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Today's Topics:

 Circle detection
 Info on color frame grabber for the SGI indigo XS24
 Job Opening
 Fourth International Conference on Visual Search
 RE: Call for Papers, Digital Photogrammetry and Computer Vision
 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC SYSTEMS '94
 CFP: Document Analysis Systems
 Second International Workshop on Digital Mammography
 2nd CFP: 4th Int.Conf.on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

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Date: 14 Oct 1993 18:26:34 GMT
From: makrisna@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Krishna AchutaRao)
Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Subject: Circle detection

hello everybody :

  i am working on a problem that requires detection of circular or near
circular features.  i have the original grey scale image as well as the
edge map (obtained by a modified canny detector).  i was trying to use the
hough transform to compute the location of the center and the radius of
this feature.  i was also using a threshold to detect the absence of this
feature in my image.  the results that i got were not very good.  i
attribute it to the noise in the image as well as only parts of the circle
being visible.  i have an iterative technique that does as well as the
hough transform using some knowledge about the image.  it appears to be
an ideal problem for a neural net.  my question is has anybody tried 
anything like this yet?  if so i will appreciate some references to these
works.

  i do not have access to e-mail but responses can be sent to my friend's
account :

    makrisna@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu

any help with this will be greatly appreciated.

+ Krishna Achuta Rao, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engg., Tulane University  +
+That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists    +
+trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.  -Calvin & Hobbes         +

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 09:30:47 EDT
From: Shoupu Chen <chen@asel.udel.edu>
Subject: Info on color frame grabber for the SGI indigo XS24

Hi, we are looking for a color frame grabber for the Silicon Graphics Indigo
XS24 machine. We would appreciate any information that any one might have.
Please email to
chen@asel.udel.edu

Thanks in advance.

Shoupu

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 12:53:10 -0400
From: James Davis  <jdavis@cs.ucf.edu>
Subject: Job Opening

 Center for Research in Electro Optics and Lasers(CREOL), an
interdisciplinary center at the University of Central Florida (UCF),
Orlando invites applications for an appointment at the Assistant
Professor level in Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Image
Understanding areas.  The successful candidate is expected to
establish and lead an active research group in the image understanding
area.  Salary is very competitive and commensurate with qualifications
and experience.

Please contact: 

Professor Eric W. Van Stryland
CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida
12424 Research Parkway
Orlando, FL 32826

 phone #  407-658-6814   FAX 407-658-6880
email: EWVS.admin@admin.creol.ucf.edu 

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 10:04:03 +0100
From: Alastair Gale <vchi540@derbyshire.ac.uk>
Subject: Fourth International Conference on Visual Search

THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VISUAL SEARCH
                                     
KONINGSHOF, EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS, 
29 AUGUST - 1 SEPTEMBER 1994
                 
BACKGROUND

The term 'Visual Search' has been used to cover a range of activities
from human cognitive phenomena to applied problems, for man and
machine, in industrial, medical and military environments.  Since the
opportunities for academic discussion of visual search are generally
restricted to a narrow range of disciplines, workers in a particular
area can be unaware of recent developments in related fields.

The conference is organised by the Applied Vision Association in
conjunction with the Ergonomics Society and the British Machine Vision
Association.

VENUE

The conference will take place at the Koningshof Conference Centre,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands and will be followed by the European
Conference on Visual Perception at the same venue.

SESSIONS
Conference sessions will include (but not be limited to) the following:-

Attention and Segmentation; Eye Movements; Computer Vision; Search
Modelling; Applied Aspects of Search; Feature Discrimination; Visual
Processing; Human Information Processing; Human and Machine Visual
Search Applications; Human Visual Scanning; Biologically Plausible
Machine Vision; Machine Vision Techniques; Serial and Parallel
Processing; Applied Aspects of Visual Search

There will also be a workshop.  The conference proceedings will be
published.  Previous conferences in the series have been published by
Taylor & Francis.

ABSTRACTS

To submit an abstract (250 words maximum, indicating whether oral or
poster presentation preferred), and/or be placed on the mailing list
write to the Conference Secretariat at the address given below.

DEADLINE

The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is 5 February 1994 and for
submission of full manuscripts is 8th July 1994.

