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NL-KR Digest Volume 12 No. 21
NL-KR Digest Tue Sep 14 11:17:52 PDT 1993 Volume 12 No. 21
Today's Topics:
CFP: ICCS'94 SECOND INTL CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES
CFP: AISB Workshops Series
Talk: Mann on a Rational Agent that Navigates (U New South Wales)
CFP: Cognitive Science Conference Announcement
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu (Cecilia Kullman)
Subject: CFP: ICCS'94 SECOND INTL CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES
Date: 14 Sep 1993 13:52:55 -0400
ICCS'94
CALL FOR PAPERS
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES
August 16th to 20th, 1994
University of Maryland - College Park, MD.
Conceptual graphs are a logic-based formalism for knowledge representation
based on the existential graphs of Charles S. Pierce and semantic networks.
ICCS'94 marks their tenth anniversary. Over the past ten years, they
have been widely used as a semantic representation for natural language and
as a graphic system of logic for expert systems, theorem provers, and database
design. Gains have been made in the storage and retrieval of DBMS information
coupled with knowledge-based system problem solving capability.
Researchers have developed a software base and continue to build upon it.
A workshop devoted to conceptual graphs software will follow the conference,
along with a workshop on enterprise modeling. Successful implementations
include: rule-based systems, database systems, knowledge-based systems,
knowledge engineering tools, enterprise modeling, management information
systems, conceptual information retrieval and natural language applications,
among others.
Conceptual graphs are being proposed as a basis for the normative language
for conceptual schemas by the ANSI X3H4 Committee on Information Resource
Dictionary Systems.
We encourage the submission of position papers in cognitive science
regarding conceptualization, the formation of conceptual structures
and conceptual modeling using conceptual graphs. ICCS'94 is the forum for
discussion which will influence the direction of conceptual graphs development
during the second, crucial decade.
TOPICS
Substantive papers are invited on any aspect of concept analysis,
representation, or manipulation involving conceptual graphs. The following
topics are of particular interest but others, concerned with conceptual
graphs, will be welcome as well.
Theory
Technical developments
Natural language understanding
Applications
Graph notation
AUTHORS' INFORMATION
Authors are requested to submit five (5) copies of each paper.
Authors are further requested to attach title pages to their submissions
bearing their names, addresses, telephone numbers, FAX numbers and
e-mail addresses.
In addition, authors are asked to include abstracts of approximately twenty
(20) lines with each paper, and a list of short phrases descriptive of the
content.
Each paper may not exceed five thousand (5,000) words. Shorter, substantive
papers will be welcome. All papers must be double-spaced.
Papers must be received by midnight, Wednesday December 15th, 1993. The
Program Chairs will exercise their discretion and reject late papers at will.
Address: ICCS'94
UMIACS
A.V. Williams Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742,
U.S.A.
IMPORTANT DATES
submission deadline December 15, 1993.
notification of acceptance February 18, 1994
camera-ready copy March 25, 1994
PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
Accepted papers will appear in the conference "Proceedings"
to be published, provisionally, by Springer-Verlag of Berlin.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
Honorary Chair: John F. Sowa
General Chair: Judith P. Dick
Program Committee Co-Chair: Pavel Kocura and William M. Tepfenhart
The list of Program Committee members will be forwarded in early
September.
WORKSHOPS
Two workshops will be held in conjunction with the Conference and information
concerning those programs will be issued at a later date.
PIERCE Workshop Chair Gerard Ellis August 19th-20th.
ENTERPRISE MODELING Workshop Chair Alex Bejan August 19th. afternoon.
LOCATION
ICCS'94 will be held at the Center for Adult Education of the University of
Maryland at College Park. The College Park campus is within the boundary of
Metropolitan Washington, within the Beltway. Participants are invited
to enjoy the advantages of proximity to the nation's capital, The Smithsonian
Institution and other items of interest. Baltimore, Annapolis and the
Chesapeake Bay are within easy travel distance. Also, our famous Maryland
crabs will be in season in August.
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
Date: 14 Sep 1993 15:20:19 GMT
From: csa33@keele.ac.uk (H.S. Nwana)
Subject: CFP: AISB Workshops Series
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Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals: AISB Workshop Series
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Call for Workshop Proposals: AISB Workshop Series
University of Leeds, England
April 11th - 13th 1994
Society for the Study of
Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)
The AISB Committee invites proposals for Workshops for the first
AISB Biennial Workshop Series to be held at the University of Leeds,
England, April 11th - 13th 1994.
The AISB workshop series is to be held in even years during the
Easter vacation. In odd years workshops are held immediately before
the biennial conference, but there has so far not been a similar
opportunity to hold workshops in even years.
The intention in setting up a regular workshop series is to
encourage the organisation of workshops by providing an administrative
framework so that individual workshop organisers do not have to worry
about many of the administrative tasks involved in running a workshop,
leaving them free to concentrate on the scientific programme. Equally,
the fact that many workshops are being held concurrently in the same
place should encourage participation in the workshops since it will
provide an opportunity for attendees at one workshop to meet with those
from other workshops during breaks and in the evenings.
