI to reengineering is just being developed, and some aspects of reengineering are not addressed. For example, few knowledge-based systems focus on capturing the knowledge necessary to reengineer a specific process or even help decide whether a company is ready to launch a reengineering project. Given this context, in this article we • Define reengineering; • Investigate current usage of AI in reengineering tools, based on a survey of tool developers; • Review existing research literature on the use of AI to facilitate and support reengineering efforts; and • Discuss a particular “best practices” knowledge-based system designed to facilitate and support reengineering of procurement systems. This system is based on the acquisition and categorization of relevant procurement knowledge and demonstrates that knowledge-based systems can be an important part of knowledge management. As a result, this article will identify many of the important efforts designed to integrate AI with reengineering tools. The discussion will be of interest to those who have identified the need or desire to embed AI into reengineering tools. It will also help those who are interested in the benefits of embedding AI into reengineering tools. Finally, it provides a general introduction to reengineering business processes and the support of reengineering using computer-based tools.
{"title":"Knowledge management for best practices","authors":"D. O’Leary, P. Selfridge","doi":"10.1145/322880.322879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/322880.322879","url":null,"abstract":"Perhaps one of the most celebrated and significant recent developments in information systems in business has been business process reengineering (BPR; e.g., Hammer 1990 and Davenport 1993). Businesses now have entire departments of reengineering with vice presidents of reengineering or their equivalent reported in about half of Fortune 500 companies. Staffs in those departments have been reported to be as large as 150 people.1 Business process reengineering has ubstantial support for reengineering efforts has been incorporated into reengineering tools.2 Recently re-searchers have focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) in developing those tools.3 However, little research has been conducted on the extent to which those research developments have been captured in current reengineering tools. In addition, the research literature on the application of AI to reengineering is just being developed, and some aspects of reengineering are not addressed. For example, few knowledge-based systems focus on capturing the knowledge necessary to reengineer a specific process or even help decide whether a company is ready to launch a reengineering project. Given this context, in this article we • Define reengineering; • Investigate current usage of AI in reengineering tools, based on a survey of tool developers; • Review existing research literature on the use of AI to facilitate and support reengineering efforts; and • Discuss a particular “best practices” knowledge-based system designed to facilitate and support reengineering of procurement systems. This system is based on the acquisition and categorization of relevant procurement knowledge and demonstrates that knowledge-based systems can be an important part of knowledge management. As a result, this article will identify many of the important efforts designed to integrate AI with reengineering tools. The discussion will be of interest to those who have identified the need or desire to embed AI into reengineering tools. It will also help those who are interested in the benefits of embedding AI into reengineering tools. Finally, it provides a general introduction to reengineering business processes and the support of reengineering using computer-based tools.","PeriodicalId":8272,"journal":{"name":"Appl. Intell.","volume":"140 1","pages":"12-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77556965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Association for Artificial Intelligence’s (AAAI) Fall Symposium series, the symposium “Improving the Instruction of Introductory AI” was held. Barbara Grosz, then president of AAAI, concluded the symposium by accepting the following two action items for the association (see SIGART Bulletin 6, 2, April 1995): 1. Have available at the AAAI Web site a central repository of programs, tools, assignments, and papers , and 2. Organize tutorials to be given at AAAI’s National Conferences and the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) on how to teach the more specialized portions of the introductory artificial intelligence (AI) course, such as vision, NLP, and robotics. Five years have passed since that symposium and it is almost time for AAAI to host another one. In this installment, I would like to discuss the AAAI educational repository mentioned in Action Item 1. The repository is a central distribution point that (1) focuses on Web educational resources and materials to be used in undergraduate AI pedagogy, (2) identifies and organizes such resources by topic, and (3) provides diverse resources applicable to various levels of student expertise and budgetary considerations. The repository includes information on current AI textbooks, links to syllabi, sample programming and written assignments, online tutorials, information on tools and environments that may be used in the classroom, and papers on AI pedagogy. Also included are mechanisms for submitting personal AI education resources. The repository can be accessed at http://www.aaai.org by clicking on the link AI Resources and, under the heading “Source Information,” clicking on the link AAAI Educational Repository. The repository is currently maintained by Bill Manaris of the University of Southwestern Louisiana. At the aforementioned symposium, Pat Hayes and Ken Ford issued a challenge for the creation of a Web-based “textbook.” The chapters in the textbook would cover specific topics, each an up-to-date survey of a subarea of