MAILING ADDRESS
All correspondence and enquiries about the conference should be addressed to:
ICVS4
Conference Secretariat
Applied Vision Research Unit
University of Derby
Mickleover
Derby  DE3 5GX
UK
Tel: 44(0)332-622286
Fax: 44(0)332-622287
Email: avru@uk.ac.derby

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 11:45:43 +0100
From: chris@photo.verm.tu-muenchen.de (C. Heipke            )
Subject: RE: Call for Papers, Digital Photogrammetry and Computer Vision

    International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
                          COMMISSION III SYMPOSIUM
 
 F I R S T   A N N O U N C E M E N T   A N D   C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

  Spatial Information from   DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY  and   COMPUTER VISION

                 September 5 -  9, 1994, Munich, Germany


INVITATION

You are cordially invited to attend the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Commission III Symposium.
It will be held September 5 - 9, 1994 at the Technical University Munich, Germany.


TOPICS ADDRESSED DURING THE SYMPOSIUM

The symposium will include oral and poster presentations on spatial information from digital photogrammetry and computer vision. The actual topics addressed during the symposium are reflected in the terms of reference of the indivudual working groups of ISPRS Commission III:

WG III/1 : Integrated Sensor Orientation
Chairmen: Ismael Colomina (Spain), James R. Lucas (USA)
Terms of reference:
 - Aerial triangulation with GPS aerial control
 - Aerial and space triangulation with surface and line information
 - Position determination of airborne line and range sensors by
   kinematic GPS
 - Attitude determination of airborne line and range sensors
 - Total system calibration
 - Combined/generalized block adjustment

WG III/2 : Geometric-Radiometric Models and Object Reconstruction
Chairmen: Kennert Torlegard (Sweden), Wolfgang Foerstner (Germany)
Terms of reference:
 - Geometric and radiometric image formation
 - Reconstruction of image orientation, object points, lines and
   surfaces
 - Perceptual grouping
 - Geometric reasoning
 - Image transformation 
 - Image and surface segmentation

WG III/3 : Semantic Models and Object Recognition
Chairmen: Toni Schenk (USA), Dieter Fritsch (Germany)
Terms of reference:
 - Object recognition: model-based methods and context-based
   methods
 - Knowledge encapsulation, representation and manipulation
 - Hypotheses generation and verification
 - Data structures, interaction with GIS
 - computational modelling

WG III/4  : Tutorials on Theory and Algorithms
Chairmen: Fabio Crosilla (Italy), Gabor Melykuti (Hungary)
Terms of reference:
 - Development of GPS/INS and its integration into photogrammetry
 - Review of low and medium level photogrammetric image analysis
   and processing for object reconstruction
 - Basic knowledge in image understanding
 - Hardware and software aspects of digital photogrammetric systems
 - Basic knowledge of geo-information technology

Intercommission WG III/IV: Conceptual Aspects of GIS
Chairmen: Martien Molenaar (The Netherlands), Ryosuke Shibasaki (Japan)
Terms of reference:
 - Object/space modeling for GIS
 - Integration of data from multi-sources
 - Query spaces and analysis of geo-objects and geo-space
 - Linking aggregation levels
 - Handling uncertainty

Intercommission WG II/III : Digital Photogrammetric Systems
Chairmen: Ian Dowman (United Kingdom), David McKeown (USA)
Terms of reference:
 - Digital photogrammetric workstation design
 - Visualization techniques 
 - Multimedia techniques 
 - Automated cartographic compilation systems 
 - Integration of photogrammetric techniques and models into
   computer vision systems 
 - Integration with input and visualization devices 
 - Human-computer interface issues 
 - Integration with spatial data bases 

Intercommission WG V/III : Image Sequence Analysis
Chairmen:  Emmanuel Baltsavias (Switzerland), Harlyn H. Baker (USA)
Terms of reference:
 - Sensors
 - Construction and representation of local maps
 - Fusion of local into global maps
 - Navigation
 - Motion planning
 - Strategy aspects
 - Image sequence analysis systems
 - Fusion of multi-sensory information
 - Error modelling and propagation of uncertainty
 - Use of a priori knowledge from spatial information systems


SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Extended abstracts (500 - 1000 words) are requested and will be
reviewed by the Working Group Chairmen. Please indicate the Working
Group number to which your paper belongs and send your abstract to

Prof. H. Ebner, President of ISPRS Comm. III
Chair for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing
Technical University Munich
Arcisstr. 21
D-80290 Munich
Germany
Phone  ++49-89-21052671
Fax    ++49-89-2809573

by                      J A N U A R Y  3 1,  1 9 9 4

Authors will be notified of the paper acceptance and type of
presentation (oral or poster) by March 31, 1994. It is requested that
accepted papers will be presented during the symposium. A preliminary
program including the registration form will be mailed in April 1994.
Camera ready manuscripts are requested by

                        M A Y 3 1,  1 9 9 4.

