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AI IN "CRISIS"? <<CALL FOR PARTICIPATION>><<CALL FOR PARTICIPATION>><<CALL FOR PARTICIPATION>> <<CALL FOR PARTICIPATION>><<CALL FOR PARTICIPATION>><<CALL FOR PARTICIPATION>> LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Eighth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97) (http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97) WEDNESDAY 10th - SATURDAY 13th SEPTEMBER 1997 Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland IN TANDEM WITH IMVIP-97: Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP-97) (WEDNESDAY 10TH - SATURDAY 13th SEPTEMBER 1997) (http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/imvip97) FOLLOWING AI-97: "MIND-II: Computational Models of Creative Cognition" (MONDAY 15TH - WEDNESDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER 1997) (Dublin City University) (www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tonyv/mind.html) AI IN "CRISIS" ? Has the field been in `crisis'? --- some argue we've been in the wilderness with no breakthroughs for decades except minor shifts towards connectionism and neural networks, artificial life, data collection/corpora, and hybrid systems. Others say the move towards integration (e.g. Intelligent MultiMedia integrating language/vision), PersonKommunikation, mobile and remote computing, more and more engineering and a focus on the significance or otherwise of the self, mind and consciousness is emphasizing the successes of AI... Ireland hosts AI conferences usually annually since 1988. This eighth AI-97 conference will continue the tradition of emphasising presentations of Ireland's and International original research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science including Computer Science, Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Neuroscience and related disciplines on the obvious problems of speech, NLP, and vision processing, robotics, learning, reasoning, knowledge representation and mobile/remote computing. Papers which address whether or not the field has been in `crisis' and its failures/successes are particularly welcome! Ever since George Boolean Logic (Cork), James Joyce's advances on streams-of-consciousness (see Dennett's Joycean machine), Claude Shannon found Information Theory and John McCarthy made LISP and gave the field its name (Dartmouth, US, 1956) we have been into Artificial Intelligence. AI-97/IMVIP-97 PLENARY LIVE FEED It is intended that the main plenary sessions at AI/IMVIP go out on streaming video and audio, stored and live with the possibility of phone-in questions (Ted Leath, Magee College) AI-97 CONFIRMED INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS *** John McCarthy *** Department of Computer Science Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL JOHN MCCARTHY entitled this field "Artificial Intelligence" at Dartmouth, US in 1956. He works on the formalization of common sense knowledge and reasoning in mathematical logic. His contributions to this field include the situation calculus, the circumscription method of nonmonotonic reasoning and formalization of contexts. Much of the work is described in his "Formalizing Common Sense", Ablex 1990. He is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He has also worked in other areas of computer science and computer engineering, e.g. Lisp, time-sharing and program verification. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL *** Walther Von Hahn *** Department of Computer Science University of Hamburg, GERMANY, EU LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL WALTHER VON HAHN is the Father of Natural Language Processing in Germany and has supervised a number of important figures in the field. Dr. phil. (German linguistics) Univ. of Marburg 1969 1988 - Professor of Computer Science University of Hamburg. 1976 - 87 Professor of Linguistics Univ. of HH, Research fields: Natural Language, Discourse, Machine Translation, Artificial Intelligence. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL *** Naoyuki Okada *** Department of Computer Science Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, JAPAN LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL NAOYUKI OKADA is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan. His research interest is in the development of agents with integrated intelligence: language association with mind, symbol grounding in perception or motion, fusion of intellect and emotion, and integrated processing of MultiMedia. He has actively published unique papers in these areas. He was leader of the working group of systematizing science of knowledge subordinate to Science Council of Japan. Okada is trustee of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, member of the editorial board of Artificial Intelligence Review Journal and president of PACLING (Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics). LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL IMVIP-97 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS *** James Crowley *** Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) Grenoble, France, EU LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL JAMES L. CROWLEY holds the post of Professor at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France. He teaches courses in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, Robotics and Signal Processing at l'Ecole National Superieure d'Informatique et de Mathematiques Appliques (ENSIMAG). He is coordinator of the European Computer Vision Network (ECVnet), an EC "Network of Excellence" as well as the DG-XII Human Capital and Mobility network SMART whose subject is the development of techniques for a mobile autonomous surveillance robot. Professor Crowley served as the technical coordinator of project ESPRIT basic research project EP 7108, "Vision as Process" from 1989 to 1995. The VAP Project developed active vision heads, model architectures for real time continuously operating computer vision systems, and a theory of control of perception. In the area of mobile robotics, Professor Crowley has developed systems for world modeling and navigation using computer vision and ultrasonic range sensors. Versions of these systems are used commercially by Denning Mobile Robotics, and Helpmate Robotics. Professor Crowley has published two books, two special issues of journals, and over 100 articles on vision and mobile robotics. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL *** Anil Jain *** Department of Computer Science Michigan State University, US LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ANIL JAIN is a University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University, US. His research interests include statistical pattern recognition, Markov random fields, texture analysis, neural networks, fingerprint matching, document image analysis and 3D object recognition. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1991-94) and currently serves as an Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, Applied Intelligence and J. of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. He is the co-author of Algorithms for Clustering Data, Prentice-Hall, 1988, has edited the book Real-Time Object Measurement and Classification, Springer-Verlag, 1988, and co-edited the books, Analysis and Interpretation of Range Images, Springer-Verlag, 1989, Markov Random Fields, Academic Press, 1992, Artificial Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, 1993, and 3D Object Recognition, Elsevier, 1993. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1991 and received a Fulbright research fellowship in 1997. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL *** Jean-Christophe Olivo *** Cell Biophysics Programme European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany, EU LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL JEAN-CHRISTOPHE OLIVO is currently a staff research scientist in the Cell Biophysics Programme at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany where he is in charge of developing image processing methods for biological image analysis. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Optical Science and Signal Processing, and a Ph.D. degree in Optical Science, both from the Institut d'Optique Theorique et Appliquee, University of Paris-Orsay, France. He is a member of SPIE and IEEE. His research interests are in image processing and computer vision with special emphasis in automatic segmentation, multiresolution processing and movement. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL AI-97 CHAIRS Fionn Murtagh University of Ulster, Magee College, Northern Ireland Paul Mc Kevitt Aalborg University, Denmark & University of Sheffield, England Jon Campbell University of Ulster, Magee College, Northern Ireland LOCATION Faculty of Informatics University of Ulster, Magee College Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland HOSTED BY 2 Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland (AI) The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) and Faculty of Informatics University of Ulster, Magee College IN COOPERATION WITH British Computer Society (BCS) The Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) British Speech and Language Technology (SALT) Club British Council N/Irl Industrial Development Board (IDB) N/Irl Tourist Board International Fund for Ireland (IFI) The Cognitive Science Society of Ireland (CSSI) Irish Computer Society Higher Education Authority (HEA) Irish Research Scientists Association (IRSA) Royal Irish Academy Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) Irish Linguistics Institute (ILI) National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) Localisation Resources Centre National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC) FORF/AS Forbairt Industrial Development Authority (IDA) Irish Trade Board Shannon Development Bord Failte Eireann WEST Nua Telecom Eireann ESAT Digiphone The Irish Emigrant The IE Professional European Network in