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SGAICO (swiss group for artificial intelligence and cognitive science)
1986 SGAICO CONFERENCE ON SECOND GENERATION EXPERT SYSTEMS
(including SGAICO General Assembly)
Luc Steels, Walter Van de Velde
University of Brussels
with exhibition
Holiday-Inn, Zurich-Regensdorf
Wednesday, October 22 1986
PURPOSE
SGAICO is organizing a conference on 2nd generation
expert systems. The purpose of the conference is to
inform participants in depth about this important new
trend in expert system technology. First generation
expert systems - which are normally based on associative
if-then rules - are subject to severe limitations. These
include reasoning power in general, explanations, natural
language capabilities, ungraceful degradation and
learning capacity. One of the reasons for these limitations
is a lack of causal knowledge about the problem
domain. Expert systems of the second generation include
models of the underlying causal dependencies that are
used in non-trivial reasoning processes.
Professor Luc Steels and his group are among the leading
researchers on Second Generation Expert Systems. Luc
Steels will give the general keynote speech. His collaborator
van de Velde will discuss a second generation
expert system in depth. A demonstration will be presented
on a Lisp machine.
PARTICIPANTS
This conference is intended for computer-scientists,
engineers, managers and all those wishing to keep up
with the latest developments in this fast-moving field.
We expect participants to have some minimal previous
knowledge of expert systems.
SGAICO GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The SGAICO general assembly (11:00-12:30) includes a
discussion of long-term development of AI in Switzerland.
We are pleased to link our meeting to a Gottlieb
Duttweiler Institute (GDI) event:
USER INTERFACES - GATEWAY OR BOTTLENECK
New Trends of Access to Information and Knowledge
October 20-21, 1986
This 4th International Symposium for Advanced Information
Technology presents new solutions to the problem of
interaction between users and computers in management
and industry. Key topics are: End User Systems, Mangement
Support Systems, Natural Language Understanding, Decision
Support Systems, Intelligent Query Systems, Process
Control, CAD, Maintenance/Diagnosis, Simulation.
PROGRAM
Speakers Luc Steels,
Walter Van de Velde,
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Vrije Universiteit, Brussels
9:00 - 10:30 Keynote talk by Luc Steels:
Emerging trends in expert systems
11:00 - 12:30 SGAICO General Assembly: Long-term
development of AI in Switzerland.
Moderator: Guenter Albers
14:00 - 15:30 Walter Van de Velde: Learning and
deep reasoning in second generation
expert systems (part I)
16:00 - 17:30 Walter Van de Velde (part II)
17:45 - 19:00 Demonstrations on Lisp-Machines
19:00 Informal "get-together"
exhibition including major Artificial Intelligence
software and hardware.
ORGANIZATION
Program Committee Guenter Albers, University of Geneva
Rolf Pfeifer, University of Zurich
Michael Rosner, University of Geneva
Daniel Schneider, University of Geneva (Chairman)
Patrick Shann, University of Geneva
Fees SI members or members of a SVI/FSI organisation 110.- Sfr
non members 180.- Sfr
student rates 30.- Sfr
Special rates Limited funding is available for persons with financial
needs who wish to apply for student rates.
Registration Please fill out the registration card and mail it by
september 30 1986. You will be billed when receiving
confirmation.
Telephone of the SI/SGAICO secretariat:
(..41) 1 481 73 90 (Frau Nicolet)
Lunch Please indicate on the registration form if you plan to
have lunch at the Holiday Inn.
Accomodation For hotel registration please contact the
Tourist Office, Bahnhofplatz 15, 8023 Zurich,
Tel.: (..41) 1 211 40 00,
or the Holiday Inn, Regensdorf, Tel.: (..41) 1 840 25 20.
For further information about the program contact a program committee member
or email to Daniel Schneider (sender).
For information on the GDI congress, please contact:
Gottlieb Duttweiler Institut
Frau Kunz-Wechler
CH-8803 Ruschlikon
Tel.: (01) 461 37 16
To register contact:
SI/SGAICO
Postfach 570
CH-8027 Zurich
Switzerland
from: Daniel K.Schneider
Departement de Science Politique, Universite de Geneve
1211 GENEVE 4 (Switzerland), Tel. (..41) 22 20 93 33 ext. 2357
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