The papers will be published in the International Archives of
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 30, Part 3 and in the SPIE
proceedings series. For nonattendees copies will be available from the
organisers (address see above) and from SPIE - The International
Society for Optical Engineering, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, Washington,
98227-0010, USA.


SYMPOSIUM SITE

The Symposium will be held at the Technical University Munich, a 125
years old academic centre of excellence in the South of Germany. The
University is conviniently located in the city centre.  Munich is a
city of fascinating experiences. Historic buildings of every period,
grand boulevards and squares, bear imposing witness to a culture
centuries old. Art, in the museum and outside, lueres millions of
visitors to the city year for year.  Unique are Munich's beer gardens.
Both, locals and guests are enjoying this special way of come together
during the warm evenings in summer time.

Munich is surrounded by some most splendid landscape including the
Bavarian Alps and a number of pleasant lakes. Also, the famous castles
of King Ludwig II are within easy reach from the city.


ISPRS COMMISSION III OFFICERS DURING 1992-1996
President:   Heinrich Ebner (Germany)
Secretaries: Christian Heipke (Germany)
             Konrad Eder (Germany)

We are looking forward to seeing you in Munich in September '94
Yours sincerely

(H. Ebner, C. Heipke, K. Eder)

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 16:56:44 BST
From: rbf@aifh.ed.ac.uk
Subject: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC SYSTEMS '94

                          FIRST  ANNOUNCEMENT

                        INTERNATIONAL  WORKSHOP
                                   on
                               INTELLIGENT
                                 ROBOTIC
                               SYSTEMS '94

                 Grenoble,  France,  11-15  July  1994

                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS


This workshop is organized by :

LIFIA                  Laboratory of Fundamental Informatics
                       and Artificial Intelligence, Institute of
                       Informatics and Applied Mathematics of
                       Grenoble, Grenoble, France

IPPT-PAN               Institute of Fundamental Technological
                       Research, Polish Academy of Sciences,
                       Warsaw, Poland


THEME  AND  TOPICS

The theme for this year workshop will be combining perception and
action. The workshop will combine invited lectures by established
researchers with original presentations by junior scientists about
research in progress. Topics included  :


      o   Learning and Control;

      o   Neural Network and Fuzzy Techniques for Control;

      o   Active and Real Time Computer Vision;

      o   Integration and Control of Perception and Action;

      o   Planning and Plan Execution for Perception and Action;



ORGANISERS

General Chairman      James L.Crowley, LIFIA IMAG, France,
                      46 av.  Felix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble Cedex,
                      Tel.:(33) 76574655 Fax:(33) 76574602,
                      E-mail:  Jim.Crowley@imag.fr

Chairman              Adam Borkowski, IPPT PAN, Poland,
of the Programme      21 Swietokrzyska Str., 00-049 Warsaw,
Committee             Tel.  : (48-22) 261281 ext 250
                      Fax   : (48-22) 269815,
                      E-mail:  abork@ippt.gov.pl

Co-Chairman           Artur Dubrawski, IPPT PAN, Poland,
of  the  Programme    21 Swietokrzyska Str., 00-049 Warsaw,
Committee             Tel.  : (48-22) 261281 ext 250
                      Fax   : (48-22) 269815,
                      E-mail:  adubr@ippt.gov.pl

Secretary             Patrick Reignier, LIFIA - IMAG, France,
                      46 av.  F'elix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble Cedex,
                      Tel.:(33) 76574609 Fax:(33) 76574602,
                      E-mail:  Patrick.Reignier@imag.fr

                      Olivier Causse, Lab.  of Image Analysis, DK,
                      Fr.  Bajers Vej 7 D, DK-9220 Aalborg
                      Tel.:(45) 98158522-4940 Fax:(45) 98154008,
                      E-mail:  causse@vision.auc.dk


The event is organised in cooperation with the CEC Human Capital and
Mobility Network SMART and the Committee for Automatics and Robotics
of the Polish Academy of Sciences.


