[ch.general] SGAICO 90 CONFERENCE, Geneva

pun@cui.unige.ch (PUN Thierry) (09/18/90)

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SWISS GROUP FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND
COGNITIVE SCIENCE.


SGAICO 90

SECOND ANNUAL MEETING

GENEVA, OCTOBER 2-3, 1990


PROGRAM


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Jean-Jacques Ducret (co-chairperson)
Faculte de psychologie et des sciences de l'education,
Universite de Geneve

Thierry Pun (co-chairperson)
Centre universitaire informatique, Universite de Geneve

Rene Bach,
ASCOM-Tech AG, Solothurn

Boi Faltings
Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne

Maghie King
ISSCO, Universite de Geneve

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Jean-Jacques Ducret, Carlos Leon, Fernanda Llanes
Faculte de psychologie et des sciences de l'education, Universite de
Geneve

CONFERENCE SITE :
Penta Hotel, av. Louis-Casa, 75-77 (near Airport and train station 
of Cointrin, bus 10), phone: (022) 798 4700.


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SCHEDULE
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(S= paper session T=tutorial, W=workshop)

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Tuesday, Oct.2
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8:30-12:00   REGISTRATION

9:30-12:30

             T1
             Tutorial on Qualitative physics
             B. Faltings, EPF Lausanne

             T2
             Tutorial on Model-based diagnosis
             P. Struss, Siemens, Munich

9:30:00-12:00

             W1
             Production planing using AI tools
             M. Hofmeister, ETH, Zurich

             W2
             AI and medicine
             R. Appel, Univ. of Geneva


12:00-13:30  Lunch


13:30-13:45  Opening

13:45-15:00  Plenary session: learning, networks and AI,
             Tomaso Poggio (MIT, USA)


15:00-15:30  Break


15:30-17:30

             W3
             Human and machine vision: cooperation or competition?
             P.Y. Burgi, Univ. of Geneva

             W4
             Natural language processing
             T. Russi, ETH, Zurich

             W5
             Cognitive science in Switzerland
             H. Kaiser, Univ. of Bern


17:30-18:30  SGAICO General Assembly

18:30-19:30  Coktail

20:00        Dinner

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Wednesday, Oct.3
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9:00-11:30
             W6
             AI, social implications and responsibility
             G. Cyranek, G. Duttweiler Inst., Zurich

             W7
             Computer vision
             J.P. Ammann, Univ. of Neuchatel

             W8
             Intelligent learning environments
             P. Dillenbourg, Univ. of Geneva



11:30-13:00  Lunch

13:00-15:00  Plenary paper session S1:  Reasoning I
                                   S2:  Reasoning II
                                   S3:  NLP and belief systems
                                   S4:  Vision and adaptative systems


15:00-15:30  Break



15:30-16:00  Presentation of National Research Program 23: AI and
             robotics, O. Kubler, ETH-Zurich

16:00-16:30  AI and cognitive science in Geneva: C. Pellegrini, Univ.
             of Geneva
17:00-17:15  Awards and closure

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                           PAPER SESSIONS:


PAPER SESSION S1 : Reasoning I

Baj F., "LENprover, an automated theorem prover for portable AI Lab"

Hua K., Faltings B. and Haroud D., "Dynamic constraint satisfaction in 
a bridge design system"

Liu X., "System description in fault testing mechanisms"

Riese M., "A comparison of two temporal reasoning formalisms"

Rosner M., "Portable AI Lab: Progress report"


PAPER SESSION S2 : Reasoning II

Allemang D., "The use of functional models in the domain of automatic 
debugging"

Faltings B., "Case-based representation of architectural design 
knowledge"

Hofmeister M., "Production planning P From chaos to order... and 
back?"

Reed N. E. and Johnson P. E., "Generative knowledge for computer 
troubleshooting"

Stolze M., "Task level frameworks for cooperative expert system 
design"

Tusveld F.H., "Design and manufacturing: integration through quality"


PAPER SESSION S3 : NLP and belief systems

Ballim A. and Wilks Y., "Relevant beliefs"

Clark R., "Learning from ambiguous input"

King M. and Falkedal K., "Using test suites in evaluation of machine 
translation systems"

Maouene M., "PARIS (programme archeologique pour la reconnaissance et 
l'interpretation des scnes) et contribution a l'etude des primitives 
semantiques

Mouttet J., "Semantic and syntactic approaches to belief systems: 
comparison and suggestions for future research"

Rassinoux A.-M., Baud R. H. and Scherrer J.-R.:" Proximity processing 
of medical text"


PAPER SESSION S4 : Vision and adaptative systems

Burgi P.-Y. and Pun T., "Temporal analysis and modeling of the visual 
circuitry"

Dvorak J. and Bunke H., "A hybrid knowledge representation and 
reasoning tool for computer vision"

Ghaziri H. El, "Les problmes d'optimisation combinatoire et les 
reseaux de neurones"

Rodrigues M. A. and Schnepf U., "On the evolution of adaptative 
behavior"

Wong G., "Approaches to combining with uncertainty in an object 
recognition system"



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CONTACT

Inquiries should be sent to:
Jean-Jacques Ducret
FPSE, Uni-Dufour, 1211 Geneve 4
Phone: (022) 705 7623.
Email: ducret@cgeuge51.bitnet




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REGISTRATION FORM:
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To be sent to:
Ms. Anne-Marie Nicolet
SGAICO-90 annual meeting,
c/o SI Secretariat, Schwandenholzstr. 286,
8046 Zurich.
 
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First name and surname:
Institution:
Address:
 
Phone, fax or email:
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Are you a SGAICO member: (___), Full time student: (___)?
 
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Registration for tutorial:
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Will you attend tutorial T1:(___)?   T2:(___)?
Price per tutorial:     frs 50.-
(free for full-time students)
 
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Registration for SGAICO-90:
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Prices for two days (tutorial not included):
 

                   Category   Registration
registration
                             
Full time students: (___):    frs 50.-
(without meals and tutorials)
 
Workshop directors: (___)     frs.140.-
 
 
SGAICO members :    (___)     frs 160.-
(incl. lunches and coktail)
 
Non members :       (___)     frs 210.-
(incl. lunches and coktail)
 
Coffee breaks and mineral water are included for all participants
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