AI, written by people with thorough knowledge of that area. The idea was to have such a text continually revised and expanded to adapt to changes in AI. This multiauthor text would exist as distributed content managed by sufficient editorial control and commentary to ensure common vocabulary and style. Although I am uncertain about the progress on the challenge, I would like to have you consider using the educational repository as a possible infrastructure for the creation of such a text. Use it to obtain materials for which you may not have expertise, and contribute educational materials for the topics in which you do have expertise. As for organizing tutorials on teaching of specific topics (Action Item 2), I think AAAI and IJCAI could do a better job. Although some tutorial-like sessions have been held at these conferences, most focus on informing AI researchers and practitioners rather than educators. I believe that AAAI, and its membership, o
{"title":"Curriculum descant: the AI education repository","authors":"Deepak Kumar","doi":"10.1145/322880.322884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/322880.322884","url":null,"abstract":"Association for Artificial Intelligence’s (AAAI) Fall Symposium series, the symposium “Improving the Instruction of Introductory AI” was held. Barbara Grosz, then president of AAAI, concluded the symposium by accepting the following two action items for the association (see SIGART Bulletin 6, 2, April 1995): 1. Have available at the AAAI Web site a central repository of programs, tools, assignments, and papers , and 2. Organize tutorials to be given at AAAI’s National Conferences and the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) on how to teach the more specialized portions of the introductory artificial intelligence (AI) course, such as vision, NLP, and robotics. Five years have passed since that symposium and it is almost time for AAAI to host another one. In this installment, I would like to discuss the AAAI educational repository mentioned in Action Item 1. The repository is a central distribution point that (1) focuses on Web educational resources and materials to be used in undergraduate AI pedagogy, (2) identifies and organizes such resources by topic, and (3) provides diverse resources applicable to various levels of student expertise and budgetary considerations. The repository includes information on current AI textbooks, links to syllabi, sample programming and written assignments, online tutorials, information on tools and environments that may be used in the classroom, and papers on AI pedagogy. Also included are mechanisms for submitting personal AI education resources. The repository can be accessed at http://www.aaai.org by clicking on the link AI Resources and, under the heading “Source Information,” clicking on the link AAAI Educational Repository. The repository is currently maintained by Bill Manaris of the University of Southwestern Louisiana. At the aforementioned symposium, Pat Hayes and Ken Ford issued a challenge for the creation of a Web-based “textbook.” The chapters in the textbook would cover specific topics, each an up-to-date survey of a subarea of AI, written by people with thorough knowledge of that area. The idea was to have such a text continually revised and expanded to adapt to changes in AI. This multiauthor text would exist as distributed content managed by sufficient editorial control and commentary to ensure common vocabulary and style. Although I am uncertain about the progress on the challenge, I would like to have you consider using the educational repository as a possible infrastructure for the creation of such a text. Use it to obtain materials for which you may not have expertise, and contribute educational materials for the topics in which you do have expertise. As for organizing tutorials on teaching of specific topics (Action Item 2), I think AAAI and IJCAI could do a better job. Although some tutorial-like sessions have been held at these conferences, most focus on informing AI researchers and practitioners rather than educators. I believe that AAAI, and its membership, o","PeriodicalId":8272,"journal":{"name":"Appl. Intell.","volume":"1 1","pages":"25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91021435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Given the state-of-the-art in ontological engineering, we still lack costing models for software projects that adopt reusable ontological libraries. However, we can find such costing models in the standard software engineering literature. The COCOMO-II software cost estimation model offers an estimate of the cost of adapting reusable sub-routines for a new project [Abts, Clark, Devnani-Chulani, Horowitz, Madachy, Reifer, Selby & Steece 1998, p21]. A learning curve must be traversed before a module can be adapted. By the time you know enough to change a little of that module, 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
{"title":"Cost benefits of ontologies","authors":"T. Menzies","doi":"10.1145/318964.318969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/318964.318969","url":null,"abstract":"Given the state-of-the-art in ontological engineering, we still lack costing models for software projects that adopt reusable ontological libraries. However, we can find such costing models in the standard software engineering literature. The COCOMO-II software cost estimation model offers an estimate of the cost of adapting reusable sub-routines for a new project [Abts, Clark, Devnani-Chulani, Horowitz, Madachy, Reifer, Selby & Steece 1998, p21]. A learning curve must be traversed before a module can be adapted. By the time you know enough to change a little of that module, 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1","PeriodicalId":8272,"journal":{"name":"Appl. Intell.","volume":"25 1","pages":"26-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76847421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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