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Neuron Digest Volume 09 Number 16
Neuron Digest Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 Volume 9 : Issue 16
Today's Topics:
Int. Symposium on AI, CANCUN, MEXICO
ECAI WS: Neural Nets and a new AI
Call for papers SAB92
ECAI92 Advance Information
AI Conference Announcement.
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Subject: Int. Symposium on AI, CANCUN, MEXICO
From: "Centro de Inteligencia Artificial(ITESM)" <ISAI@TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 92 13:06:51 -0600
Please include the following information in your bulletin board.
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
The Symposium Publicity Committee.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Artificial Intelligence Technology Transfer Conference
APPLICATIONS IN MANUFACTURING AND ROBOTICS
December 7-11, 1992
Cancun, Mexico
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
The Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
will be held in Cancun Mexico on December 7-11, 1992.
The Symposium is sponsored by the ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico
y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) in cooperation with the
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Inc.,
the American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence,
The European Coordinating Committee for AI, the Sociedad Mexicana
de Inteligencia Artificial and IBM of Mexico.
Papers from all countries are sought that:
(1) Present applications of artificial intelligence technology
to the solution of problems in Manufacturing, robotics and
related areas.
(2) Describe research on techniques to accomplish such applications,
(3) Address the problem of transfering the AI Technology especially
in the context of the Free Trade Agreement among Canada, USA
and Mexico.
Areas of application include but are no limited to:
plant design, process planning, product design, scheduling,
assembly, production control, computer-integrated manufacturing,
inspection, qulality control, transportation problems, client
support, distribution, marketing, decision support, process
control, motion control, supervisory and expert control, alarm
diagnosis, equipment maintenance, energy savings and pollution
control.
Technology Transfer includes but is not limited to:
strategies for introducing and institutionalizing AI technology,
human resources formation in AI, justification of AI projects,
cooperation programs in the context of the Free Trade Agreement,
impact of AI and automation in the social environment of the
company.
AI techniques include but are not limited to:
computer vision and digital image processing, speech and natural
language understanding, pattern recognition, machine learning,
motion planning, neural nets, genetic algorithms, heuristic
search, uncertainty management, task planning, parallelism,
expert systems, knowledge engineering, knowledge acquisition
and representation, and case-based, geometric, temporal, spatial,
nonmonotonic, common sense and probabilistic reasoning.
Persons wishing to submit a paper should send five copies written
in English to:
Hugo Terashima, Program Chair
Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM.
Sucursal de Correos "J", Monterrey, N.L.
64849 MEXICO
Tel.(52-83) 58-2000 ext. 5134
Telefax (52-83) 58-1400 Dial ext.5143 or 58-2000 Ask ext.5143
Net address: isai at tecmtyvm.bitnet or terashim at mtecv2.mty.
itesm.mx.
The paper should identify the area and technique to which it
belongs. Papers will be evaluated with respect to their originality,
correctness, clarity and relevance. Use a serif type font, size 10,
single-spaced with a maximum of 10 pages. No papers will be accepted
by electronic means.
Important dates:
Papers must be received by April 30,1992. Authors will be
notified of acceptance or rejection by June 30,1992. A final copy
of each accepted paper, camera ready for inclusion in the Symposium
proceedings, will be due by July 31,1992.
