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The calendar is your verification that you are still on the mailing list distribution (I occasionally remove addresses which cause delivery problems). If you do not receive the calendar at all in the upcoming months, please contact: CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS =========================== NOTE: if a full announcement for a conference is available, it can be accessed in either of the following two ways: 1) Via anonymous ftp from lhc.nlm.nih.gov as /pub/ai-medicine/Conferences/ 2) Via the e-mail server by sending mail to ai-medicine-server@med.stanford.edu with the following commands in the message body: CD Conferences GET Where in both cases is the name which is listed in square brackets, [ ], following the place and date of the conference. ============================================= * THIRTEENTH EUROPEAN MEETING ON CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, April 9 - 12, 1996) [EMCSR 1996] * INFORMATICS FOR HEALTH IN AFRICA (Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa, April 12-17, 1996) [HELINA-96] * Third International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (Key West, Florida, May 19-20, 1996) [TIME-96] * Tenth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (Fallen Leaf Lake, California, May 21-24, 1996) [QR-96] * MEMORY ORGANIZATION AND CONSOLIDATION: COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL PERSPECTIVES (Tel-Aviv University, Israel, May 28-30, 1996) [Memory-WS] => abstracts due March 31st, 1996 * FIRST INTERNATIONAL IEEE WORKSHOP ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKING (Dallas, Texas, June 23 or 27, 1996) [ENW-96] * THE TWELFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON UNCERTAINTY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Portland, Oregon, August 1-3, 1996) [UAI-96] http://cuai-96.microsoft.com/ * INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY (Budapest, Hungary, August 12-16, 1996) [IDAMAP-96] => papers due April 2, 1996 * ECAI'96: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Budapest, Hungary, August 12-16, 1996) http://wwwis.cs.utwente.nl/mars/ECAI96.html * 1st International Workshop on Model-based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning - Perspectives for Industrial Applications [MONET-96] To be held at ECAI'96 (Budapest, Hungary, August 13, 1996) http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/MONET/ecai96.html * 2ND IFMBE-IMIA INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON BIOSIGNAL INTERPRETATION (Kanagawa, JAPAN, September 23-28, 1996) [IFMBE-96] http://www.bme.ei.hosei.ac.jp/BS196/ * THE SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL DECISION MAKING (SMDM) 18th Annual Scientific Meeting (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 13-16, 1996) [SMDM-96] => abstracts due by May 15, 1996 * Second IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems - ICECCS (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 21-25, 1996) [ICECCS-96] => papers due April 15th, 1996 * AMIA Fall Symposium (Formerly SCAMC) (Washington, DC, October 26-30, 1996) [SCAMC-96] http://www.amia.org * ITCH'96 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN COMMUNITY HEALTH "APPROPRIATE SYSTEMS/APPROPRIATE DECISIONS" (Victoria, BC, Canada, November 3-5, 1996) [ITCH-96] http://sol.uvic.ca/heis/ITCH/ITCH.html * FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING (Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 5-8, 1996) [KR-96] * Tenth Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop (Banff Canada, November 9-14, 1996) [KAW-96] http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW => papers du May 31, 1996 * VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION: AMPHIBIANS, MODELS, AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (Sedona, Arizona, November 22-24, 1996) [Visuomotor-WS-96] * SOFSEM'96: Seminar on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics (Hotel Devet-skal, Milovy Czech Republic, November 23 - 30, 1996) [SOFSEM-96] http://www.ics.muni.cz/sofsem/sofsem.html => talks or posters due May 15, 1996 * IEEE TENCON'96: Applications of Digital Signal Processing (Perth, Western Australia, November 27-29, 1996) [DSP-96] http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/tencon96.html => papers du May 10, 1996AI-MEDICINE MAILING LIST ======================== * Send submissions to: ai-medicine@med.stanford.edu * Send administrative mail to: ai-medicine-REQUEST@med.stanford.edu * Coordinators: Wanda Pratt and Serdar Uckun, Stanford University * An archive of the digest is available via anonymous ftp from lhc.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.1.128). Login as 'ftp', use your username as password, cd to pub/ai-medicine. Use 'get filename' to copy files to your system. See the README file for more information. A list of all current members is available in the same directory. The archive is also accessible via an e-mail server. For instructions, send mail to ai-medicine-server@MED.Stanford.EDU with a subject line of HELP and no message body (or vice versa). 2) AAAI-96 Workshop on V&V of KBS - Final CFP AAAI-96 Workshop on Validation & Verification of Knowledge Based Systems & Subsystems To be held at the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 4-8, 1996 Portland, Oregon Final CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOALS Both AAAI and IJCAI have hosted lively workshops on validation and verification (V&V) of knowledge based (KB) systems for several years. The workshop is of interest today because, as more KB methods are developed and as more KB systems are deployed, the issues of V&V loom ever larger. For safety critical systems in particular, this issue is paramount, leading decision-makers to forego KB technology if it cannot meet the rigors of V&V. V&V is not just "doing one's homework"; it is essential if KB systems are to be successfully used in critical applications. Moreover, there is much exciting activity in this area. These workshops have been extremely helpful in keeping this community connected and productive, and also in stimulating new connections between both researchers and practioners. TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop continues the tradition of previous ones with a focus on the following topics: 1. V&V methods for KB subsystems that are components of larger systems that may not be KB overall. Nowadays, many systems using the KB approach are no longer prototypes, but instead are complex, deployed systems. There is a clear need to investigate V&V of these systems, whether they are KB systems themselves, or conventional systems supported by KB subsystems. Thus, one aim of this workshop is to address V&V issues of KB systems embedded in conventional systems. 2. New and exciting V&V methods for KB systems/subsystems. We are always interested in learning about and discussing breakthrough techniques and methods. 3. Development of verifiable KB systems/subsystems; i.e., how can we develop KB systems/subsystems such that V&V is facilitated? It is extremely difficult to perform V&V on KB systems for which V&V was never considered. Thus, methods for developing KB software that is more easily verified and validated are essential to the successful deployment of KB systems in critical applications. 4. V&V of KB systems/subsystems in safety critical systems. The issue of assuring the quality of KBSs is becoming an increasingly important challenge as KB components are more and more often embedded within safety critical systems. Therefore, this specific topic is intended to bridge the gap between V&V of KB systems and safety critical systems, attempting to explore the notions of dependability and safety in the context of KB systems. Papers on these and also on more traditional V&V subjects such as testing, tool development, correctness verification, knowledge modelling, formal methods, etc., as well as reports on existing systems, are encouraged. For more information, see http://cs-www.bu.edu/faculty/snyder/vandv.html. FORMAT The workshop will be one day, consisting of presentations, one or two panels, and (possibly) a poster session and system demonstrations. Attendence is limited to 50 people. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Those interested in presenting should submit a paper (up to 10 pages) or abstract (up to 2 pages) describing novel research and/or results. Those interested in participation only should describe their interest in the area and/or industrial experience (up to 2 pages). Email submissions are encouraged: please use plain text, LaTeX or PostScript. Fax submissions are acceptable. For hard copy submissions, six copies should be provided. Surface mail and email addresses, and phone and fax numbers should be included for all contributing authors. Submit to either of the co-chairs: Anca I. Vermesan Jim Schmolze Det Norske Veritas Research Dept. of Electrical Eng. & Computer Science 1322 Hovik, Norway 161 College Avenue Phone: 47 67 578363 Tufts University Fax: 47 67 577520 Medford, MA 02155 USA Email: anve@vr.dnv.no Phone: 617/627-3681 Fax: 617/627-3220 E-mail: schmolze@cs.tufts.edu If you have a system that you would like to demonstrate, please contact Jim Schmolze. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: April 15, 1996 * Notification date: April 30, 1996 * Final date for camera-ready copies to organizers: May 13, 1996 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Co-Chairs Anca I. Vermesan, Det Norske Veritas Research, anve@vr.dnv.no Jim Schmolze, Tufts University, schmolze@cs.tufts.edu Committee Members Rose Gamble, University of Tulsa, gamble@tara.mcs.utulsa.edu Chris Landauer, The Aerospace Corporation, cal@aero.org Wayne Snyder, Boston University, snyder@cs.bu.edu Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Jan.Vanthienen@econ.kuleuven.ac.be 3) Formal Grammar Conference CfP FORMAL GRAMMAR Prague August 10-11, 1996 in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information In 1996 the Eighth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI VIII) is to be held in Prague, August 12-23. The ESSLLI Summer Schools have become a forum for work on formal grammar, encompassing the overlapping interests of work in formal linguistics, computational linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar formalisms. As at ESSLLI VII last year in Barcelona, the programme this year includes a conference on Formal Grammar to be held the weekend before the Summer School, which will provide a forum for contemporary research in this domain. Themes of interest include formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. We invite e-mail submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including questions and comments) addressing these themes. Abstracts should be sent to fgesslli@ufal.mff.cuni.cz An abstract should contain the author's name, affiliation, e-mail address and postal address in the initial lines; the body of the abstract should consist of an ASCII or Postscript file of a document of not more than 800 words. To facilitate anonymous review, the initial lines containing information concerning the author should be easily removable. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 1996. Notification of acceptance will be by the end of May. Final versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a proceedings to be distributed at the time of the Summer School. Address for correspondence: . Programme Committee: Bob Carpenter (CMU) John Coleman (Oxford) Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC) Daniele Godard (Paris) Jack Hoeksema (Groningen) Mark Johnson (Brown & Rank Xerox) Bob Kasper (Ohio State) Andreas Kathol (Groningen) Manfred Krifka (Texas) Geert-Jan Kruijff (Prague) Shalom Lappin (London) Glyn Morrill (Barcelona) Dick Oehrle (Arizona) Carl Pollard (Ohio State) Susan Steele (Arizona) Gert Webelhuth (North Carolina) Annie Zaenen (Rank Xerox) For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information contact: . And visit the ESSLLI'96 Website: . 4) CSCW 96 *** Call For Participation *** CSCW 96 ACM 1996 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work November 16-20, 1996 Boston, Massachusetts, USA URL: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw96/ email: cscw96-info@media.mit.edu WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, VIDEOS, & PANELS DUE: April 22, 1996 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CSCW 96: COOPERATING COMMUNITIES We invite you to submit original work to the 1996 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 96). This year's theme is Cooperating Communities. Communities are made up of people who share similar interests, professions, types of interaction or a common locale. Over a five-day period, we will explore the new and productive ways in which different communities can come together. With the explosion of popular interest in networked computer systems and the Internet, this conference is expected to play an important role in framing and extending the discussion about technology's role in the future of work. CSCW is a multi-disciplinary field encompassing theory and practice, engineering and social sciences. Topics suitable for submission include: * Theories of coordination and collaboration * Work practice studies of collaboration * Workplace design to support collaboration * Methodologies and tools for analyzing cooperative work * Impact of technology on individuals or organizations * Technologies or architectures to support collaboration Submissions are encouraged from researchers and practitioners in academia, industry, consulting or government on topics related to the theory, practice, design or support for collaborative work conducted by small or large groups. CSCW is an international conference; we welcome submissions from all countries. Whether you submit original work or not, we hope you plan on attending the conference. Remember to mark your calendar! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS Workshops may focus on any aspect of the theory or practice of CSCW. The goal is to learn from each other and to collectively envision future directions for the tools or research areas being discussed. Accepted proposals will be published as calls for participation in the SIGCHI Bulletin and the SIGOIS Bulletin. Workshops can be a half day or one day long. Results from the workshop should be disseminated to others through electronic and paper means, including a brief write-up for conference attendees and a summary for the SIGCHI Bulletin and the SIGOIS Bulletin. For further information: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw96/workshops.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS CSCW 96 will offer tutorials designed to give participants the opportunity to learn about CSCW concepts and techniques in intensive sessions. Proposals are solicited for half-day and full day tutorials. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * An introduction to CSCW * Specific methodologies for understanding CSCW contexts and applications * Techniques for developing CSCW applications * Specific CSCW applications (e.g., collaborative writing tools, group meeting tools, media spaces) Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the topics importance and suitability for presentation in a tutorial format, expertise of the instructors, and the fit in the overall balance of the tutorial program. Tutorial instructors will be eligible for an honorarium including expenses. For further information: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw96/tutorials.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIDEOS Videos are a great way to present work that relies on dynamic interaction. A panel of international reviewers will review videos for their technical content, effective communication, interest to the CSCW community, and production quality. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * Demonstrations of innovative research prototypes * Demonstrations (but not marketing) of innovative aspects of commercial systems * Studies of work practice that have implications for CSCW * Retrospective collections of significant CSCW fields of work * Visions of the future Videos should not have been previously presented in any formal video program. Authors who are submitting papers are also encouraged to consider submitting formal videos that illustrate the work. For further information: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw96/videos.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PANELS & PANEL IDEAS Panels should examine innovative, provocative, controversial, or late- breaking issues. The best panels are often structured as a debate with an opportunity for audience participation. Full panel proposals are encouraged and will receive the most attention, but if you have an idea for a panel that you would like us to organize, send it to Jonathan Grudin, Panels Chair (grudin@ics.uci.edu). For further information: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw96/panels.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL DATES Wednesday, March 20 Papers due. (Deadline has passed.) MONDAY, APRIL 22 PANEL, TUTORIAL, VIDEO, & WORKSHOP PROPOSALS DUE. Wednesday, June 19 Notification of Papers, Panels, Tutorials, Videos, & Workshops accepted. Wednesday, July 17 Short Paper, Demonstration, & Doctoral Colloquium proposals due. Friday, August 30 Notification of Short Papers, Demonstrations, & Doctoral Colloquia accepted. Final versions of accepted Videos due. Saturday, November 16 - Wednesday, November 20 Conference takes place at Hyatt Regency Cambridge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Please read our full Call For Participation on the World-Wide Web at http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw96/cfp.html or request a copy from the conference office (see below). The CFP includes guidelines for all kinds of submissions, information for student volunteers, and rosters of the conference and program committees. For further information about CSCW 96: CSCW 96 Conference Office Phone: +1 410-269-6801 703 Giddings Avenue, Suite U-3 Fax: +1 410-267-0332 Annapolis, MD 21401 USA Email: cscw96-info@media.mit.edu URL: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw96/ CSCW 96 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) and Office Information Systems (SIGOIS). 5) Anyone want a job? Our company is looking for some individuals with a strong background in fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and evolutionary computing concepts and techniques. You must be willing to relocate to Cincinnati, OH. If you have any interest, please send your resume / profile via e-mail to: gfarnell@paracomm.com -George M. Farnell, Jr. VP, Development Bradley-Madison, Inc. 6) Two programmer positions available The Decision Systems Group (DSG) is a research laboratory, affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, that is devoted to the investigation of computing applications in patient care, medical education, and decision support. We currently have two software developer positions available. I have attached a short description for each. Please distribute this information to anyone that might be interested. Thanks, - Stephan ----------------------- 1) C++ / CORBA Software Developer The Decision Systems Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital is seeking a C++ software developer with one to three years of solid programming experience, including GUI development and knowledge of object oriented methodology. Some experience with software design, networked software development, and/or the CORBA standard is desirable. This position is for advanced clinical software systems development in a health care research setting. The successful candidate will contribute significantly to the specification and design of a guideline-driven "smart" clinical workstation, and will assist in the construction of distributed application components required in its development. All work will be cross-platform, to be delivered on the Macintosh, PC/Win95/NT, and UNIX operating systems, and will be based on an in-house CORBA-based tool kit for distributed component-based application development. Non-smoking work environment. Must be US citizen or have permission to work in US indefinitely. Limited travel may be required. Two year commitment requested. For more information see http://dsg.harvard.edu/. Please apply to: Stephan R.A. Deibel, Decision Systems Group, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, or send email to sdeibel@dsg.harvard.edu. 2) WWW Software Developer The Decision Systems Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital is seeking a WWW scripting and database software developer with one to two years of solid programming experience, familiarity with web server administration, knowledge of Windows 3.1 or 95, knowledge of Visual Basic and/or C/C++, and some experience with relational database application development. Experience with Windows NT, Access, Python, Perl, and/or Macintosh are all a plus. Primary responsibility will be to provide software development support required in the construction of a large WWW-based medical informatics application. This system will aid the physician community (at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Partners HealthCare Network, and all others with internet access) in using information provided by the medical institution for their own education and decision support purposes. Programming tasks will range from the development of simple scripts and utilities, to larger systems required for data base access, processing, and assembly of WWW information. Non-smoking work environment. Must be US citizen or have permission to work in US indefinitely. Limited travel may be required. Two year commitment requested. For more information see http://dsg.harvard.edu/. Please apply to: Luke Sato, Decision Systems Group, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, or send email to lsato@dsg.harvard.edu. 7) Expert Systems 96: Call for Papers BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY SPECIALIST GROUP ON EXPERT SYSTEMS =========================================================== ANNUAL CONFERENCE - EXPERT SYSTEMS '96 (ES96) ============================================= CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The sixteenth annual Conference of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems, ES96, is being held at St. John's College, Cambridge from 16th to 18th December 1996. The objective of the ES series of conferences is to bring together researchers and application developers from the business, industrial and academic communities to discuss issues and solutions to problems based on techniques derived from Artificial Intelligence. The Conference continues to build on the success of previous years, with a two-track event containing fully refereed technical and applications papers. For the Technical Stream, contributions are invited in the form of papers of up to 5,000 words on knowledge-based systems and related areas of Artificial Intelligence. Papers representing original work on theoretical and applied AI relating to: constraint satisfaction; intelligent agents; knowledge engineering methods; machine learning; model-based reasoning; verification and validation of KBS; natural language understanding; case-based reasoning, knowledge discovery in databases and other related areas are welcome. For the Applications Stream, contributions are invited in the form of papers of up to 5,000 words presenting case studies of knowledge based systems that address real-world problems such as: diagnosis, monitoring, scheduling and selection. Most importantly, the papers should highlight the critical elements of success and the lessons learned. Papers submitted to both streams will be refereed and those accepted will again be published in book form in the "Research and Development in Expert Systems" and "Applications and Innovations in Expert Systems" series (for the technical and application streams respectively). To assist us with our planning of the conference, anyone intending to submit a paper should provide a short abstract, with title, at the earliest opportunity to the Conference Secretariat. Authors should indicate the stream to which their papers are being submitted. Please include your full name and postal address in any email submissions. Formatting instructions for papers will be sent as soon as the title and abstract are received. Four copies of papers should be submitted to arrive no later than Friday 21st June 1996. Submissions should be sent in paper form by post to the Conference Secretariat. PLEASE NOTE that presenters of submitted papers will be asked to cover their costs of attending the conference by paying at the SGES members' academic rate. TUTORIALS & WORKSHOPS ===================== The Conference Committee invites proposals for tutorials or workshops to be presented on Monday 16th December. Proposals for full and half day tutorials, from an individual or group of presenters should be directed in the first instance to the Conference Secretariat. EXHIBITION ========== A table top exhibition will run alongside the Conference. There will be a limited number of spaces available and potential exhibitors are encouraged to book early, as these will be on a first-come, first-served basis. SPONSORSHIP =========== The Conference Committee is keen to make contact with any organisations who may wish to sponsor the Conference, in whole or in part. Sponsorship of an international conference such as ES96 will ensure the highest visibility for the benefactor, both through the appearance of the company logo on all promotional literature and in references to the Conference in all media exposure prior to and after the event. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ===================== Conference Chair: Dr Ian Watson, University of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT i.d.watson@surveying.salford.ac.uk Deputy Conference Chair: Prof Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, Southsea, PO4 8JF bramerma@csovax.portsmouth.ac.uk Technical Programme Chair: Mr John Nealon, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX3 0BP jlnealon@brookes.ac.uk Applications Programme Chair: Mrs Ann Macintosh, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, Edinburgh, EH1 1HN a.macintosh@ed.ac.uk CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT ======================= Mrs. Kit Stones The Conference Team 17 Spring Road Kempston, Bedford MK42 8LS Tel/Fax +44 (0)1234-302490 kstonestct@cix.compulink.co.uk IMPORTANT DATES ================ Title/Abstract notification: now Full paper submission: 21 June 1996 Notification of acceptance: 9 August 1996 Camera ready papers due: 20 September 1996 World Wide Web address for conference information ================================================= http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/sges/es96.html 8) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine -- Research Notes ============================================================ ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE --- Call for RESEARCH NOTES --- ------------------------------------------------------------ ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE will be featuring a new section dedicated to short research notes. The goal of the new RESEARCH NOTES section is to provide a forum for the exchange of experiences in medical artificial intelligence by timely publication of recent results of ongoing research. In the RESEARCH NOTES section, we will strive to address issues in the broad field of medical artificial intelligence as covered by the main journal, ranging from AI-based clinical decision making and knowledge-based systems in medical education and research, to (meta)reasoning in medicine and medical knowledge engineering. Although papers discussing theoretical, basic research will be considered for publication in the section, we would like to focus attention on experiences with real-life application of artificial intelligence techniques, tools, and methodologies in medicine. Whether theoretical in nature or addressing practical experiences, a research note should explicitly indicate medical relevance of the reported research results and comment on the lessons learned. Authors are invited to submit research notes for the new RESEARCH NOTES section of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE. A research note should have the form of a common scientific paper and not exceed 10 manuscript pages. Papers are submitted, either by mail or electronically, directly to the RESEARCH NOTES section editor: Linda C. van der Gaag Department of Computer Science Padualaan 14 P.O. Box 80.089 3508 TB Utrecht The Netherlands e-mail: linda@cs.ruu.nl Any questions concerning the new RESEARCH NOTES section may also be directed to the RESEARCH NOTES section editor. ============================================================ 9) CONSTRAINTS: An International Journal Special Issue on Constraints and Databases CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Constraints have long been associated with databases as metadata, used to describe and enforce database integrity and facilitate optimization. Recently, there has been growing interest in making broader use of constraints in databases, including the use of constraints as a concise stored representation of data. This is particularly attractive for dealing with spatial and temporal knowledge and partial and incomplete information. Existing databases have proven inadequate in dealing with such information and hence there is a growing requirement for constraint databases. Complementing the development of constraint databases is a growth of interest in constraint-intensive queries for relational databases, where constraints form a significant proportion of the query. Constraint-intensive queries are especially important for decision-support applications. The fields of constraints and databases each have a great deal to contribute to the other. The area of their merger is of increasing interest to researchers and practicioners alike. The aim of this special issue, dedicated to the memory of Paris Kanellakis, is to provide a timely report on this burgeoning research area, of which he was one of the pioneers. Kanellakis was a founding member of the editorial board of CONSTRAINTS, and his loss in a tragic plane crash will be keenly felt by the community. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to) the following: - -- Constraint query languages - -- Constraint-based query optimization - -- Object databases and constraints - -- Constraint databases and their applications - -- Constraint domains in databases - -- Representing partial information in databases - -- Spatial/temporal databases and constraints - -- Storing and accessing large sets of constraints - -- Memoing evaluation of constraint logic programs CONSTRAINTS is a new journal published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The journal seeks to provide a common forum for the many disciplines interested in constraint satisfaction and optimization, and the many application domains interested in employing constraint technology. It will cover all aspects of computing with constraints: theory and practice, algorithms and systems, reasoning and programming, logics and languages. PAPER SUBMISSIONS - ----------------- The submission deadline is July 1, 1996. Authors are invited to submit papers written in English and not exceeding 20 pages (8000 words) to one of the editors of the special issue, at the contact addresses listed below. We encourage authors to submit by electronic mail in self-contained Postscript format. Alternatively five paper copies may be submitted. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by November 1, 1996. CONTACT INFORMATION - ------------------- Raghu Ramakrishnan Computer Sciences Department 1210 West Dayton Street University of Wisconsin at Madison Madison, WI 53706, USA raghu@cs.wisc.edu Peter Stuckey Department of Computer Science University of Melbourne Parkville 3052, AUSTRALIA pjs@cs.mu.oz.au 10) GRADUATE STUDENT POSITION A graduate student position is available at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to study neural network modelling, speech and control appliations, and hardware (VLSI and optics) implementation. Bacholar degree is required for Master course students, and Master degree is required for Ph.D. course students. The positions are available from September, 1996. The KAIST is the top-ranked research-oriented engineering school in Korea, which belongs to Ministry of Science and Engineering. The Deaprtment of Electrical Enginnering consists of 48 professors, about 500 graduate students. Annual research fund is more than 15 million US dollars. Full scholarship may be provided. For those from other countries we also have Korean language classes. Applicants should send their CV, list of publications, a letter describing their interest, and name, address and phone number of two references to: Prof. Soo-Young Lee Computation and Neural Systems Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu Taejon 305-701 Korea (South) Fax: +82-42-869-3410 E-mail: sylee@ee.kaist.ac.kr Subject: Graduate Scholarship 11) S I C I C A ' 9 7 3rd IFAC SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT COMPONENTS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR CONTROL APPLICATIONS Annecy, France, June 9-11 1997 First Announcement and Call For Papers http://ava.univ-savoie.fr/sicica97/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of draft papers : August 1, 1996 Notification of acceptance : November 1, 1996 Submission of full papers : January 1, 1997 -------------------------------------------------------------- Please submit 5 copies of draft papers (4-6 pages) in English. The first page must contain the paper title, authors-names and applications, complete address of the corresponding author (fax, tel, E-mail) and the abstract (200-250 words). Selected full papers are to be prepared according to instructions sent to the authors (max. 6 pages). Accepted papers must be presented in person at the symposium. -------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The aim of the symposium is to bring together scientists, suppliers and users of new so-called intelligent techniques in the fields of sensors, actuators and instruments for advanced control and measurement applications. The symposium will address generic methodologies, recent developments and their applications in software and hardware equipment. -------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Functionalities of intelligent components and instruments : - diagnosis - autoconfiguration - measurement validation - data fusion - learning. Techniques for intelligent components and instruments : - conventional methods - fuzzy logic - neural networks - genetic algorithms - rule-based approach. Modeling and implementation of : - microsensors - microactuators - integrated sensors - integrated actuators - virtual instruments - intelligent controllers - multi sensor systems. Communication networks and industrial standard field-buses : - FIP - CAN - VAN - wireless networks - automation network instruments - real-time constraints. Software and hardware tools : - specialized architecture - simulation - analysis - design - decision support systems - assessment support systems. Applications : - process control - perception systems - decentralized control - robotics - environmental systems - education training - automotive systems. ------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL PROGAM COMMITTEE P. Albertos (Spain) Chairman T. Boromisza (Hungary) S. Boverie (France) L. Foulloy (France) A. Garcia-Cerezo (Spain) R. Isermann (Germany) L. Keviczky (Hungary) M. Kilgour (Canada) P. Kopacek (Austria) R. Longchamp (Switzerland) A. Ollero (Spain) M. Robert (France) H. Roth (Germany) M. Staroswiecki (France) A. Titli (France) R. Thorn (United Kingdom) L. Trybus (Poland) G. Ulivi (Italy) H. Verbruggen (Netherland) M. Zaremba (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------------- The symposium will be held at the Imperial Congress Center which is located within walking distance of the town center in enchanting surrounding by the side of the mountain lake of Annecy in the heart of French Alps. An idyllic setting, close to Switzerland and Italy with easy access by road, rail and air. -------------------------------------------------------------- IFAC Copyright The material submitted for presentation at IFAC meeting (congress, symposium, conference, workshop) must be original, not published of being considered elswhere. All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the Preprints of the meeting and will be distributed to the participants. Papers duly presented will be archived and offered for sale, in the form of Postprint volumes, by Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK. The papers which have been presented will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC Journals "Automatica and Control Engineering Practice", or in IFAC affiliated journals. The abstracts of all papers presented will also appear in "Control Engineering Practice". Copyright of materials presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be sent a copyright transfer from, "Automatica, Control Engineering Practice" and, afterthese, IFAC affiliated journals have priorrity access to all contributions presented. However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these journals, within three months after the meeting, the author is free to re-submit the material for publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented. --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANISATION LAMII/CESALP Universite de Savoie Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs d'Annecy 41, Avenue de la Plaine B.P. 46 F-74016 ANNECY Cedex France SPONSOR IFAC : Technical Committee on Components and Instruments CO-SPONSORS IFAC Technical Committees Advanced Manufacturing Technology Safeprocess Atificial Intelligence in Real Time Control Low Cost Automation Robotics AFCET French National Member Organization --------------------------------------------------------------- SECRETARIAT SICICA'97 Annecy-Congres 1 rue Jean-Jaures F-74000 ANNECY FRANCE Phone : +33 50 45 00 70 Fax : +33 50 51 87 20 E-mail : sicica97@esia.univ-savoie.fr www : http://ava.univ-savoie.fr/sicica97/ 12) Intelligent Data Analysis: an International Journal C A L L F O R P A P E R S (New Journal) ========================================== Intelligent Data Analysis - An International Journal An electronic, Web-based journal Published by Elsevier Science URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ida http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/ida Important e-mail addresses: Editor-in-Chief: famili@ai.iit.nrc.ca Editorial Office: h.dalterio@elsevier.com Subscription Information: USDirect@elsevier.com Introduction ------------ As science and engineering disciplines become more and more computerized, the volume and complexity of the data produced on a day-to-day basis quickly becomes overwhelming. Traditional data analysis approaches have proven limited in their ability to generate useful information. In a wide variety of disciplines (as diverse as financial management, engineering, medical/ pharmaceutical research and manufacturing) researchers are adapting Artificial Intelligence techniques and using them to conduct intelligent data analysis and knowledge discovery in large data sets. Aims/Scope ---------- The journal of Intelligent Data Analysis will provide a forum for the examination of issues related to the research and applications of Artificial Intelligence techniques in data analysis across a variety of disciplines. These techniques include (but are not limited to): all areas of data visualization, data pre-processing (fusion, editing, transformation, filtering, sampling), data engineering, database mining techniques, tools and applications, use of domain knowledge in data analysis, machine learning, neural nets, fuzzy logic, statistical pattern recognition, knowledge filtering, and post-processing. In particular, we prefer papers that discuss development of new AI architectures, methodologies, and techniques and their applications to the field of data analysis. Papers published in this journal will be geared heavily towards applications, with an anticipated split of 70% of the papers published being applications- oriented, and the remaining 30% containing a more theoretical material. Editor-in-Chief: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A. Famili National Research Council of Canada, Canada Editorial Board: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Timothy Bailey Francesco Bergadano San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of Torino, USA Italy Pierre Boulanger Pavel Brazdil National Research Council of University of Porto, Canada, Canada Portugal Carla E. Brodley Paul R. Cohen Purdue University, University of Massachusetts, USA USA Luc De Raedt Doug Fisher Catholic University of Leuven, Vaderbilt University, Belgium USA Matjaz Gams James Garrett, Jr. Jozef Stefan Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Slovenia USA Larry Hall Alois Heinz University of South Florida, Universitaet Freiburg, USA Germany Achim G. Hoffmann Jane Hsu University of New South Wales, National Taiwan University, Australia Taiwan Scott Huffman Xiaohui Liu Price Waterhouse Technology Center, University of London, USA UK Ramon Lopez de Mantaras David Lubinsky Artificial Intelligence Research University of The Witwatersrand, Institute, Spain South Africa Nicolaas J.I. Mars Stan Matwin University of Twente, University of Ottawa, The Netherlands Canada Claire Nedellec Raymond Ng Universite Paris-Sud, University of British Columbia, France Canada Alun Preece Lorenza Saitta University of Aberdeen, University of Torino, UK Italy Alberto Maria Segre Wei-Min Shen The University of Iowa, University of Southern California, USA USA Evangelos Simoudis Stephen Smith IBM Research Almaden Research Carnegie Mellon University, Center, USA USA Tony Smith George Tecuci University of Waikato, George Mason University, New Zealand USA Richard Weber Sholom Weiss Management Intelligent Technologies Rutgers University, GmbH, Germany USA Bradley Whitehall Gerhard Widmer United Technologies Research Center, Austrian Research Institute for USA Artificial Intelligence, Austria Janusz Wnek H.-J. Zimmermann George Mason University, RWTH Aachen, USA Germany Information for Authors: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. General The journal of Intelligent Data Analysis invites submission of research and application papers within the aims and scope of the journal. In particular, we prefer papers that discuss development of new AI architec- tures, methodologies, and techniques and their applications to the field of data analysis. 2. Manuscript The manuscript should be in the following format. The first page of the paper should contain the title (preferably less than 10 words), the name(s), address(es), affiliation(s) and e-mail(s) of the author(s). The first page should also contain an abstract of 200-300 words, followed by 3-5 keywords. 3. Submission To speed up the production process, authors should submit the text of original papers in PostScript (compressed file), to the Editor-in-Chief (address below). Any graphical or tabular files should be sent in separate files in Encapsulated PostScript or GIF format. The corresponding author will receive an acknowledgement, by e-mail. <> The standard format (Times Roman) is preferred. The Manuscript should not exceed 35-40 pages of text (or the compressed/uuencoded PostScript file should not be more than 1.0 Meg). 4. References All references in the paper should be listed in alphabetical order under the first author's name and numbered consecutively by arabic numbers. The structure of the references should be in the following format: (a) Example of journal papers: R.A. Brooks, Intelligence without Representation, Artificial Intelligence, 47 (1) (1991), 139-159. (b) Example of monographs: A. Basilevsky, Applied Matrix Algebra in the Statistical Sciences, North- Holland, Amsterdam, (1983). (c) Example of edited volume papers: J. Pan and J. Tenenbaum, An Intelligent Agent Framework for Enterprise Integration, in: A. Famili, D. Nau and S. Kim, eds., Artificial Intelligence Applications in Manufacturing, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, (1992), 349-383. (d) Example of conference proceedings papers: R. Sutton, Planning by Incremental Dynamic Programming, in: Proceedings of the 8th International Machine Learning Workshop, Evanston, IL, USA, Morgan Kaufmann, (1991), 353-357. (e) Example of unpublished papers: C. H. Watkins, Learning from Delayed Rewards, Ph.D. Thesis, Cambridge Uni- versity, Cambridge, England, (1989). 5. The Review Process Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. The authors will receive the results of the review process through e-mail. The authors of conditionally accepted papers are expected to revise their papers within 2-3 months. 6. Proofreading Authors will be responsible for proofreading. Final copies of papers will be made available to the author and should be verified by the author within three working days. No new material may be inserted in the text at the time of proofreading. 7. Final Manuscript When paper accepted, the publisher requires an electronic copy of the paper in one of the following formats, along with the originals of figures and tables. Papers can be submitted in any one of the following formats: - FrameMaker, - WordPerfect, - MicroSoft Word or - Postscript. Graphical files must be submitted separately, in either PostScript or GIF formats. A paper copy original is also required for any graphical material. Journal of Intelligent Data Analysis will be a fully electronic, refereed quarterly journal. It will contain a number of innovative features not available in comparable print publications. These features include: - An alerting service notifying subscribers of new papers in the journal, - Links to large data collections, including the U.C. Irvine Machine Learning Repository Database, - Links to secondary collection of data related to material presented in the journal, - The ability to test new search mechanisms on the collection of journal articles, - Links to related bibliographic material. If you are interested in receiving further announcements or subscription information about the upcoming journal, Intelligent Data Analysis, please send e-mail to: h.dalterio@elsevier.com 13) KAW96 Update An update of the KAW96 call with the cg track -- the web site has links to more detailed mailings from the various track chairs -- see:- http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW96Call.html Call for Participation KAW'96 Tenth Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop Banff, Canada, November 9-14, 1996 ---- Draft Papers Due May 31, 1996 ----- The objective of the annual knowledge-acquisition workshops is to provide a forum for those developing theories, methods, systems, and empirical studies that relate to the process of building intelligent systems of all kinds. To encourage vigorous interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshop will be kept small--to about 40 participants. The format is designed to develop extensive discussions and continuing collaboration on significant issues; thus, the majority of the workshop will be devoted to activities within small working groups that each will meet for one or two days, in parallel with other workshop activities over the course of the week. In plenary sessions, we will attempt to define the state of the art and future research needs. General attendance will be limited to those submitting their work, one author per paper. The meeting is structured to support specialist subgroups that will have their own working agendas, as well as plenary meetings for general knowledge exchange. In addition to the submission of papers, we welcome proposals for new specialist sessions and minitracks that may include a small number of invited participants who can help investigators in the area of knowledge acquisition to form bridges with other research communities. Nine sessions or minitracks have so far been scheduled for the workshop. The corresponding topics, and the organizers of the sessions, are as follows: 1. Distributed knowledge modeling over the Internet Frank Maurer maurer@informatik.uni-kl.de (U Kaiserslautern) Henrik Eriksson her@ida.liu.se (Linkoping U) 2. Corporate memory and enterprise modeling Rose Dieng Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr (INRIA-Sophia) Johan Vanwelkenhuysen jvanwelk@sidartha.inria.fr (INRIA-Sophia) 3. Shareable and reusable ontologies Gertjan van Heijst gertjan@swi.psy.uva.nl (U of Amsterdam) Nicola Guarino guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it (NRC, Italy) 4. Shareable and reusable problem-solving methods Dieter Fensel dieter@swi.psy.uva.nl (U of Karlshue) Richard Benjamins richard@swi.psy.uva.nl (U of Amsterdam) B. Chandrasekaran chandra@cis.ohio-state.edu (Ohio State Univ) 5. Knowledge acquisition from natural language Fernando Gomez gomez@eola.cs.ucf.edu (U Central Florida) 6. Agent-oriented approaches to knowledge engineering Frances Brazier frances@cs.vu.nl (Free U of Amsterdam) Jan Treur treur@cs.vu.nl (Free U of Amsterdam) 7. KA for temporal reasoning and planning Yuval Shahar shahar@camis.stanford.edu (Stanford U) Samson Tu tu@camis.stanford.edu (Stanford U) 8. Knowledge Modelling using Conceptual Graphs Dickson Lukose lukose@peirce.une.edu.au (U of New England) Guy Mineau mineau@ift.ulaval.ca (Universite Laval) 9. System demonstrations -- Sun, Mac, PC and Internet Rob Kremer kremer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (U Calgary) Individuals who feel they have a new perspective to offer which does not fit into a specialist session are also invited to submit papers. Such papers are especially welcome, but will be expected to offer significant new insights. Draft papers (up to 20 pages) should be sent electronically to Brian Gaines before May 31, 1996. Acceptance and revision notices will be e-mailed by July 31, 1996. Revised papers (20 pages) should be submitted by September 30, 1996, so that hardcopies may be bound together for distribution at the workshop. Authors who submit papers to the workshop will be expected to help with the refereeing of papers submitted by other individuals. Submission and review of papers, and coordination of all aspects of the meeting, will be through the Internet. Papers should be transmitted in postscript or common document processor format (e.g., Microsoft Word) either by e-mail to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, or by FTP to ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca in directory /incoming (with an email note to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca when the paper is transferred). Authors should indicate appropriate sessions/minitracks for each submission. If there is uncertainty regarding the optimum track for a paper, authors should contact the chairs of the track that seems closest, preferably in advance of the submission deadline. Depending on the range of papers received, some tracks may be collapsed whereas other tracks may be added in advance of the workshop. Demonstrations of mature software systens will be an important feature of the workshop, and a range of high-performance workstations will be provided. Authors submitting to this track should contact Rob Kremer about the logistics of setting up demonstrations and showing videos. Participation by graduate students is particularly encouraged. There will be a number of awards for reduced conference fees to full-time graduate students whose papers are accepted. If appropriate, please indicate that you wish to apply for such an award when you submit a paper. The world-wide web (WWW) will be used to coordinate the meeting and to provide further details of the tracks, paper formats, conference arrangements, and so on. Please see the following URL for more information about the workshop: http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW96Call.html Workshop Co-chairs: Brian R. Gaines Department of Computer Science University of Calgary 2500 University Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 (403) 220-5901 gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca Mark A. Musen Section on Medical Informatics Knowledge Systems Laboratory Stanford University Stanford CA, USA 94305-5479 (415) 723-6979 musen@camis.stanford.edu Dr Brian R Gaines Knowledge Science Institute University of Calgary gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 403-220-5901 Fax:403-284-4707 http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KSI 14) ASIAN'96 CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS --- ASIAN'96 ASIAN COMPUTING SCIENCE CONFERENCE Singapore, December 2-5, 1996 BACKGROUND ---------- The first conference ASIAN'95 (also called ACSC'95 last year) was held in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 1995, organized by the Asian Institute of Technology in partnership with INRIA, France, and the UNU/IIST, Macau. Its main purpose was to provide a local forum for Asian researchers in Computer Science. Its scope was a broad coverage of CS, though there was a focus on the more conceptual areas of algorithms, concurrency and knowledge. Its proceedings appeared as Springer-Verlag's LNCS 1023. SCOPE ----- The 1996 conference will continue to emphasize the conceptual areas of CS, though papers in all areas will be considered. The following themes represent the areas of focus for this year. * Programming (semantics, languages, systems, paradigms, ...) * Concurrency & Parallelism (algorithms, formalisms, systems, ...) * Networking & Security (algorithms, protocols, formalisms, systems, ...) INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- The keynote speaker will be David HAREL (Weizmann Institute, Israel). The invited speakers will be: Jean-Chrysostome BOLOT (INRIA, France) on networking, Gert SMOLKA (DFKI Saarbruken, Germany) on programming languages, and Doug TYGAR (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) on secure electronic commerce. PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- By email, in a self-contained Postscript file (compressed and uuencoded), to be complemented by a hard copy sent to the address of the program chair. The length guidelines are 10--12 pages in 11-point font, and about 3000 words. For details, see the conference web page. The email address for submissions is asian96@iscs.nus.sg PUBLICATION ----------- The proceedings is expected to be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lectures Notes in Computer Science series. In addition to regular papers, we hope to accept posters, which will appear as one-page abstracts in the proceedings. Papers and posters must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- July 5, 1996 Paper submission deadline August 23, 1996 Acceptance decisions September 13, 1996 Camera-ready copy due December 2--4, 1996 Asian'96, Main Conference December 5, 1996 Asian'96, Workshops PRE and POST CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES ---------------------------------- The 9th Asian School on Computer Science: Synthesis & Verification of Finite-State Machine Based Systems by G. Berry, N. Halbwachs and E. Sentovich will be held on 22--29 November 1996, in Rayong, Thailand. (See http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/school96). On December 5, 3--4 workshops will be held in association with the main conference. CONFERENCE WEB PAGE ------------------- Additional information will be posted and will be available from http://www.iscs.nus.sg/~asian96 Sponsors: --------- * The Asian Inst. of Technology (AIT) * Inst. National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) * National Univ. of Singapore (NUS) * United Nations Univ. Intl. Inst. for Software Technology (UNU/IIST) Program Chair: -------------- Joxan Jaffar, Department of Information Systems & Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260 Phone: +65 772 6731 Fax: +65 779 4890 E-mail: joxan@iscs.nus.sg Asian'9X Steering Committee: ---------------------------- Dines Bjorner (UNU/IIST, Macau) Shigeki Goto (Waseda U., Japan) Joxan Jaffar (NUS, Singapore) Kanchana Kanchanasut (AIT, Thailand) Gilles Kahn (INRIA, France) Jean-Jacques Levy (INRIA, France) R.K. Shyamasunder (TIFR Bombay, India) Program Committee: ------------------ Martin Abadi (SRC, DEC, USA) Eliezer A. Albacea (U. of Phillipines) A. Anuchitanukul (Bank of Thailand/AIT) Kim Bruce (Williams College, USA) Rance Cleaveland (NCSU, USA) Dang Van Hung (UNU/IIST, Macau) Li Gong (SRI International, USA) Shigeki Goto (Waseda U., Japan) Seif Haridi (SICS, Sweden) Nevin Heintze (Bell Labs, USA) Pascal van Hentenryck (Brown U., USA) Jieh Hsiang (NTU, Taiwan) Kyoki Imamura (Kyushu IT, Japan) Joxan Jaffar, Chair (NUS, Singapore) Tomasz Janowski (UNU/IIST, Macau) Gilles Kahn (INRIA, France) Lam Kwok-Yan (NUS, Singapore) John Lamping (Xerox PARC, USA) Peter Lee (CMU, USA) Jean-Jacques L'evy (INRIA, France) C. Lursinsap (Chulalongkorn U/AIT) Michael Maher (Griffith U., Australia) Hideo Miyahara (Osaka U., Japan) Gustaf Neumann (Essen U., Germany) Vijay