Date: Mon 18 Jul 1988 00:09-EDT From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Reply-To: AIList@mc.lcs.mit.edu Us-Mail: MIT Mail Stop 38-390, Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-2737 Subject: AIList Digest V8 #10 To: AIList@mc.lcs.mit.edu Status: R AIList Digest Monday, 18 Jul 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 10 Today's Topics: Calls for Papers: ACM SIGIR 1989 Annual Conference - information retrieval Israeli AI Conference AI and the Simulation of Behaviour 89 2nd Conf. on AI and Law AI Research for the Battlefield Environment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 88 18:31:31 EDT From: Edward A. Fox Subject: ACM SIGIR 1989 Annual Conference SIGIR '89 CALL FOR PAPERS 12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Cambridge, Massachusetts June 25 - 28, 1989 Sponsored by ACM SIGIR In cooperation with: AICA - GLIR (Italy) BCS - IRG (United Kingdom) GI (Federal Republic of Germany) INRIA (France) Information Retrieval Information retrieval is one of the most exciting areas of research and development in the computer and information sciences today. Research in this field is becoming increasingly important in areas as diverse as hypertext, natural language processing, knowledge representation, expert systems, database and multi- media object management systems, software engineering and office information systems. Similarly, techniques developed in these and other areas have strong impact on work in information retrieval, even in its traditional applications in document and text retrieval systems. The Annual ACM SIGIR Conference is the prem- ier forum for presentation and discussion of current research in this multidisciplinary area. The 12th Annual Conference will focus especially on the relationships between information retrieval and other fields. The technical program will consist of contributed research papers and panel presentations. In addi- tion, there will be a program of tutorials on Sunday 25 June. TOPICS FOR SIGIR '89 Original research papers and panel proposals are solicited on topics including, but not limited to the following: Information retrieval theory e.g. Retrieval models Evaluation Document and query representation Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval e.g. Knowledge representation Natural language processing Connectionism Expert systems Interface issues e.g. User modelling Human-computer interaction Intelligent interfaces Hypertext and Multimedia Systems e.g. Automatic construction of links Search and navigation Applications e.g. Software reuse Office information systems Case-based retrieval Implementation issues e.g. Parallel processing File organization Text searching hardware Storage devices, e.g. optical storage INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS Contributed Papers Persons wishing to contribute original research papers should send four copies of either: a ten to twelve page (double-spaced) extended abstract; or, a twenty page full paper, to the appropri- ate program chair, as indicated below. Papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and authors will be required to sign an ACM copyright release form. Submissions are due 14 December 1988. Panel Presentations Suggestions for panels should consist of descriptions of the topic to be covered, the names of proposed speakers and modera- tor, brief abstracts of the proposed presentations, and the desired length of time for the panel. Four copies of proposals, of no more than three pages, should be sent to the appropriate program chair. Proposals are due 14 December 1988. Email may be used for panel proposals, but must be backed up by hard copy. Tutorials Proposals for tutorials should consist of the topic to be dis- cussed, the name(s) and brief biographies of the presenter(s), and an outline of the tutorial. Four copies of proposals, of no more than three pages, are due 16 January 1989. Email may be used for tutorial proposals, but backed up by hard copy. Proposals should be sent to the tutorial chair: Paul Gandel AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 2J-501 Holmdel NJ 07733 ihnp4!hoqam!pbg IMPORTANT DATES 14 December 1988 Papers and panel proposals due to Program Chairs 16 January 1989 Tutorial proposals due to Tutorial Chair 17 February 1989 Authors informed of acceptance of papers and proposals 20 March 1989 Final versions of papers due Program Chairs Prof. N.J. Belkin 4 Huntington Street School of Communication, Information & Library Studies Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA njb@flash.bellcore.com (internet) belkin@zodiac (bitnet) (Americas & Asia) Prof. C.J. van Rijsbergen Department of Computing Science Glasgow University Lilybank Gardens Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland cjvr@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Europe, Africa, Australia) Program Committee Robert B. Allen, Bell Vijay Raghavan, University of Communications Research Southwestern Louisiana Abraham Bookstein, University Stephen Robertson, The City of Chicago University, London Alex Borgida, Rutgers Gerard Salton, Cornell University University Christine Borgman, UCLA Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University Giorgio Brajnik, Universita degli Studi di Udine Craig Stanfill, Thinking Machines Corporation