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Neuron Digest Monday, 18 Oct 1993 Volume 12 : Issue 7
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ECAI '94 Amsterdam
Bat-Sheva Seminar on Functional Brain Imaging
Symposium on Connectionist Models and Psychology (Australia)
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Subject: ECAI '94 Amsterdam
From: vet@cs.utwente.nl (Paul van der Vet)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 93 16:24:14 +0100
E C A I '94
A M S T E R D A M
11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Amsterdam RAI International
Exhibition and Congress Centre
The Netherlands
August 8-12, 1994
Call for Papers
Call for Workshop proposals
Exhibition
Call for Tutorial proposals
Organized by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial
Intelligence (ECCAI)
Hosted by the Dutch Association for Artificial Intelligence (NVKI)
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, panels, 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 11th ECAI
in 1994 will be hosted by the Dutch AI Society (NVKI). The conference
will take place at the Amsterdam RAI, International Exhibition and
Congress Centre.
E X H I B I T I O N
An industrial and academic exhibition will be organized from August 9 -
11, 1994. Detailed information will be provided in the second call for
papers or can be obtained at the conference office (for the adress see
elsewhere).
S P O N S O R S (preliminary list)
Bolesian B.V.
Municipality of Amsterdam
University of Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
University of Limburg
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
T O P I C S O F I N T E R E S T
You are invited to submit an original research paper that represents a
significant contribution to any aspect of AI, including the principles
underlying cognition, perception, and action in humans and machines; the
design, application, and evaluation of AI algorithms and intelligent
systems; and the analysis of tasks and domains in which intelligent
systems perform. Theoretical and experimental results are equally
welcome. Papers describing innovative ideas are especially sought
providing such papers include substantial analysis of the ideas, the
technology needed to realize them, and their potential impact.
Of special interest this year are papers which address applied AI. Two
kinds of papers are sought. The first category is case studies of AI
applications that address significant real-world problems and which are
used outside the AI community itself; these papers must justify the use
of the AI technique, explain how the AI technology contributed to the
solution and was integrated with other components, and most importantly
explain WHY the application was successful (or perhaps why it failed) --
these "lessons learned" will be the most important review criteria. The
second category is for papers on novel AI techniques and principles that
may enable more ambitious real-world applications. All the usual AI
topics are appropriate. These papers must describe the importance of the
approach from an applications context, in sufficient technical detail and
clarity, and clearly and thoroughly differentiate the work from previous
efforts. There will be special prizes for the best papers in both these
areas.
S U B M I S S I O N O F P A P E R S
Authors are requested to submit to the Programme Chairperson 5 copies
of papers written in English in hardcopy format (electronic and fax
submissions will not be accepted).
Each submitted paper must conform to the following specifications.
Papers should be no longer than 5500 words including references. (Each
full page of figures counts as 1100 words.) Papers longer than this
limit risk being rejected without refereeing. A separate title page
should include the title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete
address(es), email, fax and telephone numbers, the specification of
between one and four Content Areas, preferably chosen from the list
below and an abstract (maximum 200 words). The title page should also
contain a declaration that the paper is unpublished, original work,
substantially different from papers currently under review and will
not be submitted elsewhere before the notification date other than to
workshops and similar specialized presentations with a very limited
audience. Papers should be printed on A4 or 8.5"x11" sized paper in
letter quality print, with 12 point type (10 chars/inch on a
typewriter), single spaced. Double sided printing is preferred.
Authors who wish to check that their submission will fit into the
final CRC format will be able to obtain detailed instructions
including a latex style file and example postscript pages after
October 15 by anonymous FTP from agora.leeds.ac.uk, directory ECAI94,
or by e-mailing ecai94-style@scs.leeds.ac.uk with a message body of
"help".
When submitting a paper an electronic mail message should also be sent
to ecai94-title@scs.leeds.ac.uk giving information in the format
specified below. If an intending author has no e-mail facilities then
this requirement is waived.
