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AIList Digest Saturday, 19 Dec 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 287
Today's Topics:
Conferences - ICEBOL3 Symbolic and Logical Computing &
Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning &
ICSC'88 AI: Theory and Applications &
Visual Form and Motion Perception
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Date: Tue, 08 Dec 87 09:23:45 -0800
From: Richard Nelson <nelson@Q2.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Subject: Conference - ICEBOL3 Symbolic and Logical Computing
Here's an announcement for a conference with a twist: it includes
symbolic languages such as Icon and SNOBOL4.
cheers
Richard
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ICEBOL3
April 21-22, 1988 Dakota State College
Madison, SD 57042
ICEBOL3, the International Conference on Symbolic and
Logical Computing, is designed for teachers, scholars, and
programmers who want to meet to exchange ideas about
non-numeric computing. In addition to a focus on SNOBOL,
SPITBOL, and Icon, ICEBOL3 will feature introductory and
technical presentations on other dangerously powerful
computer languages such as Prolog and LISP, as well as on
applications of BASIC, Pascal, and FORTRAN for processing
strings of characters. Topics of discussion will include
artificial intelligence, expert systems, desk-top
publishing, and a wide range of analyses of texts in English
and other natural languages. Parallel tracks of concurrent
sessions are planned: some for experienced computer users
and others for interested novices. Both mainframe and
microcomputer applications will be discussed.
ICEBOL's coffee breaks, social hours, lunches, and
banquet will provide a series of opportunities for
participants to meet and informally exchange information.
Sessions will be scheduled for "birds of a feather" to
discuss common interests (for example, BASIC users group,
implementations of SNOBOL, computer generated poetry).
Call For Papers
Abstracts (minimum of 250 words) or full texts of
papers to be read at ICEBOL3 are invited on any application
of non-numeric programming. Planned sessions include the
following:
artificial intelligence
expert systems
natural language processing
analysis of literary texts (including bibliography,
concordance, and index preparation)
linguistic and lexical analysis (including parsing and
machine translation)
preparation of text for electronic publishing
computer assisted instruction
grammar and style checkers
music analysis.
Papers must be in English and should not exceed twenty
minutes reading time. Abstracts and papers should be
received by January 15, 1988. Notification of acceptance
will follow promptly. Papers will be published in ICEBOL3
Proceedings.
Presentations at previous ICEBOL conferences were made
by Susan Hockey (Oxford), Ralph Griswold (Arizona), James
Gimpel (Lehigh), Mark Emmer (Catspaw, Inc.), Robert Dewar
(New York University), and many others. Copies of ICEBOL 86
Proceedings are available.
ICEBOL3 is sponsored by
The Division of Liberal Arts
and
The Business and Education Institute
of
DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE
Madison, South Dakota
For Further Information
All correspondence including abstracts and papers as
well as requests for registration materials should be sent
to:
Eric Johnson
ICEBOL Director
114 Beadle Hall
Dakota State College
Madison, SD 57042 U.S.A.
(605) 256-5270
Inquiries, abstracts, and correspondence may also be
sent via electronic mail to:
ERIC @ SDNET (BITNET)
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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 14:29:20 1987
From: rjb%research.att.com@RELAY.CS.NET
Subject: Conference - Principles of Knowledge Representation and
Reasoning
CALL FOR PAPERS
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING
Royal York Hotel
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
May 15-18, 1989
Sponsored by the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence,
with support from AAAI, IJCAI, the Canadian Institute for Advanced
Research, and the Information Technology Research Centre of Ontario,
in cooperation with AISB and ACM SIGART (pending approval)
The idea of explicit representations of knowledge, manipulated by
general-purpose inference algorithms, underlies much of the work in
artificial intelligence, from natural language to expert systems. A growing
number of researchers are interested in the principles governing systems
based on this idea. This conference will bring together these researchers in
a more intimate setting than that of the general AI conferences. In
particular, all authors will be expected to appear and give presentations of
adequate length to present substantial results. Accepted papers will be
collected in a conference proceedings, to be published by Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, Inc.
The conference will focus on principles of commonsense reasoning and
representation, as distinct from concerns of engineering and details of
implementation. Thus of direct interest are logical specifications of
reasoning behaviors, comparative analyses of competing algorithms and
theories, and analyses of the correctness and/or the computational complexity
of reasoning algorithms. Papers that attempt to move away from or refute the
knowledge-based paradigm in a principled way are also welcome, so long as
appropriate connections are made to the central body of work in the field.
Submissions are encouraged in at least the following topic areas:
Analogical Reasoning Qualitative Reasoning
Commonsense Reasoning Temporal Reasoning
Deductive Reasoning Planning
Diagnostic and Knowledge Representation Formalisms
Abductive Reasoning Theories of the Commonsense World
Evidential Reasoning Theories of Knowledge and Belief
Inductive Reasoning Belief Management and Revision
Nonmonotonic Reasoning Formal Task and Domain Specifications
REVIEW OF PAPERS
The Program Committee will review extended abstracts (not complete papers).
Each submission will be read by at least two members of the Committee and
judged on clarity, significance, and originality. An important criterion for
acceptance of a paper is that it clearly contribute to principles of
representation and reasoning that are likely to influence current and future
AI practice.
Extended abstracts should contain enough information to enable the Program
Committee to identify the principal contribution of the research and its
importance. It should also be clear from the extended abstract how the work
compares to related work in the field. References to relevant literature must
be included.
Submitted papers must never have been published. Submissions must also be
substantively different from papers currently under review and must not be
submitted elsewhere before the author notification date (December 15, 1988).
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Submitted abstracts must be at most eight (8) double-spaced pages. All
abstracts must be submitted on 8-1/2" x 11" paper (or alternatively, a4),
and typed in 12-point font (pica on standard typewriter). Dot matrix
printout is not acceptable.
Each submission should include the names and complete addresses of all
authors. Also, authors should indicate under the title which of the
topic ares listed above best describes their paper (if none is
appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best describe the
topic of the paper).
Abstracts must be received no later than November 1, 1988, at the address
listed immediately below. Authors will be notified of the Program Committee's
decision by December 15, 1988. Final camera-ready copies of the full papers
will be due a short time later, on February 15, 1989. Final papers will be at
most twelve (12) double-column pages in the conference proceedings.
Send five (5) copies of extended abstracts [one copy is acceptable from
countries where access to copiers is limited] to
Ron Brachman and Hector Levesque, Program Co-chairs
First International Conference on Principles of
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
c/o AT&T Bell Laboratories
600 Mountain Avenue, Room 3C-439
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
USA
Inquiries of a general nature can be addressed to the Conference Chair:
Raymond Reiter, Conference Chair
First International Conference on Principles of
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
c/o Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
10 Kings College Road
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4
CANADA
electronic mail: reiter@ai.toronto.edu
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: November 1, 1988
Author notification date: December 15, 1988
Camera-ready copy due
to publisher: February 15, 1989
Conference: May 15-18, 1989
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
James Allen (University of Rochester)
Giuseppe Attardi (Delphi SpA, Italy)
Woody Bledsoe (MCC/University of Texas)
Alan Bundy (Edinburgh University)
Eugene Charniak (Brown University)
Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University)
Koichi Furukawa (ICOT)
Johan de Kleer (Xerox PARC)
Herve Gallaire (European Computer Industry Research Center, Munich)
Michael Genesereth (Stanford University)
Michael Georgeff (SRI International)
Pat Hayes (Xerox PARC)
Geoff Hinton (University of Toronto)
Bob Kowalski (Imperial College)
Vladimir Lifschitz (Stanford University)
Alan Mackworth (University of British Columbia)
Drew McDermott (Yale University)
Tom Mitchell (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Robert Moore (SRI International)
Judea Pearl (UCLA)
Stan Rosenschein (SRI International)
Stuart Shapiro (SUNY at Buffalo)
Yoav Shoham (Stanford University)
William Woods (Applied Expert Systems)
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Date: 10 Dec 87 23:23:35 GMT
From: munnari!mulga.oz.au!isaac@uunet.UU.NET (Isaac Balbin)
Subject: Conference - ICSC'88 AI: Theory and Applications
Call for Papers
International Computer Science Conference '88
Hong Kong, December 19-21, 1988
Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Applications
Sponsored by
THE COMPUTER SOCIETY OF THE IEEE, HONG KONG CHAPTER
International Computer Science Conference '88 is to be the first international
conference in Hong Kong devoted to computer science. The purpose of the
conference is to bring together people from academia and industry of the East
and of the West, who are interested in problems related to computer science.
The main focus of this conference will be on the Theory and Applications of
Artificial Intelligence. Our expectation is that this conference will provide a
forum for the sharing of research advances and practical experiences among
those working in computer science.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
AI Architectures Expert Systems Knowledge Engineering
Logic Programming Machine Learning Natural Languages
Neural Networks Pattern Recognition Robotics
CAD/CAM Chinese Computing Distributed Systems
Information Systems Office Automation Software Engineering
Paper Submissions
Submit four copies of the paper by June 15, 1988 to either of the Program
Co-Chairmen:
Dr. Jean-Louis Lassez Dr. Francis Y.L. Chin
Room H1-A12 Centre of Computer Studies and
IBM Thomas J. Watson Applications
Research Center University of Hong Kong
P.O. Box 218 Pokfulam Road
Yorktown Heights NY Hong Kong
10598 (For papers from Pan-Pacific region
U.S.A. only)
e-mail: JLL@ibm.com e-mail: hkucs!chin@uunet.uu.net
The first page of the paper should contain the author's name, affiliation,
address, electronic address if available, phone number, 100 word abstract, and
key words or phrases. Papers should be no longer than 5000 words (about 20
double-spaced pages). A submission letter that contains a commitment to present
the paper at the conference if accepted should accompany the paper.
