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Today's Topics:

 Seek nominations for the 1994 King-Sun Fu Award
 Code available for Representing Curves at their Natural Scales
 TAAC1 board needed!
 Research Position in Image Understanding at Xerox PARC
 Post-Doctoral Position in Computer Vision
 Post-doctoral Position
 Summer Undergraduate Research in Computer Vision
 CFP: 9th Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
 AISB'93 Conference in AI and Cognitive Science

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 00:44:28 -0500
From: John S. Zelek  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Seek nominations for the 1994 King-Sun Fu Award

     The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
     is pleased to call for nominations for the 1994


               King-Sun Fu Award

     in honour of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu.
     Dr. Fu was instrumental in the founding of IAPR, served as its first
     president,
     and is widely recognized for his extensive contributions
     to the field of pattern recognition.


This biennial award will be given to a living person in recognition of
an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern
recognition, and will consist of a suitably inscribed
certificate and  cash amount, the cost of which is borne by
interest income from a special fund created for this purpose.


The award recipient shall be selected by the Award Committee, subject
to approval by the IAPR Governing Board, upon nomination by a member
of a national member society of IAPR and by endorsement of at least
five members, representing at least two member societies different
from that of the nominators.

Members of the IAPR Executive Committee, as well as the Award
Committee, shall be ineligible for the award and may not serve as
nominators or endorsers.


The 1994 award is intended to be presented at the
  Twelvth International Conference on Pattern Recognition
          Jerusalem, Israel
          October 9-13, 1994}


The nomination should be completed on the Fu Award Nomination
Form.
Copies of the Nomination Form may be obtained from the Fu Award
Committee Chairman.  Nominations must be received by the Award
Committee Chairman no later than March 1, 1994.

Dr. Martin D. Levine, Chairman of the Fu Award Committee
McGill Research Center for Intelligent Machines
3480 University Street
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7
e-mail:  [e-mail]
FAX [phone].

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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 14:12:49 +0800
From: Paul Rosin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Code available for Representing Curves at their Natural Scales

The code used for the paper "Representing Curves at their Natural
Scales", Pattern Recognition, Vol 25, pp. 1315-1325, 1992, can be
obtained by anonymous ftp from marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (134.7.1.1)
in directory pub/rosin/natural.

                         Abstract

The shapes of curves generally contain several structures at
different scales. An expressive curve representation should
explicitly describe each structure at its appropriate scale. This
greatly simplifies any reasoning processes applied to the curve.
Rather than exhaustively represent the curve over a full range of
scales just the most significant ones should be retained for a
compact and useful representation. A technique is presented that
identifies the significant or natural scales in a curve.

Paul Rosin
School of Computing Science
Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Western Australia
INTERNET: [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 14:32:45 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: TAAC1 board needed!

I am looking for someone who has (but no longer uses) the TAAC1 image
processor board for the SUN workstations. I am interested in aquiring
a couple of those for my research.
Jun Zhang, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Universoty of Michigan
An Arbor, MI 48104.
(313)-763-6161

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Date:     Sun, 17 Jan 1993 23:15:09 PST
From: Daniel Huttenlocher <[e-mail]>
Subject:  Research Position in Image Understanding at Xerox PARC

The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center is seeking candidates for the
position of research scientist in the recently formed Image
Understanding Group.  Specific areas of interest include, but are not
limited to: geometric algorithms for recognition, indexing and
perceptual grouping, and interpretation of image sequences.  The
successful candidate will have a strong background in algorithms,
system design, and implementation.  We are particularly interested in
researchers whose work will impact both the international scientific
community and the application areas of concern to Xerox businesses.
Candidates should possess a Ph.D. in computer science or a related
field (or be about to receive one), and have demonstrated outstanding
research abilities.

Applications, including a curriculum vitae and three letters of
reference, should be sent to: Ms. Beth Shaw, Xerox PARC, Human
Resources Dept., 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304.  An equal
opportunity employer.


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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 12:45:53 EST
From: [e-mail]    (Sunita Hingorani)
Subject: Post-Doctoral Position in Computer Vision

The NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ has an immediate opening
for a Postdoc in the area of computer vision.  Applicants should
expect to have completed a PhD within the last two years, and should
have a strong record of independent research.  We are especially
interested in applicants with a background in middle and higher level
computer vision, but we will consider strong applicants in all areas
of computer vision or closely related fields.

