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AIList Digest Sunday, 9 Oct 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 95
Here we go again (please read)
Announcements:
Computer Othello Tournament
2nd Generation Expert Systems
1989 Summer Computer Simulation Conference
Washington Neural Network Society Meeting
3rd Intl. Conference on Genetic Algorithms
AAAIC '88
Annual Survey of AI Applications to Law and Taxation
CLP mailing list
conceptual structures news group
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 88 22:05 EDT
From: AILIST-REQUEST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU
Subject: Here we go again (please read)
Hardware difficulties with the distribution machine have
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with me.
Cheers,
- nick
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Date: 26 Sep 88 16:11:25 GMT
From: tank!ncar!noao!asuvax!nud!mcdchg!clyde!watmath!csc@oddjob.uchica
go.edu (Wade Richards)
Subject: Computer Othello Tournament
The Fifth Annual
University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
Computer Othello Tournament
When: Saturday, November 12, 1988, 9:00 am EST.
Where: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. Math and Computer
Building. (Room to be announced.)
Who: Anyone.
Why: To encourage programming for purposes other than completing
CS assignments.
The competition is open to anyone and everyone. Each entrant is
required to have written a non-commercial computer program which plays
the game of Othello. The programs may run on any computer that:
a) the competitor can transport to or dial up from the
competition site;
or b) is available for use by the Computer Science Club.
These include a VAX running 4.3BSD, an IBM 4341 running
VM/CMS, a Hewlett-Packard 9000 series 200 running HP-UX
(similar to System III Unix), and an IBM PC running MS-DOS.
The program may be written in any computer language, or implemented in
hardware if so desired.
Players who are unable to play in person can transmit their moves via
bitnet or telephone, or send their program to us. We will appoint a
proxy if needed to run your program for you.
If you choose to send your program in, please ensure that it will run
on a different system without problems. We will accept either
executable or source, but source has a much better chance of working.
It must be bug free, with complete implementation details. The clearer
your documentation is, the better chance we have of successfully compiling
your program. Although we will make every reasonable effort, the CSC
cannot guarantee your program's operation. In the event that we cannot
run your program, we will refund your entry fee.
The games will be run under international Othello rules, with each
player allotted 30 minutes of playing time per match. The competition
will be organized as a Swiss system tournament.
A trophy will be provided by the Computer Science Club to the top
finisher in the competition, and the winner's name will be inscribed
on the permanent tournament trophy. There will also be an award for
the top undergraduate finisher from the University of Waterloo.
Entry fee for the competition will be $5.00 (Canadian) for Club members
and $7.00 (Canadian) for others. An entry form follows in the next
article; if you are interested in competing, please fill it out and
return it.
Those who wish to submit source must have their entry in by Oct. 29, 1988
accompanied by the code. The deadline for other entries is November 5,
1988. If we have to run your executable, it must be in by this date as
well.
For complete rules or more information, please contact:
Computer Science Club
MC 3037
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 3G1
(519) 885-1211 ext. 3870
{uunet,clyde,utai}!watmath!csc
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Date: 26 Sep 88 16:59:30 GMT
From: mcvax!inria!crcge1!david@uunet.uu.net (Marc David)
Subject: 2nd Generation Expert Systems
AVIGNON 89
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Ninth International Workshop: Expert Systems & their Applications
Avignon - France, May 29 - June 2, 1989.
Specialized Conference on:
SECOND GENERATION EXPERT SYSTEMS
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Call for Papers
Following the first session on Second Generation Expert Systems
organized during the 12th IMACS Congress (Paris, July 18-22, 88),
a second specialized conference is organized during Avignon'89.
Second Generation Expert Systems are able to combine heuristic
reasoning with deeper reasoning, based on a model of the problem
domain. The conference will emphasize practical and theoretical
issues relating to the cooperation of these two kinds of reason-
ing.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
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- integration of different reasoning techniques;
- architecture (preferably implemented) for combining heuristic
reasoning and model-based reasoning;
- cooperation of multiple expertise;
- application of cooperative reasoning to real-world problems
(e.g. diagnosis, control, planing, design);
- the use of qualitative, causal or temporal reasoning tech-
niques to augment heuristic reasoning;
- integration of qualitative and quantitative reasoning.