Honorary Conference Chair: Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
General Chair: Francisco Cantu-Ortiz, ITESM, Mexico
General Co-Chair: Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
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Subject: ECAI WS: Neural Nets and a new AI
From: Georg Dorffner <georg@ai.univie.ac.at>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 17:29:51 +0100
Call for Participation
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Neural Networks and a new AI
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A workshop at the
Tenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
Aug 3, 1992
Vienna, Austria
Main organizer:
Georg Dorffner
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Schottengasse 3
A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43-1-53532810
Fax: +43-1-630652
email: georg@ai.univie.ac.at
Organization and Program Committee:
Hugues Bersini, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, B
Andy Clark, Univ. of Sussex, UK
Christoph Lischka, GMD St.Augustin, D
Rolf Pfeifer, Univ. of Zurich, CH
Noel Sharkey, Exeter Univ., UK
Scope and Content:
Recently there has been considerable discussion about whether
neural networks give rise to a new paradigm in artificial
intelligence. Terms like "sub-symbolic paradigm," "radical
connectionism," "distributed adaptive control," and others have
been used in describing the new ideas. The generally underlying
ideas seem to be the emphasis on non-symbolic internal
structures ("knowledge" in the most general sense), self-
organization and adaptation, and the view of higher-level
cognitive aspects as collective emergent phenomena based on
relatively simple underlying mechanisms. Heated arguments have
centered around issues such as the representational power of
distributed patterns in neural networks, the role of
compositionality, symbol grounding, etc. This workshop is
designed to bring together researchers who take seriously the
idea that neural networks can lead to a truly novel type of AI.
Moreover it will provide a forum for fruitful discussion, based
not only on epistemological arguments, but also on implemented
models of certain cognitive aspects. The aim of this workshop
will be to examine the philosophical arguments in the light of
the most recent computational results.
Possible Contributions:
Workshop papers relevant to this discussion are solicited.
Although purely theoretical contributions will be acceptable,
preference will be given to papers that also contain results
from actual simulations. The following is a list of some sample
applications relevant to this discussion
- examples where non-symbolic internal structures show superior
performance to symbolic ones. For instance, models of perception
that predict psychological data in a more subtle way than a
rule-based approach; models of word meaning that account for
subtle shifts, or the fuzzy meanings of composita; etc. For
this, a direct comparison to a symbolic approach, instead of
just a demonstration of the non-symbolic model is preferred.
- examples that demonstrate the power of non-concatenative
compositionality , and its relation to self-organization of
internal structure.
- examples for true collective emergent phenomena, such as
complex behavior of an autonomous agent based on simple
principles, concept formation as the collective self-
organization in a high-dimensional state-space, etc.
- examples for psychologically plausible reinforcement learning
mechanisms.
- examples for the true self-organization of knowledge not
previously represented, such as the acquisition of word
categories from processing sequences of words.
- examples of simulated needs, drives, or motivations guiding
the behavior of an intelligent agent.
Among others, the following questions will be addressed.
- Is it possible to completely stick to an approach that leaves
everything up to self-organization?
- How can the relevant initial architectures be found, within
which self-organization takes place? How much can or should our
symbolic knowledge about cognition guide us?
- What is the role of needs, drives, and motivations in models
of intelligence and cognition, and how can they be simulated?
- Working our way from the bottom of simple aspects up to more
complex cognition, will we ever meet the more traditional AI
approaches, or will they have to be discarded altogether, on the
long run?
- What are the forseeable technical or theoretical limits of the
approach?
- What is the practical offspring of a new AI in the near
future?
The discussion need not limit itself to neural networks as we
know them today. Instead it could encompass adaptive dynamical
systems in a much broader sense. If a non-neural idea is
presented, it should be shown what distinguishes it from a
neural one, and what are its advantages.
Submissions:
Papers on one of the above or related topics, not exceeding ten
pages, can be sent to the main organizer. All submissions must
be received by
April 22, 1992.
Submissions by email (in Latex or postscript) or fax are
acceptable. Authors will be notified about acceptance or
rejection by May 22, 1992. Please inlcude email address and/or
fax number for easier notification. Final papers will be due on
June 19, 1992. Informal proceedings will be handed out at the
conference. Publication of selected high-quality papers from
this workshop, together with results from the workshop
disucssion, is planned.
This workshop will be part of the Tenth European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (ECAI '92) taking place at the Vienna
University of Economics from Aug 3-7, 1992. Attendance will be
by invitation only, mainly on the basis of submitted papers. All
attendees must be registered participants of ECAI '92.
