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Calendar of Events APRIL 6–7 Workshop on Lexical Semantics Systems (WLSS–98). Pisa, Italy ■ Contact: Alessandro Lenci Scuola Normale Superiore College Park, MD 20742 Laboratorio di linguistica March 1998 Piazza dei Cavalieri 7 MARCH 23–27 56126 Pisa, Italy MARCH 16–20 Practical Application Expo-98. Voice: +39 50 509219 Fourth World Congress on Expert London. Fax: +39 50 563513 Systems. Mexico City, Mexico celi.sns.it/~wlss98 ■ Contact: Tenth International Symposium on Steve Cartmell . Mexico City, Practical Application Company APRIL 6–8 Mexico PO Box 173, Blackpool 1998 International Symposium on ■ Sponsor: Lancs. FY2 9UN Physical Design (ISPD–98). Mon- ITESM Center for Artificial United Kingdom terey, CA Intelligence Voice: +44 (0)1253 358081 ■ Sponsors: ■ Contact: Fax: +44 (0)1253 353811 ACM SIGDA, in cooperation with Rogelio Soto E-mail: [email protected] IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Program Chair, ITESM www.demon.co.uk/ar/Expo98/ and IEEE Society Centro de Inteligencia Artificial ■ Contact: Av. Eugenio Garza Sada #2501 Sur D. F. Wong Monterrey, N. L. 64849, Mexico Technical Program Chair, ISPD–98 Voice: (52–8) 328-4197 University of Texas at Austin Fax: (52-8) 328-4189 April 1998 Department of Computer Sciences E-mail: [email protected]. Austin, TX 78712 APRIL 1–4 itesm.mx E-mail: [email protected] Second European Conference on www.ee.iastate.edu/~ispd98 Cognitive Modeling (ECCM–98). MARCH 16–20 Nottingham, UK International Workshop on APRIL 14–17 ■ Intelligent Agents on the Internet Contact: Fourteenth European Meeting on and Web. Mexico City, Mexico Frank Ritter Cybernetics and Systems Department of Psychology ■ (EMCSR’98). Vienna, Austria Contact: University of Nottingham ■ Sponsor: San Murugesa Nottingham NG7 2RD Austrian Society for Cybernetic University of Western Sydney England Studies Macarthur, P.O. Box 555 Voice: +44 115 951-5292 Campbelltown, NSW 2560 Fax: +44 115 951-5324 ■ Contact: Australia E-mail: frank.ritter@ Robert Trappl Voice: +61-46-203 513 nottingham.ac.uk University of Vienna Fax: +61-46-266 683 Department of Medical Cybernet- E-mail: [email protected] APRIL 1–4 ics and AI Invited Session on Intelligent Prog- Freyung 6/2 A-1010 MARCH 23–25 nostic Methods in Medical Diagno- Vienna, Austria 1998 Spring Symposium Series. sis and Treatment Planning. Voice: +43-1-53532810 Stanford, CA Nabeul–Hammamet, Tunisia Fax: +43-1-5320652 ■ E-mail: [email protected] Sponsor: ■ Contact: American Association for Artificial Ameen Abu-Hanna Intelligence University of Amsterdam ■ Contact: Department of Medical Bonnie Dorr Academic Medical Center May 1998 University of Maryland Meibergdreef 15 Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 1105 AZ Amsterdam MAY 10–13 A. V. Williams Building, The Netherlands Second International Conference Room 3157 Voice: +31 20 5664511 on Autonomous Agents (Agents Department of Fax: +31 20 6912432 ‘98). Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

