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AIList Digest Volume 4 Issue 055
AIList Digest Monday, 17 Mar 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 55
Today's Topics:
Seminars - A Theory of Analogical Reasoning (SU) &
Alain Colmerauer on Prolog III (UMontreal) &
Extensions to the Contract Net Protocol (USC) &
Facing the User (CMU),
Conference - IFIP Expert Systems in Computer Aided Design
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Date: Thu 13 Mar 86 12:17:03-PST
From: Stuart Russell <RUSSELL@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
Subject: Seminar - A Theory of Analogical Reasoning (SU)
A Theory of Analogical Reasoning
Professor Setsuo Arikawa
Kyushu University, Japan
Professor Arikawa's visit to Stanford on Tuesday March 18th will include
a talk given by him on analogical reasoning, which will be at 1pm
in Room 352, Margaret Jacks Hall. As we have the room only until 2pm, prompt
arrival would be appreciated so that we can start on time.
Analogical reaoning is considered as a deduction with a function which
transforms logical rules between two or more systems according as some
analogies. This method realizes the analogical reasoning in the framework
of conventional deductive reasoning systems.
When knowledge is given by sets of Horn clauses, the theory is constructed
as follows:
1) The concept of partial identity between the minimal (Herbrand) models is
definded,
2) conditions which guarantee the partial identity(EPIC) are given,
3) transformation between rules is redifined as the partial identity between
the minimal models, and thus
4) giving semantical consistency to this theory.
This work is partially supported by the Fifth Generation Computer Project in
Japan.
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 86 21:35:42 est
From: Jean-Francois Lamy <lamy%utai%toronto.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
Reply-to: Jean-Francois Lamy
<lamy%iro.udem.cdn%ubc.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
Subject: Seminar - Alain Colmerauer on Prolog III (UMontreal)
Conference Pierre Robillard - "Pierre Robillard" Lecture
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle
Universite de Montreal
Prolog III, la prochaine etape pour Prolog
(Prolog III, the next step for Prolog)
ALAIN COLMERAUER
Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Luminy, Marseilles, France
20 March 1986 - 14:00
room M-415, Main Building, 2900 boul. Edouard-Montpetit
During a three year stay as a professor at Universite de Montreal in the
late '60s, Alain Colmerauer directed the TAUM automatic translation project.
In that setting he developped a formalism for natural language analysis and
generation called Q-systems. This formalism was later used to implement the
Meteo system, which is still in daily use to translate weather forecasting
bulletins from English to French.
Returning in France in 1971, he continued his research on natural language
understanding and knowledge representation. He is best known for the original
design of the programming language Prolog.
Alain Colmerauer will speak on a new extension to Prolog, Prolog III.
(Note: this talk will be given in French)
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Date: 15 Mar 1986 14:43-PST
From: gasser%bogart.uucp@usc-cse.usc.edu
Subject: Seminar - Extensions to the Contract Net Protocol (USC)
USC Distributed Problem Solving Group
Meeting
Wednesday, 3/19/86 3:00-5:00 PM
Seaver Science 319
Gary Lindquist, Ph.D. student, USC, will speak on "Extensions to
the Contract Net Protocol".
ABSTRACT
The Contract Net Protocol developed by Smith and Davis provides a framework
for communication and task allocation among distributed problem solvers.
This talk will begin with a short tutorial on the Contract Net Protocol and
then will identify deficiencies in matching of subtasks to problem solving
nodes and in the synchronization of lower level managers concerning activity
conflicts and redundant computations. Solutions to these problems based on
existing research in distributed planning and operating systems will then be
presented.
Questions: Dr. Les Gasser (213) 743-7794 or
Gary Lindquist: Lindquist.usc-cse.usc.edu
Lindquist%usc-cse@csnet-relay
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Date: 14 March 1986 1435-EST
From: Sharon Burks@A.CS.CMU.EDU
Subject: Seminar - Facing the User (CMU)
THOMAS MORAN, Xerox PARC
Wednesday, March 19
4:00 PM
WeH 7500
FACING THE USER
It is about time that we design workstations that can really help users engage
in extended intellectual tasks. Advances in workstation technology, which are
easing the obvious technological limitations (eg, memory, speed, or screen
space), will not automatically solve the problem. Rather, they will begin to
expose our lack of understanding of users and their tasks. Several important
cognitive and social features of users must be confronted or exploited: In
complex tasks such as scientific research, engineering design, or legal
analysis, we find users struggling and exploring; their understanding of their
tasks evolve from vague thoughts to sensible structured ideas. They are
continually learning about the system as well as their task. They are doing
many different things at the same time. They cooperate and collaborate. They
form informal communities. To design a workstation for this user, I will
advocate a strategy based on the notion of an evolvable system -- an
interactive system that can evolve with the user through his phases of
understanding. According to this strategy, the system should be based on
direct-manipulation editing and structuring. The system should be built on a
simple ontological world which the user is encouraged to evolve with his task.