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Subject: Call for papers SAB92
From: Herbert Roitblat <roitblat@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 09:52:51 -1000
Conference Announcement and Call For Papers
FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS
Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB92)
Ilikai Hotel
Honolulu, Hawaii, December 7-11, 1992
This conference is the successor to SAB90 - which was held in Paris
in September, 1990. Its object is to bring together researchers in
ethology, psychology, ecology, cybernetics, artificial intelligence,
robotics, and related fields so as to further our understanding of
the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow animals and,
potentially, robots to adapt and survive in uncertain environments.
The conference will focus particularly on simulation models in order
to help characterize and compare various organizational principles
or architectures capable of inducing adaptive behavior in real or
artificial animals.
Contributions treating any of the following topics from the
perspective of adaptive behavior will receive special emphasis.
Individual and collective behavior Autonomous robots
Neural correlates of behavior Hierarchical and parallel organizations
Perception and motor control Emergent structures and behaviors
Motivation and emotion Problem solving and planning
Action selection and behavioral Goal directed behavior
sequences Neural networks and classifier systems
Ontogeny, learning and evolution Characterization of environments
Internal world models Applied adaptive behavior
and cognitive processes
Submission Instructions
Authors are requested to send two copies (hard copy only) of a full paper
to each of the Conference co-chairs (Meyer, Roitblat, & Wilson). Papers
should not exceed 10 pages (excluding the title page), with 1 inch
margins all around, and no smaller than 10 pt (12 pitch) type (Times
Roman preferred). Each paper must include a title page containing the
following: (1) Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, email
addresses (if available), and fax numbers for each author, (2) A 100-200
word abstract, (3) The topic area(s) in which the paper could be reviewed
(see list above). Camera ready versions of the papers will be required
after acceptance. Computer, video, and robotic demonstrations are also
invited. Please contact Herbert Roitblat to make arrangements for
demonstrations. Other program proposals will also be considered.
Conference committee
Conference Chair
Jean-Arcady MEYER
Groupe de Bioinformatique
URA686.Ecole Normale Superieure
46 rue d'Ulm
75230 Paris Cedex 05
France
e-mail: meyer@wotan.ens.fr
meyer@frulm63.bitnet
Herbert ROITBLAT
Department of Psychology
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2430 Campus Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
email: roitblat@uhunix.bitnet,
roitblat@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Stewart WILSON
The Rowland Institute for Science
100 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02142
USA
e-mail: wilson@smith.rowland.org
Organizing Committee S. Gagnon, H. Harley, D. Helweg, M. Hoffhines,
and local arrangements P. Nachtigall, P. Moore, M. Hoffhines, E. Reese
Program Committee
A. Berthoz, France M. Bitterman, USA
L. Booker, USA R. Brooks, USA
P. Colgan, Canada J. Delius, Germany
S. Goss, Belgium L. Steels, Belgium
R. Sutton, USA F. Toates, UK
S. Tsuji, Japan W. Uttal, USA
D. Waltz, USA
Official Language: English
Important Dates
JUL 15, 1992 Submissions must be received by the organizers
SEP 1, 1992 Deadline for early registration
OCT 1, 1992 Notification of acceptance or rejection
NOV 7, 1992 Deadline for regular registration
NOV 15, 1992 Camera ready revised versions due
DEC 7-11, 1992 Conference dates
Registration
All participants must register. Early registration fee will be $180,
regular registration will be $220 and late registration will be $250.
Students will be allowed to register for $50. Students should submit
proof of their status along with their registration fee. The fee for
accompanying persons is $75, which includes the reception and the cruise.
Meeting Site
The conference activities will be held at the Ilikai Hotel. The Ilikai is
situated at the gateway to Waikiki within walking distance of many fine
restaurants, Ala Moana Shopping Center, and Ala Moana Park. The Hotel
overlooks the Ala Wai Yacht Marina where Waikiki Beach begins. Room
rates for the conference are $110 or $125 per night (single or double).
Most rooms have been recently remodelled and provide ocean or city views.
