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NL-KR Digest Sat Mar 2 13:37:40 PST 1996 Volume 15 No. 13
Today's Topics:
Announcement: AI Summer School Lang and Speech, Jul 96, Budapest
CFP: IVTTA new submission information, Sep 96, Basking Ridge
Position: Text-To-Speech Lernout & Hauspie, Ieper, Belgium
Announcement: EMCSR'96 Cybernetics and Systems, Apr 96, Vienna
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From: "Summer School e-mail" <SCHOOL@khmk.bme.hu>
To: jcamen@iti.upv.es, agrol@iberiapac.ge, amtrup@informatik.uni-hamburg.de,
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 12:20:06 GMT+100
Subject: Announcement: AI Summer School Lang and Speech, Jul 96, Budapest
THE FOURTH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL
ON LANGUAGE AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION
DIALOGUE SYSTEMS
* * * *
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY 8-19 JULY 1996
INTRODUCTION
This year the Summer School will be organised at the Technical University of Budapest, July 8-19 1996.
The topic will be Dialogue Systems. There has been a growing interest
over recent years in the theoretical and practical issues associated
with the design and use of computer systems which are able to
participate in spoken or written language dialogues. Just some of the
questions which have occupied the researchers include the following:
* what kind of information should be included in a dialogue model?
* what does it mean to "co-operate" in dialogue?
* is it necessary to model the beliefs of the other party?
* how much planning is required in dialogue?
* how should a dialogue system be specified?
* is there any benefit in simulating systems before building them?
* how do people react to dialogue systems?
* what happens in multimodal dialogues?
* what is the relationship between human-human and
human-computer dialogue?
* what is the effect of task domain on dialogue structure?
* how can dialogue failures be recognised and repaired?
* how should dialogue systems be evaluated?
* what practical applications exist for dialogue technology?
These, and many other questions relating to dialogue systems will be
issued by leading practitioners in the field.
The courses will be a mixture of short plenary sessions dedicated to surveys
or particularly difficult or controversial topics, and weekly courses
of 5x2 hours or 5x1 hours held in plenary or in parallel. Several of the
courses will set practical exercises, and there will be ample opportunities for students to present their own work. As is
fitting in a Summer School on dialogue, participants will be encouraged to play an active part in the learning process.
Background knowledge in a relevant area such as linguistics, speech
processing, artificial intelligence, computer science or psychology
would be useful, but no prior experience in the area of dialogue
systems will be assumed.
The Summer School is open to undergraduate students, PhD students,
postdocs, and staff members from academic and industrial sites.
GRANTS
Some limited grants will be made available for students from Central or
Eastern Europe. To be eligible for this grant, one should write a well-argumented letter to the local organiser Dr.
Klara Vicsi (address at the end of the booklet) . In this letter one should write something about his/her background
in the Language and Speech Technology, and make it clear why he/she would like to attend the Summer School. A
letter of recommendation, written by his/her professor will certainly
be advantageous.
The application will be transferred for evaluation to ELSNET goes East.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
The program committee for this year's Summer School consists of
Niels Ole Bernsen (Roskilde University, Denmark), Norman Fraser
(Vocalis,United Kingdom), Klara Vicsi (Technical University of
Budapest, Hungary) With the help of Louis Boves (KPN Research, The Netherlands),
Steven Krauwer, Gerrit Bloothooft (Utrecht University), Joaquim Llisterri
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) as advisers.
LOCAL ORGANISER
Klara Vicsi (Technical University of Budapest)
LOCAL COMMITTEE
Geza Gordos (Technical University of Budapest), Laszlo Kalman
(Lorand Eoetvoes Scientific University),Geza Nemeth (Technical
University of Budapest), Andras Illenyi (Technical University of
Budapest), Gabor Proszeky (MorphoLogy),Gyoergy Takacs (Ericcson),
Klara Vicsi (Technical University of Budapest)
SPONSORS
This year's school is sponsored by the European Network in Language
and Speech (ELSNET), the Copernicus Program: ELSNET goes East,
and supported by the European Speech Communication Association
(ESCA) and the European Chapter of the Association of Computational
Linguistics (EACL). Local support is provided by the Technical
University of Budapest, the National Scientific Research Fund, and
SUN Europe.
