From john@aisb.ed.ac.uk Tue Jun 7 17:21:09 EDT 1994 Article: 22470 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:22470 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!ainews!aisb!bridget From: bridget@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Bridget Hallam) Subject: CFP: AISB-95 Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions Message-ID: Sender: news@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Network News Administrator) Reply-To: john@aisb.ed.ac.uk (John Hallam) Organization: Dept of AI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 11:42:44 GMT Lines: 227 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS AISB-95: Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions. ============================================ Monday 3rd -- Friday 7th April 1995 Halifax Hall of Residence & Computer Science Department University of Sheffield Sheffield, ENGLAND The Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Programme Chair: John Hallam (University of Edinburgh) Programme Committee: Dave Cliff (University of Sussex) Erik Sandewall (University of Linkoeping) Nigel Shadbolt (University of Nottingham) Sam Steel (University of Essex) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Local Organisation: Paul McKevitt (University of Sheffield) The past few years have seen an increasing tendency for diversification in research into Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Artificial Life. A number of approaches are being pursued, based variously on symbolic reasoning, connectionist systems and models, behaviour-based systems, and ideas from complex dynamical systems. Each has its own particular insight and philosophical position. This variety of approaches appears in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. There are both symbolic and connectionist natural language processing, both classical and behaviour-based vision research, for instance. While purists from each approach may claim that all the problems of cognition can in principle be tackled without recourse to other methods, in practice (and maybe in theory, also) combinations of methods from the different approaches (hybrid methods) are more successful than a pure approach for certain kinds of problems. The committee feels that there is an unrealised synergy between the various approaches that an AISB conference may be able to explore. Thus, the focus of the tenth AISB Conference is on such hybrid methods. We particularly seek papers that describe novel theoretical and/or experimental work which uses a hybrid approach or papers from purists, arguing cogently that compromise is unnecessary or unproductive. While papers such as those are particularly sought, good papers on any topic in Artificial Intelligence will be considered: as always, the most important criteria for acceptance will be soundness, originality, substance and clarity. Research in all areas is equally welcome. The AISB conference is a single track conference lasting three days, with a two day tutorial and workshop programme preceding the main technical event, and around twenty high calibre papers will be presented in the technical sessions. (A separate call for workshops and tutorial participation will appear in due course.) It is expected that the proceedings of the conference will be published in book form in time to be available at the conference itself, making it a forum for rapid dissemination of research results. SUBMISSIONS: High quality original papers dealing with the issues raised by mixing different approaches, or otherwise related to the Conference Theme, should be sent to the Programme Chair. Papers which give comparative experimental evaluation of methods from different paradigms applied to the same problem, papers which propose and evaluate mixed-paradigm theoretical models or tools, and papers that focus on hybrid systems applied to real world problems will be particularly welcome, as will papers from purists who argue cogently that the hybrid approach is flawed and a particular pure approach is to be preferred. Papers being submitted, whether verbatim or in essence, to other conferences whose review process runs concurrently with AISB-95 should indicate this fact on their title page. If a submitted paper appears at another conference it must be withdrawn from AISB-95 (this does not apply to presentation at specialist workshops). Papers that violate these requirements may be rejected without review. SHEFFIELD: Sheffield is one of the friendliest cities in the UK and is situated well having the best and closest surrounding countryside of any major city in the UK. The Peak District National Park is only minutes away. It is a good city for walkers, runners, and climbers. It has two theatres, three 10 screen cinemas, a library theatre which shows more artistic films, a large number of museums many of which demonstrate Sheffield's industrial past, and a number of Galleries in the City, including the Mapping Gallery and Ruskin. Several important ancient houses, such as Chatsworth House, are close to Sheffield. The Peak District National Park is a beautiful site for visiting and rambling upon. There are large shopping areas in the City and by 1995 Sheffield will be served by a 'supertram' system. The University of Sheffield's Halls of Residence are situated on the western side of the city in a leafy residential area described by John Betjeman as ``the prettiest suburb in England''. Halifax Hall is centred on a local Steel Baron's house, dating back to 1830 and set in extensive grounds. It was acquired by the University in 1830 and converted into a Hall of Residence for women with the addition of a new wing. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT SHEFFIELD: Sheffield Computer Science Department has a strong programme in Cognitive Systems and is part of the University's Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH). ILASH has its own machines and support staff, and academic staff attached to it from nine departments. Sheffield Psychology Department has the Artificial Intelligence Vision Research Unit (AIVRU) which was founded in 1984 to coordinate a large industry/university Alvey research consortium working on the development of computer vision systems for autonomous vehicles and robot workstations. FORMAT AND DEADLINES: Four copies of submitted papers must be received by the Programme Chair no later than 24 OCTOBER 1994 to be considered. Papers should be at most 12 pages in length and be produced in 12 point, with at most 60 lines of text per A4 page and margins at least 1 inch (2.5cm) wide on all sides (default LaTeX article style is OK). They should include a cover sheet (not counted in the 12 page limit) giving the paper title, the abstract, the authors and their affiliations, including a contact address for both electronic and paper mail for the principal author. Papers should be submitted in hard-copy, not electronically. Papers that do not adhere to this format specification may be rejected without review. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by 7 DECEMBER 1994 and full camera-ready copy will be due in early JANUARY 1995 (publishers' deadlines permitting). CONFERENCE ADDRESS: Correspondence relating to the conference programme, submissions of papers, etc. should be directed to the conference programme chair at the address below. John Hallam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, SCOTLAND. Phone: + 44 31 650 3097 FAX: + 44 31 650 6899 E-mail: john@aifh.edinburgh.ac.uk Correspondence concerning local arrangements should be directed to the local arrangements organiser at the following address. Paul McKevitt, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, ENGLAND. Phone: + 44 742 825572 FAX: + 44 742 780972 E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk Return-Path: Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa18177; 14 Jun 94 18:29:14 EDT Received: from Csli.Stanford.EDU by CS.CMU.EDU id aa05589; 14 Jun 94 18:28:33 EDT Received: from localhost.Stanford.EDU by CSLI.Stanford.EDU (4.1/25-CSLI-eef) id AA23777; Tue, 14 Jun 94 14:30:48 PDT Message-Id: <9406142130.AA23777@CSLI.Stanford.EDU> From: Paul Mc Kevitt To: empiricists@CSLI.Stanford.EDU Subject: Conference Announcement: AISB-95: Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 14:30:46 -0700 Sender: roscheis@CSLI.Stanford.EDU From: Paul Mc Kevitt (by way of yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu) CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS AISB-95: Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions. ============================================ Monday 3rd -- Friday 7th April 1995 Halifax Hall of Residence & Computer Science Department University of Sheffield Sheffield, ENGLAND The Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour Programme Chair: John Hallam (University of Edinburgh) Programme Committee: Dave Cliff (University of Sussex) Erik Sandewall (University of Linkoeping) Nigel Shadbolt (University of Nottingham) Sam Steel (University of Essex) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Local Organisation: Paul Mc Kevitt (University of Sheffield) The past few years have seen an increasing tendency for diversification in research into Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Artificial Life. A number of approaches are being pursued, based variously on symbolic reasoning, connectionist systems and models, behaviour-based systems, and ideas from complex dynamical systems. Each has its own particular insight and philosophical position. This variety of approaches appears in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. There are both sybmolic and connectionist natural language processing, both classical and behaviour-based vision research, for instance. While purists from each approach may claim that all the problems of cognition can in principle be tackled without recourse to other methods, in practice (and maybe in theory, also) combinations of methods from the different approaches (hybrid methods) are more successful than a pure approach for certain kinds of problems. The committee feels that there is an unrealised synergy between the various approaches that an AISB conference may be able to explore. Thus, the focus of the tenth AISB Conference is on such hybrid methods. We particularly seek papers that describe novel theoretical and/or experimental work which uses a hybrid approach or papers from purists, arguing cogently that compromise is unnecessary or unproductive. While papers such as those are particularly sought, good papers on any topic in Artificial Intelligence will be considered: as always, the most important criteria for acceptance will be soundness, originality, substance and clarity. Research in all areas is equally welcome. The AISB conference is a single track conference lasting three days, with a two day tutorial and workshop programme preceding the main technical