Activities of all working groups result from the existing theoretical and applied
background in the related disciplines and areas. This guarantees horizontal and
vertical connection of most potential experts, developers and users in the respective
field of interest. As a rule, before a working group is established, its future
members are centered already for a longer time around some of many regular problem-oriented
seminars organized within the CSKI. The announcements of the seminars are regularly
published at the newsletter and/or at a special electronic mailing list for distribution
of seminar and conference announcements. Currently, over 400 individuals (not
only the CSKI members) have subscribed to the mailing list. The Internet providing
access via e-mail and WWW gains importance both for the communication among the
CSKI members and for the presentation of the CSKI activities to the public.
The existing opportunity of forming working groups makes possible to avoid
unnecessary foundation of other more specialized societies which would encounter
obvious difficulties due to the limited number of their members. For example,
there are approximately 50 active members of the Artificial Intelligence Working
Group (Committee) of the CSKI. There is no intention to create an independent
AI Society, because its inclusion into CSKI seems to be more appropriate to
its members especially when the Society became a member of the European Coordinating
Committee for Artificial Intelligence in 1990. Moreover, this structure supports
natural dissemination of related ideas. CSKI has currently the following 8 working groups: |