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oefai.at>* * * * * SIXTEENTH EUROPEAN MEETING * * ON * * CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH * * (EMCSR 2002) * April 2 - 5, 2002 UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies in cooperation with Dept.of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Univ.of Vienna and International Federation for Systems Research * * * * * An electronic version of this CfP (and further information whenever it becomes available) can be found at http://www.oefai.at/emcsr/ * * * * * The international support of the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research held in Austria in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 (when 500 scientists from more than 40 countries from all continents, except the Antarctica, met to present, hear and discuss 134 papers) encouraged the Council of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (VSGK) to organize a similar meeting in 2002 to keep pace with continued rapid developments in related fields. Sessions A Systems Science G.J.Klir, USA, and P.Vysoky, Czech Republic B Mathematical Methods in Cybernetics and Systems Theory Y.Rav, France C System, the Quantum, and Complexity M.Carvallo, Netherlands D Systemic Aspects of Component-Based System Development G.Chroust, Austria, and F.Stallinger, Austria E Foundations of Information Science (FIS) G.Ossimitz, Austria, and B.A.Banathy, USA F Designing and Systems W.Gasparski, Poland G Biocybernetics and Mathematical Biology L.M.Ricciardi, Italy H Systems Science in Medicine F.Tretter, Germany, and G.Porenta, Austria I Simulation of Social Behaviour and Artificial Economy K.Hornik, Austria, and A.Taudes, Austria J Cultural Systems P.Ballonoff, USA, I.Ezhkova, Belgium, M.Fischer, UK, P.Jorion, France, and D.Read, USA K Management and Organizational Change S.A.Umpleby, USA L Soft Computing and Knowledge-Based Systems C.Carlsson, Finland, and K.-P.Adla_nig, Austria M Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems S.Kollias, Greece, and G.Dorffner, Austria N AT2AI-3: From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation J.P.M|ller, Germany, and P.Petta, Austria O ACE 2002: Agent Construction and Emotions C.Pinto-Ferreira, Portugal, R.Ventura, Portugal, and P.Petta, Austria P Bayesian Techniques for Mining Data and Texts, and the Discovery of Surprising Knowledge Y.Kodratoff, France Q Theory and Applications of Artificial Intelligence V.Marik, Czech Republic, and E.Buchberger, Austria R Communication and Computers A M.Tjoa, Austria S History of Cybernetics and Information Technology F.Pichler, Austria Submission Guidelines Acceptance of contributions will be determined on the basis of Draft Final Papers. Each paper must explain clearly - what problem it is trying to address, - what has been tried before and why it isn't good enough, - WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WHY IT IS BETTER, - some proof that your method is sound (or reference to it), - how it will help others/apply to other problems, - some results/proof it works. Draft Final Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced A4 pages (maximum 43 lines, max. line length 160 mm, 12 point), in English. They have to contain the final text to be submitted, including graphs and pictures. However, these need not be of reproducible quality. They must carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation (incl. e-mail address, if possible) in this order, and must include an abstract. Please specify the symposium in which you would like to present your paper. Each scientist shall submit only one paper. Please send four hard copies of the Draft Final Paper to the Conference Secretariat (not to symposia chairpersons!) Electronic or fax submissions cannot be accepted. Deadline for submission October 19, 2001 Submissions received after the deadline cannot be considered. Notification of Acceptance/Rejection Authors will be notified about acceptance or rejection no later than December 7, 2001. Successful authors will be provided by the conference secretariat at the same time with the instructions for the preparation of the final paper, which will also be available via ftp and World-Wide Web. Final Papers The final paper will be limited to a maximum of 6 pages (10-point, double column). Camera-ready copies of the final paper will be due at the conference secretariat by January 18, 2002. Acceptance of the final paper will be based on compliance with the reviewers' comments. Presentation It is understood that each accepted paper is presented personally at the Meeting by one of its authors. Conference Fee ATS 2900 (Euro 210.75) if received before January 31, 2002 Euro 255 if received later Euro 305 if paid at the conference desk. The Conference Fee includes participation in the Sixteenth European Meeting, attendance at official receptions, coffee during breaks, and the volumes of the proceedings available at the Meeting. Please send cheque, or transfer the amount free of charges for beneficiary to the account no. 0026-34400/00 of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies at Creditanstalt-Bankverein Vienna (bank routing number: 11000, SWIFT code: CABVATWW). Please state your name clearly. Hotel Accommodation will be handled