From: aperez+@CS.CMU.EDU (Alicia Perez)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: 5th Int'l Symposium on Knowledge Eng. Seville (Spain), October 1992
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:44:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.Bu0BMA.32p.1
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University


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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
Telephone: 95-428.0750
FAX: 95-428.0667

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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