LOCATION

The event will take place at Grenoble, in the heart of the French
Alps. Grenoble has many convenient railway and bus connections from
all over France. International flights to Paris or Lyon would be
suitable.


PROGRAMME  COMMITTEE

A. Borkowski  (Programme Chairman)                            IPPT PAN, Poland
H. Christensen                        Institute of Electronic Systems, Denmark
P. Cosoli                                  Tecnopolis CSata Novus Ortus, Italy
J. Crowley    (General Chairman)                           LIFIA, IMAG, France
P. Dario                                                       ARTS Lab, Italy
K. Dawson                                             Trinity College, Ireland
A. Dubrawski  (Programme Co-Chairman)                         IPPT PAN, Poland
F. Ferrari                                                    AITEK Srl, Italy
R. Fisher                                    University of Edinburgh, Scotland
J. Goncalves                                  CEC Joint Research Center, Italy
E. Grant                                            Turing Institute, Scotland
E. Granum                             Institute of Electronic Systems, Denmark
V. Hlavac                           Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
D. Hogg                                           University of Leeds, England
A. Kasinski                             Technical University of Poznan, Poland
A. Lux                                                     LIFIA, IMAG, France
G. Sandini                                         Universita di Genova, Italy
J. Sentiero                         Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Portugal
T. Skordas                                                        ITMI, France
F. Solina                                    University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
G. Sullivan                                     University of Reading, England
A. Wozniak                              Technical University of Poznan, Poland


LANGUAGE

The conference language will be English


SUBMISSION

Persons wishing to submit a paper should send an extended abstract of
approximately four pages to the programme chairman (Professor A.
Borkowski, address before)


TIMETABLE

- Extended abstracts must be received by the programme chairman by
  January 15 1994.
- Notification of acceptance will be sent before February  28  1994.
- Full papers (8 pages) must be received before April 30 1994

All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the
Workshop. Detailed information regarding programme, conference fee,
accomodation will be given in the second annoucement issued
in January 1994.


                                       IRS  '94

                              PRELIMINARY  REGISTRATION
                                        FORM


 o      I  intend  to  give  a  lecture
 o      I  intend  to  submit  a  paper
 o      I  intend  to  present  an  on-going  research  results
 o      I  intend  to  participate  in  the  IRS  '94
 o      Please  send  me  further  information,

        in  particular : ...............................................

        ................................................................


Subject  of  the  lecture  /  presentation  /  paper  :

Name :
            (last)           (first)            (Prof.//Dr.//other)
Affiliation : 
Postal address :
Tel :					Fax :
E-mail : 

Please complete this form and return it at your earliest convenience to :

        Patrick Reignier
        Secretary of IRS 94
        LIFIA - INPG
        46 Avenue Felix Viallet
        38031 Grenoble Cedex
        France

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Date: 	Thu, 14 Oct 1993 08:37:08 PDT
From: Larry Spitz <spitz@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: CFP: Document Analysis Systems

                            CALL FOR PAPERS
        International Association for Pattern Recognition Workshop on
                        Document Analysis Systems
                         Kaiserslautern, Germany
                            October 18-20, 1994
 
An intensive, three-day, single-track, 100%-participation workshop on
research and development of systems for the analysis of document images.
 
This workshop will take place during the week following the 12th
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (Jerusalem, Israel, October
9-13, 1994). Academic and industrial researchers, as well as end-users, are
encouraged to attend, and we hope to attract students as well as principal
investigators. We hope to supply scholarships for students.
 
Attendance will be limited to 75 people. Papers will be delivered in a
single-track format. Approximately half of the workshop will be devoted to
panel discussions and working groups. Participants are invited to propose
topics for these in advance. There will be ample opportunity for informal
discussion and socializing.
 