Papers should be sent to:
Programme Chairperson: Dr Tony Cohn
Division of Artificial Intelligence
School of Computer Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
Tel.: (+44)-532-33.54.82
Fax: (+44)-532-33.54.68
E-mail: ecai94@scs.leeds.ac.uk
TITLE: <title of paper>
AUTHOR: <first author last name, first name>
AFFILIATION: <first author affiliation>
AUTHOR: <second author last name, first name>
AFFILIATION: <second author affiliation>
...<repeat for all authors>
CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS: <give name, address, fax and telephone on successivelines>
CORRESPONDENCE E-MAIL: <give correspondence e-mail address>
CONTENT AREAS: <at most four content areas, separated by semi-colons>
ABSTRACT: <text of the abstract>
The content areas preferably should be drawn from the topics listed
below. The text of the abstract field may include formatting commands,
if desired, but these should be omitted from all other fields. Work
described in an accepted paper may also be illustrated with a
videotape or a demo. Special sessions will be scheduled for video
presentations and demos. Authors wishing to show a videotape or a demo
should specify the duration and the requirements of the videotape/demo
when submitting their paper for review. Reviewing criteria do not
apply to these tapes. Only the submitted papers will be peer-reviewed.
Authors wishing to augment their paper presentation with a video
should submit a tape only after their paper has been accepted. For
details concerning tape format, see the video track description below.
C O N T E N T A R E A S
Abduction; AI and Creativity; Artificial Life; Automated Reasoning;
Automatic Programming; Belief Revision; Case Studies of AI
Applications; Case-Based Reasoning; Cognitive Modelling; Common Sense
Reasoning; Communication and Cooperation; Complexity of Reasoning;
Computational Theories in Psychology; Computer-Aided Education;
Concept Formation; Connectionist and PDP Models for AI;
Constraint-Based Reasoning; Corpus-Based Language Analysis; Deduction;
Description Logics; Design; Diagnosis; Discourse Analysis; Discovery;
Multi-Agent Systems; Distributed Problem Solving; Enabling Technology
and Systems; Epistemological Foundations; Expert System Design;
Generic Applications; Genetic Algorithms; Integrating AI and
Conventional Systems; Integrating Several AI Components; Kinematics;
Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Representation; Large Scale Knowledge
Engineering; Logic Programming; Machine Architectures; Machine
Learning; Machine Translation; Mathematical Foundations; Model Based
Reasoning; Monitoring; Natural Language Front Ends; Natural Language
Processing; Navigation; Neural Networks; Nonmonotonic Reasoning;
Philosophical Foundations and Implications; Plan Recognition; Planning
and Scheduling; Principles of AI Applications; Qualitative Reasoning;
Reactivity; Reasoning About Action; Reasoning About Physical Systems;
Reasoning With Uncertainty; Resource Allocation; Robotics; Robot
Navigation; Search; Sensor Interpretation; Sensory Fusion/Fission;
Simulation; Situated Cognition; Social Economic, Ethical and Legal
Implications; Spatial Reasoning; Speech Recognition; Standardisation,
Exchange and Reuse of Ontologies or Knowledge; Parsing; Semantic
Interpretation; Pragmatics; System Architectures; Temporal and Causal
Reasoning; Terminological Reasoning; Text Generation and
Understanding; Theorem Proving; Truth Maintenance; Tutoring Systems;
User Interfaces; User Models; Verification, Validation and Testing of
Knowledge-Based Systems; Virtual Reality; Vision and Signal
Understanding.
T I M E T A B L E
Papers must be received by the Programme Chairperson no later than
January 8, 1994. Acceptance letters will be posted no later than
March 12, 1994. Final camera-ready papers must be received by April
19, 1994.
P A N E L S
Proposals for panel discussions (up to 1000 words) should be sent to
the Programme Chairperson by Februar 8, 1994. E-mail is preferred.
P R I Z E S
As in previous years, a prize for the best paper as determined by the
Programme Committee will be awarded; the Digital Equipment Prize and a
prize for the best paper from Eastern Europe will also be awarded.
Additionally, this year there will be two new prizes which will be
awarded for application papers in the two categories described above
under "Case Studies of AI Applications" and "Principles of AI
Applications".
V I D E O S U B M I S S I O N S
In addition to the possibility of video enhanced papers described
above, videos unaccompanied by papers may be submitted for
presentation in special video track sessions. The purpose of these
videos should be to demonstrate the current levels of usefulness of AI
tools, techniques and methods. Videos presenting research arising out
of interesting real world applications are especially sought. Authors
should submit one copy of a videotape of 10 minutes maximum duration
accompanied by a submission letter that includes:
* Title
* Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of
all authors
* Duration of tape in minutes
* Three copies of an abstract of one to two pages in length,
containing the title of the video, and full names and addresses of the
authors
* Author's permission to copy tape for review purposes
The timetable and conditions for submission, notification of
acceptance or rejection, and receipt of final version are the same as
for the paper track. All videotape submissions must be made to the
Programme Chair. Tapes cannot be returned; authors should retain
extra copies for making revisions. All videos must be in VHS-PAL
format. An e-mail message giving the title, author, address and
abstract should be e-mailed to ecai94-video@scs.leeds.ac.uk (unless
the submitter has no e-mail access in which case this condition is
waived).
