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NL-KR Digest Tue Aug 29 20:49:24 PDT 1995 Volume 14 No. 53
Today's Topics:
CFP: PAP'96/PACT'96 Application of Prolog/Constraints, Apr 96, London
CFP: ICIE 95 Info. Engineering, Nov 95, Buenos Aires
CFP: AISB96 - Workshops on AI or Simul. of Behav., Apr 96, Brighton
CFP: AAAI96 Spring Symp., Spatial Representation, Mar 96, Stanford
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From: peter_reintjes@VNET.IBM.COM
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 95 15:22:53 -0400
Subject: CFP: PAP'96/PACT'96 Application of Prolog/Constraints, Apr 96, London
Announcing the PAP & PACT Call for Papers and Participation
PAP'96
The Fourth International Conference on
The Practical Application of PROLOG
Monday 22nd April - Friday 26th April 1996, London, UK
The Commercial Value of Prolog:
An Exploration Through Practical Applications
PACT'96
The Second International Conference on
The Practical Application of Constraint Technology - PACT'96
Monday 22nd April - Friday 26th April 1996, London, UK
Call for Papers, Workshops, Demonstrations, and Tutorials
The PAP series of conferences is the world's leading showcase for
Prolog applications and systems. Now in its fourth year the conference
continues to grow, and to demonstrate the benefits of this important
technology, including increased productivity, reduced maintenance, and
flexible solutions which can easily adapt to changing business needs.
We invite you to submit papers or industrial reports describing
applications in the areas of logic and constraint logic programming.
Papers can be of any length, and on virtually any topic, but as
these conferences are aimed at demonstrating the benefits of the
technology for industry and commerce, preference will be given
to papers describing fielded applications in the business arena.
The PAP conferences are aimed at demonstrating the benefits of the
technology for industry and commerce, so preference will be given to
papers describing fielded applications in key business areas.
Five copies of papers should be submitted by November 17th 1995.
Authors will be notified before the end of December.
Please include a short abstract and a covering page containing
postal and email addresses, and your telephone and fax numbers.
Call for Demonstrations, Workshops and Tutorials
The conference also provides an opportunity for software vendors
and developers to demonstrate Prolog systems.
You are invited to contact the organiser to arrange for your
application to be exhibited at the event.
If you would like to organise a workshop or tutorial, or wish to
see a particular topic covered, please contact us.
Programme Committee
Chaired by Peter Reintjes of IBM, the Programme Committee is
drawn worldwide, from industry leaders including AT&T, Dassault
Electronique, British Telecom, Motorola, Xerox PARC and first
class universities and research organisations.
Programme Committee
Howard Arner Ad-Track, USA
Pedro Barahona U. of Lisbon, Portugal
Oskar Bartenstein IF Computer, Japan
Barry Crabtree British Telecom, UK
Sam Daniel Motorola, USA
Pierre Deransart INRIA, France
John Fox ICRF
Markus Fromherz Xerox PARC, USA
Alexander Herold ECRC, Germany
Kazuyoshi Honda Tokyo Gas Company, Japan
Leo Jensen PDC, Denmark
Philip Kay COSYTEC, France
Andr=E9 Marien BIM, Belgium
Yossi Nygate AT & T
David Pearce DFKI, Germany
Luis Moniz Pereira U. of Lisbon, Portugal
Peter Reintjes IBM, USA
Al Roth Prolog Management Group
Thomas Sjoland SICS, Sweden
Leon Sterling Case Western Reserve University
Hans-Juergen Stenger Siemens Nixdorf, Germany
Peter Szeredi IQSOFT, Hungary
Patrick Taillibert Dassault Electronique, France
Michel Van Caneghem PrologIA, France
Phil Vasey LPA, UK
Andrew Verden IF Computer, Germany
Mark Wallace ICL and Imperial College, UK
Organisation
The Conference Organiser is Al Roth. The Sponsorship and Exhibition
Coordinator is Clive Spenser, PMG Treasurer, and Marketing Director of
Logic Programming Associates.
Sponsorship and Acknowledgements
PAP'96 is sponsored and supported by the Prolog Management Group, Compulog
Net, the INAP Conference, the ALP and national equivalents, and individual
members of the PMG. The PMG is an international consortium of major
companies including AdTrack, ALS, BIM, COSYTEC, Dassault, Delphia, DS
Logics, ECRC, Integral Solutions Ltd, IQSoft, LPA, Paralogic, PrologIA,
Quintus Corporation, SICS and Siemens Nixdorf.