The hotel is adjacent to the beach and also offers two swimming pools, a
fitness center, and tennis courts. Reservations must be made directly
with the hotel. Conference rates will be available for the weekend
before and the weekend following the conference as well. Arrangements
have been made for a small number of student rooms in a nearby hotel at
about $55 per night (single or double). Students are, of course, welcome
to stay in the conference hotel. Reservations for student rooms will be
made through the official travel agent. A small number of travel
scholarships may be available to defray part or all of the expenses of
attending the conference. Interested students should submit a letter of
application describing their research interests, the year they expect to
receive their degree, and a brief letter of recommendation from their
major professor. Please state the amount of support required. The number
and size of awards will be limited by the total money available.
Persons with disabilities may contact Herbert Roitblat for information on
accessibility. Advance notice is advised, if you have special needs and
request an accomodation. The University of Hawaii is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution.
Travel Information
Theo Stahl, Associated Travel, 947 Keeaumoku Street, Honolulu, HI 96814
(808) 949-1033, (800) 745-3444, (808) 949-1037 (fax) is the official
travel agent for the conference. Participants are encouraged, but not
required, to make their travel arrangements through Ms Stahl. United
Airlines is offering a special conference rate for participants from US
as well as European, Japanese, and Australian gateway cities served by
United. Ms Stahl is very knowledgeable about the local travel market and
can make arrangements to visit neighbor islands (including Hawaii with
its active volcano) and for other activities.
Please make your travel arrangements early because Hawaii is a popular
destination in December and the conference is scheduled just before the
start of the busiest season.
Tentative Conference Schedule
Sunday, December 6, 1992
1800-2000 Cocktail Reception at the Ilikai
Monday, December 7, 1992
0800-1230 Paper presentations
Break
1630-1900 Paper and poster presentations
Tuesday, December 8, 1992
0800-1230 Paper presentations
Break
1630-1900 Paper and poster presentations
Wednesday, December 9, 1992
0800-1230 Paper presentations
Break
1630-1900 Paper and poster presentations
Thursday, December 10, 1992
0800-1230 Paper presentations
Break
1630-1900 Paper and poster presentations
2100-2400 Cruise on the Navatek I
Friday, December 11, 1992
0800-1330 Paper presentations
1900 Optional Luau (not included in registration).
SAB92 December 7-11, 1992
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
Ilikai Hotel, Honolulu, HI
SAB92, December 7-11, 1992
____________________________________________________________
Last Name First Name Middle
____________________________________________________________
Professional Affiliation
____________________________________________________________
Street Address and Internal Mail Code
____________________________________________________________
City State/Country Zip/Postal Code
____________________________________________________________
E-mail Telephone Fax
Registration Fees (includes reception, cruise, continental
breakfasts)
___ Early (Before September 1, 1992) $180
___ Regular (Before November 7, 1992) $220
___ Late (After November 7, 1992) $250
___ Student (with proof of status) $50
___ Accompanying person (number of persons) $75
___ Luau (number of tickets) $45
___ Donation to support student scholarship fund $____
Enclosed is a check or money order (US $ only, payable to
University of Hawaii) for $_______
Return to: SAB92 Registration, Conference Center, University
of Hawaii, 2530 Dole Street, Honolulu, HI 96822.
SAB92 December 7-11, 1992
Hotel Registration
Ilikai Hotel
Name _____________________________________________________
Address _________________________________________________
City ____________________________________________________
State/Country, Zip ______________________________________
Telephone Number ________________________________________
Arrival Date ____________________________________________
Departure Date __________________________________________
No. of Persons __________________________________________
Preferred Room rate:
_____ 1 or 2 persons $110+tax
_____ 1 or 2 persons $125+tax
_____ 1 Bed _____ 2 Beds
_____ Handicapped Accessible
All reservations must be guaranteed by check or credit card
deposit for one night lodging.
Amount of enclosed check: $_____
Charge to: ___Visa ___ Mastercard ___American Express
___Diner's Club ___Discover
Credit card Number: _______________________
Expiration Date: ________
Signature ___________________________________
Request and deposit must be received by November 7, 1992.
Check-in time is 3:00. Check-out time is 12:00.
