From: jkk@aiai.ed.ac.uk (John Kingston)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: BCS Expert Systems 92 - Programme and booking
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:26:42 GMT
Expires: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 08:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: D.LLoyd@cix.compulink.co.uk ()
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland


EXPERT SYSTEMS 92

12th Annual Conference

Cambridge UK, 15-17 December

TUTORIAL	15 December
CONFERENCE	16-17 December
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Tuesday 15 December

TUTORIAL 1		TUTORIAL 2		TUTORIAL 3
"Design & Development	"Case Based		"Qualitative
of Knowledge Based	Engineering"		Reasoning"
Systems"

LUNCH

cont'd			"Constraint Handling"	"KBS Methodologies
						in Perspective"

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Wednesday 16 December

0800-0915	Welcome
		Keynote		"Reasoning in Time and About Time"

1015-1045	Morning Coffee in the Exhibition Area

TECHNICAL TRACK			APPLICATIONS TRACK
"KBS Methodology as a Framework "AMNESIA - Implementing a Distributed
for Co-operative Working"	KBS Using RAPIDO"

"Project Management for the 	"Hierarchical Constraint Satisfaction
Evolutionary Development of 	& its Application in Computer-Aided
Expert Systems"			Production Planning"

"The Specification & Develop-	"Application of Rule Based Systems to
ment of Rule Based Expert	Computer Integrated Manufacturing"
Systems"

"Towards a Method for Multi-	"An AI Based Control & Sensory System
Agent Systems Design"		for a Robotics Assembly Cell"


1230-1400	Buffet Lunch

TECHNICAL TRACK			APPLICATIONS TRACK
"Jigsaw: Configuring Knowledge 	"KBS in the UK: What do the Users Say?"
Acquisition Tools"

"On the Relationship between 	"Enterprise Guidance: An Expert Systems
Repertory Grid & Term Sub-	Success Story Story for the 1990s"
sumption Knowledge Structures:
Theory, Practice & Tools"

"STRATEGY MAZE: An On-line	"KBS in Use: A Case Study"
Tool for Supporting Management
of the Knowledge Acquisition
Process"


1515-1545	Afternoon Tea in the Exhibition Area

TECHNICAL TRACK			APPLICATIONS TRACK
"Concurrent Engineering	Using	"Self Learning Expert Systems for
Collaborating Truth 		the Process Industries"
Maintenance Systems"

"Ockham's Razor as a Gardening	"The Use of KBS in the Control of
Tool: Simplifying Discrimin-	Rock Crushers"
ation Trees by Entropy Minimax"

"A Designer's Consultant"	"Co-operating Systems for Electricity
				Distribution"

1715-1830	THE GREAT DEBATE
		"To succeed, Knowledge Engineering must sever its
		links with current Software Engineering practice"

1830		POSTER SESSION and pre-Dinner Drinks
		Exhibition remain open until 2000

2000 onward	ES92 GALA DINNER

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Thursday 17 December

0845-0915	SGES ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
		Coffee and Croissants Served

TECHNICAL TRACK			APPLICATIONS TRACK
"Fairness of Attribute		Selected Presentations
Selection in Probabilistic
Induction"

"An Application of Case-Based	"The Benefits of Knowledge Re-Use
Expert Systems Technology to	in KBS: A Case Study"
Dynamic Job-Shop Scheduling"

"KEshell 2: An Intelligent	"Documents as Expert Systems"
Learning Data Base System"

1100-1230	MORNING COFFEE in the Exhibition Area

TECHNICAL TRACK
"Approaches to Self Explanation and Visibility in the Context of
Application Tasks"

"An Object Oriented Approach to Distributed Problem Solving"

"Intelligent User Interface for Multiple Application Systems"

"Combining Qualitative & Quantitative Information for Temporal
Reasoning"

APPLICATIONS TRACK-I		APPLICATIONS TRACK-II
"Knowledge Based Tools for the	"A Neural Network Based Expert System
Design & Maintenance of 	for the Preventative Maintenance of
Relational Databases"		Remote Standby Power Generating Sets"

"RUBICON - A Computer		"An Expert System as part of An
Configuration System"		Automated Inspection System for
				Detecting Abnormalities within Breast
"Building Intelligence Into	X-Ray Images"
the Aide de Camp System"
				"Model Based Fault Diagnosis
"The Intelligent Documentation	Incorporating Abduction"
Advisory System"
				"An On-Line Diagnostic Expert System
				for Gas Turbines"


1300-1400	BUFFET LUNCH

BEST SUBMITTED PAPERS
"CONSULTANT: Providing Advice for the Machine Learning Toolbox"

"A Methods Model for the Integration of KBS and Conventional
Information Technology"

1500-1515	AFTERNOON TEA

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
"The Various Strands of AI"

"Awards for Best Presentations, as voted by Conference Delegates and
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories"

1615		END OF CONFERENCE

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Full Day (or 2 x Half	190	  190	    170	      150    80
  Day) Tutorials
Conference (2 Days)	340	  190	    290	      160    90
Gala Dinner		 40	   40	     30	       30    30
Full Package comprising:
Tutorial(s), Conference	540	  390	    440       310   190
  & Dinner

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John Kingston,                               |
Knowledge Engineering Methods Group,         | The heart of the problem
AIAI, University of Edinburgh                | is the problem of the heart
E-mail jkk@aiai.ed.ac.uk, phone 031-650 2736 |