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Machine Learning List Vol. 4 No. 02
Machine Learning List: Vol. 4 No. 2
Tuesday, Jan 25, 1992
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Faculty Position at UCI
Japanese Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop
ML-92 Registration
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Subject: AI Position at UC Irvine
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 92 13:10:23 -0800
From: Michael Pazzani <pazzani@pan.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Message-ID: <9201251310.aa11177@Paris.ics.uci.edu>
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
Department of Information and Computer Science
Faculty Position in Artificial Intelligence
The Department of Information and Computer Science (ICS) is seeking to
fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of
artificial intelligence (AI) particulary machine learning, neural
networks, nonmonotonic reasoning, approximate reasoning, computational
neuroscience, model-based reasoning, planning, or cognitive modeling.
We are looking for new faculty with strong research records who would
thrive in a highly productive but friendly setting; applicants must
possess a Ph.D. and show excellent promise of a distinguished research
career. Duties include teaching both at the graduate and undergraduate
level in the ICS curriculum. Preference will be given to a junior
appointment, but a tenured position may be possible for an
exceptionally qualified applicant.
Currently the AI group consists of five faculty members, 30 graduate
students pursuing doctoral degrees, and several international
visitors with the following research interests: machine learning,
cognitive modeling, explanation and learning, tractable inferences,
constraint-based reasoning, learning and problem solving, and
computational neuroscience. The AI group has been responsible for \$3
million of extramural research funding since 1987, and current
research funding totals roughly $1 million per year.
In addition to AI, the ICS Department has research groups in the areas
of computer systems design, parallel processing, software, computer
networks and distributed systems, algorithms and data structures, and
social and managerial analysis of computing. ICS faculty emphasize
core computer science as well as research in emerging areas of the
discipline, with effective interdisciplinary collaborative ties to
colleagues in neurobiology, cognitive science, management,
engineering, and the social sciences. The department currently has 29
full-time faculty positions and more than 120 Ph.D. students.
Department equipment includes approximately 175 workstations,
primarily Sparc 1's and 2's, Sun-3's and Sun-4's. Two large
multiprocessor Sequents and a Hypercube are available, as well as
approximately 300 Macintosh Plus's and II's. There are also a few HP,
DEC, NeXT, and Symbolics workstations. All our major workstations and
computers are tied together with networks, which are gatewayed to the
campus network, and from there, to national and international
networks. In addition, department members have access to campus-wide
computing resources as well as regional super-computer access.
UC Irvine is located in Orange County, three miles from the Pacific
Ocean adjacent to Newport Beach, and approximately forty miles south
of Los Angeles. The campus is situated in the heart of a national
center of high-technology enterprise. Both the campus and the
enterprise area are growing rapidly and offer exciting professional
and cultural opportunities. Salaries and benefits are competitive.
Special housing assistance is available from the university, including
newly built, for-sale housing within short walking distance from the
Department.
Send resume and names of four references to:
Lisa Tellier
A.I.Position
ICS Department
University of California
Irvine, CA 92717
Application screening will begin immediately upon receipt of curriculum
vitae. Maximum consideration will be given to applications received by
January 31, 1992.
The University of California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
Employer. The Department of ICS is particularly interested in receiving
applications from women and minority candidates.
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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 09:12:03 +0900
From: Motoda Hiroshi <kddlab!harl86.harl.hitachi.co.jp!motoda@uunet.uu.NET>
Subject: Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition
Please post if you think this fits in the ML community.
Hiroshi Motoda
Advanced Research Laboratory
Hitachi Ltd.,
Hatoyama, Saitama 350-03
Japan
E-mail motoda@harl.hitachi.co.jp
Phone 81-492-96-6111
Fax 81-492-96-6006
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Call for Papers
Second Japanese Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems
Workshop
Sponsored by
Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
In Cooperation with
Information Processing Society of Japan
Japan Society for Software Science and Technology
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication
Engineers
Venue & Date
Kobe International Conference Hall (Kobe)
November 9 - 11, 1992
Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd. (Hatoyama)
November 12 - 13, 1992
A problem in the process of building knowledge-based systems is
acquiring and modeling appropriate problem-solving knowledge. The
objective of this workshop is to assemble theoreticians and
practitioners of AI who recognize the need for developing methods
and systems that assist the knowledge acquisition process.
The workshop will be in two parts: a three-day open meeting in Kobe
and two-day workshop in Hatoyama (near Tokyo). A major goal of the
workshop is to encourage vigorous interaction and exchange of idea.