Saraswat (Xerox PARC, USA) S. Sudarshan (IIT, Bombay) R. Sureswaran (USM, Malaysia) Doug Tygar (CMU, USA) Phillip Wadler (U. of Glasgow, UK) Belawati Widjaja (U. of Indonesia) Roland Yap (NUS, Singapore) Local Arrangements Chair: ------------------------- Roland Yap (NUS, Singapore), E-mail: ryap@iscs.nus.sg 15) ICANNGA97 ========= Third International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms Preceded by a one-day Introductory Workshop Tuesday 1st - Friday 4th April, 1997 Norwich, England, UK CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE Conference Theme: ================= The main theme of the ICCANGA series is the development and application of software paradigms based on natural processes, principally artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and hybrids thereof. However, the scope of the conference extends to cover many related topics including fuzzy logic, genetic programming and other evolutionary computation systems, classifier systems and adaptive agent systems, distributed intelligence and artificial life, generic optimisation heuristics including simulated annealing and tabu search, and many more. Following the successes of ICANNGA93 (Innsbruck, Austria) and ICCANGA95 (Ales, France), the third meeting of this interdisciplinary conference will be held at the University of East Anglia in the picturesque, medieval city of Norwich, England. The ICANNGA series has quickly established itself as a platform, not only for established workers in the fields, but also for new and young researchers wishing to extend their knowledge and experience. The conference will be preceded by a one day workshop during which introductory sessions on a range of relevant topics will be held. There will be ample opportunity to gain practical experience in the techniques pertaining to the workshop and conference. The conference is hosted by the University of East Anglia, which is a campus university in a parkland setting, offering first class conference facilities including award winning en-suite accomodation and lecture theatres. The conference will include invited talks and contributed oral and poster presentations. It is expected that the ICANNGA97 Proceedings will be printed by Springer-Verlag (Vienna), following the tradition set by its predecessors. International Advisory Committee ================================ Prof. R. Albrecht, University of Innsbruck, Austria Dr. D. Pearson, Ecole des Mines d'Ales, France Prof. N. Steele, Coventry University, England (Chair) Dr. G. D. Smith, University of East Anglia, England Programme Committee =================== Thomas Baeck, Informatik Centrum, Dortmund, Germany Wilfried Brauer, TU München, Germany Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Terry Fogarty, University of West England, Bristol, UK Michael Heiss, TU Wien, Austria Tom Harris, Brunel University, London, UK Anne Johannet, EMA-EERIE, Nimes, France Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Sami Kuri, San Jose State University, USA Pedro Larranaga, University Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain Francesco Masulli, University of Genoa, Italy Josef Mazanec, WU Wien, Austria Janine Magnier, EMA-EERIE, Nîmes, France Franz Oppacher, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Ian Parmee, University of Plymouth, UK David Pearson, EMA-EERIE, Nîmes, France Vic Rayward-Smith, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Colin Reeves, Coventry University, Coventry, UK Bernardete Ribeiro, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Valentina Salapura, TU-Wien, Austria V. David Sánchez A., University of Miami, Florida, USA Henrik Saxén, Åbo Akademi, Finland George D. Smith, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Nigel Steele, Coventry University, Coventry, UK Kevin Warwick, Reading University, Reading, UK Darrell Whitley, Colorado State University, USA Diethelm Würtz, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland Organising Committee ==================== Dr. G. D. Smith, University of East Anglia, England Nigel Steele, Coventry University, Coventry Prof. Vic Rayward-Smith, University of East Anglia, Norwich Submission Instructions ======================= Contributions are sought in the following topic areas, which is not exhaustive: - Theoretical and Computational Aspects of Artificial Neural Networks: including computational learning, approximation theory, novel paradigms and training methods, dynamical systems, hardware implementation - Practical Applications of Artificial Neural Networks: including pattern recognition, speech and signal processing, visual processing, time series prediction, medical and other diagnostic systems, fault and anomaly detection, financial applications, data compression, datamining, machine learning - Theoretical and Computational Aspects of Genetic Algorithms: including schema theory developments, Markov models, convergence analysis, no free lunch theorem, computational analysis, novel sequential and parallel GA systems - Practical Applications of Genetic Algorithms; including function and combinatorial optimisation, machine learning, classifier and agent systems, datamining, real-world industrial and commercial applications - Hybrid and related topics: including genetic programming, evolutionary programming and evolution strategies, fuzzy logic and control, neuro-fuzzy systems, simulated annealing and tabu search, hybrid search algorithms, hybrid ANN/GA systems Authors should submit an extended abstract of around 1500-2000 words, or full paper, of their proposed contribution before 31st August 1996. Abstracts and papers must be in English and must contain a concise description of the problem, the results achieved, their relevance and a comparison with previous work. The abstract/paper should also contain the following details: Title Authors' names and affiliations Name, address and email address of contact author Keywords Three typed/printed copies should be sent to the following address: Dr George D. Smith School of Information Systems University of East Anglia Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ UK Abstracts may be sent by email to either: gds@sys.uea.ac.uk or rs@sys.uea.ac.uk Notification of acceptance of the paper for presentation will be made by November 30th 1996. Papers accepted for both oral and poster presentations will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Pre-Conference Workshop ======================= It is intended to hold a workshop on April 1st, 1997, prior to the Conference. This workshop is intended for those who are new to the topics and wish to gain a better understanding of the fundamental aspects of neural networks and genetic algorithms. The format of this workshop will be as follows: Theoretical issues of ANNs Key Issues in the application of ANNs Introduction to GAs and other heuristic search algorithms Key Issues in the application of GAs and related heuristics The second and fourth topics are backed up with laboratory sessions in which participants will have the opportunity to use some of the latest software toolkits supporting the respective technologies. Dates to remember: ================== First Announcement & CFP: April 1996 Submission of Abstracts: August 31st 1996 Notification of Acceptance: November 30th 1996 Delivery of full paper: January 30th 1997 Pre-Conference Workshop: April 1st 1997 ICANNGA97: April 2nd-4th 1997 Registration form ================= Please enter your details below to receive further information about ICANNGA97 and a full registration form. First name: ______________________________________ Family name: ______________________________________ Affiliation: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ City: ______________________________________ State/Province/County: ______________________________________ ZIP/Postal Code: ______________________________________ Country: ______________________________________ Daytime telephone number: ______________________________________ Email address: ______________________________________ ============================================================================ Dr. George D Smith Computing Science Sector School of Information Systems University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK Tel: + 44 (0)1603 593260 FAX: + 44 (0)1603 503344 Email: gds@sys.uea.ac.uk www: http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/Teaching/Staff/gds.html ============================================================================ 16) !!!!!!!! COLING-96 i DK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics Monday August 5 - Friday August 9 1996 Copenhagen, Denmark 2nd Circular and Registration Handbook Table of Contents Scope of the Conference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Conference Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Papers to be Presented . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Posters and Exhibitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Social Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Accompanying Persons Tours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Tutorial Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Workshops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 General Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Venue Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Denmark Invitation COLING-96 is coming up! COLING is held every other year under the auspices of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics - ICCL. This year, the 16th COLING will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Denmark. COLING consistently offers excellent possibilities for presenting, listening to, and discussing the latest developments, within theoretical as well as practical computational linguistics. This year the programme covers a wide variety of themes, just to mention a few: evergreens such as morphology, syntax, semantics and parsing, as well as sessions on resources and corpus-based methods, speech and language, and NLP in Multimedia. During COLING, poster sessions, demonstrations and book exhibition take place, and the PRE-COLING programme includes tutorials and workshops. Copenhagen is Cultural City in 1996, so apart from participating in the conference, you may take advantage of the numerous cultural events. We look forward to receiving you here in Copenhagen, Professor Bente Maegaard Center for Sprogteknologi Local Organizer Scope of the Conference Conference dates: August 5 (Mon) - 9 (Fri), 1996 Conference place: The University of Copenhagen, Denmark Local Organizer: Prof. Bente Maegaard Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark Programme Chairman: Prof. Jun-ichi Tsujii CCL, UMIST & University of Tokyo Programme Committee Chair: J. Tsujii (CCL-UMIST & Univ. of Tokyo, UK/Japan: ICCL member) A.Joshi (U.Penn, USA: ICCL member), S.G.Pulman (Univ. of Cambridge and SRI International, UK), A.Ramsay (CCL-UMIST, UK), E.Hajicova (Charles Univ., Czech.Rep.: ICCL member), E.Brill (John Hopkins Univ., USA), N.Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy: ICCL member), S.Ikehara (NTT, Japan), R.Grishman (New York Univ., USA), H.Iida (ATR, Japan), S.Ananiadou (MMU and CCL-UMIST, UK), G.Sabah (LIMSI-CNRS, France), R.Dale (Microsoft, Australia), W.Wahlster (DFKI, Germany), K.Koskenniemi (Univ. of Helsinki, Finland). The programme committee functioned by subcommittees. These are listed on page 30. Organizing Committee Chair: B. Maegaard (Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark) H. Buch Brondel (Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark) B. Orsnes (Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark) Sponsored by: The International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL): C. Boitet (France), N. Calzolari (Italy), E. Hajicova (Czech Rep.), B. Harris (Canada), K. Heggstadt (Norway), H. Karlgren (Sweden), M. Kay (President, USA), O. Kulagina (Russia), W. Lenders (Germany), M. Nagao (Japan), H. Schnelle (Germany), P. Sgall (Czech Rep.), J. Tsujii (England), H. Wada (Honorary, Japan), Y. Wilks (England), A. Zampolli (Italy) Conference Programme PRE-COLING Programme August 1996 Morning Afternoon Venue 2nd (Fri) 1st day of the Tutorial Programme University of Copenhagen 3rd (Sat) 2nd day of the Tutorial Programme 4th (Sun) Workshops COLING-96 Programme August 1996 Morning Afternoon Evening 5th (Mon) Opening Plenary Session (SAS hotel) Oral Presentations Posters and Exhibitions Reception at Copenhagen City Hall 6th (Tue) Oral Presentation Posters and Exhibitions 7th (Wed) Excursion to North Zealand 8th (Thu) Oral Presentations Posters and Exhibitions 9th (Fri) Oral Presentations Closing Plenary Session Exhibitions Conference Dinner Invited Presentations Invited Talks Prof.W.J.M.Levelt (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands): A Theory of Lexical Access in Speech Production Prof.B.Grosz (Harvard University, USA): Discovering the Sounds of Discourse Structure Special Talk Prof.M.Kay (Stanford University and Xerox Palo Alto, USA: President of ICCL): Title to be announced Summary Session Coling-96 and Future Perspectives of CL Prof.C.Boitet (Grenoble, France: ICCL member), Prof.M.Nagao (Kyoto, Japan: ICCL member), Prof.A.Zampolli (Pisa, Italy: ICCL member), Prof.Y.Wilks (Sheffield, UK: ICCL member) Panel 1 "Is Speech Language?" Coordinators: Joseph Mariani (LIMSI/CNRS, France), Steven Krauwer (OTS, The Netherlands) This panel is sponsored by ELSNET. Panel 2 "Improvement or Distortion: Effects of Information Technology on the Development of Natural Languages" Coordinator: Hans Karlgren (KVAL, Sweden: ICCL member) Panel 3 "Evaluation of NLP Systems" Coordinator: Bente Maegaard (Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark) Panel 4 "Computational Linguistics and its Use in Real World: The Case of Computer Assisted-Language Learning" Coordinator: Michael Zock (LIMSI/CNRS, France) Panel 5 "International Funding of Research and Development on Language Processing" Coordinator: Yorick Wilks (Univ. of Sheffield, UK: ICCL member) Papers to be Presented Allan Ramsay Aspect and Aktionsart: Fighting or Cooperating? Beryl Hoffman Translating into Free Word Order Languages Leonid Mitjushin An Agreement Corrector for Russian Stefan Mueller Yet Another Paper About Partial Verb Phrase Fronting in German Jan W. Amtrup, Joerg Benra Communication in Large Distributed AI Systems for Natural Language Processing Christian Boitet, Mutsuko Tomokiyo Theory and Practice of Ambiguity Labelling with a View to Interactive Disambiguation in Text and Speech MT Andre Kempe, Lauri Karttunen Parallel Replacement in Finite State Calculus Kemal Oflazer Error-tolerant Tree Matching Carl Vogel, Ulrike Hahn, Holly Branigan Cross-Serial Dependencies are not Hard to Process Short, S., Shiu S. Garigliano, R. Distributivity and Non-Linearity of LOLITA's Semantic Network Toru Hisamitsu Analysis of Japanese Compound Nouns using Direct Text Scanning Masahiro Oku Analyzing Japanese Double-Subject Construction having an Adjective Predicate Paul Schmidt, Sibylle Rieder, Axel Theofilidis, Thierry Declerc Lean Formalisms, Linguistic Theory, and Applications Okumura Manabu, Tamura Kouji Zero Pronoun Resolution in Japanese Discourse based on Centering Theory Tatsunori Mori, Hiroshi Nakagawa Zero Pronouns and Conditionals in Japanese Instruction Manuals Tetsuya Nasukawa Full-Text Processing: Improving a Practical NLP System based on Surface information within the Context Beate Firzlaff, Daniela Kunz Discourse Semantics Meets Lexical Field Semantics Christer Samuelsson Handling Sparse Data by Successive Abstraction Jean-Yves Antoine Parsing Spoken Language without Syntax : a Microsemantic Approach Jose Coch Evaluating and comparing three text-production techniques Walter Kasper, Hans-Ulrich Krieger Modularizing Codescriptive Grammars for Efficient Parsing Vito Pirrelli, Marco Battista Monotonic Paradigmatic Schemata in Italian Verb Inflection Johannes Matiasek, Harald Trost An HPSG-Based Generator for German - An Experiment in the Reusability of Linguistic Resources Sean P. Engelson, Ido Dagan Minimizing Manual Annotation Cost in Supervised Training from Corpora Tomek Strzalkowski, Jin Wang A Self-Learning Universal Concept Spotter Walter Daelemans, Peter Berck, Steven Gillis Unsupervised Discovery of Phonological Categories through Supervised Learning of Morphological Rules Klaus Zechner Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text Corpora by Extracting Relevant Sentences Ralph Grishman, Beth Sundheim Message Understanding Conference - 6: A Brief History Cecile Paris, Keith Vander Linden Building Knowledge Bases for the Generation of Software Documentation Andrei Mikheev Learning Part-Of-Speech Guessing Rules from Lexicon Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman The Influence of Tagging on the Classification of Lexical Complements Anthony Hartley, Cecile Paris Using Genre and Task Structure to Control the Generation of Software Instructions Caroline Barriere, Fred Popowich Concept clustering and Knowledge Integration from a Children's Dictionary Yan Qu, Carolyn P. Rose, Barbara Di Eugenio Using Discourse Predictions for Ambiguity Resolution Anton Batliner, Anke Feldhaus, Stefan Geissler, Andreas Kiessling, Tibor Kiss, Ralf Kompe, Elmar Noeth Integrating Syntactic and Prosodic Information for the Efficient Detection of Empty Categories Andrew Bredenkamp, Stella Markantonatou, Louisa Sadler Avoiding Lexical Rules John Griffith Modularizing Contexted Constraints Ralf D. Brown Example-Based Machine Translation in the Pangloss System Mark Lee, Yorick Wilks An Ascription-based Approach to Speech Acts Edmund Grimley-Evans, George Anton Kiraz, Stephen G. Pulman Compiling a Partition-Based Two-Level Formalism Barbara Di Eugenio The Discourse Functions of Italian Subjects: a Centering Approach Anoop Sarkar, Aravind Joshi Coordination in Tree Adjoining Grammars: Formalization and Implementation Akira Utsumi A Unified Theory of Irony and Its Computational Formalization Chinatsu Aone, Kevin Hausman Unsupervised Learning of a Rule-based Spanish Part of Speech Tagger George Foster, Pierre Isabelle, Pierre Plamondon Word Completion: A First Step Toward Target-Text Mediated IMT Takehito Utsuro Sense Classification of Verbal Polysemy based-on Bilingual Class/Class Association Kristiina Jokine Goal Formulation based on Communicative Principles Keiichi Sakai, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa, Minoru Fujita A CD-ROM Retrieval System with Multiple Dialogue Agents Arvi Hurskainen Disambiguation of Morphological Analysis in Bantu languages Benoit Habert, Elie Naulleau, Adeline Nazarenko Symbolic Word Classification for Medium-Size Corpora Kuang-hua Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen A Rule-Based and MT-Oriented Approach to Prepositional Phrase Attachment Vladimir Pericliev Learning Linear Precedence Rules Khalil Sima'an Computational Complexity of Probabilistic Disambiguation by means of Tree-Grammars Osamu Furuse, Hitoshi Iida Incremental Translation Utilizing Constituent Boundary Patterns Hang Li, Naoki Abe Learning Dependencies between Case Frame Slots Sabine Lehmann, Stephan Oepen, Sylvie Regnier-Prost, Klaus Netter, Veronika Lux, Judith Klein, Kirsten Falkedal, Frederik Fouvry, Dominique Estival, Eva Dauphin, Herve Compagnion, Judith Baur, Lorna Balkan, Doug Arnold TSNLP --- Test Suites for Natural Language Processing Hang Li, Naoki Abe Clustering Words with the MDL Principle Gunnel Kallgren Linguistic Indeterminacy as a Source of Errors in Tagging Ken Satoh Disambiguation by Prioritized Circumscription Ingrid Fischer, Martina Keil Parsing Decomposable Idioms Claire Gardent, Michael Kohlhase Focus and Higher-Order Unification Isa Maks, Willy Martin MULTITALE: Linking Medical Concepts by means of Frames Shin-ichiro Kamei, Kazunori Muraki, Shin'ichi Doi Lexical Information for Determining Japanese Unbounded Dependency Pierrette Bouillon Mental States Adjectives: The Perspective of Generative Lexicon Bill Keller An Evaluation Semantics for Datr Theories Gunther Gorz, Marcus Kesseler, Hans Weber Research on Architectures for Integrated Speech/Language Systems in Verbmobil Young S. Han, Hyouk R.Park,Key-Sun Choi, Kang H. Lee A Probabilistic Approach to Compound Noun Indexing in Korean Texts Adam Meyers, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman Alignment of Shared Forests for Bilingual Corpora John Nerbonne, Petra Smit GLOSSER-RuG: in Support of Reading Sung-Young Jung, Young C. Park, Key-Sun Choi Markov Random Field based English Part-of-Tagging system Kenneth R. Beesley Arabic Finite-State Morphological Analysis and Generation Cecile Fabre Interpretation of Nominal Compounds: Combining Domain-Independent and Domain-Specific Information Bernard Jones Towards a Syntactic Account of Punctuation Laila Dybkjaer, Nies Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkjaer Grice Incorporated. Cooperativity in Spoken Dialogue Evelyne Viegas, Boyan A. Onyshkevych, Victor Raskin, Sergei Nirenburg >From Submit to Submitted via Submission: On Lexical Rules in Large-Scale Lexicon Acquisition Thierry Declerck Modelling Information-Passing within an Unification-Based Grammar Stephan Vogel, Hermann Ney HMM-Based Word Alignment in Statistical Translation Johan Bos, Bjorn Gambaeck, Christian Lieske, Yoshiki Mori, Manfred Pinkal, Karsten Worm Compositional Semantics in Verbmobil Marc B. Vilain, David S. Day Finite-State Parsing by Rule Sequences Hideki Hirakawa, Zhonghui Xu, Kenneth Haase Inherited Feature-based Similarity Measure Based on Large Semantic Hierarchy and Large Text Corpus Chris Kennedy, Bran Boguraev Anaphora for Everyone: Pronominal Anaphora Resolution without a Parser Daniel Hardt Centering in Dynamic Semantics Jacques Bouaud, Bruno Bachimont, Pierre Zweigenbaum Processing Metonymy: a Domain-Model Heuristic Graph Traversal Approach Alon Lavie, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavalda, Laura Mayfield, Alex Waibel, Lori Levin Multi-lingual Translation of Spontaneously Spoken Language in a Limited Domain Hubert Hin-Cheung Law, Chorkin Chan N-th Order Ergodic Multigram HMM for Modelling of Languages without Marked Word Boundaries Yoshiki Mori Multiple Discourse Relations on the Sentential Level in Japanese Takahiro Wakao, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Yorick Wilks Evaluation of An Algorithm for the Recognition and Classification of Proper Names Graham Wilcock, Yuji Matsumoto Reversible Delayed Lexical Choice in a Bidirectional Framework Flora Ramirez Bustamante, Fernando Sanchez Leon GramCheck: A Grammar and Style Checker Mark Hepple A Compilation-Chart Method for Linear Categorial Deduction Josef van Genabith, Dick Crouch Direct and Underspecified Interpretations of LFG f-structures Bonnie Dorr, Doug Jones Role of Word Sense Disambiguation in Lexical Acquisition: Predicting Semantics from Syntactic Cues Miriam Butt, Christian Fortmann Syntactic Analyses for Parallel Grammars: Auxiliaries and Genitive NPs Michael Schiehlen Semantic Construction from Parse Forests Simonetta Montemagni, Stefano Federici, Vito Pirrelli Resolving Syntactic Ambiguities with Lexico-Semantic Patterns: An Analogy-based Approach Guido Minnen Magic for Filter Optimization in Dynamic Bottom-up Processing Pascal Amsili, Nabil Hathout Computational Semantics of Time/Negation Interaction Kurt Eberle Disambiguation by Information Structure in DRT Juergen Wedekind On Inference-Based Procedures for Lexical Disambiguation Jason Eisner Three New Probabilistic Models for Dependency Parsing: An Exploration Dong-Young Lee Computation of Relative Social Status on the Basis of Honorification in Korean Jason J.S. Chang, S.J.Ker Aligning More Words with High Precision for Small Bilingual Corpora Naoyuki Nomura, Kazunori Muraki An Empirical Architecture for Verb Subcategorization Frame - A Computational Lexicon for a Real-world Scale Japanese Processing Atsushi Fujii, Kentaro Inui, Takenobu Tokunaga, Hozumi Tanaka X-Authentication-Warning: sics.se: root set sender to sicstus-users-request using -f Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:04:07 +0000 From: col96@cst.ku.dk (COLING96-administrator) To: sicstus-users@sics.se Subject: COLING-96 Program Resent-To: sicstus-users-moderated@sics.se Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:30:57 +0200 Resent-From: Mats Carlsson To What Extent does Case Contribute to Verb Sense Disambiguation? Judy Delin, Donia Scott, Anthony Hartley Language-Specific Mappings from Semantics to Syntax Hsin-Hsi Chen, Jen-Chang Lee Identification and Classification of Proper Nouns in Chinese Texts Kemal Oflazer, Okan Yilmaz A Constraint-Based Case Frame Lexicon Shalom Lappin, Hsue-Hueh Shih A Generalized Reconstruction Algorithm for Ellipsis Resolution Takehiro Nakayama Content-Oriented Categorization of Document Images Salvador Climent Semantics of Portions and Partitive Nouns for NLP Masayuki Kameda A Portable & Quick Japanese Parser : QJP James Kilbury Top-Down Predictive Linking and Complex-Feature-Based Formalisms George A. Kiraz Computing Prosodic Morphology Laurel Fais Lexical Accommodation in Machine-Mediated Interactions Peter Neuhaus, Udo Hahn Restricted Parallelism in Object-Oriented Lexical Parsing Udo Hahn, Michael Strube, Katja Markert Bridging Textual Ellipsis Pak-kwong Wong, Chorkin Chan Chinese Word Segmentation based on Maximum Matching and Word Binding Force Naoto Katoh, Tsuyoshi Morimoto Statistical Method of Recognizing Local Cohesion in Spoken Dialogues Hideo Watanabe A Method for Abstracting Newspaper Articles by Using Surface Clues Naohiko Uramoto Positioning Unknown Words in a Thesaurus by Using Information Extracted from a Corpus Kohji Dohsaka, Akira Shimazu A Computational Model of Incremental Utterance Production in Task-Oriented Dialogues Anthony F. Gallippi Learning to Recognize Names Across Languages I. Dan Melamed Automatic Detection of Omissions in Translations Yasuhiko Watanabe, Masaki Murata, Masahito Takeuchi, Makoto Nagao Document Classification Using Domain Specific Kanji Characters Extracted by X-2 Method Marie-Helene Candito A Tool for the Automatic Generation of LTAGs Antonio H. Branco Branching Split Obliqueness at the Syntax-semantics Interface Hideo Shimazu, Yosuke Takashima Multi-Modal-Method: A Design Methodology for Building Multi-Modal Systems Yves Lepage, Ando Shin-ichi Saussurian Analogy: A Theoretical Account and its Application Ezra Black, Hideki Kashioka, Stephen Eubank, Roger Garside, Geoffrey Leech, David Magerman Beyond Skeleton Parsing: Producing a Comprehensive Large-Scale General-English Treebank With Full Grammatical Analysis Kumiko Tanaka, Hideya Iwasaki Extraction of Lexical Translations from Non-Aligned Corpora Hideki Tanaka Decision Tree Learning Algorithm with Structured Attributes: Application to Verbal Case Frame Acquisition Vincenzo Lombardo, Leonardo Lesmo An Earley-type Recognizer for Dependency Grammar Eneko Agirre, German Rigau Word Sense Disambiguation Using Conceptual Density Jung H. Shin, Key-Sun Choi Bilingual Knowledge Acquisition from Korean-English Parallel Corpus using Alignment Method: Korean-English Alignment at Word and Phrase Level Fumiyo Fukumoto An Automatic Clustering of Articles Using Dictionary Definitions Koiti Hasida Issues in Communication Game Stefan Wermter, Matthias Loechel Learning Dialog Act Processing Victor Raskin, Sergei Nirenburg Adjectival Modification in Text Meaning Representation Jerneja Gros, Ivo Ipsic, Simon Dobrisek, France Mihelic, Nikola Pavesic Segmentation and Labelling of Slovenian Diphone Inventories Clifford Weinstein, Dinesh Tummala, Young-Suk Lee, Stephanie Seneff Automatic English-to-Korean Text Translation of Telegraphic Messages in a Limited Domain Hadar Shemtov Paraphrases Generation from Underspecified Semantics Kentaro Torisawa, Jun'ichi Tsujii Computing Phrasal-Signs in HPSG Prior to Parsing Marc Dymetman, Max Copperman Extended Dependency Structures and their Formal Interpretation Michael Zock The Power of Words in Message Planning Masahiko Haruno, Satoru Ikehara, Takefumi Yamazaki Learning Bilingual Collocations by Word-level Sorting Francis Bond, Kentaro Ogura, Satoru Ikehara Classifiers in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation Satoru Ikehara, Satoshi Shirai, Hajime Uchino A Statistical Method for Extracting Uninterrupted and Interrupted Collocations from Very Large Corpora Masaaki Nagata Context-Based Spelling Correction for Japanese OCR Erhard W. Hinrichs, Tsuneko Nakazawa Lexical Rules Apply Under Subsumption Gen-itiro Kikui Identifying the Coding System and Language of On-Line Documents on the Internet Katerina T. Frantzi, Sophia Ananiadou Extracting Nested Collocations R.I.Damper, J.F.G. Eastmond Pronouncing Text by Analogy Reserved Papers Lluis Padro POS Tagging Using Relaxation Labelling Jon Atle Gulla, Sjur Noersteboe Moshagen A Sign Expansion Approach to Dynamic, Multi-Purpose Lexicons Elena Not A Computational Model for Generating Referring Expressions in a Multilingual Application Domain W. R. Hogenhout, Y. Matsumoto Towards a More Careful Evaluation of Broad Coverage Parsing Systems Christopher Laenzlinger, Martin S. Ulmann, Eric Wehrli Arguments desperately seeking Interpretation: Parsing German Infinitives Keith Vander Linden, Barbara Di Eugenio A Corpus Study of Negative Imperatives in Natural Language Instructions Satoshi Sekine Modelling Topic Coherence for Speech Recognition Sergei Nirenburg, Kavi Mahesh, Stephen Beale Measuring Semantic Coverage Dekang Lin On the Structual Complexity of Natural Language Sentences Roland Stuckardt Anaphor Resolution and the Scope of Syntactic Constraints Michael Dorna, Martin C. Emele, Semantic-based Transfer Arturo Trujillo Connectivity in Bag Generation Jonas Kuhn An Underspecified HPSG Representation for Information Structure Finn Dag Buo, Alex Waibel Feaspar - A Feature Structure Parser Learning to Parse Spoken Language Hiroyuki Kaji, Toshiko Ono Extracting Word Correspondences from Bilingual Corpora Based on Word Co-occurrence Information Christer Johansson Good Bigrams Shiho Nobesawa, Junya Tsutsumi, Da Jiang Sun, Tomohisa Sano, Kengo Sato, Masakazu Nakanishi Segmenting Sentences into Linky Strings Using D-bigram Statistics Hiromi Nakaiwa, Satoshi Shirai Anaphora Resolution of Japanese Zero Pronouns with Deictic Reference Posters and Exhibitions Poster-Forums/Demonstrations Forum-1: NLP Software Forum-2: Corpus-based Methods and Sharable Resources Forum-3: Application Systems Exhibition During the conference the participants will get the opportunity to visit the book exhibitions and demonstrations. A large range of the latest scientific books and journals will be displayed. In addition researchers, developers and providers will demonstrate their programs. Book Exhibitions All participants are welcome to have their own book exhibition. The fee is DKK 2,000. This price includes exhibition facilities such as tables, exhibition room, lunch, coffee and tea during breaks, depositing facilities. For further information, please contact: Helene Buch Brondel, Center for Sprogteknologi, Telephone: +45 3532 9090, Telefax: +45 3532 9089, E-mail: coling96@cst.ku.dk. The deadline for registration is 1st May 1996. Computer Demonstrations All participants are welcome to arrange their own computer demonstration. The registration form can be ordered by contacting: Helene Buch Brondel, Center for Sprogteknologi, Telephone: +45 3532 9090, Telefax: +45 3532 9089, E-mail: coling96@cst.ku.dk. She will also provide you with further details on exhibition facilities and conditions. The deadline for registration is 1st May 1996. Social Programme Get-Together at the University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80 Sunday, August 4, from 15:00 hrs. The get-together is included in the registration fee for all the Conference participants and registered accompanying persons. Reception at Copenhagen City Hall, Monday, August 5, at 19:00 hrs. The reception is hosted by the Municipality of Copenhagen and will take place at the City Hall. All Conference participants and registered accompanying persons are invited. If you wish to attend the City Hall reception please indicate on the registration form and you will receive an invitation from the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen. Please note that the reception will start punctually at 19:00 hrs. Excursion to North Zealand, Wednesday, August 7, Duration: 9 hrs. A Taste of Denmark through a Thousand Years. The ingredients of this tour are the tough, redbarded warriors and traders who marauded, conquered and traded with most of maritime Western Europe and their descendants, Royal or commoner. Taking the back roads west from Copenhagen past the long barrows near Ledoje, you reach the shallow but sheltered Roskilde Fjord which was a favoured base for the Vikings. Follow the shore of the fjord to Roskilde, where you visit the Viking Ship Museum which houses the remains of 5 Viking ships salvaged from the bed of the fjord and painstakingly preserved. A short drive to the centre of Roskilde, for a visit to the twin-spired Cathedral; until the early 15th century, Roskilde was the capital of Denmark - proof of its strategic importance in the early Middle Ages - and all Danish monarchs were buried here. Although no longer the capital, Danish Kings and Queens are still laid to rest in Roskilde. The tour continues to Jaegerspris for picnic. After picnic driving north-east to the small town of Hillerod. Here you will be confronted with one of the dominant figures amongst Danish monarchs - Christian IV - as you visit what is perhaps the finest testament to his visions as a Royal commissioner of buildings - Frederiksborg Palace. Built on a small island in a lake, Frederiksborg is a magnificent Renaissance palace - beautifully situated and unbelievably detailed, both inside and out - which today houses the Museum of Danish National History. Your visit completed, the tour continues through picturesque villages and rural countryside, before reaching the outskirts of Copenhagen and shortly thereafter the centre of Copenhagen. Price per person DKK 435.00 Conference Dinner, Friday, August 9, 19.00 hrs. The Conference Dinner will be a festal conclusion of the Conference. Both participants and registered accompanying persons are invited to the Conference Dinner. The Conference Dinner is included in the registration fee. Please indicate on the registration form whether you wish to attend. Accompanying Persons Tours 1. The City, the Canals and the Harbour Monday, August 5, afternoon, Duration: 3 hrs. Copenhagen was - for Hans Christian Andersen - Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen, friendly old queen of the sea , and this tour is one of the best ways to see what he meant. During this charming tour of the city, you will see many of the main points of interest: City Hall Square, the Carlsberg Glyptotek, Tivoli Gardens, the National Museum, the old Latin Quarter (so-called because here you find the university and academic centre of old Copenhagen) - the Round Tower and the Old Fish Market. Here, you board our chartered, specially built canal launches and cruise through the canals and harbour. You will see Copenhagen as sailors have seen it for several centuries, passing under the incredibly low bridges to view some of the fabulous buildings that - typically for a city with maritime associations - are all close to the sea or the waterways: Christian IV s Stock Exchange, Christiansborg Palace and Holmens Church - the Naval church in Copenhagen - and the charming old sailor s quarter Nyhavn, Amalienborg Palace and the Little Mermaid. Along the canals through Christianshavn, you can still see old salts and their descendants, sitting on the wharf enjoying tales of the Seven Seas over a Carlsberg before sailing past Christian IV s old Brewery. Price per person DKK 185.00 2. Royal Copenhagen Porcelain and Royal Copenhagen Thursday, August 8, Duration: 4 hrs. Leaving the hotel, you will see the State Museum of Art before reaching our world famous Little Mermaid. After a short drive, you can marvel at imposing Amalienborg Palace, home of the Danish Royal Family and not just one but four palaces surrounding a huge, cobblestone square. Continue past the City Hall, Tivoli Gardens and the Tycho Brahe Planetarium overlooking the lakes before arriving at the world famous porcelain factory, where you see the delicate and intricate Blue Fluted service in production. From the factory, continue to Rosenborg Castle, for a visit which includes the fine collection of Royal regalia and the Danish Crown Jewels, before returning to your hotel. Price per person DKK 270.00 Tutorial Programme Dates: August 2 (Fri) and August 3 (Sat) Venue: University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80, 2300 Copenhagen S Fee: Registration until May 20: Participant: DKK 1,900 University Employee: DKK 1,200 Student: DKK 700 Registration after May 20: Participant: DKK 2,100 University Employee: DKK 1,400 Student: DKK 800 Programme Linguistic Theory and Lexical Semantics in Machine Translation Lori Levin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Logical Inference in Categorial Grammar Natasha Kurtonina (University of Gent, Belgium) Computer Semiotics Peter Bogh Andersen (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Algorithms for Speech Recognition and Language Processing Mehryar Mohri (AT&T Research, USA) Michael Riley (AT&T Research, USA) Richard Sproat (Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, USA) Bilingual Word Alignment and Lexicon Construction Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Abstracts of the COLING-96 Tutorial Programme Computer Semiotics Lecturer: Professor Peter Bogh Andersen/University of Aarhus, Denmark The computer system is analyzed as a sign complex, comprising different layers of signs of very different nature: System specifications, program texts, programming environments, program executions, interfaces - just to name a few. The texts differ in their modality (verbal, pictorial, sound, movies, etc), in their level (meta-signs versus object-signs), and in their interpreters and interpretants (program texts, for example, are read by members of a programming team and interpreted in two ways: as directions to the machine and as general descriptions of the system domain. Interfaces are often multimodal and are interpreted by users as assertions about concrete state of affairs in the domain). A theoretical framework based on glossematics is presented, and concrete applications of the framework is discussed (syntagmatics, paradigmatics, basic classes of computer based signs, methods for constructing composite sign complexes). The concrete examples involve analysis as well as guidelines for design and implementation. They also cover the relation between system, users and organisation. Algorithms for Speech Recognition and Language Processing Lecturers: Mehryar Mohri, Michael Riley, and Richard Sproat AT&T Bell Laboratories Speech processing requires very efficient methods and algorithms. Finite-state transducers have been shown recently both to constitute a very useful abstract model and to lead to highly efficient time and space algorithms in this field. We present these methods and algorithms and illustrate them in the case of speech recognition. In addition to classical techniques, we describe many new algorithms such as minimization, global and local on-the-fly determinization of weighted automata, and efficient composition of transducers. These methods are currently used in large vocabulary speech recognition systems. We then show how the same formalism and algorithms can be used in text-to-speech applications and related areas of language processing such as morphology, syntax, and local grammars, in a very efficient way. The tutorial is self-contained and requires no specific computational or linguistic knowledge other than classical results. Logical Inference in Categorial Grammar Lecturer: Natasha Kurtonina/ University of Gent, Belgium The aim of this course is to present the basic ideas of Categorial Parsing as deduction, its linguistic motivation and computational advantages. Since the very beginning Categorial Grammar (CG) tries to describe language by assigning logical types to lexical atoms. We will show how grammatical derivation becomes a logical deduction and elaborate its syntactic, semantic and complexity properties. Logical inference in CG is resource sensitive and enjoys some nice procedural interpretations. We will discuss how different degrees of resource sensitivity can be motivated linguistically and realized computationally. Moreover, we will try to find out if similar patterns of inferences can be introduced in the frameworks of LFG and HPSG. Finally, some related issues from logic programming will be in question to demonstrate the use of Categorial Unification Grammar. Linguistic Theory and Lexical Semantics in Machine Translation Lecturer: Lori Levin/Carnegie Mellon University, USA This tutorial will review the contributions of contemporary linguistic theory to machine translation, concentrating on unification-based theories. The advantage offered by these theories is that they allow correspondences between languages to be stated at multiple levels of representation. We will focus in particular on correspondences that are treated in the lexicon in the mapping of grammatical information onto lexical semantic representations. The tutorial will include an overview of linguistic theories, especially theories of lexical representation, as they have been applied to MT. There will also be an in-depth discussion of what have become known as translation divergences, translations that are drastically different at some level of representation, and how they can be resolved at other levels of representation. Bilingual Word Alignment and Lexicon Construction Lecturer: Ido Dagan/ Bar Ilan University, Israel Bilingual alignment is the task of identifying corresponding segments in a bilingual pair of parallel texts, one being the translation ofX-Authentication-Warning: sics.se: root set sender to sicstus-users-request using -f Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:04:07 +0000 From: col96@cst.ku.dk (COLING96-administrator) To: sicstus-users@sics.se Subject: COLING-96 Program Resent-To: sicstus-users-moderated@sics.se Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 15:30:57 +0200 Resent-From: Mats Carlsson the other. This tutorial will focus on alignment methods which identify correspondences at the word level. The methods described can be applied to short document pairs of the type available to translators. Their output can be used for searching translation archives and for constructing domain-specific bilingual lexicons, of the type needed for human and machine translation and for multi-lingual information retrieval. The tutorial will include a short review of alignment methods and a detailed description of two practical word-level algorithms: the word_align algorithm by Dagan, Church and Gale (largely based on the IBM statistical translation models 1&2, which will be described), and a version of the DK-Vec algorithm by Fung. We will go over simple implementations of both algorithms in AWK, demonstrated on a pair of documents taken from the ACL European Corpus Initiative CD-ROM. These results can be later replicated by the students. Workshops Date: August 4 (Sun) Venue: University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80, 2300 Copenhagen S Fee: Participant: DKK 100 University Employee: DKK 100 Student: DKK 100 Fourth Workshop on Very Large Corpora Date: August 4, 1996 Venue: University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80, 2300 Copenhagen S Contact: Eva Ejerhed, Dept. of Linguistics, DGL, University of Umea, S-90187 Umea, Sweden, E-mail: WVLC-4@ling.umu.se or Ido Dagan, Dept. of mathematics & Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel, E-mail: dagan@bimacs. cs.biu.ac.il Topics: Innovative Uses and Applications of Large Corpora Should you be interested in arranging your own workshop, please contact: Bente Maegaard Center for Sprogteknologi Njalsgade 80 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Phone: +45 3532 9090 Fax: +45 3532 9089 E-mail: bente@cst.ku.dk General Information Conference Venue: University of Copenhagen Main Entrance Njalsgade 80 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark Please note that the opening session will take place at the Radisson/SAS Hotel Scandinavia on Monday, August 5, from 10:00-12:00. 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Please note that it is not possible to register by E-mail. Registration fees PRE-COLING-96: Until May 20, 1996 After May 20, 1996 Tutorials, 2 days: Participant DKK 1,900 DKK 2,100 University Employee DKK 1,200 DKK 1,400 Student* DKK 700 DKK 800 Workshop DKK 100 DKK 100 *Documentation must be enclosed COLING-96: Until May 20, 1996 After May 20, 1996 Participant DKK 3,400 DKK 3,900 University Employee DKK 2,400 DKK 2,900 Student* DKK 1,400 DKK 1,900 Accompanying Person DKK 500 DKK 500 *Documentation must be enclosed The conference organizers hope to be able to offer a limited number of scholarships. For further information, please contact the local organizers at Center for Sprogteknologi. The following items are included in the participant/University Employee/Student registration fee for COLING: Attendance to all sessions, full set of conference documents, coffee/tea in breaks, welcome reception, City Hall reception and Conference Dinner. 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In case of cancellation please note that hotel deposits will be refunded until June 28, 1996, less a processing fee of DKK 350. After June 28, 1996 refunds will be made only if the cancelled room can be relet to a third party. Youth Hostels Youth hostels are available in Copenhagen, but can only be booked on an individual basis. You may contact Copenhagen Youth Hostel, Vejlands Alle 200 DK-2300 Copenhagen S, telephone: + 45 3252 2908 (near the Conference Venue) or Kobenhavns Vandrehjem, Herbergvejen 8, DK-2700 Bronshoj, phone +45 3128 9715. Lunch Lunch is not included in the registration fee. Lunch tickets should be ordered in advance at the registration form. Price: DKK 50.00 per day. Official Airline Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has been appointed the official airline for the Conference, and is offering all delegates and accompanying persons a special discount on tickets to Denmark. When you contact your nearest SAS office, please quote the reference number DK-9667. To obtain further information, please contact SAS on one of the telephone numbers listed on last page of this registration handbook. Local Transportation Upon arrival - SAS operates a shuttle service every 15 minutes from Copenhagen Airport to the Copenhagen Central Station. The ride takes approx. 20 min. and the fare is DKK 35. Public bus line number 250S runs frequently from Copenhagen Airport to the Copenhagen Central Station. The fare is DKK 10. A taxi from the Airport to the city centre is approx. DKK 125 (no extra charges for suitcases). Most of the hotels are located in the city centre. To reach the University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80 (Conference Venue) from the airport by taxi costs approx. DKK 80. During the Conference - The Conference Venue is situated within walking distance from the city center, as well as on public bus line numbers 12, 13, 32, 34 and 37, which run frequently throughout the day between city centre and the Conference Venue. Liability and Insurance Neither the Organizers (COLING-96) nor the Conference Bureau will assume any responsibility whatsoever for damage or injury to persons or property during the Conference. Participants are recommended to arrange for their personal travel and health insurance. Weather The weather in Denmark in August is normally pleasant, usually with a lot of sunshine. However on occasion an umbrella and sweater may be useful. Daytime average temperature is around 230 C, evening temperature is 50 C lower. Banks Normal banking hours are from 09:30 to 16:00 Monday to Friday. On Thursdays banking hours are extended to 18:00. Extended banking facilities are available at Copenhagen Central Station seven days/week between 07:00 and 21:00. There are automatic cash dispensers, usually located near a bank branch, which accept a variety of international credit cards. The cards accepted are indicated on the dispenser. Please note that there will not be bank facilities provided at the Conference Venue during the Conference. Shops Shops are open from 09:00/09:30 to 17:30/18:00 Monday to Friday. A few department stores in the city have longer opening hours. On Saturdays shops are open until 13:00/14:00. Shops are closed on Sundays. Tips Tips are always included in the prices given in taxies and restaurants. Tax Free Shopping Value-added tax is currently levied at 25% in Denmark. For purchases of more than DKK 500.00 it is possible to have the tax refunded when leaving the country. All stores which offer this tax-free shopping service, carry a sign to this effect. The tax - equivalent to 20% of the purchase price - is refunded upon leaving the country at the refund office at the airport. Electricity Electricity is supplied at 220 volts A/C, 50 Hz cycle. Emergency Services Police - Ambulance - Fire Brigade Touch 112 Changes The Organizers reserve the right to adjust or change the programme as necessary. Venue Map Venue of the Conference at a Glance Subcommitees Subcommittee - Syntax Chair: A.Joshi R.Bhatt (U.Penn, USA), C.Doran (U.Penn, USA), B.Hockey (U.Penn, USA), S.Kulick (U.Penn, USA), M.Marcus (U.Penn, USA), A.Sarkar (U.Penn, USA), B.Srinivas (U.Penn, USA), M.Steedman (U.Penn, USA), B.Webber (U.Penn, USA), R.Chandrasekhar (National Center for Software Technology, India), R.Frank (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA), O.Rambow (Cogentex, USA), K.Vijayshanker (Univ.of Delaware, USA) Subcommittee - Parsing Chair: S.G.Pulman A.Voutilainen (U.Helsinki, Finland), G.V.Noord (Groningen Univ., The Netherlands), H.Thompson (Edinburgh Univ., UK), G.Ritchie (Edinburgh Univ., UK), M.Wiren (Telia Research, Sweden), T.Briscoe (U.Penn, USA and Cambridge Univ., UK), J.Carroll (Sussex Univ., UK), M.Rooth (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany), J.Dowding (SRI International, USA), G.Neumann (DFKI, Germany), G.Erbach (DFKI, Germany) Subcommittee - Semantics and Pragmatics Chair: A.Ramsay N.Asher (U.Texas, USA), H.Bunt (Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands), C.Fox (Univ. of Essex, UK), M.Krifka (Stanford Univ., USA), U.Reyle (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany), A.de Roeck (Univ. of Essex, UK) Subcommittee - Discourse and Dialogue Chair: E.Hajicova B.Grosz (Harvard Univ., USA), M.Steedman (U.Penn, USA), B.Webber (U.Penn, USA), W. von Hahn (Hamburg Univ., Germany), W.Hoppner (Duisburg Univ., Germany), J.Peregrin (Charles Univ., Prague), K.Oliva (Univ. of Saarland, Germany), O.Yokoyama (UCLA, USA), J.Panevova (Charles Univ., Czech), P.Sgall (Charles Univ., Czech), J.Hajic (Charles Univ., Czech), V.Petrkevic (Charles Univ., Czech), A.Rosen (Charles Univ., Czech), I.Kruiffova (Charles Univ., Czech) Subcommittee - Corpus-based Methods Chair: E.Brill A.Voutilainen (Univ. of Helsinki, Finland), C.Samuelsson (University of the Saarland, Germany), D.Wu (UST, Hong Kong), C.Leacock (Princeton Univ., USA), C.D.Manning (CMU, USA), P.Resnik (Sun Microsystems, USA), R.Garside (Univ. of Lancaster, UK), E.Ristad (Princeton Univ., USA), S.Roukos (IBM Watson, USA), Y.Schabes (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA), H.Schuetze (Xerox Palo Alto, USA) Subcommittee - Computational Lexicon and Sharable Resources Chair: N.Calzolari C.Fillmore (UC Berkeley, USA), A.Sanfilippo (Sharp Oxford, UK), A.Zaenen (Rank Xerox, France), G.Gazdar (Univ. of Sussex, UK), G.Leech (Univ. of Lancaster, UK), U.Heid (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany), J.Pustejovsky (Brandeis Univ., USA), Y.Wilks (Univ. of Sheffield, UK) Reviewers: M.Hepple (U.Sheffield), R.Collier (U.Sheffield), M.Stevenson (U.Sheffield), R.Catzione (U.Sheffield), H.Cunningham (U.Sheffield), K.Humphreys (U.Sheffield) Subcommittee - Machine Translation Chair: S.Ikehara W.S.Bennett (Logos, USA), C.Boitet (GETA, France), K-S.Choi (KAIST, Korea), E.Hovy (ISI, USA) P.Isabelle (CITI, Canada), H.Maruyama (IBM Japan, Japan), H.McKay (Adacel Pty, Australia), J.Nagata (Oki Electric, Japan), K.Ogura (NTT, Japan), M.Rayner (SRI Cambridge, UK), H.Somers (CCL-UMIST, UK), N.Uratani (NHK, Japan) Subcommittee - Information Extraction and Information Retrieval Chair: R.Grishman S.Boisen (BBN, USA), R.Brandow (GE, USA), J.Callan (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA), R.Cole (NYU, USA), J.Cowie (New Mexico State University, USA), C.Friedman (Queens College, City Univ. of New York, USA), R.Gaizauskas (Univ. of Sheffield, UK), W.Gale (AT&T, USA), L.Guthrie (Lockheed-Martin, USA), D.Hindle (AT&T, USA), J.Karlgren (NYU, USA), S.Katz (NYU and Columbia Univ., USA), F.Lin (GE, USA), D.McDonald (Brandeis Univ., USA), K.McKeown (Columbia Univ., USA), S.Sekine (NYU, USA), R.Sproat (AT&T, USA), T.Strzalkowski (GE, USA), B.Sundheim (U.S.Naval Command, USA), E.Tzoukermann (AT&T, USA), J.Wang (GE, USA) Subcommittee - Speech and Language Chair: H.Iida H.U.Block (Siemens, Germany), N.Campbell (ATR, Japan), S.Hayamizu (ETL, Japan), J.Hirschberg (AT&T, USA), J.Ingram (Univ. of Queensland, Australia), T.Kawahara (Kyoto Univ./ AT&T, Japan), I.Lewin (SRI Cambridge, UK), S.Oviatt (OGI, USA), D.Wu (UST, Hong Kong), V.Zue (MIT, USA) Reviewers: S.Seneff (MIT), H.Meng (MIT), H.Meng (MIT), J.Glass (MIT), R.Sproat (AT&T), J.C.Park (AT&T) Subcommittee - Terminology Chair: S.Ananiadou B.Daille (Universite de Nantes, France), L.Bowker (Dublin City Univ., Ireland), A.Condamines (Universite de Toulouse, France), D.Bourigault (EDF, France) C.Jacquemin (Universite de Nantes, France), K.Kageura (NCSIS, Japan), B.Nkwenti-Azeh (CCL-UMIST, UK), F.Knowles (Aston Univ., UK) Subcommittee - Cognitive Models Chair: G.Sabah B.Victorri (Universite de Caen, France), D.Estival (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia), D.Kayser (Universite Paris13, France), K. de Smedt (Univ. of Bergen, Norway), D.Tufis (Research Institute for Informatics, Roumanie), E.Andre (DFKI, Germany), G.Goerz (Univ. of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany), M.Zock (LIMSI-CNRS, France), S.Nuallain (National Research Council, Canada) Subcommittee - Generation Chair: R.Dale J.Bateman (GMD-IPSI, Germany), M.Dras (Microsoft, Australia), M.Elhadad (Ben Gurion Univ., Israel), H.Horacek (Univ. of Konstanz, Germany), K.Knight (ISI-USC, USA), A.Knott (Edinburgh Univ., UK), M.Lauer (Microsoft, Australia), D.McDonald (Brandeis Univ., USA), E.Reiter (Univ. of Aberdeen, UK), A.Tulloch (Microsoft, Australia), K.V.Linden (ITRI Brighton Univ., UK), M.Stede (T.U.Berlin, Germany) Subcommittee - NLP in Multimedia Chair: W.Wahlster E.Andre (GFKI, Germany), W.Finkler (DFKI, Germany), N.Reithinger (DFKI, Germany), E.Maier (DFKI, Germany) Subcommittee - Phonology and Morphology Chair:K.Koskenniemi L.Carlson (Univ. of Helsinki, Finland), A.Hurskainen (Univ. of Helsinki, Finland), R.Kaplan (Xerox Palo Alto, USA), L.Karttunen (Rank Xerox, France), K.Oflazer (Bilkent Univ., Turkey), E.Roche (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA), A.Sgvall Hein (Uppsala Univ., Sweden), P.Tapanainen (Univ. of Helsinki, Finland), H.Trost (Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria) Subcommittee - Unclassified Chair: J-I.Tsujii A.Ramsay (CCL-UMIST, U.K.), R.Mitkov (U.Wolverhampton, U.K.), H.Iida (ATR, Japan), S.Ikehara (NTT, Japan), T.Tokunaga (TIT, Japan), Y.Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan) Reviwer: P.Bennett (CCL-UMIST) For further information, please contact COLING-96 c/o DIS Conference Service Copenhagen A/S 2 C, Herlev Ringvej DK-2730 Herlev Denmark Telephone: +45 4492 4492, Telefax: +45 4492 5050, E-mail: dis-con@inet.uni-c.dk COLING-96 c/o University of Copenhagen Njalsgade 80 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark Telephone: +45 3532 90 90, Telefax: +45 3532 9089, E-mail: coling96@cst.ku.dk 17) Workshop on Neurocontrol CALL FOR PAPERS Neural Adaptive Control Technology Workshop: NACT II 9--10 September, 1996 Daimler-Benz Systems Technology Research Berlin, Germany NACT Project ============ The second of a series of three workshops on Neural Adaptive Control Technology (NACT) will take place on September 9--10, 1996 in Berlin, Germany. This event is being organised in connection with a three-year European Union funded Basic Research Project in the ESPRIT framework. The project is a collaboration between Daimler-Benz Systems Technology Research, Berlin, Germany and the Control Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. The project, which began on 1 April 1994, is a study of the fundamental properties of neural network based adaptive control systems. Where possible, links with traditional adaptive control systems will be exploited. A major aim is to develop a systematic engineering procedure for designing neural controllers for non-linear dynamic systems. The techniques developed are being evaluated on concrete industrial problems from within the Daimler-Benz group of companies: Mercedes-Benz AG, Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA), AEG Daimler-Benz Industrie and DEBIS. The project leader is Dr Ken Hunt (Daimler-Benz) and the other principal investigator is Professor Peter Gawthrop (University of Glasgow). NACT II Workshop ================ The aim of the workshop is to bring together selected invited specialists in the fields of adaptive control, non-linear systems and neural networks. The first workshop (NACT I) took place in Glasgow in May 1995 and was mainly dedicated to theoretical issues of neural adaptive control. Besides monitoring further development of theory the NACT II workshop will be focused on industrial applications and software tools. A number of contributed papers will also be included. As well as paper presentation, significant time will be allocated to round-table and discussion sessions. In order to create a fertile atmosphere for a significant information interchange we aim to attract active specialists in the relevant fields. Professor Karl Johan Astrom of Lund Institue of Technology, Sweden and Professor Hassan K. Khalil of Michigan State University have kindly agreed to act as invited speakers. Proceedings of the meeting will be published in an edited book format. Contributed papers ================== The Program Committee is soliciting contributed papers in the area of neurocontrol for presentation at the conference and publication in the Proceedings. Prospective authors are invited to send an extended abstract of up to six pages in length to the address below no later than Friday, 31 May 1996. Final selection of papers will be announced at the end of June and authors will have the opportunity of preparing a final version of the extended abstract by the end of July which will be circulated to participants in a Workshop digest. Following the Workshop selected authors will be asked to prepare a full paper for publication in the proceedings. This will take the form of an edited book produced by an international publisher. LaTeX style files will be available for document preparation. Each submitted paper must be headed with a title, the names, affiliations and complete mailing addresses (including e-mail) of all authors, a list of three keywords, and the statement NACT II. The first named author of each paper will be used for all correspondence unless otherwise requested. Address for submissions Dr Kenneth J Hunt Daimler-Benz AG Systems Technology Research Alt-Moabit 96A 10559 BERLIN Germany hunt@DBresearch-berlin.de For more information visit the NACT Web page http://www.mech.gla.ac.uk/~nactftp/nact.html 18) RECOMB 97: Call For Papers CALL FOR PAPERS FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (RECOMB 97) January 20-22, 1997 Eldorado Hotel Santa Fe, New Mexico Co-sponsored by SLOAN Foundation Association for Computing Machinery US Department of Energy http://www.cs.sandia.gov/recomb97 The First Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 97), co-sponsored by the SLOAN Foundation, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and US Department of Energy will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 20--22, 1997. Papers reporting on original research (both theoretical and experimental) in all areas of computational molecular biology are sought, including surveys of important recent results/directions. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: - Genomics - Molecular sequence analysis - Recognition of genes and regulatory elements - Molecular evolution - Protein structure - Combinatorial libraries and drug design - DNA computing ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Authors are requested to send 10 copies (preferably two sided copies) of a detailed extended abstract (5-10 pages) to: Professor Michael Waterman RECOMB 97 Program Chair University of Southern California Department of Mathematics, DRB 155 Los Angeles, CA 90089-1113 An abstract must be received by July 1, 1996. This is a firm deadline. Simultaneous submission to another conference or journal is allowed. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: The extended abstracts for the Conference will be published by ACM Press and will be available at the Conference. A selection of the accepted extended abstracts in their final journal versions will be invited to appear in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology devoted to RECOMB 97. NOTIFICATION: Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by a letter mailed on or before August 15th, 1996. A final copy of each accepted paper is required by September 15, 1994. An author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the Symposium and present the paper; otherwise alternative arrangements should be made to have the paper presented. Limited financial support for the authors of the accepted papers will be available. ABSTRACT PREPARATION: An abstract should start with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. This material should be understandable to nonspecialists. A technical exposition directed to the specialist should follow. The length, excluding cover page and bibliography, should not exceed 10 pages. The manuscript should be easy to read, preferably using 11 point font size on U.S. standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper. If authors believe that more details are necessary to substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix. An E-mail address for the contact author should be included. Conference Events THE STANISLAW ULAM MEMORIAL COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY ADDRESS. The Banquet of the Conference will host the Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture awarded by RECOMB to a scientist who has made major contributions in the computational aspects of the field. Dr. Eric Lander (MIT) will be delivering the first Stanislaw Ulam Address. THE DISTINGUISHED CONFERENCE LECTURE. The conference will start with the Distinguished Conference Lecture awarded by RECOMB to a scientist who has made major contributions in the biological aspects of the field. Dr. Rich Roberts (New England Biolabs), the 1994 Nobel Laureate will be delivering the Distinguished Conference Lecture. THE DISTINGUISHED NEW TECHNOLOGIES LECTURE. A lecture describing emerging, new technologies will be delivered by Dr. Robert Lipshutz (Affymetrix). BEST PAPER BY A YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD. This award will be given to the best paper written solely by one or more recent graduates or students. An abstract is eligible if all authors are recent graduates (within 2 years from Ph.D.) or full-time students at the time of submission. This should be indicated in the submission letter. The program committee may decline to make the award or may split it among several papers. STEERING COMMITTEE: Sorin Istrail (Sandia National Laboratories) Richard Karp (University of Washington) Thomas Lengauer (GMD-SCAI, Germany) Pavel Pevzner, Chair (University of Southern California) Ron Shamir (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Michael Waterman, Chair (University of Southern California) PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Steven Altschul (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Bonnie Berger, Publication Chair (MIT) Ken Dill (University of California San Francisco) Martin Farach (Rutgers University) Phil Green (University of Washington) Sorin Istrail, Chair of the Organizing Committee (Sandia National Laboratories) Richard Karp (University of Washington) Martin Karplus (Harvard University) Thomas Lengauer (GMD-SCAI, Germany) Webb Miller (Pennsylvania State University) Gene Myers (University of Arizona) Maynard Olson (University of Washington) Pavel Pevzner, (University of Southern California) Rich Roberts (New England Biolabs) David Sankoff (University of Montreal) Ron Shamir (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Temple Smith (Boston University) Terry Speed (University of California Berkeley) Gary Stormo (University of Colorado) Martin Vingron (German Cancer Center) Tandy Warnow (University of Pennsylvania) Michael Waterman, Chair of the Program Committee (University of Southern California) Bruce Weir (North Carolina State University) The PMMB Meeting exploring the applications of statistics in molecular biology will be held in Santa Fe on January 14-19, 1997, just preceding RECOMB 97. Contact Sylvia Spengler sylviaj@violet.berkeley.edu (510)643-7799 for further information. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE: William Hart (Sandia National Laboratories), Chris Fields (National Center for Genome Resources), Sylvia Spengler (Coordinator with the PMMB Conference). Information about local arrangements can be obtained by consulting the conference web page http://www.cs.sandia.gov/recomb97 or from the Local Arrangements Chairman: Sorin Istrail Sandia National Labs Department 9423, MS 1110 Albuquerque, NM 87185-1110, USA phone: (505) 845-7612 fax: (505) 845-7442 scistra@cs.sandia.gov http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~scistra 19) MM 96 - Multimedia & Art ACM MULTIMEDIA 96 November 18 - 22, 1996 Hynes Convention Center Boston, MA, USA The 4th International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition will be held at Boston, November 18-22, 1996. ACM Multimedia'96 will be co-located with SPIE's Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications, and Broadband Communications Expo. It will overlap with CSCW, to be held in nearby Cambridge. Multimedia technology can substantially improve the communication between information providers and consumers. It contributes to the general accessibility of information, through new interactive media as well as through new forms of production, delivery and perception of existing media. ACM Multimedia'96 will provide an international forum for papers, panels, videos, demonstrations, courses, workshops, and exhibits focusing on all aspects of this multi-disciplinary field: from underlying technologies to applications and issues, and from theory to practice. We invite your medicine, etc.; collaboration environments; databases; digital libraries; distributed systems; documents and authoring; hardware and architectures; image, video and audio compression techniques; information retrieval; interactive television; media integration and synchronization; networking and communication; operating system extensions; programming paradigms and environments; standards and legal issues; storage and I/O architectures; tools; user interfaces; and virtual reality. IMPORTANT DATES All Submissions (6 copies for papers) due: April 24th, 1996. Notification of acceptance: July 15th, 1996. Final submissions due: August 26th, 1996 More information: http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM96/cfp.html MULTIMEDIA AND ART Submissions by artists presenting innovative work in the field of INTERACTIVE MEDIA ART & CULTURE are encouraged. A specific selection process and a special Multimedia and Art session on STORYTELLING AFTER CINEMA will take place. Submissions by artists should include EITHER a paper presentation, OR a VHS NTSC or PAL video OR CD-ROM OR URL with short description and demonstration requirements when applicable, and a biography. Since this is the first time ACM Multimedia'96 has such a session, the budget is very limited. Submit to: Monika Fleischmann, Art chair. More information: http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM96/cfp.html#Art -- Monika Fleischmann Research Scientist/Artistic Director http://viswiz.gmd.de/VMSD/PAGES.en/people.mia.html GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology Institute for Media Communication (IMK) Dept. Visualization and Media Systems Design (VMSD) http://viswiz.gmd.de/ Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin Phone:++49-2241-14-2809 (Fax: -2040), Email: fleischmann@gmd.de 20) LOPSTR'96 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Workshop on Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR'96) Stockholm, Sweden, 28--30 August 1996 Sponsored by the Network in Computational Logic (WWW Version of this call at http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~john/lopstr96.html) LOPSTR'96 is the sixth in a series of annual workshops. It will be run in parallel with ILP'96, the Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming. LOPSTR'96 and ILP'96 will share invited lectures and sessions of common interest. The two meetings will be organized by the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University and LOPSTR'96 is sponsored by Compunet, the Network in Computational Logic. The aim of the workshop is to present recent work (including work in progress) and discuss new ideas and trends in the following fields: o program synthesis o program transformation o program specialization o systematic program development in the context of declarative programming, and logic programming in particular. Papers developing the relationships of these topics with other areas of automated program development, such as implementation techniques, inductive logic programming, meta-languages, program analysis, program specification, semantics, query optimization in deductive databases, software engineering, proofs as programs, synthesis and transformation in the context of other programming languages, are welcomed. Papers describing automated systems for program development and overviews of recent work on the topics of interest are also solicited. Extended abstracts (5--8 pages excluding references and appendices) are invited (see deadlines below). Submissions should include a return postal address and an e-mail address, if available. Submission of abstracts by e-mail is also accepted (Postscript). The accepted abstracts will be collected into preliminary proceedings which will be available at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted abstract is expected to attend the workshop. Extended abstracts can be completed into full papers and submitted after the workshop by invitation of the programme committee. Extended abstracts can be completed into full papers and submitted after the workshop by invitation of the programme committee. Submitted papers will be reviewed for publication in the final proceedings which will be published. The following aspects will be relevant for the evaluation of the submission: originality, clarity, significance, and correctness. In particular, the abstract should clearly point out the relationships with published work or submissions by the same authors and it should be understandable by a broad audience. Proofs may be added in appendix, if needed. The workshop will take place on board a ship which will sail from Stockholm to Helsinki and back during the workshop. The workshop is in the week immediately before the Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming (JICSLP'96) in Bonn, Germany. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE W. Bibel Germany A. Bossi Italy N. Fuchs Switzerland J. Gallagher UK T. Gegg-Harrison USA A. Hamfelt Sweden P. Hill UK B. Martens Belgium U. Nilsson Sweden A. Pettorossi Italy L. Sterling Australia PROGRAMME CHAIR John Gallagher University of Bristol, UK Phone: +44 (0)117 9287959 Fax: +44 (0)117 9288128 E-mail: john@cs.bris.ac.uk LOCAL ORGANIZATION Carl Gustaf Jansson University of Stockholm E-mail: calle@dsv.su.se DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS May 17, 1996 ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION (5 copies) John Gallagher Department of Computer Science University of Bristol Queen's Building, University Walk Bristol BS8 1TR U.K. SUBMISSION BY E-MAIL (postscript files) john@cs.bris.ac.uk NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS June 28, 1996 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS October 15, 1996 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF FULL PAPERS November 15, 1996 21) AIME'97 CFP ________________________________________________________________________________ AIME'97 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe 23rd - 26th March 1997 Grenoble, France Call for papers ________________________________________________________________________________ 1 INTRODUCTION _________________ The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME) was established in 1986 after a highly successful workshop held in Pavia the year before. The aims of AIME are the following: * to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and * to provide a forum for reporting significant results achieved at biennial conferences. AIME also assists industry to identify high quality medical products which exploit these techniques. 2 SCOPE _________ We seek to publish original contributions to the development of theory, techniques, and applications of AI in Medicine. Contributions to theory may include a presentation or an analysis of the properties of novel AI methodologies potentially useful to solve relevant medical problems. Papers on techniques should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and their implementation. They should also discuss the assumptions and limitations which characterize the proposed methods. Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of using the system. AIME'97 will provide: * invited papers * contributed papers * contributed posters * system demonstrations * round table discussions and panel sessions * tutorials to introduce newcomers and discuss advanced topics * workshops The scope includes the following methodological areas: * knowledge representation, acquisition & validation ; machine learning * uncertain, temporal, case-based reasoning * natural language understanding * KBS for image and signal interpretation * monitoring and control * AI and telemedicine * integration of KBS and patient medical record * resource allocation, planning and scheduling * other areas relevant to AI in Medicine 3 CONTRIBUTIONS ___________________ Full papers should be submitted on or before 15th September 1996 (send three copies to the Programme Chair). Papers should not exceed 5000 (posters 500) words. Authors are requested to classify their submitted paper using the categories given in the Scope. Papers must be original and must not have been published before. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least two independent and highly respected referees. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings (the Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag, under their Lecture Notes in AI Series). We also invite submission of tutorial proposals or panel discussions on the topics relevant to this Conference. A one-page abstract of the tutorial, as well as further relevant data concerning the topic and the presenter (one page curriculum vitae of the lecturer, previous presentations of the tutorial, target audience, etc) should be sent to the Tutorials Chair. 4 SCHEDULE _____________ * Receipt of full papers and tutorial proposals for consideration: 15th September 1996 * Notification of acceptance: 15th November 1996 * Receipt of camera-ready manuscript: 15th December 1996 5 CONFERENCE DETAILS ________________________ The Conference will be held at Grenoble World Trade Center, in France, on 23rd-26th March 1997. The Conference programme and registration form will be available from the Secretariat of the Conference and will be sent to those who return the attached reply form. Tutorials will be held on 23rd March 1997. The working language is English and will be used for all printed material, presentations and discussions. The Conference will be held immediately after the first joint conference of CVRMED & MRCAS (Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine, Application to Computer Assisted Surgery) which will be held at Grenoble World Trade Center, on 20th-22nd March, 1997. This conference will provide a unique opportunity to gain an insight into advanced research in computer-based technologies applied to surgery and therapy (http://curie.imag.fr/cvrmed-mrcas.html). 6 REGISTRATION _________________ Registration fees include participation in the technical programme, a copy of the proceedings, all lunches and refreshments during the Conference, and the Welcome Party on the evening of Monday 24th March. Fees are in French Francs (FFr). * Early registration (before February 15th, 1997): 2 300 FFr * Late registration (after February 15th, 1997): 2 850 FFr * Early student registration (before February 15th, 1997): 1 300 FFr * Late student registration (after February 15th, 1997): 1 650 FFr Students should attach a letter of support from their supervisor or institution confirming student status. 7 EXIBITION _____________ A Technical Exhibition will be held in association with the Conference. Those requiring further details of layout and charges should indicate this on the attached reply form. 8 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ___________________________ Elpida Keravnou (Chair) (Nicosia, Cyprus) Steen Andreassen (Aalborg, Denmark) Pedro Barahona (Lisboa, Portugal) Robert Baud (Geneva, Switzerland) Jan van Bemmel (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Enrico Coiera (Bristol, United Kingdom) Carlo Combi (Milano, Italy) Luca Console (Torino, Italy) Michel Dojat (Créteil, France) Rolf Engelbrecht (Munich, Germany) John Fox (London, United Kingdom) Catherine Garbay (Grenoble, France) Werner Horn (Vienna, Austria) Jim Hunter (Aberdeen, United Kingdom) Nada Lavrac (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Stelios Orphanoudakis (Heraklion, Greece) Alan Rector (Manchester, United Kingdom) Costas Spyropoulos (Athens, Greece) Mario Stefanelli (Pavia, Italy) Mario Veloso (Lisboa, Portugal) John Washbrook (London, United Kingdom) Jeremy Wyatt (London, United Kingdom) 9 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ___________________________ Catherine Garbay (Chair, TIMC, Grenoble) Robert Baud (co-Chair, Univ. Geneva) Jean-Dominique Monet (TIMC, Grenoble) Georges Weil (TIMC, Grenoble) Nicole Brochier (TIMC, Grenoble) Paulette Souillard (TIMC, Grenoble) Catherine Plottier (Destination-Congrès, Grenoble) Jacques Chevallier (Grenoble Isère Promotion) Pierre Kermen (UJF, Grenoble) 10 CONFERENCE ADDRESSES ____________________________ Programme Committee Chair Elpida Keravnou Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Street, P.O. Box 537 CY-1678 Nicosia - Cyprus Tel: + 357 2 338705 Fax: + 357 2 339062 Email: elpida@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy Organizing Committee Chair Catherine Garbay Lab. TIMC - IMAG Institut Bonniot - Domaine de la Merci 38706 La Tronche - France Tél : + 33 76 54 94 85 Fax : + 33 76 54 95 49 Email: Catherine.Garbay@imag.fr WWW: http://www-timc.imag.fr/aime97 Organizing Committee Co-Chair Robert Baud Centre d'Informatique Hospitalière Hopital Cantonal Universitaire de Genève CH-1214 Genève - Suisse Fax : + 41 22 372 62 55 Tutorials Chair Jeremy Wyatt Biomedical Informatics Unit Imperial Cancer Research Fund Lincoln's Inn Fields, PO Box 123 London WC2A 3PX - United Kingdom Tel: + 44 - 71 - 269 3637 Fax: + 44 - 71 - 269 3186 Email: j.wyatt@icrf.icnet.uk Secretariat DESTINATION-CONGRES 73 bis Grande Rue, F-38700 LA TRONCHE, FRANCE Tel: + 33 76 01 00 54 Fax: + 33 76 63 16 36 Email: dcongres@imaginet.fr PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FORM ___________________________________ To be sent to the Conference Secretariat * I am interested in attending AIME 97 in Grenoble * I intend to submit a paper * I intend to present a poster * I intend to present a demonstration * Please send me further details about the technical exhibition Family Name:  First Name:  Title:  Organization:  Address:  Post Code:  Country:  Telephone:  Fax:  Email:  ____________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Catherine GARBAY Lab. TIMC - IMAG Institut Bonniot Faculté de Médecine - Domaine de la Merci 38706 La Tronche - France Tél : 33 76 54 94 85 Fax : 33 76 54 95 49 URL: http://www-timc.imag.fr/sic ----------------------------------------------------------------- 22) GULP summer school reminder ______________________________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON ADVANCES IN LOGIC PROGRAMMING ALGHERO (Sardegna), June 24-29,1996 organized under the auspices of the Italian Association for Logic Programming (GULP) The aim of the school is to provide a high level overview of recent research lines in the field of Logic Programming, which may also have strong connections with other related areas, such as Artificial Intelligence. The school is addressed to young researchers and PhD students, as well as to university and industry researchers who wish to stay in touch with latest developments in the Logic Programming field. Participants are expected to have good knowledge of the fundamentals of Logic Programming. The school will take place in the beautiful surroundings of Alghero. In this place we had two previous editions of the school on LP, in 1988 and 1990, and they have been very pleasant and successful. Four courses will be offered of about 5 to 8 hours each, with ample time for discussion. PhD students may ask to have a proficiency final exam at the end of the school (on Saturday, June 29th). _______________________________________________________________ Speakers - Michael GELFOND (University of Texas at El Paso) Logic Programming and Reasoning about Actions and Time - Georg GOTTLOB (Wien Technical University), Complexity of Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Joxan JAFFAR (National Univ. of Singapore), Constraint Logic Programming - Nada LAVRAC (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana), and Peter FLACH (Tilburg University) Inductive Logic Programming _______________________________________________________________ Directors of the school Nicoletta COCCO Gianfranco ROSSI Dip. di Matematica Applicata ed Informatica Dip. di Matematica University of Venezia University of Parma _______________________________________________________________ General information Attendance to the school will be limited to about 50 participants. Applications will be considered on a first-come, first-serve basis. All lectures will be in English. The lectures will be given in the congress centre of Hotel Carlos V, Lungomare Valencia, Alghero (Sardegna - Italy), starting June 24th, at 9 a.m. The hotel is quiet, with a swimming pool and tennis courts. The town of Alghero is at walking distance. It is a beautiful catalan town with nice restaurants, shops and night life, famous for the coral artefacts and for the wonderful coast and beaches surrounding it. Sardegna is one of the most fascinating part of Italy both for its history and art and for its nature and sea resorts. A limited number of scholarships covering the participation fee will be made available to qualified students depending on the amount of funds at our disposal. To apply for a scholarship participants should fill the enclosed Application Form and return it together with a Curriculum Vitae. One afternoon will be reserved for discussions, presentations of open problems, and short talks given by participants on work in progress in the field of LP. Participants willing to give a talk should send an abstract of at most 2 pages by e-mail to cocco@moo.dsi.unive.it. ______________________________________________________________ Application and fees People wishing to participate should fill the enclosed form and return it to: Gianfranco ROSSI Universita' di Parma Dipartimento di Matematica Via M.D'Azeglio, 85/A 43100 PARMA (ITALY) Tel.: +39.521.902309 FAX: +39.521.902350 or (preferably) send it by e-mail to: gianfr@prmat2.math.unipr.it Please include e-mail address and/or fax number, if available. The participation fee is 1.300.000 (1.500.000) Italian Liras per person for accommodation in a double (single) room. It includes attendance to the school, accommodation and meals (breakfast and lunch) from Sunday 23rd to Saturday 29th. Participants will be requested to join the GULP association (regular, 70.000 Lit.; student, 35.000 Lit.). Accommodation for accompanying persons could be provided in the same hotel, depending on the availability of rooms, at the price of 600.000 (720.000) Italian Liras per person for accommodation (including breakfast and lunch) in a double (single) room, from Sunday 23rd to Saturday 29th. For further information and inquires concerning participation please send an e-mail message to either: cocco@moo.dsi.unive.it or gianfr@prmat2.math.unipr.it A copy of this announcement, along with some related information, can be obtained through WWW at http://www-lia.deis.unibo.it/Events/Schools/GULP.html ______________________________________________________________ Deadlines Applications should be received by April 20th, 1996. Applicants will be informed about acceptance by April 30th, 1996. Payment must be done before May 10th, 1996. Awarding of scholarships will be notified by May 20th, 1996. -------------------------- cut here -------------------------- A P P L I C A T I O N F O R M for the GULP Int'l Summer School on Advances in Logic Programming Alghero (Sardegna), June 24-29,1996 (Return to Gianfranco Rossi - gianfr@prmat2.math.unipr.it not later than April 20th, 1996) Surname: ...................... First Name: ...................... Affiliation: ......................... Position: ......................... Address: .......................................................... .................................................................. .................................................................. E-mail:.............................. Fax: ........................ Tel.: ......................... I would like to have a: [] single room [] double room Accompanying persons: No. .... I apply for a scholarship covering the participation fee: Yes No (applicants must include a curriculum vitae) I would like to sit for an exam at the GULP School: Yes No Date: .................... Signature: ............................ 23) CONNECTIONISM FOR COGNITIVISTS : THEORY AND APPLICATIONS On the 25-27 May, 1996, a major international workshop on recent theoretical and applicational aspects of network architectures will be held at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. The workshop has a unique structure: approximately half of it will be devoted to presentations of theoretical work by eminent researchers, while the other half will involve hands-on introductions to new software that allows for the use of learning algorithms and techniques for hidden-unit activation analysis that are not available to researchers whose main knowledge of networks stems from the seminal 1986 PDP volumes by Rumelhart, McClelland, et al., or who are, indeed, unfamiliar with the details of *any* PDP modelling techniques, but who would like to understand in detail why they have produced so much interest and debate among cognitive scientists and others. For the second purpose, all registrants will have access to workstations. The workshop has been designed to appeal to, and to be accessible to, researchers from a wide range of disciplines, especially including cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, computer science and telecommunications engineering. We stress that no particular disciplinary background, or technical experience with network models, will be presupposed in the design of the workshop. Principal speakers include: David Rumelhart, Stanford Jerome Feldman, Berkeley/ICSI Paul Skokowski, Stanford Christopher Thornton, Sussex Malcolm Forster, Wisconsin at Madison John Bullinaria, Birkbeck College, London Istvan Berkeley, Alberta/Southwestern Louisiana Please note that registration space is limited, and registrations will be accepted in a first-come first-serve basis. Dates: May 25-27, 1995 Registration fees: Regular: $75.00 (CDN) Student: $35.00 (CDN) Banquet (optional): $35.00 (CDN) REGISTRATION PROCEDURES Those wishing to attend the conference may register either electronically, or by mail. To register electronically, send the following information to : NAME: AFFILIATION: REGULAR/STUDENT?: BANQUET (Y/N?): ACCOMMODATION PREFERENCES (no. of nights, preference as between student residence accommodation [subject to availability] or hotel): MAILING ADDRESS: E-MAIL: Electronic registrations will be considered confirmed upon receipt of a cheque for the appropriate amount, in either Canadian dollars or the U.S. equivalent. Cheques should be made payable to CARLETON UNIVERSITY, and should be sent to the address given for postal registration below. To register by post, send the information indicated above, with a cheque for the appropriate amount, to: CONNECTIONISM c/o Professor Don Ross Department of Philosophy Morisset Hall University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON CANADA K1N 6N5 e-mail: Istvan S. N. Berkeley, email: istvan@psych.ualberta.ca Biological Computation Project & Department of Philosophy, c/o 4-108 Humanities Center University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Tel: +1 403 436 4182 T6G 2E5, Canada Fax: +1 403 437 2261 24) PhD Studentships at ITRI Brighton Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) University of Brighton The ITRI invites PhD applicants with good Honours degrees (or equivalent) in artificial intelligence, computer science, computational linguistics, design studies or related fields. Studentships are available for a 3-year period to work on the following areas: - computational lexicography and lexical engineering - computer supported collaborative design - computer supported writing - constraint satisfaction - discourse analysis - information extraction - lexical representation - multilingual language engineering - natural language generation Application forms are available from: Research Administrator ITRI Mithras Annex University of Brighton Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4AT email: admin@itri.brighton.ac.uk Applications deadline: 15th May 1996 This document may also be found at http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/posts/studentships.html For more information about the ITRI see http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk 25) Job opportunities JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN SPEECH RECOGNITION AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING Vocalis Ltd, Chaston House, Mill Court, Great Shelford, Cambridge CB2 5LD UK tel: +44-1223-846177 fax: +44-1223-846178 Vocalis Ltd. wishes to hire researchers and engineers for its Research Division. We are looking for candidates at all levels of experience and who will fit well into the division on a permanent basis. Candidates should have experience with one or more of these areas: Speech Recognition Spoken Language Dialogue Processing Human Factors Signal Processing Pattern Matching Bespoke System Development Product Development and with some of the following: C, C++, UNIX, SCO, X/Motif, DSP programming, Windows 3/95 Vocalis is one of the leading providers of over the telephone speech recognition systems with clients in UK, Europe, the Middle East and America. We deliver both bespoke systems and products from our Cambridge office, and we also license our technology. The Research Division has the responsibility of developing the core speech recognition and spoken language capabilities which we use in our products. We wish to expand all of the areas of work within the division, ranging from human factors experimentation to prototype system development and delivery. The division concentrates on applied research with relevance to real world problems. Vocalis has a strong track record of involvement in European Commission collaborative research projects. Currently, we lead the REWARD project (http://www.kom.auc.dk/CPK/Speech/Reward/) and participate as partner in CAVE (http://www.ptt-telecom.nl/cave.htm) and SPEECHDAT (http://www.icp.grenet.fr/SpeechDat/home.html). Vocalis is located close to Cambridge with easy connections to London and via rail and motorway links. If you are not a citizen of one of the member states of the European Union, please check whether you are eligible to work in the UK before applying. If you are interested, please email your CV to jenny@vocalis.com Plain text is preferred. Otherwise send a paper copy to Jenny Harrington at the above address. If you need more information, please contact Trevor Thomas (trevor@vocalis.com). These is no deadline for applications, and Vocalis expects to hire about 10 people in the Research Division in 1996. 26) INLG96 Please find below the registration form for the 1996 International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, which will take place at Herstmonceux Castle, UK, June 13-15, 1996. See Web Page: http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/INLG96/ for details of the workshop, including the programme. Note: - The registration deadline is 8 May 1996. - The facilities at the workshop venue dictate that attendance be limited to approximately 70 participants. Should more people wish to attend than can be accommodated, attendance will be on a first come first served basis after preference has been given to those who submitted papers. Note that your interest will be indexed from the time we receive your payment rather than from when we receive your registration form. - Payment is to be made in pounds sterlings. ======================================================================= INLG-96 REGISTRATION FORM PERSONAL DETAILS Name: _______________________________________________ Organisation: _______________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ FAX: _______________________________________________ email: _______________________________________________ REGISTRATION (all prices are in Pounds Sterling) >From Academia 120.00 [ ] >From Industry 150.00 [ ] ACCOMMODATION (includes meals, reception, banquet, and lodging for 12-14 June) Single rooms: Single without private bath 112.50 [ ] additional Saturday night 27.50 [ ] Single with bath 180.00 [ ] additional Saturday night 50.00 [ ] Double rooms (cost per person): Double with twin beds without private bath 105.00 [ ] additional Saturday night 25.00 [ ] Double with twin beds and bath 150.00 [ ] additional Saturday night 40.00 [ ] Double with double bed and bath 150.00 [ ] additional Saturday night 40.00 [ ] Preferred room-mate: _____________________________________ Vegetarian Meal Option [ ] CONCERT (see below) 15.00 [ ] TOTAL COST: _________ ------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTES: The registration deadline is 8 May 1996. Payment should be made in pounds sterling (e.g., with an international money order or Euro-cheque) made out to "the University of Brighton". Students should indicate their interest as soon as possible (i.e., before registering) as additional funds may be available to reduce their registration fee. Return the form and the payment to the following address (the form can be submitted electronically if you prefer, with the payment to follow shortly by paper mail): INLG-96 ITRI, University of Brighton Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4AT UK phone: +44 (0) 1273 642900 fax: +44 (0) 1273 606653 email: inlg96@itri.brighton.ac.uk The facilities at the workshop venue dictate that attendance be limited to approximately 70 participants. Should more people wish to attend than can be accommodated, attendance will be on a first come first served basis after preference has been given to those who submitted papers. Note that your interest will be indexed from the time we receive your payment rather than from when we receive your registration form. The accommodation is dormitory-style, but is very nicely fitted out. The shared bathrooms are clean, accessible, and the showers are good (i.e., not usual British trickle). Linen and towels are provided. The accomodation block is a short walk from the conference rooms. We are delighted to announce that on Saturday night, following the workshop, the Castle will be hosting an outdoor Summer Proms Classics concert by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, followed by a fireworks display. We recommend that you buy tickets for the concert on the registration form, but they will also be available from the castle during the workshop. More information is available from the INLG-96 web page, http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/INLG-96/ 27) Rule Extraction Book ======================== NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT ============================ RULES AND NETWORKS Proceedings of the Rule Extraction From Trained Artificial Neural Networks Workshop Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior Workshop Series, (AISB'96) University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. 2nd April, 1996 Robert Andrews & Joachim Diederich (Editors) =========================== ORDER FORM =================================== Name: _________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ Number of Copies: __________ @ $22.00 (Australian) ___________ Postage & Handling (A$4.00 in Aust, A$10.00 O'Seas) ___________ TOTAL ___________ Payment (in Australian Dollars) Cheque/Money Order made out to: QUT BookShop GPO Box 2434, Brisbane. 4001. Queensland, Australia. Credit Card: MasterCard / Visa / BankCard Number: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Expiry: / / ======================= TABLE OF CONTENTS ================================ Rules and Local Function Networks Robert Andrews and Shlomo Geva The Extraction of Sugeno Fuzzy Rules From Neural Networks Adelmo L. Cechin, Ulrich Epperlein, Wolfgang Rosenstiel and Bernhard Koppenhoefer RULE_OUT Method: A New Approach For Knowledge Explicitation From Trained ANN Loic Decloedt, Fernando Osorio and Bernard Amy Rule Initialisation by Neural Networks Joachim Diederich, James M Hogan, Mostefa Golea and Santhi Muthiah Explaining Results of Neural Networks by Contextual Importance and Utility Kary Framling On the Complexity of Rule Extraction From Neural Networks and Network Querying Mostefa Golea Rule Extraction from Neural Networks Peter Howes and Nigel Crook Using Relevance Information in the Acquisition of Rules From a Neural Network Geraint Johnson, L Nealon and Roger O. Lindsay Initialization by Rule Induction Prior to Learning Ralf Salomon DEDEC: A Methodology for Extracting Rules From Trained Artificial Neural Networks Alan B. Tickle, Marian Orlowski and Joachim Diederich An Algorithm for Extracting Propositions From Trained Neural Networks Using Mltilinear Functions Hiroshi Tsukimoto and Chie Morita Automatic Acquisition of Symbolic Knowledge From Subsymbolic Neural Networks Alfred Ultsch and Dieter Korus Rule Extraction From Trained Neural Networks: Different Techniques for the Determination of Herbicides for the Plant Protection Advisory System PRO_PLANT Ubbo Visser, Alan Tickle, Ross Hayward and Robert Andrews 28) EMMCVPR'97 - Venice - Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on ENERGY MINIMIZATION METHODS IN COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION Venice, Italy, May 21-23, 1997 Energy minimization methods represent a fundamental methodology in computer vision and pattern recognition, with roots in such diverse disciplines as Physics, Psychology, and Statistics. Recent manifestations of the idea include Markov random fields, relaxation labeling, various types of neural networks, etc. These techniques are finding application in areas such as early vision, graph matching, motion analysis, visual reconstruction, etc. The aim of this workshop is to consolidate research efforts in this area, and to provide a discussion forum for researchers and practitioners interested in this important yet diverse subject. The scientific program of the workshop will include the presentation of invited talks and contributed research papers. The workshop is sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and organized by the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Venice "Ca' Foscari." Topics Papers covering (but not limited to) the following topics are solicited: Theory: (e.g., Bayesian contextual methods, biology-inspired methods, discrete optimization, information theory and statistics, learning and parameter estimation, Markov random fields, neural networks, relaxation processes, statistical mechanics approaches, stochastic methods, variational methods) Methodology: (e.g., deformable models, early vision, matching, motion, object recognition, shape, stereo, texture, visual organization) Applications: (e.g., character and text recognition, face processing, handwriting, medical imaging, remote sensing) Program co-chairs Marcello Pelillo, University of Venice, Italy Edwin R. Hancock, University of York, UK Program committee Davi Geiger, New York University, USA Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK Stan Z. Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jean-Michel Morel, Universite' Paris Dauphine, France Maria Petrou, University of Surrey, UK Anand Rangarajan, Yale University, USA Sergio Solimini, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy Alan L. Yuille, Harvard University, USA Josiane Zerubia, INRIA, France Steven W. Zucker, McGill University, Canada Invited speakers Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK Alan L. Yuille, Harvard University, USA Steven W. Zucker, McGill University, Canada Venue The workshop will be held at the University of Venice "Ca' Foscari." The lecture theater will be in the historic center of Venice, and accommodation will be provided in nearby hotels. Submission procedure Prospective authors should submit four copies of their contribution(s) by September 9, 1996 to: Marcello Pelillo (EMMCVPR'97) Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata e Informatica Universita' "Ca' Foscari" di Venezia Via Torino 155, 30173 Venezia Mestre, Italy E-mail: pelillo@dsi.unive.it The manuscripts submitted should be no longer than 15 pages, and the cover page should contain: title, author's name, affiliation and address, e-mail address, fax and telephone number, and an abstract no longer than 200 words. In case of joint authorship, the first name will be used for correspondence unless otherwise requested. All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings which are expected to be published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag, and will be distributed to all participants at the workshop. In order to get a high-quality book with a uniform and professional appearance, prospective authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style file available at the WWW site indicated below. Important dates Paper submission deadline: September 9, 1996 Notification of acceptance: December 1996 Camera-ready paper due: February 1997 Homepage Information on the workshop is maintained at http://Dcpu1.cs.york.ac.uk:6666/~adjc/EMMCVPR97.html This page will be updated continuously and will include information on accepted papers and the final program. Concomitant events During the week following EMMCVPR'97, participants will have the opportunity to attend the 3rd International Workshop on Visual Form (IWVF3) to be held in Capri, May 28-30. For additional information please contact any of the co-chairmen Carlo Arcelli (car@imagm.na.cnr.it), Luigi Cordella (cordel@nadis.dis.unina.it), and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja (gsdb@imagm.na.cnr.it), or see http://amalfi.dis.unina.it/IWF3/iwvf3cfp.html 29) Text, Speech & Language Tech. New Book Series... from Kluwer Academic Publishers - o - TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Series Editors: Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA and Jean Veronis, CNRS and Universite de Provence, France - o - Editorial board: Harald Baayen, Max Planck Institute, The Netherlands; David Barnard, Queens University, Canada; Ken Church, Bell Laboratories, USA; Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, Norway; Judith Klavans, Columbia University, USA; Joaquim Llisterri, Universitat Autonoma di Barcelona, Spain; Joseph Mariani, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Dan Tufis, Academy of Sciences, Romania. - o - Due to the recent availability of large bodies of text and speech in electronic form, data-based research of all kinds has increased dramatically in areas such as computational linguistics and language engineering (especially corpus-based linguistics), speech, humanities computing, psycho-linguistics, and information retrieval. This series is intended to explore the methodologies and technologies that are emerging as a result of this work. In addition, while each of these disciplines has developed methodologies appropriate to its particular problem area, there is emerging a clearly defined set of technologies and methodologies common to all areas of research involving large quantities of electronic data. The series will be particularly concerned with methodologies and technologies with either actual or potential applicability to other areas. The topics covered by the series include but are not limited to: o encoding and representation of text and speech o lexical statistics and quantitative word studies o computational lexicography o morphological analysis and part-of-speech tagging o grammars and parsing technologies o automated content and thematic analysis o text databases and retrieval o document analysis, automatic indexing and abstracting o stylometry and computerized authorship discrimination o text generation o message understanding o text-to-speech and dictation systems o speech synthesis and speech recognition o phonological and prosodic analysis The series will contain several different types of books, including: o methodologies, which survey major methodological approaches in a given domain. Many of the methodologies emerging for text-based work have never been considered collectively or comprehensively, and there is a serious need for books which provide an overview of the important approaches to certain problem areas. o advanced research topics, which treat in depth specific areas of interest or projects at the state of the art. This type of book will describe leading edge research on specific topics, whose methodologies may have only just begun to develop. o tutorials, which provide a general introduction to a particular topic. Because data-based research has developed so rapidly in recent years, there is a large number of researchers who are unfamiliar with basic concepts and approaches. In addition, applicable methodologies which may be well-developed within one discipline are often completely unknown to researchers in another discipline. Supplementary materials such as software, demonstrations, program libraries, etc. in appropriate forms (diskettes, web sites, etc.) will be included where appropriate. - o - Forthcoming: Text to Speech Synthesis. T. Dutoit Studies in Very Large Corpora. K. Church, P. Isabelle and D. Yarowsky (Eds.) Recent Advances in Parsing Technologies. H. Bunt and M. Tomita (Eds.) Prosody: Theory and Experiment. M. Horne (Ed.) Corpus-based Methods in Language and Speech. G. Bloothoft, K. Church and S.Young (Eds.) - o - Also of interest: The Text Encoding Initiative: Background and Context. N. Ide and J. Veronis (Eds.) - o - For more information on this series or to discuss publishing in the series contact: Polly Margules Kluwer Academic Publishers 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061 PH: 617-871-6600 ext. 313 FX: 617-871-6528 e-mail: pmargules@wkap.com 30) ASHS (Autumn School on Hybrid Systems AUTUMN SCHOOL on HYBRID SYMBOLIC CONNECTIONIST SYSTEMS Ravensburg -- Weingarten (Germany) September 25--28, 1996 organized by ESPRIT BASIC RESEARCH PROJECT 9119 (MIX) "Modular Integration of Connectionist and Symbolic Processing in Knowledge-Based Systems" The combination of symbolic and connectionist systems is one of the currently most challenging and interesting fields of Artificial Intelligence. This school introduces students as well as active researchers to this new and promising direction of research. Most symbolic systems are more or less logic based and therefore perform deductive reasoning on expert knowledge, but have severe problems with inductive reasoning. On the other hand neural networks are good in inductive reasoning based on data, but are less apt to perform deductive reasoning. Another view of this problem is the integration of prior knowledge (e.g. expert knowledge) into an inductive system. The lectures will give an insight into the ongoing research in the field where the fundamental theory as well as practical solutions for concrete applications will be presented. Participants are expected to have basic knowledge of Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence. Students who need travel grants may indicate this on their application. LECTURES There will be 7 lectures with 2,3 or 4 lessons of 45 min. 1) Melanie Hilario (Univ. Geneva), Abderrahim Labbi (Univ. Grenoble), Wolfgang Ertel (FH Weingarten): A Framework for the Modular Integration of Knowledge and Data in Hybrid Systems (3 lessons) 2) Franz Kurfeþ (New Jersey Inst. of Techn.): Hybrid System Architectures} (4 lessons) 3) Jose Gonzales and Juan R. Velasco (Univ. Madrid): A Comprehensive View of Fuzzy-Neural Hybrids (4 lessons) 4) Michael Kaiser (Univ. Karlsruhe): Combining Symbolic and Connectionist Techniques in Adaptive Control (4 lessons) 5) Alessandro Sperduti (Univ. Pisa): Neural Networks for the Processing of Structures (4 lessons) 6) Christoph Goller (TU Munich): Learning Search-Control Heuristics for Automated Deduction Systems with Connectionist Methods (2 lessons) 7) Marco Gori (Univ. Firenze): A Unified View of Symbolic Knowledge and Learning in Recurrent Networks (4 lessons) POSTER SESSION The attendees of the autumn school are encouraged to bring along a poster (size about 40 60 cm) which gives insight into their research work, the project they are working in, etc. which shall be presented in a poster session. DIRECTORS OF THE SCHOOL Wolfgang Ertel, FH Ravensburg-Weingarten Bertram Fronhoefer TU Munich GENERAL INFORMATION PARTICIPATION FEES: - Students: ECU 150.-- - University: ECU 250.-- - Industry: ECU 400.-- DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: April 26, 1996 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: May 22, 1996 Applications should be sent preferably by email to: ashs@fl-sun00.fbe.fh-weingarten.de Applications should contain a full address and a short statement about the applicants scientific qualification (student, PhD student, industrial researcher, etc.) and his interests in the topics of the autumn school. If email is not available, applications by surface mail should be sent to: Wolfgang Ertel Phone: +49--751--501--721 FH Ravensburg-Weingarten Fax: +49--751--501--749 Postfach 1261 D-88241 Weingarten Attendance to the school will be limited to about 50 participants. LANGUAGE: All lectures will be in English. LECTURE SITE: The lectures will be given in the Informatik Zentrum of the Fachhochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten and will start on September 25 in the morning. ACCOMODATION: Apart from a large range of hotels with prizes from DM 40.-- till DM 200.--, there are also limited occasions for inexpensive student lodging. Low price lunch will be provided by the Mensa (canteen) of the Fachhochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten. LOCATION: Weingarten and its immediate neighbour-city Ravensburg with about 70000 inhabitants represent the economic and cultural heart of Oberschwaben. Above the valley of the river Schussen the famous basilica of Weingarten together with the adjacent old Benedictine abbey is one of the most significant baroque constructions north of the alps. Close to and partly inside the baroque buildings of the abbey is the Fachhochschule, a university for engineering and social sciences where the school will take place. Oberschwaben is a rural pre-alpine area with various little lakes and fens, located in the south-west of Germany, close to the lake of Konstanz and the borders to Austria and Switzerland. The alps are not far (an hour by car or train) and the lake of Konstanz provides all facilities for marine outdoor activities. For further information and inquiries concerning participation please send an e-mail message to the above address. This call as well as futher information is available from the WWW-page: http://www.fh-weingarten.de/homepags/doz/ertel/ashs.htm 31) SMDM symposium THE SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL DECISION MAKING (SMDM) 18th Annual Scientific Meeting October 13 - 16, 1996 The Westin Harbour Castle Hotel Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 16 Symposium: "Improving Evidence-Based Decision Making: Recent Advances in the Cochrane / PORTs / OHCEN Research Transfer Models". This symposium is outlined in the attached document. The following was included as an attachement. Please use UUDECODE to retrieve it. The original file name was 'attach.doc'. Attachment converted: Micronet:attach.