[comp.ai] IJCAI-91 Programme Schedule

kim@CS.TORONTO.EDU (Kimberlee Pietrzak-Smith) (05/09/91)

***INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 1991***


IJCAI-91 Programme Schedule

Monday, August 26, 1991

9-10am:  Invited Speaker 1 - Ross Quinlan

10-10:30am:  Coffee

10:30-12:30pm:				

ML: Explanation Based Learning

Christer Samuelsson
Quantitative Evaluation of Explanation-Based Learning as an Optimization Tool 
for a Large-Scale Natural Language System

Prasad Tadepalli
A Formalization of Explanation-Based Macro-Operator Learning

Masayuki Yamamura
An Augmented EBL and its Application to Utility Problem

Jungsoon Yoo
Concept Formation over Explanations and Problem-Solving Experience


NL: NL Processing

Dan Moldovan
High Performance Natural Language Processing on Semantic Network Array 
Processor

Hiroaki Kitano
Massively Parallel Memory-Based Parsing

Esther Konig
Using Parallel Processing for Semantic Analysis

Karl Gregor Erbach
An environment for experimentation with parsing strategies


KR: Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Modal Logics

Vladimir Lifschitz
Nonmonotonic Databases and Epistemic Queries:  Preliminary Report

Nicholas Asher
Commonsense Entailment: A Modal Theory of Nonmonotonic Reasoning

Mirek Truszczynski
Modal Interpretations of Default Logic 

Ilkka Niemela
Constructive Tightly Grounded Autoepistemic Reasoning


AR: Theorem Proving I

Michael Fisher	
Yet Another Resolution Method for Temporal Logic

Thomas Guckenbiehl    	
Formalizing and Using Persistency	

Fausto Giunchiglia	
Reflective reasoning with and between a declarative metatheory and the 
implementation code

Nachum Dershowitz	
Ordering-Based Strategies for Horn Clauses


Arch: Knowledge Base Management

G. Ravi Prakash	
A Methodology for Systematic Verification of OPS5-based AI Applications 

Loren Terveen	
Intelligent Assistance through Collaborative Manipulation

Keith Decker	
Effects of Parallelism on Blackboard System Scheduling

Rick Evertsz	
The Automated Analysis of Rule-based Systems, Based on their Procedural 
Semantics
	

12:30-2pm:  Lunch

2-3:30pm:

Panel 1:  AI in Telecommunications


ML: Classifiers/Genetic Algorithms

Wray Buntine
Classifiers: A Theoretical and Empirical Study

James Kelly
A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Classification

Kenneth A. De Jong
Learning Concept Classification Rules Using Genetic Algorithms


KR: Belief

Sukhamay Kundu
A New Logic of Beliefs: Monotonic Beliefs and Nonmonotonic Beliefs - Part 1

Gerhard Lakemeyer
A Model of Decidable Introspective Reasoning with Qualitifying-In

Anand S. Rao
Asymmetry Thesis and Side-effect Problems in Linear Time and Branching Time 
Intention Logics


LP: Logic Programming I

Sieger van Denneheuvel
Weak equivalence for constraint sets

Chilukuri K. Mohan
Fitting Semantics for Conditional Term Rewriting

Luis Moniz Pereira
A Derivation Procedure for Extended Stable Models (Draft)


Phil: Philosophical Foundations I

Francis Jeffry Pelletier
The Philosophy of Automated Theorem Proving

Raymond Earl Jennings
Generalised Inference and Inferential Modelling

John Slaney
The Implications of Paraconsistency


3:30-4pm:  Coffee

4-5:30pm:

AI On Line


ML: Inductive Learning I

Sholom M. Weiss
Reduced Complexity Rule Induction

Alen Varsek
Qualitative Model Evolution

Celine Rouveirol
Semantic Model for Induction of First Order Theories


AR: Search I

G.M.A. Provan
An Expected-Cost Analysis of Backtracking and Non-Backtracking Algorithms

