rwoldford%water.waterloo.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Wayne Oldford) (01/01/88)
- - - 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 - - -