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First Announcement and Call for Papers:
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Due to the small number of paper submissions to JESS Workshop, the accepted papers will be presented during the ICEIS conference days and published in the ICEIS proceedings. |
In conjunction with the Third International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2001
6-7 July 2001,
Setúbal – Portugal
Chair:
Ernest J. Friedman-Hill
Sandia National
Laboratories, USA ejfried@ca.sandia.gov
Program
Committee:
Sidney C. Bailin, D. Phil, Knowledge Evolution, Inc., USA
Emmanual Desmontils, Ph.D., University of Nantes, France
Ralph Deters, Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan,
Canada
Runhe Huang, Ph.D., Hosei University, Japan
Joost Jonker, M.Sc., KPN Research, Netherlands
Alan Littleford, Ph.D., Healthscape, Inc, USA
Robert Orchard, M. Sc., National Research Council, Canada
Carmen Pancerella, Ph.D., Sandia National Laboratories,
USA
Christian Ribeaud, Predict AG, Switzerland
Michelle Zhou, Ph.D., IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Aim of the Workshop:
Jess
(the Java Expert System Shell) is a portable, extensible, fast reasoning engine
written in Sun Microsystem's Java language. It was developed at Sandia National
Laboratories (USA) and is distributed free of charge for academic use. Jess has
a large, worldwide user community. Jess is commonly used in agent research, as
it provides a convenient way to integrate complex reasoning capabilities into
Java-based software. Jess users have developed many software extensions,
including ones for fuzzy logic, database access, blackboards, and language
understanding. Jess has been used to deploy many real systems, including some
based on a multiagent paradigm.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together Jess users, researchers, software developers and potential Jess users to 1) facilitate an exchange of ideas and techniques, and 2) share experiences and lessons learned.
Areas of Interest:
This
workshop will bring together researchers involved in designing and building
diverse systems with Jess. The scope of the presentations will extend from
specific implementation strategies to overall architectural issues; the
essential common element will be the use of the Jess software. Papers that
describe the design and deployment of enterprise-level applications
incorporating Jess are particularly encouraged. Other topics may include, but
are not limited to:
Case studies of multiagent systems
incorporating Jess
Integration
of Jess with software for processing agent languages
Jess-based
agent communities for knowledge synthesis
Natural
language understanding with Jess
Jess
with Enterprise Java Beans
Jess in
servlets
Descriptions
of Jess extensions
Comparisons
of Jess to other Java-based reasoning systems
Decision-support systems
Machine learning in Jess
Jess performance
measurements or enhancements
Format of the Workshop:
The workshop will consist of
oral presentations and posters. The proceedings of the workshop will be
published in the form of a book.
Submission of Papers:
Prospective authors are
invited to submit papers in any of the areas listed above. Only full papers in
English will be accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 10
pages (5,000 words). Paper submission is required for both oral and poster
presentations.
Important
Dates:
Full Paper Submission: 5th
February 2001
Author Notification: 15th
March 2001
Final Camera-Ready
Submission and Registration: 20th April 2001
Conference Location
The workshop will be held at
the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal.
Setúbal is located at the south bank of Tagus river, about 50 km from Lisbon.
For further information, see the conference web page site www.iceis.org
Secretariat
ICEIS Secretariat
Workshop on Applications of Jess, the Java Expert System Shell
Rua Vale de Chaves – Estefanilha
2914-508 Setúbal - Portugal
Fax: +351 265 721 869 Tel: +351 265 790 000
E-mail: w3-secretariat ( at ) iceis.org
Web: site www.iceis.org