Dear All,
On behalf of the program committee of the 15th Annual Conference of
Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI2001), please let
me announce the following international workshop is coming just
before the main conference.
We would appreciate it if you circulate and spread the CFP attached,
and more highly if you submit to join the workshop. The main page
of the JSAI2001 international workshops, going to be linked to all
workshops, is
http://www.gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp/staff/osawa/JSAIworkshops.html
Dr. Yukio OHSAWA, JSAI2001 Workshops Chair
- - Associate Professor, Graduate School of Systems Management,
University of Tsukuba
- - Researcher of TOREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation
Address: GSSM, University of Tsukuba, 3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 112-0012 Japan
Fax: +81-3-3942-6829
E-mail: osawa@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
JSAI-Synsophy International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design
May 22-23, 2001 / Matsue, Shimane, Japan
http://www.synsophy.go.jp/sid2001/
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1. Why Social Intelligence Design?
The advance of the Internet and information technology
has brought about significant progress in augmenting social intelligence
so that people can interact with each other in a totally new way
that was not possible in the past. Examples of new technologies include
socially intelligent agents that mediate people in getting to know and
communicate with each other, a collaborative virtual environment
for large-scale discussions, personalized information tools f
or helping cross-cultural communication, interactive community media
for augmenting community awareness and memory, to name just a few.
Sometimes new technologies induce the emergence of a new language
and lifestyle. For example, interactive multimedia websites are a new medium
and maybe even a new language, with interesting new conventions,
and increasing adaptation to the support of communities.
Japanese teenagers have developed a new language for use originally
with beepers and now with mobile phones.
These are both new mainstream real world developments that should
be studied further, and could probably give some valuable insights.
The theme of "social intelligence" is really an angle on the support
of groups in pursuit of their goals, whether that is medical knowledge,
stock trading, or teenage gossip.
An interdisciplinary study is necessary to bring about better information
tools for augmenting social intelligence, for they should be designed
based on better understanding of sociological and cognitive aspects
of human society. Engineering approaches should be tightly coupled
with sociological and cognitive approaches to predict and assess
the effects of social intelligence augmentation systems
on the human society.
2. Relevance of Topic to Artificial Intelligence
Social intelligence models intelligence as a phenomenon emerging
from the way agents, either natural or artificial, are interacting
with each other. It gives some new life to Artificial Intelligence
in that humans are integral part of a big picture by shifting the focus,
from building artifacts with problem solving or learning capabilities,
to designing a framework of interaction that leads to creation
of new knowledge and relationship among participants.
The research on social intelligence and its augmentation will promote
tight coupling of synthetic approaches (Artificial Intelligence) and
analytic approaches (Social and Cognitive Psychologies).
3. The Purpose of the Workshop
This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from
Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Social and
Cognitive Sciences, Media Studies, and other related disciplines
to discuss issues on the application of advanced information technology
to the design and understanding of social intelligence augmentation systems.
The workshop concentrates primarily on the design aspects of
social intelligence augmentation systems in searching for strategies
for designing these systems and embedding them into the human society.
4. Issues to be Discussed
The workshop will comprise invited talks and individual paper presentations,
addressing one or several of the following key themes:
- sociological and cognitive theories of social intelligence,
- design issues on social intelligence augmentation systems,
- the architecture and implementation techniques of social intelligence augmentation systems,
- social intelligence augmentation in a larger picture such as knowledge management,
- pragmatic and experimental issues of embedding
social intelligence augmentation systems into the human society,
- evaluation of social intelligence augmentation systems in-use.
5. Special Note on the Structure of the Workshop
The workshop is a continuum of two closely related workshops.
The first day, sponsored by JSAI, will be more for presentation
and the second day, sponsored by Synsophy Project, is more for discussion.
We are also thinking about making an intensive group discussion about
a focused subject after attempting at building a community sense
in the participants, by exercising a simple brainstorming for example.
The JSAI workshop will publish a workshop note including a full/short papers,
meanwhile all accepted position papers will be included in a working note
for the Synsophy workshop.
6. Submission Information
Potential participants should submit a position paper (around 2 pages)
describing their work in this area. The position paper should make clear
their interest and approaches to social intelligence design.
We also accept publish-only position papers for archival purpose.
Clearly note that your paper is publish-only, if you would like us
to spend a couple of pages to mention your work.
All position papers will be reviewed by the PC. Selected position papers
will be included in the workshop note for the Synsophy workshop.
Those that solicit good interest by the PC will be asked to submit
a full/short paper for the JSAI workshop.
All submissions should be sent via electronic mail, in the PDF format,
to the workshop paper archive at sid2001-papers@synsophy.go.jp.
Submission Dates
- Submissions for the workshop ((publish-only) position papers) are
due January 31, 2001
- - Notification of acceptance will be given
by February 28, 2001
- - Camera-ready papers (full/short papers, invitation only) are
due March 31, 2001
7. Workshop Organizers
- Toyoaki Nishida (Chair, The Univ. Tokyo/Breakthrough 21, Japan)
- Shintaro Azechi (Hokkaido Tokai Univ., Japan)
- Renate Fruchter (Stanford, USA)
- Nobuhiko Fujihara (CRL, Japan)
- Joseph Goguen (UCSD, USA)
- Toru Ishida (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
- Abe Mamdani (Imperial College, U.K.)
- Gloria Mark (UC Irvine, USA)
- Keiichi Nakata (The Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
- Anton Nijholt (Enschede, The Netherlands)
- Hans Schlichter (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany)
- Yasuyuki Sumi (ATR-MIC, Japan)
- John C Thomas (IBM Research, USA)
8. Organizer's contact information
Toyoaki Nishida
Department of Information and Communication Engineering
School of Engineering
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
E-mail: nishida@kc.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
phone: +81-3-5841-6660
fax: +81-3-5841-8757
Please use sid2001@synsophy.go.jp for normal inquiries about the workshop.
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