http://www.cs.wright.edu/~mcox/mii
Mixed-initiative intelligence represents an amalgam of human and machine cognition that together produces intelligent behavior. Mixed-initiative systems integrate human and automated reasoning to take advantage of their respective reasoning styles and computational strengths. The benefit of such systems is the potential to combine the resources available to both; the challenge is to manage the interaction and responsibilities encountered in joint decision-making.
Various flavors of mixed-initiative computing share many human-computer interaction and human-factors concerns, because they must address the complexity of communication and interaction between human and machine. However, mixed-initiative computing transcends the fundamental concerns of other areas because the design of mixed-initiative systems implies problems of heterogeneous decision-making. The issues therefore include the division of processing and knowledge access, the coordination of natural-language dialogue among agents (both human and machine), and the shift of initiative and control during problem-solving and planning.
The goal of this workshop is to examine the issues of mixed-initiative computing from a wide perspective. The workshop will bring together people from diverse backgrounds who have looked at key issues in mixed-initiative systems in order to search for intersections under a common theme. The proposed format for the one day workshop is to have a number thematically organized discussion and/or panel sessions, a break-out problem-solving (human only) session with discussion, and an invited speaker (Paul Cohen). Potential discussion and panel topics include, but are not limited to:
Attendance: Maximum of 65 people. Invited participants will be based upon a short paper submission on a topic suited to mixed-initiative computing.
Submission requirements: Send 1 copy of length less than 10 pages by electronic mail (postscript) or 3 copies hard copy to the committee chair.
Submission deadline: March 12, 1999
Notification date: March 26, 1999
Final date for camera-ready copies to organizers: April 21, 1999
Michael T. Cox (Chair).
Department Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435-0001
phone: (937) 775-5126
fax #: (937) 775-5133
email: mcox@cs.wright.edu
George Ferguson.
Department of Computer Science
University of Rochester
PO Box 270226
Rochester, NY 14627-0226
phone: (716) 275-5766
fax #: (716) 461-2018
email: ferguson@cs.rochester.edu
Susan McRoy.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
P.O. Box 784
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201
phone: (414) 229-6695
fax #: (414) 229-6958
email: mcroy@cs.uwm.edu
S. Narayanan.
Department of Biomedical and Human Factors Engineering
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435
phone: (937) 775-5171
fax #: (937) 775-5133
email: snarayan@cs.wright.edu
Robert St. Amant.
Department of Computer Science,
Box 8206
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
phone: (919) 515-2858
fax #: (919) 515-7896
email: stamant@csc.ncsu.edu