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NL-KR Digest Volume 09 No. 61
NL-KR Digest (Thu Dec 3 11:46:05 1992) Volume 9 No. 61
Today's Topics:
Query: References on acquiring knowledge from physicians
Announcement: Register NOW for Requirements Engineering 1993
Announcement: Medical Informatics Training at Duke and UNC
CFP: IJCAI Workshop on Context
CFP: IJCAI'93 Workshop on Using Knowledge in its Context
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 19:22:23 CST
From: nilesh@vault.WUstl.EDU (Nilesh L. Jain)
Subject: Query: References on acquiring knowledge from physicians
I am working on developing a new methodology for acquiring treatment
preferences from physicians.
I would like to obtain pointers to the knowledge acquisition
literature dealing with eliciting knowledge from physicians. The
knowledge can be in the form of clinical expertise for diagnostic or
therapeutic expert systems, or treatment preferences for therapy
evaluation systems, or other such forms of knowledge.
I will summarize the responses.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Nilesh L. Jain
nilesh@informatics.wustl.edu
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: Anthony Finkelstein <acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 14:51:25 GMT
From: acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk (Anthony Finkelstein)
Subject: Announcement: Register NOW for Requirements Engineering 1993
******** REMINDER: REGISTER NOW FOR REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING 1993 *************
Forms are attached. For full programme contact acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk
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IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering 1993
4-6th January 1993
Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, San Diego, California, USA.
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT & SIGART
Why Attend RE '93?
RE '93 is the first major international meeting on requirements
engineering, a topic widely recognised as of vital importance to software
engineering. It aims to make a significant contribution to the state-of-the
art, to reflect the important work being carried out in this area and to
bring researchers and practitioners together.
The symposium has a very strong programme selected from among a large
number of submissions. RE '93 will present the most important practical,
experimental, and theoretical work currently being conducted in the area of
requirements engineering. We also have panel sessions bringing together
experts on object-oriented analysis, domain modelling and development
rationale and challenging keynote addresses.
The symposium is open to all who are involved with or have an interest in
requirements engineering. If your research group works, or is planning to
work, in this area, or if your organisation is attempting to tackle the
problems posed by requirements engineering you should attend this symposium
and help build a "requirements engineering community".
Themes and Topics
Themes and topics to be covered in the symposium include: formal
representation schemes and requirements modelling; descriptions of the
requirements engineering process; tools and environments to support
requirements engineering; requirements engineering methods; requirements
analysis and validation; requirements elicitation, acquisition and
formalisation; establishing traceability to requirements; reuse and
adaptation of requirements; intersections with artificial intelligence,
particularly domain modelling and analysis; intersections with
computer-human-interaction and cognitive science; intersections with group
and cooperative work intersections with systems engineering. Attention will
be paid to requirements engineering for distributed, safety-critical,
composite, real-time and embedded systems.
Location
The symposium is being held in the world-famous Hotel del Coronado across
the bay from San Diego (15 minutes from San Diego International Airport).
The Hotel del Coronado is a grand example of elegant Victorian architecture
located in a beautiful beach resort. It is, perhaps, North America's most
famous and historically significant hotel. The Hotel del Coronado has
attracted 12 US presidents and thousands of celebrities and dignitaries.In
addition to the historical hotel there is a new conference centre and
recreation facilities, including tennis courts, spas and swimming pools.
Hotel Reservation
Hotel del Coronado
1500 Orange Avenue
Coronado, CA 92118
Telephone: (619) 522-8000, (800) 468-3533 Fax: (619) 522-8238
When registering, use "RE93" or "Requirements Engineering"
Rates: $139 single/double in Victorian building; $149 single/double in
modern building
Rates good 3 days before conference until 3 days after conference
Deadline for special registration: December 4th, 1992.
Registration Form - Register Today!
Return registration form to:
RE '93 Registration, IEEE Computer Society, 1730
Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036-1992
(202)371-1013; FAX (202)728-0884
Please Type or Print
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(required for member discount)
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Symposium Registration Fees (please check appropriate fee)
Advance (until 1218/92) Late (after 12/18/92)
Member $395 $475
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Total Enclosed (in U.S. dollars) $ _______
Payment must be enclosed.
