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AIList Digest Thursday, 2 Jun 1988 Volume 7 : Issue 11
Today's Topics:
Seminars and Announcements
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Date: 10 May 88 05:09:30 GMT
From: csli!nash@labrea.stanford.edu (Ron Nash)
Subject: CSLI Reports
The Spring 1988 catalog of reports published by The Center for the
Study of Language and Information at Stanford University is now
available online, in HyperCard format (for Macintosh computers).
Abstracts are included.
This is an update of (not a supplement to) the previous catalog.
So if you missed the last edition, this one contains the complete
list.
The file is available by anonymous ftp from csli.stanford.edu
The relevant file is: pub/csli-abstracts.hqx
Those without internet access can send a 3.5" disk and a self-addressed
envelope to:
Publications
CSLI
Ventura Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4115
(CSLI was founded in 1983 by researchers from Stanford University,
SRI International, and Xerox PARC to further research and development
of integrated theories of language, information, and computation.)
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Ron Nash
Center for the Study of Language and Information
Stanford University
nash@russell.stanford.edu
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Date: 16 May 88 05:29:57 GMT
From: mind!harnad@princeton.edu (Stevan Harnad)
Subject: Qualified referees for connectionist material
BBS (Behavioral & Brain Sciences), published by Cambridge university
Press, is an international, interdisciplinary journal devoted
exclusively to Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial
current target articles in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Because of the growing volume of connectionist and
connectionism-related submissions now being received at BBS, we are
looking for more referees who are qualified and willing to evaluate
submitted manuscripts. If you are professionally qualified in
connectionism, parallel distributed processing, associative networks,
neural modeling etc., and wish to serve as a referee for BBS, please
send your CV to the email or USmail address below. Individuals who are
already BBS Associates need only specify that this is a specialty area
that they wish to review in.
USMAIL: BBS, 20 Nassau Street, Rm. 240, Princeton NJ 08542
--
Stevan Harnad ARPANET: harnad@mind.princeton.edu or
harnad%princeton.mind.edu@princeton.edu UUCP: princeton!mind!harnad
CSNET: harnad%mind.princeton.edu@relay.cs.net
BITNET: harnad%mind.princeton.edu@pucc.bitnet
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Date: Tue, 17 May 88 11:19:18
From: Dana S. Nau <nau@frabjous.cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Special SIGART issue on Knowledge Acquisition
Papers are being solicited for a special issue of the ACM SIGART
Newsletter on knowledge acquisition. Send technical papers (5000
words), extended abstracts (1000 words), and any correspondence
by September 26, 1988 to Christopher Westphal, Knowledge Acquisition
Material, The BDM Corporation, 7915 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA
22102; (703) 848-7910.
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Date: Tue, 24 May 88 17:16:02 PDT
From: Greg Jordan <gjordan@cirm.northrop.com>
Subject: Westex-88 Announcement
EXPERT SPEAKERS ON EXPERT SYSTEMS
ANNOUNCED FOR WESTEX-88
Three special, all-day tutorials and a two day program
featuring well-known invited speakers and contributed papers from
the artificial intelligence community are planned for WESTEX-88, the
third annual WESTEX Conference sponsored by the Western Committee of
the Computer Society of the IEEE and the IEEE Los Angeles Council.
It will be held June 28-30 at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel in Anaheim,
California.
Professor Edward Feigenbaum of Stanford University has been
announced as featured speaker for WESTEX-88.
In a special presentation on Wednesday, June 29, the
internationally prominent Feigenbaum will present new observations
and predictions regarding expert systems drawn from his decades of
leadership and experience in the field. His topic will be "Expert
Systems: Payoffs and Promises."
This year's conference and exposition will give special
emphasis to management issues associated with fielding successful
applications in expert systems.
All-day tutorials focusing on three different tracks will be offered
on Tuesday, June 28.
