AI Magazine Volume 18 Number 1 (1997) (© AAAI)
Calendar
April 1997
May 1997
APRIL 7–9
Third International Conference on
Knowledge Building and Knowledge Sharing, 1997: Principles of
Information Technology. Arlington, VA
■ Contact:
Su-Shing Chen, Conference Chair
UNCC (schen@uncc.edu)
MAY 10–11
Fourth International Workshop on
Temporal Representation and Reasoning. Daytona Beach, FL
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APRIL 7–11
Sixth International World Wide
Web Conference. Santa Clara, CA
■
Contact:
Anna Patterson
Stanford University
Department of Computer Science
Voice: 415/723-3334
Fax: 415/725-4671
annap@cs.stanford.edu
APRIL 10–13
Conference on Postmodern Culture, Global Capitalism, and
Democratic Action. College Park,
MD
■ Sponsor:
Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interaction
■ Contact:
Richard Harvey Brown
Dept. of Sociology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1315
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/
css97/index.html
APRIL 14–16
1997 International Symposium on
Physical Design (ISPD-97). Napa
Valley, CA
■
Sponsor:
ACM SIGDA
■
Contact:
Majid Sarrafzadeh
Northwestern University
ECE Dept., 2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Voice: 847/491-7378
Fax: 847/467-4144
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Contacts:
Robert Morris
Lina Khatib
Florida Institute of Technology
Computer Science Program
150 University Blvd.
Melbourne, FL 32901
Voice: 407/768-8000, ext. 7290
{morris,lina}@cs.fit.edu
MAY 26–27
First International Workshop on
Computational Semiotics
(IWCS’97). Paris, France
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Abstract Deadline:
1 April
■
Paper Deadline:
12 May
■
Contact:
IrAne Ludman
IWCS’97
Pyle Universitaire Leonard de Vinci
92916 Paris La Defense
Cedex, France
Voice: (33) 01 41 16 73 05
Fax: (33) 01 41 16 73 35
irene.ludmann@devinci.fr
June 1997
JUNE 3–6
Eleventh International Workshop
on Qualitative Reasoning. Tuscany,
Italy
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Contact:
Liliana Ironi
Istituto di Analisi Numerica
via Abbiategrasso 209
27100 Pavia, Italy
Voice: 39 382 529600
Fax: 39 382 529566
liliana@supers1.ian.pv.cnr.it
JUNE 5–6
Computer Animation ‘97. Geneva,
Switzerland
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Sponsors:
Computer Graphics Society,
University of Geneva, and Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology
■
Contact:
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
MIRA Lab
CUI
24 Rue du Giniral-Dufour
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Voice: +41-22-705-7769
Fax: +41-22-705-7780
thalmann@cui.unige.ch
JUNE 9–11
Third IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Components and Instruments
for Control Applications
(SICICA’97). Annecy, France
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Contact:
SICICA’97
Annecy-Congres
1 Rue Jean-Jaures
F-74000 Annecy, France
Voice: 33 50 45 00 70
Fax: 33 50 51 87 20
sicica97@esia.univ-savoie.fr
http://ava.univ-savoie.fr/sicica97/
JUNE 10–13
Second World Congress on Intelligent Manufacturing Processes and
Systems. Budapest, Hungary
■
Contact:
Laszlo Monostori
Hungarian Academy of Science
Computer and Automating
Research Institute
Kende u. 13-17
H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
Voice: 361 186 5644
Fax: 361 166 7503
laszlo.monostori@sztaki.hu
http://www.sztaki.hu/data/conferences/imps
JUNE 10–13
Tenth International Conference on
Industrial and Engineering Appli-
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cations of Artificial Intelligence
and Expert Systems (IEA/AIE-97).
