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AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Event Processing
AAAI Spring Symposium Wednesday, March 23-25, 2009 at Stanford University
http://icep-aaai08.fzi.de/
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Event-based systems are now gaining increasing momentum as witnessed by current efforts in areas including event-driven architectures, business process management and modeling, Grid computing, Web services notifications, and message-oriented middleware. They become ever important in various application domains, ranging from traditional business applications, like supply-chain management, to the entertainment industry, like on-line gaming applications.
However, the current status of development is just the tip of the iceberg compared with the impact that event processing could achieve, as already reported by market research companies. Indeed, existing approaches are dealing primarily with the syntactical (but very scalable) processing of low-level signals and primitive actions, which usually goes with an inadequate treatment of the notions of time, context or concurrency (for example, synchronization). For example, some of the current event processing products are descendents of the active database research that misses efficient (formal) handling of termination, priority ordering, and confluence in rule bases.
AI and especially symbolic (for example, logic-based) approaches provide native background for the (formal) representation of the above mentioned missing concepts, enabling evolution from event processing systems into intelligent reactive systems. The work done in temporal logic, spatial reasoning, knowledge representation, ontologies, and so on enables more declarative representation of events and actions and their semantic processing. Contextual reasoning can support complex event prediction. Transactional logic can be used for ensuring the consistency between highly dependent processes in a formal way.
On the other side, the heterogeneous and highly distributed nature of event-processing systems, especially on the web, provides new challenges for AI and logics, like the contextualized reasoning over large stream data, scalable mapping of complex structures, or distributed approximate reasoning, to name but a few.
Possible symposium topics comprise, but are not limited to:
Modeling
Discovery
Reasoning/Processing
Advanced Applications
Submissions
Submissions must be in PDF using the workshop submission system for SSS09, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss09
More Information
http://icep-aaai09.fzi.de/
Important Dates
Notification of acceptance: December 9th, 2008
Camera-ready versions: January 16th, 2009
Symposium: March 23-25, 2009
Organizing Committee
Andreas Abecker (FZI, Germany),
Opher Etzion (IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel).
Adrian Paschke (RuleML Inc, Canada and Free University Berlin, Germany)
Program Committee
Brian Connell, WestGlobal, UK
Christian Brelage, SAP, Germany
Darko Anicic, FZI at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
David Luckham, Stanford University, USA
Dieter Gawlick, Oracle, USA
Gregoris Mentzas, ICCS, University of Athens, Greece
Jean-Pierre Lorre, EBM Websourcing, France
José Júlio Alferes, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Jun-jang Jeng, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Michal Rosen-Zvi, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Prasad Vishnubhotla, IBM Software Group, USA
Rainer von Ammon, CITT, Germany
(to be completed)