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Registration fees include symposium attendance, refreshments at breaks,
conference reception, and a copy of the conference proceeding.
Written requests for refunds must be received in the IEEE Computer Society
office no later than 12/23/92. Refunds are subject to a $50 processing fee.
All no-show registrations will be billed in full. Registrations after
12/23/92 will be accepted on-site only.
______________________________________________________________________________
Anthony Finkelstein | Email: acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk
Imperial College, | Phone: +44 71 589-5111 x7535
Department of Computing, | Fax: +44 71 581 8024
180 Queens Gate, |
London SW7 2BZ, UK |
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 1 December 1992 14:36:16 -0500
From: Chuck Friedman <friedman@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Announcement: Medical Informatics Training at Duke and UNC
Duke University / University of North Carolina
Training Program in Medical Informatics
The Duke / UNC medical informatics training program, supported by the National
Library of Medicine, prepares students for research and development careers
focused on the application of information technology to health care.
The Duke / UNC program is one of ten such programs funded by the NLM
and the only program in the southeast.
Training positions are available each year at the predoctoral and postdoctoral
levels. Predoctoral training is typically three or more years in duration,
leading to the Ph.D. degree. Predoctoral students will typically have
baccalaureate level training in engineering or an appropriate field of science.
Postdoctoral training is typically two years in duration, leading to the M.S.
degree. Postdoctoral trainees can be physicians or other health professionals
holding doctoral degrees.
The program director for Duke University is Dr. W. Edward Hammond; the director
for UNC is Dr. Charles P. Friedman.
A Program Exploiting the Strengths of Two Universities: Each trainee
in the Duke / UNC program will matriculate as a graduate student at
one of the two universities. Duke and UNC are 11 miles apart in the
Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Program activities are
highly integrated, so that all trainees can benefit from the faculty
expertise and research resources of both institutions. All students
can meet degree requirements through course work across the full range
of graduate-level offerings at both institutions since there are full
cross-registration privileges. Laboratories and research projects at
both sites will be available to all students for research internship
and dissertation experiences. Masters and doctoral committees can be
interinstitutional as well. A bi-weekly program seminar series
involves students and faculty from both institutions and alternates
meeting place between the two institutions.
Curriculum: Medical informatics is a broad, interdisciplinary field
and the training curricula reflect that structure. The Duke / UNC
program stresses both the basic sciences underlying medical
informatics and an equally important body of practical knowledge
necessary to design and implement computer applications that function
in support of health care. The program also stresses the methods used
to study rigorously the effectiveness of these information technology
applications. To these ends, degree programs include courses
specifically addressing topics in medical informatics; courses in
biomedical engineering, computer science, information science,
biostatistics, and other basic disciplines; electives tailored to each
student's special interests; and internships that provide experience
with computer applications installed in clinical settings.
Thesis/dissertation work is required for all degrees.
Trainees at both institutions enroll as graduate students in the
Department of Biomedical Engineering, in a designated medical
informatics program track. More specific information about the
curriculum is available on request.
Program Faculty: At each institution, the program faculty consists in
part of a core group serving as primary advisors to students and
offering the courses that address topics within medical informatics.
This core group is complemented by a larger group of affiliated
faculty with relevant research interests and spanning many departments
at the two schools. These affiliated faculty members are available to
students for project, thesis, and dissertation work; and for
specialized guided reading courses. In all, the program faculty
includes 25 from 13 departments at Duke, and 29 faculty members
representing 16 departments at UNC.
At Duke, areas of special faculty interest include:
+ development and support of computer-based medical record and hospital
information systems;
+ implementation of IAIMS (Integrated Academic Information Management Systems)
within the academic medical center;
+ medical instrumentation and real-time patient monitoring;
+ development and use of clinical research databanks.
At UNC, areas of special faculty interest include:
+ development of clinical data and knowledge bases, and the presentation of
information from these resources to positively influence medical decision
making;
+ applications of advanced image processing techniques to diagnosis and
treatment planning;
+ studies of the reasoning processes of clinicians and the impact of
information technology on patient care;
+ application of advanced information technology to education in the basic and
clinical sciences.
