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     Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'94)
                      "Sowing the Seeds for the Future"

                           21st - 25th November 1994

			   University of New England
                               Armidale, N.S.W.
                                  AUSTRALIA

 

                         AN INVITATION TO ATTEND AI'94

AI'94 is the Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 
which will be hosted by The University of New England, Armidale, between 
Monday 21st  November and Friday 25th November 1994.  On behalf of the 
programme and organising committees, we are very pleased to invite you to 
attend AI'94. This year we have received 152 papers submitted to AI'94, of 
which 75 papers (49.3% of 152) came from a total of 18 overseas countries.  

The conference program will consist of 9 Tutorials, 5 Workshops, and 
1 Postgraduate Students Session on the Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd 
November, and technical paper presentation sessions from Wednesday 23rd 
to Friday 25th of November. 
 
There are three Keynote addresses from renowned international speakers.   
Professor Wolfgang Wahlster from the German Research  Centre for AI (DFKI) 
will address  "Intellimedia: Planning Language, Graphics and Layout for 
Adaptive Information Presentation".  He is a AAAI Fellow and served as the 
Conference Chair for IJCAI-93 in Chambery and the Chair of the Board of 
Trustees of IJCAII from 1991 -1993. Professor Katia Sycara from Carnegie 
Mellon University (CMU) will address "The Present and Future of 
Distributed Artificial Intelligence". She is well known for her work on 
distributed artificial intelligence and integration of case-based 
reasoning with other problem solving methods.  Professor John F. Sowa from 
State University of New York - Binghamton will address "Sharing and 
Integrating Knowledge Bases".  He is the author of the book "Conceptual 
Structures", which in the past ten years has led to a world-wide movement 
of  people who are using, implementing, and extending the theory of 
conceptual  graphs.   

These three keynote speakers will also attend the postgraduate session to 
discuss various AI problems with attendants.  We are sure that your 
attendance will benefit both AI'94 and yourself.
 
 We are looking forward to meeting you in Armidale in November 1994.
 
 Dr. Chengqi Zhang			Dr. Dickson Lukose
 Prof. John Debenham		
 
 AI'94 Programme Committee Co-Chairs	AI'94 Organising Committee Chair


IMPORTANT DATES

Camera-Ready Papers Due:                22nd August 1994
Last Day for "Early Bird Registration": 1st October 1994
Conference:                             21st - 25th November 1994


ENQUIRES TO

Conference Secretary: - Allan Williams

Postal Address: AI'94 Conference Secretary
                Department of Mathematics, Statistics and 
                Computing Science
                University of New England
                Armidale,  NSW  2351
                Australia

Telephopne: +61 67 73 2298  or 73 2412
Facsimile:  +61 67 73 3312
Email: ai94@fermat.une.edu.au

 
SPONSORS

The Organisers of  AI'94 would like to acknowledge the support of the 
following sponsors:

Mircrosoft Institute (Principal Sponsor  for the conference)
IBM Australia
Australian Computer Society
CAMTECH Pty. Ltd
Knowledge Engineering Group - Deakin University
Knowledge Systems Group - Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney
Expert Systems Group - Continuum Australia Limited
Key Centre for Knowledge Based Systems - RMIT
Department of  Mathematics, Statistics and Computng Science - UNE
Sun Microsystems

GENERAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Tutorial Registration includes entry to the Introduction to AI tutorial on 
	Monday 21st and the following morning tea. Entry to nominated 
	tutorial(s), copies of associated teaching material, appropriate 
	morning and afternoon teas and lunch on the day of the nominated 
	tutorial.(Please enter the required tutorial codes when filling in 
	registration form)

Workshop Registration includes entry to nominated workshop, morning and 
	afternoon teas as well as lunch on the day of the workshop. 
	NOTE: Participation in a specific workshop must be approved by the 
	workshop organisers. (Please enter workshop code on registration form)

Full Registration includes entry to all sessions, conference proceedings in 
	a satchel, morning and afternoon teas, temporary sports union 
	membership, welcome BBQ and conference dinner.

Student Registration is available to full-time students at tertiary 
	institutions. It includes entry to all sessions, conference 
	proceedings in a satchel, morning and afternoon teas, temporary 
	sports union membership and welcome BBQ. Student registration does 
	NOT include the conference dinner. For student registration we 
	require certification of full-time student status in the form of a 
	letter from your Head of Department or your supervisor.

Day Registration includes entry to all sessions, morning and afternoon teas 
	on the one day.