event, and around twenty high calibre papers will be presented in the technical sessions. It is expected that the proceedings of the conference will be published in book form in time to be available at the conference itself, making it a forum for rapid dissemination of research results. SUBMISSIONS: High quality original papers dealing with the issues raised by mixing different approaches, or otherwise related to the Conference Theme, should be sent to the Programme Chair. Papers which give comparative experimental evaluation of methods from different paradigms applied to the same problem, papers which propose and evaluate mixed-paradigm theoretical models or tools, and papers that focus on hybrid systems applied to real world problems will be particularly welcome, as will papers from purists who argue cogently that the hybrid approach is flawed and a particular pure approach is to be preferred. Papers being submitted, whether verbatim or in essence, to other conferences whose review process runs concurrently with AISB-95 should indicate this fact on their title page. If a submitted paper appears at another conference it must be withdrawn from AISB-95 (this does not apply to presentation at specialist workshops). Papers that violate these requirements may be rejected without review. SHEFFIELD: Sheffield is one of the friendliest cities in the UK and is situated well having the best and closest surrounding countryside of any major city in the UK. The Peak District National Park is only minutes away. It is a good city for walkers, runners, and climbers. It has two theatres, the Crucible and Lyceum. The Lyceum, a beautiful Victorian theatre, has recently been renovated. Also, the city has three 10 screen cinemas. There is a library theatre which shows more artistic films. The city has a large number of museums many of which demonstrate Sheffield's industrial past, and there are a number of Galleries in the City, including the Mapping Gallery and Ruskin. A number of important ancient houses are close to Sheffield such as Chatsworth House. The Peak District National Park is a beautiful site for visiting and rambling upon. There are large shopping areas in the City and by 1995 Sheffield will be served by a 'supertram' system: the line to the Meadowhall shopping and leisure complex is already open. The University of Sheffield's Halls of Residence are situated on the western side of the city in a leafy residential area described by John Betjeman as ``the prettiest suburb in England''. Halifax Hall is centred on a local Steel Baron's house, dating back to 1830 and set in extensive grounds. It was acquired by the University in 1830 and converted into a Hall of Residence for women with the addition of a new wing. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT SHEFFIELD: Sheffield Computer Science Department has a strong programme in Cognitive Systems and is part of the University's Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH). ILASH has its own machines and support staff, and academic staff attached to it from nine departments. Sheffield Psychology Department has the Artificial Intelligence Vision Research Unit (AIVRU) which was founded in 1984 to coordinate a large industry/university Alvey research consortium working on the development of computer vision systems for autonomous vehicles and robot workstations. FORMAT AND DEADLINES: Four copies of submitted papers must be received by the Programme Chair no later than 24 OCTOBER 1994 to be considered. Papers should be at most 12 pages in length and be produced in 12 point, with at most 60 lines of text per A4 page and margins at least 1 inch (2.5cm) wide on all sides (default LaTeX article style is OK). They should include a cover sheet (not counted in the 12 page limit) giving the paper title, the abstract, the authors and their affiliations, including a contact address for both electronic and paper mail for the principal author. Papers should be submitted in hard-copy, not electronically. Papers that do not adhere to this format specification may be rejected without review. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by 7 DECEMBER 1994 and full camera-ready copy will be due in early JANUARY 1995 (publishers' deadlines permitting). CONFERENCE ADDRESS: Correspondence relating to the conference programme, submissions of papers, etc. should be directed to the conference programme chair at the address below. John Hallam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, SCOTLAND. Phone: + 44 31 650 3097 FAX: + 44 31 650 6899 E-mail: john@aifh.edinburgh.ac.uk Correspondence concerning local arrangements should be directed to the local arrangements organiser at the following address. Paul Mc Kevitt, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, ENGLAND. Phone: + 44 742 825572 FAX: + 44 742 780972 E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk Article 23484 of comp.ai: Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:6717 comp.lang.pop:919 comp.ai:23484 comp.edu:10330 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!MathWorks.Com!news.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!uunet!sparky!not-for-mail From: rpe@itri.bton.ac.uk (Roger Evans) Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences,comp.lang.pop,uk.ikbs,comp.ai,comp.edu Subject: AISB-95 CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Followup-To: poster Date: 28 Jul 1994 18:34:28 -0500 Organization: University of Brighton, UK Lines: 183 Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Distribution: world Expires: 19 Oct 1994 8:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <319fa4$h12@sparky.sterling.com> Reply-To: robertg@dcs.shef.