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AIList Digest Volume 4 Issue 252
AIList Digest Thursday, 6 Nov 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 252
Today's Topics:
Funding - NSF Knowledge and Database Systems Awards
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Date: Fri 31 Oct 86 11:31:36-CST
From: ICS.DEKEN@R20.UTEXAS.EDU
Subject: Knowledge and Database Systems Awards - NSF
Fiscal Year 1986 Research Projects
Funded by the Information Science Program
(now Knowledge and Database Systems Program)
A complete listing of these awards, including
short descriptive abstracts of the research
is available by writing to:
Joseph Deken, Director
Knowledge and Database Systems Program
National Science Foundation
1800 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20550
IST-8504726
$42,196 - 12 mos.
James F. Allen
University of Rochester
Plan-Based Approaches to Extended Dialogues
- - -
BNS-8518675
$40,000 - 12 mos.
James A. Anderson
Brown University
Cognitive Applications of Matrix Memory Models
- - -
IST-8511531
$19,097 - 12 mos.
Robert Berwick
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Learnability and Parsability
- - -
DCR-8603231
$27,000 - 12 mos.
Alan W. Biermann
Duke University
Dialog Processing for Voice Interactive Problem Solving
- - -
IST-8612177
$9,747 - 12 mos.
Jeffrey Bonar
University of Pittsburgh
Partial Support for Third International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and Education, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1987
- - -
IST-8604923
$64,660 - 12 mos.
Alan H. Borning
University of Washington
Automatic Generation of Interactive Displays
- - -
IST-8643739
$121,074 - 12 mos.
Bruce C. Buchanan
Stanford University
Information Structure and Use in Knowledge-Based Expert
Systems
- - -
IST-8607303
$10,000 - 12 mos.
Kathleen M. Carley
Carnegie-Mellon University
Knowledge Acquisition as a Social Phenomenon
- - -
IST-8515005
$75,900 - 12 mos.
Eugene Charniak
Brown Unive
A Single-Semantic-Process Theory of Parsing
- - -
IST-8644629
$60,449 - 12 mos.
Eugene Charniak
Brown University
An Approach to Abductive Inference in Artificial Intelligence Systems
- - -
IST-8608362
$172,9212 - 12 mos.
Richard Cullingford
Georgia Institute of Technology
Robust Interaction and Natural Problem-Solving in Advice-Giving Systems
- - -
IST-8506706
$60,942 - 12 mos.
Donald Dearholt
New Mexico State University
Properties of Networks Derived from Proximities
- - -
IST-8518706
$37,243 - 12 mos.
Andre de Korvin
Indiana University Foundation
Modeling Goal Uncertainty and Goal Shaping in a Generalized
Information System
- - -
IST-8609441
$20,205 - 6 mos.
Michael L. Dertouzos
Massachusetts Inst. Tech.
Conference on Cellular Automata: Parallel Information Processing for
Mathematics and Science
- - -
IST-8519926
$73,460 - 12 mos.
Thomas G. Dietterich
Oregon State University
Learning by Experimentation
- - -
IST-8519924
$43,489 - 12 mos.
John W. DuBois
University of California at Los Angeles
Information Transfer Constraints and Strategies in Natural
Language Communication
- - -
DCR-8602385
$25,000 - 12 mos.
Wayne Dyksen and Mikhail Atallah
Purdue University
High Level Systems for Scientific Computing
- - -
IST-8609123
$93,156 - 24 mos.
Andrew U. Frank
University of Maine at Orono
A Formal Model for Representation and Manipulation of Spatial
Subdivisions in Information Systems
- - -
IST-8611673
$18,000 - 3 mos.
Thomas Gay
University of Connecticut Health Center
Travel Grant: U.S. - U.S.S.R. Symposium on Information Coding and
Transmission in Biological Systems, October 3-13, 1986
- - -
IST-8512419
$70,867 - 12 mos.
Richard Granger
University of California, Irvine
Unification of Lexical, Syntactic, and Pragmatic Inference in
Understanding
- - -
IST-8509860
$73,479 - 12 mos.
Robert M. Gray
Stanford University
The Application of Information Theory to Pattern Recognition and the
Design of Decision Tree Classifiers
- - -
IST-8603943
$134,694 - 18 mos.
Max Henrion
Carnegie Mellon University
A Comparison of Methods for Representing Uncertainty in Expert Systems
- - -
DCR-8608311
$45,000 - 12 mos.
Lawrence J. Henschen
Northwestern University
Logic and Databases
- - -
IST-8645349
$153,289 - 12 mos.
Richard J. Herrnstein
Harvard University
A Comparative Approach to Natural and Artificial Visual Information
Processing
- - -
IST-8520359
$70,735 - 12 mos.
Geoffrey Hinton
Carnegie-Mellon University
Search Methods for Massively Parallel Networks
- - -
IST-8511541
$69,815 - 12 mos.
Richard B. Hull
University of Southern California
Investigation of Practical and Theoretical Aspects of Semantic Database
Models
- - -
IST-8643740
$98,507 - 12 mos.
Ray Jackendoff and Jane Grimshaw
Brandeis University
Syntactic and Semantic Information in a Natural Language Lexicon
- - -
IST-8512108
$99,394 - 12 mos.
Hans Kamp
University of Texas at Austin
Logic Representation of Attitudes for Computer Natural Language
Understanding
- - -
IST-8644864
$35,721 - 12 mos.
Abraham Kandel
Florida State University
Analysis and Modeling of Imprecise Information in Uncertain Environments
- - -
IST-8542811
$65,414 - 12 mos.
R.L. Kashyap
Purdue University
Research on Inference Procedures with Uncertainty
- - -
IST-8644676
$74,752 - 12 mos.
George J. Klir
State University of New York at Binghamton
Possibilistic Information: Theory and Applicability
- - -
IST-8552925
$54,250 - 12 mos.
Richard E. Korf
University of California at Los Angeles
Presidential Young Investigator Award : Machine Learning
- - -
IST-8518307
$15,750 - 12 mos.
Donald H. Kraft
Louisiana State University
Travel to the ACM Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval: Pisa, Italy; September 8-10, l986
- - -
DCR-8602665
$45,720 - 12 mos.
Benjamin J. Kuipers
University of Texas at Austin
Knowledge Representations for Expert Causal Models
- - -
RII-8600412
$10,000 - 12 mos.
Jill H. Larkin
University of California at Berkeley
Developing the Instructional Power of Modern Personal Computing
- - -
IST-8600412
$10,000 - 12 mos.
Wendy G. Lehnert
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Presidential Young Investigator Award: Natural Language Computing
Systems
- - -
IST-8603697
$5,000 - 12 mos.
Michael E. Lesk
Bell Communications Research
Workshop on Document Generation Principles
- - -
IST-8602765
$76078 - 12 mos.
R. Duncan Luce
Harvard University
Measurement: Axiomatic and Meaningfulness Studies
- - -
IST-8444028
$62,500 - 12 mos.
David Maier
Oregon Graduate Center
Presidential Young Investigator Award: Foundations of Knowledge
Management Systems
- - -
IST-8604977
$46,956 - 12 mos.
David Maier
Oregon Graduate Center
Automatic Generation of Interactive Displays
- - -
IST-8642813
$25,500 - 12 mos.
Gerald S. Malecki
Office of Naval Research
Committee on Human Factors
- - -
IST-8606187
$19,650 - 12 mos.
James L. McClelland
Carnegie-Mellon University
Workshop of Parallel Distributed Processing in Information and
Cognitive Research (Washington, D.C. ; February 28 - March 1, 1986)
- - -
IST-8451438
$37,500 - 12 mos.
Kathleen R. McKeown
Columbia University
Presidential Young Investigator Award: Natural Language Interfaces
- - -
IST-8520217
$115,220 - 12 mos.
Douglas P. Metzler
University of Pittsburgh
An Expert System Approach to Syntactic Parsing and Information Retrieval
- - -
IST-8512736
$137,503 - 24 mos.
David Mumford
Harvard University
The Parsing of Images
- - -
IST-8604282
$2,447 - 12 mos.
Kent Norman
University of Maryland at College Park
Developing an Effective User Evaluation Questionnaire for Interactive
Systems
- - -
IST-8645347
$80,492 - 12 mos.
Donald E. Nute
University of Georgia
Discourse Representation for Natural Language Processing
- - -
IST-8645348
$49,211 - 12 mos.
Donald E. Nute
University of Georgia
Hypothetical Reasoning and Logic Programming
- - -
IST-8642477
$86,969 - 12 mos.
Robert N. Oddy
Syracuse University
Representations for Anomalous States of Knowledge in Information
Retrieval
- - -
IST-8609201
$44,905 - 12 mos.
