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Machine Learning List Vol. 1 No. 08
Machine Learning List: Vol. 1 No. 8
Sunday, Sept 23, 1989
Contents:
Symposium: Computational approaches to Concept Formation
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 07:44:28 CDT
From: "Douglas H. Fisher" <dfisher@vuse.vanderbilt.EDU>
Subject: symposium
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL
APPROACHES TO CONCEPT FORMATION
Palo Alto, California
January 6--7, 1990
Concept formation -- the unsupervised, incremental acquisition of
conceptual knowledge -- stands as a major open issue in cognitive
science and artificial intelligence. However, recent progress has
led to deeper understanding of the phenomena involved in human
concept learning and of the possible mechanisms underlying these
aspects of intelligent behavior.
On January 6 and 7, 1990, a symposium on this topic will take place
in Palo Alto, California. The meeting will bring together active
researchers in this important area, letting them report their recent
results and discuss unresolved problems. It will also establish
communication among researchers from different paradigms, paving the
way for unified theories of concept formation that cross existing
methodological boundaries.
Presentations will be through invitation, but to ensure participation by
researchers without `contacts' and from a broad range of related fields,
a number of additional non-presenting attendees will be invited. The
ideal participant will have developed and tested (by implementation or
experimentation) a computational theory of some aspect of concept
formation, including:
- Concept formation and perception
- Concept formation in problem solving
- Concept formation and motor control
- Organization and indexing in concept formation
- Concept formation over structured objects
- Representation change in concept formation
Applicants should send a short research summary (maximum of two pages)
describing their research efforts and interests in concept formation by
October 20, 1989, to the program chair:
Doug Fisher
Department of Computer Science
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235, USA
Electronic mail: DFISHER@VUSE.VANDERBILT.EDU
Telephone: (615) 343--4111
Travel support for participants may be available. For further information
contact either Doug Fisher (at the above address),
Pat Langley, AI Research Branch, Mail Stop 244-17, NASA Ames Research
Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA (LANGLEY@PTOLEMY.ARC.NASA.GOV), or
Michael Pazzani, Department of Information and Computer Science,
University of California, Irvine, CA 92717 (PAZZANI@ICS.UCI.EDU)
This symposium is the second in an annual series of meetings organized
by the Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise, a nonprofit
organization devoted to encouraging research and education in machine
learning and related disciplines. The results of the 1989 symposium, which
focused on scientific discovery and theory formation, is scheduled to appear
as a collected volume early in 1990.
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From: ml-request@ics.uci.edu
Subject: How often is ML-LIST mailed out
Some people, obviously empirical learners, were under the impression
that ML-LIST would be mailed out weekly. There's obviously a danger
in generalizing from a small sample set. When ML-LIST is mailed out
is a function of the number of messages received, the date since the
last mailing, and how busy the moderator is. And since we are on the
topic of the amount of messages received, several people have propose
reviews of IJCAI talks.... -MP
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