B. Neumann (Chair)
February 99

REPORT TO GA

Meetings held and scheduled

2.9.98 Annual meeting of TC-12

The next annual meeting of TC 12 will take place in connection with IJCAI-99 at Stockholm, July 31 - August 6, 1999

Changes in Membership and Officers

New TC members:

A Werner Horn, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Vienna, Austria
DK Brian Mayoh, University of Aarhus, Denmark
NZ Nik Kasabov, University of Otago, New Zealand
SK Pavol Navrat, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia

WG 12.2 Machine Learning:

The terms of the WG chair and cochair have expired in 1998. New candidates have not been proposed. Activities have not been reported in 1998.

TC chair proposes to suspend WG 12.2 in order to allow restructuring.

New members of WG 12.5 Knowledge-Oriented Development of Applications:

NL    H. Akkermans
F    Y. Demazeau
J    R. Mizoguchi
GB    N. Shadbolt
USA    B. Swartout
NL    J. Treur

New Chair of new WG 12.6 Intelligent Information Management:

USA    D. OŽLeary

The IFIP representatives of all countries whose TC12 representative did not participate in TC12 activities for the last 4 years have been asked to consider appointing a new TC12 representative. Some responses are still pending.

Working group activities

The currently active WGs are

WG12.5 Knowledge-Oriented Development of Applications
WG12.6 Intelligent Information Management

Both WGs, in particular WG 12.5, participated in the preparation of the conference International Conference On Intelligent Information Processing (IIP-2000). The conference is designed to be a forum for TC12 WG activities and offers the following tracks:

Track 1: Intelligent Information Management
Track 2: Knowledge-Based System Architecture
Track 3: Distributed Intelligence

Events

31.8.98 - 4.9.98 IT&KNOWS Conference (Information Technology & Knowledge Systems) as part of WCC-1998
21.8 - 25.8.2000 IIP-2000 Conference (International Conference On Intelligent Information Processing) as part of WCC-2000 in Beijing

Publications

Proceedings of IT&KNOWS Conference

A book project based on IT&KNOWS contributions is underway (eds. J. Cuena and J. Treur).

Progress and status

The efforts to restructure TC12 have continued. Several valuable new representatives joined the TC.

Much of the work in the last half year was directed towards the TC12 conference IIP-2000 with WCC-2000 in Beijing. A sometimes controversial discussion about the track organisation could be concluded with a compromise.

TC meeting attendance statistics

		94	95	96	97	98	
A						x
AR						 	
AUS						vacant
B		x		x		 	
BG						 

CH			x		x	 
CDN			x			 		
CLEI						 
CZ						 
D		x	x	x	x	x

DK						 
E						x
F						vacant
FIN			x			 		
GB						x

GR					x	
H						
I			x	x	x	 
IND						vacant
J		x	x	x	x	x

N						x
NL		x	x			 		
P						vacant
PL		x				x
PRC					x	x

S			x			 
SEARCC					 
SK						 
TN						 
USA				x		 
ZA						 	

WG12.1			x	x	suspended
WG12.2		x	x		
WG12.3					suspended
WG12.4					suspended
WG12.5	x				x

Total		6	10	6	7	9 

REPORT TO TA

WG 12.2 Machine Learning:

The terms of the WG chair and cochair have expired in 1998. New candidates have not been proposed. Activities have not been reported in 1998. There has been communbication with Pavel Brazdil, Vice-Chair of WG 12.2, who prefers not to be reelected due to other obligations but suggests continuation of the WG.

TC chair agrees that Machine Learning is an important topic playing a part in several modern IT areas and applications (e.g. Data Minig, Neural Networks). However, it is advisable to restructure the WG following the ideas for the future of TC12 put forth in the last meetings. Hence TC chair proposes to suspend WG 12.2 in order to allow a new definition of the aims and scope and to obtain an active WG leadership.