Date: Thu 22 Dec 1988 20:42-EST From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Reply-To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Us-Mail: MIT LCS, 545 Tech Square, Rm# NE43-504, Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-6524 Subject: AIList Digest V8 #142 To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU AIList Digest Friday, 23 Dec 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 142 Announcements: AICS 1989 Correction Bar-Ilan Symposium - Foundations of Artificial Intelligence CFP - Workshop in Game-tree Search, Edmonton IEEE News Group Created - comp.org.ieee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 88 20:53:33 GMT From: Gabriel Subject: AICS 1989 Correction Apologies to all, the deadline for the conference AICS 1989 in Dublin is July 1, 1989 with acceptance notification on 1 August 1989. Merry Christmas to all, Gabriel. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Dec 88 11:10:26 From: GOLUMBIC%ISRAEARN.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Subject: Bar-Ilan Symposium - Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence 19-21 June 1989 Sponsored by the Research Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Symposium Chair: Martin Golumbic Organizing Chair: Ariel Frank Program Committee: Yaacov Choueka (Bar-Ilan University) Rina Dechter (Technion) Ariel Frank (Bar-Ilan University) Martin Golumbic (IBM Israel Scientific Center) David Harel (Weizmann Institute) Daniel Lehmann (Hebrew University) Judea Pearl (UCLA) Uri Schild (Bar-Ilan University) Micha Sharir (New York University) Jonathan Stavi (Bar-Ilan University) Bar-Ilan University, through its Center for Applied Logic and Artificial Intelligence (CALAI) of the Research Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, is pleased to announce its first "Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence" to be held June 19-21, 1989. The Symposium will be international in scope, with invited lectures by several leading researchers from Israel and abroad. Although a small meeting is anticipated, with selected speakers and no parallel sessions, an attempt will be made to open attendance to all interested research scientists. The Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence is intended to become a bi-annual event which will focus on a range of topics of concern to scholars applying quantitative, combinatorial, logical, algebraic and algorithmic methods to AI areas as diverse as decision support, automatic reasoning, knowledge-based systems, machine learning, computer vision, and robotics. These include applied logicians, algorithms and complexity researchers, AI theorists, and applications specialists using mathematical methods. By sponsoring such symposia, we hope to influence the spawning of new areas of applied mathematics and the strengthening of the scientific underpinnings of artificial intelligence. ...................... INVITED LECTURES ...................... Ron Rivest (MIT) will lecture on "Recent Developments in Machine Learning Theory". Joe Halpern (IBM Research) will lecture on "Reasoning about Knowledge and Probability". Additional invited speakers will be announced at a later date. ...................... CALL FOR PAPERS ....................... High quality research papers are solicited for consideration by the program committee to be presented at the Symposium. Submissions of extended abstracts of 4-10 pages or full papers must arrive by 15 March 1989 and should be sent in triplicate to: Prof. Martin Golumbic IBM Israel Scientific Center Technion City Haifa, Israel Decisions on presentations will be made on or before 15 April 1989. .................... REFEREED PROCEEDINGS .................... At the conclusion of the Symposium, all participants are invited to submit full length papers which will be refereed according the usual standard of the best professional journals, and those accepted will be published in a separate, special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence as a permanent record of the Symposium. For further information on the Symposium and to receive additional announcements, contact Dr. Ariel Frank, BISFAI-89 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, ISRAEL (email: ariel@bimacs.bitnet) ------------------------------ Date: 17 Dec 88 23:23:44 GMT From: attcan!utgpu!watmath!alberta!tony@uunet.uu.net (Tony Marsland) Subject: CFP - Workshop in Game-tree Search, Edmonton CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on New Directions in Game-tree Search Edmonton, Canada 28 - 31 May 1989 The workshop has two distinct components. In the evenings the 6th World Computer Chess Championship will be held. This is an opportun- ity to see first-hand the true state of the art in chess programming. Hardware/Software from all major manufacturers, universities and research laboratories will compete in public competition. A special application form for the authors of chess programs is included in the March issue of the International Computer Chess Association Journal. During the afternoons, formal presentations on theoretical aspects, discussion groups led by panels of experts, and detailed presentations by chess program designers are planned. This workshop is being organized and hosted by the Canadian Information Processing Society as part of their Annual Congress. Papers are solicited on all aspects of computer chess (and other complex games, like GO) including, but not limited to: search algorithms knowledge representation search analysis knowledge acquisition parallelism program design planning databases learning historical perspectives Both original research and survey papers will be considered. The organizing committee is interested in both full papers (of about 4000 words, to be reviewed for inclusion in a special workshop proceedings or to be published in the ICCA Journal), and 1500-word extended abstracts (for oral presentation only). Please send 4 copies of the paper/abstract to: Dr. Tony Marsland Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton CANADA T6G 2H1 to be received no later than 1 March 1989. All items received will be acknowledged, and notification of disposition will be sent before 15 April 1989. Further information can be obtained by electronic mail to tony@alberta.cdn or ihnp4!alberta!tony or tama@ualtamts.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: 19 Dec 88 18:54:17 GMT From: att!whuts!homxb!hou2d!krsm@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (S.MURTHY) Subject: IEEE NEWS GROUP CREATED - called comp.org.ieee IEEE NEWS GROUPS (comp.org.ieee and att.society.ieee) Friends, The IEEE NEWS GROUPS, one for circulation within AT&T only called att.society.ieee and another called comp.org.ieee for world-wide circulation and use have been created. I sincerely thank all of you who have supported in this effort. I will try to get an article or some type of coverage in IEEE INSTITUTE (a news suppliment to IEEE Spectrum) to help publicize about this group and also increase awareness about the groups' usefulness. I encourage all of you to post any news information, call for papers, conferences, special lectures and also any professional discussions. To post anything Type postnews (Return) and then you get user friendly messages. I will be posting some background info on the news groups. Thanks to all of you, again. Sincerely K.R.S. Murthy Room 1G-306 AT&T Bell Labs 480 Red Hill Road Middletown NJ 07748 (201)-615-4629 ..!att!hou2d!krsm ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************