Tapes will be reviewed and selected for presentation during the
conference. The following criteria will guide the selection:
Level of interest to the conference audience
Clarity of goals, methods and results
Presentation quality (including audio, video and pace).
Preference will be given to applications that show a high level of
maturity. Tapes that are deemed to be advertising commercial products,
propaganda, purely expository materials, merely taped lectures or
other material not of scientific or technical value will be rejec-
ted.
P R O G R A M M E C O M M I T T E E
C. Baeckstroem, Sweden
J.P. Barthes, France
I. Bratko, Slovenia
P. Brazdil, Portugal
J. Breuker, The Netherlands
F. Bry, Germany
R. Casati, Switzerland
C. Castelfranchi, Italy
J. Cuena, Spain
Y. Davidor, Israel
L. Farinas del Cerro, France
F. Fogelman Soulie, France
J. Fox, United Kingdom
G. Friedrich, Austria
A. Frisch, United Kingdom
C. Froidevaux, France
A. Fuhrmann, Germany
A. Galton, United Kingdom
J. Ganascia, France
M. Ghallab, France
J. Goncalves, Italy
G. Gottlob, Austria
F. Giunchiglia, Italy
E. Hajicova, Czech Republic
P. Hill, United Kingdom
S. Hoelldobler, Germany
D. Hogg, United Kingdom
G. Kelleher, United Kingdom
G. Kempen, The Netherlands
M. King, Switzerland
A. Kobsa, Germany
M. Lenzerini, Italy
R. Lopez de Mantaras, Spain
N. Mars, The Netherlands
J. Martins, Portugal
P. Meseguer, Spain
R. Milne, United Kingdom
B. Nebel, Germany
R. Nossum, Norway
H.J. Ohlbach, Germany
E. Oja, Finland
E. Oliveira, Portugal
E. Plaza, Spain
J. Rosenschein, Israel
Ph. Smets, Belgium
L. Spanpinato, Italy
O. Stock, Italy
P. Struss, Germany
P. Torasso, Italy
R. Trappl, Austria
L. Trave-Massuyes, France
W. van de Velde, Belgium
W. Wahlster, Germany
T. Wittig, Germany
W O R K S H O P S
A full workshop programme is planned for ECAI '94. These will take
place in the two days immediately before the main technical
conference, i.e., on August 8 and 9, 1994. Workshops may last for
either 1 or 2 days.
They will give participants the opportunity to discuss specific
technical topics in a small, informal environment, which encourages
interaction and exchange of ideas. Workshops may address any topic
covered by the list of areas given above [i.e., in the general call
for papers]. Workshops on applications and related issues are
especially welcome. Workshop proposals should be in the form of a
draft call for participation containing a brief description of the
workshop and the technical issues to be addressed, the proposed format
and the kind of contributions solicited, and the names and addresses
(postal, phone, fax, e-mail) of the organizing committee of the
workshop. Additionally, proposals should specify the number of
expected participants and some names of some potential participants.
Proposers are encouraged to send their draft proposal to potential
participants for comments before submission.
The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a
call for participation, for reviewing requests to participate and
for scheduling the workshop activities within the constraints set by
the conference organizers.
Workshop proposals should be sent to the Workshop Chairpersons as soon
as possible, but not later than November 1, 1993. Electronic
submission (plain ascii text) is highly preferred, but hard copy
submission is also accepted in which case 5 copies should be
submitted. Proposals should not exceed 2 sides of A4 (i.e.,
approximately 120 lines of text). The proposals will be reviewed by
the Programme Committee and the organizers will be notified not later
than December 31, 1993.
Details of all accepted workshops will be available by anonymous FTP
from cs.vu.nl, directory ECAI94 by January 31, 1994; alternatively
send electronic mail to ecai94-workshops@cs.vu.nl. It should be
noted that registration for the main conference will be required in
order to attend an ECAI '94 workshop.
