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Subject: ai-medicine digest Vol. 6 No. 1

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Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Fri Mar 26 16:10:57 PST 1993

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| TODAY'S TOPICS |
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(1) Calendar
(2) portable knowledge   [Hamilton]
(3) EXPERT SYSTEMS - call for papers   [Expert Systems]
(4) BEAGLE and medicine   [Hamilton]
(5) Re: BEAGLE and medicine (reply to Hamilton)   [Lipton]
(6) Re: BEAGLE and medicine (reply to Hamilton)   [McLinden]
(7) Re: Request (reply to Krishnamurthy)   [Edwards]
(8) Summer Job Opportunity   [Rosner]
(9) AIME-93   [Engelbrecht]

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS RELATED TO AI IN MEDICINE
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(note: if a full announcement of a conference has appeared on the
 mailing list, a digest reference is given.  The long version of the
 calendar, including contact information for most conferences, is
 available in the ftp archives of the mailing list.)


* Conference of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
        and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB'93):
        (Birmingham, UK, March 29-April 3, 1993) [v5n5]

* 11th International Congress of Medical Informatics (MIE'93):
        (Jerusalem, Israel, April 18-22, 1993) [v5n6]

* Computers In Healthcare Education Symposium:
        (Philadelphia, PA, April 29-30, 1992) [v4n9]

* AMIA 1993 Spring Congress: The Electronic Medical Record:
        (St. Louis, MO, May 9-12, 1993) [n/a]

* The Third International Workshop on Human & Machine Cognition
        (Expertise in Context: Human & Machine):
        (Seaside, Florida, May 13-15, 1993) [v5n5]

* A Workshop On Computational Neurosciences
        (Austin, TX, May 14-15, 1993) [v5n7]

* 7th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems:
        (Orcas Island, WA, May 16-19, 1993) [v4n9]

* Medical Informatics Forum of Argentina:
        (Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 8-10, 1993) [v5n10]
        --> papers due by April 30, 1993

* Computer-Based Medical Systems: an IEEE Symposium (CBMS-93):
        (Ann Arbor, MI, June 13-16, 1993) [n/a]

* 3rd Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
  (BISFAI-93):
        (Ramat Gan, Israel, June 15-17, 1993) [v5n3]:

* 7th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems:
        (Trondheim, Norway, June 15-18, 1993) [v4n9]

* III IMACS International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning and
  Decision Technologies (QUARDET 92):
        (Barcelona, Spain, June 16-18, 1993) [v3n8]

* NASA Space Station Freedom (SSF) Utilization Conference
        (San Francisco, CA, June 21-24, 1993) [v5n5]

* Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence (FLAI-93):
        (Linz, Austria, June 28-30, 1993) [v5n5]

* 1st International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology:
        (Washington, DC, July 7-9, 1993) [v4n8]

* Ninth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence:
        (Washington, DC, July 9-11, 1993) [v4n9]

* 1993 International Neural Network Annual Meeting:
        (Portland, OR, July 11-15, 1993) [v4n9]

* AAAI-93:
        (Washington, DC, July 11-16, 1993) [n/a]

* AAAI-93 Workshop on Reasoning About Function:
        (Washington, DC, during AAAI-93 (July 11-16, 1993) [v5n3]

* 4th International Symposium of the International Society for Brain
        Electromagnetic Topography (ISBET-93):
        (Havana, Cuba, July 20-23, 1993) [v5n5]

* IMIA - IFMBE Working Conference on Biosignal Interpretation
        (Skoerping, Denmark, August 25-27, 1993) [v4n9]
        --> complete papers due by March 31, 1993

* IJCAI-93:
        (Chambery, France, August 29-September 3, 1993) [n/a]

*  4th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-93):
        (Aberystwith, Wales, September 6-8, 1993) [v5n7]
        --> submissions due May 17, 1993

* International Course on Data Banks and Computer Support of the Human
        Genome Project:
        (Moscow, Russia, September 13-17, 1993) [v5n7]
        --> deadline for applications is April 1, 1993

* 4th Annual Conference of Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, and Planning
        in High Autonomy Systems (AIS'93):
        (Tucson, AZ, September 20-22, 1993) [ftp]
        --> extended abstracts due April 15, 1993

* 4th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME-93):
        (Munich, Germany, 3-6 October, 1993) [v6n1]
        --> submissions due by April 30, 1993

* EEG Continuous Waveform Analysis Symposium:
        (New Orleans, LA, October 9, 19930 [v5n10]