Tutorial one, Basic concepts, will be taught by Kenneth
Modesitt, Rockwell International and will cover the concepts and
benefits of expert systems. It is designed to provide analysts and
developers with an overview of the most important concepts and
techniques, and to suggest pragmatic ways of using the new
techniques.
Tutorial two, Advanced Concepts, will be taught by Avron Barr,
Aldo Ventures. This tutorial will cover the expert systems
development process with particular emphasis on managing the
process, including self-management of the knowledge engineer.
Tutorial three, Special Topics, taught by Miriam Bischoff,
Teknowledge Inc., will cover actual experiences in screening
applications for expert systems as well as special topics for those
who have already made the commitment for the use and/or development
of expert systems.
June 29 Sessions Focus on Management of Expert Systems
The two-day program beginning June 29 will focus on management
of expert systems and will include presentations by Steve Lukasik,
Northrop Corp., on "Expert Systems Genesis at DARPA, Its Progress
and Future", and George Friedman, Northrop Corp., on "Fundamental
Management Issues of Expert Systems." Peter Friedland of NASA Ames
will speak on "An Overview of AI Activity at NASA Ames" during the
noon luncheon.
Invited conference presentations on major expert systems
management issues will cover "A Systems Engineering View of Expert
Systems," Ed Taylor, TRW; "Testing and Evaluation of Expert
Systems," K. L. Bellman, Aerospace Corp., and "ADA and Expert
Systems Integrated into Large Scale Systems," Douglas Flaherty,
McDonnell Douglas.
Two invited presentations exploring the subject "Deployment in
ADA: Problem or Solution?" will explore "Ada and Expert Systems,
Experience with Large Projects," from Mark Miller, Computer and
Thought, and "An Ada-Based Expert Systems Building Tool," from Brad
Allen, Inference Corp.
June 30 Sessions Track Management and Implementation Issues
Invited presentations for the Thursday, June 30 program include
"Real-time Expert Systems," presented by Mike Buckley, Rockwell
International; "Multiprocessor Architectures for Expert Systems,"
presented by Harold Brown, Stanford University; "An Infrastructure
for Integration and Synchronization of Multiple Expert Systems,"
from James Greenwood, ADS; "ABE: An Environment for Large Scale
Intelligent System Integration," from Lee Erman, Teknowledge Inc.,
and "SMNET as a Development Environment," presented by Michael
Fielding, Perceptronics. Allen Sears of DARPA will speak on
"Intelligent Systems and Military Applications" during the noon
luncheon.
Thursday afternoon's program will feature a number of
contributed papers focusing in two areas: expert systems techniques
and implementation issues.
Advance registration fees for Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) members are $140 for technical
sessions, luncheon and proceedings; $115 for the June 28 tutorials,
luncheon and texts. Advance registration fees for non-IEEE members
are $185 for technical sessions, luncheon and proceedings, $160 for
June 28 tutorials, luncheon and texts. Advance registration must be
postmarked no later than June 10, 1988.
For more information contact Marti Wolf at 213/777-2965.
WESTEX-88 is sponsored by Western Committee of the Computer
Society of the IEEE and IEEE Los Angeles Council and is managed by
Electronic Conventions Management, Los Angeles, California.
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Date: 25 May 88 04:26:51 GMT
From: mind!harnad@princeton.edu (Stevan Harnad)
Subject: Language Learnability: BBS Call for Commentators
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article to appear in
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international journal of "open
peer commentary" in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences, published
by Cambridge University Press. For information on how to serve as a
commentator or to nominate qualified professionals in these fields as
commentators, please send email to: harnad@mind.princeton.edu
or write to: BBS, 20 Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542
[tel: 609-921-7771]
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The Child's Trigger Experience: "Degree-0" Learnability
David Lightfoot
Linguistics Department
University of Maryland
A selective model of human language capacities holds that people come
to know more than they experience. The discrepancy between experience
and eventual capacity is bridged by genetically provided information.