Amitava Bagchi	
Admissible Search Methods for Minimum Penalty Sequencing of Jobs with Setup 
Times on One and Two Machines

Anna Bramanti-Gregor    	
Learning Admissible Heuristics while Solving Problems


LP: Logic Programming II

Mike Brayshaw 
An Architecture for Visualising the Execution of Parallel Logic Programs

Kang Zhang 
A Non-shared Binding Scheme for Parallel Prolog Implementation


KR: Reasoning with Inconsistency

Mamede Lima Marques
Contextual Negations and Reasoning with Contradictions

Gerd Wagner
Ex contradictione nihil sequitir


Rob: Architectures

Luc Steels
Emergent Frame Recognition And Its Use In Artificial Creatures

R. Peter Bonasso
Integrating Reaction Plans and Layered Competences through Synchronous Control


7:30pm:	Computers & Thought Award:  Martha Pollack and Rodney Brooks
	Announcement of IJCAI Best Paper Award




Tuesday, August 27, 1991

9-10am:  Invited Speaker 2- Shigeru Sato

10-10:30am:  Coffee

10:30-12:30pm: 

ML: Inductive Learning II

Robin Hanson
Bayesian Classification with Correlation and Inheritance

Der-Shung Yang
A Scheme for Feature Construction and a Comparison of Empirical Methods

Steven Salzberg
Learning with a Helpful Teacher

Stefan Wrobel
Towards a Model of Grounded Concept Formation


AR: Planning I

Stuart J. Russell
Composing Real-Time Systems

Eric Biefeld	
Bottleneck Identification Using Process Chronologies

Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
Incomplete Information and Deception in Multi-Agent Negotiation

Marta Franova	
Solving "How to Clear a Block" with Constructive Matching Methodology


NL: Pragmatics

Peter van Beck
Resolving Plan Ambiguity for Cooperative Response Generation

Yorick Wilks
Your metaphor or mine: Belief ascription and metaphor interpretation

Philip R. Cohen
Confirmations and Joint Action


QR: Diagnosis

Philippe Dague
When Oscillators Stop Oscillating

Gerhard Friedrich
Diagnosing Temporal Misbehavior

Franz Lackinger
Integrating Model-Based Monitoring and Diagnosis of Complex Dynamic Systems

David Poole
Representing diagnostic knowledge for probabilistic Horn abduction


Vis: Object Recognition

Yerucham Shapira
A Pictorial Approach to Object Classification

Thomas M. Strat
Natural Object Recognition: A Theoretical Framework and Its Implementation

John R. Kender
On Seeing Spaghetti: A Novel Self-Adjusting Seven Parameter Hough Space for 
Analyzing Flexible Extruded Objects

Tomaso Poggio
HyperBF Networks for real object recognition


12:30-2pm:  Lunch


2-3:30pm:

Panel 2: AI and Design


ML: Inductive Logic Programming

J.R. Quinlan
Determinate Literals as an Aid in Inductive Logic Programming

Charles X. Ling
Inductive Learning from Good Examples

Marc Kirschenbaum
Refinement Strategies for Inductive Learning of Simple Prolog Programs


KR: Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Conditional Logics

Hirofumi Katsuno
A Unified View of Consequence Relation, Belief Revision and Conditional Logic

Craig Boutilier
Inaccessible Worlds and Irrelevance: Preliminary Report

Didier Dubois
Possibilistic logic, preference models, non-monotonicity and related issues


AR: Search II

Hermann Kaindl	
Using Aspiration Windows for Minimax Algorithms

Stephen V. Chenoweth	
High Performance A* Search Using Rapidly Growing Heuristics

Toru Ishida   	
Moving Target Search


CM: Cognitive Modelling 1

Jacobijn Sandberg
How situated is cognition?