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.sterling.com Keywords: AISB Artificial Intelligence ------------------------------------------------- AISB-95: CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ------------------------------------------------- Call for Workshop Proposals: AISB-95 University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England April 3 -- 4, 1995 Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) The AISB Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science (AISB-95). While the main conference will run for three days from Wednesday, April 5 to Friday, April 7, the workshops will be held on the two days preceding the main event: Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4. The main conference has the theme "Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions" (see the main conference call) and while proposals for workshops related to that theme would be particularly welcome, proposals are invited for workshops relating to any aspect of Artificial Intelligence or the Simulation of Behaviour. Proposals, from an individual or a pair of organisers, for workshops between 0.5 and 2 days long will be considered. Workshops will probably address topics which are at the forefront of research, but not yet sufficiently developed to warrant a full-scale conference. Submission: ---------- A workshop proposal should contain the following information: 1. Workshop Title 2. A detailed outline of the workshop. This should include the necessary background and the potential target audience for the workshop and a justified estimate of the number of possible attendees. Please also state the length and preferred date(s) of the workshop. Specify any equipment requirements, indicating whether the organisers would be expected to meet them. 3. A brief resume of the organiser(s). This should include: background in the research area, references to published work in the topic area and relevant experience, such as previous organisation or chairing of workshops. 4. Administrative information. This should include: name, mailing address, phone number, fax, and email address if available. In the case of multiple organisers, information for each organiser should be provided, but one organiser should be identified as the principal contact. 5. A draft Call for Participation. This should serve the dual purposes of informing and attracting potential participants. The organisers of accepted workshops are responsible for issuing a call for participation, reviewing requests to participate and scheduling the workshop activities within the constraints set by the Workshop Organiser. They are also responsible for submitting a collated set of papers for their workshop to the Workshop Organiser. Dates: ------ Intentions to organise a workshop should be made known to the Workshop Organiser as soon as possible. Proposals must be received by October 18th 1994. Decisions about topics and speakers will be made in early November. Collated sets of papers to be received by March 15th 1995. Proposals should be sent to: Dr. Robert Gaizauskas Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street Regent Court Sheffield S1 4DP U.K. email: robertg@dcs.shef.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)742 825572 fax: +44 (0)742 780972 Electronic submission (plain ascii text) is highly preferred, but hard copy submission is also accepted, in which case 5 copies should be submitted. Proposals should not exceed 2 sides of A4 (i.e. 120 lines of text approx.). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Tutorial Proposals: AISB-95 University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England April 3 -- 4, 1995 Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) The AISB Committee invites proposals for Tutorials to be held in conjunction with the Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science (AISB-95). While the main conference will run for three days from Wednesday, April 5 to Friday, April 7, the tutorials will be held on the two days preceding the main event: Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4. Proposals for full and half day tutorials, from an individual or pair of presenters, will be considered. They may be offered both on standard topics and on new and more advanced aspects of Artificial Intelligence or Simulation of Behaviour. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial should submit a proposal to the Workshop Organiser Dr Robert Gaizauskas (addresses below). Submission: ---------- A tutorial proposal should contain the following information: 1. Tutorial Title 2. A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in a brochure. 3. A detailed outline of the tutorial. This should include the necessary background and the potential target audience for the tutorial and a justified estimate of the number of possible attendees. Please also state the length and preferred date(s) of the tutorial. Specify any equipment requirements, indicating whether the organisers would be expected to meet them. 4. A brief resume of the presenter(s). This should include: background in the tutorial area, references to published work in the topic area and relevant experience. Published work should, ideally, include a published tutorial-level article on the subject. Relevant experience is teaching experience, including previous conference tutorials or short courses presented. 