Mail hotel registration directly to the Ilikai Hotel,
1777 Ala Moana Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96815. (800) 367-8434.
(808) 947-4523 (fax). In Britain: 0800 282502
In Tokyo: 03-3281-4321
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Subject: ECAI92 Advance Information
From: ECAI92 Vienna Conference Service <ecai92@ai.univie.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 92 12:23:10 +0100
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Advance Information - ECAI92 - Advance Information - ECAI92 - VIENNA
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10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 92)
August 3-7, 1992, Vienna, Austria
Programme Chairperson
Bernd Neumann, University of Hamburg, Germany
Local Arrangements Chairperson
Werner Horn, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Vienna
The European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is the
European forum for scientific exchange and presentation of AI research.
The aim of the conference is to cover all aspects of AI research and to
bring together basic research and applied research. The Technical
Programme will include paper presentations, invited talks, survey
sessions, workshops, and tutorials. The conference is designed to
cover all subfields of AI, including non-symbolic methods.
ECAIs are held in alternate years and are organized by the European
Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI). The 10th
ECAI in 1992 will be hosted by the Austrian Society for Artificial
Intelligence (OGAI). The conference will take place at the Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
Mon-Tue (Aug 3-4): Tutorials and Workshops
Wed-Fri (Aug 5-7): Invited Talks, Paper Presentations, Survey Sessions
Tue-Fri (Aug 4-7): Industrial Exhibition
======================== INVITED LECTURES ==============================
Stanley J.Rosenschein (Teleos Research, Palo Alto, Calif., USA):
Perception and Action in Autonomous Systems
Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento, Italy):
A Third Modality of Natural Language?
Promising Trends in Applied Natural Language Processing
Peter Struss (Siemens AG, Muenchen, Germany):
Knowledge-Based Diagnosis - An Important Challenge and Touchstone
for AI
=================== TECHNICAL PAPERS PROGRAMME =========================
This will consist of papers selected from the 680 that were submitted.
These papers will be given in parallel sessions held from August 5
to 7, 1992. The topics of the papers include:
- Automated Reasoning
- Cognitive Modeling
- Connectionist and PDP Models for AI
- Distributed AI and Multiagent Systems
- Enabling Technology and Systems
- Integrated Systems
- Knowledge Representation
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language
- Philosophical Foundations
- Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning about Actions
- Principles of AI Applications
- Reasoning about Physical Systems
- Robotics
- Social, Economic, Legal, and Artistic Implications
- User Interfaces
- Verification, Validation & Test of Knowledge-Based Systems
- Vision and Signal Understanding
============================ TUTORIALS =================================
--- Tutorials ----- Mon, August 3, 9:00-13:00
Applied Qualitative Reasoning
Robert Milne, Intelligent Applications Ltd, Scotland, and
Louise Trave-Massuyes, LAAS, Toulouse, France
In Search of a New Planning Paradigm - Steps Beyond Classical Planning
Joachim Hertzberg, GMD, Germany, and
Sam Steel, Essex University, Cholchester, UK
Machine Learning: Reality and Perspectives
Lorenza Saitta, Universita di Torino, Italy
--- Tutorials ----- Mon, August 3, 14:00-18:00
AI in Service and Support
Anil Rewari, Digital Equipment Corp., Marlboro, Mass.
Case-Based Reasoning
Katia P. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Penn.
Computer Vision, Seeing Systems, and Their Applications
Jan-Olof Eklundh, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Gerhard Brewka, ICSI, Berkeley, Calif., and
Kurt Konolige, SRI, Menlo Park, Calif.
