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Fiscal Year 1986 Research Projects Funded by the Information Science Program (now Knowledge and Database Systems Program) A complete listing of these awards, including short descriptive abstracts of the research is available by writing to: Joseph Deken, Director Knowledge and Database Systems Program National Science Foundation 1800 G Street NW Washington, DC 20550 IST-8504726 $42,196 - 12 mos. James F. Allen University of Rochester Plan-Based Approaches to Extended Dialogues - - - BNS-8518675 $40,000 - 12 mos. James A. Anderson Brown University Cognitive Applications of Matrix Memory Models - - - IST-8511531 $19,097 - 12 mos. Robert Berwick Massachusetts Institute of Technology Learnability and Parsability - - - DCR-8603231 $27,000 - 12 mos. Alan W. Biermann Duke University Dialog Processing for Voice Interactive Problem Solving - - - IST-8612177 $9,747 - 12 mos. Jeffrey Bonar University of Pittsburgh Partial Support for Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1987 - - - IST-8604923 $64,660 - 12 mos. Alan H. Borning University of Washington Automatic Generation of Interactive Displays - - - IST-8643739 $121,074 - 12 mos. Bruce C. Buchanan Stanford University Information Structure and Use in Knowledge-Based Expert Systems - - - IST-8607303 $10,000 - 12 mos. Kathleen M. Carley Carnegie-Mellon University Knowledge Acquisition as a Social Phenomenon - - - IST-8515005 $75,900 - 12 mos. Eugene Charniak Brown Unive A Single-Semantic-Process Theory of Parsing - - - IST-8644629 $60,449 - 12 mos. Eugene Charniak Brown University An Approach to Abductive Inference in Artificial Intelligence Systems - - - IST-8608362 $172,9212 - 12 mos. Richard Cullingford Georgia Institute of Technology Robust Interaction and Natural Problem-Solving in Advice-Giving Systems - - - IST-8506706 $60,942 - 12 mos. Donald Dearholt New Mexico State University Properties of Networks Derived from Proximities - - - IST-8518706 $37,243 - 12 mos. Andre de Korvin Indiana University Foundation Modeling Goal Uncertainty and Goal Shaping in a Generalized Information System - - - IST-8609441 $20,205 - 6 mos. Michael L. Dertouzos Massachusetts Inst. Tech. Conference on Cellular Automata: Parallel Information Processing for Mathematics and Science - - - IST-8519926 $73,460 - 12 mos. Thomas G. Dietterich Oregon State University Learning by Experimentation - - - IST-8519924 $43,489 - 12 mos. John W. DuBois University of California at Los Angeles Information Transfer Constraints and Strategies in Natural Language Communication - - - DCR-8602385 $25,000 - 12 mos. Wayne Dyksen and Mikhail Atallah Purdue University High Level Systems for Scientific Computing - - - IST-8609123 $93,156 - 24 mos. Andrew U. Frank University of Maine at Orono A Formal Model for Representation and Manipulation of Spatial Subdivisions in Information Systems - - - IST-8611673 $18,000 - 3 mos. Thomas Gay University of Connecticut Health Center Travel Grant: U.S. - U.S.S.R. Symposium on Information Coding and Transmission in Biological Systems, October 3-13, 1986 - - - IST-8512419 $70,867 - 12 mos. Richard Granger University of California, Irvine Unification of Lexical, Syntactic, and Pragmatic Inference in Understanding - - - IST-8509860 $73,479 - 12 mos. Robert M. Gray Stanford University The Application of Information Theory to Pattern Recognition and the Design of Decision Tree Classifiers - - - IST-8603943 $134,694 - 18 mos. Max Henrion Carnegie Mellon University A Comparison of Methods for Representing Uncertainty in Expert Systems - - - DCR-8608311 $45,000 - 12 mos. Lawrence J. Henschen Northwestern University Logic and Databases - - - IST-8645349 $153,289 - 12 mos. Richard J. Herrnstein Harvard University A Comparative Approach