* 4th Annual Keck Symposium on Computational Biology:
        (Pittsburgh, PA, October 24-25, 1993) [n/a]

* 15th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine
        and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS'93):
        (San Diego, CA, October 28-31, 1993) [n/a]
        --> two page papers due by May 1, 1993

* American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Computers and Other
        Technologies (SCOT) Scientific Meeting:
        (Washington, D.C., October 31, 1993) [v5n7]
        --> abstracts due May 1, 1993

* 2nd World Congress on Expert Systems:
        (Lisbon, Portugal, January 10-14, 1994) [n/a]

* 3rd Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming (EP'94):
        (San Diego, CA, February 24-25, 1994) [n/a]
        --> extended summaries due June 30, 1993

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 17:27:47 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Expert Systems)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: EXPERT SYSTEMS - call for papers

                             Expert Systems

 The International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Neural Networks

                             Call for papers

Now in its tenth year, Expert Systems: The International Journal of Knowledge
Engineering and Neural Networks is a quarterly technical journal devoted to
all aspects of the development and use of expert systems and neural networks.
Its aim is to present a wide variety of material linked by technical quality.
Its readers include knowledge engineers, artificial intelligence researchers,
project managers, computer scientists and managers.

Expert Systems is always interested in receiving papers on any subject within
its remit and would like to take this opportunity to invite authors to
contribute material to be considered for publication. Articles should contain
significant technical information that will be of general interest to people
working in expert systems and neural networks, and should present information
on the technical aspects of the work reported rather than on the application
domain. Any system presented should be described in useful detail with
examples to illustrate its construction and use.

                              Subject scope

The subject scope of the journal is as follows (the list is neither
exhaustive nor exclusive):

 - Expert systems: descriptions of the design, development, implementation and
use of expert systems in all application domains; detailed information on
systems in unusual or difficult domains or systems with unusual technical
features.

 - Neural networks: network architectures; knowledge processing; vision; self
organizing systems; optical neurocomputing; cooperative and competitive
neural networks dynamics; speed recognition and synthesis; neurobiological
connections; learning algorithms; robotics; adaptive resonance; combinatorial
optimisation; cognitive science connections; comparison between artificial
intelligence and artificial neural nets.

 - Technical developments: technical aspects of knowledge representation;
reasoning; interfacing with other systems; the use of programming languages,
software tools and hardware in building expert systems.

 - Research topics: research in new methods of knowledge representation;
reasoning; machine learning; man-machine interfaces; knowledge acquisition;
methodologies for developing expert systems; future aspects of expert
systems.

 - Impact of expert systems: the effect of introducing expert systems into
organizations; social and economic impact of expert systems; impact of
expert systems on particular business sectors.


For further information, a guide for authors, and/or subscription information
please contact:

Ben Jeapes
Learned Information (Europe) Ltd
Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford  OX1 5AU, United Kingdom.
Tel: [phone]. Fax: [phone].
Internet: [e-mail]
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 17:18:08 +0100
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Summer Job Opportunity

Istituto Dalle Molle IDSIA
Lugano, Switzerland
1993 Summer Programme for Graduate Students
Istituto Dalle Molle IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland

The IDSIA Summer Programme for graduate students, initiated in 1991,
exists to promote intellectual and cultural contact between IDSIA and
other research institutions in Switzerland and abroad. In 1993 we will
again invite a small number (2-3) of well-qualified graduate students
to the institute for a period of three months (ideally June-August)
during which they undertake some agreed upon project-related activity.
In return for this they receive a modest salary that is sufficient to
cover living expenses, travel and accommodation.

IDSIA is a small (c. 15 people) government-funded AI research
institute situated in Lugano, a lakeside city in the Italian-speaking
canton of Ticino, well-known for its warm climate and outstanding
scenery.  The institute is well-equipped and is currently involved in
a number of research projects involving natural language, robotics,
machine learning, language processing, AI teaching, and medicine.

There is currently a **POSITION VACANT** for a graduate student in the
domain of AI & MEDICINE: specifically, we are developing tools for
cancer research in collaboration with local hospitals, particularly in
the domain of breast cancer, by applying AI learning techniques and
established statistical methods to the analysis large quantitites of
medical data collected during international trials.  We are also
initiating activities concerning the problem of designing and
implementing a tumour register.

To apply, suitably qualified candidates should send, preferably by
email, a curriculum vitae that includes the names of two referees and
an indication of availability during the Summer months.

Michael Rosner, IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, 6900 Lugano, [e-mail],
tel. [phone], fax [phone]

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