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INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING WG5.2 Working Conference EXPERT SYSTEMS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN 17-20 February 1987 Sydney, Australia CALL FOR PAPERS AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE The Working Conference aims to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences related to expert systems in computer-aided design, to present and explore the state-of-the-art of expert systems in computer-aided design, to delineate future directions in both research and practice and to promote further development. CALL FOR PAPERS The conference will have two primary themes: (i) State-of-the-art research in expert systems in CAD (ii) State-of-the-art practice of expert systems in CAD. The papers with the discussion will be published in one volume by the North-Holland Publishing Company under the title of the conference. Intending authors are invited to submit papers, which will be refereed, within the themes of the conference. Papers should present a state-of-the-art theoretical, technical or methodological contribution. Fundamental or innovative contributions are especially being looked for. Submissions are particularly sought within the following topic areas: (i) Expert system architectures for computer-aided design (ii) Practical large scale expert systems in computer-aided design (iii) Reasoning models in design (iv) Novel representation tools for design knowledge (v) Acquisition of design knowledge for use in expert systems (vi) Integration of expert systems into existing CAD systems (vii) Implications of expert systems for the design process TIMETABLE Intending authors should submit their proposals as soon as practicable. (i) Full paper (four copies) submitted to the address below no later than 14 July 1986 (ii) Notification of authors of selected papers by 5 September 1986 (iii) Conference brochure available September 1986 (iv) Final copy of selected papers in reproducible form from authors by 5 November 1986 (v) Close of conference registration December 1986 (vi) Preprints sent to registrants December 1986 (vii) Conference 17-20 February 1987 CONFERENCE FORMAT (i) The conference is scheduled for four days with a restricted number of participants. (ii) About twenty papers will be selected for presentation. It is a condition that the selected authors will attend the conference. (iii) The papers will form the conference preprints which will be mailed to all participants. (iv) Papers will be presented with considerable time available for discussion which will be recorded to form the conference proceedings. (v) The official language of the conference is English. ADDRESS FOR ALL CORRESPONDENCE All papers, queries and correspondence should be addressed to: Professor John S Gero Department of Architectural Science University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Telex: AA26169 GERO-ARCHSCI Phone: International 61-2-908 2942 or 61-2-692 2328 Network: CSnet: john@archsci.su.oz ARPA: john%archsci.su.oz@seismo.css.gov UUCP: seismo!munnari!archsci.su.oz!john IFIP WG5.2 Working Conference EXPERT SYSTEMS IN CAD 17-20 February 1987, Sydney INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE at March 1986 Chairman: Secretary: Professor John Gero Ms Fay Sudweeks University of Sydney University of Sydney Australia Australia Committee: Professor David Brown Professor Setsuo Ohsuga Worcester Polytechnic Institute University of Tokyo USA Japan Dr Harold Brown Professor Luis Pereira Stanford University Universidade Nova Lisboa USA Portugal Professor B. Chandrasekaran Professor Ken Preiss Ohio State University Ben'gurion University USA of the Negev Israel Professor Jack Dixon Dr Tony Radford University of Massachusetts University of Sydney USA Australia Professor Michael Dyer Dr Michael Rosenman UCLA University of Sydney USA Australia Professor Steven Fenves Professor Erik Sandewall Carnegie-Mellon University Linkoping University USA Sweden Professor H. Grabowski Dr Duv Sriram University of Karlsruhe Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. West Germany USA Mr John Lansdown Professor Louis Steinberg System Simulation Rutgers University United Kingdom USA Dr Jean-Claude Latombe Dr Enn Tyugu ITMI Academy of Sciences of the France Estonian SSR USSR Dr Ken MacCallum Dr Don Waterman University of Strathclyde The Rand Corporation Scotland USA Professor Mary Lou Maher Dr David Willey Carnegie-Mellon University Plymouth Polytechnic USA United Kingdom Dr Andras Markus Professor Jim Yao Computer and Automation Institute Purdue University Hungary USA Dr Sanjay Mittal Professor Hiroyuki Yoshikawa Xerox PARC University of Tokyo USA Japan Stephen Tolhurst Dept of Architectural Science ACSnet: stephen@archsci.su.oz Wilkinson Building G04 ARPA: stephen%archsci.su.oz@seismo.css.gov University of Sydney UUCP: seismo!munnari!archsci.su.oz!stephen AUSTRALIA 2006 VOICE: (02) 692-3549