SOWA@IBM.COM (John Sowa) (12/09/88)
WORKSHOP ON FORMAL ASPECTS OF SEMANTIC NETWORKS
Dates: February 15 to 17, 1989
Location: Santa Catalina Island, California
Deadline for extended abstracts: Jan. 6, 1989 (address below)
Notification of acceptance: On or before January 20, 1989
A workshop to explore the foundations of semantic networks and related
AI systems will be held on Catalina Island from February 15 to 17, 1989.
The purpose is to analyze the structure of knowledge representation
schemes in order to determine how and what various graph and network
formalisms contribute to representational power, reasoning techniques,
and ease of use. Attendance at the workshop will be by invitation only.
Authors and coauthors of all accepted papers will be invited. Room and
board at the conference will be supported by grants from the AAAI and
Morgan Kaufmann Publishing Company.
After the workshop, the program committee will invite the authors of the
best papers to write chapters for a forthcoming book, Formal Aspects of
Semantic Networks, to be published by Morgan Kaufmann.
Suggested topics:
- Principles underlying various graph and network representations
- How various network systems are related to one another and to logic
- Reasoning techniques that use graphs and networks in significant ways
- Aspects of knowledge whose expression is facilitated by networks
In selecting papers, the program committee will be looking for an
emphasis on the underlying principles. A description of a notation,
a rule of inference, or an application by itself is not especially
interesting. Instead, papers should show how the structure of the
formalism affects the representational or deductive power. Comparisons
between various systems of networks, frames, and logic that clarify
the underlying principles are encouraged.
General Chairman: Norm Sondheimer, General Electric Research
Program Chairman: John Sowa, IBM Systems Research
Local Arrangements: Robert MacGregor, USC Information Science Institute
Program Committee: Ron Brachman, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University
Norman Foo, Sydney University
Christopher Habel, Hamburg University
Len Schubert, SUNY at Rochester
Stuart Shapiro, SUNY at Buffalo
Doug Skuce, University of Ottawa
James Slagle, University of Minnesota
Rich Thomason, University of Pittsburgh
David Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University
Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley
Send extended abstracts to John Sowa, preferably electronically.
Via Internet: sowa@ibm.com
Via BITNET: sowa@yktvmx
Otherwise: John F. Sowa
IBM Systems Research
500 Columbus Avenue
Thornwood, NY 10594
If you must submit a paper by U.S. mail, please send both a paper copy
and a floppy disk in IBM PC compatible format. Just send a plain ASCII
file with NO word processing marks, pointers, or formats.