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Machine Learning List Vol. 3 No. 06
Machine Learning List: Vol. 3 No. 6
Wednesday, April 17, 1991
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ML-91
IJCAI
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 11:28:13 CDT
From: Gregg Collins <collins@z.ils.nwu.EDU>
Subject: Conference announcement: ML91
ML91 -- The Eighth International Workshop on Machine Learning
Registration Information
On behalf of the organizing committee, and the individual workshop
committees, we are pleased to announce that ML91, the Eighth
International Workshop on Machine Learning, will be held at
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, June 27-29, 1991.
ML91 comprises eight workshop tracks:
o Automated Knowledge Acquisition
o Computational Models of Human Learning
o Constructive Induction
o Learning from Theory and Data
o Learning in Intelligent Information Retrieval
o Learning Reaction Strategies
o Learning Relations
o Machine Learning in Engineering Automation
In addition there will be plenary talks by noted researchers in
machine learning and related fields.
Registration
The registration fee will be $70 for students, $100 for everyone else.
This fee will cover conference participation, proceedings, and
receptions. To register please send a check for the appropriate
amount, made out to Northwestern University, along with a completed
copy of the form to be found at the end of this message. The deadline
for registration is May 22, 1991. After this date, a late fee of $25
will be charged.
Accomodations
We have reserved rooms at the following hotels:
Omni Orrington Hotel
1710 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60201
(708) 866-8700 or
1-800-THE-OMNI
Rates: $78.00 single per night
$88.00 double per night
The Orrington is a five minute walk from the conference site.
Holiday Inn -- Evanston
1501 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60201
(708) 491-6400 or
1-800-HOLIDAY
Rates: $60.00 single per night
$70.00 double per night
The Holiday Inn is a fifteen minute walk from the conference site.
You must make hotel reservations yourself. When you reserve your
room, please inform the hotel that you are registering for the Machine
Learning Workshop.
We are currently trying to arrange dorm space on campus. A message
about this will be forthcoming shortly.
Travel
By air:
Chicago has two airports: O'Hare and Midway. Most flights go to
O'Hare, which is also the most convenient to Evanston.
To get from O'Hare to Evanston, the following options are available:
Taxi: The fare from O'Hare to Evanston should be about $25.
Bus Service: Continental Air Tranport (312-454-7799) and Larry Webb
Bus Service (312-866-7163) leave O'Hare for Evanston every hour from
the American Airlines baggage area. Each line will take you to the
Omni Orrington Hotel in Evanston. The Holiday Inn is 3 blocks south
of the Orrington.
Public Transportation: The CTA (1-800-972-7000) "El" trains run from
O'Hare to downtown Chicago, and from Chicago to Evanston. Follow the
airport signs to locate the O'Hare "El" stop. The fare is $1 per
person. Take the "El" to the Washington St. stop, which is the end of
the line. Transfer to a Northbound train. Take this train to the
Howard St. Station. Transfer to a Northbound Evanston train. Get off
at the Davis St. station in Evanston. To get to the Holiday Inn, walk
east to Sherman Ave., turn right and go south two blocks. To get to
the Orrington, walk east to Orrington Ave., turn left and go north one
block. This trip will take at least an hour. It's reasonably safe
but we don't recommend it because of the aggravation involved.
By car:
To get to Evanston, take Dempster St. east from either the Tri-State
Tollway (I-294) or the Edens Expressway (I-94). Follow Dempster east
to Chicago Ave. (one block past the "El" train overpass). Turn left
on Chicago and go north. To get to the Holiday Inn, turn left on
Grove St., go one block west. To get to the Orrington, turn left on
Davis St., go one block west to Orrington, turn right and go one and a
half blocks north to the hotel.
By train:
Amtrack trains stop at Union Station in downtown Chicago. Walk 4
blocks north on Canal St. to the Chicago & Northwestern Commuter Train
Station. Take a Northbound train to the Davis St. station in
Evanston. Directions from there to the hotels are as from the "El"
above.
**************************Registration Form**************************
Please send this form, along with a check in the appropriate amount
made out to Northwestern University, to the following address:
Machine Learning 1991
The Institute for the Learning Sciences
1890 Maple Avenue
Evanston, Illinois, 60201
USA
phone (708) 491-3500
fax (708) 491-5258
email ml91@ils.nwu.edu
Registration information (please type or print):
Name:
Address:
Phone:
Email:
Type of registration:
( ) Student -- $70
( ) Others -- $100
Registration is due May 22, 1991. If your registration will arrive
after that date, please add a late fee of $25.