NECI was founded in 1989 in Princeton NJ. Our mission is basic
research in computer science and physics underlying future computer
and communication technologies. We provide a collegial atmosphere in
which academic freedom is supported, collaboration between scientists
within the Institute and in other institutions encouraged, and
publication in the open literature expected. Members are entirely
internally funded (by the NEC corporation), have no substantial
responsibilities beyond research (and publication of same), and are
encouraged to take a very long term, bold approach in their research.
Indeed we hope to take a rather more farsighted approach than is
customary at most universities.

NECI has active research programs in computer and biological vision.
Topics of recent interest include: object recognition, perceptual
organization, stereo, motion understanding, mobile robotics and animal
visual systems, especially the neural coding of the fly visual system.
There is also an active visiting scientist program that supports senior
researchers visiting for one to two years.

Applicants should forward a Curriculum Vitae, a list of references,
and a statement describing research interests that they would like to
pursue to:

Ms. Dale Ronan
NEC Research Institute
4 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540
(email) [e-mail]

        Sunita  L. Hingorani

        NEC Research Institute
        4 Independence Way
        Princeton
        NJ 08540

phone:  [phone]
  fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail] (Inet)

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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 17:14:12 -0500
From: [e-mail] (roger erickson)
Subject: Post-doctoral Position

            Post-doctoral Position

    A PhD-possessing, graphics-loving, CS-trained, biosystems-oriented
and Nnet-familiar person is sought to work in a neurophysiology lab
studying vision, eye movements and control of memory-guided vs
sensory-guided behavior.  Other helpful but not necessary skills include
familiarity with REAL real-time processing (e.g.,with PDP's, or VME, or
OS/9) and Amiga graphics. The lab is at the National Institute of Mental
Health, outside Wash. D.C.. Interested PhD grads of any race, religion,
citizenship etc, etc may inquire to

    [e-mail]

                roger

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Date: 15 Jan 1993 21:45:54 GMT
From: [e-mail] (stephen reichenbach)
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Subject: Summer Undergraduate Research in Computer Vision

                ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

            THE INSTITUTE FOR VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING

                       June 7 to August 12, 1993
               Computer Science and Engineering Department
               University of Nebraska -- Lincoln

                      Sponsored in cooperation with
                       National Science Foundation
    University of Nebraska--Lincoln, College of Arts and Sciences
          Center for Communication and Information Science


The Institute for Visual Information Processing is a unique summer program
for undergraduate research in digital image processing and computer vision.
The ten-week program offers instruction, supervised laboratory research,
guest lectures, and visits to area laboratories.  Students will receive a
stipend and subsistence and travel allowances totaling approximately $3,000.
Enrollment is limited to 10 students.  The Institute will provide an
excellent introduction to an exciting field with a growing need for
well-trained scientists and engineers.

The program includes a three credit course in digital image processing,
taught by Dr. Stephen E. Reichenbach, and a three credit course in computer
vision, taught by Dr. Ashok Samal.  Building on the class work, the focus
of the program is an experimental research experience in the UNL Computer
Vision and Image Processing Laboratory.  Each student will undertake a
research project chosen from a wide-range of applications (such as remote
sensing, automated inspection, communication, and robotics) to be conducted
with guidance and assistance from the faculty and laboratory assistants.
The program also offers guest lectures from UNL researchers doing imaging
and vision related work in diverse disciplines and visits to government
installations and commercial organizations engaged in image and vision
computing such as the Earth Resources Observations Systems (EROS) Data Center,
Strategic Air Command (SAC), and MicroImages (a developer of mapping and
image processing software used world-wide).  Scheduled social and recreational
events will also enhance the students' experience.