Katia P. Sycara
Index Transformation Techniques for Facilitating Creative Use of Multiple Cases

Gregg Collins
Plan debugging in an Intentional System


3:30-4pm:  Coffee

4-5:30pm:

AI On Line

ML: Concept Formation

Jason Catlett
Overpruning Large Decision Trees

Larry Watanabe
Learning Structural Decision Trees From Examples

David Heath
Learning Nested Concept Classes with Limited Storage

Sunil Thakar
Acquiring Knowledge by Efficient Query Learning


KR: Concept Languages

Franz Baader
Augmenting Concept Languages by Transitive Closure of Roles:  An Alternative 
to Terminological Cycles

Franz Baader
A Scheme for Integrating Concrete Domains into Concept Languages

Maurizio Lenzerini
Tractable Concept Languages


AR: Theorem Proving II

Toni Bollinger	
A Model Elimination Calculus for Generalized Clauses
Inside the LILOG Inference Machine

Elmar Eder	
Consolution and its Relation with Resolution

Manfred Kerber	
How to Prove Higher Order Theorems in First Order Logic

Hitoshi Iba
Reasoning of Geometric Concepts based on Algebraic Constraint-directed Method


Phil: Philosophical Foundations II

David Israel
Actions and Movements

Selmer Bringsjord
In Defense of Hyper-Logicist AI

Francesco Bergadano
The Problem of Induction and Machine Learning


QR: Qualitative Modelling

Erling A. Woods
The Hybrid Phenomena Theory

Feng Zhao
Extracting and Representing Qualitative Behaviors of Complex Systems in Phase 
Spaces

Toyoaki Nishida
A Geometric Approach to Total Envisioning



Wednesday, August 28, 1991

9-10am:  Distinguished Scientist Award & Lecture:  Marvin Minsky

10-10:30am:  Coffee

10:30-12:30pm:

KR: Topics in Knowledge Representation

Periklis Belegrinos
A Model for Actions and Processes

Hans Juergen Ohlbach
Parameter Structures for Parametrized Modal Operators

Russell Greiner
Measuring and Improving the Effectiveness of Representations

Gadi Pinkas 
Propositional Non-Monotonic Reasoning and Inconsistency in Symmetric Neural 
Networks


AR: Planning II

Edwin P.D. Pednault
Generalizing Nonlinear Planning to Handle Complex Goals and Actions with 
Context-Dependent Effects

Jens Christensen	
A Formal Model for Classical Planning

Amy L. Lansky	
Localized Search for Multiagent Planning

Steven Minton
Commitment Strategies in Planning: A Comparative Analysis


NL: NL Systems

Marie Meteer
POST: Using Probabilities in Language Processing

John A. Bateman
The rapid prototyping of natural language generation components: an 
application of functional typology

Oliviero Stock	
Natural Language and Exploration of an Information Space: the ALFRESCO 
Interactive System

C. Rullent
Efficient Representation of Linguistic Knowledge for Continuous Speech 
Understanding


QR: Qualitative Modelling, Temporal Reasoning

Ulf Soderman
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Knowledge to Generate Models fo 
Physical Systems

Judea Pearl
Directed Constraint Networks: A Relational Framework for Causal Modeling

Jan Top
Computational and Physical Causality

Antony Galton
Reified Temporal Theories And How To Unreify Them


Vis: Interpretation

Paul Cohen
Shading-Based Two-View Matching

Pascal Fua
Combining Stereo and Monocular Information: Computing Robust Dense Depth Maps 
and Preserving Depth Discontinuities

R. Mike Cameron-Jones
Visual Interpretation of Lambertian Surface Deformation

Terry Regier
Line Labeling and Junction Labeling: A Coupled System for Image Interpretation


12:30-2pm:  Lunch

2-5:30pm: Computer & Chess Afternoon
	  Panel and Chess Match
	


Thursday, August 29, 1991

9-10am:  Invited Speaker 3 - Robert Kowalski

10-10:30am:  Coffee

10:30-12:30pm:

ML: Inductive Learning III

Armand E. Prieditis
Machine Discovery of Effective Admissible Heuristics by Means-Ends Analysis

