LINGUIST List 6.143

Thu 02 Feb 1995

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1. Gerard Ellis, final CFP: KRUSE Symposium
2. Kersti Bo"rjars, FOURTH MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY POSTGRADUATE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE

 Final CALL FOR PAPERS
 International KRUSE Symposium
 ___ Knowledge Retrieval, Use, and Storage for Efficiency ___
 University of California, Santa Cruz
 August 11-13 1995

IMPORTANT DATES

submission postmark deadline February 13, 1995
notification of acceptance April 12, 1995
camera-ready copy June 12, 1995

THEME
The symposium will provide a forum for exploring current research in
artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and databases that pertains
to the organization, encoding and retrieval of logical and complex
objects. The symposium will draw together researchers from diverse
disciplines as well as practitioners engaged in developing real
object-oriented term classification systems. Mathematical and
Graph-Theoretic approaches will be favoured over those approaches based
on analogy with human cognitive processes, though mathematical
discussions of such processes will be appropriate. The basic questions
to be addressed include

 o classification of objects in a taxonomy: systemic classification,
 semantic indexing, partial-order sorting, description identification,
 and taxonomy maintenance.
 o efficient order, lattice, graph, and code theoretic operations on
 objects: subsumption, generalization, specialization, least common
 generalization, and greatest common specialization.
 o advanced uses of taxonomies: knowledge compression, knowledge
 compilation, and knowledge evolution.
 o using classified knowledge: classification as problem solving,
 classification as constraint satisfaction, and exploiting abstraction.
 o scalable techniques for large object databases
 o integration of data and knowledge base technologies

The symposium will maintain a balance between theoretical issues and
descriptions of implemented systems providing a balance between theory and
practice. The focus of the symposium is on efficiency of retrieval, use
and storage.

AUTHORS' INFORMATION
Papers may not exceed 15 pages. Shorter, substantive papers are
welcome. Authors are requested to submit five (5) copies of their
paper. Alternatively, electronic submissions (by ftp or email) of
papers (postscript output) are encouraged. Submission by ftp: please
place in ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au incoming directory.

Authors are further requested to attach title pages to their
submissions bearing their names, addresses, telephone numbers, FAX
numbers and e-mail addresses. In addition, authors are asked to
include abstracts of approximately twenty (20) lines with each paper,
and a list of short phrases descriptive of the content.
PAPERS MUST BE POSTMARKED ON OR BEFORE MONDAY FEBRUARY 13, 1995.

Address: KRUSE
 c/o Gerard Ellis
 Computer Science Dept.
 RMIT
 GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, VIC 3001
 Australia

 email: gedcs.rmit.edu.au ph:61-3-660-5090 fax:61-3-662-1617

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Veronica Dahl (Co-Chair) Gerard Ellis, RMIT (Program Chair)
Director, Logic and Functionall Computer Science Dept.
Programming Group Royal Melbourne Univ of Technology
Professor, Computing Sciences Dept. GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC 3001
Simon Fraser University Australia
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 CANADA
veronicacs.sfu.ca gedcs.rmit.edu.au
Phone (604) 291-3372 Phone: 61-3-660-5090
Fax (604) 291-3045 Fax: 61-3-662-1617

Andrew Fall (Co-Chair) Robert Levinson (Local Arrangements Chair)
School of Computing Science Dept. of Computer & Information Sciences
Simon Fraser University 229 Applied Sciences Building
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 CANADA University of California
fallcs.sfu.ca Santa Cruz, CA 95064 U.S.A.
Phone: (604) 291-4302 levinsoncis.ucsc.edu
Fax: (604) 291-3045 Phone: (408) 429-2087
 Fax: 459-4829

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Mohan Ahuja (USA) Robert Levinson (USA)
Hassan Ait-Kaci (Canada) Patrick Lincoln (USA)
Franz Baader (Germany) Robert MacGregor (USA)
Yves Caseau (France) Deborah McGuinness (USA)
Darrell Conklin (Canada) Guy Mineau (Canada)
Veronica Dahl (Canada) Werner Nutt (Germany)
Francesco Donini (Italy) Peter Patel-Schneider (USA)
Gerard Ellis (Australia) Raghu Ramakrishnan (USA)
Andrew Fall (Canada) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Germany)
Brian Gaines (Canada) James Schmolze (USA)
Jim Hendler (USA) Gert Smolka (Germany)
Fritz Lehmann (USA) Leon Sterling (USA)
Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy)

SYMPOSIUM LOCATION

The symposium will be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz
in a redwood forest in the Santa Cruz mountains. The university and
conference facilities are retreat style with housing available in
family-style apartments residing on the campus. The university is well
serviced by buses to downtown Santa Cruz. The campus, just 10 minutes
from the oceanside, overlooks Monterey Bay, the popular surfing
beaches, and you can watch the eagles soar from the Birds of Prey
sanctuary which forms part of the campus. Santa Cruz is approximately
a 90 minute bus ride from San Francisco Airport and about 45 minutes
from San Jose.

This CFP and the latest information regarding KRUSE can be found
in the World Wide Web under http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/KRUSE/

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 FOURTH MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY POSTGRADUATE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE

IN CASE IT HAS ESCAPED YOUR NOTICE, THE 4TH MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY
POSTGRADUATE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY 11TH MARCH
1995 AT MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY FROM 9.30 TO 5.30.
THIS IS A CONFERENCE FOR POSTGRADUATES BY POSTGRADUATES AND A GREAT
OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE NEW CONTACTS AND EXCHANGE IDEAS WITH OTHER POSTGRADUATE
LINGUISTICS STUDENTS FROM AROUND THE UK.

OUR GUEST SPEAKER WILL BE LILIANE HAEGEMAN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA,
WHO WILL BE TALKING ABOUT "THE NEW COMPARATIVE SYNTAX".

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR THOSE WANTING TO GIVE PAPERS
IS 10TH FEBRUARY AND THE DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS 24TH FEBRUARY.

PLEASE WRITE TO ME, JULIA BARRON, AT:
POSTGRADUATE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
OXFORD ROAD
MANCHESTER M13

FOR A REGISTRATION FORM OR PICK ONE UP FROM YOUR UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT.

LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON 11TH MARCH.

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 Kersti Bo"rjars
 k.e.borjarsman.ac.uk
 Department of Linguistics
 University of Manchester
 Manchester M13 0XS
 Tel: +44-(0)61-275 3042 UK
 Fax: +44-(0)61-275 3187