--- Tutorials ----- Tue, August 4, 9:00-13:00
Distributed AI
Frank von Martial, Bonn, and Donald Steiner, Siemens AG, Germany
Fuzzy Set-Based Methods for Inference and Control
Henri Prade, IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems
Jean-Pierre Laurent, Universite de Savoie, Chambery, France
--- Tutorials ----- Tue, August 4, 14:00-18:00
Current Trends in Language Technology
Harald Trost, Austrian Research Institute for AI and University of
Vienna, Austria
KADS: Practical, Structured KBS Development
Robert Martil, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Croydon, UK, and
Bob Wielinga, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Neural Networks: From Theory to Applications
Francoise Fogelman Soulie, Mimetics, France
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware,
and Alfred Kobsa, University of Konstanz, Germany
============================ WORKSHOPS =================================
Workshops are part of the ECAI92 scientific programme. They will give
participants the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in a
small, informal environment, which encourages interaction and exchange
of ideas. Persons interested in attending a workshop should contact the
workshop organizer (addresses below), and the conference office (ADV)
for ECAI92 registration. Note that all workshops require an early
application for participation.
A full description of all workshops can be obtained by sending an email
to ecai92.ws@ai.univie.ac.at, which will automatically respond.
--- Workshops ----- Mon, August 3
Art and AI: Art / ificial Intelligence
Robert Trappl, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelli-
gence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria; Fax: +43-1-630652,
Email: robert@ai.univie.ac.at
Coping with Linguistic Ambiguity in Typed Feature Formalisms
Harald Trost, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelli-
gence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria; Fax: +43-1-630652,
Email: harald@ai.univie.ac.at
Formal Specification Methods for Complex Reasoning Systems
Jan Treur, AI Group, Dept.of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 108-1a, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands; Fax: +31-29-6427705, Email: treur@cs.vu.nl
Knowledge Sharing and Reuse: Ways and Means
Nicolaas J.I. Mars, Dept.of Computer Science, University of Twente,
PO Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands; Fax: +31-53-339605,
Email: mars@cs.utwente.nl
Model-Based Reasoning
Gerhard Friedrich, Franz Lackinger, Dept.Information Systems, CD-Lab
for Expert Systems, Univ.of Technology, Paniglg.16, A-1040 Vienna;
Fax: +43-1-5055304, Email: friedrich@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Neural Networks and a New AI
Georg Dorffner, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelli-
gence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria; Fax: +43-1-630652,
Email: georg@ai.univie.ac.at
Scheduling of Production Processes
Juergen Dorn, CD-Laboratory for Expert Systems, University of
Technology, Paniglgasse 16, A-1040 Vienna, Austria;
Fax: +43-1-5055304; Email: dorn@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Validation, Verification and Test of KBS
Marc Ayel, LIA, University of Savoie, BP.1104, F-73011 Chambery,
France; Fax: +33-79-963475, Email: ayel@frgren81.bitnet
--- Workshops ----- Tue, August 4
Advances in Real-Time Expert System Technologies
Wolfgang Nejdl, Department for Information Systems, CD-Lab for Expert
Systems, University of Technology, Paniglgasse 16, A-1040 Vienna,
Austria; Fax: +43-1-5055304, Email: nejdl@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Application Aspects of Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Thies Wittig, Atlas Elektronik GmbH, Abt.TEF, Sebaldsbruecker
Heerstrasse 235, D-W-2800 Bremen 44, Germany; Fax: +49-421-4573756,
Email: t_wittig@eurokom.ie
Applications of Reason Maintenance Systems
Francois Charpillet, Jean-Paul Haton, CRIN/INRIA-Lorraine, B.P. 239,
F-54506 Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy Cedex, France; Fax: +33-93-413079,
Email: charp@loria.crin.fr
Artificial Intelligence and Music
Gerhard Widmer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelli-
gence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria; Fax: +43-1-630652,
Email: gerhard@ai.univie.ac.at
Beyond Sequential Planning