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■ Contact: MAY 26–29 ■ Contact: Anand S. Rao Twelfth International Workshop Moonis Ali Australian Artificial Intelligence on Qualitative Reasoning, Cape General Chair Institute Cod, MA IEA/AIE–98 Level 6, ■ Contact: Southwest Texas State University Department of Computer Science 171 La Trobe Street Ken Yip San Marcos, TX 78666-4616 Melbourne, Victoria NE43-430 Voice: 512-245-3409 Australia 3000 MIT AI Lab Mass. Institute of Technology Fax: 512-245-8750 Voice: +61-3-9663-7922 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +61-3-9663-7937 ai-www.aist-nara.ac.jp/doc/ E-mail: [email protected] qphysics JUNE 2–5 Sixth International Conference on MAY 15–16 MAY 27–30 Principles of Knowledge Represen- Fifth International Workshop on International Conference on Artifi- tation and Reasoning (KR'98). Temporal Representation and Rea- cial Intelligence and Soft Comput- Trento, Italy soning (TIME–98). Sanibel Island, ing. Cancun, Mexico ■ Contact: FL ■ Sponsor: Stuart C. Shapiro ■ Contact: IASTED Department of Computer Science State University of New York Robert Morris ■ Contact: Buffalo, NY TIME–98 Program Chair Lorrie L.W. Morley E-mail: [email protected] IASTED Florida Institute of Technology www.kr.org/kr/kr98/ Computer Science Program #80, 4500 – 16 Avenue N.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3B 0M6 150 University Boulevard JUNE 4–6 Voice: 403-288-1195 Melbourne, FL 32901 Sixth European Conference on Fax: 403-247-6851 Information Systems (ECIS ‘98). E-mail: [email protected] MAY 17–20 Aix-en-Provence, France www.iasted.com Eleventh International FLAIRS ■ Contact: Conference (FLAIRS–98). Sanibel Bartoli Jacques-André Island, FL Organizing Committee Chair ■ Contact: June 1998 AIE Aix-en-Provence Diane J. Cook Université of Aix-Marseille III Clos Guiot FLAIRS–98 Program Chair JUNE 1–4 13540, Puyricard, University of Texas at Arlington International Conference on Intel- France Box 19015 ligent Systems and Control. Hali- Fax: +33(0) 4 42 28 08 00 Arlington, TX 76019 fax, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Voice: 817/272-3606 ■ Sponsor: Fax: 817/272-3784 IASTED JUNE 6–8 E-mail: [email protected] ■ Contact: Sixth International Conference on IASTED Secretariat ISC’98 Principles of Knowledge Represen- MAY 24–27 1811 West Katella Avenue, tation and Reasoning (KR’98). Ninth International Workshop on Suite 101 Trento, Italy Principles of Diagnosis. Cape Cod, Anaheim, CA 92804 ■ Contact: MA. Voice: 714-778-3230 Nicola Guarino Fax: 714-778-5463 National Research Council ■ Contact: E-mail: [email protected] LADSEB-CNR, Corso Stati Uniti, 4 P. Panduarng Nayak I-35127 Padova, Italy NASA Ames Research Center JUNE 1–4 E-mail: [email protected] MS 269-2 Eleventh International Conference Moffett Field, CA 94035 on Industrial and JUNE 6–8 Voice: 650-604-4756 Applications of Artificial Intelli- International Conference on Fax: 650-604-3594 gence and Expert Systems Formal Ontology in Information E-mail: nayak@ (IEA/AIE–98). Castellon, Spain Systems (FOIS’98). Trento, Italy ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov ■ Sponsor: ■ Contact: ic-www.arc.nasa.gov/ic/ International Society of Applied Alessandro Artale projects/mba/dx98.html Intelligence Organization Chair

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ITC–IRST ■ Sponsor: Wolfgang Bibel Povo, I-38050 Canadian Society for Computa- Darmstadt Univ. of Technology Trento, Italy tional Studies of Intelligence Alexanderstr. 10 E-mail: [email protected] ■ Contact: D-64283 Darmstadt Robert Mercer Germany JUNE 7–10 University of Western Ontario Voice: +49 (6151) 16-2100 Fourth International Conference Department of Computer Science Fax: +49 (6151) 16-5326 on Artificial Intelligence Planning London, ON N6A 5B7 E-mail: [email protected] Systems (AIPS–98). Pittsburgh, PA Canada darmstadt.de ■ Contact: E-mail: [email protected] AIPS–98 or JULY 12–14 Reid Simmons Eric Neufeld Fourth International Colloquium Carnegie Mellon University Department of Computer Science on Grammatical Inference School of Computer Science 57 Campus Drive (ICGI’98). Ames, IA 5000 Forbes Avenue University of Saskatchewan ■ Sponsors: Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A9 International Institute of Theoreti- E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] cal and Applied Physics and JUNE 8–10 JUNE 28–JULY 1 ■ Contact: Eleventh Computer Animation Sixth International Conference on Vasant Honavar Conference. University of Pennsyl- Intelligent Systems for Molecular Iowa State University vania, Philadelphia, PA Biology (ISMB '98). Montreal, Department of Quebec, Canada ■ Contact: Computer Science ■ Dimitris Metaxas Contact: 226 Atanasoff Hall Dept. of Computer and Informa- Janice Glasgow Ames, IA 50011 tion Science Department of Computing and Voice: 515-294-1098 Information Science University of Pennsylvania E-mail: [email protected] Queen's University 200 South 33rd St. Kingston, Ontario Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 JULY 13–17 Canada K7L 3N6 Voice: 215-898-0945 Eleventh Australian Joint Confer- E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 215-898-0587 ence on Artificial Intelligence. www-lbit.iro.umontreal.ca/ISMB98 E-mail: dnm@ Brisbane, Australia central.cis.upenn.edu ■ Contact: John Slaney JUNE 15–19 Conference ChairI Fifth Annual Medical Informatics July 1998 Automated Reasoning Project Short Course: An Introduction to, Australian National University and Overview of, the Field of Med- JULY 2–8 Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia ical Informatics. Stanford, CA Third International Conference on E-mail: [email protected] ■ Contact: Multiagent Systems (ICMAS’98). www.cit.gu.edu.au/conferences/ai98/ Lawrence Fagan Paris, France Section on Medical Informatics ■ Contact: JULY 20–23 Stanford University School of Yves Demazeau Fifth International Conference on Medicine General Chair Artificial Intelligence in Design 251 Campus Drive Laboratoire LEIBNIZ-IMAG (ADB’98). Lisbon, Portugal MSOB X-215 Universites de Grenoble et CNRS ■ Sponsors: Stanford, CA 94305-5479 46 Avenue Felix Viallet University of Sydney Voice: 650-723-6979 F-38031 Grenoble cx Key Centre of Design Computing Fax: 650-725-7944 France and E-mail: E-mail: [email protected] Instituto Superior Técnico [email protected] ■ Contact: www.smi.stanford.edu/ JULY 5–10 Fay Sudweeks shortcourse.html Fifteenth International Conference Conference Manager on Automated Deduction Key Centre of Design Computing JUNE 18–20 (CADE’98). Lindau, Germany University of Sydney Twelfth Canadian Conference on ■ Sponsor: Sydney, Artificial Intelligence (AI–98). Van- German Association for Research New South Wales 2006 couver, British Columbia, Canada ■ Contact: Australia