Proposals, from an individual or a pair of organisers, for
workshops between 0.5 and 3 days long will be considered. Workshops
will probably address topics which are at the forefront of
research, but not yet sufficiently developed to warrant a
full-scale conference. They may also address any aspect of
Artificial Intelligence or the Simulation of Behaviour.
In addition to research workshops, one event which has been
successful in previous years is a Postgraduate workshop on how to do
a PhD in AI/Cognitive Science;: in fact, these have really had a
hybrid workshop/tutorial nature. We would welcome a proposal to
organise such a workshop at the 1994 AISB Workshop Series in Leeds.
[If you would like more information about what is involved in
running the postgraduate workshop (without any commitment at this
stage) please contact one of the AISB Workshop Series organisers,
who will be happy to provide more information or discuss
possibilities.]
Submission:
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A workshop proposal should contain the following information:
1. Workshop Title
2. A detailed outline of the workshop.
This should include the necessary background and the potential
target audience for the workshop and a justified estimate of the
number of possible attendees. Please also state the length and
preferred date(s) of the workshop.
3. A brief resume of the organiser(s).
This should include: background in the research area,
references to published work in the topic area and relevant
experience, such as previous organisation or chairing of
workshops.
4. Administrative information.
This should include: name, mailing address, phone number, fax, and
email address if available. In the case of multiple organisers,
information for each organiser should be provided, but one organiser
should be identified as the principal contact.
The organisers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing
a call for participation, reviewing requests to participate and
scheduling the workshop activities within the constraints set by
the Workshop Series organisers. They are also responsible for
submitting a collated set of papers for their workshop to the
Series organisers.
Dates:
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Intentions to organise a workshop should be made known to either of
the Workshop Series organisers as soon as possible.
Proposals must be received by January 31st 1994.
Decisions about topics and speakers will be made in February 1994.
Collated sets of papers to be received by March 25th 1994.
Proposals should be sent to:
or
Dr. Hyacinth S. Nwana | Dr Ann Blandford
Department of Computer Science | MRC Applied Psychology Unit
University of Keele | 15, Chaucer Road,
Keele, Staffordshire | Cambridge
ST5 5BG | CB2 2EF
UK | UK
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Email: |
JANET: nwanahs@uk.ac.keele.cs | ann.blandford@uk.ac.cam.mrc-apu
INTERNET: nwanahs@cs.keele.ac.uk | ann.blandford@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk
|
Tel: (+44) (0) 782 583413 | Tel: (+44) (0) 223 355294
Fax: (+44) (0) 782 713082 | Fax: (+44) (0) 223 359062
Electronic submission (plain ascii text) is highly preferred, but
hard copy submission is also accepted, in which case 5 copies should
be submitted. Proposals should not exceed 2 sides of A4 (i.e. 120
lines of text approx.).
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Call for Tutorial Proposals: AISB Workshop Series
University of Leeds, England
April 11th - 13th 1994
Society for the Study of
Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)
The AISB Committee invites proposals for Tutorials to be held in
conjunction with the first AISB Biennial Workshop Series to be held
at the University of Leeds, England, April 11th - 13th 1994.
Proposals for full and half day tutorials, from an individual or
pair of presenters, will be considered. They may be offered both on
standard topics and on new and more advanced aspects of Artificial
Intelligence or Simulation of Behaviour. Anyone interested in
presenting a tutorial should submit a proposal to either of the
workshop series organisers, Dr Ann Blandford or Dr Hyacinth Nwana
(addresses below).
Submission:
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A tutorial proposal should contain the following
information:
1. Tutorial Title
2. A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in
a brochure.
3. A detailed outline of the tutorial.
This should include the necessary background and the potential
target audience for the tutorial and a justified estimate of the
number of possible attendees. Please also state the length and
preferred date(s) of the tutorial.
3. A brief resume of the presenter(s).
This should include: background in the tutorial area,
references to published work in the topic area and relevant
experience. Published work should, ideally, include a published
tutorial-level article on the subject. Relevant experience
is teaching experience, including previous conference tutorials
or short courses presented.
4. Administrative information.
This should include: name, mailing address, phone number, fax, and
email address if available. In the case of multiple presenters,
information for each presenter should be provided, but one presenter
should be identified as the principal contact.
The presenter(s) of accepted tutorials must submit a set of
tutorial notes (which may include relevant tutorial-level
publications) to the Workshop Series organisers by March 25th
1994.
Dates:
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Intentions to organise a tutorial may be made known to either of
the Workshop Series organisers as soon as possible.
Proposals must be received by January 31st 1994.
Decisions about tutorial topics and speakers will be made in
February 1994.
Tutorial notes must be received by March 25th 1994.