Students should have an academic background that includes experience with
a high-level programming language, introductory calculus, and elementary
statistics.  We seek students from a variety of academic majors and encourage
the participation of underrepresented minorities, women, and persons with
disabilities.  Only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible.
The application deadlines and acceptance dates are:
    Call for Applications            January 15
    Postmark for Early Acceptance        March 15
    Notification of Early Acceptance    March 31
    Postmark for Late Acceptance        April 15
    Notification of Late Acceptance        April 30
For full consideration, students should apply for early acceptance.
Depending on the number and quality of applications, as many as 8 of the 10
students will be selected for early acceptance.  Remaining slots will be
filled subsequently from the pool of all applications.  Applicants should
forward:  1) a letter of application outlining their academic background
and including an address and telephone number, 2) grade transcripts, 3) the
name, address, and phone number of their collegiate advisor, and 4) two
letters of recommendation to:
    Institute for Visual Information Processing
    Computer Science and Engineering Department
    University of Nebraska--Lincoln
    Lincoln, NE 68588-0115
For more information, contact:
    Professor Stephen E. Reichenbach
    voice: [phone]
    email: [e-mail]
    fax: [phone]
or
    Professor Ashok Samal
    voice: [phone]
    email: [e-mail]
    fax: [phone]


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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 22:54:48 PST
From: David Heckerman <[e-mail]>
Subject: CFP: 9th Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

       NINTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON UNCERTAINTY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

                      July 9-11, 1993, Washington D.C.

                               CALL FOR PAPERS

The ninth annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence will be
devoted to methods for reasoning under uncertainty as applied to problems in
artificial intelligence.  The conference's scope covers the full range of
approaches to automated and interactive reasoning and decision making under
uncertainty, including both qualitative and numeric methods.

We seek papers on fundamental theoretical issues, on computational techniques
for uncertain reasoning, and on the foundations of alternative paradigms of
uncertain reasoning.  Topics of interest include:

 -  Foundations of uncertainty concepts
 -  Representations of uncertain knowledge and their semantics
 -  Knowledge acquisition
 -  Construction of uncertainty models from data
 -  Uncertainty in machine learning
 -  Automated planning and decision making under uncertainty
 -  Algorithms for uncertain inference
 -  Pooling of uncertain evidence
 -  Belief updating and inconsistency handling in uncertain knowledge bases
 -  Explanation and summarization of uncertain information
 -  Control of reasoning and real-time architectures

This year, we hope to attract more contributions that emphasize real-world
applications of uncertain reasoning.  Questions of particular interest
include:

 - Why was it necessary to represent uncertainty in your domain?
 - What kind of uncertainties does your application address?
 - Why did you decide to use your particular uncertainty formalism?
 - What theoretical problems, if any, did you encounter?
 - What practical problems did you encounter?
 - Did users of your system find the results or recommendations useful?
 - Did the introduction of your system lead to improvements in reasoning
   or decision making?
 - What methods were used to validate the effectiveness of the systems?

Papers will be carefully refereed for originality, significance, technical
soundness, and clarity of exposition.  Papers may be accepted for presentation
in plenary or poster sessions.  Some key applications oriented work may be
presented both in a plenary session and in a poster session where more
technical details can be discussed.  All accepted papers will be included in
the published proceedings.  Outstanding student papers may be selected for
special distinction.

Five copies of each paper should be sent to one of the Program Co-Chairs by
February 5, 1993.  The first page should include a descriptive title, the
names, addresses, and student status of all authors, a brief abstract, and
salient keywords or other topic indicators.  Acceptance notices will be sent
by March 29, 1993.  Final camera-ready papers, incorporating reviewers'
suggestions, will be due approximately five weeks later.  There will be an
eight-page limit on proceedings papers, with a few extra pages available for
a fee.

Program Co-Chairs (paper submissions):

David Heckerman
Department of Computer Science, UCLA
Boelter Hall, Room 3531
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596
tel: [phone], fax: [phone]
email: [e-mail]

Abe Mamdani
Deptartment of Electronic Engineering
Queen Mary & Westfield College
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
tel: [phone], fax: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]

General Co-Chair (conference inquiries):

Michael P. Wellman
Department of EECS, University of Michigan
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
tel: [phone], fax: [phone]
email: [e-mail]

Conference Committee:  Piero Bonissone, Peter Cheeseman, Mike Clarke, Bruce
D'Ambrosio, Didier Dubois, Max Henrion, John Fox, Rudolf Kruse, Henry Kyburg,
John Lemmer, Tod Levitt, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Serafin Moral, Ramesh Patil,
Judea Pearl, Enrique Ruspini, Ross Shachter, Glenn Shafer, Philippe Smets,
Kurt Sundermeyer, Lotfi Zadeh.