Yves Chiaramella, Laboratoire Genie Informatique - IMAG Jean Tague, University of Western Ontario Stavros Christodoulakis, University of Waterloo Carlo Tasso, Universita degli Studi di Udine Paul Cohen, University of Massachusetts C.J. van Rijsbergen, Glasgow University Edward A. Fox, Virginia Poly- technic Institute and State Clement Yu, University of University (VPI&SU) Illinois at Chicago Circle William B. Frakes, AT&T Bell Conference Committee Laboratories Conference Chair: Norbert Fuhr, Technische Bruce Croft, University of Hochschule Darmstadt Massachusetts Peter Ingwersen, Royal Danish Program Chairs: School of Librarianship Nick Belkin, Rutgers University Janet Kolodner, Georgia Tech C.J. van Rijsbergen, Glasgow University Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University Tutorials Chair: Paul Gandel, AT&T Bell Michael J. McGill, OCLC Laboratories Norman Meyrowitz, Brown Local Arrangements Chair: University Candy Schwartz, Simmons College Erich J. Neuhold, Institute for Integrated Publication and Publicity Chair: Information Systems Edward A. Fox, VPI&SU Fausto Rabitti, IEI-CNRS Treasurer: Donna Harman, National Bureau Roy Rada, Liverpool University of Standards ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jul 88 22:34:57 From: Shmuel Peleg Subject: Israeli AI Conference ===================================================================== Call For Papers Fifth Israeli Conference on Artificial Intelligence Tel-Aviv, Ganei-Hata`arucha, December 27-28, 1988 The Israeli Conference on Artificial Intelligence is the annual meeting of the Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence, which is a SIG of the Israeli Information Processing Association. Papers addressing all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to, the following topics, are solicited: - AI and education - AI languages, logic programming - Automated reasoning - Cognitive modeling - Expert systems - Image processing and pattern recognition - Inductive inference, learning and knowledge acquisition - Knowledge theory, logics of knowledge - Natural language processing - Computer vision and visual perception - Planning and search - Robotics This year, the conference is held in cooperation with the SIG on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and in conjunction with the Tenth Israeli Conference on CAD and Robotics. There will be a special track devoted to Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Joint activities with the Confernece on CAD and Robotics include the openning session, a session on Robotics and AI, and the exhibition. Submitted papers will be refereed by the program committee, listed below. Authors should submit 4 camera-ready copies of a full paper or an extended abstract of at most 15 A4 pages. Accepted papers will appear without revision in the proceedings. Submissions prepared on a laser printed are preferred. The first page should contain the title, the author(s), affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, and abstract, followed immediately by the body of the paper. Page numbers should appear in the bottom center of each page. Use 1 inch margin and single column format. Submitted papers should be received at the following address by October 1st, 1988: Ehud Shapiro 5th ICAI The Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot 76100, Israel The conference program will be advertized at the end of October. It is expected that 30 minutes will be allocated for the presentation of each paper, including question time. Program Committee Moshe Ben-Bassat, Tel-Aviv University (B25@taunivm.bitnet) Martin Golumbic, IBM Haifa Scientific Center Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University (ehud@bengus.bitnet) Tamar Flash, Weizmann Institute of Science Yoram Moses, Weizmann Institute of Science Uzzi Ornan, Technion Shmuel Peleg, Hebrew University (peleg@humus.bitnet) Gerry Sapir, ITIM Ehud Shapiro (chair), Weizmann Institute of Science (udi@wisdom.bitnet) Jeff Rosenschein, Hebrew University (jeff@humus.bitnet) Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute of Science (shimon@wisdom.bitnet) Hezy Yeshurun, Tel-Aviv University (hezy@taurus.bitnet) Secreteriate Israeli Association for Information Processing Kfar Hamacabia Ramat-Gan 52109, Israel ===================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 88 13:30:24 +0100 From: Tony Cohn Subject: AISB89 AISB89 Call for Papers =========================== AISB (The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour) will hold its seventh biennial conference at the University of Sussex, April 17-21 1989. The occasion will also mark the first 25 years of AISB's existence. Papers of not more than 5000 words are invited on any aspect of Artificial Intelligence or the Simulation of Behaviour including Vision Knowledge Representation Knowledge Acquisition Automated Reasoning Cognitive Modelling Commonsense Reasoning Learning Psychological, Philosophical or Social Implications Search Languages, Machines and Environments for AI Planning Natural Language Understanding Papers may describe theoretical or practical work but should make a significant and original contribution to knowledge about the field of Artificial Intelligence. A prize will be awarded for the best paper. It is expected that the proceedings will be published