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fermat.une.edu.au>Intelligence (AI'94) T H I R D C A L L F O R P A P E R S Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'94) "Sowing the Seeds for the Future" 21 - 25 November 1994 Proudly sponsored by Microsoft Institute (principal sponsor), IBM, Sun Microsystems, Australian Computer Society, CAMTECH Pty. Ltd., Knowledge Engineering Group - Deakin University, Knowledge Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Expert Systems Group - Continuum Australia Limited, Key Centre for Knowledge Based Systems - RMIT, and Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science (UNE). Hosted by Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science The University of New England,Armidale, N.S.W., 2351, AUSTRALIA AI'94 is the Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The theme of the conference is "Sowing the Seeds for the Future", which reflects the nature of research in Artificial Intelligence. The goal of the conference is to promote research in artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific interchange among AI researchers and practitioners. AI'94 will be hosted by The Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science at The University of New England, between Monday 21st November and Friday 25th November 1994. The conference programme will consist of formal tutorials and workshops on the Monday and Tuesday, a Postgraduate session on Tuesday, and technical paper presentation sessions from Wednesday 23rd to Friday 25th of November. In addition to these sessions there will be three Keynote addresses from renowned international speakers. Wednesday, 23rd November : Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Center for AI (DFKI) Topic of address : Intellimedia: Planning Language, Graphics and Layout for Adaptive Information Presentation Wolfgang Wahlster is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany where he currently serves as a Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Since 1975 he has been the principal investigator in various language projects, including HAM-ANS, WISBER, SC, XTRA, VITRA and WIP. He has published over 100 technical papers on natural language processing. His current research includes intelligent multimodal interfaces, user modeling, natural language scene description, intelligent help systems, and deductive plan recognition and generation. Prof. Wahlster is on the editorial boards of various international journals and book series such as Artificial Intelligence, Applied Artificial Intelligence, User Modeling and User-adapted Interaction, Symbolic Computation and the MIT-ACL series. He is a AAAI Fellow and a recipient of the Fritz Winter Award, one of the most prestigious awards for engineering sciences in Germany, for his research on cooperative user interfaces. Prof. Wahlster served as the Conference Chair for IJCAI-93 in Chambery and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of IJCAII from 1991 -1993. Thursday, 24th November : Professor Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University Topic of address : The Present and Future of Distributed Artificial Intelligence Katia Sycara is a Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also Director of the Enterprise Integration Laboratory. She is directing and conducting research aimed at developing decision support systems for integrating organisational decision making. Her doctoral research contributed to the definition of the case-based reasoning paradigm. She has been Principal Investigator of various government and industry funded research (e.g. distributed scheduling, concurrent engineering, enterprise integration, case-based Engineering design, crisis action planning). Dr. Sycara is the author of a book on manufacturing and over 70 technical papers dealing with negotiation, distributed problem solving, case-based reasoning, integration of case-based reasoning with other problem solving methods, and constraint-based reasoning. She is the Area Editor for AI and Management Science for the journal "Group Decision and Negotiation" and on the editorial board of "AI in Engineering" and "Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications". She is a member of AAAI, ACM, IEEE, and the Institute for Management Science (TIMS). Friday, 25th November : Professor John F. Sowa, State University of New York - Binghamton Topic of Address : Sharing and Integrating Knowledge Bases John F. Sowa is the author of the book Conceptual Structures, which in the past ten years has led to a world-wide movement of people who are using, implementing, and extending the theory of conceptual graphs. He had been working at IBM for 30 years on various aspects of computer systems design and development, especially artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. Now, he is teaching, writing, and working on standards for conceptual schemas with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Standards Organization (ISO). PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dr. Chengqi Zhang (co-chair); UNE Dr. Dickson Lukose; UNE Prof. John Debenham (co-chair); UTS Dr. Anand Rao; AAII A/Prof. Mike Brooks; Adelaide A/Prof. Claude Sammut; UNSW Dr. Jennie Clothier; DSTO A/Prof. Liz Sonenberg; Melbourne Dr. Robert Dale; Microsoft Prof. Rodney Topor; Griffith A/Prof. Wee Leng Goh; NTU, Singapore Dr. Wayne Wobcke; Sydney Mr. Andy Horsfall; Fujitsu Dr. Xindong Wu; James Cook Prof. Ray Jarvis; Monash Dr. Xin Yao; ADFA Dr. Chris Leckie; TRL Dr. Waikiang Yeap; Otago, N.Z. Dr. Craig