Gerd Grosse, FG Intellektik, TH Darmstadt, Alexanderstr.10, D-6100
Darmstadt, Germany; Fax: +49-6151-165326,
Email: grosse@intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Concurrent Engineering: Requirements for Knowledge-Based Design Support
Nel Wognum, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O.Box
217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands; Fax: +31-53-339605, Email:
wognum@cs.utwente.nl
Improving the Use of Knowledge-Based Systems with Explanations
Patrick Brezillon, CNRS-LAFORIA, Box 169, University of Paris VI,
2 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France; Fax: +33-1-44277000,
Email: brezil@laforia.ibp.fr
The Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Institut f.Informatik III, Universitaet Bonn,
Roemerstr.164, D-W-5300 Bonn 1, Germany; Fax: +49-228-550382,
Email: gerhard@uran.informatik.uni-bonn.de
--- Workshops ----- Mon and Tue, August 3-4
Expert Judgement, Human Error, and Intelligent Systems
Barry Silverman, Institute for AI, George Washington University, 2021
K St. NW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20006, USA; Fax: (202)785-3382,
Email: barry@gwusun.gwu.edu
Logical Approaches to Machine Learning
Celine Rouveirol, Universite Paris-Sud, LRI, Bat 490, F-91405 Orsay,
France; Fax: +33-1-69416586, Email: celine@lri.lri.fr
Spatial Concepts: Connecting Cognitive Theories with Formal
Representations
Simone Pribbenow, Email: pribbeno@informatik.uni-hamburg.de, and
Christoph Schlieder, Institut f.Informatik und Gesellschaft,
Friedrichstr.50, D-7800 Freiburg, Germany; Fax: +49-761-2034653,
Email: cs@cognition.iig.uni-freiburg.de
======================== GENERAL INFORMATION ===========================
DELEGATE'S FEE
(in Austrian Schillings, approx. 14 AS = 1 ECU, 12 AS = 1 US$)
early late on-site
(rec.before) (Jun 1) (Jul 15)
Members of ECCAI member organizations 4.500,- 5.000,- 6.000,-
Non-Members 5.000,- 6.000,- 7.000,-
Students 1.500,- 2.000,- 2.500,-
The delegate's fee covers attendance at the scientific programme
(invited talks, paper presentations, survey sessions, and workshops),
conference documentation including the conference proceedings, admission
to the industrial exhibition, and participation in selected evening
events.
TUTORIAL FEE (per tutorial)
early late on-site
(rec.before) (Jun 1) (Jul 15)
Members of ECCAI member organizations 3.000,- 3.500,- 4.000,-
Non-Members 3.500,- 4.000,- 4.500,-
Students 1.500,- 2.000,- 2.500,-
Tutorial Registration entitles to admission to that tutorial, admission
to the exhibition, a copy of the course material, and refreshments
during the tutorial.
ACCOMODATION
Hotels of different price categories, ranging from DeLuxe to the very
cheap student hostel (available for non-students too), are available for
the first week of August. The price ranges (in AS) are given below.
Hotel Category single room double room
with bath without bath with bath without bath
DeLuxe ***** 1690,-/2375,- 2400,-/3200,-
A **** 990,-/1300,- 1400,-/1790,-
B *** 750,-/980,- 1100,-/1350,-
Season Hotel 480,-/660,- 335,-/450,- 780,-/900,- 580,-/730,-
Student Hostel 220,- 380,-
The conference venue is located in a central district of Vienna. It can
be reached easily by public transport.
============================ REGISTRATION ==============================
For detailed information and registration material please contact the
conference office:
ADV
c/o ECAI92
Trattnerhof 2
A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43-1-5330913-74, Fax: +43-1-5330913-77, Telex: 75311178 adv a
or send your postal address via email to: ecai92@ai.univie.ac.at
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Subject: AI Conference Announcement.
From: James Rash <jim@class.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 11:20:13 -0500
Announcement
1992 Goddard Conference on Space Applications of
Artificial Intelligence
May 5 & 6, 1992
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
The Seventh Annual Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial
Intelligence will focus on AI research and applications relevant to space
systems, space operations, and space science.
The conference will be held at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Maryland on May 5 & 6, 1992. Additional events, described
below, will take place on the day before and on the day after the
conference. All events, including the conference, are free of charge.
