From owner-theorynt@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Tue Jun 24 18:34:58 1997 Received: from CS.Stanford.EDU (CS.Stanford.EDU [171.64.64.64]) by robotics.Stanford.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA29352 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from listserv.nodak.edu (listserv.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.8]) by CS.Stanford.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA05481; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from listserv (134.129.111.8) by listserv.nodak.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.03977F00@listserv.nodak.edu>; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:34:31 -0500 Received: from LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU by LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) with spool id 1479476 for THEORYNT@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:34:25 -0500 Received: from listserv (134.129.111.8) by listserv.nodak.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.00DB0950@listserv.nodak.edu>; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:34:24 -0500 Received: from LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU by LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) with spool id 1479463 for THEORY-A@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:34:23 -0500 Received: from usc.edu by listserv.nodak.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.0012AC10@listserv.nodak.edu>; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 20:34:23 -0500 Received: from pollux2.usc.edu (pollux2.usc.edu [128.125.253.192]) by usc.edu (8.8.4/8.7.2/usc) with ESMTP id SAA10980 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ierardi@localhost) by pollux2.usc.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4/usc) id SAA07601 for theory-a@listserv.nodak.edu; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Approved-By: Doug Ierardi Approved-By: Theory-A - TheoryNet World-Wide Events Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 18:34:10 PDT Reply-To: Greger Linden Sender: TheoryNet List From: Greger Linden Subject: SCAI'97: Call for participation Comments: To: THEORY-A@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU To: THEORYNT@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by robotics.Stanford.EDU id SAA29352 Status: O X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 12004 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SCAI'97 The Sixth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 18 - 20, 1997 Helsinki, Finland at Metsatalo, Unioninkatu 40 http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/events/SCAI97/ Supported by Nordic Academy for Advanced Study The Academy of Finland IBM Omron Program Sunday, August 17, 1997 18:00- Reception by the Vice Rector of the University of Helsinki, 20:00 at the Main Building of the university, Aleksanterinkatu 5 17:00- Registration at Hotel Vaakuna, Asema-aukio 2 21:00 Monday, August 18, 1997 8:00 Reception and registration at Metsatalo, Unioninkatu 40B 8:40 Opening: Gösta Grahne (U. Helsinki) 8:45 Invited Lecture: Using Multi-Agent Systems to Represent Uncertainty, Joseph Y. Halpern (Cornell U.) 10:00 Coffee break 10:30 Logical Foundations I: Tableaux for Synchronous Systems of Knowledge and Time with Interactions, C. Dixon and M. Fisher (Manchester Met. U.) Revisiting Knowledge and Time from a Topological Point of View, B. Heinemann (FernU. Hagen) 11:30 Broadening the Scope: Intelligence, Agency and Interaction, P. Maattanen (U. Helsinki) Motives for Intelligent Agents: Computational Scripts for Emotion Concepts, C. L. Lisetti (Stanford U.) 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Invited Lecture: Information Granulation and its Centrality in Human and Machine Intelligence, Lotfi A. Zadeh (UC Berkeley) 15:00 Logical Foundations II: Combination and Updating for Belief Revision in the Theory of Evidence, M. Itoh and T. Inagaki (U. Tsukuba) On Iterated Belief Change, S. Eloranta (U. Helsinki) 16:00 Coffee break 16:30 Machine Learning I: On the Well-Behavedness of Important Attribute Evaluation Functions, T. Elomaa and J. Rousu (JRC Ispra VTT Helsinki) Knowledge Based Genetic Learning, U. Rost and P. Oechtering (U. Hannover) 17:30 - Poster Presentations 19:00 Tuesday, August 19, 1997 9:00 Invited Lecture: From MS Office Assistant (TM, 97) to von Neumann and Morgenstern (no TM, 47), Yoav Shoham (Stanford U.) 10:00 Coffee break 10:30 Programming I: Conceptualizing Classes: Making Object-Oriented Programming More Knowledgeable, S. Schacht and U. Hahn (Freiburg U.) Structured Explanations as a Support to Model Problem-Solving in a Task-Method Paradigm, F. Trichet and P. Tchounikine (U. Nantes) 11:30 Programming II: Application of Interval Domain Library: Expressing Connectivity via Non-Linear Constraints, E. S. Petrov (IIS Novosibirsk) TAO: A Multi-Agent Technology Based on Constraint Programming, I. Shvetsov, T. Nesterenko, S. Starovit (IIS Novosibirsk) 12:30 Lunch (on your own) 14:00 Invited Lecture: Strategic Negotiation and Cooperation Among Autonomous Agents, Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan U. & U. Maryland) 15:00 Multiagent Systems I: A Multi-Agent Architecture for Distributed Constrained Optimization and Control, J. W. Perram and Y. Demazeau (Odense U. Grenoble U.) ViSe2 - An Application of Intelligent Agents Approaching Efficient Cooperation, W. Cao, C.