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Subject: 12th INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON AI
Date: 15 Apr 91 01:27:51 GMT
[from comp.ai.shells- Note, if following ftp instructions, a copy
of the files have been put in the pub/ml-list directory at ics.uci.edu- Mike]
12th INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
24 - 30 August, 1991
* Darling Harbour * Sydney * Australia *
IJCAI-91
========
IJCAI-91 will be held at Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia, 24-30
August, 1991. Professor Barbara Grosz of Harvard University is the
Conference Chair; Professor John Mylopoulos and Professor Ray Reiter,
both of the University of Toronto, are Program CoChairs; and
Professor Michael McRobbie of the Australian National University is
the Australian National Committee Chair. Dr. Donald Walker of
Bellcore is Secretary-Treasurer for the Conference.
REGISTRATION BROCHURES AND FORMS FOR IJCAI-91
=============================================
The Australian National Committee has arranged for Registration
Brochures and Forms for IJCAI-91, to be obtained by three methods:
hard copy, ftp, e-mail. These are described below. As noted
below, the e-mail option is an option of last resort only.
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IJCAI-91 WORKSHOP PROGRAM
=========================
It is strongly recommended that people interested in the IJCAI-91
Workshop Program obtain a copy of the Registration Brochure via
anonymous ftp (see below) as soon as possible since the closing date
for submissions for all workshops is 15 May, or in some cases earlier.
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OBTAINING REGISTRATION BROCHURES
================================
1. Hard Copies
--------------
Hard copies of the Registration Brochures will be available
mid- to late April, 1991.
Brochures will then be mailed to all current members of the national
and regional AI societies and interest groups in the following
countries: Australia, Canada, China, Europe (to all who receive AICOM
publications), Japan, Korea, Mexico, United States (AAAI), USSR, and
to all people who have requested information from IJCAI-91 Conference
Committee members or the IJCAI-91 Secretariat. Attempts are being
made to send mail to Eastern European countries as well.
Anyone who is not a member of one of these societies or does not
receive a brochure by mid-May can request one by sending an e-mail
message to:
ijcai.rego.hardcopy@vulcan.anu.edu.au
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS TO WHICH *ONLY* E-MAIL
REQUESTS FOR *HARD COPIES* OF THE REGISTRATION BROCHURES AND FORMS
SHOULD BE SENT. IT IS *NOT* A GENERAL IJCAI CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS.
Requests for hard copies of the Registration Brochure and Form and
any other enquiries concerning IJCAI-91, can be made directly to:
IJCAI-91 Secretariat
PO Box 787
Potts Point, NSW 2011
AUSTRALIA
Tel: (+61-2) 3572600
Fax: (+61-2) 3572950
2. Anonymous ftp
----------------
For those connected to the Internet, the IJCAI Registration Brochure
and Form are available as compressed POSTSCRIPT files via anonymous
ftp from
vulcan.anu.edu.au (IP number 130.56.4.173) (in /IJCAI)
and from
uunet.uu.net (alias ftp.uu.net, IP number 137.39.1.2) (in /doc/IJCAI)
**********************************************************************
NOTE: So as to reduce unnecessary network traffic and the number of
transfers from vulcan.anu.edu.au, please make the relevant POSTSCRIPT
files publicly available at your site. Please contact your local
system manager for details of how best to do so.
**********************************************************************
To transfer the Registration Brochure and Form proceed as follows:
diana 201 $ ftp vulcan.anu.edu.aup
Connected to vulcan.anu.edu.au.
220 vulcan FTP server ($Header: ftpd.c 2.5 89/12/15 $) ready.
Name (vulcan.anu.edu.au:gustav): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password:
Now type in your full e-mail address as password (it will be logged).
After a successful login change to directory IJCAI. You can issue the
command "ls" to see the contents of that directory:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd IJCAI
(on uunet.uu.net do "cd doc/IJCAI" instead)
[on ics.uci.edu do "cd pub/ml-list" instead - Mike]
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes).
README
reg.brochure.A4.ps.Z
reg.brochure.11.ps.Z
reg.form.A4.ps.Z
reg.form.11.ps.Z
226 Transfer complete.
64 bytes received in 0.039 seconds (1.6 Kbytes/s)
ftp>
Now enter ftp commands "binary" (in order to transfer the compressed
files which are not ASCII) and "prompt" (in order to be able to
transfer more than one file with one command without being molested
by ftp with unnecessary questions):
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> prompt
Interactive mode off.
ftp>
At this stage things depend on whether your printers use 11 inch paper
(e.g. as in the USA) or A4 size paper. If you use 11 inch paper say:
ftp> mget README *.11.*
After a successful transfer, quit ftp and unpack the files:
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
% uncompress reg.brochure.11.ps.Z reg.form.11.ps.Z
The two files: "reg.brochure.11.ps" and "reg.form.11.ps" can be now
sent directly to any PostScript printer, e.g.,
% lpr -Plsr -s reg.brochure.11.ps
% lpr -Plsr -s reg.form.11.ps
After uncompressing file reg.brochure.11.ps will be about 3.5 Mbytes
in size. For this reason you should use "-s" option while invoking
lpr as lpr will then make a symbolic link between that file and the
spooler rather than copy the file to the spooler.