5. Administrative information. This should include: name, mailing address, phone number, fax, and email address if available. In the case of multiple presenters, information for each presenter should be provided, but one presenter should be identified as the principal contact. The presenter(s) of accepted tutorials must submit a set of tutorial notes (which may include relevant tutorial-level publications) to the Workshop Organisers by March 15th 1995. Dates: ------ Intentions to organise a tutorial should be made known to the the Workshop Organiser as soon as possible. Proposals must be received by October 18th 1994. Decisions about tutorial topics and speakers will be made in early November. Tutorial notes must be received by March 15th 1995. Proposals should be sent to: Dr. Robert Gaizauskas Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street Regent Court Sheffield S1 4DP U.K. email: robertg@dcs.shef.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)742 825572 fax: +44 (0)742 780972 Electronic submission (plain ascii text) is highly preferred, but hard copy submission is also accepted, in which case 5 copies should be submitted. Proposals should not exceed 2 sides of A4 (i.e. 120 lines of text approx.). Article 23791 of comp.ai: Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!news.shef.ac.uk!dcs.shef.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: robertg@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Robert John Gaizauskas) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: AISB-95 WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL CALL Date: 20 Aug 1994 15:38:33 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Lines: 182 Expires: Sat, 17 Sep 94 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <33581p$gl9@gate1.dcs.shef.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bones.dcs.shef.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] ------------------------------------------------- AISB-95: CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS ------------------------------------------------- Call for Workshop Proposals: AISB-95 University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England April 3 -- 4, 1995 Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) The AISB Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science (AISB-95). While the main conference will run for three days from Wednesday, April 5 to Friday, April 7, the workshops will be held on the two days preceding the main event: Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4. The main conference has the theme "Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions" (see the main conference call) and while proposals for workshops related to that theme would be particularly welcome, proposals are invited for workshops relating to any aspect of Artificial Intelligence or the Simulation of Behaviour. Proposals, from an individual or a pair of organisers, for workshops between 0.5 and 2 days long will be considered. Workshops will probably address topics which are at the forefront of research, but not yet sufficiently developed to warrant a full-scale conference. Submission: ---------- A workshop proposal should contain the following information: 1. Workshop Title 2. A detailed outline of the workshop. This should include the necessary background and the potential target audience for the workshop and a justified estimate of the number of possible attendees. Please also state the length and preferred date(s) of the workshop. Specify any equipment requirements, indicating whether the organisers would be expected to meet them. 3. A brief resume of the organiser(s). This should include: background in the research area, references to published work in the topic area and relevant experience, such as previous organisation or chairing of workshops. 4. Administrative information. This should include: name, mailing address, phone number, fax, and email address if available. In the case of multiple organisers, information for each organiser should be provided, but one organiser should be identified as the principal contact. 5. A draft Call for Participation. This should serve the dual purposes of informing and attracting potential participants. The organisers of accepted workshops are responsible for issuing a call for participation, reviewing requests to participate and scheduling the workshop activities within the constraints set by the Workshop Organiser. They are also responsible for submitting a collated set of papers for their workshop to the Workshop Organiser. Dates: ------ Intentions to organise a workshop should be made known to the Workshop Organiser as soon as possible. Proposals must be received by October 18th 1994. Decisions about topics and speakers will be made in early November. Collated sets of papers to be received by March 15th 1995. Proposals should be sent to: Dr. Robert Gaizauskas Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street Regent Court Sheffield S1 4DP U.K. email: robertg@dcs.shef.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)742 825572 fax: +44 (0)742 780972 Electronic submission (plain ascii text) is highly preferred, but hard copy submission is also accepted, in which case 5 copies should be submitted. Proposals should not exceed 2 sides of A4 (i.e. 120 lines of text approx.). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Tutorial Proposals: AISB-95 University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England April 3 -- 4, 1995 Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) The AISB Committee invites proposals for Tutorials to be held in conjunction with the Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science (AISB-95). While the main conference will run for three days from Wednesday, April 5 to Friday, April 7, the tutorials will be held on the two days preceding the main event: Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4. Proposals for full and half day tutorials, from an individual or pair of presenters, will be considered. They may be offered both on standard topics and on new and more advanced aspects of Artificial Intelligence or Simulation of Behaviour. Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial should submit a proposal to the Workshop Organiser Dr Robert Gaizauskas (addresses below). Submission: ---------- A tutorial proposal should contain the following information: 1. Tutorial Title 2. A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in a brochure. 3. A detailed outline of the tutorial. This should include the necessary background and the potential target audience for the tutorial and a justified estimate of the number of possible attendees. Please also state the length and preferred date(s) of the tutorial. Specify any equipment requirements, indicating whether the organisers would be expected to meet them. 4. A brief resume of the presenter(s). This should include: background in the tutorial area, references to published work in the topic area and relevant experience. Published work should, ideally, include a published tutorial-level article on the subject. Relevant experience is teaching experience, including previous conference tutorials or short courses presented. 5. Administrative information. This should include: name, mailing address, phone number, fax, and email address if available. In the case of multiple presenters, information for each presenter should be provided, but one presenter should be identified as the principal contact. The presenter(s) of accepted tutorials must submit a set of tutorial notes (which may include relevant tutorial-level publications) to the Workshop Organisers by March 15th 1995. Dates: ------ Intentions to organise a tutorial should be made known to the the Workshop Organiser as soon as possible. Proposals must be received by October 18th 1994. Decisions about tutorial topics and speakers will be made in early November. Tutorial notes must be received by March 15th 1995. Proposals should be sent to: Dr. Robert Gaizauskas Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street Regent Court Sheffield S1 4DP U.K. email: robertg@dcs.shef.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)742 825572 fax: +44 (0)742 780972 Electronic submission (plain ascii text) is highly preferred, but hard copy submission is also accepted, in which case 5 copies should be submitted. Proposals should not exceed 2 sides of A4 (i.e. 120 lines of text approx.). Article 24397 of comp.ai: Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: M.Lee@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Mark Lee) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: AISB-95 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Date: 26 Sep 1994 09:48:16 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 164 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9409261448.AA13770@dcs.shef.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS AISB-95: Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions. ============================================ Monday 3rd -- Friday 7th April 1995 Halifax Hall of Residence & Computer Science Department University of Sheffield Sheffield, ENGLAND The Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour Programme Chair: John Hallam (University of Edinburgh) Programme Committee: Dave Cliff (University of Sussex) Erik Sandewall (University of Linkoeping) Nigel Shadbolt (University of Nottingham) Sam Steel (University of Essex) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Local Organisation: Paul Mc Kevitt (University of Sheffield) The past few years have seen an increasing tendency for diversification in research into Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Artificial Life. A number of approaches are being pursued, based variously on symbolic reasoning, connectionist systems and models, behaviour-based systems, and ideas from complex dynamical systems. Each has its own particular insight and philosophical position. This variety of approaches appears in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. There are both sybmolic and connectionist natural language processing, both classical and behaviour-based vision research, for instance. While purists from each approach may claim that all the problems of cognition can in principle be tackled without recourse to other methods, in practice (and maybe in theory, also) combinations of methods from the different approaches (hybrid methods) are more successful than a pure approach for certain kinds of problems. The committee feels that there is an unrealised synergy between the various approaches that an AISB conference may be able to explore. Thus, the focus of the tenth AISB Conference is on such hybrid methods. We particularly seek papers that