Tutorials
The day after the conference will be devoted to tutorials. Proposals for
tutorials on Artificial Intelligence topics, especially advanced topics, are
welcome. Send proposals by June 15, 1988 to the Program Co-Chairmen.
Conference Timetable and Information
Papers due: June 15, 1988
Tutorial proposals due: June 15, 1988
Acceptance letters sent: September 1, 1988
Camera-ready copy due: October 1, 1988
International Program Committee:
J-P Adam (Paris T.Y. Chen (Melbourne & W.F. Clocksin
Scientific Center) HKU) (Cambridge)
A. Despain (Berkeley) J. Gallier Qingshi Gao
M. Georgeff (SRI) (Pennsylvania) (Academia Sinica)
R.C.T. Lee (National D. Hanson (Princeton) R. Hasegawa (ICOT)
Tsin Hua) M. Maher (IBM) Z. Manna (Stanford &
F. Mizoguchi (Science U. Montanari (Pisa) Weizmann)
U. of Tokyo) P.C. Poole (Melbourne) K. Mukai (ICOT)
H.N. Phien (AIT) C.K. Yuen (Singapore) D.S.L. Tung (CUHK)
Organizing Committee Local Arrangements Publicity Chairman:
Chairman: Chairman:
Mr. Wanbil Lee
Dr. K.W. Ng Dr. K.P. Chow Department of
Department of Computer Centre of Computer Computer Studies
Science Studies and Applications City Polytechnic of
The Chinese University University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road Argyle Center
Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong
Hong Kong e-mail:
hkucs!icsc@uunet.uu.net
In Cooperation With:
Center for Computing Studies and Services, Hong Kong Baptist College
Centre of Computer Studies and Applications, University of Hong Kong
Department of Computer Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department of Computer Studies, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong
Department of Computing Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 87 09:59:52 EST
From: ennio@bucasb.bu.edu (Ennio Mingolla)
Subject: Conference - Visual Form and Motion Perception
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***** UPDATED Meeting Announcement: (Please Post) *****
VISUAL FORM AND MOTION PERCEPTION:
PSYCHOPHYSICS, COMPUTATION, AND NEURAL NETWORKS
Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5, 1988
Conference Auditorium, George Sherman Union, Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
This meeting has been dedicated to the memory of the late
KVETOSLAV PRAZDNY, who was to have been a speaker, and
whose tragic death has deprived the field of visual
perception of one of its most talented investigators.
Confirmed speakers and tentative titles are:
S. ANSTIS, York University. (To be announced)
L. AREND, Eye Research Institute. Lightness and color in complex scenes
I. BIEDERMAN, University of Minnesota. Invariant primitives for visual
image understanding
P. CAVANAGH, University of Montreal. Motion: The long and the short of it
J. DAUGMAN, Harvard University. Image segmentation by networks for signal
orthogonalization
S. GROSSBERG, Boston University. Filling in the forms: Monocular and binocular
constraints on surface lightness perception
J. LAPPIN, Vanderbilt University. The optical information for perceiving
metric structure from motion
E. MINGOLLA, Boston University. Recent results in emergent visual segmentations
V. RAMACHANDRAN, UCSD. The utilitarian theory of perception: Interactions
between motion, form, color, and texture
A. REEVES, Northeastern University. Fundamental mechanisms of color vision
W. RICHARDS, MIT. Encoding shape by curvature
R. SAVOY, Rowland Institute. Traditional form and motion stimuli presented to
isolated cone classes
G. SPERLING, New York University. Non-Fourier motion perception
J. TODD, Brandeis University. Perception of smoothly curved surfaces
S. ZUCKER, McGill University. From orientation selection to optical flow
This meeting is sponsored by the Boston Consortium for Behavioral and
Neural Studies, a group of researchers supported by the Air Force Office
of Scientific Research Life Sciences Program. A Howard Johnson's Motor
Lodge is located at 575 Commonwealth Avenue, and a limited number of rooms
at a reduced conference rate can be reserved until February 10, 1988 by
those attending the meeting. Total conference registration will be
limited by available meeting space, so early registration is advised.
Registration and hotel accomodations for the meeting are being
handled by:
UNIGLOBE--Vision Meeting Telephone:
40 Washington Street (800) 521-5144
Wellesley Hills, MA 02181 (617) 235-7500
A meeting registration and hotel reservation form is attached to this
announcement. For further information about travel or accomodation
arrangements, contact UNIGLOBE at the above address or telephone numbers.
[Contact the sender if you need the registration form. -- KIL]
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