KI 2005 — Workshop Program

Overview

WS-1: Context-Aware Systems and Situation-Sensitive Applications (Cancelled)

Papers may be submitted via email to H. Juergen Mueller.

The role of context and the consideration of situations in reasoning processes have a long tradition in Artificial Intelligence. Context has been handled in various CSCW applications and it was a central representation schema in model based robotics. Situation Semantics played a central role in Natural Language Processing and the famous Situation Calculus gave rise to a couple of application oriented logics and reasoning techniques. Due to the success of wireless communication and the advanced use of sensors and smart labels, context management and situative reasoning starts a revival.

WS-2: 19. Workshop Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren / Entwerfen (PuK 2005)

The PuK workshop is the regular meeting of the special interest group on planning, scheduling, design and configuration within the AI section of the GI. As in previous years the PuK workshop brings together researchers and practitioners of the areas of planning, scheduling, design and configuration. It provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, evaluations and experiences especially in the use of AI techniques within these application and research areas. However, the communities normally do not overlap and joint meetings are rather rare. Thus the PuK workshop is such a joint meeting and provides the possibility for the exchange of ideas, concepts, and problems between researchers from the areas mentioned.

WS-3: Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence

The workshop is aiming to intensify the trans-disciplinary discourse on philosophical foundations of Informatics, especially regarding the foundations of Artificial Intelligence. The major goal of the workshop is to bring researchers, scientists from both philosophy and informatics, and representatives from different communities together to explore philosophical positions and to transfer knowledge from one discipline into the other.

WS-4: FOnt 2005 - Foundational Aspects of Ontologies

Representing and reasoning with ontologies is the core technology for the Semantic Web, and is growing in importance in many other areas of Computer Science where structured and hierarchically organized knowledge is of importance. While the need for ontological knowledge representation formalisms for practical applications is abundant, it is apparent that only conceptually and mathematically sound frameworks can provide the means for a significant technological advance in this area.

Indeed, formal and foundational aspects of ontologies are being studied in many application domains in order to serve practical needs. It lies in the nature of such fundamental research that a critical mass of different formal perspectives can generate a cross-fertilization of ideas and applications. We therefore intend to bring together researchers working on foundational aspects of ontologies in different application areas, in order to stimulate an exchange of ideas and methods between the subcommunities. We believe that a significant advance in understanding and establishing sound formal foundations for applied ontology research can this way be made.

WS-5: Knowledge Engineering und Software Engineering

Intelligent systems have been successfully developed in many domains over the last years. The process of building such systems is based on techniques and tools from the fields of knowledge engineering and software engineering, which have influenced each other. Thus, declarative software engineering techniques have been established in various areas, such as knowledge systems, logic programming, constraint programming, and lately in the context of the Semantic Web. The workshop on Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering (KESE 2005) wants to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of software engineering and artificial intelligence.

WS-6: Text-Based Information Retrieval (TIR-05)

There are various techniques and methods being used for text-based information retrieval tasks, which stem from different research areas: machine learning algorithms, models from computer linguistics and psychology, paradigms from the field of user interaction and modeling, or algorithms for information visualization. The development of powerful retrieval tools requires the combination of these developments, and in this sense the workshop shall provide a platform that spans the different views and approaches.

WS-7: Mixed-Reality als Herausforderung an Bildverstehen und Künstliche Intelligenz

Knowledge representation and use has been a central concern for computer vision since decades. This topic becomes even more important as it is now possible to augment the reality through real-time computer graphics in combination with real-time computer vision. As both disciplines need to cooperate, they also need to agree on common representation schemes for world, objects, functions, actions, etc. Vision and graphics together need the disourse with knowledge representation experts. During the workshop we will communicate these topics between the vision research community, graphics, and the experts on artificial intelligence.

WS-8: Intelligent Learning and Teaching Systems — between Knowledge Engineering and Software Engineering for Education (Cancelled)

Supporting amongst others the idea of reusability of components and theories, nowadays intelligent teaching and training systems should be 'engineered' and developed based on principles and methods of knowledge engineering and software engineering. For example, architectural patterns and reuse of educational resources as well as software components have been investigated in ILLS projects (Harrer 2003). Most ILLS use knowledge models about the application domain, i.e. the main source of 'intelligence' in the system, which are most of the time realized as databases or expert systems. Elicitation and formalization of this domain expert knowledge (Möbus et al 2004) as well as pedagogical knowledge about the learning process (Martens 2004) has been a challenge ever since the emergence of intelligent learning support systems, and inspired recently work towards authoring of expert data as well as "lightweight approaches" utilizing data from real cases (Hörnlein et al 2004) or authoring by example (Koedinger et al 2004). Thus, knowledge engineering is necessarily central in developing ILLS. Moreover, in embedding reasoning in the system and in realizing automatic adaptation strategies (according to individual learner's preferences, knowledge state or the situation context), knowledge engineering is required.

After the workshop a meeting of the "Fachgruppe Intelligente Lehr-/Lernsysteme" of the German Informatics Society (GI) will be held.

WS-9: From Sensory to Social Presence — Techniques and Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces (Cancelled)

This workshop wishes to address all questions related to the development, application and evaluation of intelligent interfaces that strive to achieve a close coupling between a human user and an interactive computer system. We are interested in such links at various levels of presence, from sensory presence created and maintained by way of multimodal input processing and output generation, to social presence where cognitive states such as beliefs, goals, or emotional states of both the user as well as the system are accounted for.

WS-10: Jahrestreffen der GI-Fachgruppe Deduktionssysteme (DedSys)

Das jährlich stattfindende Deduktionstreffen ist die wichtigste Veranstaltung der GI-Fachgruppe Deduktionssysteme. Es wird abwechselnd von den einzelnen Arbeitsgruppen in Deutschland in Form eines Workshops organisiert und inhaltlich ausgestaltet. Es werden aktuelle Arbeiten und Systeme vorgestellt, wobei der Schwerpunkt bei der lokalen Gruppe liegt. Das Treffen soll auch eine Möglichkeit für den Nachwuchs sein, sich über Aktivitäten im Bereich der Deduktionssysteme zu informieren sowie eigene Ideen einem breiteren Fachpublikum vorzustellen.

WS-11: Kooperierende Teams mobiler Roboter in dynamischen Umgebungen

Das Themenspektrum des DFG-Schwerpunktprogrammes (SPP-1125) umfasst die Erforschung von Verfahren, Komponenten, Architekturen und Lerntechniken, die für mobile Roboterteams in dynamischen Umgebungen erforderlich sind. Im SPP-1125 werden Forschungsprojekte zu diesen Fragestellungen durchgeführt, deren Ergebnisse anhand von Demonstrationsszenarien im RoboCup erprobt und evaluiert werden. Der Workshop richtet sich an Forschergruppen, die zu den beschriebenen Themenspektrum im Umfeld mobiler Roboter innovative Beiträge vorstellen und diskutieren wollen.