GENERAL INFORMATION
VENUE
The Summer School will be held at the Technical University of Budapest.
TRAVEL
Budapest can easily be reached by air or train from all major
European cities. An Airport Minibus service is available from the
airports to each hotel. The cost for one fare is approx. 800 HUF ( 8 DM or 5,5 USD, much less than the taxi price).
Railway Stations are connected with Public Transportation. One ticket for tram, bus or metro costs 50 HUF (0,5 DM
or 0,3 USD) and must be purchased in
advance at metro stations.
REGISTRATION
The emphasis of the summer school is on small-group work and on
interaction between participants and staff. The number of participants
therefore, will be limited to 60. Since it is expected that the
summer school will be oversubscribed, pre-registration is "stongly"
recommended.
Deadline for pre-registration: May 1, 1996
To ensure that participants have the opportunity to attend the school
from a wide range of countries and disciplines, notices of
acceptance will not be sent before the pre-registration deadline.
Deposits will then become due for those who have been
offered a place. Applicants who cannot be offered a place at that time
will be put on a waiting list and be given a final decision as soon
as possible, but by June 1 at the latest.
PARTICIPATION FEES
full time students 130 USD or 190 DM
academic staff members 260 USD or 380 DM
employees of industry 520 USD or 760 DM
Deadline for payment: June 1 1996
Late payment after 1 June:
full time students 143 USD or 210 DM
academic staff members 286 USD or 418 DM
employees of industry 572 USD or 835 DM
ACCOMMODATION COSTS
Youth Hostel located in the University Campus
USD 15/person/night
2 persons/room and common showers at each floor,
(breakfast included)
Middle category Hotel-two stars, 15 minutes from the University
by tram.
Double rooms with shower in each room
for a single person USD 68/night
for two persons USD 38/night/person
(breakfast included)
The ACCOMMODATION COSTS and the PARTICIPATION FEE should be
paid together at the same time.
DEADLINE FOR FULL PAYMENT: June 1 1996
Payment can be made only by bank transfer or bank check.
Unfortunately we are not able to accept credit cards.
Bank account: MNB 10032000-01425279
Bank holder: Technical University of Budapest
Bank name and address: Hungarian National Bank
1054 Budapest, Szabadsag ter 6-8, Hungary
Reference: ELSNET 14899-509
Postal Address: Technical University of Budapest
Conference Office
Muegyetem rkp. 3., Building K, 1st Floor 64.
H-1521
Updates will appear on the WWW : www.ttt.bme.hu
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
Students who attend lectures regularly will be given a Certificate of
Attendance. With the agreement of the student's home university, the
courses taken as part of the summer school may be recognised
as credits for the student's course of study.
CANCELLATION
If an accepted applicant has to withdraw from the summer school, fees
paid will be returned (-20 USD handling charge). The withdrawal
should be received before 1st of June. In the event of withdrawal
after 1st of June, the applicant will forfeit 50 % of the paid fees.
SOCIAL EVENTS
The summer school fee will include welcome and farewell parties. An
optional programme of outings and visits will be organised, which will
enable participating students to get to know each other better, and to
be introduced to the culture and history of Hungary.
STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF THE COURSE
WEEK 1.
MORNING PLENARY SESSIONS
9.00 -10.45 PLENARY
Monday-Tuesday :
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE DIALOGUE SYSTEMS FIELD
Lecturer: Louis Boves KPN Research 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands
Wednesday-Thursday:
DIALOGUE TYPES
Lecturer: Francoise Neel, LIMSI-CNRS BP133 91403 Orsay, Cedex, France
Friday:
PROSODY IN SPOKEN DIALOGUE
Lecturer: Julia Hirschberg, AT&T Bell laboratories 600 Mountain AV.
Murray Hill, USA
10.45 -11.15 coffee break
11.15 - 12.00 PLENARY Monday-Friday:
STUDENT PRESENTATION SESSION
12.15 - 13.00 PLENARY Monday-Friday:
MULTIMODAL SYSTEMS
Lecturer: Niels Ole Bernsen, Centre for Cognitive Science, Roskilde
University, Roskilde, Denmark
13.00 -15.00 lunch
15.00 - 16.45 PARALLEL 1. Monday-Friday:
SPEECH INPUT AND OUTPUT
Lecturers: Rolf Carlson, Kjell Elenius and Bjorn Granstrom,
Department of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
PARALLEL 2. Monday-Friday:
EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS OF DIALOGUE DESIGN
With practicals.