Consequently, the workshop participation in Hatoyama will be kept
small - about 40 participants. This will be done by limiting
workshop participation to one of the authors for any given paper,
although some exceptions can be made based upon requests to the
organizers. In addition, persons not submitting papers can request
to participate by sending a summary of their research and/or
publications in knowledge acquisition to the organizers. Acceptance
for participation in the Hatoyama workshop will be decided upon by
the organizers. Papers will be presented at both workshops. There
will be tutorial and invited talk sessions in the open workshop.
Best paper awards are available for foreign students to cover a
part of their travel expenses (100,000 yen/person).
Papers are invited for consideration in all aspects of knowledge
acquisition for knowledge-based systems, including (but not restricted
to):
o Transfer/modeling of expertise - systems that obtain and model
knowledge from experts.
o Transfer/modeling of expertise - manual knowledge acquisition
methods and techniques.
o Apprenticeship, explanation-based, and other learning systems;
integration of such systems with other knowledge acquisition
techniques.
o Methods for capturing design knowledge and requirements
o Issues in cognition and expertise that affect the knowledge
acquisition process.
o Extracting and modeling of knowledge from text.
o Eliciting and modeling knowledge from multiple sources.
o Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques within a single
system; integration of knowledge acquisition systems with other
systems (hypermedia, database management systems, simulators,
spreadsheets...).
o Knowledge acquisition methodology and training.
o Validation of knowledge acquisition techniques; the role of
knowledge acquisition techniques in validating knowledge-based
systems.
Five copies of a draft paper (up to 20 pages) should be sent to
Riichiro Mizoguchi before March 31st, 1992. Acceptance notices will be
mailed by June 30th. Camera-ready copies should be returned before
August 31st. A preprint volume will be distributed at the workshop.
Workshop Co-chairmen:
Riichiro Mizoguchi Hiroshi Motoda
Institute of Scientific and Advanced Research Laboratory
Industrial Research Hitachi, Ltd.
Osaka University motoda@harl.hitachi.co.jp
8-1, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, 567 Japan
miz@ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
John Boose Brian Gaines
Advanced Technology Center Department of Computer Science
Boeing Computer Services University of Calgary
john@atc.boeing.com gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Ross Quinlan
Basser Department of Computer Science
University of Sydney
quinlan@basser.cs.su.oz.au
Local Arrangement Committee
Teruo Koyama(National Center for Information Science)
Takahira Yamaguchi(Faculty of Engineering, University of Shizuoka)
And all the members of SIG-KBS of JSAI
International Program Committee
Thomas R. Addis, University of Reading, UK
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Univ. Kaiserlautern, Germany
Nathalie Aussenec, IRIT, CNRS, France
Guy Boy, Centre d'Etudes et de Rech. de Toulouse, NASA AMES, USA
Jeffrey Bradshaw, Boeing Computer Services, USA
I. Bratko, Ljubljana, Jugoslawia
B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University, USA
William Clancey, Institute for Research on Learning, USA
Paul Compton, University of New South Wales, Australia
John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Michael J. Freiling, Wyatt Software, USA
Jean Gabriel Ganascia, Universite Paris VI, France
Thomas Gruber, Stanford University, USA
Koichi Hori, University of Tokyo, Japan
Bob Jansen, ESTRO, The Netherlands
Catherine Kitto, Boeing Computer Services, USA
Georg Klinker, Digital Equipment Company, USA
Shigenobu Kobayashi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Yves Kodratoff, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Jae K. Lee, Korea Adv Inst of Science and Technology, Korea
Marc Linster, GMD, St. Augustin, Germany
Sandra Marcus, Boeing Computer Services, USA
John McDermott, Digital Equipment Corporation, USA Mary Meyer, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, USA
Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University, USA
Katharina Morik, GMD, Bonn, Germany
Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA
Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Alain Rappaport, Neuron Data, USA
Thomas Rothenfluh, Zurich ,Switzerland
Franz Schmalhofer, DFKI Kaiserlautern, Germany
Gus Schreiber, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nigel Shadbolt, University of Nottingham, The Netherlands
Mildred Shaw, University of Calgary, Canada
Duncan Smeed, University of Strathclyde, UK
Ingeborg Solvberg, Trondheim, Norway
Maarten van Someren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hirokazu Taki, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
Masanobu Watanabe, NEC Corporation, Japan
Thomas Wetter, IBM Heidelberg, Germany
Bob Wielinga, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Brian Woodward, University of Calgary, Canada
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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 12:37:56
From: Dr Pete Edwards <pedwards@computing-science.aberdeen.ac.UK>
Subject: ML92 Registration Info & Form
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NINTH INTERNATIONAL MACHINE LEARNING CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND
1 - 3 JULY 1992
Registration Information
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On behalf of the organizing committee, we are pleased to announce that
ML92, the Ninth International Machine Learning Conference, will be held
at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, July 1-3, 1992. Informal
workshop sessions will be held immediately after the conference on
Saturday, July 4, 1992.
