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NL-KR Digest Volume 13 No. 42
NL-KR Digest Thu Sep 22 21:35:46 PDT 1994 Volume 13 No. 42
Today's Topics:
Announcement: EWCBR'94 (Final Call) Case Based Reasoning
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@moderators.univ-lyon1.fr
From: Amedeo.Napoli@loria.fr (Amedeo Napoli)
Subject: Announcement: EWCBR'94 (Final Call) Case Based Reasoning
Date: 9 Sep 1994 16:12:45 GMT
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SECOND EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON CASE BASED REASONING
EWCBR'94
FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Dear all, here are a few explanations about the organizations of EWCBR 94 that
should clarify some missunderstandings.
LATE REGISTRATION FEES
Due to popular demand (and extreme external pressure on the organising
committee), the late fee registration deadline has been postponed until
september 15th.
WHO SHOULD REGISTER AND PAY THE CONFERENCE FEE
Everyone, including speakers, but excluding the two invited speakers.
LIST OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS DURING THE SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS:
We have assumed that the first author of the paper would be doing the
presentation. Please notify us if this is not the case.
TERMS OF PAYMENT FOR EWCBR
With have already about 70 registered participants from over 15
countries, we believe that EWCBR 94 will be as much of a success as
EWCBR 93. However, several persons who have had their paper accepted
for oral presentations or posters have not yet registered. We urge you
to do so and to confirm your participation as quickly as possible. The
limit on the number of participants is strict and, if the current rate
of registration continues, we will probably close registration before
the workshop (no on-site registrations). Please, understand that we
cannot accept more participants than the conference room can hold and
we will not take any registration once we reach our limit. No
exception will be made, even for speakers, and we will not take bribes
(unless the bribe is high enough of course). In addition, your
registration will be only confirmed once we receive full payment.
Participants that do not pay their registration fee in time will have
to pay the late fee and assume the risk of the cancellation of their
registration even if they work in a large bureaucratic organisation or
in a govenment's agency. We apologise, but no exception will be made
even for french government agencies. If your organisation cannot cope
with these terms of payment, we suggest that you make an advance
payment on your own money and get your organisation to reimburse your
expenses afterward. Finally, we remind you to label your money
transfer in french francs and to pre-pay ALL BANKING EXPENSES. Several
registered participants will soon receive a request for additional
money, that range between 15$ and 35$, because they failed to so (what
counts is not how much money you have sent but how much money we
receive).
CHANGE OF SITE FOR THE CONFERENCE
Several people have also enquired about why we have changed the
location of the conference. As annonced during EWCBR 93, we initially
intended to hold the conference in a place that looked quite good on
the leaflets they had sent us. It turned out that when we visited the
place, it was not nearly as nice as on the glossy leaflets. After
visiting several douzains of other places in the same area, we finally
decided to hold the conference in the Royaumont foundation that used
to be a monastery until the french revolution. It is really an
exceptional setting for EWCBR 94. Royaumont is a French national
monument that has been adapted to hold seminars. The food is superb,
the conference room is modern (although not as well equiped in
standard as last year's), the place is freshly repainted and the rooms
are nice. The Royaumont Foundation is primarily devoted to hosting
music festivals and cultural events but we managed to convince them
that the CBR community was composed of cultivated people... I hope my
nose will not begin to grow... Unfortunately, the Foundation cannot
accommodate more than 60 people in total in the evening so we had to
split the group into 2 for accommodations. Half of the participants
will be hosted on the conference site and the other half in a
luxurious Chateau near by. The quality of the service, of the food, of
the wine and of the accommodations is VERY HIGH in both places and,
although it is more expensive than the other place, we will be getting
much better value for the money. We hope that this clarifies any
remaining misunderstanding about why we changed the location of the
conference.
TRAVEL GRANTS
Several persons have requested travel grants. We cannot confirm any
grant at this stage. It is quite likely that we will get travel grants
for eastern countries participants, less likely for EC members and
quite unlikely for the others. However, we cannot make any commitments
at this stage and are still trying the best we can. You should thus
behave as if you do not have a grant, and if we do obtain one we will
probably notify it to you (and pay it) during the conference.