Language and Speech (ELSNET) European Language Observatory IntelliMedia 2000+ NOKIA ERICSSON AI-97 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland) W. Brian Arthur (Sante Fe Institute, US) Afzal Ballim (LITH, Lausanne, Switzerland) Bill Barry (University of Sarbruecken, Germany) David Bell (University of Ulster, Jordanstown) Lynne Bowker (Dublin City University) Mike Brady (INRIA, Sofia-Antipolis, France & Oxford University, England) Derek Bridge (University College Cork) Lynne Cahill (University of Sussex, England) John Campbell (University College London, England) Jon Campbell (University of Ulster, Magee College) John Carroll (University of Sussex, England) Arthur Cater (University College Dublin) William J. Clancey (IRL, Menlo Park, US) Norman Creaney (University of Ulster, Coleraine) Roddy Cowie (Queen's University Belfast) James Crowley (INPG, Grenoble, France) Ivo Duentsch (University of Ulster, Jordanstown) Jon Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US) Tim Finin (University of Maryland, US) James Flanagan (Rutgers University, US) Peter Fleming (University of Sheffield, England) Terry Fogarty (Napier University, Scotland) Eugene Gath (University of Limerick) Niall Graham (University of Alabama at Huntsville, US) Niall Griffith (University of Limerick) Patrick Hanks (Oxford University Press, England) Jerry Harper (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth) Pat Hayes (University of West Florida, US) Phil Hayes (Carnegie Group Inc. & Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US) Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, US) Matthew Hennessy (University of Sussex, England) Victor Johnson (New Mexico State University, US) John Kinsella (University of Limerick) John Hughes (University of Ulster, Jordanstown) Eoghan Mac Aogain (Irish Linguistics Institute, Dublin) Ronan MacLaverty (Nokia Research Centre, Finland) Mike Manthey (Aalborg University, Denmark) James Martin (University of Colorado, US) Mark Maybury (MITRE, Massachusetts, US) John McCarthy (Stanford University, US) John McDermid (University of York, England) Drew McDermott (Yale University, US) John McDermott (Ellora Software Inc., US) Jim McDonald (New Mexico State University, US) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, England) Peadar McKevitt (Global Information Partnership (GIP) Ltd., Dublin) Henry McLaughlin (University College Dublin) Barry McMullin (Dublin City University & Sante Fe Institute, US) Mike McTear (University of Ulster, Jordanstown) Melanie Mitchell (Sante Fe Institute, US) Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US) Alex Monaghan (Dublin City University) Noel Murphy (Dublin City University) Niall Murtagh (Mitsubishi Electric, Osaka, Japan) MURPHY (University of Sheffield, England) Paddy Nixon (Trinity College Dublin) Diarmuid O Donoghue (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth) Se/an /O Nuall/ain (Dublin City University) Sean O Scanlan (University College Dublin) Douglas O Shaughnessy (INRS-Telecom, University of Quebec, Canada) Tim O Shea (The Open University, England) J. Ross Quinlan (University of Sydney, Australia) Ronan Reilly (University College Dublin) Michael Ryan (Dublin City University) Ronan Scaife (Dublin City University) Murray Shanahan (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, England) Noel Sheehy (Queen's University Belfast) NNoel Sharkey (University of Sheffield, England) SINEAD (University of Sheffield, England) Jack Smith (Queen's University Belfast) Barry Smyth (University College Dublin) Humphrey Sorensen (University College Cork) Alistair Sutherland (Dublin City University) Richard Sutcliffe (University of Limerick) Eric Thiele (Aalborg University, Denmark) Josef Van Genabith (Dublin City University) Tony Veale (Dublin City University) David Vernon (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth) Andy Way (Dublin City University) Briony Williams (CSTR, University of Edinburgh, Scotland) Gerry Wrixon (NMRC & University College Cork) LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL __________________________________________________________________________ AI-97 PAPERS __________________________________________________________________________ WEDNESDAY, 10TH SEPTEMBER, 1997: IMVIP-97 vision tutorials + REGISTRATION ================================ THURSDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER, 1997 (9.00) - SATURDAY, 13th SEPTEMBER, 1997 ====================================================================== +REGISTRATION ORAL PRESENTATIONS: AI-97 Session 1: Natural Language Processing (Chair: Mike McTear) "On generating quantifiers" Norman Creaney Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland "Rationality, cooperation and conversational implicature" Mark Lee Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, England "A dialogue control algorithm for spoken dialogue systems based on an object-oriented architecture" Ian M. O Neill and Mike McTear School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland "A rapid prototyping approach to spoken dialogue system development: the directory assistance project" Kevin Greenan and Mike McTear Telecom Eireann, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland & School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland "Knowledge-based error diagnosis in CALL" Anja Kruger, Henrik Dittman and Maureen Murphy University of Osnabruck, Germany & School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland AI-97 Session 2: Data analysis (Chair: Ivo Duentsch) "From raw data to symbol processing" Darryl Charles Artificial Neural Network Group, Paisley University, Scotland "Non-invasive data analysis" Ivo Duentsch and Guenther Gediga School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland & FB Psychologie/Methodenlehre, University of Osnabrueck, Germany "Enhanced rough set analysis of the Pima Indian diabetes data" Ciaran Browne School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland AI-97 Session 3: Artificial Life and Neural Networks (Chair: Niall Griffith) "A new crossover operator for rapid function optimisation using a genetic algorithm" Bill Keller and Rudi Lutz School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, England "A framework for the evolution of autonomous agents" Adrian Trenaman Department of Computer Science National University of Ireland at Maynooth, Ireland "NeuroDraughts: the role of representation, search, training regime and architecture in a TD draughts player" Niall Griffith and Mark Lynch Department of Computer Science and Information Systems University of Limerick, Ireland "Efficient rule extraction from real-valued feedforward neural networks" Peter Howes and Nigel Crook School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England AI-97 Session 4: Psychology and Philosophy (Chair: Ronan Reilly) "Brocas area and the development of object assembly and language production skills" Ronan Reilly Department of Computer Science University College Dublin, Ireland "Reinventing behaviorism" Patrick Juola Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, England "The changing role of representation in AI" Steve Battle The Intelligent Computer Systems Centre, Computer Studies and Mathematics, University of the West of England, Bristol, England "Functional compositionality and a new view of knowledge representation" James A. Hammerton School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, England AI-97 Session 5: Knowledge representation (Chair: Jack Smith) "Representing relative temporal knowledge with TAND connective" Pathirage Gamini Wijayarathna Graduate School of Information Systems University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan "A category formation system based on an attribute typology: the ROCE system" Colette Faucher and Didier Borderie 1 DIAM-IUSPIM, Marseille, France "A tesseral approach to multi-dimensional reasoning" Frans Coenen, Michael Shave, Bernard (Diz) Diaz, Michael Shave, Trevor Bench-Capon and Bridget Beattie Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool, England "Representation of knowledge in a scientific problem solving system" S. Loughlin, M. Sullivan, F.J. Smith Department of Computer Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland "A frame semantics for an IntelliMedia TourGuide" Paul Mc Kevitt and Paul Dalsgaard Center for PersonKommunikation, Aalborg University, Denmark FRIDAY, 12th SEPTEMBER, 1997: ============================= POSTER PRESENTATIONS: "Off-line cursive script recognition system for languages with diacritic symbols" Hariton Costin, Adrian Ciobanu and Amalia Todirascu Institute for Theoretical Informatics Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Romania "Clustering integration through examples" Teresa Cristina Goncalves and Fernando Moura-Pires Departamento de Informatica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal "Advantage of hybrid reasoning strategies in legal decision-support systems" Kamalendu Pal and John A Campbell Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, England "Methdology and monolingual requirements for the acquisition of transfer functions" Sean Barry Redmond, Norman Creaney & Ray J Hickey Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland "Using patterns in state spaces of complex problems to hypothesise solution behaviour" Paul Rogers and Martin Lefley Department of Design Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, England "Turing test and intelligence with trick" Sun Zhaohao and Klaus Weber Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften, TU Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ________________________________________________________________________ GENERAL INFORMATION __________________________________________________________________________ CONTACT ADDRESSES: AI-97 CONFERENCE CHAIR Fionn Murtagh Faculty of Informatics University of Ulster, Magee College Derry/Londonderry BT48 7JL NORTHERN IRELAND Email: fd.murtaghMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue