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- From: ijcai@cs.uni-sb.de (Erica Melis *IJCAI Workshop*)
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- Subject: IJCAI Workshop
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 01:00:32 GMT
- Expires: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 08:00:00 GMT
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- **** CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION ****
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- IJCAI-93 Workshop on
- "Principles of Hybrid Representation and Reasoning"
- August 28, 29, or 30, Chambery, France
-
-
- Topic: The one-day workshop will focus on issues common to the
- integration of deductive and representation-based reasoning.
- Several areas of AI have independently developed techniques for
- incorporating reasoning based on various semantically oriented
- representations into more traditional deductive systems. The
- resulting heterogenous systems are called Hybrid Reasoners. Some
- specific activities making use of Hybrid Reasoning are model-
- based methods in theorem proving, the manipulation of diagrams as
- a means of inference, and analogical reasoning based on typical
- examples. This development has been paralleled in Cognitive
- Psychology, where recent research has investigated reasoning with
- examples and perceptually-based representations, as well as more
- explicit, rule-based, inference. This workshop provides a forum
- for researchers in diverse areas investigating hybrid reasoning
- and representation. One of our principal aims is to discover
- what is common to the different approaches, and to lay the foun-
- dations for a theory of hybrid systems. Issues we expect to ad-
- dress include (but are not limited to):
-
- - What are the reasons/the criteria for using hybrid systems and
- semantic representations?
- - What is the information content of hybrid representations?
- - What is an appropriate semantics of hybrid systems?
- - Are there appropriate concepts for hybrid systems similar to
- soundness and completeness?
- - Are hybrid systems more efficient computationally than their
- deductive counterparts?
- - How can semantically-represented information be incorporated
- into more traditional deductive systems?
- - What forms of representation and processes operating on repre-
- sentations are potentially useful for intelligent agents: what
- are their advantages and disadvantages relative to different
- contexts and purposes, and to what extent can or should they be
- mixed?
-
- It should be noted that we are placing emphasis on representa-
- tions that have an explicit semantical interpretation. This is
- in contrast to the neural network community, in which "hybrid
- systems" refer to combinations of symbolic and neural representa-
- tions. Although there are connections between these approaches,
- we will focus the workshop on "semantical" hybrid systems, and
- exclude research in the neural network area.
-
- The workshop will be open to researchers from the disciplines of
- Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Participants will
- be selected on the basis of submitted abstracts (10 page maximum,
- 12pt). Abstracts describing current work in the area are accept-
- able, but we especially encourage position papers that state
- strong opinions on the topics above. Abstracts may be submitted
- by email in the form of one standard LaTeX file preferably, or
- four hard copies may be sent to the workshop chair (see below).
- Papers must contain author's name(s), full address, email, and
- phone number. The final papers will be published in the workshop
- proceedings. To facilitate a productive workshop, attendance
- will be restricted. Those interested in participating, but not
- wishing to submit an abstract, should submit a short research
- statement and bibliography.
-
-
- Each WS attendee must have registered for the main IJCAI confe-
- rence. S/He will pay an additional (low) 300 FF fee for the WS
- (about US$60).
-
- Schedule: papers received: March 1st, 1993
- notice of acceptance: April 1st, 1993
- final papers received: June 1st, 1993
-
- Organization and Program Committee:
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- J.Halpern, IBM Almaden Research Center
- M.Kerber, Universitaet des Saarlandes, FB Informatik
- K.Konolige, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
- E.Melis, Universitaet des Saarlandes, FB Informatik
- K.Myers, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International
- J.Siekmann, DFKI Saarbruecken
- A.Sloman, University Birmingham School of Computer Science
- M.Vardi, IBM Almaden Research Center
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- Chair: Erica Melis, Universitaet des Saarlandes, FB Informatik,
- D-W-6600 Saarbruecken 11, Germany
- email:ijcai@cs.uni-sb.de
-