B. Neumann (Chair)
September 2001
REPORT TO GA
Meetings held and scheduled
The last annual meeting of TC-12 has taken place on August 6, 2001 in Seattle, USA, in connection with the bi-yearly International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01). The next meeting will take place in August 2002 in Montreal, Canada, in connection with IFIP WCC2002.
Changes in Membership and Officers
No changes.
Working group activities
The current WGs are
WG12.5 Knowledge-Oriented Development of
Applications
WG12.6 Intelligent Information Management
Both WGs participate in the preparation of the Conference On Intelligent Information Processing (IIP2002) within IFIP WCC2002 in Montreal. The conference is designed to be a forum for TC12 WG activities and offers the following tracks:
Track 1: "Knowledge-Based System
Architecture"
Track 2: "Intelligent Information Management"
There will be the following linkage sessions together with other TCs:
Linkage Session "Autonomous Agents - Control and Security"
Linkage Session "Innovative Software Architecting with and for Intelligent
Information Systems"
Linkage Session "Semantic Web"
Linkage Session "Personalized Web Interaction"
Linkage Session "Web-based Learning"
Events
21.8 - 25.8.2000 IIP-2000, International Conference On Intelligent Information Processing, Beijing, China (supported by TC12 as part of WCC-2000).
17.12. - 19.12.2000 KBSC International Conference on Knowledge-Based Computer Systems, Mumbai, India (sponsored by TC12)
Progress and status
Much work of TC-12 is directed towards the TC12 conference IIP2002 which will be part of WCC2002 in Montreal. Furthermore, at the TC12 meeting in Seattle several promising actions have been decided which will increase visibility and level of activities. Developing countries, where IFIP typically has a good visibility, may have special interest in TC-12 activities, e.g. tutorials. In order to attract AI people to TC-12 activities, interesting services should be offered to the AI community. As an example, a web-based inventory of all AI societies should be offered.
TC meeting attendance statistics
94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 A x x ACM new x AUS new x B x x BG CH x x x vacant CDN x CLEI CZ x x D x x x x x x x x DK vacant x x E x F vacant FIN x x x GB x x x GR x x H I x x x x IEEE new x IND vacant J x x x x x x x x N x x NL x x NZ vacant x x P vacant PL x x x x PRC x x x x x S x SK x x TN
94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 ZA
WG12.5 x x x x x WG12.6 x x x Total 6 10 6 7 9 13 12 9
REPORT TO TA
The current WGs are
WG 12.5 "Knowledge-Oriented Development of
Applications"
WG 12.6 "Intelligent Information Management"
The topics of the WGs attract much attention and appear to be well chosen. They provide the focus of IIP-2002, the TC12 stream in WCC2002. The linkage sessions planned together with other PCs are very important to make this conference a success.
Most of the activities of TC12 are directed towards IIP2002 at the WCC2002 in Montreal.