describe novel theoretical and/or experimental work which uses a hybrid approach or papers from purists, arguing cogently that compromise is unnecessary or unproductive. While papers such as those are particularly sought, good papers on any topic in Artificial Intelligence will be considered: as always, the most important criteria for acceptance will be soundness, originality, substance and clarity. Research in all areas is equally welcome. The AISB conference is a single track conference lasting three days, with a two day tutorial and workshop programme preceding the main technical event, and around twenty high calibre papers will be presented in the technical sessions. It is expected that the proceedings of the conference will be published in book form in time to be available at the conference itself, making it a forum for rapid dissemination of research results. SUBMISSIONS: High quality original papers dealing with the issues raised by mixing different approaches, or otherwise related to the Conference Theme, should be sent to the Programme Chair. Papers which give comparative experimental evaluation of methods from different paradigms applied to the same problem, papers which propose and evaluate mixed-paradigm theoretical models or tools, and papers that focus on hybrid systems applied to real world problems will be particularly welcome, as will papers from purists who argue cogently that the hybrid approach is flawed and a particular pure approach is to be preferred. Papers being submitted, whether verbatim or in essence, to other conferences whose review process runs concurrently with AISB-95 should indicate this fact on their title page. If a submitted paper appears at another conference it must be withdrawn from AISB-95 (this does not apply to presentation at specialist workshops). Papers that violate these requirements may be rejected without review. SHEFFIELD: Sheffield is one of the friendliest cities in the UK and is situated well having the best and closest surrounding countryside of any major city in the UK. The Peak District National Park is only minutes away. It is a good city for walkers, runners, and climbers. It has two theatres, the Crucible and Lyceum. The Lyceum, a beautiful Victorian theatre, has recently been renovated. Also, the city has three 10 screen cinemas. There is a library theatre which shows more artistic films. The city has a large number of museums many of which demonstrate Sheffield's industrial past, and there are a number of Galleries in the City, including the Mapping Gallery and Ruskin. A number of important ancient houses are close to Sheffield such as Chatsworth House. The Peak District National Park is a beautiful site for visiting and rambling upon. There are large shopping areas in the City and by 1995 Sheffield will be served by a 'supertram' system: the line to the Meadowhall shopping and leisure complex is already open. The University of Sheffield's Halls of Residence are situated on the western side of the city in a leafy residential area described by John Betjeman as ``the prettiest suburb in England''. Halifax Hall is centred on a local Steel Baron's house, dating back to 1830 and set in extensive grounds. It was acquired by the University in 1830 and converted into a Hall of Residence for women with the addition of a new wing. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT SHEFFIELD: Sheffield Computer Science Department has a strong programme in Cognitive Systems and is part of the University's Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH). ILASH has its own machines and support staff, and academic staff attached to it from nine departments. Sheffield Psychology Department has the Artificial Intelligence Vision Research Unit (AIVRU) which was founded in 1984 to coordinate a large industry/university Alvey research consortium working on the development of computer vision systems for autonomous vehicles and robot workstations. FORMAT AND DEADLINES: Four copies of submitted papers must be received by the Programme Chair no later than 24 OCTOBER 1994 to be considered. Papers should be at most 12 pages in length and be produced in 12 point, with at most 60 lines of text per A4 page and margins at least 1 inch (2.5cm) wide on all sides (default LaTeX article style is OK). They should include a cover sheet (not counted in the 12 page limit) giving the paper title, the abstract, the authors and their affiliations, including a contact address for both electronic and paper mail for the principal author. Papers should be submitted in hard-copy, not electronically. Papers that do not adhere to this format specification may be rejected without review. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by 7 DECEMBER 1994 and full camera-ready copy will be due in early JANUARY 1995 (publishers' deadlines permitting). CONFERENCE ADDRESS: Correspondence relating to the conference programme, submissions of papers, etc. should be directed to the conference programme chair at the address below. John Hallam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, SCOTLAND. Phone: + 44 31 650 3097 FAX: + 44 31 650 6899 E-mail: john@aifh.edinburgh.ac.uk Correspondence concerning local arrangements should be directed to the local arrangements organiser at the following address. Paul Mc Kevitt, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, ENGLAND. Phone: + 44 742 825572 FAX: + 44 742 780972 E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk