AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent EventProcessing 2009

[Adrian Paschke <paschke@in.tum.de>]

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      AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Event Processing

AAAI Spring Symposium Wednesday, March 23-25, 2009 at Stanford University

                     http://icep-aaai09.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:
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Modeling

*    Conceptual modeling in event-driven processing
*    Modeling context in event-driven processing
*    Event processing languages
*    Business rules and event-driven processing
*    Editors for complex events
*    Complex event processing in highly distributed AI applications
*    Modeling reactive systems using event-driven processing
*    Event stream processing
*     Event-driven architecture for Intelligent Event Processing

Discovery

*    Complex event patterns mining
*    Temporal aspects in event mining
*    Prediction of events
*     Discovery of similar event
*    Discovery of unknown events
*    Dealing with missing events

Reasoning/Processing

*    Complex event detection
*    The role of logic in event processing
*    Distributed reasoning for events
*    Reasoning with uncertain events
*    Reasoning under real-time constraints
*    Complexity in reasoning for Intelligent Event Processing


Advanced Applications

*    Distributed event processing as a basis for AI applications
*    Financial trading
*    Web / Internet of Things
*    Entertainment
*    Ubiquitous Computing/ Ambient Intelligence
*    Business Activity Monitoring
*    AI in global epidemiology monitoring systems
*    Other domains


Submissions
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Papers should be prepared using the two-column AAAI conference paper format.
Long papers should be at most six pages; short papers at most two pages.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the symposium website.

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
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Deadline for submissions: October 31st, 2008 (12.00 AM, GMT)

Notification of acceptance: December 9th, 2008

Camera-ready versions: January 16th, 2009

Symposium: March 23-25, 2009



Organizing Committee
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Nenad Stojanovic, chair, (FZI - Research Center for Information Technologies
at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany),

Andreas Abecker (FZI, Germany),

Opher Etzion (IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel).

Adrian Paschke (RuleML Inc, Canada and Corporate Semantic Web, Free University Berlin, Germany)



Program Committee
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Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd. UK

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)