Atlanta, GA
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Sponsor:
International Society of Applied
Intelligence
■
Contact:
Moonis Ali, IEA/AIE-97
Southwest Texas State University
Department of Computer Science
San Marcos, TX 78666-4616
Voice: 512/245-3409
Fax: (512) 245-8750
MA04@swt.edu
JUNE 18–20
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Sixth Workshops on Enabling Technologies:
Infrastructure for Collaborative
Enterprises (WET ICE’97). Cambridge, MA
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Sponsors:
IEEE Computer Society, Concurrent Engineering Research Center,
West Virginia University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contact:
Voice: 304/293-7226, ext. 245
wetice@cerc.wvu.edu
JUNE 21–26
Fifth International Conference on
Intelligent Systems for Molecular
Biology ‘97. Halkidiki, Greece
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JULY 7–9
Twelfth International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering (AIENG97). Capri, Italy
■
Sponsor:
Wessex Institute of Technology
■
Contact:
Clare Day
AIENG97 Conference Secretariat
Wessex Institute of Technology
Ashurst Lodge
Ashurst, Southampton SO40 7AA
United Kingdom
Voice: 44 1703 293 223
Fax: 44 1703 292 853
cday@wessex.ac.uk
JULY 7–11
Workshop on Referring Phenomena in a Multimedia Context and
Their Computational Treatment.
Madrid, Spain
■
Sponsors:
International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law and University of Melbourne, in
cooperation with AAAI
Contact:
Carole Hafner
Northeastern University
College of Computer Science
Boston, MA 02115
Voice: 617/373-5116
Fax: 617/373-5121
hafner@ccs.neu.edu
Sponsor:
Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest
Group on Multimedia Language
Processing
■
Paper Deadline:
24 April
■
Contact:
Thomas Rist
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
Voice: +49 681 302 5266
Fax: +49 681 302 5341
rist@dfki.uni-sb.de
Contact:
ismb97@embl-ebi.ac.uk
JUNE 30–JULY 3
Sixth International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Law
(ICAIL-97). Melbourne, Australia
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Voice: 415/328-3123
Fax: 415/321-4457
gp@aaai.org
http://www. aaai.org
July 1997
JULY 11
Workshop on Concept to Speech
Generation Systems. Madrid, Spain
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Paper Deadline:
21 April
Contact:
Kai Alter
kai@ai.univie.ac.at
JULY 13–16
Genetic Programming 1997 (GP-97)
Conference. Stanford, CA
■
Contact:
GP-97
American Association for
Artificial Intelligence
JULY 14–19
Summer School on Information
Extraction (SCIE-97). Rome, Italy
■
Sponsor:
University of Rome and Italian
Association of Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA)
■
Contact:
SCIE-97
University of Roma, Tor Vergata
Via della Ricerca Scientifica
00133 Roma, Italy
Voice: +39 6 72594488/4484
Fax: +39 6 2020519
scie97@info.utovrm.it
JULY 24–26
Fourth International Workshop on
Agent Theories, Architectures, and
Languages. Providence, RI
■
Contact:
Munindar P. Singh
North Carolina State University
Department of Computer Science
Raleigh, NC 27695-8206
Voice: 919/515-5677
Fax: 919/515-7896
singh@ncsu.edu
JULY 25–27
Second International Conference
on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR97). Providence, RI
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Sponsor:
In cooperation with AAAI
■
Contact:
iccbr97@iccbr.org
JULY 27-31
Fourteenth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, and Ninth
Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
Providence, RI
■ Contact:
AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Voice: 415/328-3123
Fax: 415/321-4457
ncai@aaai.org or iaaai@aaai.org
http://www.aaai.org
SPRING 1997
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AAAI 97
Fourteenth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and
Ninth Conference on
Innovative Applications of
Artificial Intelligence
Providence, RI
■
Contact:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
445 Burgess Drive • Menlo Park, CA 94025
Voice: 415/328-3123
Fax: 415/321-4457
ncai@aaai.org or iaaai@aaai.org
http://www.aaai.org
August 1997
AUGUST 4–6
Second International Symposium
on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA97). London, UK
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Sponsor:
University of London, in cooperation with AAAI
■
Paper Deadline:
15 May
■
Contact:
Paul Cohen
University of Massachusetts
Department of Computer Science
Lederle Graduate Research Center
Amherst, MA 01003-4610
cohen@cs.umass.edu
AUGUST 11–13
Second International Knowledge
Retrieval, Use, and Storage for Efficiency (KRUSE) Symposium. Vancouver, Canada
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Paper Deadline:
1 June
■
Contact:
Veronica Dahl
Simon Fraser University, Logic and
Functional Programming Group,
School of Computing Science
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
Voice: 604/291-3372
Fax: 604/291-3045
veronica@cs.sfu.ca
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Sponsors:
APA Committee on Philosophy
Computers and Carnegie Mellon
University Department of Philosophy
AUGUST 14-17
Third International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining. Newport Beach, CA
■ Contact:
American Association for Artificial
Intelligence
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Voice: 415/328-3123
Fax: 415/321-4457
kdd@aaai.org
http://www.aaai.org
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Contact:
Robert Cavalier
Voice: 412/268-7643
rc2z@andrew.cmu.edu
AUGUST 18–20
Sixth Scandinavian Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (SCAI’97).