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT The Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS-98)

June 7-10, 1998 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

he International Conference on AI Planning Systems will bring together researchers working in all aspects of problems in planning, scheduling, planning and learning, and plan execution, for dealing with Tcomplex problems. The format of the conference will include paper presentations, invited speakers, panel discussions, workshops, and planning and scheduling competitions.

Conference Chair: James Allen, University of Rochester Program Chairs: Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University; Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, and Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University Workshop Chair: Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planning Competition Rules Committee Chair: Drew McDermott, Yale University Scheduling Competition Rules Committee Chair: Mark Boddy, Honeywell Corporation

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aips98 [email protected]

Voice: +61-2-9351-5933 Fax: 650-321-4457 www.cs.wisc.edu/icml98/ Fax: +61-2-9351-3031 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] JULY 24–26, 1998 JULY 24–26 Fourteenth Annual Conference on JULY 22–24 Eleventh Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelli- Seventh Conference on Theoretical Computational Learning Theory. gence. University of Wisconsin Aspects of Rationality and Knowl- Madison, WI Business School, Madison, WI edge (TARK VII). Evanston, IL ■ Contact: ■ Contact: ■ Contact: Peter Bartlett Gregory F. Cooper Joe Halpern E-mail: Peter.Bartlett@ Center for Biomedical Informatics Conference Chair, TARK VII keating.anu.edu.au University of Pittsburgh Voice: 607-255-9562 theory.lcs.mit.edu/COLT-98/ Suite 8084 Forbes Tower Fax: 607-255-4428 index.html 200 Lothrop Street E-mail: [email protected] Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2582 www.tark.org JULY 24–26, 1998 Voice: 412-647-7113 Fifteenth International Conference Fax: 412-647-7190 JULY 22–25 on . Madison, E-mail: [email protected] Genetic Programming 1998 Confer- WI www.uai98.cbmi.upmc.edu ence (GP–98). Madison, WI ■ Contact: ■ Contact: Jude Shavlik / ICML–98 JULY 26–30 John Koza Department of Computer Sciences Fifteenth National Conference on GP–98 Conference University of Wisconsin Artificial Intelligence. Madison, WI c/o AAAI 1210 W. Dayton Street ■ Sponsor: 445 Burgess Drive Madison, WI 53706 USA American Association for Artificial Menlo Park, CA 94025 Voice: 608-262-1204 Intelligence Voice: 650-328-3123 E-mail: [email protected] ■ Contact:

