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AIList Digest Volume 8 Issue 134
AIList Digest Thursday, 1 Dec 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 134
Announcements:
Call for Papers: Languages for Architectures for Automation
Conceptual Graphs Workshop '89 (Second call for papers)
Clarification: IJCAI-89 paper submission deadline
Call for IJCAI-89 Workshops
Explanatory Coherence: BBS Call for Commentators
Schwartz Associates Neural Net Promotional Advertisement is bogus
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Date: Mon, 07 Nov 88 15:53:42 EST
From: Mario Barbacci <mrb@SEI.CMU.EDU>
Subject: Call for Papers: Languages for Architectures for Automation
1989 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
LANGUAGES AND ARCHITECTURES FOR AUTOMATION
June 26 - 28, 1989
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
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| CALL FOR PAPERS |
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The seventh IEEE Workshop on Languages and Architectures
for Automation -(former IEEE Workshop on Languages for
Automation)- will be hosted by the Universidad Politecnica de
Madrid, Spain, in cooperation with the University of Connecticut
and the University of Dortmund. The cooperation of the IEEE has
been applied for.
You are invited to submit an original research paper on any
of the following subjects:
MAN-MACHINE INTERFACES
VISUAL LANGUAGES
PATTERN RECOGNITION METHODS AND ARCHITECTURES
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
DECISION-SUPPORT and DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS
NEURAL NETWORKS
REAL TIME and PARALLEL PROCESSING
APPLICATIONS SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN
SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR HARDWARE DESIGN
Authors are requested to submit four copies of their double
spaced typed manuscript (in English) on 8.5 by 11 inch or A4
paper by January 2, 1989. Each paper should include a 50 - 100
word Abstract and should be no longer than 15 pages. Papers
should be sent to the closest Program Chair:
Prof. T.C. Ting Prof. C. Moraga
School of Engineering, U-237 FB Informatik
University of Connecticut Universitaet Dortmund
Storrs, CT 06258 4600 Dortmund 50
U.S.A. Bundesrepublik Deutschland
(Ting@UCONN.Edu) (moraga@unido.bitnet)
Authors will be notified by March 1, 1989. Photo-ready
copies of accepted papers written on special stationery provided
by the Publishers are due early in April. For more information
contact the Workshop Chairman:
Prof. Julio Gutierrez-Rios
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Facultad de Informatica
Campus de Montegancedo
28660 Madrid
SPAIN
(jg@sei.cmu.edu)
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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 88 14:49:17 +1000
From: "ERIC Y.H. TSUI" <munnari!aragorn.oz.au!eric@uunet.UU.NET>
Subject: Conceptual Graphs Workshop '89 (Second call for papers)
Dear Colleague,
Last year, the second Annual Conference on conceptual graphs was organised by
Jean Fargues at the IBM Paris Scientific Center.
In 1989, I shall organise the Annual Conference on conceptual graphs at
Deakin University on the 9th and 10th of March, 1989.
I wish to invite you to attend this workshop, and I am looking forward to a
possible contribution you could propose, such as a 30 minutes presentation
with some handouts or an article. If you are interested in attending,
please notify
Professor Brian J. Garner
Division of Computing and Mathematics
Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria 3217
Australia
Phone: 61 52 471 383
Telex: DUNIV AA35625
FAX: 61 52 442 777
Email: brian@aragorn.oz (CSNET)
Expenses will be the responsibility of the participants but there is no special
fee for attending the workshop. I am looking forward to your participation and
possible contribution.
Brian J. Garner
Professor of Computing
Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria 3217
AUSTRALIA
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Date: 24 Nov 88 00:35:06 PST (Thu)
From: sridhara@cel.fmc.com (Sridharan)
Subject: Clarification: IJCAI-89 paper submission deadline
Papers must be sent to the AAAI office.
AAAI Headquarters (IJCAI-89)
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park CA 94025 USA
so as to be received by December 12th.
Best regards,
N.S.Sridahran
Program Chair, IJCAI-89
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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 88 14:51:47 EST
From: Joseph L. Katz. <katz@mitre-bedford.ARPA>
Subject: Call for IJCAI-89 Workshops
Please Post.
Note: This is the second time I sent this message. I don't think the first
message went out.