                            Sponsors
IAPR Technical Committee on Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition (TC-2)
IAPR Technical Committee on Text Processing (TC-11)
IAPR Technical Committee on Graphics Understanding (TC-10)
Daimler Benz
 
                            Topics
 - descriptions of complete document image analysis systems
 - applications to text, graphics, maps, logic diagrams, music, etc.
 - studies of systems architecture
 - methods for performance evaluation
 - interfaces to knowledge databases and post-processors
        If time permits, related topics will be considered, such as:
 - algorithms for symbol recognition
 - layout segmentation
 
                        Submission of Papers
Authors are invited to submit either a full paper or an abstract of remarks.
Full papers, of up to book-chapter length, will be presented formally,
published in a limited number of refereed Proceedings available at the
meeting, and considered for archival publication in a post-workshop book.
 
Abstracts of remarks, one page in length, will be delivered more briefly, and
will not be published in the Proceedings unless requested.  Authors should
submit four copies of each paper or abstract, cleanly typed and in English.
If there are several authors, please indicate which author will handle all
correspondence.
 
Acceptance of a paper will result in the automatic distribution of
registration materials.
 
Send full papers or abstract submissions or inquiries or suggestions about
the technical program to:
        Larry Spitz
        Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory
        3400 Hillview Avenue
        Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
        TEL: +1(415)813-7767
        FAX: +1(415)813-7081
        EMAIL: spitz@pal.xerox.com
 
                        Workshop Organization
 
Chairs
Andreas Dengel          DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Larry Spitz             Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory, CA, USA
 
Program Committee
Henry Baird             AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Horst Bunke             University of Bern, Switzerland
Richard Casey           IBM Almaden, San Jose, CA, USA
Jonathan Hull           CEDAR, University at Buffalo, NY, USA
Sebastiano Impedovo     University of Bari, Italy
Hiromichi Fujisawa      Hitachi Ltd., Yokohama, Japan
Junichi Kanai           ISRI, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Rejean Plamondon        Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Juergen Schuermann      Daimler Benz, Ulm, Germany
Karl Tombre             INRIA & CRIN/CNRS, Nancy, France
Shuichi Tsujimoto       Toshiba R&D, Kawasaki, Japan
Patrick Wang            Northeastern University, MA, USA
Kazuhiko Yamamoto       ETL, Tsukuba, Japan
 
                            Important Dates
April 1, 1994           Submission of full papers
June 15, 1994           Acceptance of full papers
July 1, 1994            Submission of abstracts
August 1, 1994          Acceptance of abstracts
August 15, 1994         Camera-ready copy
September 1, 1994       Registration payment and hotel reservation
 
                        Workshop Information
Information about the workshop will be available by file transfer
protocol, ftp:
        ftp serv-200.dfki.uni-kl.de
        or
        ftp 131.246.241.100
 
        UserID: anonymous
        Password: <your mail address>
        cd das94
        get <...> fetching files
Other inquiries about local arrangements, registration and scholarships
should be directed to:
        Andreas Dengel
        German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
        P.O. Box 2080
        67608 Kaiserslautern
        Germany
        TEL: +49(631)205-3215/16
        FAX: +49(631)205-3210
        EMAIL: DAS94@dfki.uni-kl.de

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 10:07:44 +0100
From: Alastair Gale <vchi540@derbyshire.ac.uk>
Subject: Second International Workshop on Digital Mammography

SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Royal York Hotel, York, UK
10-12th July 1994
                                     
BACKGROUND

Following the success of the first International Workshop on Digital
Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Techniques in Mammography,
which was held in San Jose, USA in February 1993, we are pleased to
announce the Second International Workshop to be held in York, UK from
10-12th July 1994.  This workshop is organised by the Mammographic
Image Analysis Society in conjunction with the British Machine Vision
Association and the Applied Vision Association.  This meeting will
precede a major conference on mammography, Symposium Mammographicum,
also to be held in York.

PURPOSE

The workshop will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion
of recent research on all aspects of digital mammography, from image
acquistion to image interpretation and data management.  It is hoped
that representatives of all research groups actively working in this
area of world-wide interest will attend the meeting.

VENUE

The workshop will be held in the Royal York Hotel which is centrally
located within the historic city of York.  The hotel, built in 1878,
is set in private gardens near the spectacular York Minster. All
accomodation is en-suite and the hotel is well equipped with leisure
and fitness facilities.

PROGRAMME

The workshop will begin on the evening of Sunday 10th July with an
introductory presentation by a leading breast radiologist.
Presentations of scientific papers will take place on Monday and
Tuesday 11th and 12th July.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts (1000 word limit) are invited for presentation at the
workshop.  The content of the abstract should include a clear
statement of the purpose of the work, a description of the methods
employed, a discussion of preliminary results and comment on the
expected content of the full paper.

CLOSING DATE

The closing date for receipt of abstracts is 11 January 1994 and these
should be sent, faxed or emailed to the address below.  If you fax or
email an abstract, please also mail us the original.  Acceptance
letters will be mailed on Tuesday 1 February 1994.

PROCEEDINGS

The conference proceedings will be published and authors whose work is
accepted will be asked to submit a camera-ready copy chapter by Friday
29 April 1994.

For further information please contact:

SIWDM 
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Applied Vision Research Unit
University of Derby
Mickleover
Derby DE3 5GX
UK
Tel/Fax:  44+(0)332-622287
Email:  avru@uk.ac.derby

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 22:21:10 GMT
From: werner@ai.univie.ac.at (Werner Horn)
Organization: Austrian Research Insitute for AI, Vienna
Subject: 2nd CFP: 4th Int.Conf.on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

                     KR'94 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 

                  FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
                            PRINCIPLES OF
                KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING
                                   
              Gustav Stresemann Institut, Bonn, Germany
                           May 24-27, 1994
               with support from GI, ECCAI, and CSCSI
                in cooperation with AAAI and IJCAII

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 8, 1993


Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by inference
algorithms provide an important foundation for much work in Artificial
Intelligence, from natural language to expert systems, and a growing
number of researchers study the principles governing systems based on
such representations and reasoning.  The KR conferences bring together
these researchers in a more intimate setting than that of general AI
conferences, and provide authors with the opportunity to give
presentations of adequate length to present substantial results.
This year's conference will take place in Europe for the first time.

The conference emphasizes both the theoretical principles of knowledge
representation and reasoning and the relationships between these
principles and their embodiments in working systems.  Authors are
encouraged to relate their work to at least one of the following
questions:

(1) What issues arise in representing and using knowledge about real
    problems, and how can they be addressed?
(2) What are the theoretical principles in knowledge representation
    and reasoning?
(3) How can these principles be embodied in implemented knowledge
    representation systems, and what practical tradeoffs arise?
(4) How do these approaches to problems relate to corresponding
    approaches in other parts of AI (natural language, robotics, etc.)
    or in other fields (psychology, philosophy, logic, economics,
    cognitive science, computer science, management, engineering, etc.)  

Submissions are encouraged in (but are not limited to) the following
topic areas:

REPRESENTATIONAL FORMALISMS            REASONING METHODS AND TASKS
 - logics of knowledge and belief       - deduction
 - nonmonotonic logics                  - abduction
 - temporal logics                      - induction
 - spatial logics                       - deliberation and decision analysis
 - taxonomic logics                     - planning and plan analysis 
 - logics of uncertainty                - learning
   and evidence                         - diagnosis
 - logics of preference and utility     - classification
 - logics of intentions and actions     - inheritance  
 - deontic logics                       - belief management and revision
                                        - constraint solving
                                        - analogical reasoning
                                        - reasoning about reasoning
 
 GENERIC ONTOLOGIES FOR DESCRIBING      ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTED KR&R SYSTEMS
 - time                                 - comparative evaluation 
 - space                                - empirical results 
 - causality                            - benchmarking and testing 
 - resources                            - reasoning architectures 
 - constraints                          - efficiency/completeness tradeoffs
 - decisions                            - complexity
 - activities                           - algorithms
 - mental states                        - embedded systems
 - multi-agent organizations            - knowledge sharing and reuse
 - applications classes, e.g. medicine  - standards
 
                         SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

The Program Committee will review EXTENDED ABSTRACTS rather than
complete papers.  Abstracts must be at most twelve (12) pages with a
maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line
(corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt), excluding the title
page and the bibliography.  Overlength submissions will be rejected
without review.  All abstracts must be submitted on 8 1/2" x 11" or A4
paper, and printed or typed in 12-point font (10 characters/inch on a
typewriter).  Dot matrix printout, FAX, or electronic submission will
not be accepted.  Each submission should include the names and
complete addresses (including email, when possible) of all authors.
Correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise
indicated.  Also, authors should indicate under the title which of the
questions and/or topic areas listed above best describes their paper
(if none is appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best
describe the topic of the paper).  To be considered, five (5) paper
copies of the extended abstract must be received by one of the program
co-chairs no later than November 8, 1993 (or must have been sent by
express courier no later than November 5).  Authors are also STRONGLY
encouraged (it is to their advantage) to submit an electronic abstract
in the form described below.  Electronic abstracts that accurately
reflect the contents of the papers will significantly aid the
reviewing process by helping direct the papers to the most appropriate
reviewers.

                         MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS

Submitted papers must be unpublished and substantively different from
papers currently under review.  Papers may be submitted after January
1, 1994 to other conferences as long as (a) the prior submission to
KR'94 is noted on those submissions and (b) the paper is withdrawn
from the later conference if accepted by KR'94.

                         ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT

In addition to submitting the paper copies of the extended abstract,
authors should (if possible) send a short (200 word) electronic
abstract of their paper to KR94-abstracts@medg.lcs.mit.edu to aid in
the reviewing process.  In order to make use of software for
classifying papers and selecting reviewers, most of the electronic
abstract must be in plain ASCII text (no LaTeX or other formatting
commands) in the following format, separating each field from the next
with a blank line.

TITLE: <title of paper>
FIRST AUTHOR: <last name, first name>
FIRST ADDRESS: <first author address or affiliation>
COAUTHORS: <their names, if any>
OTHER ADDRESSES: <addresses or affiliations of coauthors>
CONTENT AREAS: <at most three content areas, separated by commas>
KEYWORDS: <keywords, separated by commas>
ABSTRACT: <text of the abstract>

The content areas preferably should be drawn from the topics listed
above, with other areas added only if necessary.  The keywords are to
aid the human reviewers only and may be chosen as desired.  The text
of the abstract field may include formatting commands, if desired, but
these should be omitted from all other fields.  A blank form for
electronic abstracts and an example abstract may be found at the end
of this Call.

                           REVIEW OF PAPERS

Submissions will be judged on clarity, significance, and originality.
An important criterion for acceptance is that the paper clearly
contributes to principles of representation and reasoning that are
likely to influence current and future AI practice.  Extended
abstracts should contain enough information to enable the Program
Committee to identify and evaluate the principal contribution of the
research and its importance.  It should also be clear from the
extended abstract how the work compares to related work in the field.

                             NOTIFICATION

Authors will be notified of the Program Committee's decision by
January 24, 1994.  Notification will be made by electronic mail
whenever possible.

                             FINAL PAPERS

Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit substantially
longer full papers for the conference proceedings.  Final camera-ready
copies of the full papers will be due February 28, 1994.  Final papers
will be allowed at most twelve (12) double-column pages in the
conference proceedings (corresponding to approximately 28
article-style LaTeX pages; a style file will be provided by the
publisher).

                          PLANNING TO ATTEND

People planning to attend the conference are asked to send a note
stating their intention as early as possible to the local conference
organizer, Ms. Christine Harms (Christine.Harms@gmd.de), in order to
help estimate the facilities needed for the conference.  (Postal
address: Christine Harms, c/o GMD, Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53757 Sankt
Augustin 1, Germany.  Phone: +49-2241-14-2473, Fax: +49-2241-14-2472.)

                           CONFERENCE CHAIR

                Erik Sandewall
                Department of Computer and Information Science
                Linkoeping University
                S-58183 Linkoeping
                SWEDEN
                Voice: +46 1328 1408
                Fax:   +46 1328 2606
                Email: ejs@ida.liu.se

                           PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

    Jon Doyle                           Piero Torasso
    MIT                                 Universita' di Torino
    Laboratory for Computer Science     Dipartimento di Informatica
    545 Technology Square               Corso Svizzera 185
    Cambridge, MA 02139                 I-10149 Torino
    USA                                 ITALY
    Voice: +1 (617) 253-3512            Voice: +39 11 7429209
    Fax:   +1 (617) 258-8682            Fax:   +39 11 751603
    Email: doyle@lcs.mit.edu            Email: torasso@di.unito.it

