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AIList Digest Volume 4 Issue 262
AIList Digest Thursday, 20 Nov 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 262
Today's Topics:
Conferences - NCAI Exhibit Program &
ACM Principles of Database Systems Exhibit Program &
AI Papers in Upcoming Simulation Conferences,
Journals - IEEE Expert Call For Financial Expert Systems &
BBS Call For Commentators in Vision Modeling
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Date: Fri 14 Nov 86 08:42:25-PST
From: AAAI <AAAI-OFFICE@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
Subject: Special Invitation to Universities and Research Institutes
The AAAI would like to extend a special invitation to academic
institutions and non-profit research laboratories to participate in
the Exhibit Program at the Sixth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, July 14-16, 1987 in Seattle, Washington. It is
important to communicate what universities and laboratories are doing
and demonstrate your research efforts at the conference.
Last year we initiated this new addition was considered one
of the highlights of the 1986 conference.
AAAI will provide each institution with one 10'x10' booth free, room
to describe your demonstration in the Exhibit Guide, and assist with
your logistical arrangements. Some direct costs are involved which
the AAAI cannot provide assistance with. Those costs include shipping
equipment to the site, telephone lines (communication (required) or
computer), housing, and others. We can direct interested groups to
vendors who may be able to assist with equipment needs. Last year,
many hardware vendors donated equipment for the university demonstrations
and will continue with this practice next year.
We hope you can join us in Seattle and help disseminate the latest
research results to our conference attendees.
If you or your department are interested in participating, please
contact:
Steven Taglio
AAAI
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(415) 328-3123
AAAI-Office@sumex-aim.arpa
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 86 22:39:02 PST
From: Moshe Vardi <vardi@navajo.stanford.edu>
Subject: ACM Symp. on Principles of Database Systems
THE SIXTH ACM SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
Call for Exhibits
The Sixth ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems will
take place between March 23 and March 25, 1987, at the Bahia
Resort Hotel in San Diego. The symposium will cover new develop-
ments in both theoretical and practical aspects of database and
knowledge-based systems. Previous symposia have been attended by
researchers from both industry and academia. For the first time,
this year the symposium will include exhibits of state-of-the-art
products from industry. If you have a product you would like to
exhibit, please send a brief description by December 15, 1986,
to:
Victor Vianu
Local Arrangements Chairman, PODS '87
EECS Department, MC-014
Univ. of California at San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093
(619) 534-6227
vianu@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu
Since space is limited, exhibits will be selected based on the
proposals received. Your contribution would be greatly appreciat-
ed.
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Date: WED, 10 oct 86 17:02:23 CDT
From: leff%smu@csnet-relay
Subject: AI at upcoming conferences (simulation)
1987 Society for Computer Simulation Multiconference 1987
Modeling and Simulation on Microcomputers
Individual Face Classification by Computer Vision
Robert A. Campbell, Scott Cannon, Greg Jones, Neil Morgan, Utah State
University
AI and Simulation
Preliminary Screening of Wastewater Treatment Alternatives Using Personal
Consultant Plus
Giles G. Patry, Bruce Gall, McMaster University
The impact of embedding AI tools in a control system simulator
Norman R. Nielson SRI International
An Expert System for the Controller
James A. Sena, L. Murphy Smith,Texas A&M University
Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Simulation
Pauline A. Langen, Carrier Corporation
The Expert System Applicability Question
Louis R. Gieszi
An Intelligent Interface for Continuous System Simulation
Wanda M. ustin The Aerospace Corporation Behrokh Khoshnevis University of
Southern California
Logic Progrmming and Discrete Event Simulation
Robert G. Sargent, Ashvin, Radiya, Syracuse University
Expet Systems for Interactive Simulation of Computer System Dynamics
Axel Lehmann, University of Karlsruhe
An Automated Simulation Modeling System Based on AI Techniques
Behrokh Khoshnevis, An-Pin Chen, University of Southern California
Design of a Flexible Extendible Modeling Environment
Robert J. Pooley University of Edinburgh
Prolog for Simulation
Expert System Shell with System Simulation Capabilities
Ivan Futo, Computer Research Institute
Languages for Distributed Simulation