IJCAI-89 Workshops:
Request for Proposals
The IJCAI-89 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop
Program of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-89),to be held in Detroit, Michigan from August 20, 1989 to August 20,
1989.
Gathering in an informal setting, workshop participants will have the
opportunity to meet and discuss issues with a selected focus---providing for
active exchange among researchers and practitioners on topics of mutual
interest. Members from all segments of the AI community are encouraged to
submit workshop proposals for review.
To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the workshops
will be kept small---preferably under 35 participants. Attendance should be
limited to active participants only. The format of workshop presentations
will be determined by the organizers proposing the workshop, but ample time
must be allotted for general discussion. Workshops can range in length from
two hours to two days, but most workshops will last a half day or a full day.
Proposals for workshops should be between 1 and 2 pages in length, and
should contain:
1. a brief description of the workshop identifying specific issues that will
be focused on.
2. a discussion of why the workshop would be of interest at this time,
3. the names and addresses of the organizing committee, preferably 3 or 4
people not all at the same organization,
4. a partial list of potential participants, and
5. a proposed schedule for getting the workshop organized and a proposed
workshop agenda.
Workshop proposals should be submitted as soon as possible, but no
later than 1 February 1989. Proposals will be reviewed as they are received
and resources allocated as workshops are approved. Organizers will be notified
of the committee's decision no later than 15 February 1989.
Workshop organizers will be responsible for:
1. producing a Call for Participation in the workshop, which will be mailed to
AAAI members by AAAI,
2. reviewing requests to participate in the workshop, and determining the
workshop participants,
3. scheduling the activities of the workshop, and
4. preparing a review of the workshop, which will be printed in the AI
Magazine.
IJCAI will provide logistical support, will provide a meeting place
for the workshop, and, in conjunction with the organizers, will determine the
date and time of the workshop.
Please submit your workshop proposals, and enquiries concerning
workshops to:
Joseph Katz
MITRE Corporation
MS L203
Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
USA
Phone: (617) 271 5200
Fax: (617) 271 5161
Arpanet: Katz@mbunix.mitre.org
Katz@mitre-bedford.arpa
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Date: 27 Nov 88 17:50:59 GMT
From: elbereth.rutgers.edu!harnad@rutgers.edu (Stevan Harnad)
Subject: Explanatory Coherence: BBS Call for Commentators
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article to appear in
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international,
interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important
and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive
sciences. Commentators must be current BBS Associates or nominated by a
current BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator on this article,
to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how
to become a BBS Associate, please send email to:
harnad@confidence.princeton.edu or write to:
BBS, 20 Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542 [tel: 609-921-7771]
____________________________________________________________________
EXPLANATORY COHERENCE
Paul Thagard
Cognitive Science Loboratory
Princeton University
Princeton NJ 08542
This paper presents a new computational theory of explanatory coherence
that applies both to the acceptance and rejection of scientific
hypotheses and to reasoning in everyday life. The theory
consists of seven principles that establish relations of local
coherence between a hypothesis and other propositions that explain it,
are explained by it, or contradict it. An explanatory hypothesis is
accepted if it coheres better overall than its competitors.
The power of the seven principles is shown by their implementation in a
connectionist program called ECHO, which has been applied to
such important scientific cases as Lavoisier's argument for
oxygen against the phlogiston theory and Darwin's argument for evolution
against creationism, and also to cases of legal reasoning. The
theory of explanatory coherence has implications for artificial
intelligence, psychology, and philosophy.
--
Stevan Harnad INTERNET: harnad@confidence.princeton.edu harnad@princeton.edu
srh@flash.bellcore.com harnad@elbereth.rutgers.edu harnad@princeton.uucp
BITNET: harnad@pucc.bitnet CSNET: harnad%mind.princeton.edu@relay.cs.net
(609)-921-7771
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 88 23:18:08 EST
From: Marvin Minsky <MINSKY@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Schwartz Associates Neural Net Promotional Advertisement is
bogus
A company named Schwartz Associates of Mountain View, CA,has
been mailing a neural net promotional advertisement that prominently
displays my name on the envelope and every page inside, with statements
that broadly suggest that I am involved in their enterprise. They
suggest that along with the $1495.00 collection of videos and reprints,
the customer is entitled to contact me for a final qualifying
examination. Needless to say, I have nothing to do with them and it
would seem natural to presume that their wares are as shabby as their
disgraceful business practices.
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