Lecturers: Hans Dybkjaer and Laila Dybkjaer,
Centre for Cognitive Science, Roskilde University Roskilde, Denmark
WEEK 2.
9.00 -10.45 PLENARY Monday:
PROSODY IN SPOKEN DIALOGUE
Lecturer: Julia Hirschberg, AT&T Bell Laboratories USA
Tuesday-Wednesday:
EVALUATION OF DIALOGUE SYSTEMS
Lecturer: Paolo Baggia, Centro Studi e Laboratory
Telecommunicazioni, Torino, Italy
Thursday:
COMMERCIAL REALITIES
Lecturer: Nick Ostler, Linguacubun Ltd. Batheaston Villa, UK
Friday: PANEL DISCUSSION
topic: Advantages and drawbacks of dialogue technology
Gyoergy Takacs, Ericsson Ltd. Budapest, Hungary and all lecturers
10.45 -11.15 coffee break
11.15 - 13.00 PARALLEL 1.Monday-Friday:
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING INPUT OUTPUT
Lecturer: Paul Heisterkamp,
Daimler-Benz AG,Institute for Information Tecnology, Germany
11.15 - 13.00 PARALLEL 2 .Monday-Friday:
DIALOGUE MODELLING
With practicals.
Lecturer: Harald Aust, Philips Forschungslaboratorien , Aachen, Germany
13.00 -15.00 lunch
15.00 - 16.45 PARALLEL 1. Monday-Friday
HUMAN FACTORS
Lecturer: Sharon Oviatt, Center for Human-Computer Communication,
Department of Computer Science, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science
& Technology, Oregon, USA
PARALLEL 2. Monday-Friday
SYSTEM ISSUES
With practicals.
Lecturer: Norman Fraser,
Vocalis Limited Chaston House, Mill Court
Great Shelford, Cambridge, UK
STUDENT PRESENTATION
One hour during the first week has been reserved for student
presentations, and students are encouraged to use this opportunity to
help everyone improve their knowledge of each other's interests. Participants who want to take advantage of this
opportunity are requested to indicate this on the application form. Each speaker will be given 15 minutes. Any
initiatives taken by the participants may also be communicated during this time.
The other possibility for students is the poster presentation. Poster tables are free during the time of the Summer
School.
Size of the poster board: 80cm x 150cm
Abstract of the student presentation ( 1 page) is expected by 1st June 1996.
E-mail possibilities will be provided during the course.
NOTE
Although all the information in this booklet is correct at the time
of printing, we reserve the right to make alterations to course titles and
to the list of lecturers if the necessity arises.
PRE-REGISTRATION FORM
European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication
July 8 - 19, 1996
Please complete this form and return it by May 1.
Further information will be sent only to those who return this form.
Title:
First name:
Last name:
Street/No:
Postal code/City:
Country:
Phone: Fax:
Email:
University degrees or other qualifications with dates:
Current occupation:
Name of university or company:
COURSE REGISTRATION
I wish to apply for admission under the following category:
O Full time student (include proof of status)
O Academic staff member
O Employee of industry
ACCOMMODATION
O If admitted to the course, I will wish to reserve
accommodation from 7 July to 19 (13 nights)
O - Youth Hostel located in the University Campus
O - Middle category Hotel-two stars at 15 minutes from the
University (by tram)
O - I do not need hotel reservation
Please indicate whether you would like to present your own work for
the participants in the Summer School:
O Yes, I would like to present my own work during the school.
O Oral presentation
O Poster presentation
O No, I will not be involved in the student presentations.
Please give a brief account of previous work done in the area of
dialogue systems.
I have an interest in the following optional courses:
WEEK 1.
15.00 - 16.45 PARALLEL 1.
O 1. SPEECH INPUT AND OUTPUT
Lecturers:
Rolf Carlsson or Bjoern
Granstroem Department
of Speech Communication and Music Acoustics,
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,
Sweden
15.00 - 16.45 PARALLEL 2.