In addition to technical quality, papers will be evaluated by
their potential to contribute to achieving the goals of Second
Generation Expert Systems.
SUBMISSION:
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Submit 6 copies of full-length papers (no longer than 5000 words;
about 20 double-spaced pages) before December 12, 1988 to:
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Jean-Claude Rault - Avignon'89;
EC2; 269-287 rue de la Garenne
92000 Nanterre; France
tel: 33 - 1 - 47.80.70.00
fax: 33 - 1 - 47.80.66.29
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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chairman: Jean-Marc David
Laboratoires de Marcoussis
route de Nozay
91460 Marcoussis; France
tel: 33 - 1 - 64.49.14.89
fax: 33 - 1 - 64.49.06.94
Alice Agogino (University of California at Berkeley; USA);
Bert Bredeweg (University of Amsterdam; The Netherlands);
B. Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University; USA);
Marie-Odile Cordier (Universite de Rennes; France);
Jean-Luc Dormoy (Etudes et Recherches EDF; France);
Jean-Paul Krivine (Sedco Forex Schlumberger; France);
Benjamin Kuipers (University of Texas at Austin; USA);
Robert Milne (Intelligent Applications; UK);
Richard Pelavin (Philips Laboratories; USA);
Olivier Raiman (Centre Scientifique IBM; France);
Reid Simmons (Carnegie-Mellon University; USA);
Luc Steels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Belgium);
Jon Sticklen (Michigan State University; USA);
Pietro Torasso (Universita di Torino; Italy);
Louise Trave (LAAS-CNRS; France).
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Date: 27 Sep 88 23:15:34 GMT
From: killer!pollux!ti-csl!home!sullivan@eddie.mit.edu (Mike
Sullivan)
Subject: 1989 Summer Computer Simulation Conference
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Call For Papers
Summer Computer Simulation Conference
Austin, Texas
July 24-27, 1989
The 1989 Summer Computer Simulation Conference to be held in
Austin, Texas, July 24-27 is looking for abstracts in the area of
Knowledge Based Systems and Simulation. Topics we are looking
for include the areas of:
o Knowledge Based Simulation Theory
o Intelligent Simulation Systems
o Knowledge Based Simulation Tools
o Knowledge Based Systems using Simulation
o Knowledge Representation for Simulation
o Intelligent Simulation Control Architectures
o Applications of Simulation Techniques to Knowledge
Based Systems
o Interactions Between Conventional Simulations and
Knowledge Based Systems
Please send your one page abstract to:
Society for Computer Simulation
P.O. Box 17900
4838 Ronson Court, Suite 'L'
San Deigo, CA 92117-7900
ATTN: Group XIII.
Please include your name, organization, address and netaddress
(if available). Deadline for abstracts is November 1, 1988.
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 88 23:18:58 EDT
From: weidlich@ludwig.scc.com (Bob Weidlich)
Subject: Washington Neural Network Society Meeting
The Washington Neural Network Society
First General Meeting
October 12, 1988 7:00 PM
Speaker: Fred Weingard
Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.
Arlington, Virginia.
Neural Networks: Overview and Applications
Neural networks and neurocomputing provide a novel and promis-
ing alternative to conventional computing and artificial in-
telligence. Conventional computing is characterized by the
use of algorithms to solve well-understood problems. Artifi-
cial intelligence approaches are generally characterized by
the use of heuristics to obtain good, but not necessarily
best, solutions to problems whose solution steps are not so
well-understood. In both approaches, knowledge representions
or data structures to solve the problem must be worked out in
advance and a problem domain expert is essential. These ap-
proaches result in systems that are brittle to unexpected in-
puts, cannot adapt to a changing environment, and cannot easi-
ly take advantage of parallel hardware architectures. Neural
network systems, in contrast, can learn to solve a problem by
exposure to examples, are naturally parallel, and are
``robust" to novelty. In this talk Fred Weingard will give a
general overview of neural networks that covers many of the
most promising neural network models, and discuss the applica-
tion of such models to three difficult real-world problems --
radar signal processing, optimal decisionmaking, and speech
recognition.
Fred Weingard heads the Neural Network Design and Applications
Group at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Prior to joining Booz, Al-
len, Mr. Weingard was a senior intelligence analyst at the De-
fense Intelligence Agency. He has degrees in engineering from
Cornell University and is completing his doctorate in computer
science / artificial intelligence at George Washington Univer-
sity.
The meeting will be held in the Contel Plaza Building Audito-
rium at Contel Federal Systems in Fairfax, Virginia, at the
southwest edge of the Fair Oaks mall. Directions from 495
Beltway: Take Route 66 Westbound (toward Front Royal) and get
off at route 50 heading west (Exit 15 Dulles/Winchester). Go
1/4 mile on route 50, follow sign to "shopping center". Stay
in right lane and merge into service road that circles shop-
ping center. Take driveway from service road to Contel build-
ing. Address is 12015 Lee Jackson Highway. Contel building
is across shopping parking lot from Lord and Taylor, near
Sears. For further information call Billie Stelzner at (703)
359-7685. Host for the meeting is the recently-established
Contel Technology Center. Dr. Alan Salisbury, Director of the
Technology Center, will present a brief introduction to the
plans for research and application of technology at the Contel
laboratory, including work in artificial intelligence and
man-machine interface design.
Schedule:
7:00 - 7:15 Welcoming (Alan Salisbury)
7:15 - 8:15 Speaker (Fred Weingard)
8:15 - 8:30 Report on Neural Network Society (Craig Will)
8:30 - 9:30 Reception, informal discussion
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 88 11:31:53 EDT
From: John Grefenstette <gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: 3rd Intl. Conference on Genetic Algorithms
Call for Papers
The Third International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
(ICGA-89)
The Third International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-
89), will be held on June 4-7, 1989 at George Mason University
near Washington, D.C. Authors are invited to submit papers on
all aspects of Genetic Algorithms, including: foundations of
genetic algorithms, search, optimization, machine learning using
genetic algorithms, classifier systems, apportionment of credit
algorithms, relationships to other search and learning paradigms.
Papers discussing specific applications (e.g., OR, engineering,
science, etc.) are encouraged.
Important Dates:
10 Feb 89: Submissions must be received by program chair
10 Mar 89: Notification of acceptance or rejection
10 Apr 89: Camera ready revised versions due
4-7 Jun 89: Conference Dates
Authors are requested to send four copies (hard copy only) of a
full paper by February 10, 1989 to the program chair:
Dr. J. David Schaffer
Philips Laboratories
345 Scarborough Road
Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
ds1@philabs.philips.com
(914) 945-6168
Conference Committee:
Conference Chair: Kenneth A. De Jong, George Mason University
Local Arrangements: Lashon B. Booker, Naval Research Lab
Program Chair: J. David Schaffer, Philips Laboratories
Program Committee: Lashon B. Booker
Lawrence Davis, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Kenneth A. De Jong
David E. Goldberg, University of Alabama
John J. Grefenstette, Naval Research Lab
John H. Holland, University of Michigan
George G. Robertson, Xerox PARC
J. David Schaffer
Stephen F. Smith, Carnegie-Melon University
Stewart W. Wilson, Rowland Institute for Science
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 88 14:34:20 edt
From: wilsonjb%avlab.dnet@wpafb-avlab.arpa (Jim Wilson, AFWAL/AAI,
55800)
Subject: AAAIC '88
Aerospace Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AAAIC) '88
Special Emphasis
On
Neural Network Applications
LOCATION: Stouffer Dayton Plaza Hotel
Dayton, OH
DATES: Monday, 24 Oct - Friday, 28 Oct 88
PLENARY SESSION Tuesday Morning
Lt General John M. Loh,
Commander, USAF Aeronautical Systems Division
Dr. Stephen Grossberg,
President, Association of Neural Networks
TECHNICAL SESSIONS Tuesday - Thursday (in paralell)
I. Neural Network Aerospace Applications
Integrating Neural Netorks and Expert Systems