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (00006FC2) 32) GOEDEL'96 - Conference Programme Conference Announcement, Programme and (Corrected) Registration Form *********************************************************************** On the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Kurt Goedel, an international conference entitled LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND PHYSICS -- Kurt Goedel's Legacy (GOEDEL'96) will take place on August 25-29, 1996, in Brno, Czech Republic (the birthplace of Kurt Goedel). Aims and topics: The aim of the conference is to pay tribute to Kurt Goedel by arranging a scientific event presenting a forum for papers relevant to foundational aspects of Logic in Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy and Physics -- areas influenced by Kurt Goedel's work. A session is planned to honour Professor Hao Wang, one of Goedel's closest collaborators, who died on May 13, 1995. The proceedings volume will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Logic and distributed at the conference. (The deadline for contributions has already expired.) Organizers: The conference is organized by Masaryk University (Organizing Committee chaired by J.Zlatuska) in co-operation with the Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and with the international Kurt Goedel Society (based in Vienna). Sponsors: ASL -- Association for Symbolic Logic EACSL -- European Association for Computer Science Logic IUHPS/DLMPS -- International Union of History and Philosophy of Science -- Division Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science UNU/IIST -- The United Nations University -- International Institute for Software Technology, Macau ZPA-CZ Trutnov, Czech Republic Programme Committee: Z. Adamowicz, Warsaw J. Bicak, Prague L. Bukovsky, Kosice D. de Jongh, Amsterdam J. Grygar, Prague E. Koehler, Vienna J. Krajicek, Prague P. Hajek (chair), Prague A. Leitsch, Vienna D. Mundici, Milano G. Mueller, Heidelberg J. Paris, Manchester C. Parsons, Harvard Preliminary Conference Programme //////////////////////////////// Sunday, August 25 ----------------- 10,00 - 20,00 - Registration 17,00 - 20,00 - Welcome Reception Monday, August 26 ------------------ 7,30 - 8,30 - Breakfast 8,30 - 18,00 - Registration 9,00 - 10,30 - Opening Ceremony and Session 1 Opening Solomon Feferman (invited talk): Goedel's Program For New Axioms: Why, Where, How and What? (Opening lecture.) Andrzej M. Zarach: Replacement -/-> Collection 10,30 - 11,00 - Coffee break 11,00 - 12,30 - Session 2 G. Takeuti and M. Yasumoto (invited talk): Forcing on Bounded Arithmetic Jan Johannsen: A Bounded Arithmetic Theory for Constant Depth Threshold Circuits Paul Taylor: Towards a Unified Treatment of Induction I: The General Recursion Theorem 12,30 - 14,00 - Lunch 14,00 - 15,30 - Session 3 Matthias Baaz (invited talk): First-Order Goedel Logics Leonard Paulik: Best Possible Answer is Computable for Fuzzy SLD-Resolution Ladislav J. Kohout and Wyllis Bandler: Universality of BK-relational Products Based on Goedel-Heyting Implication 15,30 - 16,00 - Tea break 16,00 - 18,00 - Session 4 M. Magidor (invited talk): (title to be announced) Satoko Titani: A Lattice-Valued Set Theory Anton Setzer: A Model for a Type Theory with Mahlo Universe Tuesday, August 27 ------------------ 7,30 - 8,30 - Breakfast 8,30 - 14,00 - Registration 9,00 - 10,30 - Session 5 Albert Visser (invited talk): Layered Bisimulation and Uniform Interpolation Dorella Belle and Franco Parlamento: Decidability of the EA-class in the Membership Theory NWL* Robert F. Staerk: The Finite Stages of Inductive Definitions 10,30 - 11,00 - Coffee break 11,00 - 12,30 - Session 6 Pavel Pudlak (invited talk): A Bottom-Up Approach to Foundations of Mathematics Marcin Benke: A Logical Approach to Complexity Bounds for Subtype Inequalities Tadashi Araragi: A Uniform Theorem Proving Tableau Method for Modal Logic 12,30 - 14,00 - Lunch 14,00 - Excursion to Kurdejov (concert), Milotice (chateau) and Cejkovice (wine Cellar-including dinner) Wednesday, August 28 -------------------- 7,30 - 8,30 - Breakfast 8,30 - 18,00 - Registration 9,00 - 10,30 - Session 7 Charles Parsons (invited talk): Hao Wang as Philosopher and Interpreter of Goedel Xing Taotao: Some Remarks on Hao Wang's Philosophy of Mathematics Burton Voorhees: Philosophical Issues Raised by Strong AI and the Incompleteness Theorem 10,30 - 11,00 - Coffee break 11,00 - 12,30 - Session 8 George Ellis (invited talk): Contributions of K. Goedel to Relativity and Cosmology Giora Hon: Completeness Has to Be Restricted: Goedel's Interpretation of the Parameter t Michael Stoeltzner: Goedel and the Theory of Everything 12,30 - 14,00 - Lunch 14,00 - 15,30 - Session 9 Wilfried Sieg and John Byrnes (invited talk): K-Graph Machines: Generalizing Turing's Machines and Arguments C. Anthony Anderson and Michael Gettings: Goedel's Ontological Proof Revisited Piergiorgio Odifreddi: Goedel's Mathematics of Philosophy 15,30 - 16,00 - Tea break 16,00 - 18,00 - Session 10 D. Isaacson (invited talk): (title to be announced) Ralf Naumann: The Problem of Objectivity: Goedel and Carnap Realism versus Conventionalism? Jari Palomaki: From Concept Theory to Set Theory 19,30 - Final dinner (Wine Cellar of Queen Elisabeth) Thursday, August 29 -------------------- 7,30 - 8,30 - Breakfast 8,30 - 13,00 - Registration 9,00 - 10,30 - Session 11 Boris A. Kushner (invited talk): Kurt Goedel and the Constructive Mathematics of A. A. Markov Alexander D. Yashin: A New Intuitionistic Logical Constant and Novikov Completeness Benjamin Blankertz and Andreas Weiermann: How to Characterize Provably Total Functions by the Buchholz' Operator Method 10,30 - 11,00 - Coffee break 11,00 - 12,00 - Session 12 and conclusion Lars Kristiansen: Information Content and Computational Complexity of Recursive Sets Robert K. Meyer: Kurt Goedel and the Consistency of R## Closing of the conference 12,30 - 14,00 - Lunch Contact addresses: Programme committee chairman: Petr Hajek Institute of Computer Science Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Pod vodarenskou vezi 2 CZ-182 07 Prague Czech Republic e-mail: goedel96-program@uivt.cas.cz telephone: +42-2-66053760, +42-2-6884244 fax: +42-2-8585789 Organization: Jiri Zlatuska Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Botanicka 68a CZ-602 00 Brno Czech Republic e-mail: goedel96@informatics.muni.cz telephone: +42-5-41213125, +42-5-41211646, +42-5-41213219 fax: +42-5-41212747 WWW: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~zlatuska/goedel96.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that in the registration form below, a misleading formulation found within the original form was clarified. Basic accommodation was INCLUDED in the registration fee. Unless shared accomodation has been requested, the accomodation provided is single person in a double-bed room. No extra accomodation cost is therefore required for one accompanying person. If more rooms are needed, please add the accomodation cost for each double room requested. The registration fee includes breakfast and lunch for participants of the conference. Additional breakfasts and/or lunches for accompanying persons can be ordered at the conference registration desk during the conference. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM GOEDEL'96 LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND PHYSICS August 25-29, 1996, Brno, Czech Republic IMPORTANT * Completed registration forms should NOT be e-mailed. Paper copies should be sent to the correspondence address (at the bottom of this form). * The registration form can only be accepted if accompanied by full payment. * One participant per registration form. REGISTRATION DETAILS: Prof/Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss: _______________________________________ Surname: ____________________________________________________ Given Name: __________________________________________________ Position/Title: _______________________________________________ Department: __________________________________________________ Organisation: _________________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________ State: _______________________________________________________ Postcode: ____________________________________________________ Country: _____________________________________________________ E-mail: _______________________________________________________ Business Telephone: (_____) ______________ Fax: (____) ____________ Preferred Name for Badge: _____________________________________ SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Special Diet: ________________________________________________ Other: _______________________________________________________ ACCOMMODATION: Please indicate if required (tick): ( ) University guest hotel Accomodation Type: ( ) Single Person in Double Room - $20 for one night $20 per night; five nights INCLUDED in registration fee From: __________ To: ___________ # of nights: ________ Insert only ADDITIONAL cost for extra nights: TOTAL : $ ________ ( ) Double (2 sharing one room) $50 for one person sharing a room for 5 nights From 25.8. to 29.8. (5 nights) : $50 Room sharing prefered with: ___________________ Sorry -- no additional nights can be guaranteed. ( ) Reduced full-time student conference fee -- accomodation for four night included in the reduced fee package, see below. ( ) Hotel *** "Continental" Reservation required: From: __________ To: ___________ # of nights: ________ Price approx. $70 per night. Reservation required before June 1, 1995. Payment details will be sent separately. DEDUCT $100 from your registration fee when choosing this. Arrival: Departure: Arrival time: REGISTRATION FEES Received Received TOTAL by after 21/3/1996 21/3/1996 Members of ( ) KGS, ( ) ASL, ( ) EACSL, ( ) IUHPS/DLPMS, ( ) CSIS (tick one) indicate membership number: _________________ Conference Fee $350.00 $380.00 $ _______ Conference Fee shared room $300.00 $330.00 $ _______ Conference Fee without accom. $250.00 $280.00 $ _______ Others: Conference Fee $380.00 $400.00 $ _______ Conference Fee shared room $330.00 $350.00 $ _______ Conference Fee without accom. $280.00 $300.00 $ _______ Full-time student package: Reduced conference fee covering conference attendance and five nights in shared room: $140.00 $190.00 $ _______ Reduced student fee does not include conference proceedings copy. Attach written statement your university certifying your full-time student status. Excursion: $30 per person; # of persons: _________ TOTAL: $ ________ TOTAL TO BE PAYED.......................................... USD $ ________ METHOD OF PAYMENT (All payments in US dollars) ( ) A Credit Card Tick Card Type: ( ) VISA ( ) MC/EC Card no. ________________ Expiration ____/____ Cardholder's Name: ________________________________ Cardholder's Signature ______________________________ ( ) B Bank Cheque/Eurocheque payable in US dollars to "Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University" (enclosed) ( ) C Bank transfer to: Bank: Komercni banka Praha, branch Brno Account holder: Masaryk University Account Number: 85 636-621/0100 Date of transfer: (copy of bank transfer confirmation enclosed) Send completed form with you payment to the following address: Dr Jiri Zlatuska GOEDEL'96 Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Botanicka 68a CZ-602 00 Brno Czech Republic ------------------------------------------------------------------- A limited number participants from economically severely handicapped countried can be supported by the organizers by allowing registration for student fee. Send your application for financial assistance electronically to , or to the above address, if electronic connection cannot be used. ! 33) FUZZY SET THEORY IN MEDICINE. CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE invites potential contributors to submit original research papers for a guest-edited special issue on FUZZY SET THEORY IN MEDICINE. Lotfi A. Zadeh himself anticipated very early that medical diagnosis would be the most likely domain of his theory. Despite this prominent forecast, work on fuzzy set theory in medicine has largely remained that of individuals and is still considered informal and ad hoc by many. This is the more surprising as fuzzy sets formalize gradation, a natural characteristic of medicine that is incompatible with the discrete nature of classical AI. Interest of the medical AI community in fuzzy set theory should thus be vital. With the coming special issue Artificial Intelligence in Medicine wishes to establish a forum for the investigation, discussion, valuation and proliferation of fuzzy set theory and its application to medicine. Welcome topics include, but are not limited to: - uncertainty management with fuzzy sets; - fuzzy classification; - fuzzy scores and ranking; - compensating operators in medical reasoning; - fuzzy medical knowledge bases; - fuzziness and the medical record; - fuzzy temporal propositions and reasoning; - defuzzification and the interpretation of fuzzy output; - fuzzy sets, human cognition, and the computer-human interface; and - fuzzy-controlled devices. Potential authors are requested to submit 3 copies of their manuscript by August 6, 1996, to the GUEST EDITOR Dr. Friedrich Steimann Institute of Medical Informatics University of Hildesheim Samelsonplatz 1 31141 Hildesheim Germany e-mail: AIM-FS@med-informatik.uni-hildesheim.de 100607.704@compuserve.com Manuscripts should be typed on good quality paper of uniform size (A4 or 8.5 by 11 inches), double-spaced and leaving wide margins of at least 3 cm. Each manuscript should include the title of the contribution, the author's or authors' name(s), complete address(es), e-mail address(es), fax and telephone numbers, an abstract of about 100 words accompanied by a list of a few keywords, consecutively numbered sections with headings, and references. A manuscript should never exceed 40 pages. Complete SUBMISSION GUIDELINES are available upon request from the guest editor. SCHEDULE: Submissions due: August 6, 1996 Notification of acceptance/rejection: December 6, 1996 Submission of revised versions: January 31, 1997 Date of publication: June, 1997 All authors are invited to submit an abstract by Mai 31, 1996, to express their intent to submit a paper. 34) AIME'97 CFP AIME'97 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe 23rd - 26th March 1997 Grenoble, France =20 Call for papers ____________________________________________________________________________= ____ 1 INTRODUCTION _________________ The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME) was established in 1986 after a highly successful workshop held in Pavia the year before. The aims of AIME are the following: * to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to medical care and medical research, and =20 * to provide a forum for reporting significant results achieved at biennial conferences. AIME also assists industry to identify high quality medical products which exploit these techniques. 2 SCOPE _________ We seek to publish original contributions to the development of theory, techniques, and applications of AI in Medicine. Contributions to theory may include a presentation or an analysis of the properties of novel AI methodologies potentially useful to solve relevant medical problems. Papers on techniques should describe the development or the extension of AI methods and their implementation. They should also discuss the assumptions and limitations which characterize the proposed methods. Application papers should describe the implementation of AI systems to solve significant medical problems, and should present sufficient information to allow evaluation of the practical benefits of using the system. AIME'97 will provide: * invited papers * contributed papers * contributed posters * system demonstrations * round table discussions and panel sessions * tutorials to introduce newcomers and discuss advanced topics * workshops The scope includes the following methodological areas:=20 * knowledge representation, acquisition & validation ; machine= learning * uncertain, temporal, case-based reasoning * natural language understanding * KBS for image and signal interpretation * monitoring and control * AI and telemedicine * integration of KBS and patient medical record * resource allocation, planning and scheduling * other areas relevant to AI in Medicine 3 CONTRIBUTIONS ___________________ Full papers should be submitted on or before 15th September 1996 (send three copies to the Programme Chair). Papers should not exceed 5000 (posters 500) words. Authors are requested to classify their submitted paper using the categories given in the Scope. Papers must be original and must not have been published before. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least two independent and highly respected referees. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings (the Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag, under their Lecture Notes in AI Series). =20 We also invite submission of tutorial proposals or panel discussions on the topics relevant to this Conference. A one-page abstract of the tutorial, as well as further relevant data concerning the topic and the presenter (one page curriculum vitae of the lecturer, previous presentations of the tutorial, target audience, etc) should be sent to the Tutorials Chair. 4 SCHEDULE _____________ * Receipt of full papers and tutorial proposals for consideration: = =20 15th September 1996 * Notification of acceptance: = =20 15th November 1996 * Receipt of camera-ready manuscript: = =20 15th December 1996 5 CONFERENCE DETAILS ________________________ The Conference will be held at Grenoble World Trade Center, in France, on 23rd-26th March 1997. The Conference programme and registration form will be available from the Secretariat of the Conference and will be sent to those who return the attached reply form. Tutorials will be held on 23rd March 1997. The working language is English and will be used for all printed material, presentations and discussions. The Conference will be held immediately after the first joint conference of CVRMED & MRCAS (Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine, Application to Computer Assisted Surgery) which will be held at Grenoble World Trade Center, on 20th-22nd March, 1997. This conference will provide a unique opportunity to gain an insight into advanced research in computer-based technologies applied to surgery and therapy (http://curie.imag.fr/cvrmed-mrcas.html). 6 REGISTRATION _________________ Registration fees include participation in the technical programme, a copy of the proceedings, all lunches and refreshments during the Conference, and the Welcome Party on the evening of Monday 24th March. Fees are in French Francs (FFr). * Early registration (before February 15th, 1997): = =20 2 300 FFr * Late registration (after February 15th, 1997): = =20 2 850 FFr * Early student registration (before February 15th, 1997): = =20 1 300 FFr * Late student registration (after February 15th, 1997): = =20 1 650 FFr Students should attach a letter of support from their supervisor or institution confirming student status. 7 EXIBITION _____________ A Technical Exhibition will be held in association with the Conference. Those requiring further details of layout and charges should indicate this on the attached reply form. 8 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ___________________________ Elpida Keravnou (Chair) (Nicosia, Cyprus) Steen Andreassen (Aalborg, Denmark) Pedro Barahona (Lisboa, Portugal) Robert Baud (Geneva, Switzerland) Jan van Bemmel (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Enrico Coiera (Bristol, United Kingdom) Carlo Combi (Milano, Italy) Luca Console (Torino, Italy) Michel Dojat (Cr=E9teil, France) Rolf Engelbrecht (Munich, Germany) John Fox (London, United Kingdom) Catherine Garbay (Grenoble, France) Werner Horn (Vienna, Austria) Jim Hunter (Aberdeen, United Kingdom) Nada Lavrac (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Stelios Orphanoudakis (Heraklion, Greece) Alan Rector (Manchester, United Kingdom) Costas Spyropoulos (Athens, Greece) Mario Stefanelli (Pavia, Italy) Mario Veloso (Lisboa, Portugal) John Washbrook (London, United Kingdom) Jeremy Wyatt (London, United Kingdom) 9 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE=20 ___________________________ Catherine Garbay (Chair, TIMC, Grenoble) Robert Baud (co-Chair, Univ. Geneva) Jean-Dominique Monet (TIMC, Grenoble) Georges Weil (TIMC, Grenoble) Nicole Brochier (TIMC, Grenoble) Paulette Souillard (TIMC, Grenoble) Catherine Plottier (Destination-Congr=E8s,=20 Grenoble) Jacques Chevallier (Grenoble Is=E8re Promotion) Pierre Kermen (UJF, Grenoble) 10 CONFERENCE ADDRESSES=20 ____________________________ Programme Committee Chair Elpida Keravnou Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Street, P.O. Box 537 CY-1678 Nicosia - Cyprus Tel: + 357 2 338705 Fax: + 357 2 339062 Email: elpida@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy Organizing Committee Chair Catherine Garbay Lab. TIMC - IMAG=20 Institut Bonniot - Domaine de la Merci 38706 La Tronche - France T=E9l : + 33 76 54 94 85 Fax : + 33 76 54 95 49 Email: Catherine.Garbay@imag.fr WWW: http://www-timc.imag.fr/aime97 Organizing Committee Co-Chair Robert Baud Centre d'Informatique Hospitali=E8re Hopital Cantonal Universitaire de Gen=E8ve CH-1214 Gen=E8ve - Suisse Fax : + 41 22 372 62 55 Tutorials Chair Jeremy Wyatt Biomedical Informatics Unit Imperial Cancer Research Fund Lincoln's Inn Fields, PO Box 123 London WC2A 3PX - United Kingdom Tel: + 44 - 71 - 269 3637 Fax: + 44 - 71 - 269 3186 Email: j.wyatt@icrf.icnet.uk=20 Secretariat DESTINATION-CONGRES 73 bis Grande Rue, F-38700 LA TRONCHE, FRANCE Tel: + 33 76 01 00 54 Fax: + 33 76 63 16 36 Email: dcongres@imaginet.fr PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FORM ___________________________________ To be sent to the Conference Secretariat =20 * I am interested in attending AIME 97 in Grenoble * I intend to submit a paper * I intend to present a poster * I intend to present a demonstration * Please send me further details about the technical exhibition=20 Family Name:=A0 =20 First Name:=A0 =20 Title:=A0=20 Organization:=A0 =20 Address:=A0 =20 Post Code:=A0 =20 Country:=A0 =20 Telephone:=A0 =20 Fax:=A0 =20 Email:=A0=20 ____________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Catherine GARBAY Lab. TIMC - IMAG=20 Institut Bonniot Facult=E9 de M=E9decine - Domaine de la Merci 38706 La Tronche - France T=E9l : 33 76 54 94 85 Fax : 33 76 54 95 49 URL: http://www-timc.imag.fr/sic ----------------------------------------------------------------- 35) CFP: KAW'96: Knowledge Modelling using Conceptual Graphs S E C O N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S Tenth Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop (KAW'96) Banff, Canada, November 9-14, 1996 Minitrack: Knowledge Modelling using Conceptual Graphs ________________________________________________________________________________ Draft Papers Due May 31, 1996 ________________________________________________________________________________ Objective ========= The objective of the annual knowledge-acquisition workshops is to provide a forum for those developing theories, methods, systems, and empirical studies that relate to the process of building intelligent systems of all kinds. This minitrack proposes to concentrate on the application of the Conceptual Graph Theory and operators within this theory, for knowledge modeling and knowledge engineering. The topics of this minitrack include, but are not limited to: o Knowledge Modeling Methodologies o Analysis and Comparisons of Different Knowledge Modeling Techniques o Prototypical Knowledge Structures for Knowledge Modeling Processes o Knowledge Level Modeling o Knowledge Modelling Tools, Techniques and Mechanisms o Ontology Acquisition and Structuring o Applications o Knowledge Representation Submission Format ================= Submissions should follow the general paper guideline of KAW 96 (which is included below). System demonstrations will be a part of the track (Contact Rob Kremer on the technical details). The track will be organized as a mixture of paper presentations and discussion sessions. We plan to have a 2-day track. Draft papers (up to 20 pages) should be sent electronically to Brian Gaines before May 31, 1996. Acceptance and revision notices will be e-mailed by July 31, 1996. Revised papers (20 pages) should be submitted by September 30, 1996, so that hardcopies may be bound together for distribution at the workshop. Authors who submit papers to the workshop will be expected to help with the refereeing of papers submitted by other individuals. Submission and review of papers, and coordination of all aspects of the meeting, will be through the Internet. Papers should be transmitted in postscript or common document processor format (e.g., Microsoft Word) either by e-mail to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, or by FTP to ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca in directory /incoming (with an email note to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca when the paper is transferred). Authors should indicate appropriate sessions/minitracks for each submission. If there is uncertainty regarding the optimum track for a paper, authors should contact the chairs of the track that seems closest, preferably in advance of the submission deadline. Depending on the range of papers received, some tracks may be collapsed whereas other tracks may be added in advance of the workshop. The world-wide web (WWW) will be used to coordinate the meeting and to provide further details of the tracks, paper formats, conference arrangements, and so on. Please see the following URL for more information about the workshop: http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW.html Send submissions to Brian Gaines directly. Further Information =================== Contact the cochairs for more information about this track. Track cochairs are: Dickson Lukose lukose@peirce.une.edu.au (Uni of New England, AUSTRALIA) Guy Mineau mineau@ift.ulaval.ca (Universite Laval, CANADA) 36) CFP (Text): LPNMR '97 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning (LP & NMR '97) Dagstuhl, Germany July 28--31, 1997 This is the fourth in the series of international meetings on the relationship between logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Three previous meetings were held in Washington, DC, USA, in 1991, in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1993 and in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, in 1995. The series was started in response to the growing evidence of synergy between the two areas and serves as a vehicle to facilitate interactions and interdisciplinary research. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Papers Due on: January 10, 1997 Author Notification: March 10, 1997 Final version Due on: April 11, 1997 Conference: July 28--31, 1997 ================ PAPER SUBMISSION ================ Papers are invited on all aspects of logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Papers on the relationship between Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning are especially encouraged. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest: Abduction, Circumscription Abstract consequence relations Algorithms and complexity Applications of LP and NMR Belief revision and updates Classical, explicit, and constructive negation Constraint satisfaction Epistemic, Modal, and Default logics Knowledge representation in LP and NMR Nonmonotonicity in databases Procedural query answering mechanisms Prototypes and implementations Semantics of (disjunctive) logic programs Send four (4) copies of your submission by conventional mail to the program chair by January 10, 1997 at the following address: LPNMR '97 Attention: Anil Nerode Mathematical Sciences Institute Cornell University 407 College Avenue, Ithaca NY 14850, U.S.A. E-mail: Submitted papers should not have been previously published or submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. The papers must not exceed 15 pages (including references and figures), when formatted according to Springer-Verlag guidelines (see conference home page for these guidelines and LaTeX style files). The authors must also send a text file, containing abstract, keywords, and complete address (including email, telephone & fax numbers) of the responsible author, via email to . ================== SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM ================== The scientific program will include invited talks, presentations of the accepted papers, panel discussions and system demonstrations. The proceedings will be published in the Springer LNAI series and will be available at the conference. To stress the importance of applications and implementations in LP & NMR, there will be a separate panel headed by Juergen Dix covering this topic. Following is the list of panelists: Juergen Dix (Germany) Ronen Feldman (Israel) Ilkka Niemelae (Germany) Torsten Schaub (France) Mirek Truszczynski (USA) David Scott Warren (USA) =================== FURTHER INFORMATION =================== Visit in the world wide web for any information regarding this conference. Information can also be obtained by e-mail from a partially automated mailer. Send a mail to with subject `help', to get help on using this facility. ==================== Conference Co-Chairs ==================== Juergen Dix Ulrich Furbach ============= Program Chair ============= Anil Nerode ================= Program Committee ================= Howard Blair (USA) Frank de Boer (Netherlands) Piero Bonatti (Italy) Weidong Chen (USA) Juergen Dix (Germany) Ulrich Furbach (Germany) Georg Gottlob (Austria) Katsumi Inoue (Japan) Anthony Kakas (Cyprus) Robert Kowalski (UK) Michael Maher (Australia) Victor Marek (USA) Anil Nerode (USA) Luis Pereira (Portugal) Teodor Przymusinski (USA) V. S. Subrahmanian (USA) Jia-Huai You (Canada) ============================ LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE ============================ Chandrabose Aravindan Peter Baumgartner Frieder Stolzenburg ====================END OF CALL FOR PAPERS================================= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAgUBMXzEY0uViF2N6KNFAQEQ4AQAqr64WYee1/VeFYQSnCE0mjrjsZBjgKLy Vs2lqVCOGwXV6+cqm1Gw879RKxOBbEhNlbpyc/nIRiXQOs4XZwjnwPuO7pEh7HBP jHPOLNSdtNgZ/7ZF6viT96ROgs2YC3F4ljvsjcl3dMTvEjmUYvRc4v9JGZQbJQ8i nQZQtuyvhj0= =yatc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ===== LPNMR '97 Organizing Committee http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~lpnmr97/ Attention: Chandrabose Aravindan Tel: +49 261 9119 {426,443} Universitaet Koblenz-Landau Fax: +49 261 9119 496 Fachbereich Informatik lpnmr97@informatik.uni-koblenz.de Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany. (For help: send mail with subject 'help') 37) CFP JICSLP'96 Post-Conference Workshop JICSLP'96 Post-Conference Workshop What Can Logic Programmers Learn From Functional Programmers? September 5--6, 1996 Bonn, Germany (see also web page: http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~herbert/JICSLP96WS.html) Functional programming (FP) and logic programming (LP) share a declarative style of programming, yet the two communities remain largely separate. However, in the past few years, a few programming features and techniques from FP have found their way into LP. One area of influence is language design. The Hindley-Milner approach to typing, prevalent in FP, is the basis for many proposals to include types into LP. Ditto for higher-order features, which are the lifeblood of FP and now found in an a number of LP languages. Recently, we can find papers on the integration of monads and list comprehensions from FP into LP. Finally, many researchers have considered hybrid languages that integrate the features of FP and LP synergistically. Another area of influence is implementation techniques. Lazy evaluation has made its way from FP to LP, as have numerous program analysis and transformation techniques. Of course the opposite question is also sensible. What is the influence of logic programming to functional programming? Here one can mention techniques to simulate logic variables (e.g. by lambda-abstractions) and to implement search. Topics: The workshop is open to all topics concerned with the use of functional programming techniques in logic programming. A non-exhaustive list is the following: Language features, such as higher-order functions, monads, type classes, list comprehensions, and integrated functional-logic languages. Execution principles, including lazy evaluation. Influences of FP implementation techniques on LP, ranging from full designs down to portions of an implementation. The modification of FP program analysis and transformation to cover aspects of LP. A comparison of the semantic underpinnings of FP and LP. Appication areas, environments for program development, and any other relation of interest. System demonstrations are also welcome. Submissions: Authors interested in presenting their work are invited to submit extended abstracts by June 14, 1996 to the contact address below. Manuscripts should not exceed 5 pages. Electronic submissions in Tex/LaTex/DVI/Postcript format are strongly encouraged. They will be notified of acceptance/rejection by July 1, 1996. The final version is due by July 22, 1994 and may contain 4 to 12 pages. The proceedings will appear as technical report. Organizers: Herbert Kuchen (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Juan Jos'e Moreno Navarro (Universidad Polit'ecnica Madrid, Spain) Philip Wadler (University of Glasgow, UK) Contact: Juan Jos'e Moreno Navarro Facultad de Inform'atica, Universidad Polit'ecnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo s/n Boadilla del Monte 28660 Madrid Spain Phone: +34 1 336 74 58 / Fax: +34 1 336 74 12 e-mail: jjmoreno@fi.upm.es 38) CfP KAW-96 "Distributed knowledge modeling over the Internet" Call for Papers Tenth Knowledge Acquisition for Know ledge-Based Systems Workshop KAW 96 Special Track "Distributed knowledge modeling over the Internet" November 9-14, 1996 Banff, Canada ________________________________________________________________________________ Draft Papers Due May 31, 1996 ________________________________________________________________________________ Within organizations knowledge is typically distributed on several experts and computer systems located in different cities all over the world. Acquisition, modelling, management of this distributed knowledge using the Internet is one focus of this special track. The second focus is the operationalization of and the access to distributed expertise with WWW techniques. Papers are welcome in any area concerning distributed knowledge and the Internet, including (but not limited to): - Knowledge Engineering and the World Wide Web - Techniques and Tools for Cooperative Knowledge Engineering - Planning and Coordinating Distributed Knowledge Engineering Processes - Groupware, CSCW and Workflow Management in Knowledge-Based Systems - WWW-based repositories for sharable ontologies and reusable problem-solving methods - Network-based terminology servers - Knowledge Modelling for Agent Architectures - Distributed Access to Knowledge Bases - Corporate Memory - Applications of Internet-Based Expert Systems Submissions should follow the general paper guideline of KAW 96 (which is included below). System demonstrations will be a part of the track (Contact Rob Kremer on the technical details). The track will be organized as a mixture of paper presentations and discussion sessions. We plan to have a 2-day track. Draft papers (up to 20 pages) should be sent electronically to Brian Gaines before May 31, 1996. Acceptance and revision notices will be e-mailed by July 31, 1996. Revised papers (20 pages) should be submitted by September 30, 1996, so that hardcopies may be bound together for distribution at the workshop. Authors who submit papers to the workshop will be expected to help with the refereeing of papers submitted by other individuals. Submission and review of papers, and coordination of all aspects of the meeting, will be through the Internet. Papers should be transmitted in postscript or common document processor format (e.g., Microsoft Word) either by e-mail to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, or by FTP to ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca in directory /incoming (with an email note to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca when the paper is transferred). Authors should indicate appropriate sessions/minitracks for each submission. If there is uncertainty regarding the optimum track for a paper, authors should contact the chairs of the track that seems closest, preferably in advance of the submission deadline. Depending on the range of papers received, some tracks may be collapsed whereas other tracks may be added in advance of the workshop. The world-wide web (WWW) will be used to coordinate the meeting and to provide further details of the tracks, paper formats, conference arrangements, and so on. Please see the following URL for more information about the workshop: http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW.html Contact the cochairs for more information about this track. Send submissions to Brian Gains directly. ________________________________________________________________________________ Track Cochairs: Frank Maurer University of Kaiserslautern Expert System Group P.O. Box 3049 D-67653 Kaiserslautern Germany Tel.: +49 631/205-3356 Fax: +49 631/205-3357 e-Mail: maurer@informatik.uni-kl.de WWW: http://wwwagr.informatik.uni-kl.de/~maurer Henrik Eriksson Dept. of Computer and Information Science Linkoping University S-581 83 Linkoping Sweden Tel.: +46 13 28 26 73 Fax: +46 13 14 22 31 e-Mail: her@ida.liu.se WWW: http://www.ida.liu.se/~her ________________________________________________________________________________ 39) CFP: Society for Math Psych conference, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 29th Annual MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY Meeting 1-4 August 1996 Sponsored by the Society for Mathematical Psychology and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The 29th Annual Mathematical Psychology Meeting will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The meetings will follow the usual format with paper sessions over two and a half days (2-4 August) with a banquet after the first day of papers. The Organizing Committee consists of Christina A. Burbeck, Elliot Hirshman, Jonathan A. Marshall (Co-Chair), Nestor Schmajuk, Thomas S. Wallsten (Co-Chair), and Yiu-Fai Yung. Keynote speakers: Amnon Rapoport, Stephen Grossberg. Programs of past meetings appear in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology and may be consulted for ideas concerning symposia as well as for ideas about areas that have not recently been covered. All members of the Society for Mathematical Psychology are welcome to make suggestions for symposia and invited speakers to the Program Committee as soon as possible. Possible special symposia at the meeting include: - Games and Human Behavior, in honor of Amnon Rapoport - Models of Binding Mechanisms in Vision Papers for the Mathematical Psychology Meeting may be submitted by regular members, student members, and nonmembers. Any one person may present only one paper but may be a coauthor of other papers, or may be an invited speaker or symposium participant. Papers will be limited to those in which mathematical, statistical, and simulation methods play a significant role in the development of psychological ideas or in the interpretation of results. Purely theoretical developments should clearly relate to some psychological issue or contribute to methodologies of obvious use in psychology. Experimental results should bear directly on some mathematical or simulation model. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts of papers must be received by 30 April 1996. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers are accepted on the basis of their quality and suitability and not according to the author's affiliation with the Society. For oral papers, presentation time will be limited to 25 minutes including five minutes for discussion. Sessions will be strictly timed. This year, we are considering adding a poster session. If there are sufficient submissions, we will do so. Poster presentations have the advantage of longer discussion time, less formality, and closer audience contact. The "status" associated with poster presentations will be equal to that associated with oral presentations. Submissions must include the following information: 1. For all authors and co-authors: - Names - Institutional affiliations - Mailing addresses - E-mail addresses - Telephone and fax numbers - Membership status in the Society for Mathematical Psychology (member, student member, or nonmember) 2. A specification of which co-author will present the paper at the meeting 3. Your preference for spoken/poster presentation: (a) Only wish to present a spoken paper (b) Prefer spoken paper, willing to give a poster (c) No preference; either spoken or poster is fine (d) Prefer poster, willing to give a spoken paper (e) Only willing to present a poster 4. Title of paper 5. Category of the paper. Choose the most appropriate category: (a) categorization (b) cognition and language (c) judgment, decision, and choice (d) information processing and performance (e) learning and memory (f) measurement and scaling (g) methodology and statistics (h) neural/neurophysiological modeling (i) physiology (j) psychophysics (k) sensation and perception (l) social psychology (m) other (please specify) 6. An abstract of 150-250 words E-mail submission of abstracts (and all other information) is greatly preferred, since this will facilitate compiling (without retyping) of an abstract book to be distributed at the meeting. The abstracts will also be published in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology after the meeting. Please e-mail your abstract in plain (ASCII) text format if possible, without MIME encoding, uuencoding, TeX formatting, or other modifications. Send abstracts to: Professor Jonathan A. Marshall Math Psych '96 Program Committee Department of Computer Science CB 3175, Sitterson Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175, U.S.A. E-mail marshall@cs.unc.edu Tel +1-919-962-1887, fax +1-919-962-1799 Address symposium outlines, and invited speaker suggestions to: Professor Thomas S. Wallsten Math Psych '96 Program Committee Department of Psychology CB 3270, Davie Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270, U.S.A. E-mail tom.wallsten@unc.edu Tel +1-919-962-2538, fax +1-919-962-2537 Send all other questions concerning the Mathematical Psychology Meeting to: Ms. Colleen R. Schwoerke Division of Continuing Education CB 1020, Friday Center University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1020, U.S.A. E-mail smp96@cs.unc.edu Tel +1-919-962-6298, fax +1-919-962-2061 Expenses: We anticipate that the registration fee will be $90 ($45 for students). The fee includes the banquet dinner and all conference materials. A late fee of $15 will apply to registrations after July 12. Low-cost dorm accommodations will be available, as will standard hotel rooms. Travel: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is approximately 20-25 minutes from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU). Information about accommodations and transportation will be sent in May or early June to members of the Society for Mathematical Psychology; others should contact Colleen Schwoerke at the above address. Information about the Society for Mathematical Psychology is available via the World Wide Web at http://www.socsci.uci.edu/smp/. This announcement is available at http://www.cs.unc.edu/~marshall/math.html. Sponsors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology, Department of Computer Science Society for Mathematical Psychology ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40) KAW'96 Track: CORPORATE MEMORY CORPORATE MEMORY & ENTERPRISE MODELING A track at the KAW'96 Tenth Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop Banff, Canada, November 9-14, 1996 ---- Draft Papers Due May 31, 1996 ----- __________________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION ----------- There is an increasing industrial interest in the capitalization of know-how of (geographically) dispersed groups of people in an organization. This know-how may relate to problem solving expertise in functional disciplines (e.g., design, testing, production), experiences of human resources, and project experiences in terms of project management issues (e.g., social and organizational aspects related to the project team), design technical issues (e.g., design rationales, history of solution space explored, concurrent engineering techniques), and lessons learned. The coherent integration of this dispersed know-how in a corporation is called ``corporate memory''. The use of a corporate memory is to enable concurrent engineering, to benefit from previous experiences to improve quality and efficiency of development/service efforts and to support dynamic, opportunistic project management and coordination. For example, a corporate memory may serve (i) to enable and support a gradual change of the way people in an enterprise work from a functional-oriented discipline to a project-driven, cross-functional work; (ii) to enable management of expertise available in an organization and to stimulate learning (through expertise transfer, cross-project fertilizations, dynamic project teams, and distributed control); and (iii) to enable and support the formation of virtual corporations (temporal alliances among enterprises based on key competence). The construction of a corporate memory demands abilities to manage disparate know-how and heterogeneous viewpoints, to make this assemblage of know-how accessible and suitable for group problem solving, to integrate and store knowledge-bases which are easily accessible, manipulable and usable. It may involve: - The analysis and modeling of an enterprise, its evolution through time, the experience acquired from past projects; - The integration of models of expertise from different groups in an organization into a coherent corporate expertise model. - The construction and integration of (distributed, heterogeneous) knowledge-bases or knowledge-based systems stemming from multiple experts. - The development of "intelligent" electronic documentation with knowledge bases linked to this documentation, - The development of a technology to enable and stimulate the use of the documented and implemented corporate memory - Knowledge sharing between different groups (in particular by exploiting the World Wide Web) - Adaptation or extension of corporate memory (in particular by exploiting the World Wide Web) - Assessment of concrete applications to support a corporate memory Research on corporate memories demands multi-disciplinary work. For example, "How can we add organizational aspects to current techniques of knowledge acquisition?", "What are the enabling and stimulating conditions (at the information and social level) for cooperation in a heterogeneous group of people?", "What are the enabling and stimulating conditions for corporate learning to improve and enhance its key competence?". CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- We solicit papers that survey technology, discuss original research, and/or describe concrete application-oriented experiments (and the lessons learned) related to the components, construction, and use of a corporate memory. We particularly encourage papers that explore a multi-disciplinary approach. Draft papers (up to 20 pages) should be sent electronically to Brian Gaines (gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca) before May 31, 1996. Acceptance and revision notices will be e-mailed by July 31, 1996. Revised papers (20 pages) should be submitted by September 30, 1996, so that hardcopies may be bound together for distribution at the workshop. Authors who submit papers to the workshop will be expected to help with the refereeing of papers submitted by other individuals. Submission and review of papers, and coordination of all aspects of the meeting, will be through the Internet. Papers should be transmitted in postscript or common document processor format (e.g., Microsoft Word) either by e-mail to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, or by FTP to ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca in directory /incoming (with an email note to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca when the paper is transferred). Authors should indicate appropriate sessions/minitracks for each submission. If there is uncertainty regarding the optimum track for a paper, authors should contact the chairs of the track that seems closest, preferably in advance of the submission deadline. Demonstrations of concrete experiments and applications of corporate memory will be an important feature of the workshop, and a range of high-performance workstations will be provided. Authors submitting to this track should contact Rob Kremer (kremer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca) about the logistics of setting up demonstrations and showing videos. Participation by graduate students is particularly encouraged. There will be a number of awards for reduced conference fees to full-time graduate students whose papers are accepted. If appropriate, please indicate that you wish to apply for such an award when you submit a paper. FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------- The world-wide web (WWW) will be used to coordinate the meeting and to provide further details of the tracks, paper formats, conference arrangements, and so on. Please see the following URL for more information about the workshop: http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW.html TRACK CHAIRS: ------------- Rose Dieng and Johan Vanwelkenhuysen INRIA, Acacia project 2004, route des Lucioles - BP 93 F-06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France E-mail: Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr Johan.Vanwelkenhuysen@sophia.inria.fr 41) Information Theory and the Brain II First call for papers: Information Theory and the Brain II To be held on the 20-21st of September, Headland Hotel, Newquay, Cornwall, England. http://www.mrc-bbc.ox.ac.uk/~itb2/conference.html This is the sequal to the conference held in Stirling, Scotland last year. Presentations on any topic relating ideas from either information theory or statistics, to the operation on the brain are welcomed. It is hoped that an informal atmosphere can be maintained in the plesant surroundings that Newquay provides. This year the conference will be held in the Cornish town of Newquay. Apart from being one of the best areas for surfing in Europe, the surrounding countryside is amongst the most beautiful in Britain. The conference will be held in the spectacular Headland Hotel right next to the famous Fistral Beach and in mid September the water is at its warmest, the surf is starting to get larger, and the summer holiday crowds have headed home. Organsing Commitee: Roland Baddeley (Chair) Nick Chater Peter Foldiak Peter Hancock Bruno Olshausen Dan Ruderman Simon Schultz Guy Wallis Send short (less than one page) abstacts, and any requests for further information either electronically to itb2@psy.ox.ac.uk, or by surface mail to: IBT2 c/o Roland Baddeley, Dept of Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England OX1 3UD Registration will be 40 pounds (about $60 U.S.) with the participants expected to find their own accommodation. This varies in price from as low as 5 pounds for the most basic upwards. Accommodation in the summer can be hard to find but by the 20th, most summer holidays have finished and the situation is much better. More information on accommodation can be found at the above mentioned web page. 42) EANN96 Conference INVITATION FOR PARTICIPATION AND PROGRAM OUTLINE International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN '96) King's College London Strand campus, London, England June 17--19, 1996 The International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN '96) is the second conference in the series. The conference is a forum for presenting the latest results on neural network applications in technical fields. 156 papers from over 20 countries have been accepted for oral presentation after a review of the abstracts. Some more information on the conference EANN '96 is available on the world wide web site at http://www.lpac.ac.uk/EANN96, and on EANN '95 at http://www.abo.fi/~abulsari/EANN95.html Conference secretariat E-mail address : eann96@lpac.ac.uk Address : EANN '96, c/o Dr. D. Tsaptsinos, Kingston University, Mathematics, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE, UK. Fax: +44 181 5477419 Organisers and co-sponsors Systems Engineering Association IEEE UK Regional Interest Group on Neural Networks London Parallel Applications Centre Neural CCS Ltd. IEE (British Institution of Electrical Engineers) Professional Group C4 Conference chairmen: Abhay Bulsari and Dimitris Tsaptsinos Registration information The conference fee is sterling (GBP) 360. The conference fee can be paid by a bank cheque or a bank draft (no personal cheques) payable to EANN '96, to be sent to EANN '96, c/o Dr. D. Tsaptsinos, Kingston University, Mathematics, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE, UK. The fee includes attendance to the conference and the proceedings. Registration form can be sent to you by e-mail and you may return it by e-mail (or post or fax) once the conference fee has been sent. A registration form sent before the payment of the conference fee is not valid. For more information, please ask eann96@lpac.ac.uk The tentative program outline is as on the following page. The detailed program will be prepared in the end of April. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM OUTLINE International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN '96) Room A Room B Monday, 17 June 0800 Registration 0830 Opening 0845 Vision (1) Control Systems (1) 1200 --- lunch break --- 1330 Vision (2) Control Systems (2) 1630 Discussion session on Vision Discussion session on Control Tuesday, 18 June 0830 Biomedical Engineering Mechanical Engineering 1200 --- lunch break --- 1330 Process Engineering Robotics 1500 Chemical Engineering 1630 Discussion session on Chemical Engineering Wednesday, 19 June 0830 Speech and signal processing Metallurgical Engineering 1030 Classification systems Discussion session on Metallurgy 1200 --- lunch break --- 1330 Hardware Applications General Applications 1600 Hybrid systems 1800 Closing The indicated times are approximate and changes are still possible. 43) Announcement and Call for Papers ISFL'97 Announcement and Call for Papers Second International ICSC Symposium on FUZZY LOGIC AND APPLICATIONS ISFL'97 To be held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland February 12 - 14, 1997 I. SPONSORS Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland and ICSC, International Computer Science Conventions, Canada/Switzerland II. PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE This conference is the successor of the highly successful meeting held in Zurich in 1995 (ISFL'95) and is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of new developments in fuzzy logic and its applications. An invitation to participate is extended both to those who took part in ISFL'95 and to others working in this field. Applications of fuzzy logic have played a significant role in industry, notably in the field of process and plant control, especially in applications where accurate modelling is difficult. The organisers hope that contributions will come not only from this field, but also from newer applications areas, perhaps in business, financial planning management, damage assessment, security, and so on. III. TOPICS Contributions are sought in areas based on the list below, which is indicative only. Contributions from new application areas will be particularly welcome. - Basic concepts such as various kinds of Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Relations, Possibility Theory - Neuro-Fuzzy Systems and Learning - Fuzzy Decision Analysis - Image Analysis with Fuzzy Techniques - Mathematical Aspects such as non-classical logics, Category Theory, Algebra, Topology, Chaos Theory - Modeling, Identification, Control - Robotics - Fuzzy Reasoning, Methodology and Applications, for example in Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Cluster Analysis, Game Theory, Mathematical Programming, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing - Implementation, for example in Engineering, Process Control, Production, Medicine - Design - Damage Assessment - Security - Business, Finance, Management IV. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (ISC) - Honorary Chairman: M. Mansour, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich - Chairman: N. Steele, Coventry University, U.K. - Vice-Chairman: E. Badreddin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich - Members: E. Alpaydin, Turkey P.G. Anderson, USA Z. Bien, Korea H.H. Bothe, Germany G. Dray, France R. Felix, Germany J. Godjevac, Switzerland H. Hellendoorn, Germany M. Heiss, Austria K. Iwata, Japan M. Jamshidi, USA E.P. Klement, Austria B. Kosko, USA R. Kruse, Germany F. Masulli, Italy S. Nahavandi, New Zealand C.C. Nguyen, USA V. Novak, Czech Republic R. Palm, Germany D.W. Pearson, France I. Perfilieva, Russia B. Reusch, Germany G.D. Smith, U.K. V. ORGANISING COMMITTEE ISFL'97 is a joint operation between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich and International Computer Science Conventions (ICSC), Canada/Switzerland. VI. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by ICSC Academic Press. In addition, some selected papers may also be considered for journal publication. VII. SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS Prospective authors are requested to send two copies of their abstracts of 500 words for review by the International Scientific Committee. All abstracts must be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. If authors believe that more details are necessary to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the International Scientific Committee. The abstract should also include: - Title of proposed paper - Authors names, affiliations, addresses - Name of author to contact for correspondence - E-mail address and fax number of contact author - Name of topic which best describes the paper (max. 5 keywords) Contributions are welcome from those working in industry and having experience in the topics of this conference as well as from academics. The conference language is English. Abstracts may be submitted either by electronic mail (ASCII text), fax or mail (2 copies) to either one of the following addresses: ICSC Canada P.O. Box 279 Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0 Canada Fax: +1-403-387-4329 Email: icsc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca or ICSC Switzerland P.O. Box 657 CH-8055 Zurich Switzerland VIII. OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Anyone wishing to organise a workshop, tutorial or discussion, is requested to contact the chairman of the conference, Prof. Nigel Steele (e-mail: nsteele@coventry.ac.uk / phone: +44-1203-838568 / fax: +44-1203-838585) before August 31, 1996. IX. DEADLINES AND REGISTRATION It is the intention of the organisers to have the conference proceedings available for the delegates. Consequently, the deadlines below are to be strictly respected: - Submission of Abstracts: May 31, 1996 - Notification of Acceptance: August 31, 1996 - Delivery of full papers: October 31, 1996 X. ACCOMMODATION Block reservations will be made at nearby hotels and accommodation at reasonable rates (not included in the registration fee) will be available upon registration (full details will follow with the letters of acceptance) XI. SOCIAL AND TOURIST ACTIVITIES A social programme, including a reception, will be organized on the evening of February 13, 1997. This acitivity will also be available for accompanying persons. Winter is an attractive season in Switzerland and many famous alpine resorts are in easy reach by rail, bus or car for a one or two day excursion. The city of Zurich itself is the proud home of many art galleries, museums or theatres. Furthermore, the world famous shopping street 'Bahnhofstrasse' or the old part of the town with its many bistros, bars and restaurants are always worth a visit. XII. INFORMATION For further information please contact either of the following: - ICSC Canada, P.O. Box 279, Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0, Canada E-mail: icsc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Fax: +1-403-387-4329 Phone: +1-403-387-3546 - ICSC Switzerland, P.O. Box 657, CH-8055 Zurich, Switzerland Fax: +41-1-761-9627 - Prof. Nigel Steele, Chairman ISFL'97, Coventry University, U.K. E-mail: nsteele@coventry.ac.uk Fax: +44-1203-838585 Phone: +44-1203-838568 44) AI in Medicine journal ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE Elsevier Science B.V. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) is an international journal and publishes original articles from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives concerning the theory and practice of medical artificial intelligence. Particular attention is focused on: - AI-based clinical decision-making - Medical knowledge engineering - Knowledge-based systems in medical education and research - Intelligent medical information systems - Intelligent databases, books and libraries - Intelligent devices and instruments - Medical AI tools - Reasoning and metareasoning in medicine - Methodological, philosophical, ethical, and social issues of AI in medicine. The journal features: original contributions, tutorials, comments and discussions, research notes, reviews and bibliographies, current literature and events, medically relevant AI, software and hardware news, and letters to the editor. The journal is abstracted/indexed in the following with high citation scores: - Science Citation Index - Biomedical Engineering Citation Index - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Computer Abstracts - Current Contents, Clinical Medicine - EMBASE - Engineering Index/Compendex - Index Medicus/MEDLINE - INSPEC Information Services Furthermore, it is listed as an approved journal by the Publications Committee of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. Since its launching in 1989, AIM has established itself as a leading journal in its field of interest, timely reporting on all important theoretical and technological developments. As a direct result of the major success of the journal, Elsever Science B.V. has decided, as from this year, to increase the number of annual issues of the journal from six to nine. Thus the relevant research communities will be informed even more rapidly on significant breakthroughs. Thematic Issues: >From its early days, as an indication of the importance of thematic issues in offering comprehensive expositions on the state-of-the-art in established but especially upcoming, promising, research endevours, AIM has regularly featured thematic issues: Recent thematic issues include: - Reusing Knowledge in Intelligent Systems, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1995 (Guest Editors: M.A.Musen (Stanford,CA,USA), A.Th.Schreiber (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)) - Interpreting Clinical Data, Vol. 7, No. 6, 1995 (Guest Editor: I.S.Kohane (Boston,MA,USA)). - Temporal Reasoning in Medicine, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1996 (Guest Editor: E.T.Keravnou (University of Cyprus)). Manuscripts for standard issues should be submitted either to the Editor-in-chief or the Associate editor. Submission guidelines for manuscripts are available on request again either from the Editor-in-chief or the Associate editor. Editor-in-chief: K.S. Zadeh University of Munster Medical Institutions 48149 Munster Germany fax: (Germany)-251-83-5339 tel: (Germany)-251-83-5291 email: kzadeh@camis.stanford.edu Associate editor: E.T. Keravnou Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus Kallipoleos 75, P.O.Box 537 CY-1678 Nicosia Cyprus fax: (Cyprus)-357-2-339062 tel: (Cyprus)-357-2-338705/6 email: elpida@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy 45) CFP PLILP/SAS'96 Joint international conference ALP/PLILP/SAS'96 Aachen, Germany September 24-27, 1996 ******************************************* * * * DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MAY 6, 1996 * * * ******************************************* FOR MORE DETAILS SEE WWW-PAGE: http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/aachen96/ ALP: Fifth International Conference on Algebraic and Logic Programming Topics (non exclusive list): - Semantics of algebraic and logic programming - Integration of functional and logic programming - Term rewriting, narrowing, resolution - Constraint logic programming and theorem proving with constraints - Concurrent features in algebraic and logic programming languages - Higher order features in algebraic and logic programming languages Program Committee Michael Hanus (Germany) Co-Chair Mario Rodríguez-Artalejo (Spain) Co-Chair Sergio Antoy (USA) Egidio Astesiano (Italy) Jürgen Avenhaus (Germany) Pierre Deransart (France) Laurent Fribourg (France) Joxan Jaffar (Singapore) Giorgio Levi (Italy) Karl Meinke (UK) Aart Middeldorp (Japan) Luis Monteiro (Portugal) Fernando Orejas (Spain) Catuscia Palamidessi (Italy) Frank Pfenning (USA) Mario Rodríguez-Artalejo (Spain) Vijay Saraswat (USA) Peter Stuckey (Australia) Andrzej Tarlecki (Poland) Andrei Voronkov (Sweden) Martin Wirsing (Germany) PLILP: Eighth International Symposium on Programming Languages, Implementations, Logics, and Programs Topics (non exclusive list): - Implementation of declarative concepts - Integration of different paradigms - Compiler specification and construction - Program analysis and transformation - Programming environments - Executable specifications - Reasoning about language constructs - Experiences in constructing applications - Typing and structuring systems Program Committee Herbert Kuchen (Germany) Co-Chair Doaitse Swierstra (Netherlands) Co-Chair Maria Alpuente (Spain) Patrick Cousot (France) Yike Guo (UK) Maurizio Gabbrielli (Italy) Fritz Henglein (Denmark) Tetsuo Ida (Japan) Gerda Janssens (Belgium) Thomas Johnsson (Sweden) Daniel Le Metayer (France) Alexander Letichevsky (Ukraine) Rita Loogen (Germany) Jan Maluszynski (Sweden) Erik Meijer (Netherlands) Dale Miller (USA) Masaki Murakami (Japan) Rinus Plasmeijer (Netherlands) Laurence Puel (France) Gert Smolka (Germany) Pascal van Hentenryck (USA) SAS: Third International Static Analysis Symposium Topics (non exclusive list): - Abstract Interpretation - Optimising Compilers - Complexity - Theoretical Frameworks - Experimental Evaluation - Verification Systems - Specific Analyses - Type Inference - Partial Evaluation - Abstract Domains Program Committee Radhia Cousot, CNRS & École Polytechnique (France) Co_Chair Dave Schmidt, Kansas State University, Manhattan, (USA) Co_Chair François Bourdoncle, Ecole des Mines, Sophia-Antipolis, FR Alain Deutsch, INRIA, Rocquencourt, FR Roberto Giacobazzi, Pisa University, IT Nicolas Halbwachs, Verimag, Grenoble, FR Chris Hankin, Imperial College, UK William L. Harrison, Connected Components, Cambridge, US Neil Jones, Copenhagen University, DK Peter Lee, Carnegie Mellon University, US Kim Mariott, Monash University, AU Jens Palsberg, MIT/Aarhus University, US/DK Hanne Riis-Nielson, Aarhus University, DK Carolyn Talcott, Stanford University, US Mads Tofte, Copenhagen University, DK Reinhard Wilhelm, Saarbrücken University, DE Important Dates _______________ Deadline for submissions: May 6, 1996 Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 25, 1996 Deadline for final text: July 17, 1996 Guide for authors _________________ (see also: http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/aachen96/ ) Authors are invited to send their manuscripts by email in PostScript or DVI format to: ALP: alp96@informatik.rwth-aachen.de PLILP: plilp96@informatik.rwth-aachen.de SAS: rcousot@lix.polytechnique.fr Papers must describe original, previously unpublished research, be written and presented in English, not exceed 15 pages (A4 or letter format, up to 5,000 words, excluding references and figures), and not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. The cover page should include a 200-word abstract, keywords, postal and electronic mailing addresses, and phone numbers and fax numbers of one of the authors. At the moment of submission a message containing the title of the paper, authors, abstract, keywords, and the address information outlined above should be sent by email (ALP, PLILP, SAS) to the corresponding address. The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. You are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX for the preparation of your camera-ready manuscript together with the corresponding Springer style files llncs (see the web page). 46) Cognitive Modelling 1st announcement First announcement for the CCCCC CCCCCCCC CCC CCC First European Workshop on Cognitive Modelling CCC CCCCC CCC CCC in conjunction with EuroSoar-10 CCCCC CCCCCCCC *** Please distibute! Thanks. *** 14--16 November 1996, Berlin, Germany General Information: The workshop is introduced to establish interdisciplinary co-operation in the domain of cognitive modelling. It should be of interest for researchers in the fields of artifical intelligence, cognitive psychology and computer linguistics. The workshop is organized in conjunction with EuroSoar-10 and is open for work on cognitive modelling using general architectures (as SOAR and ACT) as well as other kinds of simulation models. Program: The program will include presentations of papers, demo sessions, discussion groups and tutorials on cognitive modelling in the fields of AI programming, classification, problem solving, reasoning, inference, learning, language processing and human-computer-interaction. Organization: Because this is the first time, this workshop will be organized, we would appreciate early feedback on possible attendees and their interests (please respond until April, 25th, preferably by email). A first Call for Papers with more specific informations will follow at the end of April. If you are interested in participation: PLEASE FILL THE FOLLOWING FORM AND SEND IT PER EMAIL TO schmid@cs.tu-berlin.de -------------------------------------------------------------------- SURNAME: FIRST NAME: AREA OF RESEARCH (AI, Psychology, Linguistics, other): ADDRESS: EMAIL: >>> I work on cognitive modelling * with (ACT, SOAR, LISP, PROLOG, other): * in the field of (problem solving, learning ...): >>> I would be interested to * give a tutorial on ... * present a paper about ... * present a demo on ... * establish a discussion group about ... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for a quick response! Organization and contact for the workshop on cognitive modelling: Ute Schmid Institute of Applied Computer Science Technische Universitaet Berlin Franklinstr. 28/29 D-10587 Berlin Phone: +49-30-314-23938 Fax: +49-30-314-24913 email: schmid@cs.tu-berlin.de 47) !!!!!!! FQAS i DK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Workshop on Flexible Query-Answering Systems FQAS'96: Roskilde University, Denmark May 22-24, 1996 http://knud.ruc.dk/fqas/ Following the first event in 1994 we hereby announce the second Flexible Query-Answering Systems workshop FQAS'96 to take place in Roskilde, Denmark at May 22-24, 1996. The workshop provides a forum for discussing issues and current research in logic, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence, databases, natural language and knowledge representation, related to enhancements of inquiring or query-answering systems into intelligent/flexible systems. As the amount of information available from local or distributed information bases increases, so does the demand for advanced means for accessing that information. In need are interfaces and system functionality that appears both easy to use and flexible in answering the users' needs, in other words systems with flexibility in both querying and answering. Committee --------- Amihai Motro Lars Baekgaard Bernadette Bouchon-Menuier M. Amparo Vila Gregers Kock Olivier Pivert Hans Dybkjaer Patrick Bosc Henning Christiansen Peter Ingwersen Henri Prade Rita De Caluwe Henrik Legind Larsen Robert Demolombe Jonas Barklund Ronald R. Yager Jorgen Fischer-Nilsson Stefania Costantini Jose Nuno Oliveira Troels Andreasen Organizers ---------- Troels Andreasen Email: troels@ruc.dk Henrik Legind Larsen Email: hll@ruc.dk Henning Christiansen Email: henning@ruc.dk Invited Speakers ---------------- Robert Demolombe "Answering queries about Validity and Completeness of data: from Modal Logic to Relational Algebra" Henri Prade "Why and how using fuzzy sets in database systems?" Ronald R. Yager "Intelligent Agents in Information Systems" List of accepted papers ----------------------- Jonas Barklund and Pierangelo Dell'Acqua, Stefania Costantini and Gatetano A. Lanzarone "Multiple Metareasoning Agents" Lars B{kgaard "Flexible Manipulation of Schema Independent Databases" Domenico Beneventano, Sonia Bergamaschi, Claudio Sartori "Semantic Query Optimization by Subsumption in OODB" Dan Rasmussen, Ronald R. Yager "SummarySQL - A Flexible Fuzzy Query Language" Hiroshi Tsuji, Sunsuke Akifuji, Hirohide Endoh "Knowledge Based Schemes for Flexible Query-Answering Expert Systems" J|rgen Fisher Nilsson, Henrik Legind Larsen "Fuzzy Querying using Concept Algebra" Hiroshi Tsuji, Yukiko Morimoto, Yasuharu Namba, Hisao Mase, Hiroshi Kinukawa, Hirohide Endoh "User Guidance Function in Natural Language Interface for Document Query and Handling" Marta Gatius, Horacio Rodriguez "A domain-restricted task-guided Natural Language Interface Generator" Salee Na, Seog Park "Management of Fuzzy Objects with Fuzzy Attribute Values in A Fuzzy Object Oriented Data Model" Laurence Cholvy "Answering queries addressed to a group of deductive databases" Henning Christiansen, Troels Andreasen "A experimental prototype for flexible query-answering mechanisms - A metainterpretation approach" Berthier A.N. Ribeiro, Richard Muntz "Fuzzy Ranking of Approximate Answers" Hans Dybkj{r, Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkj{r "Inferential Issues in a Spoken Language Dialogue System" Christine Bonnet "Using Description Logics to Generate Answers in Incomplete Databases" J.M. Medina, O. Pons, J.C. Cubero, M.A. Vila "FREDDI: A Fuzzy Relational Deductive Database Interface" Mee-Sun Jeon, Se-Young Park, Man-soo Kim "The Information Filtering Using the Keyfact" Ralf Kramer, Ralf Nikolai "Accessing Multilingual, heterogeneous Data Sources in Wide Area Networks" How to get here --------------- >From Copenhagen Airport: Take SAS bus to central station and take the train in direction Roskilde some 25 minutes. The university has its own station just before Roskilde, called TREKRONER, but not all trains stop here. The recommended (special priced) Hotel Prindsen is situated in the centre of Roskilde a few minutes from the station, and all trains passing stops in Roskilde. To get from Roskilde City to the University take bus 624 or the train to Trekroner. Detailed train and bus schedule will appear in our WWW pages http://knud.ruc.dk/fqas/ in due time. =========================================================== HOTEL REGISTRATION =========================================================== We suggest you contact HOTEL PRINDSEN which is a pleasant hotel situated in the main street of Roskilde. Remember to indicate FQAS'96 in order to get the following reduced prices: Single room DKK 500 Double room DKK 680 These prices are also valid if you wish to stay some days before or after the arrangement. The hotel is only a few minutes walk from the train station in Roskilde and is easy to find. HOTEL PRINDSEN Algade 13 DK-4000 Roskilde, DENMARK Fax: +45 46358110 (remember to indicate FQAS'96) Tel: +45 46358010 (remember to indicate FQAS'96) =========================================================== WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FORM =========================================================== Name: ________________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________________ E-mail: ______________ Workshop fee, including lunches, coffee DKK 800 __________ Workshop dinner Thursday: DKK 300 __________ Total amount DKK __________ =========================================================== Please return the above form by email to troels@ruc.dk before May 6 The payment can be made in advance to the following: Account: 6160 167595-4 Bank: Roskilde Bank Algade 14 DK-4000 Roskilde "Copenhagen 96" - Cultural Capital of Europe 1996 ------------------------------------------------- Copenhagen 96 is the twelfth Cultural Capital of Europe. Every year since the programme started in 1985 an EU country has appointed one of their cities Cultural Capital of Europe, and every city has chosen a different way of meeting the challenge. Copenhagen 96 has resolved to go further than any city so far. During Whitsun (May 24-27, 1996), in the days following FQAS'96, Copenhagen 96 has already registered more than 300 cultural events. So if you consider to attend FQAS'96, a Whitsun holiday is a perfect way to extend your stay in Copenhagen. You can find more information about Copenhagen 96 at the www site: http://info.denet.dk/cph96/ Contact ------- Troels Andreasen Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, bldg. 20.1, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark phone: +45 46 75 77 11 fax: +45 46 75 42 01 Email: troels@ruc.dk www: http://knud.ruc.dk/fqas/ 48) CFP: Knowledge Representation in Neural Networks FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop at KI-96: "Knowledge Representation in Neural Networks" Sept.17 - Sept.19, 1996 in Dresden, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Contents: --------- In correspondence with the focus of the main conference on "knowledge representation" this workshop concentrates on knowledge representation in or by means of neural architectures. The representation of symbolic knowledge in neural networks is of increasing interest for the symbiosis of neural information processing and "classical" AI. Artificial neural network approaches have proven to be very efficient in the field of pattern recognition, classification and nonlinear statistical analysis, but there are still very few applications of neural networks for symbolic processing. Up to now, research in this field is limited to theoretical aspects. We therefore encourage submissions on applications in this field. The following items should be seen as a guideline for submissions: * Integration of a-priori-knowledge in neural architectures * Extraction of symbolic knowledge * Suitable representations for mapping knowledge to neural networks * Exploitation of the special features inherent to neural architectures for logic-related problems * Semantical interpretation of the behaviour of neural networks Special attention should be paid to the following questions: * What is gained for classical symbolic approaches by a neural implementation? * What is gained for neural approaches by a symbolic interpretation? * Why and for which aspects of problems solving has the approach been used? * To what extent are comparisons of the perfomance of classical symbol processing systems and neural methods available? Submissions: ------------ Authors should submit 3 copies of a full paper in English of 6 to 10 pages in a predefined style. This style is available at URL: http://www.imi.gla.ac.uk/springer/eWiC/Styles/SubmissionGuidelines.html Furthermore, authors of accepted papers have to submit a one-page abstract in German for the proceedings of the main conference (non-German-speaking authors may submit an English abstract). We plan to publish the accepted full paper versions in form of workshop proceedings in the Springer Workshops in Computing-series. Each talk will be reserved 1/2 hour time including a discussion. Talks have to be given in English. Please send submissions to: Neural Network Workshop, c/o Christoph Herrmann, TH Darmstadt, FG Intellektik Alexanderstr. 10, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany Tel. 06151/16-6630, Fax: 06151/16-5326 E-Mail: NNWS96@intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Dates: ------ April 30, 1996: Deadline for submission of full paper May 31, 1996 : Notification of acceptance June 30, 1996 : Deadline for submission of one-page abstract Organizers: ----------- Christoph Herrmann (TH Darmstadt) Frank Reine (Carl Schenck AG) Antje Strohmaier (TU Dresden) WWW-Information: ---------------- http://kirmes.inferenzsysteme.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~chris/nn/WS.e.html --- +- Frank Reine ------------+-----------------------------+ | Internet: reine@csd.de | Carl Schenck AG, Abt. FESI | | Voice : 49-6151-323681 | Landwehrstr. 55 | | Fax : 49-6151-321256 | D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany | | http://www.dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de/rei/rei.html | +--------------------------+-----------------------------+ 49) 3 Research Studentships available PLEASE PASS ON TO ANY FINAL YEAR UNDERGRADUATES OR MASTERS WHO ARE SEEKING FUNDED PHD PLACES. Sorry if you receive this more than once. 3 RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS IN NEURAL COMPUTING AND ROBOTICS Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Three funded PhD studentships are available, two from from 1st August, and one from end of September, 1996. The first of these is restricted to British Students only and the other 2 are for students from countries within the European Community. 1. Neural Computing. Projects on any topic within the field of neural computing will be considered. Two areas of particular interest are (a) Improving the reliability of neural computing applications through the use of ensembles of nets and (b) Cognitive modelling, transfer and interference. 2. Autonomous Mobile Robotics. The project would provide an ideal opportunity for a creative student to work on the development of ``intelligent'' behaviour on a mobile robot. Neural computing techniques have already been applied in our lab to develop a number of low level behaviours on a Nomad200. The student would be expected to develop higher level behavioural control. There are a number of different approaches that could be taken. For example: using representations developed at the lower levels to induce higher level behaviours or using a human and animal developmental paradigm. However, nothing is set in stone for this project and a good proposal will go a long way. 3. Pharmaceutical Robotics Aim: The development of a neural computing system for coordinating robot arms in the task of mixing dangerous drugs. This project is in collaboration with the Pharmacy Unit at the Northern General Hospital. Their problem is that they currently employ more than twenty highly-qualified specialist staff to spend a large part of their day involved in the rather tedious task of mixing drugs. Since many of the drugs are very dangerous to humans (such as anti-cancer drugs), much of the work has to take place inside a sealed glass case that is accessed by attached gloves (a glove box). The solution is to put robot arms into the cases and let them do most of the work. It should be noted that this is a research project and offers a number of interesting robotics problems. The student would not be expected to develop a commercial system. Further information about neural computing within the Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (AINN) research group can be viewed on WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nn (This will not be ready to view until Wednesday, 1st, May). Application forms may be obtained from our PhD admission secretary Jill Martin jill@dcs.shef.ac.uk. Or write to Ms J. Martin, Department of Computer Science, 211 Portabello St., Sheffield, S1 4DP, S. Yorks, UK. Forms should be accompanied by a short proposal (less than a page) about what the applicant would like to work on, but this does not commit the applicant. 50) Expert Systems 96: Call for Tutorials BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY SPECIALIST GROUP ON EXPERT SYSTEMS EXPERT SYSTEMS '96 (ES96) CALL FOR TUTORIAL & WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The 16th annual conference of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems, ES96, is being held at St John's College, Cambridge between 16th and 18th December 1996. The SGES Committee invites proposals for Tutorials or Workshops to be held in conjunction with the Conference. The tutorials and workshops will be held on the first day, Monday 16 December 1996. Proposals for full and half day tutorials or workshops, from an individual or group of presenters, will be considered. They may be offered on topics in theoretical and applied AI relating to: knowledge engineering methods; model-based reasoning; verification and validation of KBS; constraint satisfaction; intelligent agents; machine learning; natural language understanding; case-based reasoning, knowledge discovery in databases or any other related topics. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial or workshop should submit a proposal to the Conference Secretariat: Mrs Kit Stones The Conference Team 17 Spring Road Kempston Bedford MK42 8LS Tel/Fax +44 (0)1234-302490 kstonestct@cix.compulink.co.uk SUBMISSION A tutorial or workshop proposal must contain the following information: (1) A brief description of the tutorial or workshop, suitable for inclusion in our promotional literature. (2) A detailed outline of the tutorial or workshop. This must be in the following format and adhere to the following guidelines: (1) Objectives: What should delegates learn or be able to do as a result of attending your tutorial or workshop? Have a small number (often just one) of very general objectives, with the most important one first. Keep in mind that the intended audience consists of anyone who would benefit from achieving the objectives, and has fulfilled any prerequisites. (2) Content: When determining content, make sure the correspondence between the content and the objectives is clear (i.e. how the objectives will be met). (3) Prerequisites: List any technical skills or background knowledge that is assumed by the content or will be required to meet the objectives. (4) Provisional Timetable: This may need to change to accommodate tea/coffee breaks, etc. (5) Special Equipment: Specify any equipment requirements, indicating whether the Conference organisers would be expected to meet them. It is unlikely that ES96 can accommodate practical sessions involving use of computer equipment. (6) Resume: Include a brief resume of the presenter(s). This should include: background in the topic area, references to published work in the topic area. This material, or part of it, may also be used in Conference promotional material. (7) 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. AFTER ACCEPTANCE The presenter(s) of accepted tutorials or workshops must submit a top copy of tutorial or workshop notes for delegates to the Conference Secretariat not later than 1 November 1996. If they are not received by this date, the presenters must bring with them a sufficient number of copies for delegates attending their tutorial or workshop. The Conference is willing to pay for reasonable travel and subsistence for one presenter (per half day tutorial or workshop) for travel within the UK only. It is up to the presenter(s) to check this level of subsistence with the Conference Secretariat before committing to it. 51) IEE Colloquium on Knowledge Discovery: THE INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS PROFESSIONAL GROUP C4 (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY SPECIALIST GROUP ON EXPERT SYSTEMS (SGES) COLLOQUIUM ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY LONDON, OCTOBER 17TH-18TH 1996 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS This colloquium is organised by Professional Group C4 (Artificial Intelligence) of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, in collaboration with the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems (SGES) and will be held at the IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2 on October 17th and 18th 1996. Knowledge Discovery has been defined as 'the non-trivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful information from data'. The underlying technologies include rule induction, case-based reasoning, genetic algorithms, neural networks and statistics. There is a rapidly growing body of successful applications of these and other related technologies in a wide range of areas including manufacturing, telecommunications, marketing, medicine and finance. Contributions are invited on all aspects of Knowledge Discovery from theoretical issues through to commercial applications. Prospective contributors are invited to submit an extended abstract, outlining the material they propose to present, by Friday July 12th 1996 at the latest. Speakers will receive free entry to the colloquium and their travel expenses will be reimbursed by the IEE. Abstracts should be sent either by post or by electronic mail to the colloquium chairman: Professor Max Bramer, Department of Information Science, University of Portsmouth, Milton, Southsea PO4 8JF. Tel: 01705 - 844444 Fax: 01705 - 844006 Email: bramerma@csovax.portsmouth.ac.uk For all other information, contact: Ms. Sarah Evans, IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL. Tel: 0171 - 240 - 1871 Fax: 0171-497-3633 Email: sevans@iee.org.uk 52) CfP Agent-Oriented Approaches to KE Call for Papers AGENT-ORIENTED APPROACHES TO KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING (Deadline: May 31, 1996) Track in Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, KAW'96, Banff, Canada November 10-14, 1996 Track chairs: Frances Brazier, Jan Treur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Group Email: {frances,treur}@cs.vu.nl Recent technological developments have considerably increased the amount of information exchanged between systems across the world. New developments at the level of hardware (parallel systems, fibre, protocols, the digital information superhighway), distributed operating systems and distributed databases have provided the means for industry to develop distributed, multi-agent industrial applications. As multi-agent technology begins to emerge as a viable solution for large- scale industrial and commercial applications, there is an increasing need to ensure that the systems developed are robust, reliable and fit for purpose. To this end, it is important that the basic principles and lessons of software and knowledge engineering are applied to the development and deployment of multi-agent systems. At present, the majority of existing agent applications are developed in an ad hoc fashion - following little or no rigorous design methodology and with limited a priori specification of the agents or of the system as a whole. This lack of principled development methods is one of the major factors hampering the wide-scale adoption of agent technology. To develop methods with which such systems can be modelled and specified at a conceptually acceptable level of detail, (free from implementation details) characteristics of real-world multi-agent applications need to be identified, in relation to specific domains. The requirements these characteristics impose on a knowledge engineering methods, techniques and tools developers require to model multi-agent systems will need to be determined. A number of unique generic characteristics have already been identified for multi-agent systems. Agents must, for example, * maintain interaction with their environment (observing in the world and performing actions in response; reactiveness), * be able to take the initiative (pro-activeness), * be able to perform social actions (communication, cooperation), * be able to generate goals independently and act and rationally to achieve them (planning and plan execution; autonomy). Agents models often need to incorporate reasoning and acting in a defeasible manner, representation of other agents, and reflective reasoning. Also mentalistic notions describing informational and motivational attitudes such as beliefs, desires, intentions and commitments can be incorparated in agent models. In specific domains of application, such as project coordination, cooperative design, navigation, information retrieval, et cetera, more specific characteristics can be identified. In many areas of software engineering and knowledge-based system design, modelling frameworks have been developed in which specifications of the conceptual design of complex systems are expressed before systems are implemented. Such specifications describe the semantics of systems without concern for implementation details, providing a basis for verification and validation of the functionality of the systems. Modelling frameworks, require adequate means to describe the characteristics of multi-agent systems, in particular, the control of the dynamics of reasoning behaviour and acting behaviour (e.g., guided reasoning, observation, communication and execution of actions). Models of agents may also describe the more specific characteristics of agents in specific domains of application, as mentioned above. In this track the challenge with which the knowledge acquistion community is faced, namely to design modelling frameworks within which agents, and interaction between agents, can be adequately modelled, will be addressed. Papers should address one or more of the aspects mentioned above. Submission Draft papers (up to 20 pages) should be sent electronically to Brian Gaines (gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca) before May 31, 1996. Acceptance and revision notices will be e-mailed by July 31, 1996. Revised papers (20 pages) should be submitted by September 30, 1996, so that hardcopies may be bound together for distribution at the workshop. Authors who submit papers to the workshop will be expected to help with the refereeing of papers submitted by other individuals. Submission and review of papers, and coordination of all aspects of the meeting, will be through the Internet. Papers should be transmitted in postscript or common document processor format (e.g., Microsoft Word) either by e-mail to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, or by FTP to ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca in directory /incoming (with an email note to gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca when the paper is transferred). The world-wide web (WWW) will be used to coordinate the meeting and to provide further details of the tracks, paper formats, conference arrangements, and so on. Please see the following URL for more information about the KAW workshop: http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW.html ----- End of forwarded messages 53) COOP'96 program ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Second International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems Deuxieme confirence internationale sur la conception de systemes cooperatifs C O O P ' 9 6 Juan-les-Pins (France) June 12-14, 1996 oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OBJECTIVES AND TOPICS Information systems or knowledge-based systems of the new generation no longer aim at performing by themselves the whole task for which they are designed.They are rather intended to cooperate with their users for performing the task, as it is a real-world, complex task, often performed in the framework of a collective work: therefore, they are called "cooperative systems". The design, validation and maintenance of such cooperative systems, their integration in workplaces and the analysis of their effects in workplaces will take benefit from relying on an interdisciplinary approach, so as to exploit the characteristics of the cooperation between human agents and software agents. The purpose of the conference is to help to solve the problems arisen from the construction of cooperative systems, by : - a better understanding of human-human or human-computer cooperation, - the proposition of models of cooperation, - and the proposition of new functions for cooperative systems and of suitable design methodologies. The conference brings together researchers from various communities (Cognitive Psychology and Ergonomics, Computer-Supported Collaborative Work, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Group Decision Support Systems, Knowledge Engineering, Management Science, Organization Sciences...) that all contribute to the understanding of the specificities of cooperative systems and to the modelling of cooperation. The conference includes both presentation of communications and panels upon the following topics (not exhaustive): . What models of cooperation can be achieved for human-computer interaction (in particular for collective problem solving in workplaces)? . What are the characterizations of cooperative, heterogeneous agents (i.e.human agents and software agents)? . What frameworks/methodologies can be offered for building cooperative systems (for example, for knowledge acquisition and validation of cooperative systems)? . How to identify appropriate agents to involve in a task, and the cooperative interactions required to perform a task (e.g. synchronous or asynchronous interactions) ? . Which techniques are helpful for collective problem solving? . What are the possible architectures for cooperative systems ? . What communication skills are required for the use of cooperative systems (e.g. face to face or distant)? What kind of dialogues, negotiation or explanation techniques, or user models are relevant for cooperative systems? . How to provide a cooperative system for supporting a workgroup? In particular, how to build intelligent computer environments for facilitating cooperation among users of various abilities during a problem-solving process? . What lessons have been learned from the implementation and integration of actual cooperative systems? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PROGRAM COMMITTEE/COMITE DE PROGRAMME Chairman/President Manuel Zacklad (CNET - COOP Group, France) Members/Membres Liam Bannon (Univ. of Limerick, Ireland) Guy Boy (EURISCO, France) Francoise Darses (CNAM - COOP Group, France) Giorgio De Michelis (CTL, Italy) Sylvie Despres (Paris 5 - COOP Group, France) Rose Dieng (INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis - COOP Group, France) Pierre Falzon (CNAM, France) Gerhard Fischer (Univ of Colorado, Colorado, USA) Les Gasser (NSF, Washington, DC, USA) Alain Giboin (INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis - COOP Group, France) Paul de Greef (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Laurent Karsenty (ARAMIIHS - COOP Group, France) Gregory Kersten (Carleton Univ., Canada) Alfred Kobsa (GMD, Germany) Patrick Millot (Univ. de Valenciennes, France) Bernard Pavard (ARAMIIHS-CNRS, France) Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux (Univ. Paris 9 - COOP Group, France) Kjeld Schmidt (Riso National Laboratory, Denmark) Jean-Luc Soubie (Univ. Paul Sabatier, France) Gilbert de Terssac (LAAS-CNRS, France) Regine Teulier-Bourgine (CNRS - ENS Cachan - COOP Group, France) Wolfgang Walhster (DFKI, Germany) David Woods (Ohio State Univ., USA) Pascale Zarate (Univ. Paris 6 - COOP Group, France) ORGANIZATION/ORGANISATION Scientific organization/Organisation scientifique : COOP Group/Groupe COOP Local organization/Organisation locale : INRIA (Sophia Antipolis) Secretariat/Secretariat : Monique Simonetti, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Bureau des Relations Exterieures. SPONSORING/PARRAINAGES AFCET AFIA ARC France Telecom CNET INRIA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ P R O G R A M / P R O G R A M M E _____________________ (L) = Long presentation. (S) = Short presentation. ------------------------ Wednesday June, 12/Mercredi 12 juin ------------------------ 8.00 - 9.00 Registration/Inscriptions 9.00 - 9.15 Welcome address/Discours d'ouverture Manuel Zacklad, COOP'96 Chairman/President de COOP'96 9.15 - 10.15 INVITED SPEAKER/CONFERENCIER INVITE Cognitive Control of Decision Making in Complex Cooperative Systems Bernard Pavard, LIS-LAAS / CNRS, Toulouse, France SESSION 1: Analyzing User-User Communication for Groupware Design (1) 10.15 - 10.45 Pluri-addressed Messages and Coordination Impact of the Intercom on the Human Cooperation (L) Laurence Rognin, Bernard Pavard LIS-LAAS / CNRS, Toulouse, France 10.45 - 11.10 An initial exploration of communication overflow (L) Fredrik Ljungberg Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden 11.15 - 11.45 Coffee-Break/Pause-cafe SESSION 2: Analyzing User-User Communication for Groupware Design (2) 11.45 - 12.15 How E-news Writers Cooperate in Referring: Correspondence Games (L) Alain Giboin INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France 12.15 - 12.35 An Early Evaluation of Technical Mechanisms Supporting Negotiations in Groupware (S) Markus Rohde, Volker Wulf University of Bonn, Bonn, German 12.35 - 14.30 Lunch/Repas SESSION 3: Conceptual Models of Cooperation 14.30 - 15.00 A Theoretical Model of Cooperation (L) Anthony Clarke University, Loughborough, United Kingdom 15.00 - 15.20 Tresco : Concepts and Architecture for Managing Computer Supported Man-Man Cooperation (S) Helene Saliou, Arnaud Longeanie, Jacques Davy Centre National d'Etude des Telecommunications, France 15.20 - 15.40 Cooperative Systems : The Right Direction (S) Christopher Lueg, Martin Muller AI Lab, Universitat Zurich-Irchel, Zurich, Switzerland 15.00 - 16.00 Coffee-Break/Pause-cafe SESSION 4: Agent Models and Architectures 16.00 - 16.30 Cooperative Emergency-call Handling : Design and Realization (L) Wilfried M. Post TNO Human Factors Research Laboratories, The Netherlands 16.30 - 17.00 ABACO: Coordination Mechanisms in a Multi-agent Perspective (L) Monica Divitini, Carla Simone Universita di Torino, Torino, Italy 17.00 - 17.10 Break/Pause 17.10 - 17.30 Intelligent Agents Concepts for Computer-Supported Collaborative Work Systems in Complex Industrial Systems: Research Directions (S) Emmanuelle Le Strugeon, Rene Mandiau, Christophe Kolski,Mustapha Tendjaoui LAMIH - URA CNRS 1775, Universite de Valenciennes, France 17.30 - 17.50 The Dynamics of Dependence Networks and Power Relations in Open Multiagent Systems (S) Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rosaria Conte Institute of Psychology, CNR, Roma, Italy 17.50 - 18.10 A Multi-Agent Model for Decision-Oriented Cooperative Systems (S) Hassan El Mansouri, Anne-Marie Alquier, Pascale Zarate LAFORIA, Universite Paris VI, France 18.10 - 18.20 Break/Pause 18.20 - 19.30 PANEL/TABLE-RONDE -------------------- Thursday June, 13/Jeudi 13 juin -------------------- 9.00 - 10.00 INVITED SPEAKER/CONFERENCIER INVITE Challenges and Directions for Coordination Science Mark Klein State College, USA SESSION 5: Cooperative Systems for Design 10.00 - 10.30 Group Decision-Making in Customer-Centered Software Design (L) Johan Vanwelkenhuysen INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France 10.30 - 11.00 Collective Design Processes (L) Pierre Falzon, Francoise Darses-de Montmollin, Pascal Beguin CNAM, Paris, France 11.00 - 11.20 Toward a Design Cooperative System (S) Olivier Garro, Daniel Brissaud, Serge Tichkiewitch Laboratoire Sols, Solides, Structures, Grenoble, France 11.20 - 11.40 Coffee-Break/Pause-cafe SESSION 6: Collective Knowledge 11.40 - 12.10 Organisational Memory: Support for Query Resolution in a Customer Service Centre? (L) Steinar Kristoffersen Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom 12.10 - 12.40 Collective Knowledge Elaboration (L) Pierre Falzon, Catherine Sauvagnac, Celine Chatigny CNAM, Paris, France 12.40 - 14.40 Lunch/Repas SESSION 7 : Learning and Explanation in Human-Computer Cooperation (1) 14.40 - 15.10 Negotiation Spaces in Human-Computer Collaborative Learning (L) Pierre Dillenbourg, Michael Baker Universite de Geneve, Switzerland 15.10 - 15.30 Cooperation between Humans and a Pedagogical Assistant in a Learning Environment (S) Pascal Leroux, Martial Vivet, Patrick Brezillon Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universite du Maine, LE MANS, France 15.30 - 15.50 Tailoring Explanations in Cooperative Dialogues (S) Laurent Karsenty ARAMIIHS, Toulouse, France 15.50 - 16.10 Agentsheets Common Ground : Shared Visual Agentalk (S) James T. Smith II, Corrina Perrone, Alexander Repenning University of Colorado, USA 16.10 - 16.30 Coffee-Break/Pause-cafe SESSION 8 : Cooperative Knowledge Acquisition 16.30 - 17.20 Supporting Inter-Experts Cooperation in Knowledge Acquisition Stage (L) Sofiane Labidi Federal University of Maranhao, Sao Luis, MA, Brazil 17.20 - 17.40 Co-Operative Building of an Ontology within Multi-Expertise Framework (S) Christian Garcia LIRMM, Montpellier, France 17.40 - 18.00 Causal Explanations from Heuristic Knowledge (S) Ruey-Yuan Lee Maria, Paul Compton CSIRO Division of Information Technology, Australia 18.00 - 18.15 Break/Pause 18.15 - 19.30 PANEL/ TABLE-RONDE 20.00 Dinner/Diner --------------------- Friday June, 14/Vendredi 14 juin --------------------- SESSION 9: Methods for Designing and Analyzing Cooperative Information SystemsDate: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 16:58:07 +0200 X-Organisation: Social Science Informatics, University of Amsterdam X-Address: Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. X-Fax: +31 20 5256896 Reply-To: kaw@swi.psy.uva.nl Originator: kaw@swi.psy.uva.nl Sender: kaw@swi.psy.uva.nl Precedence: bulk From: Manuel Zacklad To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: COOP'96 program X-Comment: Knowledge Acquisition list server 9.00 - 9.30 Object-Oriented Modeling of Coordination Mechanisms (L) Peter H. Carstensen, Birgutte Krogh, Carsten Sorensen, Riso National Laboratory, Denmark 9.30 - 9.50 Cooperative Information Systems : A Definition, A Framework and A Modeling (S) Youcef Baghdadi, Anne-Marie Alquier Universite Toulouse 1, France 9.50 - 10.10 A Methodology for the Design of Cooperative Systems (S) Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux LAMSADE, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France 10.10 - 10.20 Break/Pause 10.20 - 10.40 A Design Method for Choosing Services for Large Distributed Teams (S) I.T. Hawryszkiewycz University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 10.40 - 11.00 Toward a Cooperative-Centered Design : Organizational Basements (S) Regine Teulier-Bourgine CNRS, ENS Cachan, France 11.00 - 11.20 Coffee-Break/Pause-cafe SESSION 10: Formal and Technical Solutions for Implementing Cooperative Systems (1) 11.20 - 11.50 Supporting Cooperation Through Customisation : The Tviews Approach (L) Richard Bentley, Markus Wasserschaff German National Research Centre for Applied I.T., Germany 11.50 - 12.10 Issue-Based Collaborative Process Modeling (S) Jacques Longchamp, Francois Seguin CRIN-CNRS, Nancy, France 12.10 - 12.30 IWIM : A Communication Model for Cooperative Systems (S) Farhad Arbab Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 12.30 - 12.50 A Constraint-Based Approach For Distributed Decision Support (S) Jacques Erschler, Marie-Jose Huguet LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France 12.50 - 14.30 Lunch/Repas SESSION 11: Formal and Technical Solutions for Implementing Cooperative Systems (2) 14.30 - 15.00 Parameterized Petri Nets for Organizational Simulation and Systems Design (L) G. Agimont, Emmanuelle Le Strugeon, Rene Mandiau, Gaetan Libert Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium 15.00 - 15.20 Cooperative Problem-solving using Assumption-Based Truth Maintenance (S) Julie Dugdale De Montfort Univ. Kents Hill, United Kingdom 15.20 - 15.50 A Framework for Description of Pragmatic Dependencies and Inconsistency of Goals (S) Remigijus Gustas Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas , Lithuania 15.50 - 16.00 Coffee-Break/Pause-cafe SESSION 12: Workflow Management 16.00 - 16.40 Workflow Management and Causality Trees (S) Gert Faustmann Fraunhofer-Institut fur Software and Systemtechnik ISST, Berlin, Germany 16.40 - 16.50 Supporting Cooperative Work in Urban Land-use Planning (S) Frank Maurer, Gerhard Pews University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany 16.50 - 17.10 A Method for Cooperative Information Systems Analysis and Design : CISAD (S) Selmin Nurcan Universite de Paris 1, Paris, France 17.10 End of the Conference/Cloture de la Conference ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CONFERENCE LOCATION/LIEU DE LA CONFERENCE HOTEL AMBASSADEUR **** 50-52 Chemin des Sables B.P. 49 06161 JUAN LES PINS Tel : (33) 93.67.82.15 Fax : (33) 93.67.79.85 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HOTEL RESERVATION/RESERVATION D'HOTELS A block of rooms at preferential prices has been booked in hotels very close to the workshop location. June being a high season on the French Riviera, it is important that requests for hotel reservations be made as soon as possible. ------------------------ Reservation deadline is May 28, 1996. ------------------------ Accommodation will not be guaranted after this date. You should contact the hotel yourself and confirm your own reservation by referring to COOP'96. The prices include breakfast. See the list of hotels below. Des chambres ont ete pre-reservees a des tarifs preferentiels dans des hotels pres du lieu de la manifestation et sur les lieux memes. Juin etant une haute saison sur la Cote-d'Azur, nous vous engageons a faire vos reservations le plus rapidement possible. ------------------------------ La date limite de reservation est le 28 mai 1996. Aucune reservation ne sera garantie apres cette date. Vous devez contacter vous-memes l'hotel de votre choix en indiquant comme reference : COOP'96. Les prix donnes incluent le petit-dejeuner. Voir ci-dessous la liste des hotels. LIST OF HOTELS/LISTE DES HOTELS _________________________________________ Hotel AMBASSADEUR**** 50-52 Chemin des Sables B.P. 49 06161 JUAN LES PINS Tel : (33) 93.67.82.15 Fax : (33) 93.67.79.85 -----------> Single 565 FF -----------> Double 785 FF _________________________________________ Le Pacific** 17 Avenue Dautheville 06160 Juan Les Pins -----------> Single 280 FF -----------> Double 350 FF Le Pre Catelan** Avenue des Palmiers 06160 Juan Les Pins -----------> Single 280 FF -----------> Double 350 FF Le Savoy Hotel** 144 Avenue du President Wilson 06160 Juan les Pins -----------> Single 280 FF -----------> Double 350 FF Student room/Chambres Etudiant -----------> Single 200 FF -----------> Double 220 FF In order to simplify the lodging management for the 3 hotels **, only one phone and fax number is at your disposal: Tel : (33) 93.61.13.82, Fax : (33) 93.67.29.72. You will be then informed in what hotel you are booked. Afin de simplifier la gestion de l'hebergement pour ces 3 derniers hotels** un seul numero de Fax et de Telephone est a votre disposition : Tel : (33) 93.61.13.82, Fax: (33) 93.67.29.72. Il vous sera alors communique le nom de l'hotel qui vous est affecte. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PRE-REGISTRATION PROCEDURE/MODALITES D'INSCRIPTION Prospective participants in the conference should complete the enclosed registration form inside the program and return it together with the registration fees to : Les personnes desirant participer a la conference sont priees de completer le formulaire d'inscription ci-joint et de l'adresser accompagne du paiement a : Madame Monique Simonetti INRIA COOP'96 Bureau des Relations Exterieures 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93 06 902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex France Tel.: 33 - 93 65 78 64 Fax: 33 - 93 65 79 55 E-mail: simoneti@sophia.inria.fr ---------------------------------------- DEADLINE TO REGISTER/DATE LIMITE D'INSCRIPTION June 5, 1996/5 juin 1996 ---------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REGISTRATION FEES/DROITS D'INSCRIPTION _____________________________ Early Registration/Pre-inscription Researchers/Academics/Industrials................... 2200,00 FF Chercheurs/Universitaires/Industriels Students*............................................................. 1700,00 FF Etudiants* * A copy of the student certificate is required. * Une photocopie de la carte d'etudiant est exigee. ___________________________________ On Site Registration/Inscription sur place Researchers/Academics/Industrials................... 2600,00 FF Chercheurs/Universitaires/Industriels Students*............................................................. 2000,00 FF Etudiants* * A copy of the student certificate is required. * Une photocopie de la carte d'etudiant est exigee. These fees include/Ces droits comprennent - The Proceedings/Les actes de la conference - The lunches/Les dejeuners - The coffee-breaks/Les pauses-cafe - The dinner/Le diner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TRAVEL/VOYAGE An average discount up to 50 % may be obtained from AOM for a round trip ticket within France. Reduced rate ticket will be sent to the participant requesting it to the local arrangement at INRIA. . Nearest Airport : Nice Cote d'Azur (France) . Nearest Railway station : Antibes or Juan-les-Pins (France) Une reduction jusqu'a 50% peut etre obtenue de la compagnie AOM sur un billet Aller/Retour en France. Des "fichets-congres" peuvent etre obtenus sur simple demande aupres de l'organisation locale de l'INRIA. . L'aeroport le plus proche : Nice Cote d'Azur (France) . La gare la plus proche : Antibes ou Juan-Les-Pins (France) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PAYMENT/PAIEMENT Payments should be made in French currency payable to Agent comptable de l'INRIA : - by Banker's draft, - by Post Office check (CCP PARIS # 30041-00001-0909945B020 31), - by bank transfer to Tresorerie Generale des Yvelines- Versailles (account # 10071-78000-00003003958-80). Please state your name and the reference of the conference: COOP'96. Les reglements s'effectueront en Francs Francais a l'ordre de l'Agent comptable de l'INRIA - par cheque bancaire ou postal (CCP PARIS No 30041-00001-0909945B020-31) ou - par virement bancaire : Tresorerie des Yvelines, Versailles (Compte No 10071-78000-00003003958-80). Bien mentionner votre nom et la reference de la conference : COOP'96. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DINNER/DINER Thursday June 13, 20.00/Jeudi 13 juin, 20.00 A dinner will be offered to the participants on the Island of Sainte Marguerite, just in front of the bay of Cannes. The island is covered with a rich Mediterranean vegetation, dominated by Aleppo pines and eucalypti. Pheasants are raised in liberty. There is a bird sanctuary on the Bateguier lake where the seawater mixes with the fresh water from an artesian well. Les participants sont convies a un diner qui aura lieu sur l'Ile Sainte Marguerite, face a la baie de Cannes. L'ile est recouverte d'une riche vegetation mediterraneenne. Le pin d'Alep et l'eucalyptus y dominent. Elevage de faisans en liberte. Reserve ornithologique de l'etang du Bateguier ou l'eau de mer se melange a l'eau douce dans un puits artesien. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INFORMATION/RENSEIGNEMENTS Monique Simonetti INRIA - COOP'96 Bureau des Relations Exterieures 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93 06 902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex France Tel.: 33 - 93 65 78 64 - Fax: 33 - 93 65 79 55 E-mail: simoneti@sophia.inria.fr Internet (Soon/Bientot) http://www.inria.fr/Colloques/cours-col-fra.html http://www.inria.fr/Colloques/cours-col-eng.html oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ***************************************************************** Manuel Zacklad France Telecom tel: (33) 1 45 29 66 75 CNET PAA/TSA/UST/GESCOM secre: (33) 1 45 29 40 68 38-40, rue du General Leclerc fax: (33) 1 45 29 65 57 92131 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex e-mail: manuel.zacklad@issy.cnet.fr ****************************************************************** 54) Colloquium on Knowledge Discovery: October 1996 THE INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS PROFESSIONAL GROUP C4 (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY SPECIALIST GROUP ON EXPERT SYSTEMS (SGES) COLLOQUIUM ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY LONDON, OCTOBER 17TH-18TH 1996 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS This colloquium is organised by Professional Group C4 (Artificial Intelligence) of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, in collaboration with the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems (SGES) and will be held at the IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2 on October 17th and 18th 1996. Knowledge Discovery has been defined as 'the non-trivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful information from data'. The underlying technologies include rule induction, case-based reasoning, genetic algorithms, neural networks and statistics. There is a rapidly growing body of successful applications of these and other related technologies in a wide range of areas including manufacturing, telecommunications, marketing, medicine and finance. Contributions are invited on all aspects of Knowledge Discovery from theoretical issues through to commercial applications. Prospective contributors are invited to submit an extended abstract, outlining the material they propose to present, by Friday July 26th 1996 at the latest. Speakers will receive free entry to the colloquium and their travel expenses will be reimbursed by the IEE. Abstracts should be sent either by post or by electronic mail to the colloquium chairman: Professor Max Bramer, Department of Information Science, University of Portsmouth, Milton, Southsea PO4 8JF. Tel: 01705 - 844444 Fax: 01705 - 844006 Email: bramerma@csovax.portsmouth.ac.uk For all other information, contact: Ms. Sarah Evans, IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL. Tel: 0171 - 240 - 1871 Fax: 0171-497-3633 Email: sevans@iee.org.uk 55) CFP: KA for planning and temporal resoning Track: "KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION FOR TEMPORAL REASONING AND PLANNING" Tenth Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop (KAW'96), Banff Canada, November 9-14, 1996 A. Background: temporal reasoning and planning The ability to reason about time and actions is fundamental to almost any intelligent entity that needs to make a series of decisions. The real world includes not only static descriptions, but also dynamic processes. It is difficult to represent the concept of taking an action, let alone a series of actions, and the concept of the consequences of taking a series of actions, without explicitly or implicitly introducing the notion of time. This inherent requirement also applies to computer programs that attempt to reason about the world. In the area of natural-language processing, it is impossible to understand stories without the concept of time and its various nuances. Planning actions for robots requires reasoning about the temporal order of the actions and about the length of time it will take to perform the actions. Determining the cause of a certain state of affairs implies considering temporal precedence, or, at least, temporal equivalence. Scheduling tasks in a production line, such as to minimize total production time, requires reasoning about serial and concurrent actions and about time intervals. Even describing typical patterns in a baby's psychomotor development requires using notions of absolute and relative time, such as "walking typically starts when the baby is about 12 months old, and is preceded by standing." B. Suggested Topics for Submission The major goal of the track is to bring together researchers working in the areas related to the acquisition, representation, maintenance, domain-specific sharing, and domain-independent reuse of temporal-reasoning and planning knowledge. Contributions of polished, working, or position papers that address issues outlined below would be welcome. In addition, related issues such as spatiotemporal reasoning also would be considered relevant. The following list enumerates some of the major issues we would like to address: 1. One focus in this track involve issues that arise in temporal reasoning (i.e., reasoning about time and time's basic nature and properties, and the various propositions that can be attached to time units and reasoned about) and the knowledge required for such reasoning. For instance, the temporal-abstraction task involves the creation of higher-level, interval-based, context-sensitive concepts from time-stamped data. Examples of the types of knowledge required include typical persistence over time of certain parameters when data has not been obtained about them, temporal-semantic properties of these parameters (such as whether disjoint interval-based propositions can be concatenated), and specific temporal patterns. What types of knowledge are required for different classes of temporal reasoning, how can they be characterized and represented, and how can they be acquired, maintained, shared, and reused? 2. We would also welcome papers concerning knowledge-based approaches to the issue of temporal maintenance (i.e., maintaining information about time-oriented data to reason or answer queries about them efficiently). This topic is highly related to temporal reasoning, but the research communities involved (e.g., AI vs. Data Bases) have been traditionally (unfortunately) quite separate. We hope the two communities, or at least their subjects of interest, can be bridged at this workshop. Papers relating to the integration of temporal-reasoning and temporal-maintenance systems would particularly be welcome. 3. Planning may involve classical goal-driven reasoning; it may be reactive to the current situation, or it may use skeletal plans or previous cases as a basis for instantiating new plans or modifying previous plans. Both procedural and declarative knowledge need to be represented and used. In addition to domain-independent planning knowledge, most planners rely on considerable domain-specific knowledge and vary, among other measres, in the extent of reliance on preexisting knowldge of particular actions, plans, or plan fragments. Can such declarative/procedral and domain-independent/domain-specific knowledge be uniformly and effectively respresented to facilitate their acquisition and sharing? 4. Papers regarding cased-based planning are certainly welcome, especially those addressing issues of indexing main plans (or potential bugs in plans) and sharing of planning knowledge. 5. The reuse, revision, and modification of existing plans so as to minimize costs of de-novo planning is a theme appearing in several different representation methodologies, and knowledge-based solutions would be appreciated. 6. Closely related to the planning task are (1) the projection task--computing the likely consequences of a set of conditions or actions, often given as a set of cause-effect relations, and (2) the forecasting task--predicting particular future values for various parameters, given a vector of time-stamped past and present measured values (such as anticipating changes in future stock-exchange share values, given the values up to and including the present). We would welcome contributions describing any knowledge-based approaches to these problems. 7. The integration of knowledge-based planning and temporal-reasoning frameworks is not trivial; problems concerning overlapping ontologies and knowledge roles are especially testing. We would welocme reports of any integrated system architectures. We also welcome papers that are relevant to to the track even if their main topic was not mentioned in our examples. The one-day track will be ocomposed of presentations and discussions. Paper Submission GUIDELINEs: Please submit papers according to the general call for participation in KAW'96. For information, see http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW. Draft papers (up to 20 pages) should be transmitted before May 31, 1996 in postscript or common document processor format (e.g., Microsoft Word) by FTP to: ftp://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/incoming (with an email note to Brian Gaines, gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca when the paper is transferred). Acceptance and revision notices will be e-mailed by July 31, 1996. Revised papers (20 pages) should be submitted by September 30, 1996). Authors should indicate the name of this track on their submission. Please let the track co-chairs know if you are submitting a paper and refer all questions to them. The TRACK's CO-CHAIRS: Yuval Shahar, Stanford University, CA, USA (shahar@camis.stanford.edu) Samson Tu, Stanford University, CA, USA (tu@camis.stanford.edu) Fax of both co-chairs: (USA)-415-725-7944 56) CFP: DD&LP at JICSLP'96 Call For Papers 4th Workshop on Deductive Databases and Logic Programming in conjunction with the Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming JICSLP'96 Bonn, Germany, September 2 - 6, 1996 World-Wide-Web http://www.first.gmd.de/~geske/dd_lp_96.html http://www-info1.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/staff/seipel/dd_lp_96.html Following the previous meetings in Budapest (1993), Santa Margherita Ligure (1994) and Kanagawa (1995), the 4th ICLP-workshop on Deductive Databases and Logic Programming will be held in Bonn, Germany. The meeting will be run as a post-conference workshop of the 1996 Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming, which will be held on September 2-6, 1996. The integration of techniques from deductive databases and logic programming leads to intelligent information systems. Techniques from deductive databases must be used for achieving efficient retrieval and reasoning in large knowledge bases. Logic programming provides a powerful declarative language for accessing and maintaining knowledge in databases. Recent results in logic programming, program transformation and optimization, and non-monotonic reasoning are useful for extending the expressive power and the computational efficiency of deductive database systems. The one-day workshop is intended to attract researchers working in the related areas of deductive databases and logic programming. The presentations are planned to be half an hour. A fundamental goal is to give opportunities for active discussions on new research directions and the exchange of latest results. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Topics disjunctive databases, incomplete information data mining program transformations execution and debugging models query languages and optimization constraint reasoning object-orientation active databases, updates, temporal databases non-monotonic semantics Submissions The primary focus is on new and original research. But we also encourage the submission of papers describing products, prototypes in development or benchmarks. Full papers or extended abstracts in English of 6 to 10 pages are welcome on any aspects of deductive databases and new concepts of logic programming supporting it, until June 21, 1996. Authors are invited to send their papers to one of the organizers. Submission in LaTeX or plain TeX format by e-mail is encouraged. Notification of acceptance will be no later than July 10, 1996. The final, camera-ready versions of the accepted papers must be received by August 2, 1996 to be included into the workshop proceedings. Important Dates Submission deadline June 21, 1996 Notification of acceptance July 10, 1996 Camera ready version August 2, 1996 Organizing Committee Fosca Giannotti CNUCE-CNR Pisa, Italy Dmitri Boulanger CNUCE-CNR Pisa, Italy Program Committee Paulo Azevedo Univ. Minho, Portugal Dmitri Boulanger CNUCE-CNR, Pisa, Italy Francois Bry Univ. Munich, Germany Burkhard Freitag Univ. Passau, Germany Ulrich Geske GMD Berlin, Germany Fosca Giannotti CNUCE-CNR Pisa, Italy Georg Gottlob TU Vienna, Austria Jorge Lobo Univ. Illinois, Chicago, USA Jack Minker Univ. Maryland, USA Dino Pedreschi Univ. Pisa, Italy Chiaki Sakama ASTEM Kyoto, Japan Dietmar Seipel Univ. Wuerzburg, Germany Carlo Zaniolo UCLA Los Angeles, USA Papers Fosca Giannotti, CNUCE-CNR via S. Maria 36, 56126 Pisa (Italy) Email: dd_lp_96@orione.cnuce.cnr.it Contact and Publicity Ulrich Geske, GMD-FIRST, E-mail: geske@first.gmd.de Dietmar Seipel, Univ. Wuerzburg, E-mail: seipel@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de 57) CogSci96 Eighteenth Annual Conference of the COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY July 12-15, 1996 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Annual Cognitive Science Conference began with the La Jolla Conference on Cognitive Science in August of 1979. The organizing committee of the Eighteenth Annual Conference would like to welcome members home to La Jolla. We plan to recapture the pioneering spirit of the original conference, extending our welcome to fields on the expanding frontier of Cognitive Science, including Artificial Life, Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Evolutionary Psychology, as well as the core areas of Anthropology, Computer Science, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Psychology. The conference will feature plenary addresses by invited speakers, invited symposia by leaders in their fields, technical paper sessions, a poster session, a banquet, and a Blues Party. San Diego is the home of the world-famous San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park, Sea World, the historic all-wooden Hotel Del Coronado, beautiful beaches, mountain areas and deserts, is a short drive from Mexico, and features a high Cappuccino Index. Bring the whole family and stay a while! PLENARY SESSIONS "Controversies in Cognitive Science: The Case of Language" Stephen Crain (UMD College Park) & Mark Seidenberg (USC) Moderated by Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins University) "Tenth Anniversary of the PDP Books" Geoff Hinton (Toronto), Jay McClelland (CMU), & Dave Rumelhart (Stanford) "Frontal Lobe Development and Dysfunction in Children: Dissociations between Intention and Action" Adele Diamond (MIT) "Reconstructing Consciousness" Paul Churchland (UCSD) TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATIONS United Airlines is the official airline of the 1996 Cognitive Science Conference. Attendees flying with United can receive a 5% discount off of any published United or United Express round trip fare (to San Diego) in effect when ticket is purchased, subject to all applicable restrictions. Attendees flying with United can receive a 10% discount off of applicable BUA fares in effect when ticket is purchased 7 days in advance. To get your discount, be sure to give your travel agent the following information: * "Meeting ID# 557NS for the Cognitive Science Society Meeting" * United's Meeting Desk phone number is (800) 521-4041. Alternatively, you may order your tickets direct from United's Meeting Desk, using the same reference information as above. Purchasers of United tickets to the conference will be eligible for a drawing (to be held at the conference) in which two round trip tickets will be given away -- so don't throw away your boarding pass! If you are flying to San Diego, you will be arriving at Lindbergh Field. If you don't rent a car, transportation from the airport to the UCSD area will cost (not including tip) anywhere from $15.00 (for a seat on a shuttle/van) to $35.00 (for a taxi). We have arranged for special rates at two of the hotels nearest to the UCSD campus. In addition, on campus apartments can be rented at less expense. All rooms are subject to availability and hotel rates are only guaranteed up to the dates specified, so reserve early. None of the rates quoted below (unless explicitly stated) include tax, which is currently 10.5 percent. The La Jolla Marriott is located approximately 2 miles from campus. Single and double rooms are available at $92.00 per night, when reserved before June 21st. Included in the rate is a morning and evening shuttle service to and from campus (running for one hour periods, on July 13th, 14th, and 15th only). The hotel has parking spaces, available at $7 per day or $10 per day with valet service. On campus parking requires the purchase of daily ($6.00) or weekly ($16.00) passes. There is also city bus service (fare is about $1.50 per ride) from and to campus which passes within 1 block of the hotel. Reservations can be made by calling the hotel at (619) 587-1414 or (800) 228-9290. Be sure to reference the "Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society" to receive these special rates. Arrival after 6:00 P.M. requires a first night's deposit, or guarantee with a major credit card. The La Jolla Radisson is located approximately 1/2 mile from campus. Single and double rooms are available at $75.00 per night, when reserved before June 12th. Included in the rate is a morning and evening shuttle service to and from campus, although walking is also very feasible. Parking is available and complementary. On campus parking requires the purchase of daily ($6.00) or weekly ($16.00) passes. The first night's room charge (+ tax) is due by June 12th. Reservations can be made by calling Radisson Reservations at (800) 333-3333. Be sure to reference the "Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society" to receive these special rates. There are a limited number of on-campus apartments available for reservation as a 4 night package, from July 12th through July 16th. Included is a (mandatory) meal plan - cafeteria breakfast (4 days), and lunch (3 days). The total cost is $191 per person (double occupancy, including tax) and $227 per person (single occupancy, including tax). (Checking in a day early is $45 extra for a single room or $36 for a double.) On campus parking is complimentary with this package. These apartments may be reserved using the conference registration form. REGISTRATION INFORMATION There are three ways to register for the 1996 Cognitive Science Conference: * ONLINE REGISTRATION -- You may fill out and electronically submit the online registration form, which may be found on the conference web page at "http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/events/cogsci96/". This is the preferred method of registration. (You must pay registration fees with a Visa or MasterCard in order to use this option.) * EMAIL REGISTRATION -- You may fill out the plain text (ASCII) registration form, which appears below, and send it via electronic mail to "cogsci96reg@cs.ucsd.edu". (You must pay registration fees with a Visa or MasterCard in order to use this option.) * POSTAL REGISTRATION -- You may download a copy of the PostScript registration form from the conference home page (or extract the plain text version, below), print it on a PostScript printer, fill it out with a pen, and send it via postal mail to: CogSci'96 Conference Registration Cognitive Science Department - 0515 University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0515 (Under this option, you may enclose payment of registration fees in U. S. dollars in the form of a check or money order, or you may pay these fees with a Visa or MasterCard. Please make checks payable to: The Regents of the University of California.) 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Candidates should send a detailed C.V. giving the names of two referees to: Mrs Jeannie Tuck, Postgraduate School, Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K. The closing date is 30th May, 1996. 59) NRCDS The First Annual Network-based Realtime Clinical Decision Support Systems Workshop (NRCDSS) An Invitational Conference 26-27 June 1996 - Cambridge, Massachusetts Purpose The purpose of the First Annual NRCDS workshop is: * To bring together stakeholders with an interest in realtime clinical decision support to establish and accelerate interface-standards development for each level in the realtime clinical decision support- system architecture (see Figure 2 below). * To launch provider-site demonstrations leading to the broad application of network-based realtime clinical decision support (NRCDS) technologies across the continuum of healthcare. The primary focus of this year's conference is knowledge-based/rule-based systems. Other decision-support modalities (e.g., artificial neural networks, statistical classifiers, and Bayesian belief networks) will receive greater emphasis in future conferences. Background In order to make crucial decisions while in the presence of patients at the point of care, physicians and other healthcare providers need realtime access to clinical information and tools which support their ability to make the best clinical decisions. A recent HIMSS survey revealed that 64% of CIOs plan to purchase decision-support technologies within the next two years, particularly decision-support technologies which facilitate both improved quality of care and lower costs. However, recent analysis and study of current clinical information system (CIS) product offerings reveal a lack of commercially-viable alternatives capable of supporting these realtime clinical decision-support tools. The complexities of medicine today--and modern medicine's knowledge explosion--are such that the unaided human mind can no longer cope with the challenges associated with delivering the most state-of-the-art care. This realization has contributed to the ever-greater specialization within medicine, but even this specialization has not permitted ready access to clinical knowledge to support decision making during patient care. Both demand for increasingly intelligent systems capable of supporting clinicians at the point of care in the presence of patients and recent advances in high-performance computing and object-oriented systems integration now make it feasible to explore the evolution of affordable, modular, and customizable realtime decision-support systems throughout an enterprise. The advances in high-performance computing technologies such as parallel processors enable the establishment of servers for the rapid processing of many decision-support paradigms (e.g., rules, statistics, neural networks). It is time to explore approaches that decouple the decision-support logic from a direct connection with the clinical applications but at the same time facilitate modular systems integration with logical reuse for realtime decision-support systems. Therefore, if high-performance realtime decision-support systems engines (i.e., inference engines for rule-based processing) were made available as network resources across the enterprise, many applications could simultaneously provide realtime decision support by sending an appropriate set of information to this network-based engine and receiving back a timely, appropriate response. In turn, this response would be presented to the clinician at the point of care. Because of the technological and representational advances, the full complement of uniform consistent decision-making logic may be available to all applications on the network that comply with an open, standardized interface for inputs and outputs. Figure 1 depicts the operation of realtime clinical decision-support systems within an enterprise. Figure 2 and Figure 3 depict different views and possible components for a network-based realtime clinical-support system NRCDSS architecture. Realizing that clinical applications are I/O intensive, it is important to examine the clinical information retrieval required by the realtime clinical decision-support systems. A number of scenarios are possible with this new proposed architecture. One approach retrieves all relevant parameters (e.g., lab test results, diagnoses, etc.) from the clinical data repository (CDR) required by a specified rule set and passes them in realtime to the NRCDSS, providing a rapid response for the clinician. A more comprehensive approach may be to transfer the entire patient record to the NRCDSS which could simultaneously execute many rule sets making decisions based on a broad input from the CDR, which would trigger the resulting decision-support required at the point of care. The First Meeting A range of such scenarios will be explored at the Cambridge meeting. We expect to develop a series of steps toward establishment of an industry-led consortium focused on launching five or more pilot demonstrations of network-based realtime decision-support servers in the healthcare industry. As noted previously, the meeting will be held on 26-27 June 1996 at the Hyatt hotel in Cambridge, MA. Considerable preparatory work has already been completed prior to the NRCDS workshop so that efforts to establish successful demonstrations can commence immediately following the conference. For example, commitments from prominent provider sites to showcase the technologies are now being arranged and more will be announced prior to the conference. Similarly, prior to the conference appropriate clinical information system (CIS) vendors and developers of potentially relevant NRCDSS technologies will be contacted and arrangements made for their support in launching such a major new healthcare initiative. Healthcare represents one of the most significant opportunities for leading-edge information technologies, and this new thrust represents a major opportunity for high-performance computing and related technologies. Leaders for complementary groups essential to follow-on success are being identified to ensure that efforts to launch actual demonstrations take place immediately following the conference. Following is the initial draft of the proposed agenda for the NRCDS workshop: Day One -- Wednesday, 26 June 1996 8:00 am Introduction Richard S. Dick, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of ASCENTechnologies 8:10 am Issues related to and need for Richard Ward, M.D., Center for clinical decision support across Clinical Effectiveness at the continuum of care Henry Ford Health Systems 9:00 am Potential impact of realtime Jonathan Teich, M.D., Ph.D., decision making enterprise wide Harvard University and Partners and IDNs Healthcare System (Mass. General and Brigham & Womens) 10:00 am Break 10:15 am Lessons learned in clinical T. Allan Pryor, Ph.D., decision support that may apply Intermountain Health Care and in realtime environments and the University of Utah 11:00 am Utilizing existing and emerging Robert Jenders, M.D., M.S., rule sets via Arden Syntax in Columbia University, Columbia realtime Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center 12:00 am Lunch Noon-5:30 pm Concurrent demonstrations Vendors/developers exhibiting of relevant technologies state-of-the-art relevant technologies 1:00-2:30 pm Three Simultaneous Tracks Track 1 - Scalable High Performance Systems Moderator: John Palmer, Ph.D., ASCENTechnologies, (Co-founder, N-Cube) Topics: * Lessons learned from applications in other industries * What is possible today; at what cost * Application potential and scenarios in healthcare Panelists: Richard E. Morley, Flavors Technologies, Inc. Other technology innovators (TBA) Track 2 - Software Decision Support Engines and Their Integration Moderator: Jerome Soller, Ph.D., Salt Lake VA Medical Center and the University of Utah Topics: * The state of the art in inference and other knowledge-based systems engines * Integration of these systems within an enterprise * Application potential within healthcare Panelists: Ray Tromba, Product Manager, Clinical Information Systems, IBM Other panel invitations being extended (TBA) Track 3 - MLM Development/Import-Export Standards Moderator: Mark Musen, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University (invited) Topics: TBA Panelists: Khalid Moidu, M.D. Ph.D., Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut Other panel invitations being extended (TBA) 2:30 pm Interaction with technology leaders Technology developers and developers of relevant technologies and an opportunity to see relevant applications from other domains 4:00 pm Presentation of specific steps to be Group leaders from each team taken by each group to introduce working prototype systems into each pilot site within a year or less 5:30 pm Adjourn 6:30 pm Dinner for Group Leaders to discuss details for essential steps during the next three months, the next six months, and beyond Day Two -- Thursday 27 June 1996 (half-day session for selected leaders/ participants) 8:00 am Introduction Jonathan Teich, M.D., Ph.D., Partners 8:15 am Small group discussions focused on Designated group leaders complementary areas crucial to effective planning for pilot sites and proof of concept demonstrations at two or more provider sites (e.g., IDNs or other appropriate provider settings) 10:30 am Break 10:45 am Presentation and discussion of plans Jonathan Teich, M.D., Ph.D., and schedules for pilot-site Partners and support that may apply in realtime Richard S. Dick, Ph.D., environments and final wrap up ASCENT 1:00 pm Adjourn The following NRCDS Workgroups will be designated and have stewardship over planning and realizing timely implementation of the NRCDS demonstrations at the provider/pilot sites: Workgroup 1. Healthcare Providers - Clinicians responsible for sustained input of provider needs and perspectives concerning what content is needed at the point of care, including specific high priorities for clinical decision support, clinical practice guidelines, etc. Testing and evaluation of the systems in actual patient care in multiple care settings. Workgroup 2. MLM Developers - Developers of key medical logic modules (MLMs) should identify--from a diverse array of current sources--MLMs which may address, fully or in part, the needs of clinicians as designated by Workgroup 1. Make modifications as necessary to suit end-user needs. Workgroup 3. Import/Export (e.g., Arden, EON) - Review Arden and recommend reasonable augmentation of its specifications which may be required to conduct routine transfer of MLMs from what ever source environment (e.g., LDS Hospital, CPMC, etc.) to the NRCDSS. Arrange for and implement the testing of any actual extensions to Arden so that MLMs from a variety of sources may actually be transferred in the very near future to the NRCDSS via an extended Arden. Explore alternative developmental initiatives for importing and exporting the full array of decision-support content/logic that is now emerging. The realization of such new alternatives and possible extensions to Arden could dramatically increase the value of decision-support alternatives which may become available to healthcare provider institutions. Particular attention should be paid to importing and exporting clinical practice guidelines which may soon be mandated. Workgroup 4. NRCDS Enabling Technologies - Review all the complementary technologies necessary to implement an actual NRCDSS, with an emphasis on access, speed, standards, and ability to support realtime computing, rapid database access, rapid execution of rules (and other decision-support modalities), and rapid interfaces to memory of other systems and networks. Consideration should be given to any and all plausible technologies capable of supporting the vision of the NRCDSS. Workgroup 5. Application Interface Standards - The clinical applications from existing vendor clinical information systems running on conventional hardware on the network must communicate with the NRCDSS (e.g., the applications will have to transfer information required by the decision-support system running on the target NRCDSS and also be able to receive back a timely response, which it in turn will present to the provider at the point of care); various combinations of existing emerging standards may be used to accomplish the application's interface. Details of this will have to be worked out in principle early on to enable successful demonstrations. The thinking here should be global in its scope so as to accommodate even the entire patient record, which, as discussed previously, could be loaded onto the NRCDSS. Workgroup 6. Coordination, Oversight, and Vendor Relations - A small group consisting of individuals knowledgeable of the needs and activities of each of the above Workgroups, and who are stakeholders in these endeavors and therefore can contribute to the coordination of the Workgroup efforts to ensure the success of the demonstrations. After the demonstrations have proven successful, some members of this Workgroup may wish to continue with their coordination efforts in order to ensure that adequate and sufficient standards are in place which will encourage industry leaders and vendors to build systems (clinical applications and NRCDSs) that are productive and competitive in the marketplace. Following this meeting, a consortium should be formed consisting of those who are interested in pursuing actual development--and potential commercialization--of functional prototypes. It is envisioned that the consortium would include provider organizations who would deploy such technologies, technology developers who will provide such platforms, and vendors who will link and deploy clinical applications which deliver the decisions at the point of care. It is also hoped that payors and insurers will become involved, that they will actively pursue a course of reducing liability to those providers who utilize NRCDS technologies and thereby provide higher quality care at lower cost and with less liability; an example of this causality is evidenced in such systems as ChartChecker from Massachusetts (users there realize a 20% reduction in liability premiums). It is also envisioned that the Arden syntax (with the necessary modifications and extensions) will be the primary standards vehicle for conveying rules from a variety of source systems and that these will be translated into the appropriate logical framework on the target realtime server platform. For the demonstrations, it is specifically proposed that the NIIT and The Koop Institute be involved, and that specifically-selected provider organizations--those who have been or are currently developing significant clinical rule sets (including clinical practice guidelines)--be invited. Prospective pilot sites include The Henry Ford Health System, Florida Hospital, a Koop Foundation-affiliated provider site , and The Department of Defense. Information about and registration materials for this conference can be obtained by contacting: ASCENTechnologies, Inc. 801-763-9933 460 Peach Tree Circle 801-763-9966 (Fax) Alpine, UT 84004 rsdick@aol.com (Richard S. Dick) mwagner256@aol.com (Mary Wagner) The First Annual Network-based Realtime Clinical Decision Support Systems Workshop (NRCDS) An Invitational Conference 26-27 June 1996 - Cambridge, Massachusetts Conference Organizer: ASCENTechnologies, Inc. -- Richard S. Dick, Ph.D. Basics for Attendance In order to make this NRCDS workshop a success, it is essential that we invite key representatives from selected organizations and certain knowledgeable individuals from each of the following categories: Healthcare Providers and Provider Organizations - key individuals from provider organizations, large and small, especially persons who understand and appreciate the need for, and the problems and issues surrounding, more timely decision support at the point of care. Experts in Medical Logic Modules (MLMs) & Decision Support - Experts associated with nationally prominent organizations and other individuals who are recognized for their leadership in the development of decision-support tools for clinical medicine. Developers of NRCDS Enabling Technologies - Experts associated with the development of a diverse array of technologies which will enable the vision of the NRCDS, including high-performance computing, high speed network solutions, and many others. Vendors of Clinical Information Systems (CIS) - Key individuals from established and emerging vendors of clinical information systems, including computer-based patient record system vendors. Internationally Prominent Medical Informatics Leaders - Key players from departments of medical informatics who can infuse the NRCDS effort with the best ideas and support, which are essential to its success. Making Arrangements This initial meeting to establish demonstrations of NRCDS technology in healthcare will be held at the Hyatt Hotel (800-233-1234 or direct at 617-492-1234) in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 26-27 June 1995. The business meeting on the 27th is for those who will play leadership roles in the planning and implementation of the NRCDS demonstrations at the pilot sites. Lunch will be served on the 26th for all attending the workshop. Parking at the hotel is limited and costs $14 per day. For this Workshop ASCENTechnologies has negotiated a lower daily rate of $155. Attendance at the NRCDS Workshop The registration fee for the NRCDS Workship is (in U.S. dollars) $175.00 before 1 June 1996 and $225.00 after 1 June 1996. You may register by calling ASCENTechnologies at (801) 763-9933; or, you may FAX your registration information to us at (801) 763-9966. Registration materials and information about the conference are also available via the internet on the WWW at the following address: http//www.whcat.com/nrcdss Please make your check payable to ASCENTechnologies, Inc. for the appropriate amount and mail to: ASCENTechnologies, Inc. 460 Peach Tree Circle Alpine, Utah 84004 Registration Form Individual's Name: _____________________________________________________ Title: _____________________________________________________ Organization: _____________________________________________________ Category: ___ MLM Developer ___ C/S Vendor ___ Hardware Developer ___ HC Provider ___ Medical Informatics Specialist ___ Software Decision Support Engine Developer ___ Other Software ___ Other ( ) Address: ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Country: _________________________ City: _________________________ State: _________________________ Zip _________________________ Telephone:______________________________ FAX: ______________________________ E-Mail: ______________________________ Plan on staying in the Hyatt Hotel on 25th Yes No Plan on staying in the Hyatt Hotel on 26th Yes No Register via the WWW at: http://www.whcat.com/nrcdss or Mail to: ASCENTechnologies, Inc. 460 Peach Tree Circle Alpine, UT 84004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerome Soller, Ph.D. Research Investigator, Salt Lake Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Geriatric, Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), Executive Committee Chairman, University of Utah Cognitive Science Group, and Research Instructor, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, U. of Utah e-mail: Jerome.Soller@m.cc.utah.edu Phone: (801) 582-1565, x-2469 Personal World Wide Web: http://www-grecc.med.utah.edu/Soller/ GRECC: http://www-grecc.med.utah.edu/ Utah Cognitive Science: http://www.utah.edu/Dept/cogsci/ "Baptism by fire isn't kosher!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60) Director Job The Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptive Artificial Intelligence is opening the position of DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE The Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptive Artificial Intelligence (IDIAP) is a private non-profit research institute, founded in 1991 and located in Martigny, Valais, Switzerland. Today, it consists of more than twenty staff members working in the following fields: * Automatic Speech Processing (spoken language understanding, speaker verification/identification), * Artificial Neural Networks (design, training, applications and optical implementation), * Machine Vision (handwriting recognition, lip reading). IDIAP is part of the Dalle Molle Foundation for the Quality of Life and is supported by public-sector partners (City of Martigny, Canton of Valais and Swiss Confederation). The institute has privileged relationships with Geneva University, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne and the Telecom-PTT. Additional information about IDIAP is available on our WWW page: "http://www.idiap.ch". The position of director of this institute is presently vacant. Candidates should possess a Ph.D. in computer science or a related area. They must have an outstanding research record and a proven exellence in leadership, both on the scientific and administrative levels. Alignment of personal research interests along current research domains of the institute would be an asset. They will be responsible of defining the research policy of the institute and they will have to get involved in maintaining the role of IDIAP in both local and national research policy. An excellent mastery of French would be a plus. Salaries will be in accordance with those offered by the Swiss government for equivalent positions. The position of director is available as soon as possible, but not before September 1996. The duration and renewal of contracts is subject to negotiation. A few words about the geographic location: the town of Martigny is located in the south of Switzerland, in the Rhone's valley, close to both France and Italy. It is located in the heart of the scenic Alpine region east of lake Geneva, with some of the best skiing and hiking in Europe. The town of Martigny, well connected by rail and highway to the rest of Switzerland, offers a large variety of cultural and artistic activities. To apply for this position please send before June 15, 1996 by electronic mail to "search@idiap.ch" (in plain ASCII, TeX, FrameMaker-MIF, Word-RTF or PostScript): * a curriculum vitae * a list of publications * a description of the research program that the candidate wishes to pursue * the names and addresses of three personal references. A paper-form application or request for further information can be sent to Secretariat IDIAP CP 592 Rue du Simplon 4 CH-1920 Martigny Switzerland Phone: +41 26 21 77 11 Fax: +41 26 21 77 12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- L'Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive met au concours le poste de DIRECTION DE L'INSTITUT L'Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive (IDIAP) est un institut de recherche privÈ ý but non lucratif, crÈÈ en 1991 et situÈ ý Martigny, Valais, Suisse. Il compte actuellement une vingtaine de collaborateurs travaillant dans les domaines de recherche suivants : * le traitement automatique de la parole (comprÈhension de la langue parlÈe, vÈrification/identification du locuteur), * les rÈseaux de neurones artificiels (modÈlisation, apprentissage et rÈalisation optique), * la vision artificielle (reconnaissance de textes manuscrits, lecture des lËvres). L'IDIAP est rattachÈ ý la "Fondation Dalle Molle pour la qualitÈ de la vie", et reÁoit des subventions du secteur public (Commune de Martigny, Canton du Valais et ConfÈdÈration helvÈtique). L'institut a Ètabli des relations privilÈgiÈes avec l'UniversitÈ de GenËve, l'Šcole Polytechnique FÈdÈrale de Lausanne et les TÈlÈcom-PTT. De plus amples informations sur l'IDIAP et ses projets de recherche actuels sont disponibles sur notre page WWW : "http://www.idiap.ch". Le poste de directrice/directeur de cet institut est actuellement vacant. Les candidats idÈaux sont en possession d'un doctorat en informatique ou dans un domaine voisin. Ils doivent Ítre des chercheurs confirmÈs et doivent avoir d'excellentes compÈtences de direction autant au niveau scientifique qu'administratif. Une bonne adÈquation de leurs intÈrÍts de recherche avec les domaines actuellement dÈveloppÈs ý l'IDIAP est fortement souhaitÈe. La/le titulaire de ce poste devra dÈfinir la politique de recherche de l'institut et prendre une part active au maintien du rÙle de l'IDIAP dans la politique de recherche rÈgionale et nationale. Le salaire est comparable ý celui offert dans l'administration suisse pour des postes Èquivalents. L'entrÈe en activitÈ peut se faire dËs septembre 1996 ou ý une date ý convenir. La durÈe et le renouvellement du contrat sont sujet ý nÈgociation. Quelques mots sur la rÈgion : la ville de Martigny est situÈe dans le sud de la Suisse, dans la vallÈe du RhÙne, proche de la France et de l'Italie. Elle se trouve au coeur d'une rÈgion alpine jouissant d'une renommÈe europÈenne pour ses domaines skiables et ses randonnÈes pÈdestres. La ville de Martigny, bien desservie par le rail et l'autoroute, offre un large Èventail d'activitÈs culturelles. Pour soumettre votre candidature ý ce poste, veuillez envoyer avant le 15 juin 1996, par courrier Èlectronique ý l'adresse "search@idiap.ch" les ÈlÈments suivants (en ASCII, TeX, FrameMaker-MIF, Word-RTF or PostScript) : * votre curriculum vitae, * une liste de vos publications, * une description du programme de recherche que vous souhaitez poursuivre ý l'IDIAP, * les noms et adresses de trois rÈfÈrences. Une version papier de votre dossier de candidature ou des demandes de complÈments d'informations peuvent aussi Ítre adressÈs ý SecrÈtariat IDIAP CP 592 Rue du Simplon 4 CH-1920 Martigny SUISSE TÈl : +41 26 21 77 11 Fax : +41 26 21 77 12 61) VIII ITALIAN WORKSHOP ON NEURAL NETS IIASS "Eduardo R. Caianiello", Vietri sul Mare (SA) ITALY 23 - 25 May 1996 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Thursday 23 May 9:30 - A Microelectronic Retinal Implant for the Blind J. Wyatt (Invited Talk) Mathematical Models 10:30 - Neural Networks for the Classification of Structures A. Sperduti & A. Starita 10:50 - A New Incremental Learning Technique N. Dunkin, J. Shawe-Taylor & P. Koiran 11:10 - A Bayesian Framework for Associative Memories E.R. Hancock & M. Pelillo 11:30 - Coffee Break 12:00 - Cultural Evolution in a Population of Neural Networks D. Denaro & D. Parisi Pattern Recognition 12:20 - Computational Intelligence in Electromagnetics F.C. Morabito 12:40 - The Modulate Asynchronous Information Arrangement (M.A.I.A.) for the Learning of Non Supervisioned Neural Network Applied to Compression and Decompression of Images G. Pappalardo, D. Rosaci & G.M.L. Sarne' 13:00 - Neuro-Fuzzy Processing of Remote Sensed Data P. Blonda, A. Bennardo & G. Satalino 13:20 - A Generalized Regularization Network for Remote Sensing Data Classification M. Ceccarelli & A. Petrosino 13:40 - Lunch 15:30 - Virtual reality and neural nets N.A. Borghese (Review Talk) Pattern Recognition 16:30 - Age Estimates of Stellar Systems by Artificial Neural Networks L. Pulone & R. Scaramella 16:50 - The use of Neural Networks for the Automatic Detection and Classification of Weak Photometric Sub-Components in Early-Type Galaxies M. Capaccioli, G. Di Sciascio, G. Longo, G. Richter & R. Tagliaferri 17:10 - A Hybrid Neural Network Architecture for Dynamic Scenes Understanding A. Chella, S. Gaglio & M. Frixione 17:30 - Coffee Break Architectures and Algorithms 18:00 - Fast Spline Neural Networks for Image Compression F. Piazza, S. Smerli, A. Uncini, M. Griffo & R. Zunino 18:20 - A Novel Hypothesis on Cortical Map: Topological Continuity F. Frisone, V. Sanguineti & P. Morasso Friday 24 May 9:30 - Models of biological vision as powerful analogue spatio-temporal filters for dynamical image processing including motion and colour J. Herault (Invited Talk) Applications 10:30 - Neural Nets for Hybrid on-line Plant Control M. Barbarino, S. Bruzzo & A.M. Colla 10:50 - Using Fuzzy Logic to Solve Optimization Problems by Hopfield Neural Model S. Cavalieri & M. Russo 11:10 - Spectral Mapping: a Comparison of Connectionist Approaches E. Trentin, D. Giuliani & C. Furlanello 11:30 - Coffee Break Architectures and Algorithms 12:00 - Constructive Fuzzy Neural Networks F.M. Frattale Mascioli, G. Martinelli & G.M. Varzi 12:20 - Some Comments and Experimental Results on Bayesian Regularization M. de Bollivier & D. Perrotta 12:40 - Recent Results in On-line Prediction and Boosting N. Cesa Bianchi & S. Panizza (Review Talk) 13:40 - Lunch 15:00 - Poster Session 16:00 - Eduardo R. Caianiello Lectures: - T. Parisini (winner of the 1995 E.R. Caianiello Fellowship Award) Neural Nonlinear Controllers and Observers: Stability Results - P. Frasconi (winner of the 1996 E.R. Caianiello Fellowship Award) Input/Output Hmms for sequence processing 17:00 - Annual S.I.R.E.N. Meeting 20:00 - Conference Dinner Saturday 25 May 9:30 - Title to be announced L.B. Almeida (Invited Talk) Architectures and Algorithms 10:30 - FIR NNs and Temporal BP: Implementation on the Meiko CS-2 A. d'Acierno, W. Ripullone & S. Palma 10:50 - Fast Training of Recurrent Neural Networks by the Recursive Least Squares Method R. Parisi, E.D. Di Claudio, A. Rapagnetta & G. Orlandi 11:10 - A Unification of Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic: the GANNFL Approach M. Schmidt 11:30 - Coffee Break 12:00 - A Learning Strategy which Increases Partial Fault Tolerance of Neural Nets S. Cavalieri & O. Mirabella 12:20 - Off-Chip Training of Analog Hardware Feed-Forward Neural Networks Through Hyper - Floating Resilient Propagation G.M. Bollano, M. Costa, D. Palmisano & E. Pasero 12:40 - A Reconfigurable Analog VLSI Neural Network Architecture G.M. Bo, D.D. Caviglia, M. Valle, R. Stratta & E. Trucco 13:00 - An Adaptable Boolean Neural Net Trainable to Comment on its own Innerworkings F.E. Lauria, M. Sette & S. Visco POSTER SESSION - The Computational Neural Map and its Capacity F. Palmieri & D. Mattera (Mathematical models) - Proposal of a Darwin-Neural Network for a Robot Implementation C. Domeniconi (Robotica) - Solving Algebraic and Geometrical Problems Using Neural Networks M. Ferraro & T. Caelli - Simulation of Traffic Flows in Transportation Networks with Non Supervisioned MAIA Neural Network G. Pappalardo, M.N. Postorino, D. Rosaci & G.M.L. Sarne' - FIR NNs and Time Series Prediction: Applications to Stock Market= Forecasting A. d'Acierno, W. Ripullone & S. Palma - Verso la Previsione a Breve Scadenza della Visibilita' Metereologica Attraverso una Rete Neurale a Back-Propagation: Ottimizzazione del Modello per Casi di Nebbia A. Pasini & S. Potesta' - Are Multilayer Perceptrons Adequate for Pattern Recognition and= Verification? M. Gori & R. Scarselli - Proof of the Universal Approximation of a Set of Fuzzy Functions F. Masulli, M. Marinaro & D. Oricchio - An Integrated Neural and Algorithmic System for Optical Flow Computation A. Criminisi, M. Gioiello, D. Molinelli & F. Sorbello - A Mlp-Based Digit and Uppercase Characters Recognition System M. Gioiello, E. Martire, F. Sorbello & G. Vassallo - Neural Network Fuzzification: Critical Review of the Fuzzy Learning Vector Quantization Model A. Baraldi & F. Parmiggiani The registration is of 300.000 Italian Lire ( 250.000 Italian Lire for SIREN members) and can be made on site. More information can be found in the www pages at the address below: http:://www-dsi.ing.unifi.it/neural 62) Job in York OPPORTUNITIES FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The Intelligent Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York would like to hear from exceptional candidates interested in pursuing a postgraduate research degree (MSc, MPhil, PhD) in areas related to the Group's research interests as outlined on the following pages. The Department has a number of EPSRC-funded fellowships for doctoral candidates and another fellowship that, unlike EPSRC fellowships, provides a stipend to nationals of any EC country. The Department of Computer Science at the University of York provides an outstanding environment for research and postgraduate study. The Department is one of the few computer science departments in the UK whose research has been awarded the top rating of "5" in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise and whose teaching has been awarded the top rating of "excellent" in the HEFCE Teaching Quality Assessment. Based on its evaluation of the Department's research programme, the EPSRC has increased the Department's allocation of research studentships over the past few years, while nationally the total number of studentships has declined. The Department's doctoral program has maintained an extremely high graduation rate: in recent years almost all EPSRC-supported students have submitted a thesis within four years and earned a doctoral degree. Further information on the Group, as well as the Department, can be be accessed on the World Wide Web via URL http://dcpu1.cs.york.ac.uk:9876/isg/home.html Those wishing to discuss opportunities for postgraduate studies within the Intelligent Systems Group should contact either Alan Frisch (frisch@minster.york.ac.uk, +44 1904 432745), Derek Bridge (dgb@minster.york.ac.uk) or Suresh Manandhar (suresh@minster.york.ac.uk) by email or at the Department of Computer Science, University of York, York YO1 5DD, UK. General enquiries about the postgraduate programmes of the Department of Computer Science should be made to Maggie Burton (maggie@minster.york.ac.uk) by email or at the above postal address. ------------------------- + ------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF YORK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS GROUP The research of the Intelligent Systems Group is concerned with the theoretical principles of artificial intelligence and their application to real-world domains. The Group's research focuses on three core areas of artificial intelligence--knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning and natural language processing--though most of the Group's projects span these areas. KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING is the area of study concerned with determining what knowledge a system requires to produce a certain behaviour, how this knowledge can be encoded and structured for rapid access, and how a system can reason with what it knows. We have developed a framework for enhancing general-purpose deductive systems by embedding into them powerful, special purpose constraint-solving methods. Using this framework, we have developed and studied reasoning systems for knowledge retrieval, constraint logic programming, modal logic deduction, parsing feature-based grammars, inductive learning and planning. In addition to furthering this research, we are investigating constraint-solving algorithms. MACHINE LEARNING is the area of study concerned with how a computational system can acquire knowledge by learning from its experiences and observations. Intuition tells us that a system can learn by generalising what it knows or observes. We have been studying this intuition and its computational consequences in a mathematically rigorous manner. We have formalised the notion of generalisation, studied algorithms for computing generalisations, and identified conditions under which generalisation is an effective mechanism for learning. A major challenge of artificial intelligence is the construction of systems that can find efficient plans of action for accomplishing given tasks. We are developing, and studying the complexity of, algorithms that learn to plan efficiently from examples of optimal plans. Case-based reasoning (CBR) systems solve new problems by analogy to past problems. The theoretical framework we are developing answers questions such as whether the accuracy of these systems necessarily improves as more problems are encountered. We are also developing novel CBR architectures and applying CBR to a number of real domains. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING research investigates computational methods for understanding and generating human language and has important applications in document processing and user interfaces. We are developing languages for stating the morphological, syntactic and semantic constraints central to modern grammatical theories. We are also developing efficient algorithms for reasoning with these constraints. By combining our work in natural language processing with our expertise in machine learning we are developing methods for learning large-coverage grammars (semi-)automatically from large collections of text. We have already shown how inductive and deductive learning techniques can be combined to give a system that can learn parts of a high quality, wide-coverage natural language grammar. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES The members of the Intelligent Systems Group have been highly active, supervising the completion of six PhD students--all of whom now hold university positions--patenting an architecture for generating navigation directions in natural language, and currently producing their third book. The group has attracted research grants for four projects, one studying methods for representing and reasoning about changing requirements, one studying distributed architectures for case-based reasoning, and two studying applications of case-based reasoning. The ISG maintains close contacts with leading researchers and research groups, both nationally and internationally. During the past three years the group hosted approximately 25 visiting speakers from the UK, US, Canada, Germany, Australia and the Netherlands. The ISG is a member of ESPRIT's COMPULOG NET, the Network of Excellence in Computational Logic. The group co-sponsored AISB's First Workshop on Automated Reasoning and hosted the Fourth European Workshop on Logics in Artificial Intelligence. The ISG has particularly good links with the nearby Division of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Leeds. In addition to conducting collaborative research, the two groups co-sponsor a number of events including the Annual Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Distinguished Lecturer, inviting a leading international AI researcher to visit and speak at the two universities. At York, the ISG collaborates with researchers in the Dept. of Linguistics and in other groups in the Dept. of Computer Science, including the High-Integrity Systems Engineering Group, the Human Computer Interaction Group, and the Advanced Computer Architectures Group. ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH STAFF Derek Bridge, Lecturer. (dgb@minster.york.ac.uk) Natural language processing, case-based reasoning. David Duffy, Research Associate. (dad@minster.york.ac.uk) Automated reasoning and requirements analysis, proof by induction. Alan Frisch, Reader in Intelligent Systems. (frisch@minster.york.ac.uk) Automated reasoning, constraint solving, constraint logic programming, knowledge representation. Suresh Manandhar, Lecturer. (suresh@minster.york.ac.uk) Natural language processing, constraint programming, knowledge representation. Hugh Osborne, Research Associate. (hugh@minster.york.ac.uk) Novel applications of formal methods, especially to case-based reasoning. FURTHER INFORMATION Further information and research papers can be accessed on the World Wide Web at URL http://dcpu1.cs.york.ac.uk:9876/isg/home.html. To discuss educational and research opportunities contact Alan Frisch (phone: +44 1904 432745) or any members of the group at either the email address listed above or at The Department of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, United Kingdom. ------------------------- + ------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF YORK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS GROUP ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS This document provides brief descriptions of research projects that are representative of those conducted within the Intelligent Systems Group. For convenience the document is divided into three sections--knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, and natural language processing--although there is significant overlap among these. KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING DEDUCTION WITH CONSTRAINTS Alan Frisch One of the most widely-used and successful approaches to increasing the efficiency of general-purpose automated reasoning systems has been that of integrating special-purpose reasoning systems into them, resulting in what are often called hybrid reasoning systems. Though the resulting hybrid reasoning systems are appealing, their construction and analysis can be difficult. Our research helps to remedy this problem for a particular class of hybrid reasoners that we have identified and dubbed ``substitutional reasoners''. Substitutional reasoners share certain architectural features; most notably they (1) operate on a language that contains a distinguished set of symbols for representing constraints on the values over which quantified variables range, and (2) employ a special purpose reasoning system to test the satisfiability of these constraints. One of the distinguishing features of substitutional reasoners is that the constraints are manipulated exclusively by the special-purpose reasoner. Though the substitutional architecture has been one of the most common and successful architectures for hybrid reasoning, our research is the first to identify these reasoners as a single class and to investigate their common properties and the general principles that underly them. Our results support a framework that enables the systematic production of substitutional reasoners and their completeness proofs from certain kinds of non-hybrid reasoners and their completeness proofs. Within the substitutional framework we have studied reasoning systems for knowledge retrieval, constraint logic programming, modal logic deduction, parsing feature-based grammars, inductive learning with background information and planning in temporally rich domains. CONSTRAINT SOLVING Alan Frisch In contrast to our results on deduction with constraints, which have been obtained by abstracting away from algorithmic issues and concentrating on architectural issues, we are taking a growing interest in constraint-solving algorithms. Our previous work has studied sorted unification, an operation that lies at the heart of all automated deduction systems for sorted logic, and which can be seen as jointly solving membership and equational constraints. Our current work studies the relationship of deduction to the problem of simultaneously satisfying a set of symbolic constraints on finite domains. Future efforts will concentrate on integrating deductive methods and traditional constraint satisfaction techniques to effectively solve large constraint satisfaction problems. REASONING ABOUT CHANGING REQUIREMENTS David Duffy This project is concerned with the representation of requirements and design decisions, and the rationale associated with them, in a way that is amenable to automated reasoning. The goal is to develop a methodology both for reasoning about the implications (and hence costs) of changes to requirements, and for assessing the opportunities for changes in order to adapt and improve system designs. Early work concentrated on the development of a goal-based framework for combining informal and formal representations of requirements and ensuring their integrity. Subsequently, we have focused on the problems of extracting formal descriptions from requirements expressed using controlled natural languages, and the use of proof mechanisms for assessing the sensitivity of requirements to change. This work forms part of a broader project (in conjunction with the High Integrity Systems Group at York, with Newcastle and Loughborough Universities and with a number of industrial partners) on processes for dealing with changing requirements, which is now coming to completion. KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS DESIGN Derek Bridge, Hugh Osborne Our early work included the use of object-orientation to structure logic databases, but more recently all our work has taken on a case-based reasoning (CBR) flavour. A short project with BT Plc investigated how the services provided by Help Desks could be improved by the use of knowledge based techniques. We built a small prototype system which used CBR to assist a Help Desk Operator carry out a partial diagnosis of a customer's problem. Subsequent work, carried out in the Human-Computer Interaction Group undertook the formal specification, using Z, of a variety of properties of case-based systems. These specifications gave insight into the `space' of possible case-based systems, and elucidated human interaction properties. Finally, in collaboration with the Advanced Architectures Group, we are working on a project entitled `Architectures for Heterogeneous Knowledge Manipulation Systems', which is part of the EPSRC-funded special research programme Architectures for Knowledge Manipulation Systems. The knowledge-based systems side of this project will characterise functional properties of stand alone CBR systems and the circumstances under which these properties are preserved in integrated systems and in distributed environments. The properties will be characterised both formally and empirically. So far we have devised a rich set of human-interpretable similarity measures and derived normal forms for these that allow their parallel evaluation. Industrial support for the project comes in the form of a PARAMID multi-processor from Transtech Ltd., and the supply of example data from a U.K. bank. In the future, we intend to continue to blend both formal and empirical methods in our research in this area. MACHINE LEARNING LEARNING TO PLAN AND ACT Derek Bridge, Robert Dormer, Klaas Schilstra Planning has traditionally been treated within the artificial intelligence community with a focus on search: finding a sequence of operators which will transform an initial state into a goal state. For complex systems, however, the computational cost of this approach is prohibitive. Humans on the other hand are able to plan in complex environments, by using skills and techniques learned from analogous situations that have been encountered previously. The aim of this work is to investigate the use of learning techniques, such as inductive logic programming, for improving the efficiency of logic-based planners. We are also looking at the use of statistical learning theories (such as PAC learning) to obtain bounds on problem complexity. More recently, we have turned to case-based reasoning and learning as a way of furnishing planners with knowledge of plan execution experience that can be used to build more robust plans. CASE-BASED LEARNING Derek Bridge, Tony Griffiths Using the PAC-learning model of machine learning, we are attempting to answer questions such as whether the performance of a case-based reasoning system necessarily improves as more cases are added to the case base. In particular, we have formalised the knowledge content of case-based systems, shown that they often have concept spaces that are different from their hypothesis spaces, and shown how the similarity measure encodes learning bias. More recently we have described two algorithms whose average-case learning behaviours (which we have been able to characterise precisely) we propose should act as yardsticks against which the observed performance of case-based learners can be measured. INDUCTIVE CONSTRAINT LOGIC PROGRAMMING Alan Frisch, Simon Anthony Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is concerned with learning logic programs from sets of examples and, often, some background knowledge. Though ILP systems have been applied with great success to a number of real-world problems, they inherit some of the shortcomings inherent in the traditional logic programming paradigm. In particular, with traditional logic programming languages it is difficult to naturally express computations over domains other than the Herbrand universe (the set of variable-free logical terms). Thus logic programming languages usually require extra-logical constructions to express operations such as arithmetic ones. Consequently, the major results of ILP, which are formulated for pure logic programs, cannot be applied directly to non-Herbrand domains. Constraint logic programming generalises the ideas of ordinary logic programming to allow computation over non-Herbrand domains in a principled and natural manner. This is achieved by replacing the unification procedure of ordinary logic programming with more general constraint-solving mechanisms. Our research is attempting to take the the major ideas and results from ILP and generalise them to the learning of constraint logic programs. Our goal is to demonstrate that the resulting enterprise--Inductive Constraint Logic Programming--provides useful methods for learning in non-Herbrand domains such as numerical domains. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING CONSTRAINT LOGICS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Suresh Manandhar, Alan Frisch Ambiguity arises at all levels of linguistic knowledge--morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics and discourse. A natural language processing system incurs heavy penalties if its implementation does not employ a representation that is largely non-committal. Our recent work has focussed on the use of underspecified representations to represent and reason efficiently with ambiguities. We have developed constraint logics that provide logically sound and efficient mechanisms to represent and reason with such underspecified structures. Our future work will concentrate on formulating a general purpose constraint-solving scheme suitable for specifying complex constraint-based grammars for use in a generic parsing and generation architecture. We will also attempt to develop a hybrid constraint logic that combines constraint reasoning with probabilistic information. Such a logic could be used to obtain the most probable interpretation of a highly ambiguous representation. Our goal is to specify and implement a future proof formalism that subsumes current constraint-based formalisms by allowing development of large hybrid constraint-based grammars. MACHINE LEARNING OF CONSTRAINT-BASED GRAMMARS Suresh Manandhar, Derek Bridge Modern constraint-based grammatical theories, such as Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), employ a complex range of constraints for representing linguistic knowledge. On the one hand, such a rich grammatical theory makes it possible to write grammars that contain very rich linguistic knowledge. On the other hand, it is not entirely clear how constraint-based grammars can be learned (semi-)automatically from large corpora. This means that there is a need to study the complexity/learnability divide and come up with a refined but equally expressive grammatical theory that has the advantage of being acquired automatically from corpora. Our efforts so far have been devoted towards combining deductive and inductive techniques for learning unification grammars in the style of Generalised Phrase-Structure Grammar. This approach was successful in learning grammars that reduced overgeneration and undergeneration, and which assigned linguistically plausible analyses to sentences. Future work will build on our past work and other existing work in corpus linguistics, constraint-based grammars, knowledge representation and machine learning with a view to learning HPSG-style unification grammars. ------------------------- + ------------------------- 63) IDA-97: Second International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis Birkbeck College, London 4th-6th August 1997 Objective ========= For many years the intersection of computing and data analysis contained menu-based statistics packages and not much else. Recently, statisticians have embraced computing, computer scientists are using statistical theories and methods, and researchers in all corners are inventing algorithms to find structure in vast online datasets. Data analysts now have access to tools for exploratory data analysis, decision tree induction, causal induction, function finding, constructing customised reference distributions, and visualisation. There are prototype intelligent assistants to advise on matters of design and analysis. There are tools for traditional, relatively small samples and for enormous datasets. The focus of IDA-97 will be "Reasoning About Data". We are interested in intelligent systems that reason about how to analyze data, perhaps as human analysts do. Analysts often bring exogenous knowledge about data to bear when they decide how to analyze it; they use intermediate results to decide how to proceed; they reason about how much analysis the data will actually support; they consider which methods will be most informative; they decide which aspects of a model are most uncertain and focus attention there; they sometimes have the luxury of collecting more data, and plan to do so efficiently. In short, there is a strategic aspect to data analysis, beyond the tactical choice of this or that test, visualisation or variable. IDA-95, the First International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, was organised to provide an international forum for the discussion of such issues. The symposium took place in Germany and attracted participants from 20 countries in four continents. A survey after the event supported the idea of making IDA a regular, biennial conference. IDA-97 will be a major international, high-quality meeting that brings together a broad spectrum of work. Topics ====== The following topics are of particular interest to IDA-97: - Analysis of IDA algorithms - applications (e.g., commerce, engineering, finance, legal, manufacturing, medicine, public policy, science) - assistants, intelligent agents for data analysis - Bayesian inference and influence diagrams - bias - bootstrap, randomization, computer-intensive methods - causal modeling - censored data - classification - clustering - data mining - data visualisation - data cleaning, pre-processing and post-processing - decision analysis - evaluation of IDA systems - exploratory data analysis - experiment design - fuzzy logic - graphical models - human-computer interaction in IDA - information extraction, information retrieval, textual systems - knowledge-based systems - machine learning and statistics - model specification, selection, estimation - neural/evolutionary approaches - reasoning under uncertainty - representation of statistical knowledge - search - statistical pattern recognition - statistical strategy - time series and temporal data - uncertainty and noise in data - visualization Submissions =========== We are still working on the submission details and we shall make them available in the next call for papers and on the IDA-97 WWW pages. Review ====== All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity. At least two referees will review each submission independently and final decisions will be made by program chairs, in consultation with relevant reviewers. Publications ============ Papers which are accepted and presented at the conference will appear in the IDA-97 proceedings. Authors of the best papers will be invited to extend their papers for inclusion in a special issue of "Intelligent Data Analysis: An International Journal". Location ======== IDA-97 will be held in the newly-furnished conference halls at Birkbeck College, University of London. The college is ranked among the leading UK university institutions for its levels of national and international excellence in research in the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. It is situated in central London, surrounded by many of the well-known museums, theatres, restaurants, and shops. It is directly reachable from Heathrow airport, in about 50 minutes by London Underground. Exhibitions =========== IDA-97 welcomes demonstrations of software and publications related to intelligent data analysis. Sponsorship =========== IDA-97 welcomes those organisations who may wish to partly sponsor the conference. Sponsorship of an international conference in an important emerging field such as IDA-97 will ensure high visibility for the benefactor, both through the appearance of the organisation logo on promotional literature and in references to the conference in all media exposure prior to and after the event. IDA-97 Organisation =================== General Chair: Xiaohui Liu Program Chairs: Paul Cohen, Xiaohui Liu Steering Comm. Chair: Paul Cohen, University of Massachusetts, USA Exhibition Chair: Richard Weber, MIT GmbH, Aachen, Germany Finance Chair: Sylvie Jami, Birkbeck College, UK Local Arrangements Chair: Trevor Fenner, Birkbeck College, UK Public. and Proc. Chair: Michael Berthold, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Sponsorship Chair: Mihaela Ulieru, Simon Fraser University, Canada Steering Committee Michael Berthold University of Karlsruhe, Germany Fazel Famili National Research Council, Canada Doug Fisher Vanderbilt University, USA Alex Gammerman Royal Holloway London, UK David Hand Open University, UK Wenling Hsu AT&T Research, USA Xiaohui Liu Birkbeck College, UK Daryl Pregibon AT&T Research, USA Evangelos Simoudis IBM Almaden Research, USA Program Committee Eric Backer Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Riccardo Bellazzi University of Pavia, Italy Michael Berthold University of Karlsruhe, Germany Carla Brodley Purdue University, USA Gongxian Cheng Birkbeck College, UK Fazel Famili National Research Council, Canada Julian Faraway University of Michigan, USA Thomas Feuring WWU Muenster, Germany Alex Gammerman Royal Holloway London, UK David Hand Open University, UK Rainer Holve Forwiss Erlangen, Germany Wenling Hsu AT&T Consumer Lab, USA Larry Hunter National Library of Medicine, USA David Jensen University of Massachusetts, USA Frank Klawonn University of Braunschweig, Germany David Lubinsky University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain Sylvia Miksch Stanford University, USA Rob Milne Intelligent Applications Ltd, UK Gholamreza Nakhaeizadeh Daimler-Benz Forschung und Technik, Germany Claire Nedellec Universite Paris-Sud, France Erkki Oja Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Henri Prade University Paul Sabatier, France Daryl Pregibon AT&T Research, USA Peter Ross University of Edinburgh, UK Steven Roth Carnegie Mellon University, USA Lorenza Saitta University of Torino, Italy Peter Selfridge AT&T Research, USA Rosaria Silipo University of Florence, Italy Evangelos Simoudis IBM Almaden Research, USA Derek Sleeman University of Aberdeen, UK Paul Snow Consultant, USA Rob St. Amant North Carolina State University, USA Lionel Tarassenko Oxford University, UK John Taylor King's College London, UK Loren Terveen AT&T Research, USA Hans-Juergen Zimmermann RWTH Aachen, Germany Enquiries ========= General: Xiaohui Liu Department of Computer Science Birkbeck College Malet Street London WC1E 7HX, UK E-mail: hui@dcs.bbk.ac.uk Tel: (+44) 171 631 6711 Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727 Technical Program: Paul Cohen Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts, Amherst Amherst, MA 01003-4610 USA E-mail: cohen@cs.umass.edu Tel: (+1) 413 545 3638 Fax: (+1) 413 545 1249 Exhibition: Richard Weber MIT GmbH Promenade 9 52076 Aachen Germany E-mail: rw@mitgmbh.de Tel: (+49) 2408 94580 Fax: (+49) 2408 94582 Finance: Sylvie Jami Department of Computer Science Birkbeck College Malet Street London WC1E 7HX, UK E-mail: s.jami@dcs.bbk.ac.uk Tel: (+44) 171 631 6726 Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727 Local Arrangements: Trevor Fenner Department of Computer Science Birkbeck College Malet Street London WC1E 7HX, UK E-mail: hui@dcs.bbk.ac.uk Tel: (+44) 171 631 6704 Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727 Publicity & Michael Berthold Publication: Universitaet Karlsruhe, IRF Am Zirkel 2 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany E-mail: berthold@ira.uka.de Tel: (+49) 721 608 4219 Fax: (+49) 721 370 455 Sponsorship: Mihaela Ulieru Simon Fraser University 2357 Riverside Drive North Vancouver, B.C. Canada V7H 1V8 Email: mhs@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu Tel: (+1) 604 924 1001 Fax: (+1) 604 924 1006 There is also an IDA-97 mailing list. To subscribe, send the word "subscribe" in the message body to: ida97-request@dcs.bbk.ac.uk Latest information regarding IDA-97 will be available on the World Wide Web Server of the Department of Computer Science at Birkbeck College, London: http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/ida97.html 64) CogSci96 in Sofia 3rd International Summer School in Cognitive Science Sofia, July 21 - August 3, 1996 First Announcement and Call for Papers The Summer School features introductory and advanced courses in Cognitive Science, participant symposia, panel discussions, student sessions, and intensive informal discussions. Participants will include university teachers and researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students. International Advisory Board Elizabeth BATES (University of California at San Diego, USA) Amedeo CAPPELLI (CNR, Pisa, Italy) Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI (CNR, Roma, Italy) Daniel DENNETT (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA) Ennio De RENZI (University of Modena, Italy) Charles DE WEERT (University of Nijmegen, Holland ) Christian FREKSA (Hamburg University, Germany) Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA) Christopher HABEL (Hamburg University, Germany) Joachim HOHNSBEIN (Dortmund University, Germany) Douglas HOFSTADTER (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA) Keith HOLYOAK (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) Mark KEANE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) Alan LESGOLD (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA) Willem LEVELT (Max-Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland) David RUMELHART (Stanford University, California, USA) Richard SHIFFRIN (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA) Paul SMOLENSKY (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Chris THORNTON (University of Sussex, Brighton, England) Carlo UMILTA' (University of Padova, Italy) Eran ZAIDEL (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) Courses Two Sciences of Mind: Cognitive Science and Consciousness Studies - Sean O'Nuallain (NCR, Canada) Contextual Reasoning - Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy) Diagrammatic Reasonning - Hari Narayanan (Georgia Tech, USA) Qualitative Spatial Reasoning - Schlieder (Hamburg and Freiburg University, Germany) Language, Vision, and Spatial Cognition - Annette Herskovits (Boston University) Situated Planning and Reactivity - Iain Craig (University of Warwick, UK) Anthropology of Knowledge - Janet Keller (University of Illinois, USA) Cognitive Ergonomics - Antonio Rizzo (University of Siena, Italy) Psychophysics: Detection, Discrimination, and Scaling - Stephan Mateeff (BAS and NBU, Bulgaria) Participant Symposia Participants are invited to submit papers reporting completed research which will be presented (30 min) at the participant symposia. Authors should send full papers (8 single spaced pages) in triplicate or electronically (postscript, RTF, MS Word or plain ASCII) by May 31. Selected papers will be published in the School's Proceedings. Only papers presented at the School will be eligible for publication. Student Session Graduate students in Cognitive Science are invited to present their work at the student session. Research in progress as well as research plans and proposals for M.Sc. Theses and Ph.D. Theses will be discussed at the student session. Papers will not be published in the School's Proceedings. Panel Discussions Cognitive Science in the 21st century Symbolic vs. Situated Cognition Human Thinking and Reasoning: Contextual, Diagrammatic, Spatial, Culturally Bound Local Organizers New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgarian Cognitive Science Society Sponsors TEMPUS SJEP 07272/94 Local Organizing Committee Boicho Kokinov - School Director, Elena Andonova, Gergana Yancheva, Veselka Anastasova Timetable Registration Form: as soon as possible Deadline for paper submission: May 31 Notification for acceptance: June 15 Early registration: June 15 Arrival date and on site registration July 21 Summer School July 22-August 2 Excursion July 28 Departure date August 3 Paper submission to: Boicho Kokinov Cognitive Science Department New Bulgarian University 21, Montevideo Str. Sofia 1635, Bulgaria e-mail: cogsci96@cogs.nbu.acad.bg Send your Registration Form to: e-mail: cogsci96@cogs.nbu.acad.bg (If you don't receive an aknowledgement within 3 days, send a message to kokinov@bgearn.acad.bg) 65) Sintra spatiotemporal models workshop Due to requests from several prospective authors, the deadline for submission of papers to the Sintra Workshop on Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems has been extended. The new deadline is May 10. Papers received after this date will NOT be opened. The call for papers and the instructions for authors can be obtained from the web: http://aleph.inesc.pt/smbas/ or http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/workshop.html They can also be requested by sending e-mail to luis.almeida@inesc.pt -- Luis B. Almeida INESC Phone: +351-1-3544607, +351-1-3100246 R. Alves Redol, 9 Fax: +351-1-3145843 P-1000 Lisboa Portugal e-mail: lba@inesc.pt or luis.almeida@inesc.pt ------------------------------------------------------------------- 66) ****** ROBOT LEARNING: THE NEW WAVE ****** Special Issue of the journal Robotics and Autonomous Systems Submission Deadline: August, 1st, 1996 Decisions to authors: October, 1st, 1996 Final papers back: November, 7th, 1996 SPECIAL EDITOR Noel Sharkey (Sheffield) SPECIAL EDITORIAL BOARD Michael Arbib (USC) Ronald Arkin (GIT) George Bekey (USC) Randall Beer (Case Western) Bartlett Mel (USC) Maja Mataric (Brandeis) Carme Torras (Barcelona) Lina Massone (Northwestern) Lisa Meeden (Swarthmore) INTERNATIONAL REVIEW PANEL S Perkins (UK) T Ziemke (Sweden) P Zhang (France) S Wilson (USA) P Bakker (Japan) J Tani (Japan) C Thornton (UK) M Wilson (UK) M Recce (UK) D Cliff (UK) G Hayes (UK) U Zimmer (Germany) S Thrun (USA) S Nolfi (Italy) P van der Smagt (Germany) C Touzet (France) U Nehmzow (UK) R Salmon (Switzerland) J Hallam (UK) M Nilsson (Sweden) M Dorigo (Belgium) A Prescott (UK) C Holgate (UK) E Celaya (Spain) P Husbands (UK) I Harvey (UK) The objective of the Special Issue is to provide a focus for the new wave of research on the use of learning techniques to train real robots. We are particularly interested in research using neural computing techniques, but would also like submissions of work using genetic algorithms or other novel techniques. The nature of the new wave research is transdisciplinary bringing on board control engineering, artificial intelligence, animal learning, neurophysiology, embodied cognition, and ethology. We would like to encourage work discussing replicability and quantification provided that the research has been conducted or tested on real robots. AREAS OF RESEARCH INCLUDE: Mobile autonomous robotics, Fixed Arm robotics, Dextrous robots, Walking Machines, High level robotics, Behaviour-based robotics, Biologically inspired robots. TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE * Reinforcement learning * Supervised learning * Self organisiation * Genetic algorithms * Learning brainstyle control systems * High level robot learning * Hybrid learning * Imitation Learning * The learning and use of representations * Adaptive approaches to dynamic planning * Place recognition Send submissions to Ms Jill Martin, RAS Special, Department of Computer Science, Regent Court, Portobello Rd., University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK. Updates will appear on the web page: http:\www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nn/RASspecial.html 67) PAKDD96 --------CALL FOR PAPER--------CALL FOR PAPER--------CALL FOR PAPER------- FIRST PACIFIC-ASIA CONFERENCE on KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY and DATA MINING (PAKDD97) Singapore, 23-24 February, 1997 (Co-located with 2nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Expert Systems/ 3rd Singapore International Conference on Intelligent Systems) The first Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD97) will be held in Singapore. As the range of computer applications is broadening, more and more data is captured and/or generated. In order to overcome the situation of ``data rich and knowledge poor'', knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) is becoming the focus of many fields from Intelligent Databases, Machine Learning to Statistics. The aims of the conference are to cover all aspects of KDD, to bring together researchers and practitioners from basic and applied research and information industries, and to push forward the state-of-art of KDD. The conference technical programme will include paper presentations, posters, invited talks, and tutorials in a two-day event. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Knowledge Representation and Acquisition in KDD Data Mining and Data Warehousing Data Cleaning, Preprocessing and Postprocessing Data and Dimensionality Reduction Knowledge Reuse and Role of Domain Knowledge Data Mining Tools KDD Framework and Process Security and Privacy Issues in KDD Mining in-the-Large vs Mining in-the-Small Management Issues in KDD Machine Learning, Statistical and Visualization Aspects of KDD Successful/Innovative Applications in Science, Government, Business and Industry The proceedings will be published by an international publisher and will be available at the conference. PAKDD is Organized by Information Technology Institute & National University of Singapore in Cooperation with National Computer Board, Singapore Singapore Computer Society AI Chapter Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Korea Expert Systems Society Submission Information: Tutorial proposal comprising summary, course outline and a brief biography of the speaker(s); 4 copies of full paper (3000-5000 words) 4 copies of applications paper (about 3000 words) Submission Address: Dr. Hongjun Lu Department of ISCS National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260 For further information, please contact pakdd97@iti.gov.sg or check the conference web site: http://www.iscs.nus.sg/conferences/pakdd97.html. Important Dates: 1 Aug., 1996 for submission of papers and proposals 15 Oct., 1996 for notification of acceptance 15 Dec., 1996 for receipt of camera-ready manuscripts --------CALL FOR PAPER--------CALL FOR PAPER--------CALL FOR PAPER------- Conference General Chair: Hing-Yan Lee, Japan-Singapore AI Centre (JSAIC), Information Technology Institute Organizing Committee: Lynica Foo, JSAIC, Kwok-Leong Hui, JSAIC Bing Liu, National U. of S'pore (NUS) Hwee-Leng Ong, JSAIC Angeline Pang, JSAIC Publicity Chair: Huan Liu, NUS Programme Co-Chairs: Hongjun Lu Hiroshi Motoda Dept of Info. Sys. & Comp. Sci. Institute of Sci. & Indus. Research National University of Singapore Osaka University, Japan Programme Committee: Arbee L. Chen, National Tsing Hua U., Taiwan David Cheung, Hong Kong U. Roger Hsiang-Li Chiang, Nanyang Technological U., S'pore Son Dao, Hughes Research Lab., USA David Dowe, Monash U., Australia Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser U., Canada Se Jung Hong, T.J. Watson IBM Lab., USA Steven H. Kim, KAIST, Korea Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo University, Japan Jae-Kyu Lee, KAIST, Korea Bing Liu, NUS, S'pore Huan Liu, NUS, S'pore Peter Milne, CSIRO, Australia Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka U., Japan Shinichi Morishita, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan Raymond Ng, UBC, Canada Anne Ngu, The University of New South Wales, Australia Shojiro Nishio, Osaka U., Japan Hwee-Leng Ong, JSAIC S. Seshadri, IIT Bombay, India Rudy Setiono, NUS, S'pore John Shafer, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Pengfei Shi, Shanghai Jiaotong U., China Atsuhiro Takasu, NCSIS, Japan Takao Terano, The University of Tsukuba, Japan Robert Veranas, NUS, S'pore Xindong Wu, Monash U., Australia Beat Wuthrich, HKUST, Hong Kong Suk-Chung Yoon, Wildener University, USA Philip Yu, T.J. Watson IBM Lab., USA Bo Zhang, Tsinghua U., China Related Conferences: ISIS
--------CALL FOR PAPER--------CALL FOR PAPER--------CALL FOR PAPER------ 68) KAW96 Tenth Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop (KAW'96), Banff Canada, November 9-14, 1996 The use of explicit ontologies has become an active research area in our community, as many researchers feel that these are a key to achieving sharable and reusable knowledge bases. Still, we are only beginning to understand what ontologies really are, what should be in them, how they should be formulated and in which ways they could be used. Since a few years, the annual knowledge acquisition workshop In Banff has a track on shareable and reusable ontologies. The informal atmosphere of the workshop and the beautiful environment have proven to be excellent catalysts for discussing ontological issues. Because the field of ``ontological engineering'' is still in its infancy we have chosen to leave the decision as to which topics are to be discussed to the participants of the track. So if you think that your work could contribute to a better understanding of the relation between ontologies and knowledge engineering and you want to discuss this with other researchers, please submit a paper. However, to streamline discussions we suggest that participants consider how their work relates to each of the following questions. * WHAT: What should be in an ontology? ========================================================================= When looking at implemented ontologies, one can distinguish huge differences with respect to the level of granularity on which they are formulated. On one extreme are the so-called top level ontologies, defining part-of relations, physical entities etc. On the other extreme, one can find ontologies which define almost all of the knowledge that exists in some domain. What makes your ontology different from an arbitrary knowledge base? What do your results teach us about the right level of granularity? * WHEN: When (= under which circumstances) can ontologies be reused? ======================================================================= Intuitively, it is clear that some ontologies are more shareable and reusable than others. What are the factors that determine the extent to which ontologies are reusable? How, in particular, can the intended models underlying a particular ontology be characterized? How can the "competence" of an ontology be defined? * HOW: How can ontologies be developed and integrated? ======================================================================= We still need to develop suitable methodologies for: - building ontologies from existing domain info, like NL texts and databases; - selecting among different ontologies those more suitable for a particular system; - revising and integrating "off the shelf" ontologies into target systems. How can your experience contribute to such methodological issues? * HOW: How can ontologies be exploited to build better systems? ======================================================================== A fundamental assumption of the work on ontologies is that it allows us to build better systems, preferably in less time.``Better'' may refer here to a number of things (e.g. more robust, more intelligent, easier to develop etc.). To what kind of ``betterness'' does your work contribute? PAPER SUBMISSIONS AND TRACK Papers must be submitted as pointed out in the general call for participation KAW'96. The track will be organized as a mixture of paper presentations and discussion sessions, possibly enriched with invited talks. We plan to have a 2-day track. TRACK CO-CHAIRS: Nicola Guarino (guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it) National Research Council Italy Gertjan van Heijst (gertjan@swi.psy.uva.nl) University of Amsterdam The Netherlands 69) First European Workshop on Cognitive Modeling ============================================================================= ,######### ############# First European Workshop ,########### ############' ####' ,###' on Cognitive Modeling ###' ,### ### #### in conjunction with EuroSoar-10 ###. `###. ####. `###. 14--16 November 1996, Berlin University of `########### ############. Technology, Germany `######### ############# >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> CALL FOR WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< * General Information ------------------- This workshop has been created to establish interdisciplinary co-operation in the domain of cognitive modeling. It should be of interest for researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology and computer linguistics. The workshop and is open for work on cognitive modeling using general architectures (such as SOAR and ACT) as well as other kinds of modeling approaches. * Program ------- The program will include presentations of papers, demo sessions, discussion groups and tutorials on cognitive modeling. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: methodology of cognitive modeling (e.g. AI programming), classification, problem solving, reasoning, inference, learning, language processing and human-computer interaction. * Submission of Papers -------------------- Contributions should be submitted as two hard copies AND as ASCII- or TeX-file (via email or on 3.25" floppy) to the address below. The submission deadline is the 11th of July 1996. > Form of contributions Papers : 5-8 pages Tutorials : 1-2 pages that describe the content of the tutorial and give hints on basic literature Demonstrations (which are not part of a presented paper) : 1-2 pages Discussion Groups: 1 page which gives a topic, some controversial points and names and addresses of participants Each contributions should start with: Title, authors, addresses of authors. PLEASE USE THE SUBMISSION FORM BELOW TO CLASSIFY YOUR CONTRIBUTION! The general precondition for the acceptance of a contribution is that it represents substantial scientific work in the area of cognitive modeling. The number of accepted contributions will be restricted to fifty. * Publication ----------- All contributions will be published as technical report of the Department of Computer Science of the Berlin University of Technology. It is possible that a selection of papers will be published in book-form as well. * Fee for participation: DM 100.- (not to include housing or meals) --- Payment procedure will be given together with the notification of authors / participants. * Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 11th of July 1996 Notification to the authors and final program : 14th of September 1996 Workshop : 14-16 November 1996 Up-to-date information about the workshop will be given on the WWW. See http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schmid/eurocog.html for information about hotel registration, location of the conference rooms etc. * Organization ------------ Cognitive Modeling: Ute Schmid and Fritz Wysotzki (Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, Berlin University of Technology) EuroSoar-10 : Josef Krems (Psychology, Chemnitz University of Technology) Contact and Submission of Papers to: Ute Schmid Institute of Applied Computer Science Technische Universitaet Berlin, FR 5-8 Franklinstr. 28/29 D-10587 Berlin Phone: +49-30-314-23938 Fax: +49-30-314-24913 email: schmid@cs.tu-berlin.de -------------------------------% submission form -------------------------- SUBMISSION FORM: Please mail or send together with your contribution! SURNAME: FIRST NAME: ADDRESS: EMAIL: ....................................................................... My submission is: Category of Contribution: Paper __ Tutorial __ Demonstration __ Discussion Group __ Classification of Contribution: AI programming __ classification __ problem solving __ reasoning __ inference __ learning __ language processing __ human-computer interaction __ other __ TITLE: I NEED THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL SUPPORT: (A4 overhead projectors will be provided) ...................................................................... I will participate on the workshop but won't contribute a paper __ -------------------------------% submission form -------------------------- 70) GP-96 Registration Form and Info CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, LIST OF TUTORIALS, LIST OF PAPERS, LIST OF PROGRAM COMMITTEES, AND REGISTRATION FORM (Largest discount availabe until May 15) Genetic Programming 1996 Conference (GP-96) July 28 - 31 (Sunday - Wednesday), 1996 Fairchild Auditorium and other campus locations Stanford University Stanford, California Proceedings will be published by The MIT Press In cooperation with -the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), - SIGART - IEEE Neural Network Council, - American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Genetic programming is an automatic programming technique for evolving computer programs that solve (or approximately solve) problems. Starting with a primordial ooze of thousands of randomly created computer programs composed of programmatic ingredients appropriate to the problem, a population of computers programs is progressively evolved over many generations using the Darwinian principle of survival of the fittest, a sexual recombination operation, and occasional mutation. Since 1992, over 500 technical papers have been published in this rapidly growing field. This first genetic programming conference will feature 75 papers and 27 poster papers, 12 tutorials, 2 invited speakers, a session featuring late-breaking papers, and informal birds-of-a-feather meetings. Topics include, but are not limited to, applications of genetic programming, theoretical foundations of genetic programming, implementation issues and technique extensions, use of memory and state, cellular encoding (developmental genetic programming), evolvable hardware, evolvable machine language programs, automated evolution of program architecture, evolution and use of mental models, automatic programming of multi-agent strategies, distributed artificial intelligence, automated circuit synthesis, automatic programming of cellular automata, induction, system identification, control, automated design, compression, image analysis, pattern recognition, molecular biology applications, grammar induction, and parallelization. ------------------------------------------------- HONORARY CHAIR: John Holland, University of Michigan INVITED SPEAKERS: John Holland, University of Michigan and David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois GENERAL CHAIR: John Koza, Stanford University PUBLICITY CHAIR: Patrick Tufts, Brandeis University ------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS -Sunday July 28 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM - Genetic Algorithms - David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois - Machine Language Genetic Programming - Peter Nordin, University of Dortmund, Germany - Genetic Programming using Mathematica P Robert Nachbar P Merck Research Laboratories - Introduction to Genetic Programming - John Koza, Stanford University ------------------------------------------------- Sunday July 28 1:00 PM - 3: 15 PM - Classifier Systems- Robert Elliott Smith, University of Alabama - Evolutionary Computation for Constraint Optimization - Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of North Carolina - Advanced Genetic Programming - John Koza, Stanford University ------------------------------------------------- Sunday July 28 3:45 PM - 6 PM - Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies - David Fogel, University of California, San Diego - Cellular Encoding P Frederic Gruau, Stanford University (via videotape) and David Andre, Stanford University (in person) - Genetic Programming with Linear Genomes (one hour) - Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany -JECHO - Terry Jones, Santa Fe Institute ------------------------------------------------- Tuesday July 30 - 3 PM - 5:15PM - Neural Networks - David E. Rumelhart, Stanford University - Machine Learning - Pat Langley, Stanford University -JMolecular Biology for Computer Scientists - Russ B. Altman, Stanford University ------------------------------------------------- Additional tutorial P Time to be Announced % Evolvable Hardware - Hugo De Garis,ATR, Nara, Japan and Adrian Thompson, University of Sussex, U.K. ------------------------------------------------- FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE GP-96 CONFERENCE: See the GP-96 home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-96.html or contact GP-96 at via e-mail at gp@aaai.org. PHONE: 415-328- 3123. FAX: 415-321-4457. Conference operated by Genetic Programming Conferences, Inc. (a California not- for-profit corporation). ABOUT GENETIC PROGRAMMING IN GENERAL: http://www-cs- faculty.stanford.edu/~koza/. FOR GP-96 TRAVEL INFORMATION: See the GP-96 home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-96.html. For further information regarding special GP-96 airline and car rental rates, please contact Conventions in America at e-mail flycia@balboa.com; or phone 1-800-929-4242; or phone 619-678-3600; or FAX 619-678-3699. FOR HOTEL AND UNIVERSITY HOUSING INFORMATION: See the GP-96 home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-96.html or via e- mail at gp@aaai.org. FOR STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: See the GP-96 home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-96.html. ABOUT THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA AND SILICON VALLEY SIGHTS: Try the Stanford University home page at http://www.stanford.edu/, the Hyperion Guide at http://www.hyperion.com/ba/sfbay.html; the Palo Alto weekly at http://www.service.com/PAW/home.html; the California Virtual Tourist at http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtual- tourist/California.html; and the Yahoo Guide of San Francisco at http://www.yahoo.com/Regional_Information/States/Califor nia/San_Francisco. ABOUT OTHER CONTEMPORANEOUS WEST COAST CONFERENCES: Information about the AAAI-96 conference on August 4 P 8 (Sunday P Thursday), 1996, in Portland, Oregon is at http://www.aaai.org/. Information on the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD- 96) in Portland on August 3 P 5, 1996 is at http://www- aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd96. Information about the Protein Society conference on August 3 P 7, 1996 in San Jose is at http://www.faseb.org. Information about the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA) workshop on August 3 P 5 (Saturday P Monday), 1996, in San Diego is at http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/foga/. Information about the Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA-96) conference on August 6 P 9 (Friday P Sunday), 1996 in Sunnyvale, California is at http://www.ece.neu.edu/pdpta96.html. 