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 01:57:25 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: AISB'93 Conference in AI and Cognitive Science

             CONFERENCE PROGRAMME and REGISTRATION INFORMATION

                               A I S B' 9 3

'P R O S P E C T S   F O R   A R T I F I C I A L   I N T E L L I G E N C E'

                    Cognitive Science Research Centre
                       The University of Birmingham
                       March 29th -- April 2nd 1993

                              CONTENTS

                1. Message from the Programme Chair
                2. Technical Programme
                3. Workshops and Tutorials
                4. Registration Form

                            ORGANISATION
Programme Chair:
    Aaron Sloman    (University of Birmingham)

Programme Committee:
    David Hogg      (University of Leeds)
    Glyn Humphreys  (University of Birmingham)
    Allan Ramsay    (University College Dublin)
    Derek Partridge (University of Exeter)

Local Organiser:
    Donald Peterson (University of Birmingham)

Administration:
    Petra Hickey    (University of Birmingham)

                          GENERAL ENQUIRIES
AISB'93,
School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham, B15 2TT,
U.K.

Email:    [e-mail]

Phone:    [phone]        Fax:    [phone]


                    WORKSHOP and TUTORIAL ENQUIRIES

Hyacinth S. Nwana,
Computer Science Dept.
Keele University, Newcastle,
Staffs ST5 5BG,
ENGLAND.

JANET: [e-mail]
Other: [e-mail]

Phone: [phone]           Fax: [phone]


                   MESSAGE FROM THE PROGRAMME CHAIR

The biennial conferences of the Society for the Study of Artificial
Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour are traditionally
"single-track" scientific meetings aiming to bring together all areas
of research in AI and computational cognitive science, and AISB'93 is
no exception. With the end of the century close at hand, it seemed
appropriate to choose a forward looking theme, so the five invited
speakers, all distinguished researchers in their own sub-fields, have
been asked to identify trends and project into the future, instead of
simply surveying past achievements. Some but not all of the submitted
papers also analyse prospects; the others report on work already done.

The referees and the selection committee used as a major criterion for
selection the requirement that papers should be of interest to a
general AI audience. All of the papers have in common a commitment to
a "design-based" approach to the study of intelligence, though some of
them focus mainly on requirements, some mainly on designs and some on
actual implementations, and of course there is wide variation not only
regarding the sub-domains of AI (such as vision, learning, language,
emotions) but also between the techniques used (such as symbolic
reasoning, neural net models, genetic algorithms), and also between
those who attempt to design intelligent agents using a top down
analysis of human-like intelligence and those who work bottom up from
primitive insect-like mechanisms. There is also international variety,
with papers from several European countries and further afield.

This variety of topics and approaches promises to make the conference
particularly lively, with plenty of scope for controversy. We have
therefore decided to allow a little more time than usual for each item
in the programme, so that questions and discussions can add to the
interest.

There will also be poster presentations, where some work that could
not be included in the formal proceedings can be presented, and it is
expected that there will be book displays by major AI publishers and
possibly some displays and demonstrations by vendors of AI software
and systems. The conference will be preceded by a programme of seven
tutorials and workshops for which separate registration is available.

Integral Solutions Limited have agreed to present a prize of AI
software, including Poplog, and a place on one of their training
courses, for the paper voted "best presented" by the audience.

For those involved in AI and Cognitive Science, the conference is a
primary opportunity to meet, discuss and learn about current work. For
those new to these fields, the conference is a chance to become
acquainted with them in pleasant surroundings and to meet the people
involved. For full-time students, large reductions in registration
fees are offered.

The location of the conference is one of the attractive halls of
residence in a pleasant lakeside setting at one end of the campus of
the University of Birmingham. This is not very far from the city
centre, so a visit to one of the local attractions of the centre, such
as the renowned Symphony Hall, will require a journey of only a few
minutes by taxi or train. Single room accommodation has been booked,
and the auditorium is in the same building as the bedrooms and dining
room, so that the conference will provide excellent opportunities for
informal mixing and discussions. The number of rooms available is
limited, so early booking is recommended.

We look forward to seeing you and hope you enjoy the conference.

Aaron Sloman.



