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AIList Digest Sunday, 12 Jan 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 5
Today's Topics:
Conferences - Intelligent Systems Symposium &
Workshop on AI for Generic Avionics &
Uncertainty and AI Workshop &
User-System Interfaces Workshop &
IFIP Conference on Knowledge and Data &
2nd Expert Systems in Government, Re-Revised Version
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Date: 6 January 1986 1412-EST
From: Peter Andrews@A.CS.CMU.EDU
Subject: Conference - Intelligent Systems Symposium
An International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent
Systems (ISMIS'86) will be held October 23-25, 1986 in Knoxville,
Tennessee. Papers are solicited in the following areas:
(1) Expert Systems
(2) Knowledge Representation
(3) Learning and Adaptive Systems
(4) Intelligent Databases
(5) Approximate Reasoning
(6) Logics for Artificial Intelligence
Papers will be due on March 1, 1986, and papers which are
accepted will be published in the proceedings of the symposium. A
copy of the Call for Papers is posted on my office door (WEH 7216),
and you can get a personal copy by sending a message to Zbigniew Ras
(ras%tennessee.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA).
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 86 17:52:17 est
From: Scott C McKay <scm%gitpyr%gatech.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
Subject: Conference - Workshop on AI for Generic Avionics
AVIONICS LABORATORY WORKSHOP
ON
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR GENERIC AVIONICS
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Atlanta, Georgia
March 26-28, 1986
The Avionics Laboratory, located within the Air Force Wright
Aeronautical Laboratories at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, is
the primary organization responsible for planning and executing
the Air Force basic research, exploratory and advanced
development programs for aerospace avionics. A current major
focus of that program is to explore the applicability of
artificial intelligence to many functional avionics domains. The
results have been very encouraging and we are convinced that AI
will have significant future utility in aerospace vehicles.
In order to plan for orderly, timely and expanded developments in
AI, the Avionics Laboratory will be conducting a Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence for Generic Avionics. The overall
objective is to identify the "key basic research issues" that
constrain the future expanded applicability of artificial
intelligence technology to avionics applications and to outline
what research should be pursued to remove the constraints. The
workshop will be held at Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia on March 26-28, 1986.
The workshop is planned to be an intensive 3-day work session
involving 35-40 (maximum) of the best researchers in the field.
Attendance will be by invitation only.
If you feel you could contribute significantly to the objectives
of the workshop and are interested in attending, please contact
either of the following by 20 Jan 86: Lawrence E. Porter (513)
255-4415, AFWAL/GLXRA, Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433-6543 or
Michael Noviskey (513) 255-2713, same address.
The mission of the Avionics Laboratory is broad and includes the
primary areas of navigation, surveillance, reconnaissance,
electromagnetic warfare, fire control, weapon delivery,
communications, system architecture, information and signal
processing and control, subsystem integration and supporting
electronics, and software and electromagnetic device research and
development. This mission spans the spectrum from basic research
to advanced development. The emphasis of this workshop is being
placed on the former. I encourage you to plan to attend the
workshop and participate in a stimulating AI basic research
exchange with your peers. I can assure you that the results will
have a direct impact on future investment in AI basic research.
Lawrence E. Porter
Chairperson
Artificial Intelligence Planning
Avionics Laboratory
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 86 18:29:34 pst
From: gluck@SU-PSYCH (Mark Gluck)
Subject: Conference - Uncertainty and AI Workshop
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Second Workshop on: "Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence"
Philadelphia, PA. August 9-11, 1986 (preceeding AAAI conf.)
Sponsored by: AAAI and RCA
This workshop is a follow-up to the successful workshop in L.A.,
August 1985. Its subject is reasoning under uncertainty and
representing uncertain information. The emphasis this year is on real
applications, although papers on theory are also welcome. The
workshop provides an opportunity for those interested in uncertainty
in AI to present their ideas and participate in the discussions. Also
panel discussions will provide a lively cross-section of views.
Papers are invited on the following topics:
*Applications--Descriptions of novel approaches; interesting results;
important implementation difficulties; experimental comparison of
alternatives etc.
*Comparison and Evaluation of different uncertainty formalisms.
*Induction (Theory discovery) under uncertainty.
*Alternative uncertainty approaches.
*Relationship between uncertainty and logic.
*Uncertainty about uncertainty (Higher order approaches).
*Other uncertainty in AI issues.
Preference will be given to papers that have demonstrated their approach
in real applications. Some papers may be accepted for publication but not
presentation (except at a poster session).
Four copies of the paper (or an extended abstract) should be sent to the
arrangements chairman before 23rd. May 1986. Acceptances will be sent by the
20th. June and final (camera ready) papers must be received by 11th. July.
Proceedings will be available at the workshop.
General Chair: Program Chair: Arrangements Chair:
John Lemmer Peter Cheeseman Lawrence Carnuccio
KSC Inc. NASA-Ames Research Center RCA-Adv. Tech. Labs.
255 N. Washington St. Mail Stop 244-7 Mooretown Corp. Cntr.
Rome, NY 13440 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Route 38, Mooretown,
(315)336-0500 (415)694-6526 NJ 08057
(609)866-6428
Program Committee:
P. Cheeseman, J. Lemmer, T. Levitt, J. Pearl, M. Yousry, L. Zadeh.
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Date: Thu 9 Jan 86 15:12:41-CST
From: CMP.LADAI@R20.UTEXAS.EDU
Subject: Conference - User-System Interfaces Workshop
USER-SYSTEM INTERFACES WORKSHOP
When: January 31 - Febuary 1, 1986
Where: Austin South Plaza Hotel, Austin, Texas
I-35 and Woodward
What: A multidisciplinary conference addressing the problem of implementing
effective communication between human and machine. The contributions
of various fields such as Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive
Psychology are considered.
