From popowich@cs.sfu.ca Wed Feb 9 14:29:16 EST 1994 Article: 5587 of news.announce.conferences Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:5587 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!sparky!rick From: jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews) Subject: Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Programming Paradigms for AI Message-ID: <1994Feb4.191652.5496@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Reply-To: popowich@cs.sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 19:16:52 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 83 X-Md4-Signature: 0f64dca85e94492d32834b9c27a5e875 Call for ABSTRACTS Workshop on Programming Paradigms for Artificial Intelligence Tuesday May 17, 1994 Banff, Alberta CANADA in conjunction with AI-GI-VI'94 There have been several efforts into merging programming paradigms such as logic programming, functional programming and object-oriented programming. The latter is gaining more and more ground in AI applications, but it is not clear why this should be the trend. Typically, each one of these frameworks is ideal for certain kinds of problems while exhibiting deficiencies for other kinds; no single approach is ideal for all problems. So it is not surprising that researchers are putting effort into incorporating and adapting features from the different approaches, but this borrowing is not without problems. The time is ripe for an examination of which features are best in which approach and why, of how transferrable these features are between approaches, and of the effort involved vs. the results expected. Logic, functional and object-oriented paradigms, among others, have sprung from the desire to make the task of programming more akin to a specifically human endeavour, rather than an endeavour of giving machines what they expect. This workshop aims at providing a perspective of the state of the art in programming paradigms for AI and for expressing complex knowledge in general. Its topics of focus include, but are not limited to, the following: - Logic vs. functional vs. other paradigms - How close are we to declarative programming? - Do we even want to be close to declarative programming? - Should the competing approaches be merged, and if so how can this be done? SUBMISSIONS Individuals interested in presenting a paper at the workshop should prepare an extended abstract or position paper of about 1000 words including references, approximately 4 double-spaced pages. The title page must include: author's name, postal address, e-mail address (if applicable), telephone and fax numbers. Electronic submission of abstracts (in either PostScript, LaTeX or ASCII) is encouraged. Abstracts should be sent to via e-mail to popowich@cs.sfu.ca or to: Fred Popowich PPAI Workshop School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia CANADA V5A 1S6 If there is sufficient interest, the proceedings will be published after the conference in electronic format. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: Friday March 4th, 1994 Notification of acceptance: Tuesday April 5th, 1994 OTHER INFORMATION The workshop is being held in conjunction with the Tenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'94) and with the Graphics Interface (GI'94) and Vision Interface (VI'94) conferences, at the Banff Park Lodge, in Banff, Alberta. Banff is located in the spectacular Canadian Rockies, the beauty of which remains unsurpassed, and is just an hour and a half drive from Calgary. The Calgary International Airport can be reached from many North American cities via many different airlines. In addition, there is direct bus service from the airport to Banff, or alternatively one can arrange a limousine or rental car at the airport. The ski season usually ends around the 24th of May at Sunshine, so ski enthusiasts may enjoy spring skiing at its finest. For non-skiers there are many other activities to occupy their precious time. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jamie Andrews, Simon Fraser University Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University Fred Popowich, Simon Fraser University Paul Tarau, University of Moncton. Article 20733 of comp.ai: Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20733 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!ree From: ree@cs.UAlberta.CA (Renee Elio) Newsgroups: comp.ai,can.ai Subject: AI-94 Registration Form On line Date: 18 Feb 1994 19:14:29 GMT Organization: Computing Science, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Lines: 53 Message-ID: <2k342m$8ni@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: menaik.cs.ualberta.ca Keywords: conference On-line Registration Form AI/GI/VI 94 Conference Banff, Alberta May 16-20 1994 To receive the compressed postscript version of the registration form for AI/GI/VI'94 to be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada form May 16-20. 1994 using anonymous ftp please use the following instructions. (you can also point your gopher to gopher.cs.ualberta.ca, port 70. Look in University of Alberta Servers / Computing Science / Upcoming Events ) At your Unix prompt type: ftp ftp.cs.ualberta.ca (or, use IP address 129.128.4.241) At the login prompt type: anonymous the password is your email address (eg. yourName@yourMachineID) change directory to AI-GI-VI94 by typing cd pub/AI-GI-VI94 set the transfer protocol to binary mode by typing: binary to receive the compressed postsript registration form type: get registration.ps.Z to log off type: bye The above "get" commands will have placed the registration.ps.Z file into your current directory. to uncompress the form -- at your Unix prompt type: uncompress registration.ps.Z to print the form on your favourite laser printer at your Unix prompt type: lpr registration.ps There are two forms contained on one page. (The reason the files are so large is that the forms were created on a Macintosh but have to printable by any unix postscript printer.) Fill in the forms and either mail or fax to the address given in the document. For further information please, Phone: 1-604-494-9056 FAX: 1-604-494-4033 email: davis@cs.ualberta.ca