Seminars, Workshops, Conferences at AIT
March 11, 2003: The Computer Science and Information Management Program, School of Advanced Technologies will organize the following two special lectures on at 1:00 p.m., room 201, Telecom Building.
Title: A logic-based agent model and its application to 'chance discovery', game theory and conflict resolution
Speaker: Prof. Robert Kowalski http://www-lp.doc.ic.ac.uk/UserPages/staff/rak/rak.html
Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow
Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
ABSTRACT:
In this talk, he will summarize some of the most important
intelligent agent models developed in Cognitive Science, including
condition-action rule production systems, goal-reduction, and BDI
agents. He will present a unified logic-based cognitive model, developed
with Fariba Sadri, which arguably incorporates many of the best features of these other models.
To illustrate the power and generality of the unified agent model, he will
discuss three applications: 'chance discovery,' as exemplified by a shopping example; the prisoner's dilemma; and a logical analysis of the
Agha-Malley proposed solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
March 11, 2003, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Room 201, Telecom Building
Title: Speculative Computation in multi-agent systems
Speaker: Prof. Ken Satoh
Professor of Foundations of Information Research Division,
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
ABSTRACT:
In multi-agent system, we often face incompleteness of information due to communication failure or other agent's suspension of decisions. To solve the incompleteness, we propose a speculative computation using abduction in the context of multi-agent systems and a procedure in abductive logic programming. In this study, a master agent prepares a default value for a question in advance and it performs speculative computation using the default without waiting for a reply for the question. This computation is effective unless the contradictory reply with the default is returned. We also discuss usage of computation in planning domain.
Interested persons are invited. CSIM students are encouraged to attend these lectures.
March 14, 2003, 10:00 a.m.: A special seminar entitled 'Bond Graph Modelling of Thermometallurgical Process in a Runout Table Cooling,' will be given by Dr. Surjya K. Pal, a candidate for a faculty position in Design and Manufacturing Engineering (DME) field. This seminar scheduled on Friday, will be held in room 106, at the Chalerm Prakiat Building.
Members of FA&R; Panel, Search Panel, and SAT faculty/staff/students are invited. ISE students are encouraged to attend, others are most welcome.
March 14, 2003, 10:00-12:00 a.m. at E109 (Seminar Room SERD Office 2): Lecture and Seminar on Rural Development and Rural Energy Supplies: Potential of Small and Micro-Hydel Projects for Forest Conservation in Mountain Areas of Northern Pakistan will be conducted by Dr. Jurgen Clemens, Department of Geography, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is currently teaching human geography, regional development and basics of general and topical cartography.
The topic is of great interest within the context of research activities on rural development that is carried out by AIT in various parts of Asia.
All interested persons are invited to attend.
April 9-11, 2003: A short term training workshop on DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION will be organized by Electric Power System Management, AIT
The main topics that will be covered are as follows:
- Demand side management options
- DSM programs in Thailand
- DSM implementation issues and challenges
- Introduction to power quality
- Power quality improvement devices and their demonstration
- Distribution load flow and state estimation
- Introduction to distribution automation
- Components and architecture of DA systems
- Remote terminal units and communication system
- Master DA and application software
- DA system implementation & testing
- Demonstration of DA system
Resource persons:
Prof. Surapong C., AIT
Dr. Weerakorn O., AIT
Dr. Mithulananthan N., AIT
Prof. S.C. Srivastava, IIT-Kanpur, India
Mr. R. P. Gupta, IIT-Kanpur, India
Dr. Jovitha J., SIIT, Thammasat U., Thailand
Dr. Bundit L., SIIT, Thammasat U., Thailand
Mr. Terry Chandler, Power Quality Inc.
The registration fee is US$175 (THB7,000) per participant. For
attendees from government agencies, state enterprises, or universities,
the registration fee is US$150 (THB6,000). Accommodation can be arranged at AIT Conference Center or hotel near AIT upon request of participant.