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AIList Digest Thursday, 30 Jun 1988 Volume 7 : Issue 47
Today's Topics:
Announcements:
Visiting position in NL at Toronto
TOC from Canadian Artificial Intelligence, No. 16, July 1988
call for papers - 5th IEEE conference on AI applications
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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 88 14:04:18 GMT
From: Graeme Hirst <gh%aipna.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: Visiting position in NL at Toronto
VISITING POSITION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
(DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE)
A one-year visiting position, for a post-doc or more senior person,
is available in the University of Toronto A.I. group, in the area of
natural language understanding and computational linguistics.
The visitor would carry a 50% teaching load (one half-course per
semester), supervise MSc theses, and participate in the research
group's activities. The position is to commence asap.
The Toronto A.I. group includes 6.5 faculty, 2 research scientists,
and approximately 40 graduate students. The natural language
subgroup includes one faculty member (Graeme Hirst) and about ten
graduate students.
For more information, contact Graeme Hirst, preferably by e-mail:
In North America: gh@ai.toronto.edu
In U.K./Europe: gh@uk.ac.ed.aipna
Phone (in U.K. until 18 July): 031 225 7774 x.225
(in Canada from 19 July): 416-978-8747
Write: Graeme Hirst
Dept Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, CANADA M5S 1A4
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 88 15:35:10 EDT
From: Christopher Prince <ames!arcsun!chris@calgary.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Canadian AI magazine TOC
Table of contents from
Canadian Artificial Intelligence, No. 16, July 1988
(edited at the Alberta Research Council)
a publication of the CSCSI (Canadian Society for Computational Studies
of Intelligence).
Communications
3 Executive Notes
4 Humour-Dear Dr. Rob
AI News
7 Short Takes
9 New Products
10 A Proposal for the Creation of SIGET
Philippe Duchastel
Feature Articles
13 AI and Resource Industries
Connie Bryson
16 Research Directions for ICAI in Canada
Philippe Duchastel
Research Reports
20 AI Research and Development at Applied AI Systems, Inc.
Takashi Gomi
23 Artificial Intelligence Work at MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.
Max Krause
27 Knowledge Acquisition Research and Development at Acquired Intelligence Inc.
Brian A. Schaefer
Conference Reports
29 Social Issues Conference
Robin Cohen
32 Report on the 1988 Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop
Ernest Chang
34 The Fourth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications
Betty Ann Snyder
Publications
36 Book Reviews
38 Books Received
39 Computational Intelligence Abstracts
41 Technical Reports
44 Conference Announcements
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Christopher Prince,
Alberta Research Council,
Calgary, Alberta. Canada.
(403) 297-2600
arcsun!chris@uunet
or
prince@noah.arc.cdn
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 88 10:02:15 EDT
From: Mark.Fox@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU
Subject: conference call for papers
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
THE FIFTH IEEE CONFERENCE ON
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS
OMNI HOTEL
MIAMI, FLORIDA
MARCH 6-10, 1989
SPONSORED BY: THE COMPUTER SOCIETY OF IEEE
This conference is devoted to the application of artificial intelligence
techniques to real-world problems. Two kinds of papers are appropriate:
papers that focus on principles which underlie knowledge-based system
applications, and case studies of knowledge-based application programs that
solve significant problems. Only new, significant and previously unpublished
work will be accepted. The following types of papers will be accepted for
review by the Program Committee:
- Papers focusing on principles of knowledge-based systems. Such
papers should describe significant completed research, detailing the
practical aspects of designing and constructing knowledge-based
systems, how relevant AI techniques were applied effectively to
important problems, software life cycle engineering concerns, etc.
AI techniques include, but are not limited to the following:
Knowledge acquisition, task-specific knowledge representations,
task-specific reasoning, verification and validation, diagnosis,
project management, intelligent interfaces, and general tools.
- Papers describing case studies of AI-based application programs.
Such papers should describe an application of AI technology
demonstrating the solution of a significant problem, including an
analysis of why the implementation techniques selected were
appropriate for the problem domain. Case study areas include, but
are not limited to the following: Science, medicine, law, business,
engineering, manufacturing, and robotics. Case Study papers should
contain the following sections: (1) Problem definition; (2) Previous
approaches; (3) Approach of the case study; (4) Performance analysis;
(5) Status of implementation.