as a book. Requirements for Submission: Each paper should contain an abstract of not more than 200 words and a list of up to four keywords or phrases describing the content of the paper. Authors should give an electronic mail address where possible, but all submissions should be in hardcopy in letterquality print. Papers should be written in 12 point or pica typewriter face on A4 or 8.5" x 11" paper. Five copies should submitted. Papers must be written in English. Submission of a paper implies that all authors have obtained all necessary clearances from their institution and that an author will attend the conference to present the paper if it is accepted. Papers should describe work that will be unpublished on the date of the conference. Deadline for submission: 1 November 1988 Notification of acceptance mailed by: 7 December 1988 Deadline for camera ready copy: 24 January 1989 Papers and all queries regarding the programme should be sent to the programme chairman: Dr Tony Cohn Dept Computer Science University of Warwick COVENTRY CV4 7AL UK email: agc@uk.ac.warwick.cs arpa: agc%uk.ac.warwick.cs@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk Programme committee: Tony Cohn, David Hogg, Alison Kidd, Chris Mellish, Mike Sharples, Sam Steel All other correspondence and queries regarding the conference should be addressed to: Judith Dennison SSAISB Executive Officer Arts E University of Sussex BRIGHTON BN1 9QN Tel: +44 (273) 678379 Email: judithd@uk.ac.sussex.cvaxa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jul 88 13:22:42 EDT From: carole hafner Subject: 2nd Conf. on AI and Law CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and LAW June 13-16, 1989 University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada The field of AI and Law -- which seeks both to understand fundamental mechanisms of legal reasoning as well as to develop useful applications of AI to law -- is burgeoning with accomplishments in both basic research and practical applications. This increased activity is due in part to more widely available AI technology, advances in fundamental techniques in AI and increased interest in the law as an ideal domain for studying certain issues central to AI. The activities range from development of classic expert systems, intended as aids to lawyers and judges, to investigation of canonical elements of case-based and analogical reasoning. The study of AI and law both draws on and contributes to progress in basic concerns in AI, such as representation of common sense knowledge, example-based learning, explanation, and non-monotonic reasoning, and in jurisprudence, such as the nature of legal rules and the doctrine of precedent. The Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-89) seeks to stimulate further collaboration between workers in both disciplines, provide a forum for sharing information at the cutting edge of research and applications, spur further research on fundamental problems in both the law and AI, and provide a continuing focus for the emerging AI and law community. Authors are invited to contribute papers on topics such as the following: -- Legal Expert Systems -- Conceptual Information Retrieval -- Case-Based Reasoning -- Analogical Reasoning -- Representation of Legal Knowledge -- Computational Models of Legal Reasoning In addition, papers on relevant theoretical issues in AI (e.g., concept acquisition, mixed paradigm systems using rules and cases) and in jurisprudence/legal philosophy (e.g., open-textured predicates, reasoning with precedents and rules) are also invited provided that the relationship to both AI and Law is clearly demonstrated. It is important that all authors identify the original contributions presented in their papers, exhibit understanding of relevant past work, discuss the limitations as well as the promise of their ideas, and demonstrate that the ideas have matured beyond the proposal stage. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee and judged as to its originality, quality, and significance. Authors should submit six (6) copies of an Extended Abstract, which must include a full list of references, by January 10, 1989 to the Program Chair: Edwina L. Rissland Department of Computer and Information Science University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA; (413) 545-0332, rissland@cs.umass.edu. Submissions should be 6 to 8 pages in length, not including references. No electronic submissions can be accepted. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent out by early March. Final camera-ready copy of the complete paper (up to 15 pages) will be due by April 15, 1989. Program Chair: Edwina L. Rissland, University of Massachusetts/Amherst and Harvard Law School General Co-Chairs: Robert T. Franson, Joseph C. Smith, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia Secretary-Treasurer: Carole D. Hafner, Northeastern University Program Kevin D. Ashley IBM Thomas J. Watson Reasearch Center Committee: Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon University of Liverpool Donald H. Berman Northeastern University Jon Bing University of Oslo Michael G. Dyer UCLA Anne v.d.L. Gardner Palo Alto, California L. Thorne McCarty Rutgers University Marek J. Sergot Imperial College London ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jul 