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AIList Digest Wednesday, 11 Sep 1985 Volume 3 : Issue 121 Today's Topics: Seminars - Equational Logic as a Programming Language (UPenn) & Constructive Lexicon-Grammar (BBN) & Corporate Distribution Management (CMU) & Belief, Awareness, and Limited Reasoning (SU), Conferences - Factory Automation and Robotics & Aerospace Applications of AI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 85 14:10 EDT From: Tim Finin <Tim%upenn.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa> Subject: Seminar - Equational Logic as a Programming Language (UPenn) EQUATIONAL LOGIC AS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE Michael J. O'Donnell, The University of Chicago 3pm September 19th, 216 Moore School, University of Pennsylvania In logic programming languages, programs are logical assertions with no explicit procedural information, and execution consists of the efficient derivation of certain logical consequences of a program. Prolog, and relational database query languages are both logic programming languages based on the predicate calculus. The advantages of logic programming are clarity of programs, simplicity of semantics, and the potential for parallel execution without timing dependence. In this talk, I describe a programming language based on the logic of equations. A prototype implementation exists, and has been used in a number of experiments. The talk will focus on examples illustrating the advantages of equational programming, and the differences between equational programming and Prolog programming. ------------------------------ Date: 4 Sep 1985 17:37-EDT From: AHAAS at BBNG.ARPA Subject: Seminar - Constructive Lexicon-Grammar (BBN) [Forwarded from the MIT bboard by SASW@MIT-MC.] The next BBN Artificial Intelligence seminar will be held in the 3rd floor large conference room at 10 Moulton Street, 10:30 on Friday September 13. Bruce Nevins of BBN wil speak on "Constructive Lexicon-Grammar". His abstract: Maurice Gross's group in Paris found that, after they had specified French verbs by their syntactic properties, there was no need for lexical features to make further semantic distinctions between them. Because of this perhaps surprising result, they have been able to develop a highly specific lexical representation, using classifier words in sentence forms rather than abstract features. Their lexicon-grammar replaces most context-free parsing with simple lookup in 3-dimensional tables of syntactic properties of words. Constructive grammar, as exemplified by Harris's _A_Grammar_of _English_on_Mathematical_Principles_ (Wiley, 1984), uses only the constructive `has-a' relations of dependency and adjunction, limiting the taxonomic `is-a' relation to classifier hierarchies of words in the lexicon. A given input morpheme can only be one of a few kinds of things: an operator with specified argument requirement, a primitive argument (roughly, a concrete noun), an argument-indicator like -ing, the operator-indicator -s, or a product of certain precisely specifiable reductions of strings to more compact, and more conventional, form. Because each morpheme has at most only a very few possible syntactic roles--frequently, just one--computer analysis of text has much less structural ambiguity to cope with than in other approaches. In this talk, I will show how these two approaches to natural language processing may be combined in a system for construing (as opposed to parsing) natural language input that should be readily adaptable to text generation as well. I will sketch extensions similar to Naomi Sager's system for automatically incorporating new text information into subject-matter specific data bases. ------------------------------ Date: 9 Sep 85 11:09:38 EDT From: Jeanne.Bennardo@CMU-RI-ISL1 Subject: Seminar - Corporate Distribution Management (CMU) Topic: Presentation of Inet Project Speakers: Ramana Reddy and Nizwer Husain Place: DH3313 Date: Wednesday, September 11 Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm The Inet project is an application of Knowledge Based Simulation(KBS) techniques to the domain of corporate distribution management. Corporate distribution management provides a rich environment for studying new techniques developed in KBS. Consider a typical manufacturing organization which manufactures a number of products and whose components are manufactured in a number of widely separated locations. These components are