AUGUST 7–9
Twelfth Annual Conference on
Computing and Philosophy (CAP).
Pittsburgh, PA
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Helsinki, Finland
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Paper Deadline:
15 March
■
Contact:
SCAI’97 Conference Secretariat
Paivi Kuuppelomaki
University of Helsinki
Department of Computer Science
P.O. Box 26, FIN-00014
Finland
Voice: +358 9 708 51
Fax: +358 9 708 444441
AUGUST 20–22
Fourth International Society for
Productivity Enhancement (ISPE)
International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and
Applications (CE-97). Troy, MI
■
Sponsors:
International Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and
Applications and ISPE
■
Contact:
Subra Ganesan
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48309
Voice: 810/370-2206
Fax: 810/370-4625
ganesan@oakland.edu
AUGUST 23–25
Workshop on Animated Interface
Agents: Making Them Intelligent.
Calendar
Nagoya, Japan
■
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Paper Deadline:
21 April
Contact:
Elisabeth Andre
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Germany
Voice: +49 681 302 5267
Fax: +49 681 302 5341
andre@dfki.uni-sb.de
AUGUST 23–29
Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Nagoya, Japan
■ Sponsors:
International Joint Conferences on
Artificial Intelligence and Japan
Society for Artificial Intelligence
■
Contact:
Michael P. Goergeff, Chair
Australia AI Institute
171 Latrobe Street
Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Voice: 61-3-9663-7922
Fax: 61-3-9663-7937
georgeff@aaai.oz.au
info@ijcai.org
http://ijcai.org/ijcai-97
September 1997
SEPTEMBER
Fourth European Conference on
Planning (ECP’97) (EWSP ‘97).
Toulouse, France
■
Submission Deadline:
3 May
■
Contact:
Sam Steel, University of Essex
Department of Computer Science
Colchester CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
Voice: 44 (0) 1206 872786
Fax: 44 (0) 1206 872788
sam@essex.ac.uk
http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/conferences/ecp-97.htm
SEPTEMBER 9–12
Twenty-First German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(KI’97).
■
Submission Deadline:
15 April
October 1997
■
Sponsor:
Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI)
■
Contact:
Bernhard Nebel
Albert-Ludwigs-Univ.
Am Flughafen 17
D-79227 Freiburg, Germany
nebel@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
OCTOBER 6–8
International Workshop on Neural
Networks for Identification, Control, Robotics, and Signal-Image
Processing (NICROSP’97). Hamamatsu, Japan
■
Submission Deadline:
31 March
■
Contact:
Kenzo Watanabe
Shizuoka University
Research Institute of Electronics
3-5-1 Johoku, Hamamatsu
432 Japan
Voice: +81 (53) 478-1326
Fax: +81 (53) 478-1326
watanabe-k@rie.shizuoka.ac.jp
SEPTEMBER 15–17
Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 1997 (VRST
‘97). Lausanne, Switzerland
■
Sponsor:
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH
■
Paper Deadline:
7 April
■
Contact:
Daniel Thalmann
EPFL
Computer Graphics Lab
CH 1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
Voice: +41-21-693-5214
Fax: +41-21-693-5328
thalmann@lig.di.epfl.ch
OCTOBER 6–9
Eighth Portuguese Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (EPIA’97).
