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12 May 86 Gideon Sahar <gideon%edai.edinburgh.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Seminar - Searching Transformed State Spaces (Edinburgh)
Date: Wednesday 14th May l986
Time: 2.00 p.m.
Place: Department of Artificial Intelligence,
Seminar Room F10,
80 South Bridge,
EDINBURGH.
Dr. S. Steel, Department of Computer Science, University of Essex will
give a seminar entitled - "On Trying to do Dependency-Directed
Backtracking by Searching Transformed State Spaces".
Any search involves choices. Bad choices can cause disaster. DDBT is
an attempt to undo only those choices which caused the disaster. One
approach is to transform the seach space of the original problem into
a space with different states and operators that is easier to search.
I shall show the merits and failings of various spaces. At the moment
of writing I have no perfect method.
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13 May 86 Amy Lansky <LANSKY@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Seminar - Automatic Design of Graphical Presentations (SRI)
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Seminar - Knowledge, Communication, and Time (SRI)
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$[H$[J13 May 86 Ken Wauchope <wauchope@nrl-aic>
Seminar Series - NCARAI Call for Speakers
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$[H$[J12 May 86 Jack Minker <minker@mimsy.umd.edu>
Conference - Foundations of Deductive Databases and Logic Programming
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13 May 86 CHEESEMAN%PLU@ames-io.ARPA, Conference - Uncertainty in AI Workshop
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Second Workshop on: "Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence"
Philadelphia, PA. August 8-10, 1986 (preceeding AAAI conf.)
Sponsored by: AAAI and RCA
This workshop is a follow-up to the successful workshop in L.A.,
August 1985. Its subject is reasoning under uncertainty and
representing uncertain information. The emphasis this year is on
applications, although papers on theory are also welcome. The
workshop provides an opportunity for those interested in uncertainty
in AI to present their ideas and participate in the discussions. Also
panel discussions will provide a lively cross-section of views.
Papers are invited on the following topics:
*Applications--Descriptions of novel approaches; interesting results;
important implementation difficulties; experimental comparison of
alternatives etc.
*Comparison and Evaluation of different uncertainty formalisms.
*Induction (Theory discovery) under uncertainty.
*Alternative uncertainty approaches.
*Relationship between uncertainty and logic.
*Uncertainty about uncertainty (Higher order approaches).
*Other uncertainty in AI issues.
Preference will be given to papers that have demonstrated their approach
in real applications. Some papers may be accepted for publication but not
presentation (except at a poster session).
Four copies of the paper (or an extended abstract) should be sent to the
arrangements chairman before 23rd. May 1986. Acceptances will be sent by the
20th. June and final (camera ready) papers must be received by 11th. July.
Proceedings will be available at the workshop.
General Chair: Program Chair: Arrangements Chair:
John Lemmer Peter Cheeseman Lawrence Carnuccio
KSC Inc. NASA-Ames Research Center RCA-Adv. Tech. Labs.
255 N. Washington St. Mail Stop 244-7 Mooretown Corp. Cntr.
Rome, NY 13440 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Route 38, Mooretown,
(315)336-0500 (415)694-6526 NJ 08057
(609)866-6428
Program Committee:
P. Cheeseman, J. Lemmer, T. Levitt, J. Pearl, M. Yousry, L. Zadeh.
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13 May 86 AAAI <AAAI-OFFICE@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>, Conference - AAAI-86
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13 May 86 AAAI <AAAI-OFFICE@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>, Conference - AAAI-86
The AAAI Annual Conference, schedule for August 11-15, 1986, will be
held in Philadelphia, PA. With the introduction of sessions devoted
to engineering practice, this year's Technical Program has accepted 67
papers for presentation in the engineering track and 119 papers in the
science track with over 15 panels and invited talks scattered
throughout the week. Examples of the invited talks include
"Connectionism" by G. Hinton, "Survey of Natural Language Processing"
by B. Grosz, and "What's Doable when Building an Expert System?" by B.
Buchanan. The Science Sessions, which were originally scheduled
for the Wyndam Franklin Plaza Hotel, have been moved to the
Philadelphia Civic Center; however, the dates of the Science Sessions
remain the same - August 11 and 12. The Engineering Sessions remain
at the Philadelphia Civic Center on August 14 and 15.
This year's tutorial program has 23 tutorials which include
advanced topics such as qualitative reasoning and uncertainty
management. The Tutorials also have been moved to the Wyndam Franklin
Plaza and still scheduled for August 11, 12 and 14.
The Exhibit Program has increased in size to include approximately 100
software and hardware vendors and publishers. This year the AAAI has
set a precedence by offering complimentary booth space to academic and
non-profit institutions to demonstrate their different AI research
projects to the conference attendees. Examples of the universities
and labs participating include MIT, Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Queen's
University, SRI International, UCLA, and Cornell University. Eleven
major suppliers and manufacturers have agreed to provide these
universities and others with complimentary machines, technicians,
special crating, etc.
Costs for attending the conference are:
Early Registration (deadline June 13)
AAAI Member Non-Member
Regular $150 Regular $180
Student $ 75 Student $90
Late Registration (deadline July 11)
AAAI Member Non-Member
Regular $180 Regular $225
Student $ 90 Student $125
AAAI-86 Conference brochure, containing information on the program,
registration, housing, transportation, and social occasions can
be obtained by contacting:
AAAI-86
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496
415-328-3123 or 321-1118
AAAI-Office@sumex-aim.arpa
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