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NL-KR Digest      (Wed Sep  9 16:37:35 1992)      Volume 9 No. 46

Today's Topics:

	 CFP: Applications of AI XI (Final Call)
	 Program: 5th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
	 Announcement: Koji Nakatogawa returns to CSLI

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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 15:04:18 PDT
From: fayyad@ai-cyclops.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Usama Fayyad)
Subject: CFP: Applications of AI XI (Final Call)

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 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- submission due date 9/14/92 -- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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     APPLICATIONS OF AI (XI): Knowledge-Based Systems in Aerospace & Industry
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            April 12-14, 1993
            Marriott's Orlando World Center
            Resort and Convention Center
            Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.

Sponsored by:        SPIE - The Society for Optical Engineering
In cooperation with: AAAI - The American Assoc. for Artificial Intelligence
                     AIAA - The American Inst. of Aeronautics & Astronautics
                     IEEE Computer Society
                     IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society

  The Eleventh Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference will be 
held April 12-14 in Orlando, FL. We invite you to submit a paper by the 
deadline of Sept. 14, 1992. Details of areas and deadlines given below.

Conference Co-Chairs:
     Usama M. Fayyad                     Ramasamy Uthurusamy
     Jet Propulsion Lab                  General Motors Research Laboratories
     California Institute of Technology    

Program Committee: 

 Ray Bareiss, Northwestern Univ.      | Steven Lytinen, The Univ. of Michigan
 James Bezdek, Univ. of West Florida  | Stephen C.Y. Lu, Univ. of Illinois
 Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt Univ.      | Ray Mooney, Univ. of Texas at Austin
 Wray Buntine, NASA Ames Research Ctr.| Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro,  GTE Labs
 Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Lab      | J.Ross Quinlan, Univ. of Sydney
 T. Dillon, La Trobe Univ.            | Ethan Scarl, Boeing Computer Services  
 Richard Doyle, Jet Propulsion Lab    | Jude Shavlik, Univ. of Wisconsin
 Doug Fisher, Vanderbilt Univ.        | Prakash Shenoy, Univ. of Kansas 
 Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida      | N.S. Sridharan, Intel Corporation
 David Franke, MCC                    | Evangelos Simoudis, Lockheed Aerospace 
 Ashok Goel, Georgia Tech.            | Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon Univ. 
 Larry Hall, Univ. of South Florida   | Jon Sticklen, Michigan State Univ.   
 Yumi Iwasaki, Stanford Univ.         | R. Zurawski, Swinburne Inst. of Tech.
 Ramesh Jain, The Univ. of Michigan   | 
   
 This year we will focus on techniques and applications that deal with 
actual industrial and aerospace applications of AI, machine learning,
and reasoning systems.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1. Machine Learning 
2. Industrial and Aerospace Applications 
3. Diagnostic Systems
4. Knowledge Acquisition and Refinement 
5. Knowledge Based Systems: Verification and Validation 
6. Manufacturing Systems 
7. Case-Based Reasoning  
8. Functional Reasoning 
9. Model-Based and Qualitative Reasoning 
10. Multilevel and Integrated Reasoning Systems
11. Planning and Scheduling 
12. Design 
13. Training and Tutoring Systems 
14. Intelligent Interfaces and Natural Language Processing
15. Intelligent Database Systems
16. Parallel Architectures

In addition there will be 2-3 plenary sessions, and one or more panel 
discussions. We also solicit suggestions for special sessions (e.g., Case-Based 
Tutoring, Reactive Planning in Space Missions).  A one-page description of such
a suggestion should be sent to the Conference Chairs, who will then forward it 
to appropriate members of the Program Committee for evaluation.  Selection will
be based on how well the topic relates to the general theme of the conference, 
and the level of interest it is likely to generate.
 
To submit a paper, send four copies of a complete paper not exceeding 10 pages
single-spaced (approx. 5000 words) including figures and bibliography by
September 14, 1992 to:          
        
                 Applications of AI XI: KBS 
                 SPIE, P.O. Box 10
                 1000 20th Street
                 Bellingham, WA 98225.

                 Tele: (206)-676-3290;  Telefax: (206)-647-1445.

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee 
and reviews will be returned to the authors.  It is important that 
each paper clearly state the problem which is being addressed, the contribution 
that has been made, and the relation to the current state of the art.