Al Roth
Tel: +44 (0) 1253 358081
Fax: +44 (0) 1253 353811
E-mail: info@pap.com
WWW: http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PAP96/index.html
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PACT'96
The Second International Conference on
The Practical Application of Constraint Technology - PACT'96
Monday 22nd April - Friday 26th April 1996, London, UK
Call for Papers
The PACT conference and exhibition is the premier forum for constraint
applications and systems. Now in its second year the conference builds
on the success of PACT'95, and clearly demonstrates the benefits of
constraints for solving real-world problems. PACT'96 will focus on the
industrial exploitation of Constraint Programming, and explore the
realisable benefits for business, and future trends for this important
technology.
Industry has been very quick to adopt the technology and apply it with
great success. Yet the pace of research in this area is dramatic, and
new ideas and techniques are continually emerging to further enhance
the potential of constraint technology. The time-lag between research,
development and industrial application is very short.
In consequence, PACT'96 provides a good opportunity to appreciate the
breadth of applications of the technology, to share new developments in
the field and to find out how to exploit these developments in practice.
We invite you to submit a paper or industrial report describing fielded
applications in the area of constraint programming. Papers can be any
length, and on any topic. Note that as PACT conferences are aimed at
demonstrating the benefits of the technology for industry and commerce,
preference will be given to papers which describe fielded applications.
Submission Details
Five copies of papers for PACT'96 should be submitted by November 17th,
1995. Authors of successful submissions will be contacted by the end of
December. Please include a short abstract, and covering page containing
full contact details, and e-mail address.
Call for Demonstrations, Workshops and Tutorials
The conference provides an opportunity for software vendors and
developers to demonstrate constraint systems. You are invited to
contact the organiser to arrange for your application to be exhibited
at the event. If you would like to organise a workshop or tutorial or
wish to see a particular topic covered, again please contact the organiser.
Exhibition
The multi-vendor exhibition will demonstrate live applications and
cutting-edge development systems.
Organisation
The Conference Organiser is Al Roth. Chaired by Mark Wallace from ICL,
the programme committee is drawn worldwide from industry leaders including
AT&T, British Telecom, Renault, IBM, ICL, Siemens, Xerox PARC, and leading
universities and research organisations.
Programme Committee
Akira Aiba New Generation Computer Technology
Bjorn Freeman-Benson's Object Technology International
Barry Crabtree British Telecom
Jean-Marc David Renault
Mehmet Dincbas COSYTEC
Alexander Herold ECRC
Joxan Jaffar University of Singapore
James Little Brunel University
Jean-Francois Puget ILOG
Peter Reintjes IBM
Al Roth Prolog Management Group
Gert Smolka DFKI
Peter Stuckey University of Melbourne
Erik Tiden Siemens
Edward Tsang University of Essex
Michel Van Carnegem PrologIA
Pascal Van Hentenryck Brown University
Mark Wallace ICL (Chair)
Vijay Saraswat Xerox PARC
For Further Information
Please return the attached form or contact Al Roth at PACT'96.
Phone: +44 (0)1253 358081
Fax: +44 (0)1253 353811
E-mail: pact96@pap.com
WWW: http:/www.demon.co.uk/ar/PACT96/index.html
I hope that you will be able to attend the shows and look forward to
hearing from you. If you need any additional information to help you
reach a decision then please don't hesitate to contact me.
best wishes,
Peter Reintjes Al Roth Mark Wallace
(PAP Program Chairman) (Conference Organiser) (PACT Program Chairman)
Please take the time to fill in this quick reply form
and send it to info@pap.com
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Name:
Position:
copyOrganisation:
Address:
Postcode:
Country:
Telephone:
Fax:
E-mail:
[ ] I may submit a paper to PAP [ ] PACT [ ]
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 17:18:01 -0300
From: 1995 Congress <icie95@mara.fi.uba.ar>
Subject: CFP: ICIE 95 Info. Engineering, Nov 95, Buenos Aires
To: Invitaciones4 <aaai@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>, ai-ed@sun.com,
CALL FOR PAPERS
II INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INFORMATION ENGINEERING - ICIE'95
November, 14 th & 15 th. 1995
Computer Science Department. School of Engineering
University of Buenos Aires. ARGENTINA
The II International Congress on Information Engineering, will be held in the
Computer Science Department of the School of Engineering of the University
of Buenos Aires on November, 14 th & 15 th. 1995
PAPERS from all countries are sought that:
1) Present results of researchers work in the area,
2) Present applications to the solution of problems in industry,
business, government and related areas.
AREAS OF APPLICATION include but are not limited to: manufacturing,
automation, control systems, planning, design, production, distribution,
marketing, human resources, finance, stock exchange, international business,
environmental control, communication media, legal aspects, decision support.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER include but are not limited to:
strategies for introducing and institutionalising
Information Engineering Technology, human resources formation in
Information Engineering, justification of Information Engineering Projects,
cooperation projects, impact of Information Engineering in the social
environment of the company, standards.