The conference will feature invited speakers, technical and poster
sessions. The invited speakers for ML92 are:
* David Klahr Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
* Ivan Bratko Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
* Jude Shavlik University of Wisconsin, USA
REGISTRATION FEE
The registration fees for ML92 are as follows: Normal - Pound Sterling
115, Student - Pound Sterling 75. These fees cover conference
participation, proceedings, teas and coffees during breaks and a
number of evening receptions. The deadline for registration is May 29,
1992. After this date, a late fee of Pound Sterling 20 will be
charged. Cancellation fees are as follows: before May 29 - Pound
Sterling 10, May 30 to June 30 - Pound Sterling 20, after June 30 - at
the discretion of the General Chairman.
ACCOMMODATION
A large number of rooms in university halls of residence (student dorms)
have been available for ML92 delegates. Delegates requiring on-campus
accommodation must return completed forms by May 29, 1992 - after that
date accommodation cannot be guaranteed. In addition, block bookings
have been made with three city centre hotels (all approx. 30 minutes
walk, or a short bus ride from the conference venue.)
Rates are as follows:
University Hall
(Student Dorm)
Single: Pound Sterling 18.50
Copthorne Hotel
Single: Pound Sterling 72.50
Double: Pound Sterling 87.50
Brentwood Hotel
Tues June 30 - Thurs July 2: Single: Pound Sterling 48.00
Double: Pound Sterling 58.00
Fri July 3 & Sat July 4: Single: Pound Sterling 28.00
Double: Pound Sterling 38.00
Caledonian Thistle Hotel
Tues June 30 - Thurs July 2: Single: Pound Sterling 88.20
Double: Pound Sterling 103.50
Fri July 3 & Sat July 4: Single: Pound Sterling 38.00
Double: Pound Sterling 76.00
Notes
All double room prices are based on 2 people occupying room.
All prices include breakfast except for Caledonian Thistle on June
30, July 1 & July 2.
University accommodation should be booked using the conference
registration form. Delegates requiring hotel accommodation should
contact the hotels directly using the contact information below. When
booking hotel accommodation delegates must mention ML92 to qualify for
conference rates and should contact hotels before May 29, 1992, after
which accommodation cannot be guaranteed.
Copthorne Hotel Brentwood Hotel
122 Huntly Street 101 Crown Street
Aberdeen, AB1 1SU Aberdeen, AB1 2HH
SCOTLAND SCOTLAND
Tel. +44 224 630404 Tel. +44 224 595440
Fax +44 224 640573 Fax +44 224 571593
Telex 739707 Telex 739316
Caledonian Thistle Hotel
Union Terrace
Aberdeen, AB9 1HE
SCOTLAND
Tel. +44 224 640233
Fax +44 224 641627
Telex 73758
LUNCH
Lunch will be provided on campus, close to the conference venue. Cost:
Pound Sterling 5.00 per day. All delegates are recommended to select
conference lunches - as there are no alternatives close to the campus.
Please indicate on the registration form the days on which you require
lunch. (The cost of lunch on Saturday July 4 is included in the
workshop fee.)
CONFERENCE DINNER
The conference dinner will be held on the evening of Friday, July 3 at
the Pittodrie House Hotel, a country hotel outside Aberdeen. Places are
limited and will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. Cost
of the meal plus transport: Pound Sterling 27.00.
WORKSHOPS - SATURDAY JULY 4
A number of informal workshops are to be held on Saturday July 4,
immediately after the conference. The five workshops are:
1. Biases in Incremental Learning
Coordinator: Diana Gordon (Naval Research Lab, Washington DC, USA)
2. Computational Architectures for Supporting Knowledge Acquisition &
Machine Learning
Coordinator: Mike Weintraub (GTE labs., USA)
3. Integrated Learning in Real-World Domains
Coordinator: Patricia Riddle (Boeing, Seattle, USA)
4. Knowledge Compilation & Speedup Learning
Coordinator: Prasad Tadepalli (Oregon State University, USA)
5. Machine Discovery
Coordinator: Jan Zytkow (Wichita State University, USA)
ACCOMPANYING PERSONS PROGRAM
An accompanying persons program will be organized if numbers merit it.
The area around Aberdeen has a high concentration of historic sites,
castles, etc. and some of the most beautiful countryside in Scotland.
TRAVELLING TO ABERDEEN
Delegates travelling from the USA can now fly direct to Scotland.