warehoused and merged at different locations and distributed to reseller locations. In such a system there are numerous decisions that have to be made about the transportation, warehousing, manufacturing and order administration policies. The purpose of I-NET is to provide a simulation model which can be understood, modified and used by managers directly without the assistance of a programmer. These facilities should provide the manager with an indepth understanding of the distribution network and aid in decision making. ------------------------------ Date: Mon 9 Sep 85 10:45:56-PDT From: Anne Richardson <RICHARDSON@SU-SCORE.ARPA> Subject: Seminar - Belief, Awareness, and Limited Reasoning (SU) DAY October 1, 1985 EVENT Computer Science Colloquium PLACE Skilling Auditorium TIME 4:15 TITLE Belief, Awareness, and Limited Reasoning PERSON Dr. Joe Halpern FROM IBM Corporation BELIEF, AWARENESS, AND LIMITED REASONING Classical possible-worlds models for knowledge and belief suffer from the problem of logical omniscience: agents know all tautologies and their knowledge is closed under logical consequence. This unfortunately is not a very accurate account of how people operate! We review possible-worlds semantics, and then go on to introduce three approaches towards solving the problem of logical omniscience. In particular, in our logics, the set of beliefs of an agent does not necessarily contain all valid formulas. One of our logics deals explicitly with awareness, where, roughly speaking, it is necessary to be aware of a concept before one can have beliefs about it, while another gives a model of local reasoning, where an agent is viewed as a society of minds, each with its own cluster of beliefs, which may contradict each other. The talk will be completely self-contained. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Aug 85 10:33 EDT From: (Herb Bernstein) <BERNSTEIN@NYU-CMCL1.ARPA> Subject: Symposium on Fact. Aut. & Robotics [Forwarded from the MIT bboard by SASW@MIT-MC.] Reminder: The Symposium on Factory Automation and Robotics A Forum for Industrial and Academic Robotics Engineers and Scientists will be held 9-11 September 1985 by the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU in honor of Marvin Denicoff sponsored by the National Science Foundation Registration $35 ($25 for NYU faculty and staff), in advance to NYU/CIMS Symposium on Fac. Aut. and Robotics Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 251 Mercer Street, New York, N.Y. 10012 Attn: Herbert J. Bernstein Or at the meeting, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, Loeb Student Center, 566 LaGuardia Place (corner of LaGuardia Place and Wash. Sq. South). For more information or to RSVP, mail to yaya@nyu (on ARPANET), or call 212-533-3363 or 212-460-7444. ------------------------------ Date: 6 Sep 1985 13:30-EDT From: cross <cross@wpafb-afita> Subject: Aerospace Applications of AI Conference Registration is still open for the First Annual Aerospace Applications of Artificial Intelligence, September 17-19, 1985 in Dayton Ohio. The number to call for registration information is (513) 426-8430. The conference will be held at the Dayton Convention Center and the conference hotel, Stouffer's Dayton Plaza, is adjacent. Stouffer's phone number is (513) 224-0800. The registration cost of $225.00 includes the two conference luncheons and the banquet. The program is listed below: First Annual Aerospace Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference Program Tuesday Morning, 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Welcome to Dayton Mayor Paul Leonard Welcome to AAAIC'85 Jack Schira, AAAIC'85 General Chairman Capt Stephen E. Cross, AAAIC'85 Program Chairman Tuesday Morning, 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM Management Session Session Moderator: Brig Gen Philippe O. Bouchard Vice Commander, Aeronautical Systems Division Speakers: Brig Gen Philippe O. Bouchard Vice Commander, Aeronautical Systems Division Dr. Woodrow Bledsoe MCC and U. of Texas at Austin Dr. Joseph Watson Vice President of the Data Systems Group, Texas Instruments Dr. Clinton Kelly III Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Tuesday Luncheon, noon - 1:30 PM, Stouffer's Dayton Plaza Dr. Ed Taylor, TRW Tuesday Afternoon, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Avionics Session Session Moderator: Maj James R. Johnson, AFWAL Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tom Garvey, SRI International, AI