Hence any hypothesis about the linguistic genotype (or "Universal
Grammar," UG) has consequences for what experience is needed and what
form people's mature capacities (or "grammars") will take. This BBS
target article discusses the "trigger experience," i.e., the experience
that actually affects a child's linguistic development. It is argued
that this must be a subset of a child's total linguistic experience
and hence that much of what a child hears has no consequence for the
form of the eventual grammar. UG filters experience and provides an
upper bound on what constitutes the triggering experience. This filtering
effect can often be seen in the way linguistic capacity can change between
generations. Children only need access to robust structures of minimal
("degree-0") complexity. Everything can be learned from simple, unembedded
"domains" (a grammatical concept involved in defining an expression's
logical form). Children do not need access to more complex structures.
--
Stevan Harnad ARPANET: harnad@mind.princeton.edu or
harnad%princeton.mind.edu@princeton.edu UUCP: princeton!mind!harnad
CSNET: harnad%mind.princeton.edu@relay.cs.net
BITNET: harnad%mind.princeton.edu@pucc.bitnet
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Date: Wed, 25 May 88 10:46:34 EDT
From: Maureen Searle <msearle%watsol.waterloo.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: Call for Papers
Reminder
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UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
CENTRE FOR THE NEW OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
4TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PANELISTS
INFORMATION IN TEXT
October 27-28, 1988
Waterloo, Canada
This year's conference will focus on ways that text stored as electronic
data allows information to be restructured and extracted in response to
individualized needs. For example, text databases can be used to:
- expand the information potential of existing text
- create and maintain new information resources
- generate new print information
Papers presenting original research on theoretical and applied aspects of
this theme are being sought. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest
include computational lexicology, computational linguistics, syntactic
and semantic analysis, lexicography, grammar defined databases, lexical
databases and machine-readable dictionaries and reference works.
Submissions will be refereed by a program committee. Authors should send
seven copies of a detailed abstract (5 to 10 double-spaced pages) by
June 10, 1988 to the Committee Chairman, Dr. Gaston Gonnet, at:
UW Centre for the New OED
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada, N2L 3G1
Late submissions risk rejection without consideration. Authors will be
notified of acceptance or rejection by July 22, 1988. A working draft
of the paper, not exceeding 15 pages, will be due by September 6, 1988
for inclusion in proceedings which will be made available at the
conference.
One conference session will be devoted to a panel discussion entitled
MEDIUM AND MESSAGE: THE FUTURE OF THE ELECTRONIC BOOK. The Centre invites
individuals who are interested in participating as panel members to submit
a brief statement (approximately 150 words) expressing their major
position on this topic. Please submit statements not later than
June 10, 1988 to the Administrative Director, Donna Lee Berg, at the above
address. Selection of panel members will be made by July 22, 1988.
The Centre is interested in specialists or generalists in both academic and
professional fields (including editors, publishers, software designers and
distributors) who have strongly held views on the information potential of
the electronic book.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Roy Byrd (IBM Corporation) Michael Lesk (Bell Communications Research)
Reinhard Hartmann (Univ. of Exeter) Beth Levin (Northwestern University)
Ian Lancashire (Univ. of Toronto) Richard Venezky (Univ. of Delaware)
Chairman: Gaston Gonnet (Univ. of Waterloo)
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Date: 25 May 88 19:05:03 GMT
From: feifer@locus.ucla.edu
Subject: AAAI-88: last call for student volunteers
ANNOUNCEMENT: Last Call: Student Volunteers Needed for AAAI-88
DEADLINE: July 1, 1988
AAAI-88 will be held August 20-26, 1988 in beautiful St. Paul,
Minnesota. Student volunteers are needed to help with local
arrangements and staffing of the conference. To be eligible for
a Volunteer position, an individual must be an undergraduate or
graduate student in any field at any college or university.
This is an excellent opportunity for students to participate
in the conference. Volunteers receive FREE registration at
AAAI-88, conference proceedings, "STAFF" T-shirt, and are
invited to the volunteer party. More importantly, by
participating as a volunteer, you become more involved and
meet students and researchers with similar interests.
