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AIList Digest Volume 3 Issue 121
AIList Digest Wednesday, 11 Sep 1985 Volume 3 : Issue 121
Today's Topics:
Seminars - Equational Logic as a Programming Language (UPenn) &
Constructive Lexicon-Grammar (BBN) &
Corporate Distribution Management (CMU) &
Belief, Awareness, and Limited Reasoning (SU),
Conferences - Factory Automation and Robotics &
Aerospace Applications of AI
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 85 14:10 EDT
From: Tim Finin <Tim%upenn.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
Subject: Seminar - Equational Logic as a Programming Language (UPenn)
EQUATIONAL LOGIC AS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
Michael J. O'Donnell, The University of Chicago
3pm September 19th, 216 Moore School, University of Pennsylvania
In logic programming languages, programs are logical assertions with no
explicit procedural information, and execution consists of the efficient
derivation of certain logical consequences of a program. Prolog, and
relational database query languages are both logic programming languages based
on the predicate calculus. The advantages of logic programming are clarity of
programs, simplicity of semantics, and the potential for parallel execution
without timing dependence. In this talk, I describe a programming language
based on the logic of equations. A prototype implementation exists, and has
been used in a number of experiments. The talk will focus on examples
illustrating the advantages of equational programming, and the differences
between equational programming and Prolog programming.
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Date: 4 Sep 1985 17:37-EDT
From: AHAAS at BBNG.ARPA
Subject: Seminar - Constructive Lexicon-Grammar (BBN)
[Forwarded from the MIT bboard by SASW@MIT-MC.]
The next BBN Artificial Intelligence seminar will be held in the 3rd
floor large conference room at 10 Moulton Street, 10:30 on Friday
September 13. Bruce Nevins of BBN wil speak on "Constructive
Lexicon-Grammar". His abstract:
Maurice Gross's group in Paris found that, after they had specified
French verbs by their syntactic properties, there was no need for
lexical features to make further semantic distinctions between them.
Because of this perhaps surprising result, they have been able to
develop a highly specific lexical representation, using classifier
words in sentence forms rather than abstract features. Their
lexicon-grammar replaces most context-free parsing with simple lookup
in 3-dimensional tables of syntactic properties of words.
Constructive grammar, as exemplified by Harris's _A_Grammar_of
_English_on_Mathematical_Principles_ (Wiley, 1984), uses only the
constructive `has-a' relations of dependency and adjunction, limiting
the taxonomic `is-a' relation to classifier hierarchies of words in
the lexicon. A given input morpheme can only be one of a few kinds of
things: an operator with specified argument requirement, a primitive
argument (roughly, a concrete noun), an argument-indicator like -ing,
the operator-indicator -s, or a product of certain precisely
specifiable reductions of strings to more compact, and more
conventional, form. Because each morpheme has at most only a very few
possible syntactic roles--frequently, just one--computer analysis of
text has much less structural ambiguity to cope with than in other
approaches.
In this talk, I will show how these two approaches to natural language
processing may be combined in a system for construing (as opposed to
parsing) natural language input that should be readily adaptable to
text generation as well. I will sketch extensions similar to Naomi
Sager's system for automatically incorporating new text information
into subject-matter specific data bases.
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Date: 9 Sep 85 11:09:38 EDT
From: Jeanne.Bennardo@CMU-RI-ISL1
Subject: Seminar - Corporate Distribution Management (CMU)
Topic: Presentation of Inet Project
Speakers: Ramana Reddy and Nizwer Husain
Place: DH3313
Date: Wednesday, September 11
Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
The Inet project is an application of Knowledge Based Simulation(KBS)
techniques to the domain of corporate distribution management. Corporate
distribution management provides a rich environment for studying new
techniques developed in KBS. Consider a typical manufacturing organization
which manufactures a number of products and whose components are manufactured
in a number of widely separated locations. These components are warehoused
and merged at different locations and distributed to reseller locations. In
such a system there are numerous decisions that have to be made about the
transportation, warehousing, manufacturing and order administration policies.
The purpose of I-NET is to provide a simulation model which can be
understood, modified and used by managers directly without the assistance of
a programmer. These facilities should provide the manager with an indepth
understanding of the distribution network and aid in decision making.
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Date: Mon 9 Sep 85 10:45:56-PDT
From: Anne Richardson <RICHARDSON@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
Subject: Seminar - Belief, Awareness, and Limited Reasoning (SU)
DAY October 1, 1985
EVENT Computer Science Colloquium
PLACE Skilling Auditorium
TIME 4:15
TITLE Belief, Awareness, and Limited Reasoning
PERSON Dr. Joe Halpern
FROM IBM Corporation
BELIEF, AWARENESS, AND LIMITED REASONING
Classical possible-worlds models for knowledge and belief suffer from the
problem of logical omniscience: agents know all tautologies and their
knowledge is closed under logical consequence. This unfortunately is not a
very accurate account of how people operate! We review possible-worlds
semantics, and then go on to introduce three approaches towards solving the
problem of logical omniscience. In particular, in our logics, the set of
beliefs of an agent does not necessarily contain all valid formulas. One of
our logics deals explicitly with awareness, where, roughly speaking, it is
necessary to be aware of a concept before one can have beliefs about it,
while another gives a model of local reasoning, where an agent is viewed as a
society of minds, each with its own cluster of beliefs, which may contradict
each other. The talk will be completely self-contained.
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Date: 27 Aug 85 10:33 EDT
From: (Herb Bernstein) <BERNSTEIN@NYU-CMCL1.ARPA>
Subject: Symposium on Fact. Aut. & Robotics
[Forwarded from the MIT bboard by SASW@MIT-MC.]
Reminder:
The Symposium on Factory Automation and Robotics
A Forum for Industrial and Academic Robotics Engineers and Scientists
will be held 9-11 September 1985
by the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
in honor of Marvin Denicoff
sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Registration $35 ($25 for NYU faculty and staff), in advance to
NYU/CIMS Symposium on Fac. Aut. and Robotics
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
251 Mercer Street, New York, N.Y. 10012
Attn: Herbert J. Bernstein
Or at the meeting, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, Loeb Student Center,
566 LaGuardia Place (corner of LaGuardia Place and Wash. Sq. South).
For more information or to RSVP, mail to yaya@nyu (on ARPANET), or
call 212-533-3363 or 212-460-7444.
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Date: 6 Sep 1985 13:30-EDT
From: cross <cross@wpafb-afita>
Subject: Aerospace Applications of AI Conference
Registration is still open for the First Annual Aerospace Applications
of Artificial Intelligence, September 17-19, 1985 in Dayton Ohio.
The number to call for registration information is (513) 426-8430.
The conference will be held at the Dayton Convention Center and the
conference hotel, Stouffer's Dayton Plaza, is adjacent. Stouffer's
phone number is (513) 224-0800. The registration cost of $225.00
includes the two conference luncheons and the banquet. The program is
listed below:
First Annual Aerospace Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference
Program
Tuesday Morning, 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Welcome to Dayton
Mayor Paul Leonard
Welcome to AAAIC'85
Jack Schira, AAAIC'85 General Chairman
Capt Stephen E. Cross, AAAIC'85 Program Chairman
Tuesday Morning, 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Management Session
Session Moderator:
Brig Gen Philippe O. Bouchard
Vice Commander, Aeronautical Systems Division
Speakers:
Brig Gen Philippe O. Bouchard
Vice Commander, Aeronautical Systems Division
Dr. Woodrow Bledsoe
MCC and U. of Texas at Austin
Dr. Joseph Watson
Vice President of the Data Systems Group,
Texas Instruments
Dr. Clinton Kelly III
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Tuesday Luncheon, noon - 1:30 PM, Stouffer's Dayton Plaza
Dr. Ed Taylor, TRW
Tuesday Afternoon, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Avionics Session
Session Moderator:
Maj James R. Johnson, AFWAL
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Tom Garvey, SRI International, AI Center
"Keeping the Pilot in Command: AI and Avionics"
Speakers:
Dick Feldman and Hal Cambell, Systran
"Expert System Pilot Aid - an Update"
Dr. Bruce Anderson, Christa McNulty, and Garr S. Lystad
"Expert Systems for Aiding Combat Pilots"
Dr. Michael R. Fehling, Teknowledge Inc.
"Research Issues for Knowledge Based Planning"
Programming Languages
Session Moderator:
Dr. Gary Lamont, AFIT
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Kenneth Kahn, Xerox PARC
"The Integration of Multiple Paradigms for AI
Programming"
Speakers:
Charles T. Kitsmiller, J. Boose, T. Jardine
Boeing Computer Services
"Coupling Symbolic and Numerical Computing in Expert
Systems"
Bruce Reed Jr., Goodyear Aerospace
"An Implementation of LISP on a SIMD Parallel
Processor"
Dick Naedel, Intellimac
"Ada and Artificial Intelligence"
Mark Miller, Computer Thought
"Ada and Artificial Intelligence"
Wednesday Morning, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Manufacturing
Session Moderator:
Dr. Vince Russo, AFWAL
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Mark Fox, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
"Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing"
Speakers:
Dr. Petros Papus, Westinghouse Electric Corp.
"ISIS Project in Review"
Robert Joy, Northrup Corp.
"Lisp Machine Based Generative Process Planning and
Object Oriented Simulation"
Capt Thomas Triscari, AFIT, and
Dr. William M Henghold, Universal Technology Institute
"Research Needs for AI in Manufacturing"
Man-Machine Interfaces
Session Moderator:
Dr. Tom Furness, AAMRL
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. William Rouse, Search Technology Inc.
"Human Interaction with Intelligent Systems"
Speakers:
D. Woods and E. Roth, Westinghouse R&D Center
"Joint Person-Machine Cognitive Systems: Issues in
Intelligent Decision Support"
Norm Geddes, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Intent Inferencing Using Scripts and Plans"
Dr. Russ Hunt, Search Technology Inc.
"Human Factors of Intelligent Computer-aided Display
Design"
Wednesday Afternoon, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Maintenance
Session Moderator:
Cpt Rob Milne, Army AI Center, Pentagon
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University
"Artificial Intelligence Applications to Diagnostics
and Maintenance"
Speakers:
Mr. R. Cantone, Automated Reasoning Corp., and
Dr. Don Allen, Northrup Corp.
"Technical Diagnosis by Automated Reasoning"
Dr. Joseph Hintz, Raytheon Co.
"Expert Systems in Higher Echelon Maintenance
Activities"
Dr. F. Pippitone and Dr. K DeJong, Naval Research Lab
"FIS: An Electronics Fault Isolation System Based on
Qualitative Causal Modeling"
New Architectures
Session Moderator:
Dr. Barry Deer, Systran
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Victor Lesser, Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst
"Overview of Important Issues in Distributed Problem
Solving"
Speakers:
Dr. Barry Deer, Hal Cambell, Jack Schira, and
Dick Feldman, Systran
"Architecture-Based Machine Intelligence"
Cpt Richard Routh and Dr. Matthew Kabrisky, AFIT
"Cortical Thought Theory: A New Computing Architecture
Based on the Human Brain"
Bruce Reed, Goodyear Aerospace
"The ASPRO Parallel Inference Engine (A Real Time
Production Rule System)"
Wednesday Evening Banquet, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Dr. Mark Stefik, Xerox PARC
Thursday Morning, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Decision Support Systems
Session Moderator:
Dr. Yan Yufik, NCR
Keynote Speaker:
Prof Donald Michie, The Turing Institute
"The Automated Development of Decision Support
Systems"
Speakers:
Cpt Rob Milne, Army AI Center, Pentagon
"An Equipment Distribution Expert System"
Dr. Thomas Sheridan, MIT, and Dr. Yufik, NCR
"Hybrid Knowledge Based System for Operation
Planning"
Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, Grumman-CTEC
"Determining the Relevance of Cues: A New Type of
Decision Support"
Expert System Tools
Session Moderator:
Mr. David Dietz, System Research Laboratories Inc.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Earl Sacerdoti, Teknowledge Inc.
"Overview of Expert System Building Tools"
Speakers:
Dr. William Faught, IntelliCorp
"Aerospace Application and the Use of KEE"
Linda Brainard, System Research Laboratories Inc.
"Developing Portable Expert Systems"
Mark Maletz, Inference Corp., and C. Cuthbert, NASA
"Monitoring Real-Time Navigation Processes Using the
Automated Reasoning Tool (ART)"
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