O 2. .EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS OF DIALOGUE DESIGN
With practicals.
Lecturers: Hans Dybkjaer and
Laila Dybkjaer, Centre for Cognitive
Science, Roskilde University Roskilde,
Denmark
WEEK 2.
11.15 - 13.00 PARALLEL 1.
O NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING INPUT
OUTPUT
Lecturer: Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler-Benz AG,Institute for
Information Tecnology, Germany
11.15 - 13.00 PARALLEL 2.
O DIALOGUE MODELLING
With practicals.
Lecturer: Harald Aust,Philips Forschungslaboratorien , Aachen,
Germany
11.15 - 13.00 PARALLEL 1.
O HUMAN FACTORS
Lecturer: Sharon Oviatt, OGI, USA
11.15 - 13.00 PARALLEL 2.
O SYSTEM ISSUES
With practicals.
Lecturer: Norman Fraser, Vocalis Limited Chaston House, Mill Court
Great Shelford, Cambridge, UK
Signature: ____________________________
Date: _______________________________
The local organiser Klara Vicsi and the local committee can be
reached by the Conference Office of TUB.
All correspondence should be addressed to:
Technical University of Budapest
Conference Office
Muegyetem rakpart 3.-9.
Building K. 1st floor. room 64.
H-1521, Budapest, Hungary
Phone: 36-1-463-2666
Phone-fax: 36-1 463-3542
E-mail: school@khmk.bme.hu
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: spiegel@din.bellcore.com (Murray F Spiegel)
Subject: CFP: IVTTA new submission information, Sep 96, Basking Ridge
Date: 21 Feb 1996 20:17:51 GMT
Reply-To: spiegel@bellcore.com
We recently posted a reminder notice regarding the IVTTA workshop.
Due to the reorganization of AT&T, mail sent to the previous address
for abstracts (David Roe at AT&T Bell Laboratories) may be delayed
or lost. To avoid problems, all abstracts should be sent to:
Dr. George Vysotsky
IEEE IVTTA '96
NYNEX S&T
500 Westchester Ave
White Plains, NY 10604 USA
Phone: 1-914-644-2589
Fax: 1-914-644-2211 or 1-914-686-5574
E-mail: george@nynexst.com
Every effort will be made to obtain abstracts currently on their way
to the AT&T Bell Laboratories address. If you have received confirmation
of an abstract already sent, you do _not_ need to send an additional copy
to Dr. George Vysotsky.
We apologize for this inconvenience.
- The IVTTA workshop committee
For your information, the corrected guidelines and background
information follows:
CALL FOR PAPERS
THIRD IEEE WORKSHOP ON
INTERACTIVE VOICE TECHNOLOGY
FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
September 30 - October 1, 1996
The AT&T Learning Center
300 N Maple Ave
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 USA
Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
The third of a series of IEEE workshops on Interactive Voice Technology
for Telecommunications Applications will be held at the AT&T Learning Center,
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, from September 30 - October 1, 1996.
The conference venue is on 35 semi-rural acres and is close enough (1 hour)
for side trips to New York City. Our workshop will be held immediately before
ICSLP '96 in Philadelphia, PA, approximately 80 miles from our location.
The IVTTA workshop brings together application researchers planning to conduct
or who have recently conducted field trials of new applications of
speech recognition, speaker identity verification, text-to-speech
synthesis over the telephone network. The workshop will explore
promising opportunities for applications and attempt to identify
areas where further research is needed.
______________________________________________________________________
Topic areas of interest:
- ASR/verification systems for the cellular environment
- User interface / human factors of applying speech to telecommunications tasks
- Language modeling and dialog design for "audio-only" communication
- Experimental interactive systems for telecommunication applications
- Experience in deployment & assessment of deployed ASR/verification systems
- Text-to-speech applications in the network
- Speech enhancement for telecommunications applications
- Telephone services for the disabled
- Architectures for speech-based services
______________________________________________________________________
Prospective authors should submit 1-page abstracts of no more than 400 words
for review. Submissions should include a title, authors' names, affiliations,
address, telephone and fax numbers and email address if any. Please indicate
the topic area of interest closest to your submission. Camera-ready
full papers (maximum of 6 pages) will be published in the proceedings
distributed at the workshop. Due to workshop facility constraints, attendance
will be limited with priority given to authors with accepted contributions.
For further information about the workshop, please contact:
Dr. Murray Spiegel, Bellcore, 445 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960 USA
Phone: 1-201-829-4519; Fax: 1-201-829-5963; E-mail: spiegel@bellcore.com
For full information, visit our web page:
http://superbook.bellcore.com/IVTTA.html
______________________________________________________________________
Send abstracts (fax or email preferred) to:
*** NOTE: New Submission Address ***
Dr. George Vysotsky
IEEE IVTTA '96
NYNEX S&T
500 Westchester Ave
White Plains, NY 10604 USA
Phone: 1-914-644-2589
Fax: 1-914-644-2211 or 1-914-686-5574
E-mail: george@nynexst.com
______________________________________________________________________
SCHEDULE
Abstracts due (400 words, maximum 1 page): Mar 15, 1996
Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1996
Submission of photo-ready paper (maximum 6 pages): Jun 15, 1996
Advance registration to be received before: Jun 15, 1996
Late registration cut-off: Aug 30, 1996
IVTTA '96 Evening welcoming reception: Sep 29, 1996
IVTTA '96 Conference: Sep 30 & Oct 1, 1996
______________________________________________________________________
WEB PAGE
Check our web page for late breaking news and developments:
http://superbook.bellcore.com/IVTTA.html
______________________________________________________________________
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Early registration (prior to June 15, 1996):
Day-only: $390
Full: $650
Late registration (Jun 15 - Aug 30, 1996):
Day-only: $465
Full: $725
IEEE members: charges are $25 less
Additional proceedings: $25
Day-only registration includes all technical sessions, welcoming reception,
lunches, snacks, banquet, and a copy of the proceedings.
Full registration includes all of the above plus: dinner on evening of arrival,
breakfast both days, two nights lodging at the conference center,
and use of the center facilities (jogging track, exercise center, pool, etc).
______________________________________________________________________
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
GENERAL CHAIR REGISTRATION & FINANCE
Candace Kamm Dick Rosinski
AT&T Bell Laboratories AT&T Bell Laboratories
cak@research.att.com rrr@arch4.att.com
PROGRAM CHAIRS PUBLICITY
David Roe Murray Spiegel
AT&T Bell Laboratories Bellcore
roe@hogpb.att.com spiegel@bellcore.com
George Vysotsky LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
NYNEX Science & Technology David Pepper
george@nynexst.com Bellcore
dpepper@bellcore.com
INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE
Sadaoki Furui, NTT PROCEEDINGS
Matthew Lennig, Nuance Jay Naik
David Roe, AT&T Bell Laboratories NYNEX Science & Technology
Christel Sorin, CNET naik@nynexst.com
George Vysotsky, NYNEX
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:15:22 -0800
From: Ann Desseyn <job-announce@lhs.be>
To: nl-kr mailing list <nl-kr@sunnyside.com>
Subject: Position: Text-To-Speech Lernout & Hauspie, Ieper, Belgium
Current job opportunities at
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
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For the Text-To-Speech Division, located in Ieper (Belgium):
2 Research Engineers for spoken dialogue research (EDIA)
1 Language Specialist for spoken dialogue research and development (LDIA)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---
Research Engineers for the TTS Research Department in Ieper (ref.: EDIA)
Function:
They will work in the Spoken Dialogue research team, an interdisciplinary team
of engineers, linguists, and software developers. Their task will be to
research, develop and optimize algorithms for natural language processing. They
will report to the Research Department Manager or to a Senior Research Engineer.
Profile :
* university degree (or equivalent) in engineering, preferably with
specialization in computer sciences
* some years of experience in research
* excellent C and C++ programming skills
* experience in following areas is considered an asset:
- artificial languages, compiler and parser technology
- expert systems, knowledge based systems, artificial intelligence
- database technology
- computer linguistics, natural language processing
- study, design and optimization of complex algorithms
- software engineering, development and debugging methods
* sense of initiative, high creativity, perseverance, thoroughness
* ability to work in an interdisciplinary team or independently
* fluent in English, good communicative skills
* willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---
Language Specialist for the TTS Development Department (ref.: LDIA)
Function:
This person will work in the Spoken Dialogue team, an interdisciplinary team of
engineers, linguists, and software developers. He/She will work on the
development of spoken dialogue systems and/or on other projects in the field of
natural language processing.
