connectionism & AI conf.

[Georg Dorffner]

                        Announcement and Call for Papers
               Sixth Austrian Artificial Intelligence Conference

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                   Connectionism in Artificial Intelligence
                         and Cognitive Science
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                     organized by the Austrian Society for
                        Artificial Intelligence (OeGAI)
              in cooperation with the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik
                  (GI, German Society for Computer Science),
                           Section for Connectionism

                               Sep 18 - 21, 1990
                               Salzburg, Austria

        Conference chair: Georg Dorffner (Univ. of Vienna, Austria)

        Program committee: J. Diederich (GMD St. Augustin, Germany)
                           C. Freksa (Techn. Univ. Munich, Germany)
                           Ch. Lischka (GMD St.Augustin, Germany)
                           A. Kobsa (Univ. of Saarland, Germany)
                           M. Koehle (Techn. Univ. Vienna, Austria)
                           B. Neumann (Univ. Hamburg, Germany)
                           H. Schnelle (Univ. Bochum, Germany)
                           Z. Schreter (Univ. Zurich, Switzerland)

        Recently, connectionism is becoming more and more influential as
        a  basic  paradigm  and  method  for artificial intelligence and
        cognitive science. Although there is an abundance of conferences
        on  artificial  neural  networks  - the basis of connectionism -
        only few meetings are devoted to  modeling  cognitive  processes
        and building AI models with the novel approach.  This conference
        is designed to fill this space.  It will bring together works in
        the  field  of  neural  networks for AI problems, but also basic
        aspects of massive parallelism and theoretical  implications  of
        the new paradigm.  The program will consist of submitted papers,
        workshops, invited talks and panels.

        IMPORTANT! The conference languages are German and English. Most
        of  the conference will be held in German, though, but papers in
        English are welcome!

        Scientific  program:  papers  on  the  following  topics,  among
        others, are solicited:

                - networks in practical AI applications
                - connectionist "expert systems"
                - localist (structured) networks
                - localist and self-organizing approaches
                - explanation and interpretation of network behavior
                - hybrid systems
                - knowledge representation in neural networks
                - representation vs. behavior
                - validity of learning mechanisms
                - parallelism in humans and machines
                - associative inferences
                - connectionism and language processing
                - connectionism and pattern recognition
                - network simulation software as AI tool
                - neural networks and genetic algorithms
                - philosophical and epistemological implications
                - neural networks and robotics

        Workshops:

                - massive parallelism and cognition (Ch. Lischka)
                - structured (localist) network models (J. Diederich)
                - connectionism in language processing

        The workshops  consist  of  short  persentations  and  intensive
        discussions  on the specialized topic. Presentations are usually
        invited, but can also be submitted. They will  be  open  to  all
        participants at the conference.

        Panel: Explanation and transparency of connectionist systems

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        All submissions for the scientific program should consist of  no
        more  than  10 pages, for the workshops of no more than 5 pages.
        Languages - as mentioned above - are German  and  English.   All
        accepted  papers  will  be printed in a proceedings volume. Send
        all submissions to:

        Georg Dorffner
        Dept. of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence
        University of Vienna
        Freyung 6/2
        A-1010 Vienna, Austria

        Deadlines:

          complete submission postmarked no later than March 15, 1990

        April 30, 1990: Notification of acceptance / rejection
        June 1, 1990: Deadline for camera-ready paper


        System demonstrations are possible, if the conference  chair  is
        notified early.