by AUSTROPA INTERCONVENTION, Friedrichstra_e 7 A-1010 Vienna phone +43-1-58800-514 fax +43-1-58800-520. Reservation forms will be sent to all those registering for the conference. Scholarships The International Federation for Systems Research is willing to provide a limited number of scholarships covering the registration fee for the conference for colleagues from weak currency countries. Applications should be sent to the Conference Secretariat before October 20, 2001. Insurance The conference organizers can accept no liability for personal injuries, or for loss or damage to property belonging to conference participants, either during or as a result of the conference. Please check the validity of your personal insurance. Chairman of the Meeting Robert Trappl, President Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies Secretariat S. Fischer and I. Ghobrial-Willmann Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies A-1010 Vienna 1, Schottengasse 3 (Austria) Phone: +43-1-5336112-60 Fax: +43-1-4277-9631 E-mail: secMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ims.uni-stuttgart.de>- --------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE NOTE: In order to get a better distribution of short and long papers over the three themes of the workshop, we especially invite submissions on theme 3, the semantics and pragmatics of discourse and dialogue - --------------------------------------------------------------- *** EXTENSION OF PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE TO MAY 21 *** ================================================ 2nd ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue Aalborg, Denmark, September 1-2 (Just before Eurospeech 2001-Scandinavia) More up to date information on submission schedule, formats, registration and program committee may be found at the workshop website DESCRIPTION Following up on the successful 1st Workshop in Hong Kong in October 2000, this will be the next in a series of workshops spanning the ACL SIGdial interest area of discourse and dialogue. While there has been a lot of activity in this area, and fairly frequent "specialty" workshops on various sub-topics, until this series there has not been a regular place for such research to be presented in a forum to receive attention from the larger SIGdial community and researchers outside this community. INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced.* TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementational and analytical work on discourse and dialogue, with a focus on the following three themes: (i) Dialogue Systems Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems including topics such as: * dialogue management models (specific subproblems or general modeling, in particular models for mixed initiative and user-adaptive dialogue); * speech, text, and graphics integration (for understanding or generation); * context-based interpretation and/or response planning,in particular how this contributes to natural interaction; * strategies for handling or preventing miscommuncation (repair and correction types, clarification and underspecificity, grounding and feedback strategies); * utilizing prosodic information for various types of disambiguation; * task-driven versus conversational dialogue; * evaluation of dialogue systems including task complexity measurements. (ii) Corpora and Corpus Tools Corpus-based work on discourse and spoken, text-based and multi-modal dialogue including its support, in particular: * issues and problems in discourse and dialogue annotation; * techniques (including machine learning), tools, coding schemes and data resources for discourse and dialogue studies; * XML-based tools for dialogue access to internet information. (iii) Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e., beyond a single sentence) including the following issues: * the semantics/pragmatics of dialogue acts (including those which are less studied in the semantics/pragmatics framework); * incremental (plan-based,topic-based, etc.) models of discourse/dialogue structure integrating referential and relational structure; * modeling genre-specific aspects of discourse and dialogue structure, including the specific structural aspects of (interactive) digital media; * prosody in discourse and dialogue; * modeling politeness and non-recursive parts of discourse and dialogue; * models of presupposition and accommodation; * operational models of conversational implicature. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS The program committee welcomes the submission of papers for full plenary presentation. The papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including title page, examples, references, etc. In addition to this, two additional pages are allowed as an appendix which may include extended example discourses or dialogues, algorithms, graphical representations, etc. Besides papers for full plenary presentation, we encourage the submission of short 4-page papers (inclusive title page, examples, references, etc.) to be combined with a short presentation in the plenary session and a poster presentation. Full papers and short papers should be sent electronically to the e-mail address sigdial2001Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue