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- From: napoli@loria.fr (Amedeo Napoli)
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- Subject: ``IJCAI Workshop ``Object-Based Representation Systems''
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:35:17 GMT
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- Organization: CRIN (CNRS) Nancy - INRIA Lorraine
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- **** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ****
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- ``IJCAI Workshop ``Object-Based Representation Systems''
-
- Chambery (August 28th 1993)
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- The goal of the workshop is to study the notion of ``object'' as a
- knowledge grain in knowledge-based systems.
- A first category of object-based representation systems mainly
- includes terminological (or description) logics.
- People working in this area are more interested in studying and using
- declarative representations.
- A second category includes hybrid systems that rely on frame-based
- languages and object-oriented programming.
- People working in this area are more interested by the representation
- and the use of procedural components.
- Thus, the topics of interest of the workshop are the following:
- - objects in knowledge representation: concepts, frames, classes.
- - links between description logics and hybrid systems (frame-based or
- class-based systems).
- - fundamental relationships: specialization/generalization,
- subsumption, part-whole, other partial orderings and equivalence
- relations.
- - objects, constraints and other relations: temporal and spatial
- relations, general constraints (equalities, inequalities).
- - representation of procedural knowledge: reflexes (demons), methods.
- - reasoning with objects: inheritance, classification-based reasoning,
- truth maintenance.
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- The workshop is intended to be a challenge to understand the
- contributions of the more logical and more procedural approaches.
- Participants will try to develop guidelines for interpreting the
- usefulness of each approach.
- They will also be encouraged to exchange different points of
- view, and possibly, to define a more complete and universal
- object-based representation formalism integrating the two approaches.
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- Participation and Organization
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-
- Participation will be of two kinds: speaker and regular participant.
- People interested in attending the workshop must send a position
- paper, 1 or 2 pages for regular participant, up to 10 pages for
- speakers.
- Selected papers will be published in the proceedings of the workshop.
-
- Submissions should be made preferably by email.
- For those who do not have access to email (or any other reason), send
- 4 copies of your position paper to the chairman of the workshop.
-
- The workshop registration fee is 300 FF, and includes coffee breaks
- (note that every workshop participant must have registered for the
- main conference).
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- Schedule
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- - Position papers must be sent to the chairman before March 1993, 1st.
- - The decisions of the program committee will be notified to the
- selected speakers and regular participants before April, 15th.
- - Final papers are due before June, 1st, to be published in the
- proceedings of the workshop.
- It is intended that preprints of the workshop will be mailed to
- participants before the workshop.
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- Organization and Program Committee
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- Ronald J. Brachman (ATT and Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA)
- Roland Ducournau (Sema Group, Montrouge, France)
- Bob MacGregor (USC/ISI, Marina Del Rey, USA)
- Amedeo Napoli (CRIN, Nancy, France)
- Bernhard Nebel (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany)
- Francois Rechenmann (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France)
- Albrecht Schmiedel (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
- Fabrizio Sebastiani (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
- Philippe Volle (NSL, Paris, France).
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- Chairman
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- Amedeo NAPOLI
- CRIN CNRS -- INRIA Lorraine
- BP 239
- 54506 Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy Cedex
- France
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- email: napoli@loria.fr
- Phone: (33) 83 59 20 68
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