                          TECHNICAL PROGRAMME

        (The order is provisional. Invited talks are asterisked)


                           MONDAY MARCH 29TH

Workshops and Tutorials (see below)

                    TUESDAY MARCH 30TH (Morning)

Workshops and Tutorials (see below)

                    TUESDAY MARCH 30TH (Afternoon)

* Kurt Van Lehn (Pittsburg)
* Prospects for modelling human learning (e.g. college physics)

Husbands, Harvey, Cliff
* An evolutionary approach to AI

Edmund Furse
* Escaping from the box

Thomas Vogel
* Learning biped robot obstacle crossing

Antunes, Moniz, Azevedo
* RB+ the dynamic estimation of the opponent's strength

                          WEDNESDAY 31ST MARCH

* Ian Sommerville (Lancaster)
* Prospects for AI in systems design

Oh, Azzelarabe, Sommerville, French
* Incorporating a cooperative design model in a computer aided
design improvement system

Stuart Watt
* Fractal behaviour analysis

Valente, Breuker, Bredewg
* Integrating modeling approaches in the commonKADS library

Cawsey, Galliers, Reece, Jones
* Revising beliefs and intentions: a unified framework for agent interaction

* Allan Ramsay (Dublin)
* Prospects for natural language processing by machine

Lin, Fawcett, Davies
* Genedis: the discourse generator in communal

Miwa, Simon
* Production system modelling to represent individual differences:
tradeoff between simplicity and accuracy in simulation of behaviour

Freksa, Zimmerman
* Enhancing spatial reasoning by the concept of motion

POSTER SESSION


                          THURSDAY 1ST APRIL

* Glyn Humphreys (Birmingham)
*  Prospects for connectionism - science and engineering

Rodrigues, Lee
* Nouvelle AI and perceptual control theory

Vogel, Popwich, Cercone
* Logic-based inheritance reasoning

Beatriz Lopez
* Reactive planning through the integration of a case-based system
and a rule-based system

James Stone
* Computer vision: what is it good for?

SESSION ON EMOTIONS AND MOTIVATION

Bruce Katz
* Musical resolution and musical pleasure

Moffatt, Phaf, Frijda
* Analysis of a model of emotions

Beaudoin, Sloman
* A computational exploration of the attention control theory of
motivator processing and emotion

Reichgelt, Shadbolt et al.
* EXPLAIN: on implementing more effective tutoring systems

POSTER SESSION

CONFERENCE DINNER

                    FRIDAY 2ND APRIL (Morning)

* David Hogg (Leeds)
* Prospects for computer vision

Elio, Watanabe
* Simulating the interactive effects of domain knowledge and category
structure within a constructive induction system

Dalbosco, Armando
* MRG an integrated multifunctional reasoning system

Bibby, Reichgelt
* Modelling multiple uses of the same representation in SOAR1

Sam Steel
* A connection between decision theory and program logic

INFORMAL WORKSHOP ON MOTIVATION, EMOTIONS AND ATTENTION (see below)


________________________________________________________________________

Workshop 1:    Connectionism, Cognition and a New AI

Organiser:    Dr Noel Sharkey  (Exeter)

Committee:
        Andy Clark (Sussex)
        Glyn Humphries (Birmingham)
        Kim Plunkett (Oxford)
        Chris Thornton (Sussex)

Time:        Monday 29th pm & Tuesday 30th March (all day)

Note:        This workshop overlaps with the events in the main
                Technical Programme on the afternoon on Tuesday 30th.
________________________________________________________________________


A number of recent developments in Connectionist Research have strong
implications for the future of AI and the study of Cognition. Among the
most important are developments in Learning, Representation, and
Productivity (or Generalisation). The aim of the workshop would be to
focus on how these developments may change the way we look at AI and the
study of Cognition.

SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION ABSTRACTS INCLUDE:
Connectionist representation, Generalisation and Transfer of Knowledge,
Learning Machines and models of human development,
Symbolic Learning versus Connectionist learning,
Advantages of Connectionist/Symbolic hybrids,
Modelling Cognitive Neuropsychology,
Connectionist modelling of Creativity and music (or other arts).

WORKSHOP ENTRANCE
Attendance at the workshop will be limited to 50 or 60 places, so please
let us know as soon as possible if you are planning to attend, and to
which of the following categories you belong.

DISCUSSION PAPERS
Acceptance of discussion papers will be decided on the basis of extended
abstracts (try to keep them under 500 words please) clearly specifying a
15 to 20 minute discussion topic for oral presentation.