-G. Bian, G. Hartvigsen (U. Tromsø) 16:00 Coffee break 16:30 - Multiagent Systems II: 17:30 Dynamical and Distributed Process Management Based on Agent Technology, G. Joeris, C. Klauck and O. Herzog (U. Bremen) Task Decomposition in Distributed Problem Solving Systems: A Special Case, C. Papatheodorou (NCSR Attiki) 18:30 Excursion and banquet: A cruise to the Suomenlinna/Sveaborg fortress and dinner at the Walhalla restaurant. Wednesday, August 20, 1997 9:00 Invited Lecture: Exploration of Large Document Collections by Self-Organizing Maps, Teuvo Kohonen (Helsinki U. Technology) 10:00 Coffee break 10:30 Grouping techniques: We're All Going on a Summer Holiday: An Exercise in Non-Cardinal Case Base Retrieval, H. Osborne and D. Bridge (U. York) A Methodology for Knowledge Acquisition from Texts: An Application to Technical Documentation Consulting, H. Assadi (U. Paris 6) 11:30 Machine Learning II: Semi-Supervised Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms, A. Bensaid, A. Amar and N. Tazi Labzour (U. Ifrane) Instance Based Symbolic Pattern Association, R. G. Martin, R. J. Hickey and D. A. Bell (U. Ulster) 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Invited Lecture: Artificial Perception by Neural Networks, Erkki Oja (Helsinki U. Technology) 15:00 Neural Networks: Rule-Based Explanation in Connectionist Networks, X. Wu and J. Hughes (U. Ulster) Partially Precalculated Weights for Backpropagation Training of RAM-Based sigma-pi Nets, R. Neville (U. Hertfordshire) 16:00 Coffee break 16:30 Panel: Agent Technology and Techniques --- State of the Art and Future Directions, Moderator: J. Komorowski, Panelists: To be announced. 18:00 - Spotlight session (Poster Presentations) 19:30 CONFERENCE INFORMATION For registration please use the registration form at the end You will also find the form at the web site http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/events/SCAI97/. Fax or mail it to the Area Congress Team (Congress Team/Area Travel Agency, P.O. Box 6 (Paivarinnankatu 1), FIN-00251 HELSINKI, Finland. Conference registration fee: The conference fee is FIM 2000 (after June 30, FIM 2400) and for students FIM 800 (after June 30, FIM 1100). The fee includes admission to the conference, proceedings, coffee breaks, Monday and Wednesday lunches, conference excursion and dinner. The student fee also includes all of the above For cancellation received by letter or fax before June 30, 1997, the fee will be refunded, less FIM 500 administration charges. We regret that after this date no refunds will be possible. Send the cancellation letter to the Area Congress Team. Hotel reservation: All hotels are located in downtown Helsinki within walking distance from the conference location. Make your hotel reservation on the registration form. In order to obtain the special rates you are kindly requested to pay the first night in advance (together with the conference registration fees) in one single payment to the Area Congress Team. Please note that the special rates as well as the block bookings are only guaranteed for bookings made before 30 June 1997. Grants: There is a limited amount of (possibly partial) grants available for Nordic graduate students. When grants are decided, priority will be given, in order: (1) to students presenting papers, (2) to students presenting a poster, (3) to students participating. Please tick the appropriate box in the registration form if you are interested in such a grant and include a curriculum vitae with your registration. In this case, please return your registration before June 15 1997. Further information, contact SCAI'97 Paivi Kuuppelomaki Department of Computer Science P.O. Box 26 FIN-00014 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI Finland email: scai97@cs.helsinki.fi fax: +358 9 708 44441 phone: +358 9 708 51 url: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/events/SCAI97/ REGISTRATION FORM --------------- CUT HERE AND PRINT OUT ----------------------------------- Sixth Scandinavian Conference Please return this form by on Artificial Intelligence, SCAI'97 30 June 1997 to 18-20 August, 1997, Helsinki, Finland CONGRESS TEAM/ Area Travel Agency Ltd P.O. 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