rwoldford%water.waterloo.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Wayne Oldford) (01/01/88)
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Call For Participation
Second International Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence
and
Statistics
January 4-7, 1989
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
PURPOSE
The workshops on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics aim to
bring together researchers in AI and Statistics to broaden the
flow of information between the fields. The purpose is to
encourage interdisciplinary work, which research to date has
found to be fruitful, between the two fields.
FORMAT
To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the
presentations will be limited to 30 talks in single session
meetings during three days. Attendance at the workshop will not
be limited, however. The three days of research presentations
will be preceded by a day of tutorials. The language will be
English.
TOPICS
The Workshop will focus on work in the following areas.
AI in Statistics Statistics in AI
1. Consultation Systems 1. Uncertainty Propagation
2. Statistician's Assistants 2. Clustering and Concept Formation
3. Knowledge Representation 3. Statistical Methods
for Statistics for Knowledge Acquisition
TO PARTICIPATE
Two copies of an extended abstract (up to four pages) should be
sent by air mail to W. Gale postmarked before March 31, 1988.
Please indicate which topic your abstract addresses. Acceptance
notices will be mailed by June 30, 1988. Preliminary papers (up
to 20 pages) should be returned by September 30, 1988. The
preliminary papers will be copied and distributed at the
workshop. Address correspondence to W. Gale, AT&T Bell
Laboratories 2C278, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill NJ 07974,
USA.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
D. Carroll AT&T, USA J. Pearl UCLA, USA
W. Gale AT&T, USA D. Pregibon AT&T, USA
D. Hand Inst. Psychiatry, UK R. Quinlan NSWIT, Australia
W. Oldford Univ. Waterloo, Canada D. Spiegelhalter Med. Rsch. Coun., UK
SPONSORS
Society for Artificial Intelligence And Statistics
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence
Statistical Society of Canada
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