From hilario@cui.unige.ch Tue Feb 1 21:38:47 EST 1994 Article: 20488 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20488 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!zaphod.crihan.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!news.unige.ch!usenet From: hilario@cui.unige.ch (HILARIO Melanie) Subject: CFP: ECAI-94 Workshop on Combining Symbolic & Connectionist Processing Message-ID: <1994Jan31.192749.8992@news.unige.ch> Sender: usenet@news.unige.ch Reply-To: hilario@cui.unige.ch Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 19:27:49 GMT Lines: 107 Call for Papers COMBINING SYMBOLIC AND CONNECTIONIST PROCESSING Workshop held in conjunction with ECAI-94 August 9, 1994 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands Until a few years ago, the history of AI has been marked by two parallel, often antagonistic streams of development -- classical or symbolic AI and connectionist processing. A recent research trend, premissed on the complementarity of these two paradigms, strives to build hybrid systems which combine the advantages of both to overcome the limitations of each. For instance, attempts have been made to accomplish complex tasks by blending neural networks with rule-based or case-based reasoning. This workshop will be the first Europe-wide effort to bring together researchers active in the area in view of laying the groundwork for a theory and methodology of symbolic/connectionist integration (SCI). The workshop will focus on the following topics: o theoretical (cognitive and computational) foundations of SCI o techniques and mechanisms for combining symbolic and neural processing methods (e.g. ways of improving and going beyond state-of-the-art rule compilation and extraction techniques) o outstanding problems encountered and issues involved in SCI (e.g. Which symbolic or connectionist representation schemes are best adapted to SCI? The vector space used in neural nets and the symbolic space have fundamental mathematical differ- ences; how will these differences impact SCI? Do we have the conceptual tools needed to cope with this representation problem?) o profiles of application domains in which SCI has been (or can be) shown to perform better than traditional approaches o description, analysis and comparison of implemented symbolic/ connectionist systems SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Prospective participants should submit an extended abstract to the contact person below, either via email in postscript format or via regular mail, in which case three copies are required. Each submission should include a separate information page containing the title of the paper, author names and affiliations, and the complete address (including telephone, fax and email) of the first author. The paper itself should not exceed 12 pages. Submission deadline is April 1, 1994. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to first authors by May 1, 1994. Camera-ready copies of accepted papers are due on June 1st and will be reproduced for distribution at the workshop. Those who wish to participate without presenting a paper should send a request describing their research interests and/or previous work in the field of SCI. Since attendance will be limited to ensure effective inter- action, these requests will be considered after screening of submitted papers. All workshop participants are required to register for the main conference. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bernard Amy (LIFIA-IMAG, Grenoble, France) Patrick Gallinari (LAFORIA, University of Paris 6, France) Franz Kurfess (Dept. Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany) Christian Pellegrini (CUI, University of Geneva, Switzerland Noel Sharkey (DCS, University of Sheffield, UK) Alessandro Sperduti (CSD, University of Pisa, Italy) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline April 1, 1994 Notification of acceptance/rejection May 1, 1994 Final papers due June 1, 1994 Date of the workshop August 9, 1994 CONTACT PERSON Melanie Hilario CUI - University of Geneva 24 rue General Dufour CH-1211 Geneva 4 Voice: +41 22/705 7791 Fax: +41 22/320 2927 Email: hilario@cui.unige.ch