The system should support explicit idea processing: the generation,
representation, and exploration of idea structures. It should exploit animated
spatial representations of structures. It should reify the user's process of
exploration. Finally, a community should be grown along with the system to
support mutual learning. Progress on several user science issues are needed to
provide a foundation for such systems: analyses of large-scale cognitive and
social processes, refined models of cognitive skill, models of consistency to
support learning and understanding, models of the use of external memories, and
models of human-machine interaction.
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 86 13:33:35 EST
From: munnari!archsci.su.oz!stephen@seismo.CSS.GOV
Subject: Conference - IFIP Expert Systems in Computer Aided Design
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING
WG5.2 Working Conference
EXPERT SYSTEMS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
17-20 February 1987
Sydney, Australia
CALL FOR PAPERS
AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE
The Working Conference aims to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and
experiences related to expert systems in computer-aided design, to present
and explore the state-of-the-art of expert systems in computer-aided design,
to delineate future directions in both research and practice and to promote
further development.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference will have two primary themes:
(i) State-of-the-art research in expert systems in CAD
(ii) State-of-the-art practice of expert systems in CAD.
The papers with the discussion will be published in one volume by the
North-Holland Publishing Company under the title of the conference.
Intending authors are invited to submit papers, which will be refereed,
within the themes of the conference. Papers should present a state-of-the-art
theoretical, technical or methodological contribution. Fundamental or
innovative contributions are especially being looked for. Submissions
are particularly sought within the following topic areas:
(i) Expert system architectures for computer-aided design
(ii) Practical large scale expert systems in computer-aided design
(iii) Reasoning models in design
(iv) Novel representation tools for design knowledge
(v) Acquisition of design knowledge for use in expert systems
(vi) Integration of expert systems into existing CAD systems
(vii) Implications of expert systems for the design process
TIMETABLE
Intending authors should submit their proposals as soon as practicable.
(i) Full paper (four copies) submitted to the address below
no later than 14 July 1986
(ii) Notification of authors of selected papers by 5 September 1986
(iii) Conference brochure available September 1986
(iv) Final copy of selected papers in reproducible form
from authors by 5 November 1986
(v) Close of conference registration December 1986
(vi) Preprints sent to registrants December 1986
(vii) Conference 17-20 February 1987
CONFERENCE FORMAT
(i) The conference is scheduled for four days with a restricted
number of participants.
(ii) About twenty papers will be selected for presentation.
It is a condition that the selected authors will attend
the conference.
(iii) The papers will form the conference preprints which will
be mailed to all participants.
(iv) Papers will be presented with considerable time available
for discussion which will be recorded to form the conference
proceedings.
(v) The official language of the conference is English.
ADDRESS FOR ALL CORRESPONDENCE
All papers, queries and correspondence should be addressed to:
Professor John S Gero
Department of Architectural Science
University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Telex: AA26169 GERO-ARCHSCI
Phone: International 61-2-908 2942 or 61-2-692 2328
Network: CSnet: john@archsci.su.oz
ARPA: john%archsci.su.oz@seismo.css.gov
UUCP: seismo!munnari!archsci.su.oz!john
IFIP WG5.2 Working Conference
EXPERT SYSTEMS IN CAD
17-20 February 1987, Sydney
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE at March 1986
Chairman: Secretary:
Professor John Gero Ms Fay Sudweeks
University of Sydney University of Sydney
Australia Australia
Committee:
Professor David Brown Professor Setsuo Ohsuga
Worcester Polytechnic Institute University of Tokyo
USA Japan
Dr Harold Brown Professor Luis Pereira
Stanford University Universidade Nova Lisboa
USA Portugal
Professor B. Chandrasekaran Professor Ken Preiss
Ohio State University Ben'gurion University
USA of the Negev
Israel
Professor Jack Dixon Dr Tony Radford
University of Massachusetts University of Sydney
USA Australia
Professor Michael Dyer Dr Michael Rosenman
UCLA University of Sydney
USA Australia
Professor Steven Fenves Professor Erik Sandewall
Carnegie-Mellon University Linkoping University
USA Sweden
Professor H. Grabowski Dr Duv Sriram
University of Karlsruhe Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.
West Germany USA
Mr John Lansdown Professor Louis Steinberg
System Simulation Rutgers University
United Kingdom USA
Dr Jean-Claude Latombe Dr Enn Tyugu
ITMI Academy of Sciences of the
France Estonian SSR
USSR
Dr Ken MacCallum Dr Don Waterman
University of Strathclyde The Rand Corporation
Scotland USA
Professor Mary Lou Maher Dr David Willey
Carnegie-Mellon University Plymouth Polytechnic
USA United Kingdom
Dr Andras Markus Professor Jim Yao
Computer and Automation Institute Purdue University
Hungary USA
Dr Sanjay Mittal Professor Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
Xerox PARC University of Tokyo
USA Japan
Stephen Tolhurst
Dept of Architectural Science ACSnet: stephen@archsci.su.oz
Wilkinson Building G04 ARPA: stephen%archsci.su.oz@seismo.css.gov
University of Sydney UUCP: seismo!munnari!archsci.su.oz!stephen
AUSTRALIA 2006 VOICE: (02) 692-3549
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