Lindley; CSIRO A/Prof. David W. Russell, USA ORGANISING COMMITTEE Dr. Dickson Lukose (chair) Dr. Chengqi Zhang Mr. Prakash Bhandari Mr. Allan Williams (secretary) Dr. Gregory Zevin Ms. Gabrielle Aldridge We invite authors to submit papers describing both experimental and theoretical results from all stages of AI research. We encourage submission of papers that describe innovative concepts, techniques, perspectives, or observations that are not yet supported by mature results. Such submissions must include substantial analysis of the ideas, the technology needed to realise them, and their potential impact. Papers describing applied AI are particularly solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Machine Learning Distributed Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Acquisition Artificial Intelligence Applications Natural Language Generation Intelligent Decision Support Systems Natural Language Understanding Cognitive Modeling Hybrid Systems Robotics Genetic Algorithms Vision Evolutionary Programming Planning and Scheduling Knowledge Based Systems Neural Network Knowledge Representation Image Analysis Qualitative Reasoning Automated Reasoning Authors must submit five (5) copies of the completed paper to the AI'94 Conference Secretary, which should be received by or on 15th June 1994. All five (5) copies of the submitted paper must be clearly legible. Neither computer files nor fax submission are acceptable. Papers received after 15th June 1994 will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. PAPER FORMAT FOR REVIEW All five copies of the submissions must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11" or A4 paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch for typewriters or 12 point LaTeX article-style). The body of submitted papers must be at most 8 pages, including figures, tables, diagrams, and bibliography, but excluding the title page. Papers exceeding the specified length or not conforming to the formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Each copy of the paper must have a title page (separate from the body of the paper) containing the title of the paper, the names and addresses of all authors, telephone number, fax number, electronic mail address, a short (less than 200 word) abstract, topic, and a keyword list. The body of the paper must also contain a copy of the title and abstract without any author details. In addition each page within the paper must be clearly numbered. To facilitate the reviewing process, authors are requested to select their paper's keywords from the list below. Authors are invited to add additional keywords to their keyword list if necessary. Artificial Life, Automated Reasoning, Behaviour-Based Control, Belief Revision, Case-Based Reasoning, Cognitive Modelling, Common Sense Reasoning, Communication and Cooperation, Constraint-Based Reasoning, Computer-Aided Education, Connectionist Models, Corpus-Based Language Analysis, Deduction, Diagnosis, Discourse Analysis, Distributed Problem Solving, Expert Systems, Geometrical Reasoning, Information Extraction, Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Sharing Technology, Large Scale Knowledge Engineering, Learning/Adaptation, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Mathematical Foundations, Multi-Agent Planning, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Perception, Planning, Probabilistic Reasoning, Qualitative Reasoning, Reasoning about Action, Reasoning about Physical Systems, Reactivity, Robot Navigation, Robotics, Rule-Based Reasoning, Scheduling, Search, Sensor Interpretation, Sensory Fusion/Fission, Simulation, Situated Cognition, Spatial Reasoning, Speech Recognition, System Architectures, Temporal Reasoning, Terminological Reasoning, Theorem Proving, Truth Maintenance, User Interfaces, Virtual Reality, Vision, 3-D Model Acquisition. Each paper will be carefully reviewed. The criteria that will be given to the conference reviewers have been reproduced below. Authors are advised to bear these criteria in mind while writing their papers: How important is the work reported? Does it attack an important/difficult problem or a peripheral/simple one? Does the approach offered advance the state of the art? Has this or similar work been previously reported? Are the problems and approaches completely new? Is this a novel combination of familiar techniques? Does the paper point out differences from related research? Is it re-inventing the wheel using new terminology? Is the paper technically sound? Does it carefully evaluate the strengths and limitations of its contribution? How are its claims backed up? Is the paper clearly written? Does it motivate the research? Does it describe clearly the algorithms or techniques employed? Does the paper describe previous work? Are the results described and evaluated? Is the paper organised in a logical fashion? PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION The proceedings of AI'94 will be published by World Scientific Publishers. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission : 15th June 1994 Notification of acceptance : 31st July 1994 Camera Ready Copy : 22nd August 1994 Conference : 21st - 25th November 1994 FURTHER INFORMATION All enquires regarding AI'94 and papers submitted to AI'94 should be directed to the following address: AI'94 Conference Secretary Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science The University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W., 2351, AUSTRALIA E-mail: ai94Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue