Machine Learning in Design

The upcoming Vol 12, No. 2 issue of the journal

AI EDAM: Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing.

will be devoted to machine learning in design. Authors are invited to submit original work on this topic as outlined below.

After the successful conclusion of the Machine Learning in Design (ML in D) Workshop at the AI in Design conference in 1996, the workshop organisers, Dave Brown, Ashok Goel and Alex Duffy, decided to put together a special issue of AIEDAM.

The purpose of the workshop was to explore the issues and requirements of ML in D with a view of critically evaluating the required support from machine learning techniques. The objective was not only to identify key areas for future research, but also to stimulate synergy in the Machine Learning in Design research community.

The discussion centered around a number of "dimensions" of ML in D proposed by D. L. Grecu and D. C. Brown, namely :

  i).  What can trigger learning?
 ii).  What are the elements supporting learning?
iii).  What might be learned?
 iv).  Availability of knowledge for learning?
  v).  Methods of learning?
 vi).  Local vs Global learning
vii).  Consequences of learning

For further details see http://cs.wpi.edu/~dcb/AID/taxonomy.html

You are invited to submit a paper discussing your original work in relation to the above dimensions. Your response should address three main elements:

a). A presentation of your MLinD work.
b). An attempt to categorise it in terms of the dimensions.
c). A critique of the proposed dimensions based on that attempt.

Shorter papers would also be acceptable that just address part c).

Every paper submitted will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.

The proposed schedule for this special issue is:

           Apr 1998 	Issue 12(2) appears 
    17 October 1997	Revised papers to Guest editors
     29 August 1997	Reviews to Authors
      8 August 1997 	Reviews due
       27 June 1997	Papers due
       7 March 1997	Declaration of interest from authors due

Please send the paper, and all correspondence, via email to the guest editors by using the address:

mlind@cad.strath.ac.uk

Send the paper in both postscript form and also in plain text. The plain text will only be used if there are problems with the postscript, and, if so, you will be notified so that you can send any diagrams.

Please notify us by 7 March 1997 via email of your intention to submit a paper.

Guest editors:

Dr Alex H B Duffy

University of Strathclyde, U.K.

alex@cad.strath.ac.uk

http://www.cad.strath.ac.uk/People/alex.html

Prof Ashok Goel

Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

goel@cc.gatech.edu

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/faculty/goel/

Prof David C Brown

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.

dcb@cs.wpi.edu

http://www.wpi.edu/~dcb/

http://www.cad.strath.ac.uk/~alex/EDAM/MLinD/CFP.html