[UAI] CFP: KES2002 special session on Chance Discovery

From: Yukio Osawa (osawa@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp)
Date: Thu Dec 27 2001 - 11:26:11 PST

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    Dear all,

    Apologizing if you received multiple copies, let me distribute this
    CFP on behalf of the session organizer Prof. Hiroko Shoji and the
    program committee of KES2001. Thank you very much for your attentions
    and kind circulations.

    Sincerely,

    Yukio Ohsawa
    - Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Sciences,
      University of Tsukuba
    Tokyo 112-0012 Japan Fax: +81-3-3942-6829
    E-mail: osawa@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp

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    Dear Colleagues,

    We are pleased to announce the CFP of KES2002 special session on
    Chance Discovery, following the successful special sessions
    at KES2000 and KES2001.

    There have been much contribution to the past chance discovery sessions at KES,
    as well as at other international conferences, which indicates the growing
     interest in the field.

    We are expecting even more contribution to this session, and please consider
    submitting papers to the session.

    Hiroko SHOJI, Associate Professor
    Dept. of Informatics Education, Faculty of Education
    Kawamura Gakuen Women's University

      ******** ******** Call for Papers ******** ********

    Special Session: Chance Discovery on Human-Data Interaction

    Sixth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information
    Engineering Systems
    16, 17, and 18 September 2002
    Podere d'Ombriano, Crema, Italy

    Web site address: http://www.bton.ac.uk/kes/kes2002/
                      http://www.kes.unisa.edu.au/

    <The Scope of Chance Discovery>
    Chance discovery is the discovery OF chance, rather than discovery
    BY chance. A "chance" here means a new event/situation that can be
    conceived either as an opportunity or as a risk. The "discovery" of
    chances is of crucial importance since it may have a significant
    impact on human decision making. Desirable effects of opportunities
    should be actively promoted, whereas preventive measures should be
    taken in the case of discovered risks. In other words, chance
    discovery aims to provide means for inventing or surviving the
    future, rather than predicting the future.

    The essential aspect of a chance (risk or opportunity) is that it
    can be the seed of new and significant changes in the near future.
    The discovery of new opportunities might be more beneficial than
    reliance on past frequent success-patterns, because they are not
    known yet by one's business rivals. The discovery of new risks
    might be indispensable to avoid or lessen damage, because they
    cannot be explained by past frequent damage-patterns. Therefore,
    being aware of a novel important event without ignoring it as noise
    in the data is essential for human future success.

    Besides data mining methods for finding rare but important events
    from time-series, it is also important to draw humans attention to
    such events, i.e., to make humans ready to catch chances. In this
    sense, human-information interactions are highly relevant to chance
    discovery. Furthermore, chance discovery can be seen as an extension
    of risk management to computer-aided problem solving where novel
    situations are involved.

    This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from
    artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, social and
    cognitive sciences, risk management, knowledge discovery and data
    mining, and other related domains, for stimulating discussions on
    chance discovery.

    We especially welcome research papers on identifying and explaining
    - - - - new products worth to promote sales
    - - - - new (potential) customers to send advertising mails, for stimulating
      the sales
    - - - - new risks which should be avoided in business and human life, e.g.,
       risks due to newly discovered side-effects of a drug
    - - - - new (promising) keywords in research papers indicating pioneering
       and meaningful directions of research
    - - - - new keywords on the world-wide web which show attractive future
      trends and also topics from information visualization are relevant
      to chance discovery
    and topics from information visualization that are relevant to chance
    discovery.

    <Instructions for Authors>
    * Papers must be written in English (4 pages maximum).
    * Include the contact author's full name, address, telephone-, fax-
       numbers, and E-mail address.
    * Include presenter address and his/her 4 line resume for introduction
       purposes only.
    * The conference proceedings will be published by IOS Press.
       Papers must conform to the requirements specified in the IOS Instructions
       for the Preparation of a Camera-Ready Manuscript.
       (http://www.bton.ac.uk/kes/kes2002/instruct.doc)
    * Please submit the paper by an e-mail, as a PS, PDF, of a Microsoft Word
       DOC file, to the organizer directly.
       Do not address to the program committee of KES 2002.
       If you prefer other type of manuscript, please notify us in the submission,
       and be sure you have some risk of being rejected for that reason.
    * All papers will be refereed by at least two experts in relevant fields.

    <Organizers of the session>
    Hiroko SHOJI
    - - -- Associate Professor, Dept. of Informatics Education
       Faculty of Education, Kawamura Gakuen Women's University
    Address: Kawamura Gakuen Women's University 1133 Sagedo,
    Abiko-shi, Chiba 270-1138 Japan
    Fax: +81-471-83-0115
    E-mail: hiroko@da2.so-net.ne.jp

    Yutaka Matsuo
    - - -- Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
    Address: University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
    113-8656, Japan
    Fax: +81-3-5802-8213
    E-mail: matsuo@miv.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

    <Important Dates>
    Receipt of papers: 1 April, 2002
    (If your situation hinders you from meeting the deadline,
    please consult the organizer.)
    Notification of acceptance: 1 May, 2002

    - - ---
    Yutaka MATSUO and Hiroko SHOJI: Organizers of the session



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