American Airlines fly Chicago to Glasgow, while British Airways fly New
York to Glasgow. A regular rail service links Glasgow's Queen Street
station to Aberdeen. A number of airlines fly direct to Aberdeen from
European cities: Air France (Paris), SAS (Copenhagen) & AirUK
(Amsterdam). Aberdeen is also served by regular flights from several UK
airports: Manchester (British Airways, DanAir), London Gatwick (DanAir),
London Heathrow (British Airways), Stansted (AirUK). A frequent high
speed rail service links Aberdeen to London - journey time approx. 8
hours (Sleeper services are available).
PRE- OR POST-CONFERENCE HOLIDAYS IN SCOTLAND
Delegates wishing to arrange holidays in Scotland for the period
immediately before or after the conference may wish to contact
Chieftain Tours Ltd, who can offer help with car hire, hotel bookings,
etc. Please mention ML92 when contacting Chieftain Tours. Please note
that all correspondence regarding holidays must be done direct with the
tour company and not through the ML92 organizers. Chieftain Tours can
also provide information about low-cost flights to Scotland from the USA
and Canada.
Contact details for Chieftain Tours:
Chieftain Tours Ltd.
A8 Whitecrook Centre Tel +44 41 9511470
Whitecrook Street, Clydebank Fax +44 41 9511467
Glasgow, Scotland G81 1QF Telex 778169
Delegates from the USA may wish to make use of the following toll free
fax number: 1 800 352 4350
PAYMENT
Payment may be by cheque or credit card (Visa or Mastercard). Cheques
must be in pounds sterling and must be made payable to "University of
Aberdeen".
Completed registration forms should be returned by mail or fax to:
ML92 Registrations
Department of Computing Science
King's College
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, AB9 2UB Tel +44 224 272296
SCOTLAND Fax +44 224 487048
(Please note - registration by email is not acceptable.)
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ML92 REGISTRATION FORM
Please complete this form in typescript or BLOCK capitals and send to:
ML92 Registrations, Department of Computing Science, King's College,
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB9 2UB, SCOTLAND.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name ___________________________________________
Address ___________________________________________
___________________________________________
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Email ___________________________________________
Telephone No. ___________________________________________
Fax No. ___________________________________________
REGISTRATION FEE
Delegates requiring reduced (student) fee must provide proof of status
(such as xerox of student ID). Please tick the appropriate boxes below.
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Normal Registration Pound Sterling 115.00 | |
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Student Registration Pound Sterling 75.00 | |
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Late Fee (after May 29) Pound Sterling 20.00 | |
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ACCOMMODATION
Use this section to book university hall (student dorm) accommodation.
(Pound Sterling 18.50 per night)
University Hall (Single room)
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Tuesday June 30 | |
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Wednesday July 1 | |
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Thursday July 2 | |
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Friday July 3 | |
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Saturday July 4 | |
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Delegates requiring on-campus accommodation must return forms by May 29,
1992. Delegates whose completed forms arrive after this date cannot be
guaranteed accommodation.
Accommodation Total -----------
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LUNCH
Please indicate the days on which you require lunch
(Cost: Pound Sterling 5.00 per day)
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CONFERENCE DINNER
Yes - I wish to attend the ML92 Conference Dinner ----
(Pound Sterling 27.00) | |
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Dinner Total -----------
(Pound Sterling): | |
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SPECIAL DIETARY REQUIREMENTS
Please indicate below if you require a special diet.
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Vegetarian | |
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Other (please specify) | |
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ACCOMPANYING PERSONS PROGRAM
Please indicate the number of persons ----------
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WORKSHOPS - SATURDAY JULY 4
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Yes - I will be attending the ML92 workshops | |
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No - I will not be attending the ML92 workshops | |
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If yes, please indicate which workshop you wish to attend:
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Biases in Incremental Learning | |
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Computational Architectures for Supporting | |
Knowledge Acquisition & Machine Learning ----
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Integrated Learning in Real-World Domains | |
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Knowledge Compilation & Speedup Learning | |
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Machine Discovery | |
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The workshop fee includes the cost of the workshop proceedings, lunch
on July 4 plus teas/coffees during breaks.
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Normal Pound Sterling 20 | |
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Student Pound Sterling 15 | |
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Workshop Total -----------
(Pound Sterling): | |
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(Pound Sterling): | |
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PAYMENT
CREDIT CARD
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Please charge my VISA / MASTERCARD (delete as appropriate)
Name
(as it appears on card)
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Signature _________________________________________________
** The credit card payment facility for ML92 is available **
** as a result of the generous support of Bank of Scotland plc.**
CHEQUE
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I enclose a pounds sterling cheque made payable to
"University of Aberdeen" for :
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