                       LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR

                Gerhard Lakemeyer
                Institute of Computer Science III
                University of Bonn
                Roemerstrasse 164
                D-53117 Bonn 1
                GERMANY
                Voice: +49-228-550-281
                Fax:   +49-228-550-382
                Email: gerhard@cs.uni-bonn.de

                           PUBLICITY CHAIR

        Werner Horn
        Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
        Schottengasse 3
        A-1010 Vienna
        AUSTRIA
        Voice: +43 1 53532810
        Fax:   +43 1 5320652
        Email: werner@ai.univie.ac.at

                          PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Giuseppe Attardi (U. Pisa, Italy),
Franz Baader (DFKI, Germany),
Fahiem Bacchus (U. Waterloo, Canada),
Philippe Besnard (IRISA, France),
Piero Bonissone (GE, USA),
Craig Boutilier (UBC, Canada),
Ron Brachman (AT&T, USA)
Maurice Bruynooghe (KUL, Belgium),
Anthony Cohn (U. Leeds, UK), 
Ernest Davis (NYU, USA),
Rina Dechter (UC Irvine, USA), 
Johan de Kleer (Xerox, USA),
Oskar Dressler (Siemens, Germany),
Jennifer Elgot-Drapkin (Arizona State U., USA),
Richard Fikes (Stanford U., USA),
Alan Frisch (U. York, UK),
Hector Geffner (Simon Bolivar U., Venezuela),
Georg Gottlob (TU Wien, Austria),
Pat Hayes (U. Illinois, USA),
Hirofumi Katsuno (NTT, Japan),
Henry Kautz (AT&T, USA),
Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan U., Israel),
Maurizio Lenzerini (U. Rome, Italy),
Vladimir Lifschitz (U. Texas, USA),
David Makinson (Unesco, France),
Joao Martins (IST, Portugal)
David McAllester (MIT, USA),
John-Jules Meyer (U. Amsterdam, Netherlands),
Katharina Morik (U. Dortmund, Germany),
Johanna Moore (U. Pittsburgh, USA),
Hideyuki Nakashima (ETL, Japan),
Bernhard Nebel (DFKI, Germany),
Hans Juergen Ohlbach (Max Planck Institut, Germany),
Lin Padgham (Linkoeping U., Sweden),
Peter Patel-Schneider (AT&T, USA),
Ramesh Patil (USC/ISI, USA),
Raymond Perrault (SRI, USA),
David Poole (UBC, Canada),
Henri Prade (IRIT, France),
Anand Rao (AAII, Australia),
Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew U., Israel),
Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley, USA),
Len Schubert (Rochester)
Marek Sergot (Imperial College, UK),
Lokendra Shastri (U. Pennsylvania, USA),
Yoav Shoham (Stanford U., USA),
Lynn Stein (MIT, USA),
Devika Subramanian (Cornell U., USA),
William Swartout (USC/ISI, USA),
Austin Tate (AIAI, Edinburgh, UK),
Peter van Beek (U. Alberta, Canada),
Michael Wellman (U. Michigan, USA)

                           IMPORTANT DATES

            Submission receipt deadline:        November 8, 1993
            Author notification date:           January 24, 1994
            Camera-ready copy due to publisher: February 28, 1994
            Conference:                         May 24-27, 1994

                    KR'94 Electronic Abstract Form

         Complete and send to KR94-abstracts@medg.lcs.mit.edu

TITLE: 
FIRST AUTHOR: 
FIRST ADDRESS: 
COAUTHORS: 
OTHER ADDRESSES: 
CONTENT AREAS: 
KEYWORDS: 
ABSTRACT: 

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                  KR'94 Electronic Abstract Example

TITLE: Begriffsschrift: A formula language, modeled upon that of
arithmetic, for pure thought 

FIRST AUTHOR: Frege, Gottlob

FIRST ADDRESS: Department of Mathematics, University of Jena, Germany

CONTENT AREAS: logics, deduction

KEYWORDS: ideography, conceptual content, inferential sequence,
argument, function

ABSTRACT: I present an ideography to provide the most reliable test of
the validity of a chain of inferences, one that points out every
presupposition that tries to sneak in unnoticed, so that its origin
can be investigated.  I am confident that my ideography can be
successfully used wherever special value must be placed on the
validity of proofs, as for example when the foundations of the
differential and integral calculus are established.

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