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AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Event Processing

AAAI Spring Symposium Wednesday, March 23â€"25, 2009 at Stanford University

http://icep-aaai09.fzi.de/


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

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Event-based systems are now gaining increasing momentum as witnessed
bycurrent efforts in areas including event-driven architectures,
businessprocess management and modeling, Grid computing, Web services
notifications,and message-oriented middleware. They become ever
important in variousapplication domains, ranging from traditional
business applications, likesupply-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, (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 (Corporate Semantic Web, Free University Berlin,
Germany and RuleML Inc, Canada)



Program Committee
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Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd. UK

Brian Connell, WestGlobal, Ireland

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

JosĂ© JĂșlio Alferes, Faculdade de CiĂȘncias 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

Ronen Vaisenberg UC Irvine, USA

Segev Wasserkrug, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel