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AI/GI/VI '96
20 - 24 May 1996
Holiday Inn on King
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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AI/GI/VI '96 is a unique event with three Canadian research conferences
that present the latest results in artificial intelligence, computer
graphics and computer vision. Each conference offers three concurrent days
of invited and submitted papers. For a single registration fee,
participants can attend presentations in any of the three conferences,
promoting the exchange of knowledge among these important disciplines.
Time has been set aside for workshops and other events. A banquet and
electronic theatre provide additional opportunities to meet speakers and
other attendees for informal discussion in a social setting. The three
conferences are sponsored by the Canadian Society for Computational Studies
of Intelligence, the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society and the
Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society
The 1996 conferences will be held at the Holiday Inn on King, in Toronto,
Ontario. Toronto is located on the north shore of Lake Ontario and is
Canada's largest city. The Toronto International Airport is served by
major airlines directly from many North American Cities. Direct bus
service connects the airport with the Holiday Inn. Limousines and rental
cars are also available.
Toronto is also the home of the World Champion Blue Jays, at least in the
years 1992 and 1993. The Holiday Inn On King is a great place to stay. It
is in the heart of Toronto's business, theatre and entertainment district.
Minutes from SkyDome, Roy Thomson Hall, the Royal Alexandra and the
Princess of Wales Theatre, hosts to the world's greatest entertainers. Also
a short walk from the CN Tower, Convention Centre and the trendy Queen
Street shopping district. If you'd like to explore Toronto's multicultural
mosaic, you're just a few blocks from Chinatown and close to restaurants
offering cuisine that reflects the international flavour of Toronto.
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WORKSHOP #1
Information Gathering from Global Networks
Tuesday, 21 May 1996
Background: With the rapid growth of the Internet, the information
explosion is becoming an immediate concern for everyone. Both the number of
users and the amount of accessible information on the internet have been
growing exponentially.
The sheer joy of browsing the world and the frustration of not finding the
right nugget of information have attracted researchers from many fields to
the problem of gathering knowledge from a network. What can AI researchers
bring to the problem? Are we just trying to justify the time we waste
surfing the net by calling it research? Or will software agents (or some
other AI techniques) succeed where traditional Information Retrieval
technology has stalled?
The Workshop: In the workshop, we hope to address some of the following
questions in the context of information gathering work being conducted by
AI researchers. Submitted papers may describe speculative, partial, or
completed work, provided the work has clear, practical implications for
other researchers.
Workshop Format: The workshop will consist of formatted presentations and
speculation sessions. Of course, we also welcome demonstrations. The
presenters will be asked to describe the view of networked information and
the view of the future that led them to their work.
Submission Information: Submissions are due 2 April 1996. Your paper should
not be longer than 8 pages (12 point font). All submissions will be
refereed. We expect the papers to be well organized and to represent a
contribution to the workshop.
Please send email to Joel Martin at the National Research Council of
Canada: "joel@ai.iit.nrc.ca" with the PostScript file of, or a URL pointer
to, your submission. Do not forget your name and physical mailing address.
If you wish to show a demonstration or video, please describe your
hardware/network requirements.
Submission Email Address: joel@ai.iit.nrc.ca
Important Dates
Papers: Tuesday, 2 April 1996
Notification: Wednesday, 17 April 1996
Workshop: Tuesday, 21 May 1996
Conference Information
Canadian AI Conference 21 - 24 May 1996, Holiday Inn on King, Toronto, Ontario
See: http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/cscsi/conferences/ai96.html
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WORKSHOP #2
What is Inductive Learning?
On the foundations of AI and Cognitive Science
Monday & Tuesday, 20 & 21 May 1996
A workshop in conjunction with the 11th Biennial Canadian AI Conference to
be held at the Holiday Inn on King, Toronto during 21 - 24 May 1996 This
workshop is a long overdue attempt to look at the inductive learning
process (ILP) as the central process generating various representations of
objects (events).
To this end one needs, first of all, to have a working definition of the
ILP, which has been lacking. Here is a starting point: ILP is the process
that constructs class representation on the basis of a (small) finite set
of examples, i.e. it constructs the INDUCTIVE class representation. This
class representation must, in essence, provide INDUCTIVE definition (or
construction) of the class.
The constructed class representation, in turn, modifies the earlier
representation of the objects (within the context specified by the ILP).
Thus, any subsequent processes, e.g. pattern recognition, recall, problem
solving, are performed on the basis of the newly constructed object (event)
representations. To put it somewhat strongly, there are only inductive
representations.
We encourage all researchers (including graduate students) seriously
interested in the foundations of the above areas to participate in the
workshop. Both theoretical and applied contributions are welcomed
(including, of course, those related to vision, speech, and language).
While extended abstracts will be available at the workshop, we are planning
to publish the expanded and reviewed versions of the presentations as a
special issue of journal Pattern Recognition.