Proposals should be sent to:
or
Dr. Hyacinth S. Nwana | Dr Ann Blandford
Department of Computer Science | MRC Applied Psychology Unit
University of Keele | 15, Chaucer Road,
Keele, Staffordshire | Cambridge
ST5 5BG | CB2 2EF
UK | UK
|
Email: |
JANET: nwanahs@uk.ac.keele.cs | ann.blandford@uk.ac.cam.mrc-apu
INTERNET: nwanahs@cs.keele.ac.uk | ann.blandford@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk
|
Tel: (+44) (0) 782 583413 | Tel: (+44) (0) 223 355294
Fax: (+44) (0) 782 713082 | Fax: (+44) (0) 223 359062
Electronic submission (plain ascii text) is highly preferred, but
hard copy submission is also accepted, in which case 5 copies should
be submitted. Proposals should not exceed 2 sides of A4 (i.e. 120
lines of text approx.).
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 02:19:53 GMT
From: mann@cse.unsw.edu.au (Graham Mann)
Subject: Talk: Mann on a Rational Agent that Navigates (U New South Wales)
University of New South Wales
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Seminar Series
TITLE: A Rational Agent that Navigates.
WHO: Graham Mann, AI Lab UNSW.
WHEN: 1-2pm, Friday, 17th September, 1993
ABSTRACT:
A flexible, goal-seeking rational agent in
which knowledge about goals and states of the
world are explicitly represented as conceptual
graphs is described. The agent is capable of
oppportunistically choosing from its behavioural
repertoire only those actions which are likely
to satisfy naviagtional goals. A general
purpose knowledge-level heuristic tests potential
action schemata for both likely outcome and
practical executability in the current environmental
circumstances. During this process, a generalised
action-schema can be instantiated with specific
information from world observations and other sources,
as the agent commits to the action in question. The
customised action can then be executed in the world.
Test runs of the agent suggest a remarkable flexibility
of behaviour, along with a number of intriguing
possibilities for improvement. In particular, it seems
to be possible to make the agent accept recommendations
about actions and their particulars, which the agent
will choose if feasible. This make the agent an ideal
engine for a simulation of a language driven navigation
robot. Issues such as multiple goal management, exhaustive
search vs sufficing and recovery from error will also
be addressed.
WHERE: Rm 212, Samuel Building, University of New
South Wales. Enter off Botany Street, stop at
gate and ask grey men for day pass and
instructions. Park in the main car park on
your left. The Samuels bulding is the gray
building directly behind the gates with
strange shield-like objects over the windows.
INQUIRIES: mann@.cse.unsw.oz.au (Graham Mann)
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PLEASE NOTE:
If you have a seminar that you would like to present at this
forum, contact me at the above address.
Graham Mann
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To: uunet!comp-ai-nlang-know-rep
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 22:09:30 GMT
From: popowich@cs.sfu.ca (Fred Popowich)
Subject: CFP: Cognitive Science Conference Announcement
ANNOUNCEMENT
7th Annual Vancouver Cognitive Science Conference
February 11-12 (Fri-Sat) 1994
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
MODELING RATIONAL AND MORAL AGENTS
PARTICIPANTS AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Evolution and Rationality
The Evolution of Cooperation
B. A. Huberman (Xerox PARC) "Social Dilemmas"
Robert Frank (Cornell) "The Evolution of One-Shot Cooperation"
Evolutionary Models
Peter Danielson (UBC) "Artificial Morality and Genetic Programming"
Evolution and Rationality
Elliott Sober (Wisconsin) "The Adaptive Advantage of Learning
and A Priori Prejudice"
Brian Skyrms (UC Irvine) "Charles Darwin meets The Logic of Decision."
Rationality and Morality
Rationality & Morality
David Schmidtz (Yale) "Rational Choice and Moral Constraint"
Edward McClennen (Bowling Green) "The Rationality of Commitment?"
Duncan MacIntosh (Dalhousie) "Rational Preferences
and the Structure of Morality"
Models of Constrained Maximization
William Talbott (U. Washington) "Moral Equilibrium Theory"
Leslie Burkholder (Carnegie Mellon) "Artificial Dispositions"
Modeling Rationality
Ronald deSousa (Toronto) "Modeling Rationality: A Normative or
Descriptive Task?"
HISTORY
In February 1988, Simon Fraser University inaugurated its Cognitive Science
Programme by hosting the first annual interdisciplinary conference in
cognitive science. The topics and speakers for the annual conference are
drawn from philosophy, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and psychology.
The topics of previous conferences are summarized below.
1988 Information, Language and Cognition
1989 Formal Grammar
1990 Connectionism
1991 Logic and Cognition
1992 Perception
1993 Biological Basis of Language
The proceedings of these conferences are published by Oxford University
Press in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science Series.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
The conference will take place at the Harbour Centre, the downtown Vancouver
extension of Simon Fraser University at 515 West Hastings Street. There will
be a banquet the evening of Saturday February 12th. For further information
about the conference please send electronic mail to Fred Popowich at
popowich@cs.sfu.ca
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Conference Chair:
Steven Davis, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
Program Chair:
Peter Danielson, Department of Philosophy/Centre for Applied Ethics
University of British Columbia
Local Arrangements:
Kathleen Akins, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
Nancy Hedberg, Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University
Fred Popowich, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
Richard Wright, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
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Fred Popowich e-mail: popowich@sfu.ca
Assistant Professor phone: +1 604 291 4193
School of Computing Science FAX: +1 604 291 3045
Simon Fraser University
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