AI and Stats Workshop

[Douglas H. Fisher]

                           Call For Papers
                    Fifth International Workshop on

                       Artificial Intelligence
                                and
                             Statistics

                          January 4-7, 1995
                       Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

PURPOSE:
This is the fifth in a series of workshops which has 
brought together researchers in Artificial Intelligence and in
Statistics to discuss problems of mutual interest. The exchange has 
broadened research in both fields and has strongly encouraged 
interdisciplinary work.

This workshop will have as its primary theme:

                   ``Learning from data''

Papers on other topics at the interface of AI & Statistics
are *strongly* encouraged as well (see TOPICS below).

FORMAT:
To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the
presentations will be limited to about 20 discussion papers in single
session meetings over three days (Jan. 5-7). Focussed poster 
sessions will provide the means for presenting and discussing the 
remaining research papers. Papers for poster sessions will be treated 
equally with papers for presentation in publications.

Attendance at the workshop will *not* be limited.

The three days of research presentations will be preceded by a day
of tutorials (Jan. 4).  These are intended to expose researchers 
in each field to the methodology used in the other field. The Tutorial 
Chair is Prakash Shenoy. Suggestions on tutorial topics can be sent to
him at pshenoy at ukanvm.bitnet.

LANGUAGE:
The language will be English.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The fifth workshop has a primary theme of

          ``Learning from data''

At least one third of the workshop schedule will be set aside for 
papers with this theme. Other themes will be developed according
to the strength of the papers in other areas, including but not
limited to:

     - integrated man-machine modeling methods
     - empirical discovery and statistical methods for knowledge
       acquisition
     - probability and search
     - uncertainty propagation
     - combined statistical and qualitative reasoning
     - inferring causation
     - quantitative programming tools and integrated software for
       data analysis and modeling.
     - discovery in databases
     - meta data and design of statistical data bases
     - automated data analysis and knowledge representation for
       statistics
     - connectionist approaches
     - cluster analysis


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Three copies of an extended abstract (up to four pages) should be
sent to

  H. Lenz, Program Chair           or  D. Fisher, General Chair
  5th Int'l Workshop on AI & Stats     5th Int'l Workshop on AI & Stats
  Free University of Berlin            Box 1679, Station B
  Department of Economics              Department of Computer Science
  Institute for Statistics             Vanderbilt University
            and Econometrics           Nashville, Tennessee 37235
  14185 Berlin, Garystr 21             USA  
  Germany

or electronically (postscript or latex documents preferred) to

           ai-stats-95 at vuse.vanderbilt.edu

Submissions for discussion papers (and poster presentations) will
be considered if *postmarked* by June 30, 1994. If the submission
is electronic (e-mail), then it must be *received* by midnight
June 30, 1994. Abstracts postmarked after this date but *before*
July 31, 1994, will be considered for poster presentation *only*.

Please indicate which topic(s) your abstract addresses and include
an electronic mail address for correspondence. Receipt of all 
submissions will be confirmed via electronic mail. Acceptance 
notices will be mailed by September 1, 1994. Preliminary papers (up 
to 20 pages) must be returned by November 1, 1994. These preliminary 
papers will be copied and distributed at the workshop.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

General Chair:    D. Fisher             Vanderbilt U., USA

Program Chair:    H. Lenz               Free U. Berlin, Germany

Members:
                  W. Buntine            NASA (Ames), USA
                  J. Catlett            AT&T Bell Labs, USA
                  P. Cheeseman          NASA (Ames), USA
                  P. Cohen              U. of Mass., USA 
                  D. Draper             U. of Bath, UK
                  Wm. Dumouchel         Columbia U., USA
                  A. Gammerman          U. of London, UK
                  D. J. Hand            Open U., UK
                  P. Hietala            U. Tampere, Finland
                  R. Kruse              TU Braunschweig, Germany
                  S. Lauritzen          Aalborg U., Denmark
                  W. Oldford            U. of Waterloo, Canada
                  J. Pearl              UCLA, USA
                  D. Pregibon           AT&T Bell Labs, USA
                  E. Roedel             Humboldt U., Germany
                  G. Shafer             Rutgers U., USA
                  P. Smyth              JPL, USA


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Traditionally, the Workshop has attracted many with an interest
in connectionism, and we encourage even more for the 1995
Workshop.