Submit a copy (e-mail submissions are encouraged) of a 3-4 page extended
abstract to:
Lev Goldfarb, ILP Workshop Chair, Faculty of Computer Science University of
New Brunswick
P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, N.B. E3B 5A3
E-mail: goldfarb@unb.ca
Tel: 506-453-4566
Fax: 506-453-3566
Important Dates
Extended abstract: Monday, 25 March 1996
Notification & review to author: Friday, 5 April 1996
Final extended abstract: Monday, 22 April 1996
For more information
Lev Goldfarb
http://wwwos2.cs.unb.ca/profs/goldfarb/goldfarb.html
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ADVANCE PROGRAM - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE '96
Wednesday, May 22, 1996
8:30 Invited Speaker (TBA)
10:00 Knowledge Representation I: Constraints
Constraint-Directed Improvisation for Complex Domains
John Anderson, Mark Evans, U. of Manitoba, Canada
A New Model of Hard Binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Michael Dent, Bob Mercer, U. of Western Ontario, Canada
Reasoning with Multi-Point Events
Abdul Sattar, R. Weprasit, Griffith U., Australia
& L. Al-Khatib, Florida Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Selecting the Right Heuristic Algorithm: Runtime Performance Predictors
John Allen, Caelum Research Corporation, U.S.A.
Steve Minton, ISI, U. of Southern California, U.S.A.
11:20 Knowledge Representation II: Actions
Reasoning About Unknown, Counterfactual, and
Nondeterministic Actions in First-Order Logic
Charles Elkan, U. of California at San Diego, U.S.A.
The Frame Problem and Bayesian Network Action Representations
Craig Boutilier, U. of British Columbia, Canada
Moises Goldszmidt, Rockwell Science Center, Palo Alto, U.S.A.
1:30 Workshop Reports
2:00 Natural Language I: Generation
Automatic Generation of a Complex Dialogue History
Eli Hagen, Adelheit Stein, GMD-IPSI, Germany
A Chart Generator for Shake and Bake Machine Translation
Fred Popowich, Simon Fraser U., Canada
Extending the Role of User Feedback in Plan Recognition and Response
Generation for Advice Giving Systems
Liliana Ardissono, U. di Torino, Italy
Robin Cohen, U. of Waterloo, Canada
3:30 Debate - topic and debaters to be finalized
Thursday, May 23, 1996
8:30 Natural Language II: Understanding
Corpus-Based Learning of Generalized Parse Tree
Rules for Translation
Aysegul Tunc, Altay Guvenir, Bilkent U., Turkey
ParseTalk About Functional Anaphora
Udo Hahn, Michael Strube, Freiburg U., Germany
9:10 Applications I: Intelligent Information Filtering
Knowledge-Based Approaches to Query Expansion in
Information Retrieval
Richard Bodner, Fei Song, U. of Guelph, Canada
Inferring What a User is Not Interested In
Robert Holte, John Yan, U. of Ottawa, Canada
10:30 Applications II: Industrial Strength
Developing an Expert System Technology for Industrial Process Control
Bryan Kramer, John Mylopoulos, U. of Toronto, Canada
Michael Benjamin, Q.B. Chou, Ontario Hydro
Peter Ahn, John Opala, CAE Electronics, St. Laurent, Canada
Planning and Learning in a Natural Resource Information System
Daniel Charlebois, Pal Bhogal, David Goodenough, Hugh Barclay,
Canadian Forest Service, Stan Matwin, U. of Ottawa, Canada
11:10 Knowledge Representation III: Agents
A Hierarchical Model of Agents Based on Skill, Rules, and Knowledge
B. Chaib-draa, U. Laval, Canada
Semantics of Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks
for Cooperative Multi-Agent Distributed Interpretation
Yang Xiang, U. of Regina, Canada
1:30 Invited Speaker: Martha Pollack, U. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
3:00 Learning I: Induction
LPMEME: A Statistical Method for Inductive Logic Programming
Karan Bhatia, Charles Elkan, UC San Diego
Efficient Induction of Recursive Prolog Definitions
Riverson Rios, Stan Matwin, U. of Ottawa, Canada
A Wrapper Approach to Constructive Induction
Yuh-Jyh Hu, U. of California at Irvine, U.S.A.
4:00 Learning II: Challenging Domains and Problems
Reinforcement Learning in Noisy and Non-Markovian Domains
Mark Pendrith, Malcolm Ryan, U. of New South Wales
A Two-Level Approach to Learning in Nonstationary Environments
Wai Lam, U. of Iowa, Snehasis Mukhopadhyay, Purdue School of Science
Cooperative Unsupervised Learning
Charles Ling, Handong Wang, U. of Western Ontario
Friday, May 24, 1996
8:30 Knowledge Representation IV: Reasoning
Paraconsistent Circumscription
Zuoquan Lin, Shantou U., Peoples Republic of China
Efficient Algorithms for Qualitative Reasoning
About Imprecise Space
Thodoroa Topaloglou, U. of Toronto, Canada
A General Purpose Reasoner for Abstraction
Fausto Giunchiglia, U. of Trento, Italy
Roberto Sebastiani, DIST, Genoa, Italy
Adolfo Villafiorita, U. of Ancona, Italy
Toby Walsh, IRST, Trento, Italy
Reference Constraints and Individual Level Inheritance
Andrew Fall, Simon Fraser U., Canada
9:50 Learning III: Techniques and Issues
Decision Tree Learning System with Switching Evaluator
Takeshi Koshiba, Fujitsu Laboratories, Shizuoka, Japan
Parity: The Problem that Won't Go Away
Chris Thornton, U. of Sussex, U.K.
11:00 Invited Speaker: CSCSI Distinguished Service Award Winner (TBA)
1:30 Knowledge Representation V: Search
Polynomial-time Predicate-logic Hypothetical
Reasoning by Networked Bubble Propagation Method
Yuki Ohsawa, Osaka U., Japan
Mitsura Ishizuka, U. of Tokyo, Japan
Enhancing Maximum Satisfiability Algorithms with
Pure Literal Strategies
Richard Wallace, U. of New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Searching with Pattern Databases
Joe Culberson, Jonathon Schaeffer, U. Alberta
2:30 Knowledge Representation VI: Techniques for Application
Negoplan: A System for Logic-Based Decision Modelling
Sunil Noronha, Carleton U., Canada
Stan Szpakowicz, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Attribute Selection Strategies for
Attribute-Oriented Generalization
Brock Barber, Howard Hamilton, U. of Regina, Canada
Automating Model Acquisition by Fault Knowledge Re-Use:
Introducing the Diagnostic Remodeler Algorithm
Suhayya Abu-Hakima, National Research Council
4:00 Panel: AI: Love It or Leave It
moderator: Rogatien "G." Cumberbatch, U. of North Bay, Canada
panelists: Sydney J. Hurtubise, U. of North Bay, Canada
Natch de Montreal, others, to be finalized
Notes:
Schedule is subject to change.
Talks will be 15 minutes each. Question periods will be consolidated at
the end of each session, 5 minutes per talk in that session, as shown on
the schedule.
All talks will have papers in the Proceedings, to be published by
Springer-Verlag, and to be available at the conference.
Coffee breaks have been staggered from GI 96 and VI 96 but lunch breaks
have been coordinated with GI 96 and VI 96.
Workshops are currently being organized for Tuesday, May 21, 1996.
Individual workshop organizers will post details to relevant news groups,
including the AI 96 Web page (see below).
A best paper will be selected and announced at the conference. A journal
version of this paper will be published in the Computational Intelligence
journal.
The AI 96 conference Web site is
http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/cscsi/conferences/ai96.html
Please check this for the latest information on the conference, including
registration information.
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ADVANCE PROGRAM - GRAPHICS INTERFACE '96
Wednesday 22 May 1996
8:30 Visualization I
Database Management for Interactive Display of
Large Radiosity Models
T A Funkhouser, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Exploring Human Visualization of Computer Algorithms
S Douglas, et al, University of Oregon
An Adaptable Software Architecture for Rapidly Creating Information
Visualizations
R Kazman, U of Waterloo & J Carriere, BNR
10:30 Interaction
Sharing Fisheye Views in Relaxed-WYSIWIS Groupware Applications
S Greenberg & C Gutwin, University of Calgary
Virtual Pointing on a Computer Display:
Non-linear Control-display Mappings
E Graham, Simon Fraser University
The Effect of Feedback on a Color Selection Interface
S Douglas & T Kirkpatrick, University of Oregon
1:30 Invited Speaker
Information Visualization and the WWW
Jim Foley, Georgia Tech
3:00 Techniques
Geometric Deformation by Merging a 3D-Object with a Simple Shape - P
Decaudin, INRIA
View Synthesis from Unregistered 2-D Images
P Havaldar, et al, University of Southern California
Multi-Frame Thrashless Ray Casting with
Advancing Ray-Front
A Law & R Yagel, The Ohio State University
Error Diffusion: Wavefront Traversal &
Contrast Considerations
A Naiman & D Lam, HK University of Sc & Tech
Thursday 23 May 1996
9:00 Modeling & Applications
Algebraic Loop Detection & Evaluation Algorithms for Curve and Surface
Interrogations
S Krishnan & D Manocha, University of N C
Programming Support for Blossoming
W Liu & S Mann, University of Waterloo
Spatial Bounding of Self-Affine
Iterated Function System
J Rice, Trinity College, Dublin
11:00 Invited Speaker
Toy Story: Computer Animation Goes To Infinity & Beyond
Bill Reeves, Pixar
1:30 Rendering
Rendering Caustics on Non-Lambertian Surfaces
H W Jensen, Technical University of Denmark
A Complete Treatment of D1 Discontinuities in a
Discontinuity Mesh
S Ghali & A J Stewart, University of Toronto
Fast Rendering of Complex Environments using a
Spatial Hierarchy
B Chamberlain, et al, University of Washington
Hierarchical Visibility Culling for Spline Models
S Kumar & D Manocha, University of N C
4:00 Surfaces I
Painting Gradients: Free-form Surface Design
Using Shading Patterns
C van Overveld, Eindhoven University of Technology
Interactive Construction of Smoothly Blended
Anthropomorphic Solids
E Akleman, Texas A&M University
Friday 24 May 1996
8:30 Invited Speaker
10:00 Surfaces II
Surface Intersection Using Affine Arithmetic
L H de Figueiredo, University of Waterloo
A Technique for Constructing Developable Surfaces
M Sun & E Fiume, University of Toronto
Triangular B-splines for Blending & Filling of Polygonal Holes
R Pfeifle & H-P Seidel, University of Erlangen
Topological Evolution of Surfaces
D DeCarlo & J Gallier, University of Pennsylvania
1:30 Animation
Realistic Animation of Liquids
N Foster & D Metaxas, University of Pennsylvania
Knowledge-Driven, Interactive Animation of Human Running
A Bruderlin, ATR & T Calvert, Simon Fraser Univ
Emotion from Motion
K Amaya et al, Tokyo Institute of Technology, etc.
3:00 Visualization II
Interactive Visualization and Augmentation of Mechanical Assembly Sequences
R Sharma & J Molineros, University of Illinois
Visualizing Geometric Uncertainty of
Surface Interpolants
S Lodha, et al, University of California
Visualization of Developmental Processes by
Extrusion in Space-time
M Hammel & P Prusinkiewicz, Univ of Calgary
GI '96 Web Site: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~rhbartel/GI96/info.html
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ADVANCE PROGRAM - VISION INTERFACE '96
Wednesday 22 May 1996.
9:00 Invited Speaker 1: John Tsotsos, University of Toronto.
10:30 3-D recognition: Session Chair G. Dudek
Enhanced 3D Representation using multiple models
N. Ayoung-Chee, G. Dudek and F. Ferrie
Monocular system for 3-D recognition
A. K. C. Wong, L. Rong and X. Liang
Fast 3D object modeling and recognition in range images
R. Fayek and A. Wong
2:00 Contour Detection: Session Chair David Fleet.
The computation of closed bounding contours
J. Elder and S. Zucker
Le Perceptron multi-couches pour la detection des aretes d'une image
M. Mkaouar et R. Lepage
3:30 Applications I: Session Chair John Barron
Multi-pass feedback control for object recognition
M. Mirmehdi, Palmer, Kittler and Dabis
A measure of dependency in feedforward networks
D. Chiu and M. Leung
Deformed shape matching using dynamic programming
J. Baid and E. Milios
Thursda 23 May 1996.
9:00 Applications II: Session Chair Rejean Plamondon
Geomodeling: Georeferencing Real World Objects
Y. Li, C. Saldanha, M. Lalonde
A Hierarchical Classification of Experimental Liver Carcinogenesis
by Texture Analysis Using Laws Convolution Matrices.
S. Baheerathan, F. Albregtsen, K. Yogesan, H. E. Danielsen
Processing of business forms: system overview
J. N. Said, M. Cheriet, C.Y. Suen
11:00 Feature extraction: Session Chair Minas Spetsakis
Focussed color intersection for object recognition
V. V. Vinod and H. Murase
La transformee de Hough, nouvelle approche
A. Diou, Y. Voisin, C. Santo
2:00 Invited Speaker 2: Jean Meunier, Universite de Montreal.
3:30 Image processing I: Session Chair Evangelos Milios
Integration of passive and active vision for range calculation in
2D images
D. Fayek and A. Wong
Online VQ Image Sequence Coding Using ART-based Neural Network
X. Q. Li, Z. W. Zhao, H. D. Cheng
A Fuzzy Approach to Digital Mammographic Feature Enhancement
H. D. Cheng, Y. M. Lui, R. I. Freimanis
Friday 2: May 1996
9:00 Image processing II: Session Chair Roy Eagleson
Analyse et performances d'une methode de localisation et dimensionnement
d'objets appliquee a la calibration de cameras
C. Santo, A. Diou, Y. Voisin
Optimisation Algorithms for Range Image Registration
D. Laurendeau, G. Roth, L. Borgeat
Tabu Search For Disparity Estimation
R. Laganiere and A. Mitiche
11:00 Invited speaker 3: Juergen Schuermann, Daimler-Benz Research.
2:00 Optical flow: Session Chair Mohamed Cheriet
Steerable filters and cepstral analysis for optical flow
calculation from a single blurred image
I. Rekleitis
Parallel near real time optical flow
C. E. Siegerist
3:30 Sensing and motion: Session Chair Anup Basu
Environmental Exploration
G. Dudek, P. Freedman, I. M. Rekleitis
Active sensing with VIRTUE
J. Lang and M. Jenkin
A Study of the Role of the Observer in the Hand/eye Coordiantion Problem
Jean-Yves Herve
VI '96 Web Page: http://www.cs.yorku.ca/labs/vgrlab/events/VI96.html
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REGISTRATION FORM
AI/GI/VI '96 - Toronto, Ontario - 21 to 24 May 1996
Mail Completed Form to: Box 817, Fort Macleod, AB, Canada T0L 0Z0
Or Fax to: 403-553-2745 e-mail: davis@cs.ualberta.ca
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society may claim the proceedings for each society that they are paid up
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For Further Information: Phone 403-553-3092; Fax 403-553-2745
e-mail: davis@cs.ualberta.ca
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Withdrawals and cancellations must be received in writing by 5 May 1996,
and will be subject to a fee of $65, that includes handling and one copy of
the proceedings to be mailed after the conference. After this date no
refunds will be made.
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HOUSING FORM
AI/GI/VI '96 - 21 to 24 May 1996
Mail to: Holiday Inn on King
370 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5V 1J9
Phone: 416-599-4000, or 1-800-263-6364; Fax: 416-599-7394
Please Reserve Accommodation For: _____ # of Persons
Rate: $115.00 single or double
Blocked Rooms will be held until 19 April 1996
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All major credit cards are accepted. Reservations must be guaranteed with
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cancellation is received by the Holiday Inn 48 hours in advance.
If Accommodations are requested by telephone, request the rate for
Conference G9692 which is the AI/GI/VI '96 Rate
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Wayne A Davis e-mail: davis@cs.ualberta.ca
605 - 21st Street
PO Box 817
Fort Macleod, Alberta T0L 0Z0
Ph: 403-553-3029
Fax: 403-553-2745
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20 - 24 May 1996
Holiday Inn on King
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*******************************************
AI/GI/VI '96 is a unique event with three Canadian research conferences
that present the latest results in artificial intelligence, computer
graphics and computer vision. Each conference offers three concurrent days
of invited and submitted papers. For a single registration fee,
participants can attend presentations in any of the three conferences,
promoting the exchange of knowledge among these important disciplines.
Time has been set aside for workshops and other events. A banquet and
electronic theatre provide additional opportunities to meet speakers and
other attendees for informal discussion in a social setting. The three
conferences are sponsored by the Canadian Society for Computational Studies
of Intelligence, the Canadian Human Computer Communications Society and the
Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society
The 1996 conferences will be held at the Holiday Inn on King, in Toronto,
Ontario. Toronto is located on the north shore of Lake Ontario and is
Canada's largest city. The Toronto International Airport is served by
major airlines directly from many North American Cities. Direct bus
service connects the airport with the Holiday Inn. Limousines and rental
cars are also available.
Toronto is also the home of the World Champion Blue Jays, at least in the
years 1992 and 1993. The Holiday Inn On King is a great place to stay. It
is in the heart of Toronto's business, theatre and entertainment district.
Minutes from SkyDome, Roy Thomson Hall, the Royal Alexandra and the
Princess of Wales Theatre, hosts to the world's greatest entertainers. Also
a short walk from the CN Tower, Convention Centre and the trendy Queen
Street shopping district. If you'd like to explore Toronto's multicultural
mosaic, you're just a few blocks from Chinatown and close to restaurants
offering cuisine that reflects the international flavour of Toronto.
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WORKSHOP #1
Information Gathering from Global Networks
Tuesday, 21 May 1996
Background: With the rapid growth of the Internet, the information
explosion is becoming an immediate concern for everyone. Both the number of
users and the amount of accessible information on the internet have been
growing exponentially.
The sheer joy of browsing the world and the frustration of not finding the
right nugget of information have attracted researchers from many fields to
the problem of gathering knowledge from a network. What can AI researchers
bring to the problem? Are we just trying to justify the time we waste
surfing the net by calling it research? Or will software agents (or some
other AI techniques) succeed where traditional Information Retrieval
technology has stalled?
The Workshop: In the workshop, we hope to address some of the following
questions in the context of information gathering work being conducted by
AI researchers. Submitted papers may describe speculative, partial, or
completed work, provided the work has clear, practical implications for
other researchers.
Workshop Format: The workshop will consist of formatted presentations and
speculation sessions. Of course, we also welcome demonstrations. The
presenters will be asked to describe the view of networked information and
the view of the future that led them to their work.
Submission Information: Submissions are due 2 April 1996. Your paper should
not be longer than 8 pages (12 point font). All submissions will be
refereed. We expect the papers to be well organized and to represent a
contribution to the workshop.
Please send email to Joel Martin at the National Research Council of
Canada: "joel@ai.iit.nrc.ca" with the PostScript file of, or a URL pointer
to, your submission. Do not forget your name and physical mailing address.
If you wish to show a demonstration or video, please describe your
hardware/network requirements.
Submission Email Address: joel@ai.iit.nrc.ca
Important Dates
Papers: Tuesday, 2 April 1996
Notification: Wednesday, 17 April 1996
Workshop: Tuesday, 21 May 1996
Conference Information
Canadian AI Conference 21 - 24 May 1996, Holiday Inn on King, Toronto, Ontario
See: http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/cscsi/conferences/ai96.html
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WORKSHOP #2
What is Inductive Learning?
On the foundations of AI and Cognitive Science
Monday & Tuesday, 20 & 21 May 1996
A workshop in conjunction with the 11th Biennial Canadian AI Conference to
be held at the Holiday Inn on King, Toronto during 21 - 24 May 1996 This
workshop is a long overdue attempt to look at the inductive learning
process (ILP) as the central process generating various representations of
objects (events).
To this end one needs, first of all, to have a working definition of the
ILP, which has been lacking. Here is a starting point: ILP is the process
that constructs class representation on the basis of a (small) finite set
of examples, i.e. it constructs the INDUCTIVE class representation. This
class representation must, in essence, provide INDUCTIVE definition (or
construction) of the class.
The constructed class representation, in turn, modifies the earlier
representation of the objects (within the context specified by the ILP).