Conference topics include:
Knowledge-based spacecraft command & control
Expert system management & methodologies
Distributed knowledge-based systems
Intelligent database management
Model-based reasoning
Fault isolation & diagnosis
Planning & scheduling
Knowledge acquisition
Neural networks
Image analysis
Conference invited speakers include:
Geoff Giffin (NASA Headquarters)
Randall Davis (MIT)
Len Moskowitz (Allied-Signal)
Linda Godwin (NASA crewmember of the STS-37 Space
Shuttle mission, which deployed GoddardUs GRO
spacecraft)
Pre-conference tutorials on Monday, May 4:
Probabilistic Reasoning
Genetic Algorithms
Day-long workshop on Thursday, May 7:
Fuzzy Logic, conducted by Lotfi Zadeh, Robert Lea, Maria
Zemankova, and Togai Infralogic
Phone-in preregistration for all events is required by April 17. All
events are free of charge.
All registrants must provide the following information: full name,
company or agency, full address, phone number, dates of attendance, and
citizenship (if not US, also indicate whether you have a Green Card).
To register, call (301) 937-6104, or FAX the above information to (301)
937-5423.
For further information, call (301) 286-3150.
Sponsored by NASA/GSFC Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate in
cooperation with the American Institue of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
National Capital Section.
(Please relay this announcement to interested persons.)
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Subject: AI Journal - CFP
From: Phil Agre <pagre@weber.UCSD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 15:58:07 -0800
Stan Rosenschein and I are editing a special issue of the AI Journal on
"Computational Theories of Interaction and Agency". We started from the
observation that a wide variety of people in AI and cognitive science are
using principled characterizations of interactions between agents and
their environments to guide their theorizing and designing and modeling.
Some connectionist projects I've heard about fit this description as
well, and people engaged in such projects would be most welcome to
contribute articles to our special issue. I've enclosed the call for
papers. Please feel free to pass it along to anyone who might be
interested. And I can send further details to anyone who's curious.
Thanks very much.
Phil Agre, UCSD
Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal
Special Issue on Computational Theories of Interaction and Agency
Edited by Philip E. Agre (UC San Diego) and
Stanley J. Rosenschein (Teleos Research)
Call for Papers
Recent computational research has greatly deepened our understanding of
agents' interactions with their environments. The first round of
research in this area developed `situated' and `reactive' architectures
that interact with their environments in a flexible way. These
`environments', however, were characterized in very general terms, and
often purely negatively, as `uncertain', `unpredictable', and the like.
In the newer round of research, psychologists and engineers are using
sophisticated characterizations of agent-environment interactions to
motivate explanatory theories and design rationales. This research opens
up a wide variety of new issues for computational research. But more
fundamentally, it also suggests a revised conception of computation
itself as something that happens in an agent's involvements in its world,
and not just in the abstractions of its thought.
The purpose of this special issue of Artificial Intelligence is to draw
together the remarkable variety of computational research that has
recently been developing along these lines. These include:
* Task-level robot sensing and action strategies, as well as projects
that integrate classical robot dynamics with symbolic reasoning.
* Automata-theoretic formalizations of agent-environment interactions.
* Studies of "active vision" and related projects that approach perception
within the broader context of situated activity.
* Theories of the social conventions and dynamics that support activity.
* Foundational analyses of situated computation.
* Models of learning that detect regularities in the interactions between
an agent and its environment.
This list is only representative and could easily be extended to include
further topics in robotics, agent architectures, artificial life,
reactive planning, distributed AI, human-computer interaction, cognitive
science, and other areas. What unifies these seemingly disparate
research projects is their emerging awareness that the explanation and
design of agents depends on principled characterizations of the
interactions between those agents and their environments. We hope that
this special issue of the AI Journal will clarify trends in this new
research and take a first step towards a synthesis. The articles in the
special issue will probably also be reprinted in a book to be published
by MIT Press.
The deadline for submitted articles is 1 September 1992. Send articles to:
Philip E. Agre
Department of Communication D-003
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093-0503
Queries about the special issue may be sent to the above address or to
pagre@weber.ucsd.edu. Prospective contributors are encouraged to contact
the editors well before the deadline.
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