Workshop Chairpersons: Prof.dr Jan Treur
Dr Frances Brazier
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Department of Computer Science
De Boelelaan 1081 a
1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel.: (+31)-20-548.55.88
Fax: (+31)-20 -642.77.05
E-mail: ecai94-workshops@cs.vu.nl
T U T O R I A L S
The ECAI '94 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial
Programme for ECAI '94. The tutorials will take place on August 8 and
9, 1994. Anyone who is interested in presenting a tutorial, or who has
suggestions concerning possible speakers or topics is invited to
contact the Tutorial Chair.
A list of suggested topics that may be covered by tutorials is given
below, but the list is only a guide. Other topics, both related to
these and quite different from them, will be considered:
Model-based reasoning; Natural language processing; Real-time
reasoning; AI & databases (deductive databases, integrity
constraints); Distributed AI, multi-agent systems; AI in industry
(banking, networking, engineering); Knowledge sharing and reuse;
Machine learning; Neutral Networks; Probabilistic reasoning and
uncertainty; Genetic algorithms; Case-based reasoning; KBS design
and methodology (including knowledge acquisition); Planning and
scheduling; Hypermedia/multi-media in AI
We are interested in:
Proposals for the tutorials to be presented at the ECAI '94
Suggestions for topics (either an expression of interest in any of the
topics above or in other topics)
Suggestions for possible speakers for the tutorials (who would you
like to hear if you attend a tutorial?)
Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial should submit a proposal
containing the following information:
* A brief description and outline of the tutorial
* The necessary background and the potential target audience
* A description of why the tutorial topic is of interest to the ECAI
'94 audience
* A brief resume of the presenters
Each tutorial will last for four hours, and must be offered by a team
of presenters (usually two people, possibly three). Those submitting a
proposal should keep in mind that tutorials are intented to provide an
overview of a field or practical training in an area. They should
present reasonably well agreed upon information in a balanced way.
Tutorials should not be used to advocate a single avenue of research,
nor should they promote a product. Presenters of a tutorial will
receive a remuneration based on the number of participants in the
tutorial.
Proposals and suggestions must be received by September 1, 1993.
Decisions about the tutorial programme will be made by September 30,
1993. Speakers should be prepared to submit completed course materials
by May 6, 1994.
Proposals, suggestions and enquiries should be sent (preferably
electronically) to:
Tutorial Chairperson: Dr Frank van Harmelen
SWI
University of Amsterdam
Roetersstraat 15
1018 WB Amsterdam
Tel.: (+31)-20-525.61.21, or
(+31)-20-525.67.89
Fax: (+31)-20-525.68.96
E-mail: ecai94-tutorials@swi.psy.uva.nl
Details of all tutorials will be available by September 30, 1993 by
anonymous FTP from swi.psy.uva.nl, directory ECAI94.
I N F O R M A T I O N
For more information please contact:
Organizing Chairperson: Workshop Chairpersons:
Prof.dr Jaap van den Herik Prof.dr Jan Treur
Dutch Association for Artificial Dr Frances Brazier
Intelligence (NVKI) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
University of Limburg Department of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science De Boelelaan 1081 a
P.O. Box 616 1081 HV Amsterdam
6200 MD Maastricht The Netherlands
The Netherlands Tel.: (+31)-20-548.55.88
Tel.: (+31)-43-88.34.77 Fax: (+31)-20-642.77.05
Fax: (+31)-43-25.23.92 E-mail: ecai94-workshops@cs.vu.nl
E-mail: bosch@cs.rulimburg.nl
Programme Chairperson: Tutorial Chairperson:
Dr Tony Cohn Dr Frank van Harmelen
Division of Artificial SWI
Intelligence University of Amsterdam
School of Computer Studies Roetersstraat 15
University of Leeds 1018 WB Amsterdam
Leeds LS2 9JT The Netherlands
United Kingdom Tel.: (+31)-20-525.61.21, or
Tel.:(+44)-532-33.54.82 (+31)-20-525.67.89
Fax: (+44)-532-33.54.68 Fax: (+31)-20-525.68.96
E-mail: ecai94@scs.leeds.ac.uk E-mail: ecai94-tutorials@swi.psy.uva.nl
CONFERENCE OFFICE:
Erasmus Forum
c/o ECAI '94
Marcel van Marrewijk, Project Manager
Mirjam de Leeuw, Conference Manager E C A I '94
Erasmus University Rotterdam AMSTERDAM
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: (+31)-10-408.23.02
Fax: (+31)-10-453.07.84
E-mail: M.M.deLeeuw@apv.oos.eur.nl
ECCAI
EUROPEAN COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Subject: Bat-Sheva Seminar on Functional Brain Imaging
From: BRAIN1@VM.TAU.AC.IL
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 10:40:10 +0700
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\centerline{\bf BAT-SHEVA SEMINAR ON FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING}
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\centerline{\bf Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 9 to 16, 1994}
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\centerline{\bf FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT}
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The seminar will bring together experts on various techniques
of functional brain imaging (PET, EEG, MEG, Optical,
and particular emphasis on MRI). It will start with a day of tutorials
at Tel-Aviv University. These will serve as technical and scientific
introductions for participants from different disciplines. It will
continue in a resort hotel at the seashore with plenary lectures,
describing recent advances in all different techniques
and comparing their merits and scientific results.