Thus, any subsequent processes, e.g. pattern recognition, recall, problem
solving, are performed on the basis of the newly constructed object (event)
representations. To put it somewhat strongly, there are only inductive
representations.
We encourage all researchers (including graduate students) seriously
interested in the foundations of the above areas to participate in the
workshop. Both theoretical and applied contributions are welcomed
(including, of course, those related to vision, speech, and language).
While extended abstracts will be available at the workshop, we are planning
to publish the expanded and reviewed versions of the presentations as a
special issue of journal Pattern Recognition.
Submit a copy (e-mail submissions are encouraged) of a 3-4 page extended
abstract to:
Lev Goldfarb, ILP Workshop Chair, Faculty of Computer Science University of
New Brunswick
P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, N.B. E3B 5A3
E-mail: goldfarb@unb.ca
Tel: 506-453-4566
Fax: 506-453-3566
Important Dates
Extended abstract: Monday, 25 March 1996
Notification & review to author: Friday, 5 April 1996
Final extended abstract: Monday, 22 April 1996
For more information
Lev Goldfarb
http://wwwos2.cs.unb.ca/profs/goldfarb/goldfarb.html
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ADVANCE PROGRAM - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE '96
Wednesday, May 22, 1996
8:30 Invited Speaker (TBA)
10:00 Knowledge Representation I: Constraints
Constraint-Directed Improvisation for Complex Domains
John Anderson, Mark Evans, U. of Manitoba, Canada
A New Model of Hard Binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Michael Dent, Bob Mercer, U. of Western Ontario, Canada
Reasoning with Multi-Point Events
Abdul Sattar, R. Weprasit, Griffith U., Australia
& L. Al-Khatib, Florida Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Selecting the Right Heuristic Algorithm: Runtime Performance Predictors
John Allen, Caelum Research Corporation, U.S.A.
Steve Minton, ISI, U. of Southern California, U.S.A.
11:20 Knowledge Representation II: Actions
Reasoning About Unknown, Counterfactual, and
Nondeterministic Actions in First-Order Logic
Charles Elkan, U. of California at San Diego, U.S.A.
The Frame Problem and Bayesian Network Action Representations
Craig Boutilier, U. of British Columbia, Canada
Moises Goldszmidt, Rockwell Science Center, Palo Alto, U.S.A.
1:30 Workshop Reports
2:00 Natural Language I: Generation
Automatic Generation of a Complex Dialogue History
Eli Hagen, Adelheit Stein, GMD-IPSI, Germany
A Chart Generator for Shake and Bake Machine Translation
Fred Popowich, Simon Fraser U., Canada
Extending the Role of User Feedback in Plan Recognition and Response
Generation for Advice Giving Systems
Liliana Ardissono, U. di Torino, Italy
Robin Cohen, U. of Waterloo, Canada
3:30 Debate - topic and debaters to be finalized
Thursday, May 23, 1996
8:30 Natural Language II: Understanding
Corpus-Based Learning of Generalized Parse Tree
Rules for Translation
Aysegul Tunc, Altay Guvenir, Bilkent U., Turkey
ParseTalk About Functional Anaphora
Udo Hahn, Michael Strube, Freiburg U., Germany
9:10 Applications I: Intelligent Information Filtering
Knowledge-Based Approaches to Query Expansion in
Information Retrieval
Richard Bodner, Fei Song, U. of Guelph, Canada
Inferring What a User is Not Interested In
Robert Holte, John Yan, U. of Ottawa, Canada
10:30 Applications II: Industrial Strength
Developing an Expert System Technology for Industrial Process Control
Bryan Kramer, John Mylopoulos, U. of Toronto, Canada
Michael Benjamin, Q.B. Chou, Ontario Hydro
Peter Ahn, John Opala, CAE Electronics, St. Laurent, Canada
Planning and Learning in a Natural Resource Information System
Daniel Charlebois, Pal Bhogal, David Goodenough, Hugh Barclay,
Canadian Forest Service, Stan Matwin, U. of Ottawa, Canada
11:10 Knowledge Representation III: Agents
A Hierarchical Model of Agents Based on Skill, Rules, and Knowledge
B. Chaib-draa, U. Laval, Canada
Semantics of Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks
for Cooperative Multi-Agent Distributed Interpretation
Yang Xiang, U. of Regina, Canada
1:30 Invited Speaker: Martha Pollack, U. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
3:00 Learning I: Induction
LPMEME: A Statistical Method for Inductive Logic Programming
Karan Bhatia, Charles Elkan, UC San Diego
Efficient Induction of Recursive Prolog Definitions
Riverson Rios, Stan Matwin, U. of Ottawa, Canada
A Wrapper Approach to Constructive Induction
Yuh-Jyh Hu, U. of California at Irvine, U.S.A.