ORDINARY PARTICIPANTS
A limited number places will be available for participants who wish to
sit in on the discussion but do not wish to present a paper. But please
get in early with a short note saying what your purpose in attending is.

PLEASE SEND SUBMISSIONS TO:
Dr. Noel Sharkey
Centre for Connection Science
Dept. Computer Science
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4PT
Devon U.K.          Email: [e-mail]

REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below.

________________________________________________________________________

Workshop 2:   Qualitative and Causal Reasoning

Organiser:    Dr Tony Cohn (Leeds, U.K.)

Committee:    Mark Lee (Aberystwth)
              Chris Price (Aberystwth)
              Chris Preist (Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol)

Time:         Monday 29th March + Tuesday 30th March (morning)
________________________________________________________________________


This workshop is intended to follow on from the series of DKBS (Deep
Knowledge Based Systems) workshops which were originally initiated
under the Alvey programme.  QCR93 will be the 8th in the series.  The
format of the 1.5 day workshop will consist mainly of presentations,
with ample time for discussion.  It is hoped to have an invited talk
in addition.  Participation will be by invitation only and numbers
will be limited in order to keep an informal atmosphere.  If you wish
to present a paper at the workshop, please send 4 copies (max 5000
words) to the address below by 20 Feb. An electronic submission is
also possible (either postscript or plain ascii).  Alternatively send
a letter or email explaining your reasons for being interested in
attending.  Papers may address any aspect of Qualitative and Causal
Reasoning and Representation.  Thus the scope of the workshop includes
the following topics:

 * Task-level reasoning (e.g., design, diagnosis, training, etc.)
 * Ontologies (e.g., space, time, fluids, etc.)
 * Explanation, causality and teleology
 * Mathematical formalization of QR
 * Management of multiple models (formalization, architecture, studies)
 * Model building tools
 * Integration with other techniques (e.g., dynamics, uncertainty, etc.)
 * Methodologies for selecting/classifying QR methods
 * Practical applications of QR, or Model Based Reasoning etc.

These topics are not meant to be prescriptive and papers on other
related or relevant topics are welcome.
Suggestions for special sessions for the workshop are also welcome (eg
panel session topics).

There may be some partial bursaries available to students who wish to
attend. If you wish to apply for such a bursary, then please send a
letter giving a case for support (include details of any funding
available from elsewhere). A CV should be attached.  Electronic
submission is preferred.

REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below.

CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBMISSIONS:
Tony Cohn,
Division of AI,
School of Computer Studies,
University of Leeds,
LEEDS, LS2  9JT, ENGLAND.

UUCP:    ...!ukc!leeds!agc
JANET:  [e-mail]         INTERNET: [e-mail]
BITNET: agc%uk.ac.leeds.scs@UKACRL
PHONE:  [phone]           FAX:  [phone]

________________________________________________________________________

Workshop 3:    AISB POST-GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP

Organiser:    Dr Hyacinth Nwana
        University of Keele, UK.


Time:        Monday 29th (all day) + Tuesday 30th March (morning)
________________________________________________________________________


Many postgraduate students become academically isolated as a result of
working in specialised domains within fairly small departments.  This
workshop is aimed at providing a forum for graduate students in AI to
present and discuss their ideas with other students in related areas. In
addition there will invited presentations from a number of prominent
researchers in AI.  A small number of group discussions is planned,
including study for and completion of theses, life after a doctorate,
paper refereeing and how to make use of your supervisor.

All attendees are expected to present an introduction to their
research in a poster session on the first day's morning.  In addition
a couple of attendees will be given the opportunity to present short
papers.

Confirmed tutors so far include:
Dr John Self (Lancaster) -  'Why do supervisors supervise?'
Dr Steve Easterbrook (Sussex) - 'How to write a thesis'
Dr Elizabeth Churchill (Nottingham) - Title to be confirmed.
Dr Peter Hancox (Birmingham) - Title to be confirmed.

Applicants are asked to submit a two-page abstract of their current
work.  In addition full papers of between 3000 and 5000 words may
be submitted.  These will be considered for publication in a
supplement to the AISB quarterly journal.