Daniel Osherson
Syracuse University
A Computational Approach to Decision-Making
- - -
IST-8544976
$197,055 - 12 mos.
Charles Parsons and Isaac Levi
Columbia University
The Structure of Information in Science: Fact Formulas and Discussion
Structures in Related Subsciences
- - -
IST-8642841
$12,000 - 12 mos.
William J. Rapaport
State University of New York - System Office
Logical Foundations for Belief Representation
- - -
IST-8644984
$62,500 - 12 mos.
James A. Reggia
University of Maryland at College Park
Presidential Young Investigator Award: Abductive Inference Models in
Artificial Intelligence
- - -
IST-8644983
$123,221 - 12 mos.
Whitman A. Richards
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Natural Computation: A Computational Approach to Visual Information
Processing
- - -
IST-8604530
$49,953 - 12 mos.
Fred S. Roberts
Rutgers University
Scales of Measurement and the Limitations they Place on Information
Processing
- - -
IST-8603407
$27,000 - 12 mos.
Robert D. Rodman
North Carolina State University
Dialog Processing for Voice Interactive Problem Solving
- - -
IST-8640925
$198,800 - 12 mos.
Naomi Sager
New York University
Language As a Database Structure
- - -
IST-8640053
$59,178 - 12 mos.
Sharon C. Salveter
Boston University
Transportable Natural Language Database Update
- - -
IST-8610293
$80,630 - 12 mos.
Glenn R. Shafer
University of Kansas Main Campus
Belief Functions in Artificial Intelligence
- - -
IST-8603214
$85,583 - 12 mos.
William Shaw
University of North Carolina
An Evaluation and Comparison of Term and Citation Indexing
- - -
DMS-8606178
$20,000 - 12 mos.
Paul C. Shields
University of Toledo
Mathematical Sciences: Entropy in Ergodic Theory, Graph Theory and
Statistics
- - -
IST-8607849
$101,839 - 12 mos.
Edward Smith
BBN Laboratories, Inc.
A Computational Approach to Decision-Making
- - -
IST-8609599
$80,963 - 12 mos.
Paul Smolensky
University of Colorado at Boulder
Inference in Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence Systems
- - -
IST-8644907
$15,634 - 12 mos.
Frederik Springsteel
University of Missouri
Formalization of Entity-Relationship Diagrams
- - -
IST-8640120
$66,004 - 12 mos.
Robert E. Stepp
University of Illinois at Urbana
Discovering Underlying Concepts in Data Through Conceptual Clustering
- - -
IST-8516313
$60,907 - 12 mos.
Richmond H. Thomason
Mellon-Pitt-Carnegie Corp.
Nonmonotonic Reasoning
- - -
IST-8516330
$63,854 - 12 mos.
David S. Touretzky
Carnegie-Mellon University
Distributed Representations for Symbolic Data Structures
- - -
IST-8517289
$164,786 - 12 mos.
Joseph F. Traub
Columbia University
The Information Level: Effective Computing with Partial, Contaminated,
and Costly Information
- - -
IST-8544806
$121,222 - 12 mos.
Jeffrey D. Ullman
Stanford University
Implementation of Logical Query Languages for Databases
- - -
IST-8511348
$30,383 - 12 mos.
Kenneth Wexler
University of California at Irvine
Learnability and Parsability
- - -
IST-8514890
$80,000 - 12 mos.
R. Wilensky and R. Alterman
University of California at Berkeley
Adaptive Planning
- - -
IST-8600788
$81,660 - 12 mos.
Robert T. Winkler
Duke University
Combining Dependent Information: Models and Issues
- - -
IST-8644767
$38,474 - 12 mos.
Ronald R. Yager
Iona College
Specificity Measures of Information in Possibility Distributions
- - -
IST-8644435
$50,878 - 12 mos.
Po-Lung Yu
University of Kansas
Habitual Domain Analysis for Effective Information Interface and
Decision Support
- - -
IST-8642900
$108,182 - 12 mos.
Lotfi A. Zadeh
University of California at Berkeley
Management of Uncertainty in Expert Systems
- - -
IST-8605163
$19,776 - 12 mos.
Maria Zemankova
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Travel to the International Conference on Information Processing and
Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems
- - -
IST-8600616
$97,727 - 12 mos.
Pranas Zunde
Georgia Institute of Technology
A Study of Word Association Aids in Information Retrieval
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