Volunteer responsibilities are varied, including conference
preparation, registration, staffing of sessions and tutorials and
organizational tasks. Each volunteer will be assigned
twelve (12) hours.
If you are interested in participating in AAAI-88 as a
Student Volunteer, apply by sending the following information:
Name
Electronic Mail Address (for mailing from arpa site)
USMail Address
Telephone Number(s)
Dates Available
Student Affiliation
Advisor's Name
to:
valerie@SEAS.UCLA.EDU
or
Valerie Aylett
3531-K Boelter Hall
Computer Science Dept.
UCLA
Los Angeles, California 90024-1596
Thanks, and I hope you join us this year!
Richard Feifer
Student Volunteer Coordinator
AAAI-88 Staff
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Richard G. Feifer feifer@cs.ucla.edu
UCLA
145 Moore Hall -- Los Angeles -- Ca 90024
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Date: Thu 26 May 88 14:21:38-EDT
From: Marc Vilain <MVILAIN@G.BBN.COM>
Subject: BBN AI Seminar: Josh Tennenberg
BBN Science Development Program
AI Seminar Series Lecture
ABSTRACTION IN SYMBOLIC PLANNING
Josh Tennenberg
University of Rochester
(josh@cs.rochester.edu)
BBN Labs
10 Moulton Street
2nd floor large conference room
10:30 am, Tuesday May 31
The use of abstraction in planning is explored in order to simplify the
task of reasoning about the effects of an agent's actions within a complex
world. Two representational issues emerge which form the basis of this
research. First, the abstract views must sanction plan construction for
frequently occurring problems, yet never sanction the deduction of
contradictory assertions. Second, a correspondence between the abstract
and concrete views must be maintained so that abstract solutions bear a
precise relationship to the concrete level solutions derived from them.
These issues are explored within two different settings. In the first, an
abstraction hierarchy is induced by relaxing some of the constraints on the
application of actions. In the second, a predicate mapping function is
defined which extends the notion of inheritance from object types to
arbitrary relations and actions.
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Date: Thu, 26 May 88 16:04:31
From: GOLUMBIC%ISRAEARN.BITNET@CORNELLC.CCS.CORNELL.EDU
Date: 26 May 88, 16:03:16 IDT
From: Martin Charles Golumbic 972 4 296282 GOLUMBIC at ISRAEARN
To: AILIST at AI.AI.MIT
"Pre-announcement announcement"
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Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Arrangements have been finalized with the J. C. Baltzer Scientific
Publishing Company to form a new publication series entitled
the "Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence".
Martin Golumbic will serve as the editor-in-chief.
This new series will be parallel (maybe orthogonal) to the existing
"Annals of Operations Research", and Peter Hammer will be general
editor of the overall series which will include both.
The Annals of Math and AI will be devoted to reporting significant
contributions on the interaction of mathematical and computational
techniques reflecting the evolving disciplines of artificial
intelligence. The Annals will publish monographs, edited volumes of
original manuscripts, survey articles and well-refereed conference
proceedings of the highest caliber within this increasingly important
field. All papers will be subjected to peer refereeing at the
standard of the major scientific journals. It is our intent to
represent a wide range of topics of concern to the scholars applying
quantitative, combinatorial, logical and algebraic methods to areas as
diverse as decision support, automatic deduction, reasoning,
knowledge-based systems, machine learning, computer vision, robotics
and motion planning as well as influencing the growth potential
of new areas of applied mathematics and computational theory
generated by this cross-fertilization.
This new series will be similar in format to the Annals of OR which
first appeared in 1984 and is now publishing at a rate of six volumes
per year. The Annals will serve as a permanent record of research
developments, with each issue or volume focused on a topic and
featuring one or more guest editors. In coordination with the
editorial board, the guest editors will be personally responsible for
the collection of papers to appear in that volume, for the refereeing
process and for the time schedule. Smaller collections of papers will
be published in separate issues and combined into volumes of
approximately 400 pages. Larger collections will be published as full
volumes.