Speakers include: M. Abeles, J. W. Belliveau, A. S. Gevins, A. Grinvald,
M. H\"am\"al\"ainen, S. Ogawa, H. Pratt,
M. Raichle, R. G. Shulman, D. Weinberger.
The number of participants in the workshop will be limited.
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Information and registration: Dan Knassim Ltd., P.O.B. 57005,
Tel-Aviv 61570, Israel.
Tel: 972-3-562 6470 Fax: 972-3-561 2303
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\centerline {D. Horn~~~~~~~~G. Navon}
\centerline {ADAMS SUPER-CENTER FOR BRAIN STUDIES}
\centerline {TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY, TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL}
\centerline{ e-mail: brain1@taunivm.tau.ac.il }
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Subject: Symposium on Connectionist Models and Psychology (Australia)
From: janetw@cs.uq.oz.au
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 16:15:51 +0900
First Announcement: Call to participants
SYMPOSIUM ON CONNECTIONIST MODELS AND PSYCHOLOGY
University of Queensland
Brisbane Australia
Saturday, 29 January 1994
(back-to-back with the Australian Conference on Neural Networks)
The symposium is aimed at psychologists and psychological modelers,
specifically those who are studying or questioning the relevance of
neural networks to experimental psych. We are aiming to provide a
structured forum for discussion of issues. The symposium is structured
into three sessions, focussed on the following themes:
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME (8.10.93)
SESSION 1. The rationale for psychologists using models: What
benefits (if any) are there to be gained from using neural nets and
other computational devices as models of human perception and cognition?
Chair: Peter Slezak
Target Address: Danny Latimer
Discussants: Max Coltheart; Sally Andrews; Margaret Charles
SESSION 2. Correspondence between human and network performance: What
methods and measures are available for comparing network variables and
human experimental data?
Chair: Danny Latimer
Speakers: Kate Stevens; Graeme Halford; Simon Dennis
SESSION 3. Basic computational processes: Psychological theories of
cognition assume the operation of basic processes such as comparison,
storage, search etc. What do the connectionist and symbol-manipulating
approaches provide as means for modeling these processes?
Chair: Steve Schwartz
Target Address: Janet Wiles
Discussants: Mike Johnson; Zoltan Schreter; George Oliphant
For the first and third sessions the role of the speaker is to raise
issues and, possibly, defend a position. The reviewers will provide
a commentary on the issues raised by the target speaker. For the
second session, the role of the speakers is to raise and discuss
conceptual and empirical issues. In all sessions the chair will lead
the discussion.
We're aiming to circulate a pre-proceedings two weeks in advance
of the symposium to registered participants.
_______________________________________________________________________
Details
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Date: Saturday 29th January, 1994
Time: 9.00am - 6pm
Location: Dept of Psychology, Room 304, University of Queensland
St Lucia, Brisbane.
_______________________________________________________________________
Please indicate your interest in attending the Symposium by returning
this form or by contacting one of the organizers by email, telephone or
fax by January 3, 1994.
I will be attending the Symposium.
Please keep me informed of developments
Name: ................................................................
Address:................................................................
................................................................
Phone: ................................................................
Fax: ................................................................
Email: ................................................................
_______________________________________________________________________
Janet Wiles Kate Stevens Danny Latimer
Dept of Comp Sci Dept of Psychology Dept of Psychology
Uni of Queensland Uni of Queensland Uni of Sydney
St Lucia 4072 St Lucia 4072 NSW 2006
Phone: 07 365-2902 Phone: 07 365-6203 Phone: 02 692-2481
Fax: 07 365-1999 (International: +61-7-365-1999)
Email: janetw@cs.uq.oz.au
Email: kates@psych.psy.uq.oz.au
Email: cyril@psychvax.psych.su.oz.au
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