He/She will work in a language development group and report to the group leader.
Profile:
* university degree in philology or linguistics, or equivalent
* some years of experience in computer linguistics
* interest in languages and their linguistic aspects
* good knowledge and/or experience in one or more of the following areas
are considered an asset:
- speech processing (Text-To-Speech, Speech Recognition)
- natural language processing (NLP)
- (spoken) dialog systems
- American English grammar
- computer technology
- use of standard software packages
- programming
- other languages
* ability to work in a team and independently
* perseverance, accuracy and thoroughness
* good social and communicative abilities
* willingness to travel abroad for limited periods of time
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---
Lernout & Hauspie develops
technology for speech coding, speech recognition and text-to-speech, in several
languages and for a wide variety of hardware platforms.
Please send your hardcopy application and detailed resume to:
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Personnel Department
attn. Mr. Patrick Thomas
Sint-Krispijnstraat, 7
B-8900 Ieper
BELGIUM
http://www.lhs.com
job-announce@lhs.be for listing of openings
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: "EMCSR'96 Secretariat" <sec@ai.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Announcement: EMCSR'96 Cybernetics and Systems, Apr 96, Vienna
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 16:01:07 +0100
Reply-To: sec@ai.univie.ac.at
* *
* *
* THIRTEENTH EUROPEAN MEETING *
* ON *
* CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH *
* (EMCSR 1996) *
April 9 - 12, 1996
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
in cooperation with
Dept.of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Univ.of Vienna
and
International Federation for Systems Research
Chairman: Robert Trappl
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<URL:http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/>
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Plenary lectures:
* * * **
ERNST VON GLASERSFELD (USA):
"The Cybernetic Art of Living"
GEORGE SPENCER-BROWN (UK):
"Uncolourable Trivalent Graphs"
LUC STEELS (BELGIUM):
"Robots and the Origins of Intelligence"
215 papers will be presented and discussed in the following symposia:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * ****
GENERAL SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY
C.Joslyn (USA), G.J.Klir (USA)
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN MATHEMATICAL SYSTEMS THEORY
Y.Rav (France), F.Pichler (Austria)
COMPLEX SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
J.W.Rozenblit (USA), H.Praehofer (Austria)
FUZZY SYSTEMS, APPROXIMATE REASONING AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
C.Carlsson (Finland), K.-P.Adlassnig (Austria), E.P.Klement
(Austria)
DESIGNING AND SYSTEMS, AND THEIR EDUCATION
B.Banathy (USA), W.Gasparski (Poland), G.Goldschmidt
(Israel)
HUMANITY, ARCHITECTURE AND CONCEPTUALIZATION
G.Pask (United Kingdom), E.Prem (Austria)
BIOCYBERNETICS AND MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY
L.M.Ricciardi (Italy)
CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS IN MEDICINE AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
M.Okuyama (Japan), G.Porenta (Austria)
CYBERNETICS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND OF COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT
K.Balkus (USA), P.Ballonoff (USA), S.A.Umpleby (USA)
SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION
G.Broekstra (Netherlands), R.Hough (USA)
COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTERS
A M.Tjoa (Austria)
THEORIES AND METAPHORS OF CYBERSPACE
F.Heylighen (Belgium), S.A.Umpleby (USA)
KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES
Y.Kodratoff (France)
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
G.Palm (Germany), G.Dorffner (Austria)
THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
V.Marik (Czech Republic), E.Buchberger (Austria)
WORKSHOPS:
* *
SYSTEM, THE QUANTUM, AND COMPLEXITY
M.A.Carvallo (Netherlands)
MAKING WATERSHEDS VISIBLE
R.Hough (USA)
CYBERNETICS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND HEALING
M.Okuyama (Japan)
PROCEEDINGS:
* * **
Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '96, 2 vols.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
* * * * * * * ****
EMCSR'96 Secretariat
c/o Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
Schottengasse 3
A-1010 Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43-1-53532810
Fax: +43-1-5320652
E-mail: sec@ai.univie.ac.at
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