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AAAI Morton Ann Gernsbacher man98.html 445 Burgess Drive 1202 W. Johnson Street Menlo Park, CA 94025 University of Wisconsin-Madison AUGUST 31–SEPTEMBER 4 Voice: 650-328-3123 Madison, WI 53706-1611 Fifth Annual Medical Informatics Fax: 650-321-4457 E-mail: [email protected] Short Course: An Introduction to E-mail: [email protected] psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.ht and Overview of the Field of Medi- ml cal Informatics. Stanford, CA JULY 26–30 ■ Contact: Tenth Innovative Applications of AUGUST 16–19 Lawrence Fagan Artificial Intelligence Conference. Fourth International Conference Section on Medical Informatics Madison, WI on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Stanford University School of ■ Sponsor: San Antonio, TX Medicine American Association for Artificial ■ Sponsors: 251 Campus Drive, MSOB X-215 Intelligence Brooks Air Force Base, Stanford University ■ Contact: Mei Technology, Stanford, CA 94305-5479 AAAI St. Mary’s University, Voice: 650-723-6979 445 Burgess Drive Galaxy Scientific, Fax: 650-725-7944 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Command Technologies, E-mail: Voice: 650-328-3123 and University of Texas at San [email protected] Fax: 650-321-4457 Antonio www.smi.stanford.edu/short- E-mail: [email protected] ■ Contact: course.html Carol L. Redfield JULY 27–AUGUST 1 Mei Technology Corporation International Conference on AI Training Technology Division and Soft Computing, Calgary AL, 8930 Fourwinds Drive, #450 September 1998 Canada San Antonio, TX 78239 ■ Sponsor: Voice: 210-655-8911 SEPTEMBER 9–11 IASTED E-mail: [email protected] Third Joint Conference on Knowl- ■ Contact: edge-Based Software Engineering Lorrie L.W. Morley AUGUST 23–28 (JCKBSE’98). Smolenice, Slovakia Assistant Conference Organizer Thirteenth Biennial European Con- ■ Sponsors: IASTED ference on Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group on Knowl- 4500–16 Avenue N.W. (ECAI–98). Brighton, UK Unit #80 edge-Based Software Engineering ■ Contact: and the Institute of Electronics, Calgary, Alberta ECAI–98 Secretariat Canada T3B 0M6 Information, and Communication Centre for Advanced Software Engineers of Japan Voice: 403-288-1195 Applications Fax: 403-247-6851 ■ Contact: University of Sussex E-mail: [email protected] JCKBSE’98 Brighton, www.iasted.com Slovak University of Technology BN1 9QH Department of Computer Science United Kingdom and Engineering JULY 29–31, 1998 Voice: +44(0)1273 678448 Ilkovicova 3, Eighth Annual Meeting of the Soci- Fax: +44(0)1273 671320 812 19 Bratislava ety for Text and Discourse E-mail: [email protected] (ST&D98) Madison, WI Slovakia Fax: +421 7 720 415 ■ Contact: AUGUST 31–SEPTEMBER 2 E-mail: [email protected] text2.psych.umn.edu/ ST&DHome- Special interest Group in Manufac- Page.htmld/ turing Workshop on AI and Manu- facturing: State of the Art and State of Practice, Sandi National Labs, Albuquerque, NM October 1998 August 1998 ■ Contact: George Luger OCTOBER 5–9 AUGUST 1–4, 1998 Computer Science Department Sixth Iberoamerican Conference on Twentieth Annual Meeting of the University of New Mexico Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA- Society Madison, Albuquerque NM 98). Lisbon, Portugal WI E-mail: [email protected] ■ Sponsor: ■ Contact: www.cs.umn.edu/~gini/sigman/sig Portuguese Association for Artifi-

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cial Intelligence Joseph W. Sullivan or Scott Prevost ■ Paper Deadline: FX Palo Alto Laboratory November 1998 15 June 3400 Hillview Avenue NOVEMBER 22–27 ■ Building 4 Contact: Fifth Pacific Rim International Gabriel Pereira Lopes Palo Alto, CA 94301 Conference on Artificial Intelli- Departamento de Informatica E-mail: [email protected] gence (PRICAI–98). Singapore Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia ■ Contact: Universidade Nova de Lisboa OCTOBER 23–25 PRICAI'98 Secretariat Quinta da Torre AAAI Fall Symposium Series. Omni Japan–Singapore AI Centre 2825 Monte da Caparica Rosen Hotel, Orlando, FL 11 Science Park Road Portugal ■ Sponsor: Singapore 117684 Voice: (351 1) 294 85 36 American Association for Artificial Voice: (65) 770 5080 Fax: (351 1) 294 85 41 Intelligence (AAAI) Fax (65) 779 1827 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] ■ Contact: jsaic.iti.gov.sg/pricai98. OCTOBER 19–22 Fall Symposium Series 1998 First Workshop on Embodied Con- American Association for Artificial versational Characters, Tahoe City, Intelligence CA 445 Burgess Drive ■ Sponsor: Menlo Park, CA 94025 In cooperation with the American Voice: (650) 328-3123 Association for Artificial Intelli- Fax: (650) 321-4457 gence E-mail: [email protected] ■ Contact: www.aaai.org/Symposia/

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