The program committee and conference chairs will make a selection of the best 
papers accepted, and these authors will be invited to submit a revised version
of their paper to one or more special issues of journals in AI (to be decided 
later).
             
Papers submitted to the Knowledge-Based Systems conference should not also be 
submitted to the Machine Vision & Robotics conference of Applications of AI XI.
Questions about which conference is most suitable for a particular paper 
should be directed to the program chairmen.
 
Each presenter is generally allowed 20 to 25 minutes for presentation, plus a 
brief discussion period (about 5 minutes). SPIE will provide the following 
media equipment free of charge: 35 mm carousel slide projectors, overhead 
projectors, electronic pointers and VHS format video display. 

Author Benefits
  Authors and coauthors who attend the conference will be accorded a 
  reduced-rate registration fee, a complimentary one-year non-voting
  membership in SPIE (if never before a member), and other special benefits.

IMPORTANT DATES: PAPERS DUE:                           September 14, 1992.
                 ACCEPT/REJECT LETTERS SENT BY:        November 20, 1992
                 CAMERA-READY PAPERS (5000 words) DUE: January 18, 1993.
                 CONFERENCE DATES:                     April 12-16, 1993.
 
Further questions may be directed to (e-mail preferred):

  Dr. Usama Fayyad                              Dr. Ramasamy Uthurusamy
  AI Group  M/S 525-3660                        Computer Science Department
  Jet Propulsion Lab                            General Motors Research Labs
  California Institute of Technology            30500 Mound Rd.
  Pasadena, CA 91109                            Warren, MI 48090-9055

  phone: (818) 306-6197                         phone: (313) 986-1989
  fax:   (818)-306-6912.                        fax:   (313) 986-9356
  e-mail: Fayyad@aig.jpl.nasa.gov               e-mail: Samy@gmr.com

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 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -- submission due date 9/14/92 -- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon,  7 Sep 1992 10:12:15 UTC+0100
From: CETTICO <cettico@fi.upm.es>
Subject: Program: 5th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING

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   FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
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             Seville (Spain), 5-9 October 1992

                Tutorials: 5-6 October 1992
                 XEROX Pavilion at Expo'92
         Technical Sessions: 7, 8, 9 October 1992
                Sogexpo Building at Expo'92

                   PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
           SPONSORED BY RANK XEROX ESPANOLA, S.A.

INTRODUCTION

Human beings  very often tend,  mistakenly, to look at differences as
if they  were  contradictions,  and therefore  focuses and techniques
from different fields  are prevented from being used as support.  The
division of the phenomenal world into contradictory pairs is,  as the
recently deceased Nobel  Prize Winner  in Medicine,  K. Lorenz (1974)
said,   "an  unknown   ordering  principle,   an  aprioristic  mental
imperative  with distant  origins.  The resulting tendency  to create
mutually exclusive disjunctive concepts  is clearly predominant among
many  thinkers.  Although  this  mental  predisposition  is of  great
importance, it has to be brought to a halt",  at least in the area of
software. Of course, great intellectual rigour is needed to hold down
this antithetic, though productive, human faculty.

The  paradigm  of  power,  that is,  the  massive  use of  search  as
intensive  computational  power,  and  the  paradigm  of knowledge as
intensive intellectual work  were antagonistic  until a few years ago
in AI;  the extremes  were reconciled  by the use of  heuristics  and
other  kinds of  knowledge  which  guide and put  constraints  on the
search.

Owing to the importance  of heuristics and the processes of discovery
in AI,  linked  with  the fact  that  the  500th  Anniversary  of the
Discovery of America is being commemorated this year,  it was thought
appropriate for the leitmotiv of the  5th Symposium  to be Heuristics
and Discovery,  and the conference will also deal with a little known
eventuality very much associated with discovery called serendipity.

The  Organizing  Committee  is  aware  that  it is  very difficult to
improve  upon the  company of  speakers in  former  years,  which has
included  the Nobel prize winner  Simon,  the  father  of  Artificial
Intelligence  McCarthy,  Jaime  Carbonell,  among  other  outstanding
members of the  AI community.  However,  we have managed to gather an
extraordinary  array  of  AI  researchers  and  scientists  for  this
Symposium, given the historical event that is being commemorated.

The organizers would like to thank Rank Xerox Espanola for sponsoring
this, the 5th International Knowledge Engineering Symposium.

With the collaboration of:
- AAAI (American  Association for  Artificial  Intelligence) (pending
  confirmation)
- FESI (Federacion Espanola de Sociedades de Informatica)
- IAKE (International Association of Knowledge Engineers)

Chairman of the Honorary Committee:
HRH Felipe de Borbon y Grecia, Prince of Asturias

TUTORIALS

5 October (Monday):
10.00 h Neural Computation
        Jose Mira
11.45 h Coffee Break
12.15 h Multilayer Artificial Neural Networks
        Juan Rios
16.00 h 2nd Generation Architectures for Intelligent Systems
        Jose Cuena

6 October (Tuesday):
10.00 h Knowledge Conceptualization and Formalization
        Juan Pazos
11.45 h Coffee Break
12.45 h Session, second part
16.00 h Knowledge Acquisition Techniques
        Natalia Juristo

TECHNICAL SESSIONS

7 October (Wednesday):
Plenary Keynote
        Guest Speaker:
        Marvin Minsky
        Chairman:
        Nadal Batle
Panel:  INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING AND NATURAL
        LANGUAGE
        Chairman:
        Jose Cuena
        Panelists:
        Claudi Alsina
        Elaine Rich
        R.P. Van de Riet
16.00 h Plenary Lecture:
        Hans Berliner
        Chairman:
        Antonio Insua
17.00 h Communications

8 October (Thursday):
Plenary Lecture
        Nico Haberman
        Chairman:
        J. Luis Mate Hernandez
Panel:  KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING PRACTICES: CASE STUDIES
        Chairman:
        Jose Mira
        Panelists:
        Robert A. Greenes
        Norberto Ezquerra
        Angel R. Puerta
16.00 h Communications

9 October (Friday):
Plenary Lecture
        Daniel Bobrow
        Chairman:
        Roberto Moreno
Panel:  APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING IN PROBLEM SOLVING AND
        DISCOVERY
        Chairman:
        Rafael Infante
        Panelists:
        Hojjat Adeli
        Pedro J. Otaduy
        Pat Langley
        Derek Partridge

HOTEL ACCOMMODATION
HOTELS
Double room for single use whit breakfast.
*****     44.000 Pesetas.
****      30.000 Pesetas.
***       24.000 Pesetas.
Payment:
50% in advance.
50% on your arrival.
For hotel reservations in Seville, please contact:
Mr. Antonio Chaves
SERVICIOS ABIERTOS
Virgen de Lujan, 51
41011 SEVILLA
SPAIN
Telephone: 34 5-428.0750
FAX: 34 5-428.0667

PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Chairman: Juan Pazos
Fernando Alonso Amo     SPAIN
Mario R. Barbacci       USA
Jaime Carbonell         USA
Luis M. Laita           SPAIN
Jay Liebowitz           USA
Panos A. Ligomenides    USA
Jose Mira Mira          SPAIN
Jose Luis Morant        SPAIN
Roberto Moreno          SPAIN
Juan Pazos              SPAIN
Angel Puerta            USA
Juan Rios Carrion       SPAIN
Michel Thorne           UNITED KINGDOM

PROGRAM ADVISORY SECRETARY
Juan Castellanos

ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS
Centro Informatico Cientifico de Andalucia (CICA)
Junta de Andalucia (Autonomous Government of Andalusia)

Facultad de Matematicas
Universidad de Sevilla

Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial
Universidad de Granada

Facultad de Informatica
Universidad de Malaga

Facultad de Informatica
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (CETTICO)

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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 13:44:30 PDT
From: ingrid@Russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks)
Subject: Announcement: Koji Nakatogawa returns to CSLI

			   KOJI NAKATOGAWA
		       (koji@csli.stanford.edu)
		       Professor of Philosophy
		      Hokkaido University, Japan
		 Dates of Visit: August-October 1992

During his stay at CSLI, Koji Nakatogawa plans to work on Tarski's
semantics and its relation to the later developments in semantical
investigations.  He is currently concerned with comparing some of the
recent attempts to reconstruct the proof of a claim made by Tarski in
his paper on logical consequence.  Nakatogawa received an MA in
mathematics (Berkeley) and a PhD in philosophy (Tsukuba).  His other
interests include nonclassical logics and applications of category
theory.

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