CONFERENCE PACKAGE
Finally, we have low secreterial resources. Please read and understand
what is written on the previous call for participation. The fee for
attending the conference is a global fee. The only reason why we have
split the conference fee and the accommodation fee is for tax reasons
in order to decrease the expenses for non French participants and
remove VAT on goods that are exported. You should thus think of the
registration + accommodation fee as a whole. Wether you intend to
sleep in the room or not, wether you intend to eat the food or not is
totally irrelevant. Please do not harrass us and ask for discounts on
the accommodation fee. We have negociated a fixed price, global
conference package that includes everything. With the exception of
industry day, WE WILL NOT TAKE REGISTRATIONS without food and
accommodations.
Once again, we apologise for being so strict, but please understand
that we have very limited secretarial ressources and that we have
tried kept the fee as low as possible (when taking into account regard
the exceptional quality of the conference location and food and wine).
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SECOND EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON CASE BASED REASONING
EWCBR'94
FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
7-10th of November 1994
Royaumont Foundation, Chantilly (France)
With Support from:
AFIA (The French Association for Artificial Intelligence)
COMETT (Commission of European Communities)
Conseil Regional Ile de France
The company INGENIA, that distributes Remind in France, will also
sponsor a special event during the scientific conference.
GENERAL INFORMATION :
In November, 1993, the First European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning
was hosted by the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany). The
Workshop was a resounding success, attracting over 130 participants
from 17 countries. The Second European Workshop on CBR will be held
near Chantilly, some 20 km North of Paris. Academic and social events
will allow a close interaction between workshop participants.
Registration will be limited to 120 participants on a "first-come,
first-served" basis. The first day will be focussed on the practical
uses of CBR technology and will consist of tutorials, presentations of
industrial CBR applications and of invited presentations of
outstanding CBR projects. The Workshop will consist of three days of
paper presentations, invited talks, panels and poster sessions that
will focus on the technology. An edited volume of selected papers will
be published after the Workshop.
EWCBR CHAIRS :
Dr. Mark KEANE, University of Dublin, Ireland (conference co-chair)
Prof. Jean-Paul HATON, CRIN / INRIA, France (conference co-chair)
Dr Michel MANAGO, AcknoSoft, France (industry day chair & local
chair)
PROGRAMME COMMITTE :
A. Aamodt (Norway) Kevin Ashley (USA)
A. Cesta (Italy) P. Cunningham (Ireland)
B. Faltings (Switzerland) J. Kolodner (USA)
R. Lopez de Mantaras (Spain) M. Manago (France)
B. Neumann (Germany) E. Plaza (Spain)
M. Richter (Germany) L. Saitta (Italy)
D. Sleeman (United Kingdom) I. Smith (Switzerland)
H. Tirri (Finland) M. V. Someren (Netherlands)
W. Van de Velde (Belgium) M. Veloso (USA)
W. Visser (France) A.Voss (Germany)
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM INDUSTRY DAY (7/11/94)
(subject to changes without notice)
9:00 - 11:00. Introductory tutorial on CBR
11:00 - 11:30. Coffee Break
11:30-12:15. Curing Composite Material in an autoclave
(Lockheed, USA)
12:15 - 13:30 - Lunch
13:30 -14:15. Maintaining Airplanes using CBR
(British Airways, UK)
14:15 - 15:00. Troubleshooting jet engines
(SNECMA, France)
15:00- 15:30 - Break
15:30 - 16:00. Plant Information Management by Sharing fault cases
(Mistubishi Electric Corp, Japan)
16:00 - 16:30. CBR Technology in Chemical Safety Control
(VINITI, Russia)
16:30 - 17:00. CBR applications in the Military Domain
(DGA, France)
17:00 - 17:30 - Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:00. CBR applied to maintenance of Telecommunication
Networks (Federal Armed Forces, Germany)
18:00 - 18:30. Designing Buildings with CBR: Overview of the FABEL
project (GMD, Germany)
18:30 - 19:30. Panel: CBR : Putting the technology to use
INVITED TALKS AT THE SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
Jaimie Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Keith Van Rijsbergen, Scottland
LIST OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS DURING THE SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS:
C. Bento, Portugal: Empirical Study of an Evaluation Function
for Cases Imperfectly Explained
B. Richards, Switzerland: Qualitative Models as a Basis for Case
Indices
K. Ashley, USA: A CBR Knowledge Representation for Practical Ethics
R. Barletta, USA: A Hybrid Indexing and Retrieval Strategy for
Advisory CBR systems built with Remind
M. Cox, USA: A Managing Learning Goals in Strategy Selection Problems
C. Reiser, Austria: Case-Based Reasoning for Multi-step Problems and
its integration with Euristic Search
B. Dave, Switzerland: Case-Based Design in Architecture
J. Lieber, France: A Criterion of Comparison Between Two Case Bases
E. Auriol, France: Integration Induction and Case-Based Reasoning:
Methodological Approach and First Evaluations
P. Cunningham, Ireland: On the Limitations of Memory Based Reasoning
H. Munioz, Germany: Controlling a Non-Linear Hierarchical Planner
using Case-Based Reasoning
G. Kamp, Germany: Using Terminologial Logics in Case-Based Corporate
Service and Support
Y. Kerner, Israel: Case-Based Evaluation in Computer Chess
E. Reategui, UK: A Classification System for Credit Card Transactions
B. Unrugeanu, Romania: Case-Based Assistance in CAD
J. Schaaf, Germany: Detecting Gestalts in CAD-Plans to be Used as
Indices for Case-Retrieval in Architecture
G. Weber, Germany: Examples and Remindings in a Case-Based help
system
S-A Yang, Scottland: Use of Case-Based Reasoning in the Domain of
Building Regulations
B. Smyth, Ireland: A Comparison of Incremental Case-Based Reasoning
and Inductive Learning
B. Kang, Australia: A Maintenance Approach to Case-Based Reasoning
POSTERS:
There will be two poster sessions during the scientific conference.
