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CALL FOR PAPERS. APPLIED AI SPECIAL ISSUE
TASK SPECIFIC PROBLEM SOLVING ARCHITECTURES
The goal of this special issue is to identify approaches to the
development and utilization of Task Specific Architectures (TSA)
in problem solving. TSA's form one of the major research threads
of what is being called second generation expert systems.
TSA approaches were first developed from the intuition that to
adequately analyze and model knowledge intensive problem solving,
it is necessary to develop a vocabulary of domain and control
knowledge primitives that are tailored to the domain under
examination. The working theses in the area are that by
representing problem solving in a TSA framework that it becomes
easier to express domain knowledge (since the primitives are
already tuned for the domain), that debugging becomes easier
(because its easier to pinpoint mistakes in domain knowledge),
that system extension is facilitated (because interaction of new
knowledge is easier to anticipate), that knowledge acquisition is
made easier (because the TSA provides a framework for the
elucidation of new knowledge), ...
Topics appropriate for this special issue, and for consideration
for the follow-on book to be published by North Holland, include
but are not limited to, the following: TSA approaches in knowledge
acquisition, descriptions of fielded systems developed via a TSA
approach, review papers that cover the entire field, position
papers that attempt to unify the field or suggest where the field
should be going, and bridging papers that show connections between
the idea of TSA's and other areas of AI, cognitive science, or
philosophy.
GUEST EDITORIAL STAFF
The Guest Editorial Staff for the special issue of Applied
Artificial Intelligence on Task Specific Architectures will
include Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University, and Luc Steels,
Free University of Brussels.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Manuscripts should follow the Applied AI submission guidelines.
Authors should submit six (6) copies of their original papers to one
of the addresses shown below. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION is Monday,
October 22, 1990.
SUBMISSION ADDRESSES
in the US and Japan: in Europe and elsewhere:
Jon Sticklen Luc Steels
AI/KBS Laboratory AI-lab VUB
Computer Science Department Pleinlaan 2
A714 Wells Hall Brussels B-1050 BELGIUM
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027