David Chapman
Learning from Delayed Reinforcement In a Complex Domain

Wayne Iba
Learning to Classify Observed Motor Behavior

Peter C-H. Cheng
Modelling Experiments in Scientific Discovery


AR: Reason Maintenance

Jean Christophe Madre    	
A Logically Complete Reasoning Maintenance System Based on a Logical 
Constraint Solver	

Jerome Euzenat   	
Contexts for Nonmonotonic RMSes

Wang Xianchang
On Semantics of TMS

Ulrich Junker	
Prioritized Defaults: Implementation by TMS and Application to Diagnosis


NL: Representation and Semantics

Padraig Cunningham
Organizational Issues Arising from the Integration of Lexicon and Concept 
Network in a Text Understanding System

Mark Johnson
Logic and Feature Structures

Leonardo Lesmo
Representation and Interpretation of Definite Noun Phrases

Stephen Busemann
Using Pattern-Action Rules for the Generation of GPSG Structures From 
MT-Oriented Semantics


LP: Logic Programming III

Kienchung Kuo 
Programming in Autoepistemic Logic

L. Thorne McCarty
Indefinite Reasoning with Definite Rules

Karen L. Kwast
The Incomplete Database

Mark Wallace
Compiling Integrity Checking into Update Procedures


AI Apps: Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Dinesh Gadwal	
UMRAO:  A Chess Endgame Tutor

Luigia Carlucci-Aiello	
Reasoning about Student Knowledge and Reasoning	

Tak-Wai Chan	
Integration-Kid:  A Learning Companion System		

William R. Murray	
An Endorsement-based Approach to Student Modeling for Planner-controlled Tutors


12:30-2pm:  Lunch

2-3:30pm:

Panel 3:  Multiple Approaches tp Mulitple Agent Problem Solving


ML: Case Based Learning

Diane J. Cook
The Base Selection Task in Analogical Planning

Scott Fertig
FGP: A Software Architecture for Acquiring Knowledge from Cases

James P. Callan
Adaptive Case-Based Reasoning


KR: Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Circumscription

Nicolas Helft
Query Answering in Circumscription

Yves Moinard
Circumscription and Definability

Zhaogang Qian
Circumscribing Defaults


AR: Theorem Proving III

Robert Demolombe	
An Inference Rule for Hypothesis Generation

Katsumi Inoue	
Consequence-Finding Based on Ordered Linear Resolution

Christoph Lingenfelder
Proof Transformation with Built-in Equality Predicate


Arch: Distributed AI I

Sarit Kraus	
Negotiations over Time in A Multi Agent Environment: Preliminary Report

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz
A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Coordination Multiagent Interactions

Munindar P. Singh	
Towards a Formal Theory of Communication for  Multiagent Systems


3:30-4pm:  Coffee

4-5:30pm:

AI On Line


ML: Classification & Generalization

Floriana Esposito
Flexible Matching for Noisy Structural Descriptions

Haym Hirsch
Theoretical Underpinnings of Version Spaces

Jacques Nicolas
Empirical Bias for Version Space


KR: Concept Languages, Inheritance Reasoning

Klaus Schild
A Correspondence Theory for Terminological Logics:  Preliminary Report

John Yen
Generalizing Term Subsumption Languages to Fuzzy Logic

David S. Touretzky
A Skeptic's Menagerie:  Conflictors, Preemptors, Reinstators, and Zombies in 
Nonmonotonic Inheritance


AR: Constraint Satisfaction

Rina Dechter	
On the Feasibility of Distributed Constraint Satisfaction

Pascal van Hentenryck   	
Efficient Arc Consistency Algorithm for a Class of CSP Problems

Peter Cheeseman    	
Where the Really Hard Problems Are


QR: Reasoning under Uncertainty I

Yen-Teh Hsia
Characterizing Belief with Minimum Commitment

Rudolf Kruse
On a Tool for Reasoning with Mass Distribution

Henry E. Kyburg
Evidential Probability


Rob: Navigation

Stephen F. Peters
Planning Robot Control Parameter Values with Qualitative Reasoning