4:00 Learning II: Challenging Domains and Problems
Reinforcement Learning in Noisy and Non-Markovian Domains
Mark Pendrith, Malcolm Ryan, U. of New South Wales
A Two-Level Approach to Learning in Nonstationary Environments
Wai Lam, U. of Iowa, Snehasis Mukhopadhyay, Purdue School of Science
Cooperative Unsupervised Learning
Charles Ling, Handong Wang, U. of Western Ontario
Friday, May 24, 1996
8:30 Knowledge Representation IV: Reasoning
Paraconsistent Circumscription
Zuoquan Lin, Shantou U., Peoples Republic of China
Efficient Algorithms for Qualitative Reasoning
About Imprecise Space
Thodoroa Topaloglou, U. of Toronto, Canada
A General Purpose Reasoner for Abstraction
Fausto Giunchiglia, U. of Trento, Italy
Roberto Sebastiani, DIST, Genoa, Italy
Adolfo Villafiorita, U. of Ancona, Italy
Toby Walsh, IRST, Trento, Italy
Reference Constraints and Individual Level Inheritance
Andrew Fall, Simon Fraser U., Canada
9:50 Learning III: Techniques and Issues
Decision Tree Learning System with Switching Evaluator
Takeshi Koshiba, Fujitsu Laboratories, Shizuoka, Japan
Parity: The Problem that Won't Go Away
Chris Thornton, U. of Sussex, U.K.
11:00 Invited Speaker: CSCSI Distinguished Service Award Winner (TBA)
1:30 Knowledge Representation V: Search
Polynomial-time Predicate-logic Hypothetical
Reasoning by Networked Bubble Propagation Method
Yuki Ohsawa, Osaka U., Japan
Mitsura Ishizuka, U. of Tokyo, Japan
Enhancing Maximum Satisfiability Algorithms with
Pure Literal Strategies
Richard Wallace, U. of New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Searching with Pattern Databases
Joe Culberson, Jonathon Schaeffer, U. Alberta
2:30 Knowledge Representation VI: Techniques for Application
Negoplan: A System for Logic-Based Decision Modelling
Sunil Noronha, Carleton U., Canada
Stan Szpakowicz, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Attribute Selection Strategies for
Attribute-Oriented Generalization
Brock Barber, Howard Hamilton, U. of Regina, Canada
Automating Model Acquisition by Fault Knowledge Re-Use:
Introducing the Diagnostic Remodeler Algorithm
Suhayya Abu-Hakima, National Research Council
4:00 Panel: AI: Love It or Leave It
moderator: Rogatien "G." Cumberbatch, U. of North Bay, Canada
panelists: Sydney J. Hurtubise, U. of North Bay, Canada
Natch de Montreal, others, to be finalized
Notes:
Schedule is subject to change.
Talks will be 15 minutes each. Question periods will be consolidated at
the end of each session, 5 minutes per talk in that session, as shown on
the schedule.
All talks will have papers in the Proceedings, to be published by
Springer-Verlag, and to be available at the conference.
Coffee breaks have been staggered from GI 96 and VI 96 but lunch breaks
have been coordinated with GI 96 and VI 96.
Workshops are currently being organized for Tuesday, May 21, 1996.
Individual workshop organizers will post details to relevant news groups,
including the AI 96 Web page (see below).
A best paper will be selected and announced at the conference. A journal
version of this paper will be published in the Computational Intelligence
journal.
The AI 96 conference Web site is
http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/cscsi/conferences/ai96.html
Please check this for the latest information on the conference, including
registration information.
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ADVANCE PROGRAM - GRAPHICS INTERFACE '96
Wednesday 22 May 1996
8:30 Visualization I
Database Management for Interactive Display of
Large Radiosity Models
T A Funkhouser, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Exploring Human Visualization of Computer Algorithms
S Douglas, et al, University of Oregon
An Adaptable Software Architecture for Rapidly Creating Information
Visualizations
R Kazman, U of Waterloo & J Carriere, BNR
10:30 Interaction
Sharing Fisheye Views in Relaxed-WYSIWIS Groupware Applications
S Greenberg & C Gutwin, University of Calgary
Virtual Pointing on a Computer Display:
Non-linear Control-display Mappings
E Graham, Simon Fraser University
The Effect of Feedback on a Color Selection Interface
S Douglas & T Kirkpatrick, University of Oregon
1:30 Invited Speaker
Information Visualization and the WWW
Jim Foley, Georgia Tech
3:00 Techniques
Geometric Deformation by Merging a 3D-Object with a Simple Shape - P
Decaudin, INRIA
View Synthesis from Unregistered 2-D Images
P Havaldar, et al, University of Southern California
Multi-Frame Thrashless Ray Casting with
Advancing Ray-Front
A Law & R Yagel, The Ohio State University
Error Diffusion: Wavefront Traversal &
Contrast Considerations
A Naiman & D Lam, HK University of Sc & Tech
Thursday 23 May 1996
9:00 Modeling & Applications
Algebraic Loop Detection & Evaluation Algorithms for Curve and Surface
Interrogations
S Krishnan & D Manocha, University of N C
Programming Support for Blossoming
W Liu & S Mann, University of Waterloo
Spatial Bounding of Self-Affine
Iterated Function System
J Rice, Trinity College, Dublin
11:00 Invited Speaker
Toy Story: Computer Animation Goes To Infinity & Beyond
Bill Reeves, Pixar
1:30 Rendering
Rendering Caustics on Non-Lambertian Surfaces
H W Jensen, Technical University of Denmark
A Complete Treatment of D1 Discontinuities in a
Discontinuity Mesh
S Ghali & A J Stewart, University of Toronto
Fast Rendering of Complex Environments using a
Spatial Hierarchy
B Chamberlain, et al, University of Washington
Hierarchical Visibility Culling for Spline Models
S Kumar & D Manocha, University of N C
4:00 Surfaces I
Painting Gradients: Free-form Surface Design
Using Shading Patterns
C van Overveld, Eindhoven University of Technology
Interactive Construction of Smoothly Blended
Anthropomorphic Solids
E Akleman, Texas A&M University
Friday 24 May 1996
8:30 Invited Speaker
10:00 Surfaces II
Surface Intersection Using Affine Arithmetic
L H de Figueiredo, University of Waterloo
A Technique for Constructing Developable Surfaces
M Sun & E Fiume, University of Toronto
Triangular B-splines for Blending & Filling of Polygonal Holes
R Pfeifle & H-P Seidel, University of Erlangen
Topological Evolution of Surfaces
D DeCarlo & J Gallier, University of Pennsylvania
1:30 Animation
Realistic Animation of Liquids
N Foster & D Metaxas, University of Pennsylvania
Knowledge-Driven, Interactive Animation of Human Running
A Bruderlin, ATR & T Calvert, Simon Fraser Univ
Emotion from Motion
K Amaya et al, Tokyo Institute of Technology, etc.
