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NL-KR Digest Volume 02 No. 58
NL-KR Digest (6/22/87 23:27:15) Volume 2 Number 58
Today's Topics:
MSc in Cognitive Science
Last call - AAAI-87 volunteers
Conference - Genetic Algorithms
Conference - Office Knowledge
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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 87 06:37 EDT
From: Ivan Leudar <leudar@man.psy.UUCP>
Subject: MSc in Cognitive Science
M.Sc. IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE, THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Applications are invited for a one year MSc course in Cognitive Science,
run jointly by the Departments of Psychology, Computer Science, General
Linguistics, Medical Biophysics and Philosophy. The course stresses
knowledge representation and use, language and communication and vision
as viewed from the contributing disciplines. Students will be expected
to develop a working knowledge of artificial intelligence techniques and
symbolic programming. The course introduces problems in human computer
interaction at pragmatic, cognitive and technical levels. Students will
have access to new laboratories in cognitive science and human computer
interaction based on Sun workstations with a range of artificial intelligence
software. Applicants should have good degrees in Psychology, Computer
Science, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy, Physical Science, Mathematics
or related disciplines. Further details and application forms can be obtained
from Cognitive Science Programme, Department of Psychology, The University
of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 87 16:18 EDT
From: feifer@CS.UCLA.EDU
Subject: Last call - AAAI-87 volunteers
Due to some last minute cancellations we have a few
openings for volunteers for AAAI-87.
Please see the original posting below for more information.
If interested, please respond immediately.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Student Volunteers Needed for
Artificial Intelligence Conference
AAAI-87
AAAI-87 (American Association on Artificial Intelligence) will
be held July 13-17, 1987 in beautiful Seattle, Washington.
Student volunteers are needed to help with local arrangements
and staffing of the conference. To be eligible for a Volunteer
position, an individual must be an undergraduate or graduate
student in any field at any college or university.
This is an excellent opportunity for students to participate in
the conference. Volunteers receive FREE registration at AAAI-87,
conference proceedings, "STAFF" T-shirt, and are invited to the
volunteer party. More importantly, by participating as a volunteer,
you become more involved and meet students and researchers with
similar interests.
Volunteer responsibilities are varied, including conference
preparation, registration, staffing of sessions and tutorials
and organizational tasks. Each volunteer will be assigned
twelve (12) hours.
If you are interested in participating in AAAI-87 as a Student
Volunteer, apply by sending the following information:
Name
Electronic Mail Address
USMail Address
Telephone Number(s)
Dates Available
Student Affiliation
Advisor's Name
to:
feifer@locus.ucla.edu
or
Richard Feifer
UCLA
Center for the Study of Evaluation
145 Moore Hall
Los Angeles, California 90024
Thanks, and I hope you join us this year!
Richard Feifer
Student Volunteer Coordinator
AAAI-87 Staff
- Richard
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 87 15:40 EDT
From: John Grefenstette <gref@nrl-aic.ARPA>
Subject: Conference - Genetic Algorithms
[Excerpted from AIList, (also seen on NEURON)]
Second International Conference on
Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications
July 28-31, 1987
MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sponsored By
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Naval Research Laboratory
Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Genetic algorithms are adaptive search techniques based on
principles derived from natural population genetics, and are
currently being applied to a variety of difficult problems in
science, engineering, and artificial intelligence. Topics for
discussion will include:
Fundamental research on genetic algorithms
Machine learning using genetic algorithms
Implementation techniques,
especially on parallel processors
Relationships to connectionism and other
search and learning techniques
Application of genetic algorithms
Conference Committee:
John H. Holland University of Michigan
(Conference Chair)
Lashon B. Booker Navy Center for Applied Research in AI
Dave Davis Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc.
Kenneth A. De Jong George Mason University
David E. Goldberg University of Alabama
John J. Grefenstette Navy Center for Applied Research in AI
(Program Chair)
Stephen F. Smith Carnegie-Mellon Robotics Institute
Stewart W. Wilson Rowland Institute for Science
(Local Arrangements)
The registration fee is $120 ($175 after June 15) and
includes admission to all sessions, the Conference Proceedings,
a Welcoming Reception, and all coffee breaks and lunches.