Papers should be limited to 5000 words. Starting this year, the first page of
the paper will be standardized in order to provide the reader with additional
application information. The first page of the paper must contain the
following information:
- TITLE
- CONTACT INFORMATION: Name, affiliation, US Mail and electronic mail
addresses, telephone number.
- TOPIC: Principles or Case Study, Subtopics within the topic (e.g.,
manufacturing, diagnosis, explanation, knowledge acquisition).
- ABSTRACT: A 200 word abstract.
- STATUS: Status of implementation: research, development, field test,
or production use.
- DOMAIN: Domain of application, e.g., medical diagnosis, factory
scheduling.
- LANGUAGE: Implementation language (if applicable), both programming
language, e.g., LISP, C, and knowledge engineering tool (if
applicable).
- EFFORT: Person-years of effort put into the project to date.
Each paper accepted for publication will be allotted six pages in the
conference proceedings.
In addition to papers, we will be accepting the following types of submissions:
- Proposals for Panel discussions. Topic and desired participants.
Indicate the membership of the panel and whether you are interested
in organizing/moderating the discussion. A panel proposal should
include a 1000-word summary of the proposed subject.
- Proposals for Demonstrations. Videotape and/or description of a live
presentation (not to exceed 1000 words). The demonstration should be
of a particular system or technique that shows the reduction to
practice of one of the conference topics. The demonstration or video
tape should be not longer than 15 minutes.
- Proposals for Tutorial Presentations. Proposals of both an
introductory and advanced nature are requested. Topics should relate
to the management and technical development of usable and useful
artificial intelligence applications. Particularly of interest are
tutorials analyzing classes of applications in depth and techniques
appropriate for a particular class of applications. However, all
topics will be considered. Tutorials are three (3) hours in
duration; copies of slides are to be provided in advance to IEEE for
reproduction (see schedule of dates below). If you have any
questions about tutorial proposals, contact the Tutorial Chair, Nancy
Martin, for more information.
Each tutorial proposal should include the following:
* Detailed topic list and descriptive abstract (approximately 5
pages)
* Tutorial level: introductory, intermediate, or advanced
* Prerequisite reading for intermediate and advanced tutorials
* Short tutorial and instructional vita of presenter (previous
lecture experience)
* Short professional vita demonstrating presenter's experience in
area of tutorial
IMPORTANT DATES
September 20, 1988: Four copies of Papers, Demonstration Proposals, Panel
Proposals, and Tutorial Proposals are due. Submissions not
received by that date will be returned unopened.
October 18, 1988: Author notifications mailed.
December 6, 1988: Accepted papers due to IEEE. Accepted tutorial notes due to
Tutorial Chair, Nancy Martin.
March 6-7, 1989: Tutorials convene.
March 6-10, 1989: Conference convenes.
Submit Papers and Other Materials to:
Mark S. Fox/ Roy A. Maxion
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
USA
Phone: 412-268-3832
FAX: 412-268-5016
TELEX: 854941
ARPANET: msf@isl1.ri.cmu.edu
Submit Tutorial Proposals to:
Nancy Martin
Softpert Systems
24 Berkeley Street
Nashua, NH 03060
Phone: 603-882-1790
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
General Chair
Elaine Kant, Schlumberger-Doll Research
Program Committee Chairs
Mark S. Fox, Carnegie-Mellon University
Roy Maxion, Carnegie-Mellon University
Tutorial Chair
Nancy Martin, Softpert Systems
Program Committee
Jan Aikins, AION Corp.
Alice Agogino, UC Berkeley
Miro Benda, Boeing Computer Services
B. Chandrasekaren, Ohio State University
Rina Dechter, UC Los Angeles
Vasant Dhar, New York University
Lee Erman, Teknowledge
Brian Gaines, University of Calgary
Richard Herrod, Texas Instruments
Se June Hong, IBM
Gary Kahn, Carnegie Group
Sanjay Mittal, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Sergei Nirenburg, Carnegie-Mellon University
Van Paranak, ITI
Marilyn Stelzner, Intellicorp
Steve Shafer, Carnegie-Mellon University
Beau Sheil, Price Waterhouse Technology Center
Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan
Mitch Tseng, Digital Equipment Corporation
Additional Information
For registration, exhibits, and additional conference information, contact:
CAIA-89
The Computer Society of the IEEE
1730 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036-1903
Phone: 202-371-0101
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