[apologies if you receive this multiple times] Call for Workshop Participation New Zealand Case-Based Reasoning Workshop Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand 10 - 12 Jan, 2003 and Queenstown, New Zealand, 17 - 19 Jan 2003 ****************************************************** GENERAL INFORMATION: ****************************************************** Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) is a mature research discipline with publications dating back to the 1980's and an active and vibrant research community. As the number of researchers in CBR grows and the volume of publications increases this is a good time to review the CBR canon. The NZCBR Workshop has invited CBR researchers to participate in a collective endeavour to identify those research papers that have most influenced CBR over the years. The results of this activity will be published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers as a "Readings in Case-Based Reasoning". CBR researchers are now invited to participate in this unique workshop to be held in January 2003 in New Zealand. Researchers have already identified a shortlist of papers (https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/nzcbr/paper_shortlist.pdf). This list will be refined at the workshop and delegates will prepare commentaries to the papers. These commentaries will be published along-side the papers in the Readings in Case-Based Reasoning volume. Delegates to the workshop will therefore obtain several high-quality publications from their attendance at this unique event. ****************************************************** VENUES ****************************************************** The workshop will take place in January 2003 (mid-summer in the Southern Hemisphere). The workshop will be split into two sessions separated by five days. The first session will be held in the North Island of New Zealand on Waiheke Island in Auckland's Harauki Gulf (http://www.waiheke.co.nz/). This session will concentrate on collating the papers, commentaries and critiques for the Readings volume. The second session will be held in the South island of New Zealand in Queenstown in the Southern Alps (http://www.queenstownnz.co.nz/). This session will be forward looking and will develop a research strategy for CBR. **************************************************** COSTS **************************************************** There will be a single registration fee, covering both workshop sessions of $1000 (NZD), in the region of $450 (US dollars) or £300 (UK pounds). The workshop fee will include workshop facilities and meals, 2 welcome receptions, 2 gala dinners and entertainment. Registration is now open at https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/nzcbr/ A variety of accommodation standards and prices are be available for delegates to book separately. Note that accommodation, subsistence and internal transport within New Zealand are very competitively priced for people with international currency. *************************************************** TRANSPORT *************************************************** Auckland has New Zealand's main international airport served by most major international airlines, either flying westward to new Zealand via Los Angeles or eastward via Singapore or Hong Kong. It is a twelve hour flight to Auckland from Los Angeles or Singapore and a 4 hour flight from Australia (Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane). Waiheke Island is a 30 minute taxi ride followed by a 30 minute ferry ride from Auckland International Airport. There are regular internal flights from Auckland and other North Island locations to Queenstown in the South Island. There is also a frequent car and passenger ferry service between North and South Islands across Cook Strait. ***************************************************** ORGANISATION ***************************************************** The NZCBR Workshop is organised by AI-CBR, and supported by The University of Auckland and the University of Otago. ****************************************************** CONTACT DETAILS: ****************************************************** Ian Watson Dept of Computer Science University of Auckland New Zealand Telephone: +64-9-373-7599 Fax: +64-9-373-7453 Email: [log in to unmask] WWW(Official Workshop Site): https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/nzcbr/