Conference Announcement

[B344DSL@UTARLG.ARL.UTEXAS.EDU]

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

NEURAL NETWORKS FOR KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND INFERENCE
Fourth Annual Workshop of the Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics (MIND)

October 4-6, 1990
IBM Westlake, TX
Abstracts due June 15, 1990

The Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics is an independent organization of
industrial and academic interests within the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
This is our fourth annual workshop, each being dedicated to a specific problem
area, and all of them characterized by a balance of theoretical, applied, and
biological interests.  Past topics have included Sensory-Motor Coordination 
and Motivation, Emotion, and Goal Direction.  Past speakers have included
Harry Klopf, Richard Sutton, Karl Pribram, Harold Szu, Michael Kuperstein,
Daniel Bullock, and James Houk.

This year's topic of Knowledge Representation and Inference will be focused
by its attempts to apply neural architectures within the more traditional
rubrics of artificial intelligence and general computer science.  This is
not merely the application of neural networks to the problem domains of 
other approaches; more fundamentally, this workshop will explore how the con-
nectionist approach can implement other theoretical frameworks and translate
to other technical vocabularies.  Subtopics will include:

-- Connectionist approaches to semantic and symbolic problems from AI
-- Architectures for evidential and case-based reasoning
-- Cognitive maps and their control of sequence and planning
-- Representations of logical primitives and constitutive relations.

The 1988 MIND workshop on Motivation, Emotion, and Goal Direction in Neural
Networks has culminated in a book, now in press at Erlbaum.  This book is
characterized by extensive cross-referencing of papers, arising from the
associations of the workshop.

We plan to generate a similar book from this workshop on Knowledge Represent-
ation and Inference.  Abstracts must be submitted for review and will be
available to participants at the workshop.  Some of the presentations will then
be developed into book chapters.  In addition to oral presentations, there will
be some space for poster presentations at the workshop.

Abstracts (2 or 3 paragraphs) must be submitted by June 15 to either:

Daniel S. Levine
Dept. of Mathematics
Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019-9408
(817)-273-3598
b344dsl at utarlg.bitnet or b344dsl at utarlg.arl.utexas.edu

      or

Manuel Aparicio
Mail Stop 03-04-40
IBM
5 West Kirkwood Blvd.
Roanoke, TX 76299-0001
(817)-962-5944