The Conference Banquet is $30 additional per person. The
Registration fee for students is $60. For registration forms
and information concerning local arrangements, contact:
Conference Services Office
Room 7-111
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-1703
For copies of the Conference Proceedings, contact:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers
365 Broadway
Hillsdale, New Jersey 07642
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1987
5:00 - 9:00 REGISTRATION
7:00 - 9:00 WELCOMING RECEPTION
7:00 - 9:00 TUTORIAL (if sufficient interest)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1987
8:00 REGISTRATION
9:00 OPENING REMARKS
9:20 - 10:40 GENETIC SEARCH THEORY
Finite Markov chain analysis of genetic algorithms
David E. Goldberg and Philip Segrest
An analysis of reproduction and crossover in a
binary-coded genetic algorithm
Clayton L. Bridges and David E. Goldberg
Reducing bias and inefficiency in the selection algorithm
James E. Baker
Altruism in the bucket brigade
Thomas H. Westerdale
10:40 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:00 ADAPTIVE SEARCH OPERATORS I
Schema recombination in pattern recognition problems
Irene Stadnyk
An adaptive crossover distribution mechanism for
genetic algorithms
J. David Schaffer and Amy Morishima
Genetic algorithms with sharing for multimodal
function optimization
David E. Goldberg and Jon Richardson
12:00 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 3:20 REPRESENTATION ISSUES
The ARGOT strategy: adaptive representation genetic
optimizer technique
Craig G. Shaefer
Nonstationary function optimization using genetic
algorithms with dominance and diploidy
David E. Goldberg and Robert E. Smith
Genetic operators for high-level knowledge representations
H. J. Antonisse and K. S. Keller
Tree structured rules in genetic algorithms
Arthur S. Bickel and Riva Wenig Bickel
3:20 - 3:40 COFFEE BREAK
3:40 - 5:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Genetic algorithms and classifier systems: foundations
and future directions
John H. Holland
7:00 - 9:00 BUSINESS MEETING
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1987
9:00 - 10:20 ADAPTIVE SEARCH OPERATORS II
Greedy genetics
G.E. Liepins, M.R. Hilliard, Mark Palmer
and Michael Morrow
Incorporating heuristic information into genetic search
Jung Y. Suh and Dirk Van Gucht
Using reproductive evaluation to improve genetic
search and heuristic discovery
Darrell Whitley
Toward a unified thermodynamic genetic operator
David J. Sirag and Paul T. Weisser
10:20 - 10:40 COFFEE BREAK
10:40 - 12:00 CONNECTIONISM AND PARALLELISM I
Toward the evolution of symbols
Charles P. Dolan and Michael G. Dyer
SUPERGRAN: a connectionist approach to learning,
integrating genetic algorithms and graph induction
Deon G. Oosthuizen
Parallel implementation of genetic algorithms in a
classifier system
George G. Robertson
Punctuated equilibria: a parallel genetic algorithm
J.P. Cohoon, S.U. Hegde, W.N. Martin and D. Richards
12:00 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 3:20 PARALLELISM II
A parallel genetic algorithm
Chrisila B. Pettey, Michael R. Leuze and John J. Grefenstette
Genetic learning procedures in distributed environments
Adrian V. Sannier II and Erik D. Goodman
Parallelisation of probabilistic sequential search algorithms
Prasanna Jog and Dirk Van Gucht
Parallel genetic algorithms for a hypercube
Reiko Tanese
3:20 - 3:40 COFFEE BREAK
3:40 - 5:00 CREDIT ASSIGNMENT AND LEARNING
Bucket brigade performance: I. Long sequences of classifiers
Rick L. Riolo
Bucket brigade performance: II. Default hierarchies
Rick L. Riolo
Multilevel credit assignment in a genetic learning system
John J. Grefenstette
On using genetic algorithms to search program spaces
Kenneth A. De Jong
6:30 - 10:00 CLAM BAKE
FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1987
9:00 - 10:20 APPLICATIONS I
A genetic system for learning models of consumer choice
David Perry Greene and Stephen F. Smith
A study of permutation crossover operators on the
traveling salesman problem
I.M. Oliver, D.J. Smith and J. R. C. Holland
A classifier based system for discovering scheduling heuristics
M.R. Hilliard, G.E. Liepins, Mark Palmer,
Michael Morrow and Jon Richardson
Using the genetic algorithm to generate LISP source code
to solve the prisoner's dilemma
Cory Fujiko and John Dickinson
10:20 - 10:40 COFFEE BREAK
10:40 - 12:00 APPLICATIONS II
Optimal determination of user-oriented clusters:
an application for the reproductive plan
Vijay V. Raghavan and Brijesh Agarwal
The genetic algorithm and biological development
Stewart W. Wilson
Genetic algorithms and communication link speed design:
theoretical considerations
Lawrence Davis and Susan Coombs
Genetic algorithms and communication link speed design:
constraints and operators
Susan Coombs and Lawrence Davis
12:00 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 3:20 PANEL DISCUSSION: GA's and AI
3:20 - 3:40 COFFEE BREAK
3:40 - 5:00 INFORMAL DISCUSSION AND FAREWELL
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 87 17:17 EDT
From: Robert B. Allen <rba@flash.bellcore.com>
Subject: Conference - Office Knowledge
[Excerpted from AIList]
Office Knowledge: Representation, Management and Utilization
University of Toronto
IFIP WG8.4 Workshop Program
For information contact: Fred Lochovsky, fred@csri.toronto.edu
Monday, August 17th, 1987
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Workshop Opening Remarks
9:15-10:45 Session: Invited Talk
Objects and Things. D. Tsichritzis, Universite de Geneve,
Switzerland
11:15-12:45 Session: Supporting Organizational Activities
Ubik: A System for Conceptual and Organizational Development.