Patrick Stelmasyk
Mobile Robot Navigation by an Active Control of the Vision System

Matthew Barth
Determining Robot Egomotion from Motion Parallax Observed by an Active Camera


5:30pm:  General Meeting



Friday, August 30, 1991

9-10am:  Invited Speaker 4- Takeo Kanade

10-10:30am:  Coffee

10:30-12:30pm:

AR: Planning III

Christer Backstrom	
Parallel Non-Binary Planning in Polynomial Time

Tom Bylander	
Complexity Results for Planning

Dekang Lin	
A Message Passing Algorithm for Plan Recognition

Fahiem Bacchus	
The Downward Refinement Property


NL: Parsing and Morphology

Tsunenori Mine
Coordinative Parallel Morphological and Syntactical Analysis Method in 
Japanese	

Liang-Jyh Wang
A Parsing Method for Identifying Words in Mandarin Chinese Sentences

Harald Trost
X2MORF: A Morphological Component Based on Augmented Two-Level Morphology

Venu Dasigi
Parsing = Parsimonious Covering (Abduction in Logical Form Generation)


Arch: Connectionist & Parallel Rule Systems

Tony Plate
Holographic Reduced Representations:  Convolution Algebra for Compositional 
Distributed Representations

Andrew Sohn	
A Macro Actor/Token Implemetation of Production Systems on Data-Flow 
Multiprocessor

Dan Moldovan
Performance Comparison of Models for Multiple Rule Firing

Ian Nevill Robinson	
On Supporting Associative Access and Processing over Dynamic Knowledge Bases


Summary Session: IJCAI-91, Learning and Knowledge Acquisition 


Summary Session: KR'91, International Conference on Principles of Knowledge
                 Representation and Reasoning	


12:30-2pm:  Lunch

2-3:30pm:

Panel 4: Massively Parallel Computing in Artificial Intelligence:  Bridging 
Gaps Between Hardware and Applications


ML: Knowledge Acquisition

Kathleen McKusick
Constraints on Tree Structure in Concept Formation

Brian R. Gaines
An Interactive Visual Language for Term Subsumption Languages

Matthias Gutknecht
Cooperative Hybrid Systems


CM: Cognitive Modelling 2

N. Hari Narayanan
Reasoning Visually about Spatial Interactions

Akira Shimaya
A Cognitive Model for Figure Segregation

W.K. Yeap
An MFIS for Computing a Raw Cognitive Map


Summary Session: IJCAI-91, Automated Reasoning


Summary Session: International Symposium on AI and Mathematics


3:30-4pm:  Coffee

4-5:30pm:

ML: Connectionist Models

Warren R. Becraft	
Integration of Neural Networks and Expert  Systems for Process Fault Diagnosis

Chilukuri Krishna Mohan
Analyzing Images Containing Multiple Sparse Patterns with Neural Networks

Selwyn Piramuthu
The Utility of Feature Construction for Back-Propagation


Arch: Distributed AI II

Hideyuki Nakashima	
Communication and Inference through Situations

David N. Kinny	
Commitment and Effectiveness of Situated Agents

Takashi Nishiyama	
Generating Integrated Interpretation of Partial Information Based on 
Distributed Qualitative Reasoning


QR: Reasoning under Uncertainty II

S.K.M. Wong
Propagation of Preference Relations in Qualitative Inference Networks

Wilson Xun Wen
Parallel Distributed Belief Networks That Learn


Summary Session: IJCAI-91, Natural Language


Summary Session: International Conference on Automated Deduction



LEGEND:

AI Apps: Principles of AI Applications
AR: Automated Reasoning
Arch: Architectures & Languages
CM: Cognitive Modelling
KR: Knowledge Representation
LP: Logic Programming
ML: Machine Learning
NL: Natural Language
Phil: Philosophical Foundations
QR: Qualitative Reasoning
Rob: Robotics
Vis: Vision