Current Trainees: In 1992-93, there are nine medical informatics
trainees across the two institutions. Many students in the program
receive full tuition and stipend support from the National Library of
Medicine training grant, while other students receive support from
research assistantships provided by academic departments affiliated
with the program. The current students are a diverse group including
physicians and non-physicians with interests ranging from decision
support to imaging to business/financial aspects of informatics. Most
but not all students are full time.
Application Process: Qualified applicants are invited to apply to the
Department of Biomedical Engineering, specifying their interest in the medical
informatics track, at either or both institutions. For postdoctoral trainees,
no specific medical informatics or computer science background is required.
Trainees accepted by both institutions will be offered a position in one of the
two sites according to the trainee's stated preference for institutional site
and each site's level of preference for that trainee.
For more information:
Dr. Charles P. Friedman
322 MacNider Building
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7530
Phone: (919) 966-3641
Fax: (919) 962-2027
E-mail: cpf@med.unc.edu
Dr. W. Edward Hammond
Box 2914
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710-2914
Phone: (919) 684-6421
Fax: (919) 684-8675
E-mail: hammo001@mc.duke.edu
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: brezil@laforia.ibp.fr (Patrick Brezillon)
Subject: CFP: IJCAI Workshop on Context
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 17:44:47 GMT
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
IJCAI'93 Workshop on Using Knowledge in its Context
Context of the proposal:
Advances in multidisciplinary research are leading
towards a new generation of intelligent assistant
systems which are context-sensitive.It is hypothe-
sized that 'knowledge' has a contextual component.
If its importance is acknowledged , contextual
component is rarely represented explicitly in
available knowledge representations , and not used
in subsequent processing of knowledge. There is a
gap between what is known and what is done . For
instance , this situation is particularly critical
for intelligent assistant systems where knowledge
in context is a key component. Thus , acquisition,
representation and exploitation of knowledge in
context would have a major contribution in all IAS
areas such as knowledge representation, knowledge
acquisition,explanation,maintenance,documentation,
learning , human-computer communication and vali-
dation / verification. A computational capability
that understand,represent and reason about context
will be very valuable and of immense benefit to
many AI problems.
Goal :
This workshop will bring together leading resear-
chers involved in the notion of context and its use
in advanced information systems . The workshop will
focus on computational principles and mechanisms
for eliciting, modelling, and using the contextual
aspect of knowledge,as well as techniques and tools
for contructing context-sensitive systems. We will
address the problem through questions relevant to
the theme of knowledge in context such as:
- What is context ?
- How the notion of context can be modeled?
- How context can be encapsulated in representation
formalisms?
- What are the cognitive aspects linked to the
notion of context?
- How does context influence human dialogues and
how can it be taken into account in IASs?
- How to exploit the notion of context in human-
computer interaction ( assistance to user, expla-
nations, etc.)?
- What is the role of the notion of context in a
computer-supported cooperative work?
The workshop will be open to participants from
different disciplines such as , cognitive science,
knowledge representation , knowledge acquisition,
explanations,knowledge assimilation, human computer
interaction and navigation. Topics may concern (but
not limited to):
- context-sensitive explanations (from experts,from
documents)
- context-sensitive human computer interaction(user
model, visualisation, navigation aid, cooperative
explanation) , acquisition and representation of
knowledge in context (domain expert, document)
- context-sensitive information document management
- context- sensitive architecture of the system
(customisable & flexible, situated agents)
Schedule :
papers received: February 1st, 1993
author notification: March 1st, 1993
final papers received: April 1st, 1993
preprints distributed: May 1st, 1993
Participants will be selected on the basis of sub-
mitted papers (10 pages maximum). Four paper copies
are required. Papers must include: author's name(s),
affiliation, complete address mailing,phone and fax
number, and e-mail.
Preprints will be mailed to participants before the
workshop in order to work before the workshop, by
e-mail if possible . Our aim is that participants
present a synthetical or controversal point of view
of that work. The workshop will be limited to 30
active participants. Additional information will be
sent by the chair person on request.
Organizing Committee:
Alem L., CSIRO, D.I.T. (Australia)
Boy G., EURISCO (France)
Brezillon P., University Paris 6 (France)
Clancey W.J., IRL (USA)
Dieng R., INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France)
Jansen B., CSIRO (Australie)
Vercoustre A.M., INRIA Rocquencourt (France)
Chairperson:
Patrick Brezillon
LAFORIA, Box 169, Phone: (33-1) 44 27 70 08
University Paris VI, Fax: (33-1) 44 27 70 00
4, Place Jussieu E-mail: brezil@laforia.ibp.fr
F-75252 PARIS Cedex 05
France
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
From: Vibhu Mittal <mittal@isi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.philosophy,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
Subject: CFP: IJCAI'93 Workshop on Using Knowledge in its Context
Date: 3 Dec 92 00:26:58 GMT
Reply-To: <mittal@venera.isi.edu>
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
IJCAI'93 Workshop on Using Knowledge in its Context
Context of the proposal:
Advances in multidisciplinary research are leading
towards a new generation of intelligent assistant
systems which are context-sensitive.It is hypothe-
sized that 'knowledge' has a contextual component.
If its importance is acknowledged , contextual
component is rarely represented explicitly in
available knowledge representations , and not used
in subsequent processing of knowledge. There is a
gap between what is known and what is done . For
instance , this situation is particularly critical
for intelligent assistant systems where knowledge
in context is a key component. Thus , acquisition,
representation and exploitation of knowledge in
context would have a major contribution in all IAS
areas such as knowledge representation, knowledge
acquisition,explanation,maintenance,documentation,
learning , human-computer communication and vali-
dation / verification. A computational capability
that understand,represent and reason about context
will be very valuable and of immense benefit to
many AI problems.
Goal :
This workshop will bring together leading resear-
chers involved in the notion of context and its use
in advanced information systems . The workshop will
focus on computational principles and mechanisms
for eliciting, modelling, and using the contextual
aspect of knowledge,as well as techniques and tools
for contructing context-sensitive systems. We will
address the problem through questions relevant to
the theme of knowledge in context such as:
- What is context ?
- How the notion of context can be modeled?
- How context can be encapsulated in representation
formalisms?
- What are the cognitive aspects linked to the
notion of context?
- How does context influence human dialogues and
how can it be taken into account in IASs?
- How to exploit the notion of context in human-
computer interaction ( assistance to user, expla-
nations, etc.)?
- What is the role of the notion of context in a
computer-supported cooperative work?
The workshop will be open to participants from
different disciplines such as , cognitive science,
knowledge representation , knowledge acquisition,
explanations,knowledge assimilation, human computer
interaction and navigation. Topics may concern (but
not limited to):
- context-sensitive explanations (from experts,from
documents)
- context-sensitive human computer interaction(user
model, visualisation, navigation aid, cooperative
explanation) , acquisition and representation of
knowledge in context (domain expert, document)
- context-sensitive information document management
- context- sensitive architecture of the system
(customisable & flexible, situated agents)
Schedule :
papers received: February 1st, 1993
author notification: March 1st, 1993
final papers received: April 1st, 1993
preprints distributed: May 1st, 1993
Participants will be selected on the basis of sub-
mitted papers (10 pages maximum). Four paper copies
are required. Papers must include: author's name(s),
affiliation, complete address mailing,phone and fax
number, and e-mail.
Preprints will be mailed to participants before the
workshop in order to work before the workshop, by
e-mail if possible . Our aim is that participants
present a synthetical or controversal point of view
of that work. The workshop will be limited to 30
active participants. Additional information will be
sent by the chair person on request.
Organizing Committee:
Alem L., CSIRO, D.I.T. (Australia)
Boy G., EURISCO (France)
Brezillon P., University Paris 6 (France)
Clancey W.J., IRL (USA)
Dieng R., INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France)
Jansen B., CSIRO (Australie)
Vercoustre A.M., INRIA Rocquencourt (France)
Chairperson:
Patrick Brezillon
LAFORIA, Box 169, Phone: (33-1) 44 27 70 08
University Paris VI, Fax: (33-1) 44 27 70 00
4, Place Jussieu E-mail: brezil@laforia.ibp.fr
F-75252 PARIS Cedex 05
France
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Vibhu O. Mittal
USC/ISI, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA
Phone: (310) 822-1511, Fax: (310) 823-6714, e-mail: Mittal@ISI.EDU
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