INFORMATION TECHNIQUES include but are not limited to:
knowledge-based systems, neural networks, fuzzy systems,
artificial intelligence, data bases, computational algebra,
computer languages, object oriented technology, multimedia,
computer vision, robotics, computer human interface, tutoring systems,
networking, software engineering, operational research.
Persons wishing to submit a paper have to send an abstract (500 words)
by e-mail to icie95@ufarec.edu.ar and four (4) copies written in
Spanish or English to:
Program Comitee. Computer Science Department.
School of Engineering. University of Buenos Aires.
Paseo Colon 850. 4to PISO. (1063) Capital Federal. ARGENTINA
The paper shall identify the area and technique to which it belongs. Papers will be evaluated with respect to their originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Use a Arial or Times New Roman type font, size 12, single space with a maximum of 10 pages
in A4 format. Margins: 2.5 cm (top, bottom, left, right). Selected papers will be published in the proceedings of the Congress. IMPORTANT DATES: Papers must be received by October 7th, 1995. Fax version of the paper is allowed for evaluation. Authors wil
l be notified of acceptance of rejection by e-mail or fax by October 21st .
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Prof. Lic. Gregorio Perichinsky
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Prof. Ing. Armando Di Giusti
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Prof. M.Sc. Raul Galard
Universidad Nacional de San Luis
Prof. M.Ing. Raimundo D'Aquila
Instituto Tecnologico de Bs. As.
Prof. Lic. Bibiana Rossi
Universidad Tecnologica Nacional
Prof. Ing. Diana Pallioto
Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero
Prof. Ing. Cristina Fenema
Universidad Nacional de Catamarca
Prof. Dr. Edmundo Gramajo
Universidad Polit=E9cnica de Madrid
Prof. M.Sc. Alberto Rama
Georgia Institute of Technology
Prof. Ing. Nicolas Petrenau
Brown University
Prof. M.Sc. Rogelio Adobatti
University of California at Berkeley
Prof. Dra. Dina Wonsever
Universidad de la Rep=FAblica
Prof. Ph.D. Reza Korramshagol
George Wasington University
Prof. Lic. Stella M. Valiente
Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
Prof. M.Ing. R. Garcia Martinez
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Prof. Lic. Javier Blanque
Universidad Nacional de Luj=E1n
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Subject: CFP: AISB96 - Workshops on AI or Simul. of Behav., Apr 96, Brighton
To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, neuron-request@CATTELL20.psych.upenn.edu,
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:06:26 +0100 (BST)
From: "Alison White" <alisonw@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
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AISB-96: CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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Second Call for Workshop Proposals: AISB-96
University of Sussex,
Brighton, England
April 1 -- 2, 1996
Society for the Study of
Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)
Workshop Series Chair: Dave Cliff, University of Sussex
Local Organisation Chair: Alison White, University of Sussex
The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of
Behaviour (AISB) is the UK's largest and foremost Artificial Intelligence
society -- now in it's 32nd year. The Society has an international membership
of nearly 900 drawn from both academia and industry. Membership is open to
anyone with interests in Artifical Intelligence and the Cognitive and
Computing Sciences.
The AISB Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at the
University of Sussex campus, on April 1st and 2nd, 1996. The AISB workshop
series is held in even years during the Easter vacation. In odd years
workshops are held immediately before the biennial conference.
The intention of holding a regular workshop series is to provide an
administrative and organisational framework for workshop organisers, thus
reducing the administrative burden for individuals and freeing them to focus
on the scientific programme. Accommodation, food, and social events are
organised for all workshop participants by the local organisers.
Proposals are invited for workshops relating to any aspect of Artificial
Intelligence or the Simulation of Behaviour.
Proposals, from an individual or a pair of organisers, for workshops between
1 and 2 days long will be considered. Workshops will probably address topics
which are at the forefront of research, but perhaps not yet sufficiently
developed to warrant a full-scale conference.
In addition to research workshops, a Postgraduate Workshop has become a
successful regular event over recent years. This event focuses on how to
survive the process of studying for a PhD in AI/Cognitive Science, and has a
hybrid workshop/tutorial nature. We welcome proposals, particularly from
current PhD survivors, to organise the 1996 Postgraduate Workshop at Sussex.
Proposals for tutorials will also be considered, and will be assessed on
individual merit: please contact Dave Cliff or Alison White for further
details of submission of tutorial proposals. It is the general policy of AISB
to only approve tutorials which look likely to be financially viable.
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Submission Details
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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. Specify any equipment requirements, indicating
whether the organisers would be expected to meet them.
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.
5. Financial Information.
All workshops must prove to be financially viable. Financial
guidelines are available over ftp (see below).
6. A draft Call for Participation.
This should serve the dual purposes of informing and attracting
potential participants.
