TIME-99:
   Sixth International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning

                           Orlando, Florida, USA
                              May 1-2, 1999

                         PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together active researchers in the
area of temporal representation and reasoning in Artificial Intelligence.
Previous workshops have been successful at bridging the gaps between theoretical
and applied research in temporal reasoning. The workshop is planned as a two
day event to immediately precede FLAIRS-99 (12th Annual Florida Artificial
Intelligence Research Symposium, May 3-5). Visit the TIME99 webpage at

	 http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/C.Dixon/time99/time99.html

or the FLAIRS-99 webpage at http://erau.db.erau.edu/~towhid/flairs99.html
for more details.

TIME-99 will be conducted as a combination of paper presentations, an
extended poster session, and invited talks. Submission of high quality 
papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited for all areas of 
temporal representation and reasoning, including, but not limited to:

              temporal logics and ontologies
	      temporal constraint reasoning
              temporal languages and architectures
              expressive power versus tractability
              belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge
              temporal databases
              spatiotemporal reasoning and spatiotemporal databases
              temporal learning and discovery
              reasoning about actions and events
              time and nonmonotonism
              time in problem solving (e.g. diagnosis, scheduling,...)
              time in multiple agents, communication, and synchronization
              other applications

To maximize interaction among participants, the size of the workshop will be
limited. Accepted papers will be invited for full presentation or a poster
presentation. All submissions must be received by December 6, 1998.
Prospective participants should submit a 6-8 page paper (indicating the 
selected areas), preferably electronically. To do so, send a postscript
file (generated from a .dvi file) to one of the following email addresses

                 C.Dixon@doc.mmu.ac.uk
                 M.Fisher@doc.mmu.ac.uk

Alternatively, send 5 hard copies of your submission to:

		Clare Dixon or Michael Fisher
        	TIME-99 Program Chairs
		Department of Computing and Mathematics
		Manchester Metropolitan University
                Manchester M1 5GD
		United Kingdom


                              PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. As well, a
selected subset of the papers will be invited for inclusion (subject to
refereeing) in a book or in a special issue of a journal.


                          ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

	 James Allen		 General Chair
	 Clare Dixon             PC Co-Chair
         Michael Fisher          PC Co-Chair
         Howard Hamilton         Treasurer/FLAIRS Liaison
         Scott Goodwin           Organizing Committee Member

		PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Preliminary List)

 Frank Anger               National Science Foundation, USA
 Mark Boddy                Honeywell Systems and Research Centre, USA
 Iliano Cervesato          Stanford University, USA
 Luca Chittaro             Universita' di Udine, Italy
 Jan Chomicki              Monmouth University, USA 
 Philippe Dague            Universite Paris-Nord, France
 Mark Denecker             Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
 Clare Dixon               Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
 Marcelo Finger            Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil
 Michael Fisher            Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
 Dov Gabbay                Kings College, London, UK
 Scott Goodwin             University of Regina, Canada
 Hans Guesgen              University of Auckland, NZ          
 Peter Haddawy             University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
 Patrick Hayes             University of West Florida, USA
 Lina Khatib               Florida Institute of Technology, USA                
 Peter Ladkin              Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany
 Gerard Ligozat            Univerite Paris-Sud, France
 Ron van der Meyden        University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
 Angelo Montanari          Universita' di Udine, Italy
 Bernhard Nebel            Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
 Han Reichgelt             University of the West Indies, Jamaica
 Mark Reynolds             Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
 Abdul Sattar              Griffith University, Australia
 Yuval Shahar              Stanford University, USA
 Paolo Terenziani          University of Torino, Italy
 Andre Trudel              Acadia University, Canada
 Thierry Vidal             National Engineering School of Tarbes (ENIT), France
 Lluis Vila                Technical University of Catalonia, Spain



            		SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT DATES 

        December 6, 1998       Submission deadline
        May 1-2, 1999          TIME-99 Workshop
        May 3-5, 1999          FLAIRS-99 Conference

[Dates for notification of acceptance and deadline for camera ready copy to
 be decided but will be around mid February and mid March respectively.]