Deadline for 2-page abstracts: 10th February 1993

Please send an abstract or a full paper of work to:

Dr. Hyacinth S. Nwana,
Computer Science Dept.
Keele University, Newcastle,
Staffs ST5 5BG,
ENGLAND.

JANET: [e-mail]
other: [e-mail]
tel: [phone]
fax: [phone]

REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below.



________________________________________________________________________

Workshop 4:     Motivation, Emotions and Attention

Organiser:    Tim Read,
        University of Birmingham

Time:         Friday 2nd April 2.30 - 5pm
________________________________________________________________________


An informal workshop will be held after lunch on Friday 2nd April
enabling further discussion of issues raised in the Thursday afternoon
session on motivation and emotions, and possibly additional
presentations. There will be no charge, though numbers will be limited
by available space. For more information contact

The study of emotion encounters many difficulties, among them the
looseness of emotional terminology in everyday speech. A theory of
emotion should supersede this terminology, and should connect with
such issues as motivation, control of attention, resource limitations
architectural parallelism and underlying biological mechanisms.

Computation provides useful analogies in generating an information
processing account of emotion, and computer modelling is a rigorous
and constructive aid in developing theories of affect.

It makes sense for researchers within this field to collaborate, and
the aim of the workshop is to facilitate cross-fertilisation of ideas,
sharing of experience, and healthy discussion.

If you wish to make a presentation, please contact:

Tim Read
School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT, England

EMAIL   [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]       Fax:   [phone]

REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below (no charge for this workshop)


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Tutorial 1:     Collaborative Human-Computer Systems:
        Towards an Integrated Theory of Coordination

        Dr Stefan Kirn
        University of Muenster, Germany

Time:         Monday 29th March (morning)
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Intelligent support of human experts' intellectual work is one of the
most competitive edges of computer technology today. Important
advances have been made in the fields of computer networking, AI
(e.g., KADS, CBR, Distributed AI), integrated design frameworks (the
European JESSI project), nonstandard databases (e.g., databases for
teamwork support), computer supported cooperative work, and
organizational theory. The time is ripe for developing integrated
human computer collaborative systems to significantly enhance the
problem solving capabilities of human experts. Perhaps one of the most
interesting challenges here is the development of an integrated theory
of human computer coordination. Such a theory will help to link humans
and computers together in order to let them collaboratively work on
complex "nonstandard" problems.  It is the aim of the tutorial to put
the loose ends of the above mentioned disciplines together thus
arguing towards the development of an integrated theory of human
computer coordination. Only undergraduate-level knowledge in at least
one of the following fields is assumed: AI, database/information
systems, organisational theory and CSCW.

Dr Stefan Kirn is senior researcher and project leader at the
Institute of Business and Information Systems of the Westfaelische
Wilhelms-University of Muenster. He has more than 30 major
publications in international journals and conferences, primarily in
the areas of DAI, Cooperative Information Systems, CSCW and
Computer-Aided Software Engineering.

REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below.


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Tutorial 2:    The Motivation, Meaning and Use of Constraints

        Dr Mark Wallace
        European Computer-Industry Research Centre
        Munchen, Germany.

Time:         Monday 29th March (afternoon)
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This tutorial explains how constraints contribute to clear, clean,
efficient programs.  We study constraints as specification tools, as
formal tools, and as implementation tools.  Finally we examine the use
of constraints in search and optimisation problems.  As the tutorial
unfolds, we will explain the three different notions of constraints:
constraints as built-in relations, with built-in solvers; constraints
as active agents, communicating with a store; and propagation
constraints.  We will also explain how these notions are related, and
moreover how the different types of constraints can all be combined in
a single program.  For programming examples, the logic programming
framework will be used.

It will be aimed at postgraduates, researchers and teachers of AI, who
would like to know what constraints are, and what they are for.  Also
anyone interested in declarative programming, seeking a solution to the
problem of efficiency, will benefit from the tutorial.  An understanding
of formal logic will be assumed, and some familiarity with logic
programming will be necessary to appreciate the programming examples.

Dr Mark Wallace leads the Constraints Reasoning Team at ECRC (the
European Computer-Industry Research Centre), Munich.  He introduced
"Negation by Constraints" at SLP'87. He has recently presented papers at
IJCAI'92, FGCS'92 and JFPL'92. Recent tutorial presentations include a
short course on Deductive and Object-Oriented Knowledge Bases at the
Technical University of Munich, and "Constraint Logic Programming - An
Informal Introduction", written with the CORE team at ECRC for the Logic
Programming Summer School, '92.


REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below.

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Tutorial 3:    A Little Turing and Goedel for Specialists in AI

        Prof. Alexis Manaster Ramer
        Wayne State University, USA.

Time:         Monday 29th March (morning + afternoon)
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Currently debated issues in the foundations of AI go directly back to
technical work of people like Turing and Godel on the power and limits
of formal systems and computing devices.  Yet neither the relevant
results nor the intellectual climate in which they arose are widely
discussed in the AI community (for example, how many know that Godel
himself believed that the human mind was not subject to the limits set
by his theorems on formal systems?).  The purpose of this tutorial is
to develop a clear picture of the fundamental results and their
implications as seen at the time they were obtained and at the present
time. We will primarily refer to the work of Godel, Turing, Chomsky,
Hinttika, Langendoen and Postal, Searle, and Penrose.  Some background
knowledge is assumed: some programming, some AI and some discrete
mathematics.

Dr Alexis Manaster Ramer is professor of Computer Science at Wayne
State University. He has over 100 publications and presentations in
linguistics, computational linguistics, and foundations of CS and AI.
A few years ago, he taught a short course on the theory of computation
for the Natural Language Processing group at the IBM T.J.Watson
Research Center (Hawthorne, NY, USA) and this past summer taught a
one-week advanced course on mathematics of language at the European
Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (Colchester, UK).


REGISTRATION: see Registration Form below.

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                             OTHER MEETINGS
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LAGB CONFERENCE.

Shortly before AISB'93, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain
(LAGB) will hold its Spring Meeting at the University of Birmingham
from 22-24th March, 1993. For more information, contact Dr.  William
Edmondson: postal address as below; phone [phone]; email
[e-mail]

JCI CONFERENCE

The Joint Council Initiative in Cognitive Science and Human Computer
Interaction will hold its Annual Meeting on Monday 29th March 1993 in
the same buildings as AISB'93 (in parallel with the AISB'93 workshops
and tutorials). The theme will be "Understanding and Supporting
Acquisition of Cognitive Skills". For more information, contact
Elizabeth Pollitzer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180,
Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.; phone [phone]; email
[e-mail].

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                           REGISTRATION  NOTES

                 Main Programme, Workshops and Tutorials
________________________________________________________________________


o Please print off the form, tick through the items you require, enter
sub-totals and totals and send by post, together with payment, to:

AISB'93 Registrations,
School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham B15 2TT,
U.K.

o Payment should be made by cheque or money order payable to `The
University of Birmingham', drawn in pounds sterling on a UK clearing
bank and should accompany the form below.

o Registrations postmarked after 10th March count as late
registrations.

o It is not possible to register by email.

o Confirmation of booking, a receipt, and travel details will be sent on
receipt of this application form.

o The Conference Dinner (20 pounds) is on the evening of Thursday 1st.

o Delegates wishing to join AISB (thus avoiding the non-AISB member
supplement) should contact: AISB Administration, Cognitive and
Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, U.K.;
phone: [phone]; fax: [phone]; email:
[e-mail]

Donald Peterson, January 1993.


         R E G I S T R A T I O N   F O R M   ----   A I S B' 9 3

Figures in parentheses are for full-time students (send photo copy of ID).

                         ACCOMMODATION and FOOD

          28th    29th    30th    31st    1st     sub-totals

lunch             5.50    5.50    5.50    5.50    ______

dinner            7.50    7.50    7.50    20.00   ______

bed &     23.00   23.00   23.00   23.00   23.00   ______
breakfast
                                          total   ______
vegetarians please tick  _____

               TECHNICAL PROGRAMME, WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS

technical programme             175 (40)        _____

non-AISB members add            30              _____

late registration add           35              _____

Nwana workshop                  50              _____

Sharkey workshop                60 (30)            _____

Cohn workshop                   60 (30)            _____

Read workshop                   0               _____

Manaster Ramer tutorial         110 (55)        _____

Wallace tutorial                75 (30)         _____

Kirn tutorial                   75 (30)         _____

                                        total   _____       Pounds

                          PERSONAL DETAILS
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Address          ___________________________________________

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