This page includes forthcoming AAAI sponsored conferences, conferences presented by AAAI Affiliates, and conferences held in cooperation with AAAI. AI Magazine also maintains a calendar listing that includes nonaffiliated conferences at www.aaai.org/Magazine/calendar.php. The AAAI Fall Symposium Series will be held 15-17 November at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virgiania, near Washington, DC USA. FLAIRS 2012 will be held May 22-24, 2012 at the TradeWinds Island Resort, St. Pete Beach, FL ICAPS 2013 will be held 10-14 June, 2013 in Rome, Italy Twenty-Third International Joint-Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

The following four workshops were held in conjunction with the conference: (1) Case-Based Reasoning Integrations, (2) Learning for Text Categorization, (3) Predicting the Future: AI Approaches to Time-Series Problems, and (4) Software Tools for Developing Agents. The AAAI-98 Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) Integrations, attended by approximately 45 people, focused on issues concerning multimodal reasoning systems that contain a CBR component. Although CBR is a general problem-solving architecture that is frequently integrated with other reasoning methods to solve complex tasks, no previous workshop attempted to characterize CBR integration issues. Workshop highlights included invited talks by Mary Lou Maher (University of Sydney) on design, Janice Glasgow (Queens University) on computational imagery, and Marc Goodman (Continuum Software, Inc.) on World Wide Web applications of CBR integrations. These talks provided the audience with a breadth of suggestions on how CBR can assist, and benefit from, integrations with other reasoning methods for a variety of tasks.

Workshop Report The 1994 Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) focused on the evaluation of CBR theories, models, systems, and system components. The CBR community addressed the evaluation of theories and implemented systems, with the consensus that a balance between novel innovations and evaluations could maximize progress. The 4 invited talks, 14 paper presentations, 19 poster presentations, and 1 summary panel discussion were attended by 66 participants. The four invited speakers discussed how CBR approaches can be evaluated in research projects, industrial applications, and military tasks. Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University [CMU]) outlined an exhaustive set of measures for evaluating CBR systems and discussed how she applied some of these measures in empirical comparisons with other approaches for solving job shop scheduling problems.

This article contains summaries of the eight symposia that were conducted: AI and Creativity, AI and NP-Hard Problems, Building Lexicons for Machine Translation, Case-Based Reasoning and Information Retrieval, Foundations of Automatic Planning, Innovative Applications of Massive Parallelism, Reasoning about Mental States, and Training Issues in Incremental Learning. Technical reports of the symposia AI and Creativity, Building Lexicons for Machine Translation, Case-Based Reasoning and Information Retrieval, Foundations of Automatic Planning, Innovative Applications of Massive Parallelism, Reasoning about Mental States, and Training Issues in Incremental Learning are available from AAAI. Instructions and an order form for purchasing electronic and hardcopy versions can be found elsewhere in this issue. The symposium AI and Creativity attracted participants from widely differing backgrounds, including philosophy, science, education, engineering, and even computer science. The major themes of the meeting were the nature of creativity, computational models of creativity, and computational support for creativity.

This page includes forthcoming AAAI sponsored conferences, conferences presented by AAAI Affiliates, and conferences held in cooperation with AAAI. AI Magazine also maintains a calendar listing that includes nonaffiliated conferences at www.aaai.org/Magazine/calendar.php. HCOMP 2014 will be held November 2-4 in Pittsburgh, PA USA. The AAAI Fall Symposium Series will be held November 13-15 in Arlington, VA USA. AAAI-15 will be held January 25-29 in Austin, Texas, USA.

A joint MIT-IBM team set out to build a very large-scale dataset to help AI systems recognize and understand actions in videos. The dataset contains 1 million three-seconds video clips, each annotated with the actions that occur during the clips.

As the growing temptation for automated processes covers the varied industrial spectrum, Machine Learning is emerging into an ocean of possibilities while IBM's Watson leads the marathon. From acting as a virtual chef of 65 recipes to embracing space programs, there's a swathe of applications being ideated, built and rolled out to the public. Pulling large volumes of data and producing the most relevant possible results to user's quest stays the flag bearer, Watson is amazing in churning higher revenues and upscaling business presence. Treatment for many of the world's deadliest diseases is entirely dependent upon reference to past records. While browsing through them all using traditional analytics applications is unvaried, IBM Watson takes a giant leap with instant derivations from years of clinical research and patient data.

The 2016 Computational Analogy Workshop at ICCBR

Report on the 24th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development (ICCBR-2016)

Computational analogy and case-based reasoning (CBR) are closely related research areas. Both employ prior cases to reason in complex situations with incomplete information. Analogy research often focuses on modeling human cognitive processes, the structural alignment between a base/source and target, and adaptation/abstraction of the analogical source content. While CBR research also deals with alignment and adaptation, the field tends to focus more on retrieval, case-base maintenance, and pragmatic solutions to real-world problems. However, despite their obvious overlap in research goals and approaches, cross communication and collaboration between these areas has been progressively diminishing. CBR and computational analogy researchers stand to benefit greatly from increased exposure to each other's work and greater cross-pollination of ideas. The objective of this workshop is to promote such communication by bringing together researchers from the two areas, to foster new collaborative endeavors, to stimulate new ideas and avoid reinventing old ones.