LOCATION:
EWCBR 94 will take place at the Royaumont Foundation, near the town
of Chantilly, some 20 km north of Paris. Founded in the 13th Century
by King Louis the 9th, the Royaumont Foundation is a National
Monument that offers an exceptional setting for EWCBR-94.
STANDARD CONFERENCE PACKAGE FEE:
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| | EWCBR (1) | Industry | Both |
| | scientific | Day (2) | (1)+(2) |
|-------------------|-------------|----------------|-------------|
| Early Registration| | | |
| (before 15/9/94): | | | |
| Student (3) | 3 650 FF | 1 450 FF | 3 700 FF |
| University | 3 250 FF | 1 450 FF | 3 900 FF |
| Others | 3 650 FF | 1 450 FF | 4 100 FF |
|-------------------|-------------|----------------|-------------|
| Late Registration | | | |
| (after 15/9/94): | | | |
| Student (3) | 3 150 FF | 2 000 FF | 4 300 FF |
| University | 3 750 FF | 2 000 FF | 4 500 FF |
| Others | 4 150 FF | 2 000 FF | 4 700 FF |
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(1) : The standard scientific conference fee includes all meals from
Monday evening until Thursday's Lunch, access to the conference site,
accommodation in a double room on Monday 7/11, Tuesday 8/11 and
Wednesday 9/11 and the gala dinner. Add 700 FF extra for a single
room. No discounts will be made for people who do not use the
accommodations or eat the food.
(2) : includes welcome coffee and pastries, lunch on the 7th
(3) : Student rate apply to fully registered students, under 26 years
old. Copy of student ID with proof of age required with registration.
EXCHANGE RATES (approximately):
1 US$ = 5.40 FF
1 DM = 3.45 FF
1 HL = 8.8 FF
1 Ecu = 6.6 FF
REGISTRATION :
The Registration form will be supplemented by a more detailed one with
respect to payment and travelling. Please return your registration
form using regular mail or fax to the following address:
AcknoSoft, EWCBR-94
58 a rue du Dessous des Berges
75013 Paris, France
Tel: (33 1) 44 24 88 00
Fax: (33 1) 44 24 88 66
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REGISTRATION FORM
Last Name:
First Name:
Institution:
Address:
ZIP Code, City:
Country:
e-mail:
Telephone:
Fax:
Signature:
Check the appropriate boxes below
[ ] I would like to attend EWCBR'94 Industry Day
[ ] I would like to attend EWCBR'94 Scientific Conference
(Check both boxes if you intend to register to both)
Category:
[ ] Student under 26 (Copy of ID and proof of age required)
[ ] University
[ ] Other
European VAT number :
(for european companies that want to recover VAT on goods exported)
Food and accommodation details:
[ ] Single Room (additional fee of 700 FF, Number Restricted)
[ ] Double Room Share With:
[ ] I do not need a room
[ ] Female [ ] Male
[ ] Smoker [ ] Non-Smoker
[ ] Special Meals Required Please Indicate:
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Amedeo NAPOLI (napoli@loria.fr)
CRIN CNRS -- INRIA Lorraine
BP 239 -- 54506 Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy Cedex -- France
Tel : (33) 83 59 20 68 -- Fax : (33) 83 41 30 79
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