If your printer uses A4 instead of 11 inch paper repeat the above
procedure for the files "reg.brochure.A4.ps.Z" and "reg.form.A4.ps.Z".
On some Sys V systems, you may not be able to create files with names
longer than 10 or so characters. In that case you may have to transfer
files one by one, e.g.:
ftp> get reg.brochure.11.ps.Z bro.ps.Z
...
ftp> get reg.form.11.ps.Z form.ps.Z
...
Also, on Sys V systems the name of the print command is "lp" and some
versions of Sys V do not support symbolic links. However, there
should still be an option to lp which will prevent the printed file
from being copied to the spooler.
In case of problems or difficulties contact your local system manager
or:
ijcai.network.support@vulcan.anu.edu.au.
3. By automatic e-mail
----------------------
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NOTE: This procedure is complex and it puts a great burden on any system
that participates in the mailing process. Use it ONLY AS A LAST RESORT.
If you transfer files in this way, make sure that they become publicly
accessible within your site and its neighbourhood.
******************************************************************************
For those not connected to the Internet, A4 and 11'' versions of the IJCAI
Registration Brochure and Form can be obtained via e-mail in uuencoded
compressed shar format. Send a message to
ijcai.rego.email.11@vulcan.anu.edu.au
for the 11 inch documents and to
ijcai.rego.email.A4@vulcan.anu.edu.au
for the A4 size documents.
The corresponding aliases on vulcan will automatically send you back
several shar files. For 11 inch documents you will receive:
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.1 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.7
66 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.10 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.8
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.2 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.9
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.3 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.1
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.4 94 r.f.11.ps.Z.shar.2
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.5 18 r.f.11.ps.Z.shar.3
94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.6
and for the A4 size documents:
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.1 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.6
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.10 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.7
9 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.11 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.8
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.2 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.9
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.3 94 r.f.A4.ps.Z.shar.1
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.4 94 r.f.A4.ps.Z.shar.2
94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.5 18 r.f.A4.ps.Z.shar.3
Observe the numbers in front of file names. These are the sizes of the
files in kilobytes.
******************************************************************************
WARNING: Do not send an automatic e-mail request if:
1) you do not have enough space in the mail spooler to
accomodate these files;
2) your mail links are very slow;
3) your mailer cannot process files of this size;
4) you can use ftp from a machine to which you have an access.
******************************************************************************
To unpack the documents, save the messages on the files with the corresponding
names in a separate directory. For example, call that directory IJCAI.
If you have program unshar (the latest versions of shar and unshar can
be obtained from volume 15 of comp.sources.unix) then do:
$ cd IJCAI
$ unshar *
otherwise you will have to strip the mail headers from all files by
hand and then run /bin/sh on them (Bourne shell syntax assumed):
$ for i in *
> do
> /bin/sh $i
> done
This will create numerous files in your directory with extensions .uu.aa,
.uu.ab, .uu.ac, etc. It will also create two command files:
r.b.A4.ps.Z.unpack
r.f.A4.ps.Z.unpack
(if you have asked for A4 size documents). Execute these to finally
recreate the PostScript files
r.b.A4.ps (the registration brochure)
and
r.f.A4.ps (the registration script)
The two files: "r.b.A4.ps" and "r.f.A4.ps" can be now sent directly to
any PostScript printer, e.g.,
% lpr -Plsr -s r.b.A4.ps
% lpr -Plsr -s r.f.A4.ps
The file r.b.A4.ps is about 3.5 Mbytes in size. For this reason you
should use the "-s" option while invoking lpr as lpr will then make a
symbolic link between that file and the spooler rather than copy the
file to the spooler.
If your printer uses 11 inch instead of A4 paper repeat the above
procedure for the files "r.b.11.ps.Z" and "r.f.11.ps.Z".
In case of problems or difficulties contact your local system manager
or:
ijcai.network.support@vulcan.anu.edu.au.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ARE E-MAIL ADDRESSES TO WHICH *ONLY* E-MAIL
REQUESTS FOR THE REGISTRATION BROCHURE AND REGISTRATION FORM *IN
UUENCODED COMPRESSED SHAR FORMAT* SHOULD BE SENT. THESE ARE *NOT*
GENERAL IJCAI CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESSES.
*******************************************************************************
* A note to system managers: *
* *
* The shar files described above live in ftp anonymous area on *
* vulcan.anu.edu.au (IJCAI/shar). You are welcome to transfer these files *
* to your system via ftp and set up a similar facility to the one described *
* above. A script which bounces mail lives on "bouncepost" in the same *
* directory. A script "pack" in that directory illustrates the packing *
* process, in case you have to unpack files by hand. *
*******************************************************************************
--
Gustav Meglicki, gustav@arp.anu.edu.au,
Automated Reasoning Project, RSSS, and Plasma Theory Group, RSPhysS,
The Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T., 2601,
Australia, fax: (Australia)-6-249-0747, tel: (Australia)-6-249-0158
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