P. de Jong, MIT, U.S.A.
KNOOM - KNowledge Oriented Office Model Representation of
Knowledge in the Office. M. Hofmann, Universitaet Wien,
Austria
OTM: A Language for Representing Concurrent Office Tasks.
J. Hogg, University of Toronto, Canada
2:00-3:30 Session: Invited Talk
Representing Office Work with Goals and Constraints.
W.B. Croft, University of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
4:00-5:30 Session: Representing, Querying and Generating
Office Objects
Time Management in the Office-net System. R. Maiocchi,
R. Zicari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, M. Fugini,
Universita di Brescia, Italy
Towards a Graphic Query Interface for Complex Objects.
G. Lausen, Universitaet Mannheim, West Germany, A. Oberweis,
Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, West Germany
Knowledge Representation and Utilization in Automatic Office
Form Generation. K. Watabe, K. Tsuruoka, NEC Corporation,
Japan
5:30-6:30 Reception
6:30-7:30 Demonstration
Meta-Data for Automating the Management of Office Information.
R.E.A. Mason, A. Benjamin, J.R. Tessier, Online People Inc.,
Canada
_________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, August 18th, 1987
9:00-10:30 Session: Invited Talk
Organizational Semantics. C. Hewitt, MIT, U.S.A.
11:00-12:30 Session: Problem Solving
An Office Environment to Support Problem Solving.
P.W.G. Bots, H.G. Sol, Delft University of Technology,
Netherlands
Generic Knowledge in Office Activities. A.A. Araya,
M.J. Stefik, Xerox PARC, U.S.A.
EXPERTNET: An Approach to Resource Sharing on a Network of
Workstations. A. Allam, Northern Telecom Canada Ltd.,
Canada, G.M. White, University of Ottawa, Canada
2:00-3:30 Session: Text and Pictures
Semantics and Conceptual Modelling of Documents. F. Barbic,
S. Daneluzzi, F. Garzotto, S. Mainetti, P. Paolini,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Knowledge-Based Text Processing in Office Environments: The
Text Condensation System TOPIC. U. Hahn, Universitaet
Passau, West Germany, U. Reimer, Universitaet Konstanz, West
Germany
Knowledge Base for Storage and Retrieval of Pictures.
B. Beetz, SEL Research Center, West Germany
4:00-5:30 Session: Poster Session
Artificial Intelligence and Organizational Design: Prospects
of Integrating Two Perspectives. U. Frank, Universitaet
Mannheim, West Germany
Intermediate Knowledge Representation for Extended Office
Systems. E.S. Cordingley, University of Surrey, England
Intelligent Interfaces for Office Information Systems.
B.C. Desai, Concordia University, Canada, C. Frasson,
J. Vaucher, Universite de Montreal, Canada
Managing Office Knowledge through Conceptual Structures.
G. Berg-Cross, Advanced Decision Systems, U.S.A.
Picture Management on Optical Disks: A Practical Approach on
Micro-computers. S. Miranda, N. Le Thanh, A.C. Salgado,
E. Borelli-Vittori, Universite de Nice, France
Managing Replicas in Distributed Telephone/Address
Directories. H.M. Gladney, IBM Almaden Research Center,
U.S.A.
7:30 Banquet
_________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, August 19th, 1987
9:00-10:30 Session: Invited Talk
NICK: Intelligent Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
C. Ellis, MCC, U.S.A.
11:00-12:30 Session: Office Communication
Solving the Connection Problem. M.S. Mazer, University of
Toronto, Canada
Viewing Communication as a Problem Solving Activity: An
Enrichment Towards Supporting Cooperative Office Work.
C.C. Woo, F.H. Lochovsky, University of Toronto, Canada
CHAOS: A Knowledge-Based System for Conversing Inside Offices.
F. De Cindio, C. Simone, R. Vassallo, A. Zanaboni,
Universita di Milano, Italy
2:00-3:30 IFIP WG8.4 Business Meeting
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