Collections on the following topics are currently under preparation
to appear during 1989/90: AI and Statistics (W. Gale and D. Hand),
Motion Planning (M. Sharir), Mathematical Stability in Computer Vision
(R. Hummel), Logic and Intelligent Database Systems (S. Tsur),
Formal aspects of semantic networks (J. Sowa), and several others
are under consideration.
Proposals are invited for additional collections on topics within
intelligent systems that show a strong foundational component.
For further information, conference organizers and potential guest
editors may contact
Prof. Martin Charles Golumbic
Editor-in-chief
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
IBM Israel Scientific Center
Technion City
Haifa, ISRAEL
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Date: Fri 27 May 88 10:37:36-EDT
From: adelson%cs.tufts.edu@relay.cs.net
Reply-to: adelson%cs.tufts.edu@relay.cs.net
Subject: FYI -- CAI Conference at Tufts
SOFTWARE, IMAGINATION, EDUCATION:
Educationally Effective Curricular Software in Higher Education
SPEAKERS:
Jon Barwise John Kemeny
John Seely Brown Seymour Papert
Marc H. Brown Judah L. Schwartz
Daniel C. Dennett George Smith
Mitchell Kapor Edwin Taylor
Alan Kay
Effective educational software is rare indeed--hard to create, and hard
to recognize. This conference will address the difficult questions:
What software actually works with students, and why? Leading thinkers
will explore the possibilities and limitations of computers in higher
education, and discuss demonstrations of the best existing software.
CONFERENCE HELD MAY 31 THROUGH JUNE 3, 1988
For reservations and information
about fees and location phone or mail:
Judy Medler
617-628-5000 X 5209
CSNET: BARNEY%CC.TUFTS.EDU
BITNET: JCMEDLER@TUFTS
Sponsored by the Curricular Software Studio,
with major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Date: Mon 30 May 88 20:01:01-EDT
From: Ben Olasov <G.OLASOV@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: LISP BBoard
For the benefit of any AI reseachers or LISP people who are working
with, or considering working with the LISP interpreter in the AutoCAD
CAD package on AI/ CAD interfaces of some kind, there is a dialup
bulletin board in New York City intended to provide LISP tools for
just such work/ research. The primary aim of the CAD section on this
board is to be a resource for AutoLISP (and LISP) developers
generally, with some emphasis on applying knowledge representation
techniques in AutoCAD's LISP environment.
The dial-up number in New York City is (212) 980-0770.
There is no registration fee or on-line time charge required to use
this board.
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Date: 31 May 88 21:56:46 GMT
From: BOSCO.BERKELEY.EDU!grossman@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Subject: AI and DECS
A list of talks follows:
Workshop On
AI and Discrete Event Control Systems
July 7 and 8, 1988
NASA-Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, California
Hamid Berenji, NASA-Ames Research Center
The Role of Approximate Reasoning in AI-based Control
Peter Caines, McGill University
Dynamical Logic Observers for Finite Automata, Part 1
James Demmel, Courant Institute
Hierarchical Control Studies in Dextrous Manipulation
Using the Utah/MIT Hand
Russel Greiner, University of Toronto
Dynamical Logic Observers for Finite Automata, Part 2
Robert Hermann, NASA-Ames Research Center and Boston University
The Scott Theory of Fixed Points Symbolic Control
Michael Heymann, Israel Institute of Technology
Real-Time Discrete Event Processes
Peter Ramadge, Princeton University
Discrete Event Systems, Modeling and Complexity
Stan Rosenschein, CSLI, Stanford University
Real Time AI Systems
Gerry Sussman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Automatic Extraction of Features From Dynamical Systems
For more information, please contact:
Robert Grossman (415) 642-8196
Department of Mathematics (415) 642-6526 (messages)
University of California, Berkeley grossman@cartan.berkeley.edu
Berkeley, CA 94720 grossman@ucbcarta.bitnet
Robert Grossman
Department of Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
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