Coimbra, Portugal
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Sponsor:
Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence
■
Paper Deadline:
16 June
■
Contact:
EPIA’97
Dep. Eng. Informatica
Universidade de Coimbra - Polo II
Pinhal de Marrocos
3030 Coimbra, Portugal
Voice: +351 (39) 7000004
Fax: +351 (39) 701266
epia97@alma.uc.pt
SEPTEMBER 16–19
Fifth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
(AI*IA’97). Rome, Italy
■
Contact:
Marco Schaerf
Organization Chair
Dipartimento di Informatica
e Sistemistica
Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma Italy
Voice: 39 6 49918332
Fax: 39 6 85300849
schaef@dis.uniroma1.it
SEPTEMBER 19–21
1997 Grace Hopper Celebration of
Women in Computing. San Jose,
CA
■
Contact:
Telle Whitney
Actel Corporation
955 E. Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Voice: 408/522-4360
telle@actel.com
OCTOBER 15–18
Tenth International Symposium on
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS’97). Charlotte, NC
■
Contact:
Zbigniew W. Ras
University of North Carolina
Department of Computer Science
Charlotte, NC 28223
Voice: 704/547-4567
Fax: 704/547-3516
http://www.aaai.org
OCTOBER 29–NOVEMBER 1
Third International Conference on
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP97).
Schloss Hagenburg, Austria
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Submission Deadline:
15 April
December 1997
■
Paper Deadline:
15 July
■
Contact:
http://www.mpi-sb.mgp.de/conferences/CP97/
DECEMBER 8–10
IASTED International Conference
on Intelligent Information Systems. Grand Bahama Island,
Bahamas
■
November 1997
NOVEMBER 7–9
AAAI Fall Symposium Series.
Cambridge, MA
■ Sponsor:
American Association for Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI)
■ Contact:
Fall Symposium Series 1997
AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Voice: (415) 328-3123
Fax: (415) 321-4457
fss@aaai.org
NOVEMBER 12–14
Second Spanish Meeting on Technology Transfer and Artificial Intelligence (TTIA 97). Malaga, Spain
■
Contact:
Jose Luis Perez de la Cruz
Dpto. Lenguajes y Ciencias de la
Computacion
Universidad de Malaga
Apartado 4114
29080 Malaga, Spain
Fax: +34 5 213.13.97
cruz@apolo.lcc.uma.es
NOVEMBER 12–14
Seventh Conference of the Spanish
Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 97). Malaga, Spain
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Sponsor:
Spanish Association for Artificial
Intelligence
Contact:
Jose Luis Perez de la Cruz
Dpto. Lenguajes y Ciencias de la
Computacion
Universidad de Malaga
Apartado 4114
29080 Malaga, Spain
Fax: +34 5 213.13.97
cruz@apolo.lcc.uma.es
Contact:
H. Adeli
Conference Chairman
Ohio State University
College of Engineering
470 Hitchcock Hall
2070 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1275
Voice/Fax: 614/292-7929
hadeli@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
March 1998
MARCH 16–20
Fourth World Congress on Expert
Systems. Mexico City, Mexico
■
Sponsor:
ITESM Center for Artificial Intelligence
■
Submission Deadline:
30 April 1997
■
Contact:
Rogelio Soto
Program Chair
ITESM
Centro de Inteligencia Artificial
Av. Eugenio Garza Sada #2501 Sur
Monterrey, N. L. 64849, Mexico
Voice: (52-8) 328-4197
Fax: (52-8) 328-4189
rsoto@campus.mty.itesm.mx
Monterrey, N. L. 64849, Mexico
Voice: (52-8) 328-4197
Fax: (52-8) 328-4189
rsoto@campus.mty.itesm.mx
October 1998
OCTOBER 5–9
Sixth Iberoamerican Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA98). Lisbon, Portugal
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Sponsor:
Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence
■
Paper Deadline:
15 June
■
Contact:
Gabriel Pereira Lopes
Departamento de Informatica
Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Quinta da Torre
2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal
Voice: (351 1) 294 85 36
Fax: (351 1) 294 85 41
gpl@di.fct.unl.pt
MARCH 16–20
Tenth International Symposium on
Artificial Intelligence. Mexico City,
Mexico
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Sponsor:
ITESM Center for Artificial Intelligence
■
Submission Deadline:
30 April 1997
■
Contact:
Rogelio Soto
Program Chair
ITESM
Centro de Inteligencia Artificial
Av. Eugenio Garza Sada #2501 Sur
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