Participants:
Brooks AFB SAM
Burroughs
IBM
Lockheed
MCC
Rice University
Southwest Research Institute
Texas A&M University
Texas Instruments
University of Texas
Registration: Mail to:
Before Jan. 24 - $30.00 M. Sury
Students - $15.00 Dept. T2-32, Bldg. 30E
After Jan. 24 - $40.00 Lockheed Austin Division
Students - $20.00 P.O. Box 17100
Includes lunch on Jan. 31. Austin, TX 78760
For additional info:
Ron Grissell - [512]448-5154
Manda Sury - [512]448-5314
Diana Webster - [512]448-9186
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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 85 23:12:53 EST
From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa.yktvmv%ibm-sj.csnet@CSNET-SH.ARPA>
Subject: Conference - IFIP Conference on Knowledge and Data
IFIP
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING
ANNOUNCEMENT
TC2 WORKING CONFERENCE organized by Working Group 2.6
Knowledge and Data (DS-2)
November 3-7, 1986 in Albufeira (Algarve), Portugal
Scope: Questions of meaning are more important for the design
of a knowledge base than methods of encoding data in bits and bytes.
As database designers add more semantic information to their systems,
their conceptual schemata begin to look like AI systems of
knowledge representation. In recognizing this convergence on issues of
semantics, IFIP Working Group 2.6 is organizing a working conference
on Knowledge and Data. It will address the issues and problems
of knowledge representation from an interdisciplinary point of view.
Topics:
Design of a conceptual schema
Knowledge and data modeling
Database semantics
Natural language semantics
Expert database systems
Logic, databases, and AI
Methods of knowledge engineering
Tools and aids for knowledge acquisition
Invited speakers:
Herve Gallaire, Germany
Robert Meersman, Belgium
J. Alan Robinson, USA
Roger Schank, USA
Dana Scott, USA
An IFIP working conference is oriented towards detailed discussion of
the topics presented. Participation is by invitation, with optional
contribution of a paper that is refereed by the program committee.
Anyone who is interested in participating should send an abstract
of current research or a prospective paper to either of the
program cochairmen. Abstracts are due March 14, 1986. Complete
papers are due May 16, 1986.
General Chairman: Amilcar Sernadas, Portugal
Program cochairmen:
John F. Sowa Robert Meersman
IBM Systems Research Institute L.U.C. -- Dept. WNIF
500 Columbus Avenue Universitaire Campus
Thornwood, NY 10594 B-3610 Diepenbeek
U.S.A. Belgium
CSNET: sowa.yktvmt@ibm
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Date: 30 Dec 85 16:17:11 EST (Mon)
From: Duke Briscoe <duke@mitre.ARPA>
Subject: Conference - 2nd Expert Systems in Government, Re-Revised Version
This is yet another revision of the notice sent out several weeks ago,
and is a revision of the revision sent out earlier today. I am sorry
for the repetition, but there have been several foul-ups in the
information being fed to me for the production of this announcement.
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ON
EXPERT SYSTEMS IN GOVERNMENT
Tyson's Westpark Hotel, McLean, VA in suburban Washington, D.C.
October 20 - 24, 1986
The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and
the Mitre Corporation in cooperation with AIAA/NCS.
The objective of the conference is to explore the following:
- knowledge based applications and supporting technologies
- implementation and impact of emerging application areas
- future trends in available systems and required research
Classified and unclassified papers which relate to the use of
knowledge based systems are solicited. The topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following applications:
Professional: engineering, finance, law, management, medicine
Office Automation: text understanding, intelligent DBMS, intelli-
gent systems
Command & Control: intelligence analysis, planning, targeting,
communications, air traffic control, battle management
Exploration: outer space, prospecting, archaeology
Weapon Systems: adaptive control, electronic warfare, Star Wars,
target identification
Equipment: CAD/CAM, design monitoring, maintenance, repair
Software: automatic programming, maintenance, verification and
validation
Architecture: distributed knowledge based systems, parallel com-
puting
Project Management: planning, scheduling, control
Education: concept formation, tutoring, testing, diagnosis
Imagery: photo interpretation, mapping
Systems Engineering: requirements, preliminary design, critical
design, testing, quality assurance
Tools and Techniques: PROLOG, knowledge acquisition and represen-
tation, uncertainty management
Plant and Factory Automation
Space Station Systems
Human-Machine Interface
Speech and Natural Language
The program will consist of submitted and invited papers, which
will provide an overview of selected areas. Contributed papers
should be consistent with the following outline:
1. Introduction- state clearly the purpose of the work
2. Description of the actual work- must be new and significant
3. Results- discuss their significance
4. References
Completed papers are to be no longer than 20 pages, including
graphics. For classified papers, please submit a one page un-
classified abstract. All classified papers must be releasable at
the Secret level or below, and must be pre-approved by the
author's cognizant security release authority. Papers to be
presented by non-US citizens must be cleared through proper
government to government channels. Four copies of the complete
paper are to be submitted to:
Dr. Kamal Karna, Conference Chairman
IEEE Computer Society
1730 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20036-1903
Author's Schedule:
Four copies of manuscript May 1, 1986
Acceptance letter June 15, 1986
Camera-ready copy July 15, 1986
Conference Chairman:
Dr. Kamal Karna
Washington AI Center
Mitre Corporation
Program Committee:
Co-chairman: Classified
Mr. Richard Martin
Associate Director, Government Programs
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Co-chairman: Unclassified
Dr. Kamran Parsaye
President
Intelliware, Inc.
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