Brian Unger, Xining Li, University of Calgary
Process Oriented Simulation in Prolog
Jeans Vaucher, University of Montreal
Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Simulation
Pauline A. Langen, Carrier Corporation
Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems and robotics
A Data Modeling Approach to Improve System's Intelligence in Automated
Manufacturing
Lee-Eng Shirley Lin, Yun-Baw Lin, Tamkang University
KARMA - A Knowledge-Based Robot Manipulation Graphics Simulation
Richard H. Kirschbrown, Consultant
Development of questions-answers simulator for real-time scheduling and control
in flexible manufacturing system using Prolog
Lee-Eng Shirley Lin, Tamkang Unviersity, Chang Yung Lui, National Sun Yat-Sen
University
Simulation of uncertainty and product structure in MRP
Louis Brennan, Surendra Mohan Gupta, Northeastern University
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The University of ARizona Fourth Symposium on Modeling and Simulation
Methodology
January 19-23 1987
AI and Simulation I, R. V. Reddy
AI and Simulation II, B. P. Zeigler
(Object Oreinted/AI Programming, Combining Discrete Event and Symbolic Models,
Hierarchical, Modular Modelling/Multiprocessor Simulation)
AI and Simulation III, T. I. Oren
cognizant Simulation Systems, AI and Quality Assurance Methodology
AI and Simulation IV
Environments for AI and Simulation, Interfacing Lisp Machines and Simulation
Engines
Special Sessions on Model-basedDiagnosis and Expert Systems Training, Inductive
Modelling,
Goal Directed, Variable-Structure Models, AI and Simulation in Education
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Date: 12 November 1986, 09:48:28 EST
From: "Chidanand V. Apte" <APTE@ibm.com>
Subject: Call for Papers - Financial Expert Systems (IEEE Expert)
CALL FOR PAPERS
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IEEE EXPERT
Special Issue - Fall 1987
AI Applications in Financial Expert Systems
The Fall 1987 issue of IEEE EXPERT will be devoted to papers that
discuss the technical requirements imposed upon AI techniques for
building intelligent systems for financial applications and the
methodologies employed for the construction of such systems.
Requirements for submission of papers
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Authors should submit their papers to the guest editors no later than
APRIL 1, 1987. Each submission should include one cover page and five
copies of the complete manuscript. The one cover page should include
Name(s), affiliation(s), complete address(es), identification of
principal author and telephone number. The five copies of the complete
manuscript should each include: Title and abstract page: title of paper,
100 word abstract indicating significance of contribution, and The
complete text of the paper in English, including illustrations and
references, not exceeding 5000 words.
Topics of interest
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Authors are invited to submit papers describing recent and novel
applications of AI techniques in the research and development of
financial expert systems. Topics (in the context of the domain) include,
but are not limited to: Automated Reasoning, Knowledge Representations,
Inference Techniques, Problem Solving Control Mechanisms, Natural
Language Front Ends, User Modeling, Explanation Methodologies, Knowledge
Base Debugging, Validation, and Maintenance, and System Issues in
Development and Deployment.
Guest Editors
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Chidanand Apte (914-945-1024, Arpa: apte@ibm.com)
John Kastner (914-945-3821, Arpa: kastner@ibm.com)
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 218
Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 86 13:26:38 est
From: princeton!mind!harnad@seismo.CSS.GOV (Stevan Harnad)
Subject: Modeling vision: A call for commentators.
Keywords: connectionism, neural modeling, vision, robotics, neuroethology
This is an experiment in using the Net to find eligible commentators
for articles in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an
international, interdisciplinary journal of "open peer commentary,"
published by Cambridge University Press, with its editorial office in
Princeton NJ.
The journal publishes important and controversial interdisciplinary
articles in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral biology, cognitive science,
artificial intelligence, linguistics and philosophy. Articles are
rigorously refereed and, if accepted, are circulated to a large number
of potential commentators around the world in the various specialties
on which the article impinges. Their 1000-word commentaries are the
co-published with the target article as well as the author's response
to each. The commentaries consist of analyses, elaborations,
complementary and supplementary data and theory, criticisms and
cross-specialty syntheses.
Commentators are selected by the following means: (1) BBS maintains a
computerized file of over 3000 BBS Associates; the size of this group
is increased annually as authors, referees, commentators and nominees
of current Associates become eligible to become Associates. Many
commentators are selected from this list. (2) The BBS editorial office
does informal as well as formal computerized literature searches on
the topic of the target articles to find additional potential commentators
from across specialties and around the world who are not yet BBS Associates.
(3) The referees recommend potential commentators. (4) The author recommends
potential commentators.
We now propose to add the following source for selecting potential
commentators: The abstract of the target article will be posted in the
relevant newsgroups on the net. Eligible individuals who judge that they
would have a relevant commentary to contribute should contact me at the
e-mail address indicated at the bottom of this message, or should
write by normal mail to:
Stevan Harnad
Editor
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
20 Nassau Street, Room 240
Princeton NJ 08542
"Eligibility" usually means being an academically trained professional
contributor to one of the disciplines mentioned earlier, or to related
academic disciplines. The letter should indicate the candidate's
general qualifications as well as their basis for wishing to serve as
commentator for the particular target article in question. It is
preferable also to enclose a Curriculum Vitae. (This self-nomination
format may also be used by those who wish to become BBS Associates,
but they must also specify a current Associate who knows their work
andis prepared to nominate them; where no current Associate is known
by the candidate, the editorial office will send the Vita to
approporiate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to
nominate the candidate.)
BBS has rapidly become a highly read read and very influential forum in the
biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. A recent recalculation of BBS's
"impact factor" (ratio of citations to number of articles) in the
American Psychologist [41(3) 1986] reports that already in its fifth
year of publication BBS's impact factor had risen to become the highest of
all psychology journals indexed as well as 3rd highest of all 1300 journals
indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and 50th of all 3900 journals
indexed in the Science Citation index, which indexes all the scientific
disciplines.
The following is the abstract of the second forthcoming article on
which BBS invites self-nominations by potential commentators. (Please
note that the editorial office must exercise selectivity among the
nominations received so as to ensure a strong and balanced cross-specialty
spectrum of eligible commentators.)
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NEUROETHOLOGY OF RELEASING MECHANISMS: PREY-CATCHING IN TOADS
Joerg-Peter Ewert
Neuroethology Department, FB 19,
University of Kassel
D-3500 Kassel
Federal Republic of Germany
ABSTRACT:
"Sign stimuli" elicit specific patterns of behavior when an
organism's motivation is appropriate. In the toad, visually released
prey-catching involves orienting toward the prey, approaching,
fixating and snapping. For these action patterns to be selected and
released, the prey must be recognized and localized in space. Toads
discriminate prey from nonprey by certain spatiotemporal stimulus
features. The stimulus-response relations are mediated by innate
releasing mechanims (RMS) with recognition properties partly
modifiable by experience. Striato-pretecto-tectal connectivity
determines the RM's recognition and localization properties whereas
medialpallio-thlamo-tectal cicuitry makes the system sensitive to
changes in internal state and to prior history of exposure to stimuli.
RMs encode the diverse stimulus conditions involving the same prey
object through different combinations of "specialized" tectal neurons,
involving cells selectively tuned to prey features. The prey-selective
neurons express the outcome of information processing in functional
units consisting of interconnected cells. Excitatory and inhibitory
interactions among feature-sensitive tectal and pretectal neurons
specify the perceptual operations involved in distinguishing prey
from its background, selecting its features, and discriminating it
from predators. Other connections indicate stimulus location. The
results of these analyses are transmitted by specialized neurons
projecting from the tectum to bulbar/spinal motor systems, providing a
sensorimotor interface. Specific combinations of projective neurons --
mdiating feature- and space-related messages -- form "command
releasing systems" that activate corresponding motor pattern
generators from appropriate prey-catching action patterns.
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Potential commentators should send their names, addresses, a description of
their general qualifications and their basis for seeking to comment on
this target article in particular to the address indicated earlier or
to the following e-mail address:
Stevan Harnad
{allegra, bellcore, seismo, rutgers, packard} !princeton!mind!harnad
harnad%mind@princeton.csnet
(609)-921-7771
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