3:00 Visualization II
Interactive Visualization and Augmentation of Mechanical Assembly Sequences
R Sharma & J Molineros, University of Illinois
Visualizing Geometric Uncertainty of
Surface Interpolants
S Lodha, et al, University of California
Visualization of Developmental Processes by
Extrusion in Space-time
M Hammel & P Prusinkiewicz, Univ of Calgary
GI '96 Web Site: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~rhbartel/GI96/info.html
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ADVANCE PROGRAM - VISION INTERFACE '96
Wednesday 22 May 1996.
9:00 Invited Speaker 1: John Tsotsos, University of Toronto.
10:30 3-D recognition: Session Chair G. Dudek
Enhanced 3D Representation using multiple models
N. Ayoung-Chee, G. Dudek and F. Ferrie
Monocular system for 3-D recognition
A. K. C. Wong, L. Rong and X. Liang
Fast 3D object modeling and recognition in range images
R. Fayek and A. Wong
2:00 Contour Detection: Session Chair David Fleet.
The computation of closed bounding contours
J. Elder and S. Zucker
Le Perceptron multi-couches pour la detection des aretes d'une image
M. Mkaouar et R. Lepage
3:30 Applications I: Session Chair John Barron
Multi-pass feedback control for object recognition
M. Mirmehdi, Palmer, Kittler and Dabis
A measure of dependency in feedforward networks
D. Chiu and M. Leung
Deformed shape matching using dynamic programming
J. Baid and E. Milios
Thursda 23 May 1996.
9:00 Applications II: Session Chair Rejean Plamondon
Geomodeling: Georeferencing Real World Objects
Y. Li, C. Saldanha, M. Lalonde
A Hierarchical Classification of Experimental Liver Carcinogenesis
by Texture Analysis Using Laws Convolution Matrices.
S. Baheerathan, F. Albregtsen, K. Yogesan, H. E. Danielsen
Processing of business forms: system overview
J. N. Said, M. Cheriet, C.Y. Suen
11:00 Feature extraction: Session Chair Minas Spetsakis
Focussed color intersection for object recognition
V. V. Vinod and H. Murase
La transformee de Hough, nouvelle approche
A. Diou, Y. Voisin, C. Santo
2:00 Invited Speaker 2: Jean Meunier, Universite de Montreal.
3:30 Image processing I: Session Chair Evangelos Milios
Integration of passive and active vision for range calculation in
2D images
D. Fayek and A. Wong
Online VQ Image Sequence Coding Using ART-based Neural Network
X. Q. Li, Z. W. Zhao, H. D. Cheng
A Fuzzy Approach to Digital Mammographic Feature Enhancement
H. D. Cheng, Y. M. Lui, R. I. Freimanis
Friday 2: May 1996
9:00 Image processing II: Session Chair Roy Eagleson
Analyse et performances d'une methode de localisation et dimensionnement
d'objets appliquee a la calibration de cameras
C. Santo, A. Diou, Y. Voisin
Optimisation Algorithms for Range Image Registration
D. Laurendeau, G. Roth, L. Borgeat
Tabu Search For Disparity Estimation
R. Laganiere and A. Mitiche
11:00 Invited speaker 3: Juergen Schuermann, Daimler-Benz Research.
2:00 Optical flow: Session Chair Mohamed Cheriet
Steerable filters and cepstral analysis for optical flow
calculation from a single blurred image
I. Rekleitis
Parallel near real time optical flow
C. E. Siegerist
3:30 Sensing and motion: Session Chair Anup Basu
Environmental Exploration
G. Dudek, P. Freedman, I. M. Rekleitis
Active sensing with VIRTUE
J. Lang and M. Jenkin
A Study of the Role of the Observer in the Hand/eye Coordiantion Problem
Jean-Yves Herve
VI '96 Web Page: http://www.cs.yorku.ca/labs/vgrlab/events/VI96.html
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