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                               Call for Papers

                AIEM4 - The Fourth International Workshop on
            Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Management.
                   Tel-Aviv, Israel.  January 8-10, 1996
                   =====================================

 AIEM4

 The Fourth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in
 Economics and Management will be held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, during
 January 8-10, 1996. The conference venue is the Dan Panorama Hotel and
 Convention Center on the beach front in Tel-Aviv and within walking
 distance of most of the central tourist attractions in the city. The
 Conference Center was opened in November 1994 and has the most modern
 facilities.

 Sponsorship for the workshop has been granted by AAAI, IFAC, IFORS, and
 ACM and has been requested from IFIP

 The workshop is organized by the Marcel and Annie Adams Institute for
 Business Management Information Systems in The Faculty of Management,
 Tel-Aviv University. The workshop is under the auspices of The Information
 Processing Association of Israel and will be held in conjunction with
 the annual conferences of the Israel Association for Artificial
 Intelligence and the Israel Association for Computer Vision.
 Registration for AIEM4 will provide free access to the other two events.

 Topics

 This series of workshops addresses issues relevant to the application of
 AI technologies in economics and management. The Workshop aims to
 present innovative applications and techniques, relevant research
 findings, and reports on work in progress. Submissions are encouraged
 from both practitioners and academics. Proposals for panel discussions
 are also encouraged.

 The focus of the conference is applications of AI techniques in:
 * finance               * banking               * marketing
 * economics             * manufacturing         * operations management

 The technologies of interest include, among others:
 * knowledge representation and acquisition : expert systems, knowledge-
   based decision support systems
 * problem solving paradigms : qualitative reasoning, case-based
   reasoning, neural networks, genetic algorithms
 * human-machine interface : natural language processing, hypertext,
   multimedia, machine learning.

 Language

 English will be the official language throughout the workshop.
 Translation facilities will not be available.

 Instructions

 Authors should submit 700 word extended abstracts, in English, typed
 with double line spacing , in three copies, before May 1, 1995 to

                             AIEM4
                             c/o Dr. Moshe Zviran
                             Faculty of Management
                             Tel-Aviv University
                             Tel-Aviv 69978
                             Israel

 References should be in alphabetical order. Each abstract should include
 full addresses of all authors and designate one of them as
 correspondent. Authors of accepted submissions will be notified by July
 15 1995 and will be requested to submit  full length papers by October
 15, 1995. Papers not received in full by this date will not be included
 for presentation

 Proposals are also solicited for panel discussions. These proposals
 should describe the topic, present the discussants, and suggest why the
 discussion will be of interest to participants.

 Proceedings

 Proceedings, edited by M. Ben-Bassat and P. Ein-Dor will be published
 after the workshop; copyrights of accepted papers are transferred to the
 publishers.

 Important Dates

 May 1, 1995 extended abstracts and panel proposals due
 July 15, 1995 acceptance notices
 October 15,.1995 final papers due
 January 8-10, 1996 conference

 Steering Committee

 The steering committee of the workshop is as follows:

 Workshop Chair:
 Prof. Phillip Ein-Dor,
 Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University,
 Director, The Marcel and Annie Adams Institute for Business Management
 Information Systems

 Program Committee Chair:
 Prof. Moshe Ben-Bassat,
 Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University and
 President, IET Intelligent Electronics Ltd

 Local Arrangements Chair:
 Dr. Moshe Zviran,
 Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University

 Combined Conference Arrangements:
 Ms. Bat-Sheva Sheizaf,
 Director, Information Processing Association of Israel
 International Program Committee

 The following have agreed to serve on the International Program
 Committee.

 Paul Alpar, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
 Chidnand Apte, IBM Watson Research Center
 Moshe Ben-Bassat, IET Intelligent Electronics
 Michel Benaroch, University of Syracuse
 R. Bhaskar, IBM Watson Research Center
 Tung Bui, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
 Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel-Aviv University
 Yishai Feldman, Tel-Aviv University
 Menachem Gutterman, Israel Discount Bank
 George Kasper, Texas Tech University
 Kuan-Pin Lin, Portland State University
 Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University
 John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto
 Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California
 L. F. Pau, Digital Equipment Europe
 Judea Pearl, University of California Los Angeles
 Leon Sterling, Case Western Reserve University
 Tibor Vamos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 Ljubisa Vlacic, Griffith University
 Fei-Yue Wang, University of Arizona
 Andrew Whinston, University of Texas
 G. J. Wyatt, Herriot-Watt University
 Yaakov Zahavi, Tel-Aviv University - IFORS Representative
 Moshe Zviran, Tel-Aviv University

 Inquiries should be directed to:

 AIEM4, c/o Dr. Moshe Zviran,
 Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University
 Tel-Aviv, Israel.
 Phone: +972-3-6408025, Fax: +972-3-6409560,
 Internet: AIEM96@vm.tau.ac.il