Center "Keeping the Pilot in Command: AI and Avionics" Speakers: Dick Feldman and Hal Cambell, Systran "Expert System Pilot Aid - an Update" Dr. Bruce Anderson, Christa McNulty, and Garr S. Lystad "Expert Systems for Aiding Combat Pilots" Dr. Michael R. Fehling, Teknowledge Inc. "Research Issues for Knowledge Based Planning" Programming Languages Session Moderator: Dr. Gary Lamont, AFIT Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Kahn, Xerox PARC "The Integration of Multiple Paradigms for AI Programming" Speakers: Charles T. Kitsmiller, J. Boose, T. Jardine Boeing Computer Services "Coupling Symbolic and Numerical Computing in Expert Systems" Bruce Reed Jr., Goodyear Aerospace "An Implementation of LISP on a SIMD Parallel Processor" Dick Naedel, Intellimac "Ada and Artificial Intelligence" Mark Miller, Computer Thought "Ada and Artificial Intelligence" Wednesday Morning, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM Manufacturing Session Moderator: Dr. Vince Russo, AFWAL Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mark Fox, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ. "Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing" Speakers: Dr. Petros Papus, Westinghouse Electric Corp. "ISIS Project in Review" Robert Joy, Northrup Corp. "Lisp Machine Based Generative Process Planning and Object Oriented Simulation" Capt Thomas Triscari, AFIT, and Dr. William M Henghold, Universal Technology Institute "Research Needs for AI in Manufacturing" Man-Machine Interfaces Session Moderator: Dr. Tom Furness, AAMRL Keynote Speaker: Dr. William Rouse, Search Technology Inc. "Human Interaction with Intelligent Systems" Speakers: D. Woods and E. Roth, Westinghouse R&D Center "Joint Person-Machine Cognitive Systems: Issues in Intelligent Decision Support" Norm Geddes, Georgia Institute of Technology "Intent Inferencing Using Scripts and Plans" Dr. Russ Hunt, Search Technology Inc. "Human Factors of Intelligent Computer-aided Display Design" Wednesday Afternoon, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Maintenance Session Moderator: Cpt Rob Milne, Army AI Center, Pentagon Keynote Speaker: Dr. B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University "Artificial Intelligence Applications to Diagnostics and Maintenance" Speakers: Mr. R. Cantone, Automated Reasoning Corp., and Dr. Don Allen, Northrup Corp. "Technical Diagnosis by Automated Reasoning" Dr. Joseph Hintz, Raytheon Co. "Expert Systems in Higher Echelon Maintenance Activities" Dr. F. Pippitone and Dr. K DeJong, Naval Research Lab "FIS: An Electronics Fault Isolation System Based on Qualitative Causal Modeling" New Architectures Session Moderator: Dr. Barry Deer, Systran Keynote Speaker: Dr. Victor Lesser, Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst "Overview of Important Issues in Distributed Problem Solving" Speakers: Dr. Barry Deer, Hal Cambell, Jack Schira, and Dick Feldman, Systran "Architecture-Based Machine Intelligence" Cpt Richard Routh and Dr. Matthew Kabrisky, AFIT "Cortical Thought Theory: A New Computing Architecture Based on the Human Brain" Bruce Reed, Goodyear Aerospace "The ASPRO Parallel Inference Engine (A Real Time Production Rule System)" Wednesday Evening Banquet, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Dr. Mark Stefik, Xerox PARC Thursday Morning, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM Decision Support Systems Session Moderator: Dr. Yan Yufik, NCR Keynote Speaker: Prof Donald Michie, The Turing Institute "The Automated Development of Decision Support Systems" Speakers: Cpt Rob Milne, Army AI Center, Pentagon "An Equipment Distribution Expert System" Dr. Thomas Sheridan, MIT, and Dr. Yufik, NCR "Hybrid Knowledge Based System for Operation Planning" Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, Grumman-CTEC "Determining the Relevance of Cues: A New Type of Decision Support" Expert System Tools Session Moderator: Mr. David Dietz, System Research Laboratories Inc. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Earl Sacerdoti, Teknowledge Inc. "Overview of Expert System Building Tools" Speakers: Dr. William Faught, IntelliCorp "Aerospace Application and the Use of KEE" Linda Brainard, System Research Laboratories Inc. "Developing Portable Expert Systems" Mark Maletz, Inference Corp., and C. Cuthbert, NASA "Monitoring Real-Time Navigation Processes Using the Automated Reasoning Tool (ART)" ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************