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Final Call for Papers

First European Workshop on Chance Discovery
(EWCD-04)

We are pleased to invite submissions to the First European Workshop on
Chance Discovery (EWCD-04) that will take place in August in Valencia,
Spain, as part of the European Conference of Artificial Intelligence 2004.
http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/


Brief description of the workshop content:
In a number of different areas, researchers in Artificial Intelligence
became recently interested in events or situations that affect human
decision making in that they are viewed as opportunities or risks. A
chance is such a rare event or a situation, which provides opportunities
or risks for human decision making or problem solving. Noticing such an
event is described as discovery of a chance. Therefore Chance Discovery
can be characterized in terms of

"h becoming aware of a chance and
"h explaining its significance.

In this sense, the discovery of a chance is emphasized in contrast to
discovery by chance. The essential aspect of a chance is that it can be
the seed of new and significant changes in the near future. Generally this
means that being aware of a rare or novel important event without ignoring
it as noise is essential for future success.

Therefore we invite contributions of theories and methodologies on

"h Identifying rare or novel events
"h Becoming aware of significant events
"h Predicting future trends
"h Integrating knowledge of significant events with existing knowledge
"h Explaining and evaluating events where decision makers still have to
become aware of its significance (hidden event).

These contributions may be made from but not restricted to perspectives
that are informed by Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Operation
Research, Mathematics and Psychology. Of particular interest are
"h the analysis of human behaviour and complex systems
"h the analysis of interactions between individuals or groups and the
environment,
"h the development of intelligent support tools for Chance Discovery based
on this interaction analysis
"h the development of the logical foundations of Chance Discovery, and
"h identifying the characteristics of a chance.

Further more we invite applications of these theories and methods.
Examples of previous applications include
"h intelligent Web design and Web search,
"h computer-based training, and
"h team-work support.
"h creativity support
"h product design,
"h sales support,
"h side-effects of new drugs,
"h forecasting,
"h marketing,

All these applications have in common that decision-makers became aware of
the significance of a rare event and did not ignore it as noise. They
rather used it to create new trends that were more effective than
predictions, which were based exclusively on past observational patterns.

Chance Discovery has been well established at conferences and with a
number of workshops and publications in the U.S. and Asia:
"h Three international workshops (in cooperation with the Annual Conference
of the Japanese Society of AI 2001, the Pacific Rim International AI
conference 2002, and the 10th International Conference on Human Computer
Interaction 2003),
"h The AAAI Fall Symposium of Chance Discovery 2003, Cape Cod.
"h Several international conferences with special sessions on Chance
Discovery.
"h Two special issues of the New Generation Computing journal
"h A book ¡§Chance Discovery¡¨ edited by Yukio Ohsawa and Peter McBurney,
New
York: Springer Publishers.
"h Additional books are already in preparation.
"h The Chance Discovery Consortium has been founded in Japan and is
currently being extended to Europe
In particular the AAAI and PRICAI workshop have highlighted the
considerable interest of the AI community in this topic.


Important dates:

10 May 2004   Submission deadline

27 May 2004   Notifying authors about acceptance

06 June 2004 Submitting camera-ready proceedings to the Chance
Discovery Workshop Chair


Program Committee:

Ruediger Oehlmann, UK (Co-Chair)
Kingston University London
School of Comp. and Inform. Systems
Cognitive Science Laboratory
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames. KT1 2EE, UK
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Akinori Abe, Japan (Co-Chair)
ATR Intelligent Robotics & Communication Labs.
2-2-2, Hikaridai, Seika-cho
Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288 JAPAN
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Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Germany
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David Bergner, USA
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Renate Fruchter, USA
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David E. Goldberg, USA
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Henrik J. Jensen, UK
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Chengyu Krystian Ji, Australia
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John Kontos, Greece
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Lorenzo Magnani, Italy
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Peter McBurney, UK
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Yukio Ohsawa, Japan
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Enrico Plaza i Cervera, Spain
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Hiroko Shoji, Japan
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Katsutoshi Yada, Japan
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Ikuko Yairi, Japan
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Place and time
The Workshop will take place in Valencia as part of the European
Conference on Artificial Inteligence on August 23, 15:30 ¡V 19:30 and
August 24, 09:00 ¡V 13:30.
ECAI will take place in the Campus of the Universidad PolitØPnica de
Valencia in Valencia, Spain, from August 22 to August 27. Please consult
the ECAI Webpage:
http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/



Paper format, paper limit, and submission address

The paper format should follow the LNCS style guidelines of Springer
Publishers:
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-
0,00.html
The paper should not exceed 10 pages and should be sent by email before
the submission deadline to the following address:

Ruediger Oehlmann, UK (Co-Chair)
Kingston University London
School of Computing and Information Systems
Cognitive Science Laboratory
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames. KT1 2EE, UK
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We hope to receive many submissions of high quality. In this case we
intend to publish selected papers as a book.

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