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E-MAIL: gp@aaai.org. ------------------------------------------------ REGISTRATION FORM FOR GENETIC PROGRAMMING 1996 CONFERENCE TO BE HELD ON JULY 28 P 31, 1996 AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY First Name _________________________ Last Name_______________ Affiliation________________________________ Address__________________________________ ________________________________________ City__________________________ State/Province _________________ Zip/Postal Code____________________ Country__________________ Daytime telephone__________________________ E-Mail address_____________________________ Conference registration fee includes copy of proceedings, attendance at 4 tutorials of your choice, syllabus books for the tutorials, conference reception, copy of a book of late-breaking papers, a T-shirt, coffee breaks, lunch (on at least Sunday), and admission to conference sessions. Students must send legible proof of full-time student status. Conference proceedings will be mailed to registered attendees with U.S. mailing addresses via 2-day U.S. priority mail about 1 P 2 weeks prior to the conference at no extra charge (at addressee's risk). If you are uncertain as to whether you will be at that address at that time or DO NOT WANT YOUR PROCEEDINGS MAILED to you at the above address for any other reason, your copy of the proceedings will be held for you at the conference registration desk if you CHECK HERE ____. Postmarked by May 15, 1996: Student P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $195 Regular P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $395 Student P Non-member $215 Regular P Non-member $415 Postmarked by June 26, 1996: Student P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $245 Regular P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $445 Student P Non-member $265 Regular P Non-member $465 Postmarked later or on-site: Student P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $295 Regular P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member $495 Student P Non-member $315 Regular P Non-member $515 Member number: ACM # ___________ IEEE # _________ AAAI # _________ Total fee (enter appropriate amount) $ _________ __ Check or money order made payable to "AAAI" (in U.S. funds) __ Mastercard __ Visa __ American Express Credit card number __________________________________________ Expiration Date ___________ Signature _________________________ TUTORIALS: Check off a box for one tutorial from each of the 4 columns: Sunday July 28, 1996 P 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM __ Genetic Algorithms __ Machine Language GP __ GP using Mathematica __ Introductory GP Sunday July 28, 1996 P 1:00 PM - 3: 15 PM __ Classifier Systems __ EC for Constraint Optimization __ Advanced GP Sunday July 28, 1996 P 3:45 PM - 6 PM __ Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies __ Cellular Encoding __ GP with Linear Genomes __ ECHO Tuesday July 30, 1996 P3:00 PM - 5:15PM __ Neural Networks __ Machine Learning __ Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists __ Check here for information about housing and meal package at Stanford University. __ Check here for information on student travel grants. T-shirt size ___ small ___ medium ___ large ___ extra-large No refunds will be made; however, we will transfer your registration to a person you designate upon notification. SEND TO: GP-96 Conference, c/o American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025. ------------------------------------------------- 90 PAPERS APPEARING IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE GP-96 CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ON JULY 28-31, 1996 -------------------------------------------------- LONG GENETIC PROGRAMMING PAPERS Discovery by Genetic Programming of a Cellular Automata Rule that is Better than any Known Rule for the Majority Classification Problem --- David Andre, Forrest H Bennett III, and John R. Koza A Study in Program Response and the Negative Effects of Introns in Genetic Programming --- David Andre and Astro Teller An Investigation into the Sensitivity of Genetic Programming to the Frequency of Leaf Selection During Subtree Crossover --- Peter J. Angeline Automatic Creation of an Efficient Multi-Agent Architecture Using Genetic Programming with Architecture-Altering Operations --- Forrest H Bennett III Evolving Deterministic Finite Automata Using Cellular Encoding --- Scott Brave Genetic Programming and the Efficient Market Hypothesis --- Shu-Heng Chen and Chia-Hsuan Yeh Bargaining by Artificial Agents in Two Coalition Games: A Study in Genetic Programming for Electronic Commerce --- Garett Dworman, Steven O. Kimbrough, and James D. Laing Waveform Recognition Using Genetic Programming: The Myoelectric Signal Recognition Problem --- Jaime J. Fernandez, Kristin A. Farry, and John B. Cheatham Benchmarking the Generalization Capabilities of A Compiling Genetic programming System using Sparse Data Sets --- Frank D. Francone, Peter Nordin, and Wolfgang Banzhaf A Comparison between Cellular Encoding and Direct Encoding for Genetic Neural Networks --- Frederic Gruau, Darrell Whitley, and Larry Pyeatt Entailment for Specification Refinement --- Thomas Haynes, Rose Gamble, Leslie Knight, and Roger Wainwright Genetic Programming of Near-Minimum-Time Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvers --- Brian Howley Evolving Evolution Programs: Genetic Programming and L-Systems --- Christian Jacob Genetic Programming using Genotype-Phenotype Mapping from Linear Genomes into Linear Phenotypes --- Robert E. Keller and Wolfgang Banzhaf Automated WYWIWYG Design of Both the Topology and Component Values of Electrical Circuits Using Genetic Programming --- John R. Koza, Forrest H Bennett III, David Andre, and Martin A. Keane Use of Automatically Defined Functions and Architecture-Altering Operations in Automated Circuit Synthesis Using Genetic Programming --- John R. Koza, David Andre, Forrest H Bennett III, and Martin A. Keane Using Data Structures within Genetic Programming --- W. B. Langdon Evolving Teamwork and Coordination with Genetic Programming --- Sean Luke and Lee Spector Using Genetic Programming to Develop Inferential Estimation Algorithms --- Ben McKay, Mark Willis, Gary Montague, and Geoffrey W. Barton Dynamics of Genetic Programming and Chaotic Time Series Prediction --- Brian S. Mulloy, Rick L. Riolo, and Robert S. Savit Genetic Programming, the Reflection of Chaos, and the Bootstrap: Towards a useful Test for Chaos --- E. Howard N. Oakley Solving Facility Layout Problems Using Genetic Programming --- Jaime Garces-Perez, Dale A. Schoenefeld, and Roger L. Wainwright Variations in Evolution of Subsumption Architectures Using Genetic Programming: The Wall Following Robot Revisited --- Steven J. Ross, Jason M. Daida, Chau M. Doan, Tommaso F. Bersano- Begey, and Jeffrey J. McClain MASSON: Discovering Commonalties in Collection of Objects using Genetic Programming --- Tae-Wan Ryu and Christoph F. Eick Cultural Transmission of Information in Genetic Programming --- Lee Spector and Sean Luke Code Growth in Genetic Programming --- Terence Soule, James A. Foster, and John Dickinson High-Performance, Parallel, Stack-Based Genetic Programming --- Kilian Stoffel and Lee Spector Search Bias, Language Bias, and Genetic Programming --- P. A. Whigham Learning Recursive Functions from Noisy Examples using Generic Genetic Programming --- Man Leung Wong and Kwong Sak Leung SHORT GENETIC PROGRAMMING PAPERS Classification using Cultural Co-Evolution and Genetic Programming --- Myriam Abramson and Lawrence Hunter Type-Constrained Genetic Programming for Rule-Base Definition in Fuzzy Logic Controllers --- Enrique Alba, Carlos Cotta, and Jose J. Troyo The Evolution of Memory and Mental Models Using Genetic Programming --- Scott Brave Automatic Generation of Object-Oriented Programs Using Genetic Programming --- Wilker Shane Bruce Evolving Event Driven Programs --- Mark Crosbie and Eugene H. Spafford Computer-Assisted Design of Image Classification Algorithms: Dynamic and Static Fitness Evaluations in a Scaffolded Genetic Programming Environment --- Jason M. Daida, Tommaso F. Bersano-Begey, Steven J. Ross, and John F. Vesecky Improved Direct Acyclic Graph Handling and the Combine Operator in Genetic Programming --- Herman Ehrenburg An Adverse Interaction between Crossover and Restricted Tree Depth in Genetic Programming --- Chris Gathercole and Peter Ross The Prediction of the Degree of Exposure to Solvent of Amino Acid Residues via Genetic Programming --- Simon Handle y A New Class of Function Sets for Solving Sequence Problems --- Simon Handley Evolving Edge Detectors with Genetic Programming --- Christopher Harris and Bernard Buxton Toward Simulated Evolution of Machine Language Iteration --- Lorenz Huelsbergen Robustness of Robot Programs Generated by Genetic Programming --- Takuya Ito, Hitoshi Iba, and Masayuki Kimura Signal Path Oriented Approach for Generation of Dynamic Process Models --- Peter Marenbach, Kurt D. Betterhausen, and Stephan Freyer Evolving Control Laws for a Network of Traffic Signals --- David J. Montana and Steven Czerwinski Distributed Genetic Programming: Empirical Study and Analysis --- Tatsuya Niwa and Hitoshi Iba Programmatic Compression of Images and Sound --- Peter Nordin and Wolfgang Banzhaf Investigating the Generality of Automatically Defined Functions --- Una-May O'Reilly Parallel Genetic Programming: An Application to Trading Models Evolution --- Mouloud Oussaidene, Bastien Chopard, Olivier V. Pictet, and Marco Tomassini Genetic Programming for Image Analysis --- Riccardo Poli Evolving Agents --- Adil Qureshi Genetic Programming for Improved Data Mining: An Application to the Biochemistry of Protein Interactions --- M. L. Raymer, W. F. Punch, E. D. Goodman, and L. A. Kuhn Generality Versus Size in Genetic Programming --- Justinian Rosca Genetic Programming in Database Query Optimization --- Michael Stillger and Myra Spiliopoulou Ontogenetic Programming --- Lee Spector and Kilian Stoffel Using Genetic Programming to Approximate Maximum Clique --- Terence Soule, James A. Foster, and John Dickinson Paragen: A Novel Technique for the Autoparallelisation of Sequential Programs using Genetic Programming --- Paul Walsh and Conor Ryan The Benefits of Computing with Introns --- Mark Wineberg and Franz Oppacher GENETIC PROGRAMMING POSTER PAPERS Co-Evolving Classification Programs using Genetic Programming --- Manu Ahluwalia and Terence C. Fogarty Genetic Programming Tools Available on the Web: A First Encounter --- Anthony G. Deakin and Derek F. Yates Speeding up Genetic Programming: A Parallel BSP Implementation --- Dimitris C. Dracopoulos and Simon Kent Easy Inverse Kinematics using Genetic Programming --- Jonathan Gibbs Noisy Wall-Following and Maze Navigation through Genetic Programming --- Andrew Goldfish Genetic Programming for Classification of Brain Tumours from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Biopsy Spectra --- H. F. Gray, R. J. Maxwell, I. Martinez-Perez, C. Arus, and S. Cerdan GP-COM: A Distributed Component-Based Genetic Programming System in C++ --- Christopher Harris and Bernard Buxton Clique Detection via Genetic Programming --- Thomas Haynes and Dale Schoenefeld Functional Languages on Linear Chromosomes --- Paul Holmes and Peter J. Barclay Improving the Accuracy and Robustness of Genetic Programming through Expression Simplification --- Dale Hooper and Nicholas S. Flann COAST: An Approach to Robustness and Reusability in Genetic Programming --- Naohiro Hondo, Hitoshi Iba, and Yukinori Kakazu Recurrences with Fixed Base Cases in Genetic Programming --- Stefan J. Johansson Evolutionary and Incremental Methods to Solve Hard Learning Problems --- Ibrahim Kuscu Detection of Patterns in Radiographs using ANN Designed and Trained with the Genetic Algorithm --- Alejandro Pazos Julian Dorado and Antonino Santos The Logic-Grammars-Based Genetic Programming System --- Man Leung Wong and Kwong Sak Leung LONG GENETIC ALGORITHMS PAPERS Genetic Algorithms with Analytical Solution --- Erol Gelenbe Silicon Evolution --- Adrian Thompson SHORT GENETIC ALGORITHMS PAPERS On Sensor Evolution in Robotics --- Karthik Balakrishnan and Vasant Honavar Testing Software using Order-Based Genetic Algorithms --- Edward B. Boden and Gilford F. Martino Optimizing Local Area Networks Using Genetic Algorithms --- Andy Choi A Genetic Algorithm for the Construction of Small and Highly Testable OKFDD Circuits --- Rold Drechsler, Bernd Becker, and Nicole Gockel Motion Planning and Design of CAM Mechanisms by Means of a Genetic Algorithm --- Rodolfo Faglia and David Vetturi Evolving Strategies Based on the Nearest Neighbor Rule and a Genetic Algorithm --- Matthias Fuchs Recognition and Reconstruction of Visibility Graphs Using a Genetic Algorithm --- Marshall S. Veach GENETIC ALGORITHMS POSTER PAPERS The Use of Genetic Algorithms in the Optimization of Competitive Neural Networks which Resolve the Stuck Vectors Problem --- Tin Ilakovac, Zeljka Perkovic, and Strahil Ristov An Extraction Method of a Car License Plate using a Distributed Genetic Algorithm --- Dae Wook Kim, Sang Kyoon Kim, and Hang Joon Kim EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING AND EVOLUTION STRATEGIES PAPERS Evolving Fractal Movies --- Peter J. Angeline Preliminary Experiments on Discriminating between Chaotic Signals --- David B. Fogel and Lawrence J. Fogel Discovering Patterns in Spatial Data using Evolutionary Programming --- Adam Ghozeil and David B. Fogel Evolving Reduced Parameter Bilinear Models for Time Series Prediction using Fast Evolutionary Programming --- Sathyanarayan S. Rao and Kumar Chellapilla CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS PAPERS Three-Dimensional Shape Optimization Utilizing a Learning Classifier System --- Robert A. Richards and Sheri D. Sheppard Classifier System Renaissance: New Analogies, New Directions --- H. Brown Cribbs III and Robert E. Smith Natural Niching for Cooperative Learning in Classifier Systems --- Jeffrey Horn and David E. Goldberg 71) CFP 3rd CRIM-FORWISS Workshop The 3rd CRIM-FORWISS Workshop October 7-8, 1996 CRIM Montreal, Canada FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION (une version francaise suit) Sponsored by: IRIS-PRECARN CRIM You are cordially invited to the CRIM-FORWISS Workshop, to be held in Montreal the 7th and 8th October. The theme of the workshop will be "Multilingual Speech Recognition". We encourage invitees to submit papers for presentation as 15-minute talks or posters. Since this is a workshop rather than a conference, the stress will be on provocative ideas, practical problems, and preliminary results rather than on exhaustively documented experiments (though the latter are welcome too!) We are particularly interested in cross-fertilization between work on different languages. E.g.: - what ideas developed to handle idiosyncrasies of one language may turn out to be useful for other languages? - what aspects of your system were ported easily from one language to other languages? - what aspects of the system unexpectedly proved to be language-dependent, that is, NOT portable from one language to other languages? SUBMISSIONS ----------- Papers (maximum of 10 pages, point size no less than 12) can be submitted either as hard copy or in electronic form (prefered). In both cases, one copy is enough. Hard copy has to be sent to the address indicated below. Electronic submissions will be accepted for papers in self-contained Latex style, mif, rtf format or plain text. They must not refer to any external fields or styles. Papers must include on their first page: the title, authors' names(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number, email. Paper submitted by email will be acknowleged by the same medium within 3 days. DEADLINES --------- Hardcopies OR latex files must arrive no later than June 15 at the address below: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Submission Deadline: June 15 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Final Workshop Program: July 30 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Final Papers Due: September 15 ADVANCED PROGRAM ---------------- October 7 1996 17h00-17h30 registration (a small snack may be served) 17h30-17h45 welcome 17h45-20h30 invited speakers October 8 1996 8h30 -10h00 short talks 10h00-10h30 break 10h30-12h00 poster session 12h00-13h30 lunch 13h30-16h30 invited speakers + closing All presentations, posters and papers to be done in English PUBLICATION ----------- The proceedings will be distributed to all participants. WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION ---------------------- Since the workshop attendance will be limited to a maximum of 80 people, persons without a paper should contact the organizers as soon as possible. Preference will be given to people who present a paper, to their co-authors and to persons who submitted a paper. Other persons interested in attending will be asked to provide a one-page description ot their background and of their interest in the workshop. REGISTRATION FORM ----------------- name: complete mailing address: affiliation: phone number: fax number: email: submitted papers: YES___ NO___ accepted papers: YES___ NO___ ADRESSES -------- Papers, registration and any questions concerning the workshop should be sent to email: lacout@crim.ca surface mail: Roxane Lacouture CRIM (CRIM-FORWISS Workshop) 1801 McGill College Avenue Suite 800 Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3A 2N4 WEB PAGES --------- For further information about this workshop, you can visit our Wep pages the address of which is http://www.CRIM.CA/.ipsi/english/CRIM_FORWISS.html (English version) We hope to update them regularly. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SVP FAIRE CIRCULER ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Le 3ieme atelier CRIM-FORWISS 7-8 Octobre, 1996 CRIM Montreal, Canada PREMIERE INVITATION A PARTICIPER ET A L'ENVOI DE SOMMAIRES DE TRAVAUX (English version above) Commandite par: IRIS-PRECARN CRIM Vous etes cordialement invites a l'atelier CRIM-FORWISS, qui se tiendra a Montreal les 7 et 8 Octobre prochain. Le theme de cet atelier sera "La reconnaissance multilingue de la parole". Nous encourageons tout les invites a soumettre un resume de leurs travaux a des fins de courtes presentations (15 minutes) ou d'affiches. Comme cette rencontre se veut plutot informelle, nous encourageons la presentation d'idees originales, de problemes pratiques et de resultats preliminaires plutot que les conclusions d'experiences completes et bien documentees (bien que ces dernieres soient aussi les bienvenues). Nous sommes particulierement interesses par les apports croises entre travaux sur des langues differentes par exemple: - quelles idees developpees pour traiter les particularites d'une langue peuvent ou ont ete utiles a d'autres langues? - quels aspects de systemes de traitement de la langue ont facilement ete utilises pour une autre langue? - quels aspects de systemes de traitement de la langue se sont averes dependant du language et n'ont donc pu etre utilises pour une autre langue? SOUMISSIONS ----------- Les sommaires de travaux (maximum de 10 pages, point de fonte superieur ou egal a 12) peuvent etre soumis soit sous forme papier soit sous forme electronique (preferee). Dans les deux cas, une seule copie suffit. Les copies papier doivent etre envoyees a l'adresse indiquee plus bas. Les soumissions electroniques doivent etre en format Latex independant, mif, rtf ou texte clair. Elles ne doivent faire reference a aucun style ou format externe. En premiere page des sommaires, on doit retrouver les informations suivantes: le titre, le nom de l'auteur(s), l'affiliation, l'adresse de surface complete, les numeros de telephone et de fax, l'adresse email. Un accuse de reception electronique sera envoye dans les trois jours suivants la reception des papiers soumis electroniquement. ECHEANCIER ---------- Tant les versions papier qu'electroniques des sommaires de travaux doivent etre recus a l'adresse donnee plus loin au plus tard le 15 juin: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> soummission des sommaires: 15 Juin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> programme final de l'atelier: 30 Juillet >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> papiers finaux: 15 Septembre TENTATIVE DE PROGRAMME ---------------------- 7 Octobre 1996 17h00-17h30 inscription (un petit buffet sera servi) 17h30-17h45 mot de bienvenue 17h45-20h30 presentateurs invites 8 Octobre 1996 8h30 -10h00 courtes presentations orales 10h00-10h30 pause 10h30-12h00 session d'affiches 12h00-13h30 repas du midi 13h30-16h30 presentateurs invites + mot de la fin Toutes les presentations, affiches et sommaires des travaux doivent etre faits en Anglais. PUBLICATION ----------- Un document relie contenant une copie de toutes les presentations et affiches sera distribue aux participants. PARTICIPATION A L'ATELIER ------------------------- Le nombre de participants a l'atelier etant limite a 80 personnes, les participants ne presentant aucun sommaire devraient contacter les organisateurs aussi rapidement que possible. La priorite sera donnee aux participants presentant leurs travaux, aux co-auteurs et aux participants ayant soumis un sommaire. Les personnes interessees a participer sans presenter leurs travaux sont invites a envoyer une description d'une page de leur antecedents academiques et interets dans l'atelier. FORMULAIRE D'INSCRIPTION ------------------------ nom: addresse de surface complete: affiliation: numero de telephone: numero de fax: email: sommaire soumis: OUI___ NON___ sommaire accepte: OUI___ NON___ ADRESSES -------- Sommaires, inscription et questions peuvent etre envoyes a: email: lacout@crim.ca adresse de suface: Roxane Lacouture CRIM (Atelier CRIM-FORWISS) 1801 Avenue McGill College Bureau 800 Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3A 2N4 PAGES WEB --------- Pour plus d'information au sujet de cet atelier, vous etes invites a venir visiter nos pages Web a l'adresse suivante: http://www.CRIM.CA/ipsi/CRIM_FORWISS.html (version francaise) Nous esperons les mettre a jour regulierement. 72) Description Logics 96 - Call for Papers 1996 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'96) November 2-4, 1996 Boston MA, USA CALL FOR PAPERS The 1996 International Workshop on Description Logics continues the tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and applications of description-oriented knowledge representation formalisms based on logic. The Workshop will be held in Boston, 2-4th November, immediately prior to KR'96. The intention is for workshop format to include a lot of discussion, rather than many paper presentations. Presentation of current work will be via papers in the proceedings and/or in informal discussions. SCOPE ----- Subjects to be addressed include the following: -- Foundations of Description Logics, including distinguishing features of Description Logics with respect to other formalisms, expressive power of Description Logics, types of reasoning, decidability and complexity results of reasoning, and relationships with other formalisms. -- Extensions of Description Logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, queries, constraints, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge. -- Integration of Description Logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented languages and systems, type systems, constraint-based programming, logic programming, rule-based systems, etc. -- Specification, design and building of representation and reasoning systems based on Description Logics, concentrating on empirical results, novel algorithms, and implementation techniques, with special emphasis on their relationship with theoretical results. -- Applications and use of both Description Logics and representation and reasoning systems based on them, in areas such as natural language, planning, learning, databases, software engineering, information management systems, etc. SUBMISSION ---------- Interested parties should prepare a short paper on some aspect of their current work in Description Logics for inclusion in the proceedings (no more than 5 LaTeX article-style pages), or a short position paper indicating interest in description logics and the workshop. Please prepare a version of your submission (preferably as a self-contained LaTeX 12-point article style file) and send it to dl96@dl.kr.org by e-mail, to arrive by July 15 1996. We will determine participation in the workshop by September 9th based on the proceedings papers and position papers. (If you need to know before this, in order to make travel arrangements, please contact the committee at dl96@dl.kr.org. The reason for the late dates is to allow submission following KR notification). Early submissions are welcome! Revised versions of accepted proceedings papers should be prepared on the basis of the comments of the organizers, and sent to them by October 7th 1996. The revised position papers will be electronically distributed to participants. The proceedings consisting of revised versions of the position papers will be produced and distributed after the workshop, and made available to other researchers. In addition each person should indicate a list of topics they would be interested in seeing included in the workshop, for each of them indicating whether it should be a long or short paper presentation, a panel, or a general discussion, as well as an indication of how you personally would like to participate in the workshop (e.g. panel on X, general discussion, short/long paper presentation, etc.). IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper submission deadline: July 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance: September 9, 1996 Camera ready papers due: October 7, 1996 Workshop: November 2-4, 1996 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Chair: Lin Padgham Department of Computer Science Royal Melbourne Insitute of Technology (RMIT) University Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia linpa@cs.rmit.edu.au Enrico Franconi Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) I-38050 Povo TN, Italy franconi@irst.itc.it Manfred Gehrke Siemens AG ZFE ST SN 5 Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 81730 M|nchen, Germany Manfred.Gehrke@zfe.siemens.de Deborah L. McGuinness AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Ave. Murray Hill NJ 07974, USA dlm@research.att.com Peter F. Patel-Schneider AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Ave. Murray Hill NJ 07974, USA pfps@research.att.com RESOURCES --------- Enquiries about the workshop can be made by mailing to dl96@dl.kr.org. Information regarding costs, travel information, hotels, etc. will be distributed later. Check the web page at http://dl.kr.org/dl/dl96/ for updates. The official Description Logics WWW home page is at http://dl.kr.org/dl/. Lin Padgham, Enrico Franconi, Manfred Gehrke, Deborah McGuinness, Peter Patel-Schneider 73) CfP for the conference UKROBRAZ-96 # # # # #### ### #### #### ### ##### ### ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## #### # # #### #### ##### # ### #### #### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### # # # # ### #### # # # # ##### ### ### --------------------------CALL FOR PAPERS---------------------------- Third All-Ukrainian International Conference on Signal/Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Institute of Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences, Kyjiv, UKRAINA 26th-30th November 1996 Ukrainian Association on Information Processing and Pattern Recognition (UAsIPPR), National Academy of Sciences * Institute of Cybernetics, Academy of Engineering Sciences * Informatization and Automatization Division, Ukrainian Engineering Society declare of the third in a series of All-Ukrainian International conferences focussing on the theory and applications of Signal/Image Processing and Pattern Recognition UKROBRAZ-96. The Conference will held from the 26th to the 30th of November 1996 in NAS Institute of Cybernetics (40 Academician Hlushkov ave, Kyjiv 252022, Ukraina). Papers are invited in the following topics: * Methodological Problems of Pattern Recognition; * Theoretical Basis of Signal Processing and Recognition; * Theoretical Basis of Image Processing and Recognition; * Computer and Discrete Geometry Problems; * Simulating and Research Systems; * Training and Selftraining Problems in Pattern Recognition; * Automatic Recognition, Understanding and Synthesis of Speech Signals; * Technological Diagnostics of Objects and Machines on its Signals and Fields; * Printed and Hand-Written texts Processing and Recognition; * Drawing and Graphic Picture Processing and Recognition; * Photopictures Processing and Recognition; * Scene Processing, Recognition and Understanding; * Processors Architecture for Signal/Image Processing and Recognition; * Signal/Image Input/Output Means and Multimedia Systems; * Signal/Image Filtering, Compression, Reconstruction and Synthesis; * Advanced Information Technologies and Systems based on Signal/Image Processing; * Audiovisual Data and Knowledge Bases of Different Purpose; * Multimodal means of Human-Machine Communication. To take part in the Conference work it is necessary to submit such materials: 1) an application from every participant on a separate sheet with indication of surname, name and patronymic, scientific degree and rank, post, place of work, address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address; 2) two copies of a short paper report in Ukrainian or English with not more than 9000 characters -- for those who want to be authors of the Proceedings. Deadline for submission is 1 October 1996. Proceedings (short paper records) will be published before the Conference beginning. The reports texts should have an annotation in English or Russian (not more than 900 characters). For an example of text formatting see UkrOBRAZ-94 Proceedings. Simultaneously text reports should be prepared with the help of text editor Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows and submitted on a diskette valid for further processing and preparing to computer printing. It is allowed to send files with the reports via e-mail. For this purpose files should be compressed with the help of ARJ and then encoded by the program UUENCODE. Publication of materials which are not satisfy the technical requirements is not guaranteed. For consultation on the reports computer files preparation you may ask to the Organizing Committee. The Conference Organizers reserve the right for conference programme forming and reports selection. Registration fee is equivalent to $10 for each participant (it includes the price of a copy of the Proceedings) and is sent before 1st of October 1996 to payment account of UAsIPPR No 700919 in AKB "Perkombank", MFO 321712. Bank address is: 17 Petra Sahajdachnoho street, Kyjiv 252070 Ukraina. In the money transfer order should be pointed "Registration fee for participating in the conference UKROBRAZ-96" and the surname and initials of the participant as well. PROGRAMME AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Taras Vintsiuk is a chairperson, Olha Havryliuk, Volodymyr Krakovs'kyj, Anatolij Kulias. 40 Academician Hlushkov Avenue, Kyjiv 252022 Ukraina NAS Institute of Cybernetics Tel.: +380 44 266-4356, +380 44 266-3018, +380 44 266-3019, +380 44 267-6035. Fax: +380 44 266-1570 E-mail: vintsiuk@uasoiro.FreeNet.kiev.ua Recommendations for the records texts preparation: Basic font: Ukrainian Kudriashov Basic font size: 10 Font for equations: Symbol Text size: 140 mm x 200 mm 74) Report on HCI state of the art in Japan Dear Colleagues, It may interest you and the users of your WWW page to know that the JTEC final report on HCI in Japan is now available, both in print and on the Web. The address for the WWW version is http://itri.loyola.edu/hci/toc.htm Feel free to add a link to it on your page. Info. on ordering the printed report is also at the itri.loyola.edu address. Best regards, Geoff Holdridge JTEC/WTEC Staff Director sbg@LOYOLA.EDU (jtec) ________________________ ABSTRACT HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION TECHNOLOGIES IN JAPAN This report reviews the status of Japanese R&D in human-computer interaction (HCI) technologies and applications. It covers fundamental HCI research; R&D and applications in computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW), information network services and infrastructure, consumer devices and entertainment interfaces, technology and tools for people with disabilities, nuclear power, robotic manufacturing and service, and transportation; as well as HCI research infrastructure, education, and human resources. Information sources for this study included a literature review; visits to 22 relevant sites in Japan; and a review of the draft report by panelists, site visit hosts, and study sponsors. The panel found that Japan lags the United States in HCI basic research and practice, CSCW research, and network infrastructure research and practice. Japan leads in digital compression technologies, HCI research and applications for people with disabilities, game platforms, nuclear power plant control applications, and fuzzy logic applications. http://itri.loyola.edu/hci/toc.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, not the News Service ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To receive HCI news, send mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk the message: JOIN BCS-HCI your_firstname your_lastname ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To join the British HCI Group, contact hci@bcs.org.uk Info: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/~simonb/bcs-hci/hci-grp.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 75) Call for Papers: Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 CALL FOR PAPERS Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 - Computational Intelligence - 4th International Workshop 12 to 14 March 1997 University of Paderborn, Germany Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 is the fourth event of a well established series of workshops with international participation. Its aim is to give an overview of the state of the art in research and development of fuzzy systems and artificial neural networks. Another aim is to highlight applications of these methods and to forge innovative links between theory and application by means of creative discussions. Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 will add evolutionary algorithms to the areas of fuzzy logic and neural networks in order to show current trends in soft computing and computational intelligence comprehensively. Interested parties are especially encouraged to hand in contributions of hybrid systems that combine advantages of various methods efficiently. Organizer of this workshop is Research Committee 1.2 "Inference Systems" (Fachausschuss 1.2 "Inferenzsysteme") of German Society of Computer Science (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e. V. (GI)) supported by Research Center "Sensors/Actuators" (Forschungsschwerpunkt "Sensorik/Aktorik") of Northrhine- Westfalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen) at University of Paderborn, Department Soest. Preceding workshops were held in Braunschweig (1993), Munich (1994) and Darmstadt (1995). Invited plenary speakers were Prof. D. Dubois (Toulouse), Prof. J. A. Feldman (Berkeley), Dr. H. Hellendoorn (Munich), Prof. L. Koczy (Tokyo, Budapest), Prof. R. Kruse (Braunschweig), Prof. E. H. Mamdani (London), Prof. L. A. Zadeh (Berkeley) and Prof. H.-J. Zimmermann (Aachen). Invited plenary speakers for this workshop will be Prof. J. Bezdek (Pensacola), Prof. E. P. Klement (Linz), Prof. T. Kohonen (Helsinki), Prof. W. Pedrycz (Manitoba) and Prof. H.-P. Schwefel (Dortmund). Conference languages will be German and English. Further information is available in World Wide Web under http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~fns97/ Scientific Topics ----------------- - theory and principles of multivariate and fuzzy logic - representation modes of fuzzy knowledge - approximate reasoning - fuzzy control: theory and practice - fuzzy logic: data analysis, signal processing and pattern recognition - fuzzy classification systems - fuzzy decision support systems - fuzzy logic in non-technical areas: business administration, management etc. - fuzzy databases - theorie and principles of artificial neural networks - hybrid learning algorithms - neural networks: pattern recognition, classification, process monitoring and production control - theory and principles of evolutionary algorithms: genetic algorithms and evolution strategies - discrete parameter and structural optimization - hybrid systems: neuro-fuzzy systems, connectionistic expert systems etc. - special hardware and software Program Committee ----------------- Prof. Dr. W. Becker, University of Paderborn, Department Soest Prof. Dr. F. Belli, University of Paderborn Prof. Dr. W. Bibel, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. W. Brauer, Technical University of Munich Prof. Dr. C. Freksa, University of Hamburg Prof. Dr. M. Glesner, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. S. Gottwald, University of Leipzig Prof. Dr. A. Grauel, University of Paderborn, Department Soest (Chairman) Dr. H. Hellendoorn, Siemens AG, Munich Prof. Dr. R. Isermann, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. P. Klement, University of Linz Prof. Dr. R. Kruse, Technical University of Braunschweig Dr. R. Palm, Siemens AG, Munich Prof. Dr. B. Reusch, University of Dortmund Prof. Dr. W. von Seelen, University of Bochum Prof. Dr. H. Tolle, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. W. Wahlster, University of Saarbruecken Prof. Dr. H.-J. Zimmermann, Technical University of Aachen Submission of Contributions --------------------------- Please pay attention to the following deadlines for submission of contributions: 30/08/1996: abridged version (German or English, 3 to 4 pages DIN A4 size) of following structure: - title - author(s) - address - phone - fax - e-mail Contents: 1. abstract 2. key words (not more than 5) 3. state of the art 4. new aspects 5. theory, simulation or experiment 6. results and conclusion 7. references October 96: notification of acceptance or rejection of contribution 29/11/1996: final camera-ready papers for proceedings (up to 8 pages DIN A4) Please send your scientific contribution in four copies to: Prof. Dr. Adolf Grauel Universitaet-Gesamthochschule Paderborn Abteilung Soest, Fachbereich 16 Fachgebiet Mathematische Methoden und Systemtheorie Steingraben 21 D-59494 Soest GERMANY WWW: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~fns97/ E-mail: fns97@uni-paderborn.de Workshop Fees ------------- Workshop fees are: industry rate DM 600,- university rate DM 450,- rate for GI members or speakers DM 400,- rate for students without income DM 100,- (excluding proceedings and banquet) A surcharge of DM 100,- is payable for registration after 15/2/1996. Services of Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e. V. (GI) are tax-free according to German law ß 4 Nr. 22a UStG. The fee includes proceedings, drinks during breaks as well as DM 45,- for attending the banquet. DM 45,- incl. VAT paid for the banquet will be directly remitted to the account of a local caterer. Registration ------------ Please send the completed application form to: DLGI Dienstleistungsgesellschaft fuer Informatik mbH Frau Gabriele Trapp Ahrstrasse 45 D-53175 Bonn GERMANY Phone: ++ 49 / 2 28 / 30 21 64 Fax: ++ 49 / 2 28 / 37 86 90 Application Form ---------------- I am interested in (please tick) O submitting a contribution; O attending the workshop. Last name:__________________________________________________________________ First name:_________________________________________________________________ Title:______________________________________________________________________ Affiliation:________________________________________________________________ Address:____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Phone:______________________________________________________________________ Fax:________________________________________________________________________ E-mail:_____________________________________________________________________ GI member number:___________________________________________________________ Place/Date:_________________________________________________________________ Signature:__________________________________________________________________ 76) The Journal of Logic Programming Editor-in-Chief: M. Bruynooghe Founding Editor: J.A. Robinson Special Issue on Constraint Logic Programming Guest Editors: Kim Marriott & Peter Stuckey Call For Papers The Journal of Logic Programming is planning a special issue on Constraint Logic Programming, tentatively to appear in early 1998. High-quality original research papers are invited on all aspects of constraint logic programming. Constraint logic programming is understood in a broad sense and covers languages which manipulate constraints and which are based on a logical formalism. For example, concurrent constraint programming systems, constraint databases, and hierarchical constraint languages fall within the scope of the special issue. Topics include, but are not limited to: o theory of constraint logic programming languages, o design of constraint logic programming languages, o implementation of constraint logic programming systems, o incremental back-tracking constraint solvers, o programming methodologies and tools for the development of constraint programs, o applications of constraint logic programming, and o relationships between constraint logic programming and other constraint programming formalisms. Revised and enhanced versions of papers published in conferences that have not appeared in archival journals are eligible for submission. In particular, papers describing important past research in this area which have not been published in archival journal papers are also solicited. Please send six copies of your paper, by 13th September, 1996, to Kim Marriott Department of Computer Science Monash University Clayton, Vic 3168 Australia Email: jlpspi@cs.monash.edu.au A JLP LaTeX style file (jlp.sty) and guide (jlpguide.latex) are available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be, in the directory pub/tex/latex/jlp. Authors are encouraged to use them to speed up the production process. Postscript files over email will also be accepted. Authors are requested to email a title and a four or five line abstract as early as possible to jlpspi@cs.monash.edu.au to facilitate organization. 77) CP96 Workshop on Set Constraints (CFP) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS CP96 Workshop on Set Constraints Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Monday, August 19, 1996 OVERVIEW Set constraints are a calculus for reasoning about relationships between sets of values. Expressions in this calculus are built from variables, the set operations union, intersection and complement as well as set versions of the functions associated with the underlying universe of values. Set constraints consist of containment and equality relationships between these expressions. The first uses of set constraints date back at least to John Reynold's early work on program analysis in 1969. In the last decade there has been a significant increase in the interest in set constraints, with major advances both in the foundations of set constraints as well as in applications. We now have algorithms and complexity characterizations for a large variety of classes of set constraints. Connections have been established between set constraints and various fragments of logic, including the theory of $k$ successors, tree automaton, and monadic logic. Meanwhile, constraints have become a core technology in areas such as types and program analysis. Constraint-based approaches have led to many algorithmic and conceptual advances in type inference (particularly subtypes), data-flow analysis, control-flow analysis, binding-time analysis, and sorted-unification. Many of these works directly use set constraints; other used equational and constraint theories of which set constraints are a generalization. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on all aspects of set constraints, and provide a forum for discussing novel applications, implementation, new results and open problems. We also hope that the workshop will give a sense of the diversity of set constraints applications, and in so doing generate new problems, approaches, and opportunities. SUBMISSION DETAILS Authors are invited to submit short papers (2-8 pages) for presentation at the workshop. We anticipate distributing a proceedings of accepted papers. Papers may describe preliminary or partial results as well as finished research. Position papers are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - decision procedures and algorithms - set constraints over new domains (e.g. arithmetic) - applications - implementation - connections with other areas Please send your submission as a postscript file to: sets@mpi-sb.mpg.de Submissions deadline: June 15 Acceptance decisions: July 1 Camera-ready deadline: July 31 Workshop: Monday, August 19 The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Second International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP96), August 19-22, 1996, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~ai/cp96) WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Harald Ganzinger (Max-Planck Institute, Germany, hg@mpi-sb.mpg.de) Nevin Heintze (Bell Laboratories, U.S.A., nch@research.att.com) David McAllester (AT&T Laboratories, U.S.A., dmac@research.att.com) Leszek Pacholski (University of Wroclaw, Poland, pacholsk@tcs.uni.wroc.pl) Andreas Podelski (Max-Planck Institute, Germany, podelski@mpi-sb.mpg.de) 78) ITS96 ***************************************************** * * * Third International Conference on * * Intelligent Tutoring Systems * * * * ITS'96 * * June 12-14, 1996 * * MONTREAL * * * * http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/labs/its/its96.html * * * * Advanced Program * * * ***************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------- A complete version of this advanced program can be sent on request. Please contact: gemme@iro.umontreal.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************* * WORKSHOPS * ******************************************************************* W1 The role of Qualitative Reasoning Techniques in Intelligent Tutoring Systens 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Tuesday, June 11 W2 Architectures and Methods for Designing Cost-Effective and Reusable ITSs 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday, June 10 W3 Simulation-Based Learning Technology 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Tuesday, June 11 ******************************************************************* * TUTORIALS * ******************************************************************* Creating Educational Software with Java Marc Kaltembach, Bishop's University, Canada 9:00 am - 12:00 pm, Monday, June 10 Intructional Design for Collaborative Distance Learning Jacqueline Bourdeau, Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi, Canada 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Monday, June 10 Explanations in Instructional Systems: Using Task and Causal Models Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University, USA 9:00 am - 12:00 pm, Tuesday, June 11 Student Modeling: Cognitive Approaches Valerie Shute, Amstrong Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, USA 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Tuesday, June 11 ******************************************************************* * INVITED SPEAKERS * ******************************************************************* Whither Technology and Schools: Collected Thoughts on the Last and Next Quarter Centuries Allan Collins BBN Educational Technologies, Northwestern University, USA 9:30 am - 10:30 am, Wednesday, June 12 Conceptual and Meta Learning During Coached Problem Solving Kurt VanLehn LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, USA 11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Wednesday, June 12 Multi-Media Software Development and the Tools to Support it Roger C. Schank Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern Univ., USA 9:00 am - 10:00 am, Thursday, June 13 Instructional Design Tools Based on Knowledge Objects M. David Merrill Department of Instructional Technology, Utah State Univ., USA 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Thursday, June 13 Promoting the Transfer of Advanced Training Technologies Charles P. Bloom Human Computer Interaction Laboratory NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc., USA 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Friday, June 14 Learning Evolution and Software Agents Emergence Guy Boy European Institute of Cognitive Sciences & Engineering, France 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Friday, June 14 ******************************************************************* * For further information about program or registration, please * * contact: * * ITS'96 - Martine Gemme * * Departement d'IRO * * Universite de Montreal * * P.O. Box 6128, Succ. Centre-ville * * Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3J7, Canada * * * * Fax: +1 (514) 343 5834 * * * * Email: gemme@iro.umontreal.ca * * * *-----------------------------------------------------------------* * The complete program including registration, hotels, location * * of the conference is available at: * * * * http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/labs/its/its96.html * ******************************************************************* ___________________________________________________________________________ Co-administrator, Dept I.R.O, Labs: HERON-MULTIMEDIA-GRITI Pavillon Andre-Aisenstadt, Local: 2374 2366 2378 Universite de Montreal Tel: (514)343-6111 poste 3494, 2264 C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville Fax: (514) 343-5834 Montreal Quebec H3C 3J7 Internet: its@iro.umontreal.ca CANADA URL: http://www.IRO.UMontreal.CA/labs/its 79) Workshop on Adaptive Learning Systems The Ninth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems June 10-12, 1996 Yale University New Haven, Connecticut Announcement Objective: Advances in theory and computer technology have enhanced the viability of intelligent systems operating in complex environments. Different perspectives on this general topic offered by learning theory, adaptive control, robotics, artificial neural networks, and biological systems are being linked in productive ways. The aim of the Ninth Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems is to bring together engineers and scientists to exploit the synergism between different viewpoints and to provide a favorable environment for constructive collaboration. Program: The principal sessions will be devoted to adaptive systems, learning systems, robotics, neural networks, and biological systems. A tentative list of speakers includes: Adaptation: A. M. Annaswamy, M. Bodson, B. Friedland, R. Horowitz, D. E. Miller, A. S. Morse, K. S. Narendra, H. E. Rauch, H. Unbehauen Learning: A. G. Barto, E. V. Denardo, E. Gelenbe, R. W. Longman, R. K. Mehra, R. S. Sutton, P. Werbos Robotics: P. N. Belhumeur, T. Fukuda, D. J. Kriegman, M. T. Mason, W. T. Miller III, J.-J. E. Slotine Neural Networks: G. Cybenko, L. Feldkamp, C. L. Giles, S. Haykin, L. G. Kraft, U. Lenz, P. Mars, K. S. Narendra, J. Principe, J. N. Tsitsiklis, A. S. Weigend, L. Ungar Biological Systems: E. Bizzi, J. J. Collins, W. Freeman, J. Houk Registration: Registration will be limited and preregistration is highly recommended. Please complete the form below and return together with a check payable to Adaptive and Learning Systems. Information on transportation and lodging will be forwarded upon receipt of the registration form. For further information contact Ms. Lesley Kent, Center for Systems Science, Yale University, P.O. Box 208267, New Haven, CT 06520-8267. Telephone: (203) 432-2211. FAX: (203) 432-7481. e-mail: lesley@sysc2.eng.yale.edu or wals96@nnc.yale.edu Rooms at reduced rates have been reserved at the Holiday Inn [Tel. (203) 777-6221]. Note that due to other events in New Haven at the time of the Workshop, rooms may not be available if reservations are not made prior to May 25, 1996. Please mention the Yale Workshop when you make your reservation. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DETACH HERE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PREREGISTRATION FORM Name _____________________________________________________ Position _____________________________________________________ Organization _____________________________________________________ Address _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Phone _____________________________________________________ Enclose a check for $200 ($100 for students with valid ID) payable to Adaptive and Learning Systems and mail to Professor K. S. Narendra, Center for Systems Science, P. O. Box 208267, Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520-8267, USA. 80) New positions in IT research Three new positions have opened up at the Building Research Establishment for researchers in IT in Architecture/Engineering/Construction. These posts are open to British, European and Commonwealth nationals. Below is a copy of the advert which appeared in The Guardian today. Please contact Dave Dutton at duttond@bre.co.uk, or the contacts mentioned below, for further details. IT RESEARCHERS Building Research utilises every aspect of computer science research and constantly pushes its boundaries. Whether you have skills in VR, robotics, AI, natural language, modelling, knowledge elicitation, simulation, parsing, OO, DBMS, formal methods, they are needed urgently in the building industry. We are therefore looking for three researchers to apply their skills and enthusiasm to this area. VACANCY REF. BRE 358/96 Appraisal and development of interfaces with OO and 3D modelling systems, particularly in the area of VR and the Internet Development of Object Oriented CAD interfaces and models Experimentation and development of intelligent object libraries Exploration of VR interfaces, visualisation and manipulation/control modes, together with development of Internet VR capabilities. The successful candidate will have an honours degree and preferably a post graduate qualification in Computer Science and a good knowledge of Object Oriented systems. Experience of intelligent Objects, Object Oriented CAD or CAD systems, Virtual Reality and VRML together with some background in Architecture, Engineering or Construction are desirable. VACANCY REF. BRE 359/96 Appraisal of Distributed AI, Agents, and Knowledge based systems Development of distributed problem solving systems and communication enabling agents Exploration of distributed AI and Knowledge based systems in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction domains Application of Agent and Knowledge based system technology in Internet environments Essential requirements for this post are an honours degree and preferably a post graduate qualification in Computer Science and some Internet and research experience, together with knowledge of AI and KBS. Additional experience in Intelligent and Multi Agent systems, distributed problem solving, KBS, distributed AI, C++, CGI, Domain modelling, Ontology definition and the Architecture Engineering or Construction industries would be an advantage. VACANCY REF. BRE 357/96 Developing CSCW (Computer Supported Co-operative Working) environments Examining document management in concurrent engineering Running an on-site, paperless construction project Integrating EDI, concurrent engineering document environments and Internet/online systems. For this post you will need an honours degree or preferably a post graduate qualification in Engineering or Architecture with a high IT component or alternatively in computer science, coupled with a background in architecture, engineering or construction. Knowledge of process and information flows is essential, whilst knowledge and experience of Telematics, Object Oriented systems, EDI, SGML, STEP, C++ and the Internet would be an advantage. Candidates for all positions must be team players with excellent programming, writing and presentation skills and the ability to work effectively unsupervised. These positions are 3 year fixed term appointments which subject to review, may be extended or lead to permanent status. The starting salaries range from L12,236 - L20,454, with a non-contributory pension scheme and with further progression occurring within a performance related pay scheme. While these posts are best suited to a post graduate researcher, we will consider candidates who wish to enrol in a PhD program when taking up these posts. Applicants should be aware that the Secretary of State for the Environment has announced plans to investigate the transfer of BRE to the private sector. We are currently reviewing our grades and salary structure. The closing date for applications is 31st May 1996. For further details and an application pack, please ring our 24 hour answerphone on 01923 664274. You can also register your interest by fax on 01923 664798 or E-mail recruitment@bre.co.uk quoting the appropriate reference. If you have any queries concerning these vacancies, contact Kelly Rose, Tel: 01923 664745. The Building Research Establishment (BRE), near Watford in Hertfordshire, is an Executive Agency of the Department of the Environment. Leading UK research into building and construction and the prevention and control of fire, it is a key player in the provision of advice to government as well as helping further improve the performance of the construction industry and its products. Date: 09-May-1996 02:55pm From: David Dutton DUTTOND Tel No: 01923 66-4110 Subject: New positions in IT research 81) Call for Papers: Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 CALL FOR PAPERS Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 - Computational Intelligence - 4th International Workshop 12 to 14 March 1997 University of Paderborn, Germany Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 is the fourth event of a well established series of workshops with international participation. Its aim is to give an overview of the state of the art in research and development of fuzzy systems and artificial neural networks. Another aim is to highlight applications of these methods and to forge innovative links between theory and application by means of creative discussions. Fuzzy-Neuro Systems '97 will add evolutionary algorithms to the areas of fuzzy logic and neural networks in order to show current trends in soft computing and computational intelligence comprehensively. Interested parties are especially encouraged to hand in contributions of hybrid systems that combine advantages of various methods efficiently. Organizer of this workshop is Research Committee 1.2 "Inference Systems" (Fachausschuss 1.2 "Inferenzsysteme") of German Society of Computer Science (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e. V. (GI)) supported by Research Center "Sensors/Actuators" (Forschungsschwerpunkt "Sensorik/Aktorik") of Northrhine- Westfalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen) at University of Paderborn, Department Soest. Preceding workshops were held in Braunschweig (1993), Munich (1994) and Darmstadt (1995). Invited plenary speakers were Prof. D. Dubois (Toulouse), Prof. J. A. Feldman (Berkeley), Dr. H. Hellendoorn (Munich), Prof. L. Koczy (Tokyo, Budapest), Prof. R. Kruse (Braunschweig), Prof. E. H. Mamdani (London), Prof. L. A. Zadeh (Berkeley) and Prof. H.-J. Zimmermann (Aachen). Invited plenary speakers for this workshop will be Prof. J. Bezdek (Pensacola), Prof. E. P. Klement (Linz), Prof. T. Kohonen (Helsinki), Prof. W. Pedrycz (Manitoba) and Prof. H.-P. Schwefel (Dortmund). Conference languages will be German and English. Further information is available in World Wide Web under http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~fns97/ Scientific Topics ----------------- - theory and principles of multivariate and fuzzy logic - representation modes of fuzzy knowledge - approximate reasoning - fuzzy control: theory and practice - fuzzy logic: data analysis, signal processing and pattern recognition - fuzzy classification systems - fuzzy decision support systems - fuzzy logic in non-technical areas: business administration, management etc. - fuzzy databases - theorie and principles of artificial neural networks - hybrid learning algorithms - neural networks: pattern recognition, classification, process monitoring and production control - theory and principles of evolutionary algorithms: genetic algorithms and evolution strategies - discrete parameter and structural optimization - hybrid systems: neuro-fuzzy systems, connectionistic expert systems etc. - special hardware and software Program Committee ----------------- Prof. Dr. W. Becker, University of Paderborn, Department Soest Prof. Dr. F. Belli, University of Paderborn Prof. Dr. W. Bibel, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. W. Brauer, Technical University of Munich Prof. Dr. C. Freksa, University of Hamburg Prof. Dr. M. Glesner, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. S. Gottwald, University of Leipzig Prof. Dr. A. Grauel, University of Paderborn, Department Soest (Chairman) Dr. H. Hellendoorn, Siemens AG, Munich Prof. Dr. R. Isermann, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. P. Klement, University of Linz Prof. Dr. R. Kruse, Technical University of Braunschweig Dr. R. Palm, Siemens AG, Munich Prof. Dr. B. Reusch, University of Dortmund Prof. Dr. W. von Seelen, University of Bochum Prof. Dr. H. Tolle, Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. W. Wahlster, University of Saarbruecken Prof. Dr. H.-J. Zimmermann, Technical University of Aachen Submission of Contributions --------------------------- Please pay attention to the following deadlines for submission of contributions: 30/08/1996: abridged version (German or English, 3 to 4 pages DIN A4 size) of following structure: - title - author(s) - address - phone - fax - e-mail Contents: 1. abstract 2. key words (not more than 5) 3. state of the art 4. new aspects 5. theory, simulation or experiment 6. results and conclusion 7. references October 96: notification of acceptance or rejection of contribution 29/11/1996: final camera-ready papers for proceedings (up to 8 pages DIN A4) Please send your scientific contribution in four copies to: Prof. Dr. Adolf Grauel Universitaet-Gesamthochschule Paderborn Abteilung Soest, Fachbereich 16 Fachgebiet Mathematische Methoden und Systemtheorie Steingraben 21 D-59494 Soest GERMANY WWW: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~fns97/ E-mail: fns97@uni-paderborn.de Workshop Fees ------------- Workshop fees are: industry rate DM 600,- university rate DM 450,- rate for GI members or speakers DM 400,- rate for students without income DM 100,- (excluding proceedings and banquet) A surcharge of DM 100,- is payable for registration after 15/2/1996. Services of Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e. V. (GI) are tax-free according to German law ß 4 Nr. 22a UStG. The fee includes proceedings, drinks during breaks as well as DM 45,- for attending the banquet. DM 45,- incl. VAT paid for the banquet will be directly remitted to the account of a local caterer. Registration ------------ Please send the completed application form to: DLGI Dienstleistungsgesellschaft fuer Informatik mbH Frau Gabriele Trapp Ahrstrasse 45 D-53175 Bonn GERMANY Phone: ++ 49 / 2 28 / 30 21 64 Fax: ++ 49 / 2 28 / 37 86 90 Application Form ---------------- I am interested in (please tick) O submitting a contribution; O attending the workshop. Last name:__________________________________________________________________ First name:_________________________________________________________________ Title:______________________________________________________________________ Affiliation:________________________________________________________________ Address:____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Phone:______________________________________________________________________ Fax:________________________________________________________________________ E-mail:_____________________________________________________________________ GI member number:___________________________________________________________ Place/Date:_________________________________________________________________ Signature:__________________________________________________________________