kumard@sybil.cs.buffalo.edu (Deepak Kumar) (07/28/90)
CALL FOR PAPERS CURRENT TRENDS IN SNePS --- THE 1990 WORKSHOP October 4 & 5, 1990 State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY. DESCRIPTION SNePS is a state-of-the-art knowledge representation and reasoning system used for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science research. It is a propositional semantic network based system designed by members of The SNePS Research Group in conjunction and under the supervision of Dr. Stuart Shapiro and Dr. William Rapaport. SNePS 2.1, an implementation of SNePS in CommonLisp runs on several computers and is distributed under license from The Research Foundation of State University of New York. SNePS, in its various incarnations, is actively being used and developed at various AI research labs around the world. The aim of this workshop is to assemble researchers who are (have been, or are considering) using SNePS as a research tool for AI modeling, those who are (have been, or are considering) evaluating SNePS as an AI research environment, and those who are interested in commenting on or discussing SNePS and/or the philosophy of knowledge representation it embodies. Attendance at the workshop will be kept small (by invitation only) to allow for maximum possible interaction among participants. The workshop will be held on the campus of SUNY at Buffalo. All papers presented will be edited and compiled into published Proceedings. A tutorial session on SNePS will be given on the first morning, and we will schedule a time slot for live demonstrations of SNePS-based or SNePS-related systems. To be invited to the workshop, you must submit an Invitation Request consisting of at least one of the following (preferably by e-mail): 1. Submit a one page abstract of a paper to be considered for presentation. 2. Submit a short write-up of your current research and how it does/might relate to SNePS and/or its philosophy of knowledge representation. 3. Indicate your intention to attend the tutorial. 4. Submit a short description outlining the nature of the demonstration you wish to give, its hardware/software/time requirements, and how the system to be demonstrates relates to SNePS. DEADLINES Invitation Requests due on Wenesday, August 15, 1990. Invitations issued by September 3, 1990. SUBMISSIONS TO: Syed S. Ali 226 Bell Hall SUNY at Buffalo Buffalo NY, 14260 syali@cs.buffalo.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michael J. Almeida (almeida@cs.psu.edu) Penn State University Joao P. Martins (ist_1416@ptifm.bitnet) Technical University of Lisbon J. Terry Nutter (nutter@vtopus.cs.vt.edu) Virginia Polytechnic Institue William J. Rapaport (rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu) State University of New York at Buffalo Stuart C. Shapiro (shapiro@cs.buffalo.edu) State University of New York at Buffalo Janyce Wiebe (wiebe@ai.toronto.edu) Univetsiry of Toronto Richard W. Wyatt (rwyatt@wcu.edu) West Chester University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS AND ORGANIZATION Syed S. Ali (syali@cs.buffalo.edu) Hans H. Chalupsky (hans@cs.buffalo.edu) Deepak Kumar (kumard@cs.buffalo.edu) William J. Rapaport (rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu) Stuart C. Shapiro (shapiro@cs.buffalo.edu) Everyone will be expected to make their own living arrangements. We will send a list of nearby hotels with the invitations. There may be a possibility of making some arrangements with local SNeRG members.