The
AAAI-07
Workshop on
Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
July 22, 2007
Description
This workshop is intended as a forum for discussion, exchange of
points of view, assessment of results and methods, and as a source of
dissemination and promotion of the newest advances in the area of
spatial and temporal reasoning. Recent years have witnessed
remarkable advances in some of the longstanding problems of the field
(for instance, new results about tractability for spatial calculi,
explicit construction of models, characterization of important
subclasses of relations), as well as in the development of new areas
(the appearance of new integrated spatio-temporal calculi is one
example, as well as the development of multi-dimensional spatial
calculi). Likewise, proposals have been made to remedy some of the
weak points of the symbolic approach, by introducing fuzzy versions of
classical calculi, or importing non-monotonic techniques for dealing
with incomplete information. At the same time, leaders in AI have
sounded the need for solving real problems and making the work on
representation and reasoning relevant to the real world.
Workshop Format
The workshop consists of two parts, one part of original submissions and
a second part of highlights, where the program committee of the workshop
invites selected papers that have been published elsewhere in the
preceeding year to be presented and discussed again at the workshop.
The idea is to give every workshop participant the opportunity to get
updated about the latest trends and new landmark papers in the area of
spatial and temporal representation and reasoning and to discuss these
papers in detail.
Attendance
Up to 40 participants will be selected to attend the workshop,
contributing and participating in discussions. Accepted papers will be
included in the workshop notes, which will be published in the AAAI
Technical Report series. Screening will be based on reviews and
relevance to the workshop goals.
Submission Requirements
Interested authors should format their papers according to the
AAAI instructions for authors
and should submit their paper by email to Hans Guesgen. Papers should
not exceed 10 pages and should be in the form of an extended abstract or
complete research, survey, or position paper. Selection of participants
will be based on relevance to the indicated focus of the workshop,
clarity of the work submitted, and the strength of the research.
Submission deadline: April 10, 2007
Notification date: April 25, 2007
Final date for camera-ready copy to AAAI: May 15, 2007
Workshop Co-Chairs
Hans W. Guesgen (primary contact)
Institute of Information Sciences and Technology
Massey University
Private Bag 11222
Palmerston North, New Zealand
h.w.guesgen@massey.ac.nz
Gérard Ligozat
LIMSI, Université Paris-Sud
P.O. Box 133
91403 Orsay, France
ligozat@limsi.fr
Jochen Renz
RSISE, Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
jochen.renz@anu.edu.au
Rita V. Rodriguez
CISE Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI)
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230
rrodrigu@nsf.gov