Neural Networks and Signal Processing
Neural Networks and Man-Machine Interface Issues
Parallel Processing and Neural Networks
Optical Neural Networks
Back Propogation with Momentum, Shared Weights and Recurrency
Cybernetics
II. AI Aerospace Applications
Developmental Tools and Operational and Maintenance Issues
Using Expert Systems
Real Time Expert Systems
Automatic Target Recognition
Data Fusion/Sensor Fusion
Combinatorial Optimaztion for Scheduling and Resource Control
Machine Learining, Cognition, and Avionics Applications
Advanced Problem Solving Techniques
Cooperative and Competitive Network Dynamics in Aerospace
Tutorials
I. Introduction to Neural Nets Mon 8:30 - 11:30
II. Natural LAnguage Processing 8:30 - 11:30
III. Conditioned Response in Neural Nets 1:30 - 4:30
IV. Verification and Validation of Knowledge 1:30 - 4:30
Based Systems
Workshops
I. Robotics, Vision, and Speech Fri 8:30 - 11:30
II. AI and Human Engineering Issues 8:30 - 11:30
III. Synthesis of Intelligence 1:30 - 4:30
IV. A Futurists View of AI 1:30 - 4:30
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
(after 30 Sept)
Conference $225
Individual Tech Session (ea) $ 50
Tutorials (ea) $ 50
Workshops (ea) $ 50
Conference Reistration includes: Plenary Session
Tuesday Luncheon
Wednesday Banquet
All Technical Sessions
Proceedings
Tutorials and Workshops are extra.
For more information, contact:
AAAIC '88
Dayton SIGART
P.O. Box 31434
Dayton, OH 45431
Darrel Vidrine
(513) 255-2446
Hotel information:
Stouffer Dayton Plaza Hotel
(513) 224-0800
Rates: Govt Non-Govt
Single $55 $75
Double $60 $80
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 88 14:58:46 EDT
From: donald berman <berman@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu>
Subject: Annual Survey of AI Applications to Law and Taxation
I am editing THE ANNUAL SURVEY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW which
will cover automated practice systems, expert systems, conceptual
retrieval from legal data bases, computer assisted education, hypertext,
and decision analysis.
I invite researchers and developers to submit short articles; users to
submit product reviews; and developers to submit information about their
AI products for listing in a comprehensive directory. For more
information you may either reply to this electronic message or contact
Professor Donald H. Berman
Center for Law & Computer Science
Northeastern University
400 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115 tel. (617) 437-3346
Berman@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu
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Date: 6 Oct 88 19:41:28 GMT
From: THUNDER.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU!spiro@pt.cs.cmu.edu (Spiro Michaylov)
Subject: CLP mailing list
The CLP mailing list has been created and is going strong. If you have asked
to be put on it and have not received any messages it is probably because I
haven't been able to get your e-mail address working. If this is the case,
please mail clp-request@cs.cmu.edu with lots of alternative e-mail addresses
for me to try.
In particular, the following addresses are causing problems
...!utacs.uta.fi!ph (user doesn't exist)
...!aida!em (host doesn't exist)
clp%inf21@ztivax.siemens.com (host has gone away?)
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Spiro Michaylov
Carnegie Mellon Computer Science.
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Date: 7 Oct 88 19:42:39 GMT
From: busalacc@umn-cs.arpa (Perry J. Busalacchi)
Subject: conceptual structures news group
Conceptual Structures News Group
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As was discussed at the annual conceptual graphs workshop,
a new news group is being formed which will focus on discussions
pertaining to John Sowa's Conceptual Structure theory. This
group will be monitored by Perry Busalacchi (University
of Minnesota). If you are interested in subscribing send mail
to busalacc@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu. Received mail will be compiled
into a weekly newsletter and sent to all subscribing parties.
-perry
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