Workshop Announcement

2006 Workshop on Real-Time Knowledge Processing for Wireless Network Communications

DARPA and the National Science Foundation are sponsoring a workshop on Real-Time Knowledge Processing for Wireless Network Communications at Stanford University on March 29, 2006. This workshop will immediately follow the Spring Symposium of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), but is not affiliated with AAAI.

Purpose:

Technologies currently used to organize and adapt Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) do not scale beyond 50 to 100 nodes. DARPA is funding MANET programs that foresee self-organizing wireless networks of millions of nodes. At the same time, research is being initiated into the application of reasoning and artificial intelligence (AI) in complex and adaptive wired and wireless networks, but such research is often constrained by the lack of tools and technology focused on this class of embedded and distributed application. This workshop will bring together researchers in the artificial intelligence and software radio communities to discuss research opportunities, the needs of large-scale MANETs, initial experience with cognitive techniques used in experimental MANETs, and novel organizing technologies that can be used to support these large MANETs.

The workshop will host panels and invited papers in two broad areas: 1.) the problems the wireless networking community faces which require cognitive technology solutions, and how network researchers have been applying cognitive technologies; and 2.) opportunities for scaling large MANETs by the use of cognitive technologies such as reasoning, learning, declarative, and neural network technologies.

The goal of the workshop is to familiarize AI researchers with the adaptive networking problem area; and to engage the AI community with network researchers in a discussion of how tools and techniques developed by the AI community might be applied to large-scale wireless networks.

Specific areas to be addressed:

• Scaling problems with large-scale self-organizing MANETs

• Experience implementing AI solutions for MANETs

• Reasoning and resource management applied to routing and spectrum allocation

• Ontologies and reasoning in MANETs

• Toolkits for real-time knowledge processing

• Hybrid techniques -- combining neural processing/learning/genetic algorithms with abstraction and reasoning from a priori knowledge

This Workshop is open to any interested party, including but not limited to Universities, private or public companies, Government Laboratories, and Government research establishments.

Workshop Registration Instructions: The Workshop Registration form will be available shortly. There is no charge for workshop registration or attendance.

Sponsors for the Workshop are:

For further administrative information please contact
Karen Martin at DARPA.

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