The organisers of accepted workshops are responsible for issuing a call for
participation, reviewing requests to participate and scheduling the workshop
activities within the constraints set by the Workshop Organiser. They are also
responsible for submitting a collated set of papers for their workshop to the
Workshop Series Chair. Workshop participants will receive bound photocopies of
the collated set of papers, with copyright retained by the authors. Individual
workshop organisers may wish to approach publishers to discuss publication of
workshop papers in journal or book forms.
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Submission Format
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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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Dates
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Intentions to organise a workshop should be made known to the Workshop Series
Chair (Dave Cliff) as soon as possible.
Proposals must be received by October 1st 1995.
Workshop organisers will be notified by October 15th 1995. Organisers should
be prepared to send out calls for workshop participation as soon as possible
after this date.
Collated sets of papers to be received by March 15th 1996.
Proposals should be sent to:
Dave Cliff
AISB96 Workshop Series Chair
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK
Email: davec@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1273 678754
Fax: +44 1273 671320
General enquiries should be addressed to:
Alison White
AISB96 Local Organisation Chair
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK
Email: alisonw@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1273 678448
Fax: +44 1273 671320
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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline for Workshop Proposals 1 October 1995
Notification of acceptance of Workshop Proposal 15 October 1995
Final Decisions on Individual Workshop Viability* 7 March 1996
Submission of final copy of Workshop papers 15 March 1996
Workshop dates 1-2 April 1996
* All Individual Workshops will have a breakeven number of participants. If
this number is not reached by 7 March 1996, then, regrettably, the workshop
will be cancelled.
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ftp archive
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The AISB96 archive, which includes a plain-ASCII version of this web page is
available via anonymous ftp from:
% ftp ftp.cogs.susx.ac.uk
login: anonymous
password: [your_email@your_address]
ftp> cd pub/aisb/aisb96
ftp> get [filename]*
ftp> quit
* Files available at present are:
README
call_for_proposals
financial_guidelines
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To: nl-kr@snyside1.sunnyside.com
Subject: CFP: AAAI96 Spring Symp., Spatial Representation, Mar 96, Stanford
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:48:44 +0100
From: PATRICK LUKE OLIVIER <plo@aber.ac.uk>
* * * *** CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * ****
COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
1996 Spring Symposium Series
March 25 - 27, 1996
Stanford University
California
COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION
Technological advances in multimedia, graphics, vision and speech
technology are driving research into new interfaces and retrieval
mechanisms based on spatial dialogues and queries. Recent years have
also seen an increase in interest in newer fields that depend heavily
on spatial representation, in particular, analogical/diagrammatic
reasoning, and multimodal interface design. Concurrently, cognitive
linguistics has concentrated much effort on semantic accounts of
spatial language, and the revival of the imagery debate has sharpened
the focus of research into human spatial cognition.
Despite its increasing importance, spatial representation has been
tackled as a subproblem of many different domains, which in turn has
led to a fragmentation of the overall research effort. This symposium
intends to meet the growing desire to integrate research into spatial
representation and reasoning by the artificial intelligence, cognitive
science and cognitive psychology communities. The goals of the
symposium are:
o to initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue to facilitate exchange of
ideas and cross-fertilization among researchers;
o review the current influence that research into spatial cognition
has on approaches to spatial representation in AI;
o develop a better appreciation of research into spatial representation
by identifying issues that span domain and discipline boundaries;
o stimulate the discussion of issues in the computational realization
of cognitive models of spatial representation.
Contributions are invited on the computational and cognitive modeling
of spatial representation in any problem domain, in particular, we are
keen to encourage contributions from researchers interested in spatial
aspects of: the acquisition, representation and processing of natural
language spatial expressions; mental and computational imagery;
diagrammatic reasoning; analogical reasoning and direct representations
of space; navigation and cognitive models of large scale space.
For further information see http://www.dcs.aber.ac.uk/~plo/AAAI_SSS or
contact Patrick Olivier (plo@aber.ac.uk) at the address below.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Tony Cohn (agc@scs.leeds.ac.uk), University of Leeds, UK.
Janice Glasgow (janice@qucis.queensu.ca), Queen's University, Canada.
Barbara Landau (blandau@orion.uci.edu), UC Irvine, USA.
Keiichi Nakata (kkn@aber.ac.uk), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
Patrick Olivier (plo@aber.ac.uk), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
Barbara Tversky (bt@psych.stanford.edu), Stanford University, USA.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Potential attendees should submit either (1) a full technical paper
(not exceeding 5000 words), or (2) a brief statement of interest
preferably a summary of an ongoing research effort (not exceeding 1000
words). Send five copies by October 31, 1995 to:
Patrick Olivier (plo@aber.ac.uk)
Centre for Intelligent Systems
Department of Computer Science
University of Wales
Aberystwyth
Dyfed, SY23 3DB, UK
Tel: +44 1970 622447
Fax: +44 1970 622455
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