88 12:48:12 EDT From: John Benton Subject: AI Research for the Battlefield Environment *******************************CALL FOR ABSTRACTS**************************** The U.S. Army Symposium/Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Research for the Battlefield Environment will be held on November 15-18, 1988 at the Westin Hotel in El Paso, Texas. The Symposium/Workshop is being held under the auspices of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition and is co-sponsored by the U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories, The Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory and the Ballistic Research Laboratory. No classified papers will be presented at the Symposium. Extended abstracts (of 200 to 300 words) addressing the issues listed in the attached Symposium Program are being solicited. Abstracts which most closely address these issues will be given preference for acceptance. The abstracts must be submitted to the Session Chairs listed below by September 1, 1988. Contractors are reminded to include a clearance from their Contracting Officer with the abstract. Government authors must include a clearance for the abstract from their agency. Authors of abstracts accepted for inclusion in the symposium will be notified not later than September 30 that their abstract has been accepted and that a camera-ready manuscript must be submitted no later than the first day of the Symposium. Letters indicated that the papers have been cleared by the relevant authorities must be included with the submitted paper. The chairman for the Session on Automated Terrain Reasoning is John R. Benton, tel: (202)355-2717, Autovon 345-2717, ARPANET: john@etl.arpa. His address is Commander and Director U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories ATTN: ETL-RI-I (John Benton) Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060-5546 The chairman for the Session on The Realistic Battlefield is Dr. Howard Holt. tel: (505)678-2412 or Autovon 258-2412. His address is Commander and Director U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Lab ATTN: SLCAS-AS (DR. E. Howard Holt) White Sands Missile Range, NM 88002-5501 The chairman for the Session on State-of-the-Art Applications is Morton Hirschberg. tel: (301)278-6661 Autovon 298-6661, ARPANET: mort@brl.arpa Director Ballistic Research Laboratory ATTN: SLCBR-SE-C (M. Hirschberg) Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5066 (Note: Abstracts may be sent by ARPANET to Mr. Benton or Mr. Hirschberg accompanied by a statement that the abstract has been cleared and that the the clearance has been mailed.) John Benton Program Committee Chairman **************************************************************************** Symposium Program for U.S. Army Symposium/Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Research for the Battlefield Environment Session I: Introduction and Military Requirements Session II: Automated Terrain Reasoning Session Chair: John R. Benton, U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories Assuming the existence of a topographic data base, can automated terrain rea- soning systems be developed to provide support for operations in the Battle- field Environment. Submitted papers should address the following questions: a. What are the relevant military doctrines; can we identify them, con- vert them to computer representation? b. What current research on spatial reasoning has been done that is relevant to exploiting the battlefield environment? What additional research needs to be done? Can cold weather factors be incorporated into the research efforts? c. How will the Condensed Army Mobility Model System (CAMMS) be integrated into automated terrain reasoning. Are there inadequacies in the model? d. What special requirements do terrain reasoning systems put on Geo- graphic Information Systems (GIS)? Are present GIS's adequate? e. Do Expert Systems (ES) have a role in spatial reasoning - fundamen- tally or only as an interface to the military doctrine representation? f. How can we make the information usable to the GI in the Field? Will it be at platoon, company, battalion, division or corps? Is it premature to distinguish applications along these lines? Session III: The Realistic Battlefield Session Chairman: Dr. Howard Holt, U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory How can we apply artificial intelligence techniques for exploitation of the realistic battlefield environment with multiple sources of smoke, dust and obscurants? Papers will address the following questions: a. Is relevant military doctrine subjective? Can it easily be converted to a computer representation. b. How can information on smoke and obscurants be usefully presented to the GI in the field? c. Can Geographic Information Systems be used to represent obscurants which move as a function of time. How can obscurant data be made to interact with a GIS. d. What role will Expert Systems (ES) play? Session III: State-of-the Art Applications Session Chair: Morton Hirschberg, U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Are there any State-of-the Art applications? What are the best candidates for automating terrain reasoning? Submitted papers should address these questions. ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************