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		     WORKSHOP PROGRAMME & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


				     ECAI'94
	     Workshop on Combining Symbolic and Connectionist Processing
		     August 9, 1994 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

	
Until a few years ago, the history of AI has been marked by two parallel, 
often antagonistic streams of development -- classical or symbolic AI and 
connectionist processing. A recent research trend, premised on the 
complementarity of these two paradigms, strives to build hybrid systems 
which combine the advantages of both to overcome the limitations of each. 
For instance, attempts have been made to accomplish complex tasks by blending 
neural networks with rule-based or case-based reasoning. This workshop will 
be the first Europe-wide effort to bring together researchers active in the 
area in view of laying the groundwork for a theory and methodology of 
symbolic/connectionist integration (SCI). 


 			       	Workshop Programme



		HYBRID EXPERT SYSTEM SHELLS

9:00 -  9:30	A Study of the Hybrid System SYNHESYS
		B. Orsier, B. Amy, V. Rialle, A. Giacometti
		LIFIA-IMAG & ENST (France)

9:30 - 10:00	Cognitive and Computational Foundations for 
		Symbolic-Connectionist Integration
		R. Khosla, T. Dillon
		La Trobe University, Melbourne (Australia)

		MULTISTRATEGY LEARNING

10:00 - 10:30	Integration of Symbolic and Connectionist Learning to
		Ease Robot Programming and Control
		M. Kaiser, J. Kreuziger
		University of Karlsruhe (Germany)

10:30 - 11:00	A Hybrid Model of Psychological Experiments on Scientific
		Discovery
		E. Hoenkamp, R.A. Sumida
		University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

11:00 - 11:15	BREAK

		THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

11:15 - 11:45	Tracking the Neuro-Symbolic Continuum: Learning by Explicitation
		C. Thornton
		University of Sussex (United Kingdom)

11:45 - 12:15   Symbol Ground Revisited
		E. Prem
		Austian Institute for AI (Austria)

12:15 - 12:45	How Hybrid Should a Hybrid Model Be?
		R. Cooper, B. Franks
		University College & London School of Economics (United Kingdom)

12:45 - 14:15	LUNCH

		LOGIC AND INFERENCING

14:15 - 14:45	Towards a New Massively Parallel Computational Model
		for Logic Programming
		S. Hoelldobler, Y. Kalinke
		University of Dresden (Germany)

14:45 - 15:15	Scheduling of Modular Architectures for Inductive Inference
		of Regular Grammars
		M. Gori, M. Maggini, G. Soda
		University of Florence (Italy)

15:15 - 15:45	A Connectionist Control Component for the Theorem Prover SETHEO
		C. Goller
		Technical University of Munich (Germany)

15:45 - 16:00	BREAK

		NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

16:00 - 16:30	Metaphor and Memory: Symbolic and Connectionist Issues
		in Metaphor Comprehension
		T. Veale, M. Keane
		Trinity College (Eire)

16:30 - 17:00	Parsing Spontaneous Speech: A Hybrid Approach
		T.S. Polzin
		Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

17:00 - 17:30	A Symbolic-Connectionist Hybrid Abstract Generation System
		M. Aretoulaki, J. Tsujii
		UMIST, Manchester (United Kingdom)

17:30 - 17:45	BREAK

		VISUAL PATTERN RECOGNITION

17:45 - 18:15	A Hybrid Model for Visual Perception Based on
		Dynamic Conceptual Space
		A. Chella, M. Frixione, S. Gaglio
		University of Palermo & IIASS-Salerno (Italy)

18:15 - 18:45   Hybrid Trees for Supervised Learning of Decision Rules
		F. d'Alche-Buc, J.-P. Nadal, D. Zwierski
		Laboratoires d'Electronique Philips (France)


Those who wish to attend the workshop should send a request describing their
research interests and/or previous work in the field of SCI (maximum 1 page). 
Since attendance will be limited to ensure effective interaction, requests 
will be considered until the maximum number of participants is attained.  
Please note that all workshop participants are required to register for the 
main conference.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Bernard Amy (LIFIA-IMAG, Grenoble, France)
Patrick Gallinari (LAFORIA, University of Paris 6, France)
Franz Kurfess (Dept. Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany)
Christian Pellegrini (CUI, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Noel Sharkey (DCS, University of Sheffield, UK)
Alessandro Sperduti (CSD, University of Pisa, Italy)


CONTACT PERSON

Melanie Hilario
CUI - University of Geneva
24 rue General Dufour
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Voice:	+41 22/705 7791
Fax:	+41 22/320 2927
Email:	hilario at cui.unige.ch