to Natural and Artificial Visual Information Processing - - - IST-8520359 $70,735 - 12 mos. Geoffrey Hinton Carnegie-Mellon University Search Methods for Massively Parallel Networks - - - IST-8511541 $69,815 - 12 mos. Richard B. Hull University of Southern California Investigation of Practical and Theoretical Aspects of Semantic Database Models - - - IST-8643740 $98,507 - 12 mos. Ray Jackendoff and Jane Grimshaw Brandeis University Syntactic and Semantic Information in a Natural Language Lexicon - - - IST-8512108 $99,394 - 12 mos. Hans Kamp University of Texas at Austin Logic Representation of Attitudes for Computer Natural Language Understanding - - - IST-8644864 $35,721 - 12 mos. Abraham Kandel Florida State University Analysis and Modeling of Imprecise Information in Uncertain Environments - - - IST-8542811 $65,414 - 12 mos. R.L. Kashyap Purdue University Research on Inference Procedures with Uncertainty - - - IST-8644676 $74,752 - 12 mos. George J. Klir State University of New York at Binghamton Possibilistic Information: Theory and Applicability - - - IST-8552925 $54,250 - 12 mos. Richard E. Korf University of California at Los Angeles Presidential Young Investigator Award : Machine Learning - - - IST-8518307 $15,750 - 12 mos. Donald H. Kraft Louisiana State University Travel to the ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval: Pisa, Italy; September 8-10, l986 - - - DCR-8602665 $45,720 - 12 mos. Benjamin J. Kuipers University of Texas at Austin Knowledge Representations for Expert Causal Models - - - RII-8600412 $10,000 - 12 mos. Jill H. Larkin University of California at Berkeley Developing the Instructional Power of Modern Personal Computing - - - IST-8600412 $10,000 - 12 mos. Wendy G. Lehnert University of Massachusetts at Amherst Presidential Young Investigator Award: Natural Language Computing Systems - - - IST-8603697 $5,000 - 12 mos. Michael E. Lesk Bell Communications Research Workshop on Document Generation Principles - - - IST-8602765 $76078 - 12 mos. R. Duncan Luce Harvard University Measurement: Axiomatic and Meaningfulness Studies - - - IST-8444028 $62,500 - 12 mos. David Maier Oregon Graduate Center Presidential Young Investigator Award: Foundations of Knowledge Management Systems - - - IST-8604977 $46,956 - 12 mos. David Maier Oregon Graduate Center Automatic Generation of Interactive Displays - - - IST-8642813 $25,500 - 12 mos. Gerald S. Malecki Office of Naval Research Committee on Human Factors - - - IST-8606187 $19,650 - 12 mos. James L. McClelland Carnegie-Mellon University Workshop of Parallel Distributed Processing in Information and Cognitive Research (Washington, D.C. ; February 28 - March 1, 1986) - - - IST-8451438 $37,500 - 12 mos. Kathleen R. McKeown Columbia University Presidential Young Investigator Award: Natural Language Interfaces - - - IST-8520217 $115,220 - 12 mos. Douglas P. Metzler University of Pittsburgh An Expert System Approach to Syntactic Parsing and Information Retrieval - - - IST-8512736 $137,503 - 24 mos. David Mumford Harvard University The Parsing of Images - - - IST-8604282 $2,447 - 12 mos. Kent Norman University of Maryland at College Park Developing an Effective User Evaluation Questionnaire for Interactive Systems - - - IST-8645347 $80,492 - 12 mos. Donald E. Nute University of Georgia Discourse Representation for Natural Language Processing - - - IST-8645348 $49,211 - 12 mos. Donald E. Nute University of Georgia Hypothetical Reasoning and Logic Programming - - - IST-8642477 $86,969 - 12 mos. Robert N. Oddy Syracuse University Representations for Anomalous States of Knowledge in Information Retrieval - - - IST-8609201 $44,905 - 12 mos. Daniel Osherson Syracuse University A Computational Approach to Decision-Making - - - IST-8544976 $197,055 - 12 mos. Charles Parsons and Isaac Levi Columbia University The Structure of Information in Science: Fact Formulas and Discussion Structures in Related Subsciences - - - IST-8642841 $12,000 - 12 mos. William J. Rapaport State University of New York - System Office Logical Foundations for Belief Representation - - - IST-8644984 $62,500 - 12 mos. James A. Reggia University of Maryland at College Park Presidential Young Investigator Award: Abductive Inference Models in Artificial Intelligence - - - IST-8644983 $123,221 - 12 mos. Whitman A. Richards Massachusetts Institute of Technology Natural Computation: A Computational Approach to Visual Information Processing - - - IST-8604530 $49,953 - 12 mos. Fred S. Roberts Rutgers University Scales of Measurement and the Limitations they Place on Information Processing - - - IST-8603407 $27,000 - 12 mos. Robert D. Rodman North Carolina State University Dialog Processing for Voice Interactive Problem Solving - - - IST-8640925 $198,800 - 12 mos. Naomi Sager New York University Language As a Database Structure - - - IST-8640053 $59,178 - 12 mos. Sharon C. Salveter Boston University Transportable Natural Language Database Update - - - IST-8610293 $80,630 - 12 mos. Glenn R. Shafer University of Kansas Main Campus Belief Functions in Artificial Intelligence - - - IST-8603214 $85,583 - 12 mos. William Shaw University of North Carolina An Evaluation and Comparison of Term and Citation Indexing - - - DMS-8606178 $20,000 - 12 mos. Paul C. Shields University of Toledo Mathematical Sciences: Entropy in Ergodic Theory, Graph Theory and Statistics - - - IST-8607849 $101,839 - 12 mos. Edward Smith BBN Laboratories, Inc. A Computational Approach to Decision-Making - - - IST-8609599 $80,963 - 12 mos. Paul Smolensky University of Colorado at Boulder Inference in Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence Systems - - - IST-8644907 $15,634 - 12 mos. Frederik Springsteel University of Missouri Formalization of Entity-Relationship Diagrams - - - IST-8640120 $66,004 - 12 mos. Robert E. Stepp University of Illinois at Urbana Discovering Underlying Concepts in Data Through Conceptual Clustering - - - IST-8516313 $60,907 - 12 mos. Richmond H. Thomason Mellon-Pitt-Carnegie Corp. Nonmonotonic Reasoning - - - IST-8516330 $63,854 - 12 mos. David S. Touretzky Carnegie-Mellon University Distributed Representations for Symbolic Data Structures - - - IST-8517289 $164,786 - 12 mos. Joseph F. Traub Columbia University The Information Level: Effective Computing with Partial, Contaminated, and Costly Information - - - IST-8544806 $121,222 - 12 mos. Jeffrey D. Ullman Stanford University Implementation of Logical Query Languages for Databases - - - IST-8511348 $30,383 - 12 mos. Kenneth Wexler University of California at Irvine Learnability and Parsability - - - IST-8514890 $80,000 - 12 mos. R. Wilensky and R. Alterman University of California at Berkeley Adaptive Planning - - - IST-8600788 $81,660 - 12 mos. Robert T. Winkler Duke University Combining Dependent Information: Models and Issues - - - IST-8644767 $38,474 - 12 mos. Ronald R. Yager Iona College Specificity Measures of Information in Possibility Distributions - - - IST-8644435 $50,878 - 12 mos. Po-Lung Yu University of Kansas Habitual Domain Analysis for Effective Information Interface and Decision Support - - - IST-8642900 $108,182 - 12 mos. Lotfi A. Zadeh University of California at Berkeley Management of Uncertainty in Expert Systems - - - IST-8605163 $19,776 - 12 mos. Maria Zemankova University of Tennessee at Knoxville Travel to the International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems - - - IST-8600616 $97,727 - 12 mos. Pranas Zunde Georgia Institute of Technology A Study of Word Association Aids in Information Retrieval - - - -------