CANCELLATION POLICY

Cancellation must be notified in writing to the conference secretary. 
Cancellations received before 28th October will not incur a cancellation 
fee. Cancellations received after this date will be subject to a 
cancellation fee of $200 and a copy of the proceedings would be mailed. 
This policy does not apply to authors whose papers are selected for 
publication.


REGISTRATION PAYMENTS

Registration forms and payments should be posted to:
 	AI'94 Conference Secretary
 	Department of Maths, Stats & Comp. Sci.
 	University of New England
 	Armidale NSW  2351
 	Australia

Delegates paying via credit card may fax or email their registration 
details direct to the conference secretary.


TRAVEL

International:  Overseas delegates are reminded that most visitors to 
	Australia will need a visa for entry.  It is the delegates 
	responsibility to check  with their local travel agent or 
	Australian consulate as to how to arrange for the visa.

Domestic Airlines: Ansett  has been appointed the official carrier for 
	all domestic air travel. When making booking arrangements delegates 
	should quote the following masterfile number: MC01523
	Group discounts of 35% off the regular fare is also available. 
	To contact the nearest Ansett Travel Consultant ring:  13 14 13  
	from anywhere in Australia

Sydney - Armidale: Ansett Airlines do not fly direct to Armidale.  As a 
	consequence, a seperate conference code is required for 
	Hazelton's Airlines: YO CONF 15
	(Quoting the above code will entitle you to 15% discount off the 
	regular full airfare.)

Road: Armidale is located on the New England Highway (No.15) and all 
	major bus companies have a service which passes through Armidale.  
	Alternatively delegates may choose to drive from either Sydney or 
	Brisbane. Typically it is a 6.5 hours car trip from Sydney or 
	5.5 hours by car from Brisbane.

Rail: Armidale is serviced by the NSW Railways and is located at the 
	Northern End of the Explorer Rail Service.

To and from the Conference: There is a single bus company which runs a 
	bus service between the centre of town and the University. The 
	cost for a one way trip is $1.50.  Due to the limited route of 
	the buses Taxi is the only other public transport available. On 
	average you can expect to pay approximately $10 from the motels 
	listed below to the University.  


ACCOMMODATION BOOKINGS

The organising committee has obtained a bed, breakfast package for $43 
per night for conference participants who choose to stay at Mary White 
College (MWC). MWC is located only 2 mins walk from all conference 
venues. The organising committee believes that the accommodation at MWC
offers the best value for delegates attending the conference.  MWC college 
offers a typical college style accommodation with a single study bedroom, 
telephone, linen, towels and shared bathroom facilities. As added 
incentive the College has agreed to provide evening meals for those people 
staying at MWC on Wednesday Night and for students on Thursday night. 
Delegates wishing to stay at MWC are asked to pay for their accommodation
in advance along with their registration to AI'94.

The Organising Committee understands that a college type of accommodation is 
not suitable for or desirable for all delegates and so has included a 
list of alternate accommodation possibilities. Accommodation providers 
which provide some evening meals are also marked.  Prices and Ratings 
listed are taken from the NRMA Accommodation guide and are provided only
as an indication to the price of a double room and standard of the 
accommodation available. The organising committee will book 
accommodation of your choice where possible but it will be the 
responsibility of the delegate to pay for thier accommodation on 
departure. 


CONFIRMATION OF BOOKINGS

Registration forms and fees will be acknowledged and MWC accommodation 
bookings confirmed, as they are received. Please check the confirmation 
letter and advise of any changes immediately.


ALTERNATE ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS

Name                          Address             Tel.       Fax.    Price Meals
                                                   +61 67
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Armidale Cattleman's Motor   31 Marsh Street      72 7788    71 1447 $95-$115 Y
Inn
Armidale Regency Motor Inn   208 Dangar Street    72 9800    71 2590 $64-$88 Y
Homefields Deer Park Motor   72-74 Glenn Innes Rd 72 9999    72 8962 $54-$76 Y
Inn                          
***.5
Alluna Motel                180 Dangar Street     72 6262    72 6262 $48-$64 Y
Cedar Lodge                 119 Barney Street     72 9511    72 9516 $58-$70
Club Motel                  105-107 Dumaresq St   72 8777    72 8669 $68-$79
Costwold Gardens Motor Inn  34 Marsh Street       72 8222    72 5139 $59-$74 Y
New England Motor Inn       100 Dumaresq Street   71 1011            $58-$70 
Sandstock Motor Inn         101 Dumaresq Street   72 9988    72 8490 $60-$80 Y
Westwood Motor Inn          62 Barney Street      72 8000            $55-$65 Y
White Lanterns Motel        22 Marsh Street       72 5777            $52-$69 Y

*** 
Abbotsleigh Motor Inn       76 Barney Street      72 9488    72 7066 $56-$78 Y
Acacia Motor Inn            192 Miller Street     72 7733    71 1901 $54-$60
Armidale Acres Motel and    New England Highway   71 1281            $55     Y
Caravan Park
Armidale Motel              66 Glenn Innes Road   72 8122    72 1024 $48-$68 Y
Cameron Lodge Motor Inn     Cnr Dangar&Barney St. 72 2351    72 5600 $68     Y
Country Comfort Motel       86 Barney Street      72 8511    72 7535 $75     Y
Kramer Motor Inn            113 Barney Street     72 5200            $50-$55 Y
Hideaway Motor Inn          70 Glen Innes Road    72 5177    71 2609 $62-$76 Y
Moore Park Motor Inn        New England Highway   72 2358    72 5252 $79     Y

**.5
Rosevilla Motel             New England Highway   72 8772    72 3872 $42-$45 Y

*.5
Tattersall's Hotel          The Mall, Beardy St.  72 2247    72 7781 $38-$44

No Rating Available
Highlander Van Village     New England Highway    72 4768
Pembroke Caravan  Park     Grafton Road           72 6470

Royal Hotel                Cnr Marsh & Beardy St  72 2259
St Kilda Hotel             Cnr Marsh & Rusden St  72 4459
Wicklow Hotel(Backpackers) Cnr Marsh & Dumaresq St. 72 2421

Cherrybrook Cottage        178 Allingham Street   72 4222
Comeytrowe                 184 Marsh Street       72 5869            $70
Monivea                    172 Brown Street       72 8001
Poppy's Cottage            Dangarsleigh Road      75 1277    72 8290 $60
Hedgerow Farm              PO Box 865             72 1612            $85


TUTORIAL SESSIONS AVAILABLE
Monday, 21st November
Code  Length  Title                       Presenter(s)         Prac.   Cost*

AI    1hr     Introduction to Artificial  Prof. James Alty     No      Free**
              Intelligence 

NMR   3s      Nonmonotonic Reasoning      Dr. M-A Williams     Yes     $300
                                          Dr. G. Antoniou

IDSS  3s      Building Intelligent        Dr. J. Zeleznikow    Yes     $300
              Decision Support            Mr. Dan Hunter    
              Systems

EC    3s      An Introduction to          Dr. X. Yao           Yes     $300
              Evolutionary Computation    Prof. Z. Michalewicz

TFML  3s      Theoretical Foundations of  Dr. A. G. Hoffman    No      $300
              Machine Learning            Dr. Shyam Kapur 
                                          Dr. Arun Sharma



Tuesday, 22nd November
Code  Length  Title                       Presenter(s)         Prac.   Cost*

CBR   4s      Constraint-Based Reasoning  Dr. H. W. Guesgen    Yes     $350

ILDB  3s      Intelligent Learning        Dr Xindong Wu        Yes     $300
              Database Systems

FLFC  3s     Fundamentals of Fuzzy        Dr. A. Sekercioglu   Yes     $300
             Logic and Fuzzy Logic        Mr. G. K. Egan
             Controllers 

KAM   3s     Knowledge Acquisition        Dr. P. Compton       Demo    $250
             and Maintenance with 
             Ripple Down Rules     

HS    3s     Hybrid (AI symbolic,        Dr. Nik K. Kasabov    Demo    $250
             Connectionist, Fuzzy, 
             Chaotic) Systems 



    
*If  attending the technical sessions of the conference, subtract $100 
from cost of each tutorial.

**Free if enrolled in any other tutorial

The cost for student attendance at tutorials will be 50% of the 
calculated cost for a full delegates.

4s = Full day, 3s =  3/4 day 

Further information on the listed tutorials is available electronically 
or by contacting the Conference Secretary.


WORKSHOP SESSIONS 


Code: CS
Title: 1st Australian Conceptual Structures Workshop
Contact: Mr. Gerard Ellis 	
Email: ged@cs.rmit.edu.au
Important Dates: Submission Deadline          August 31, 1994.
                 Notification of Acceptance   September 30, 1994.
                 Camera-ready copy            October 15, 1994. 
                 Workshop                     November 22,  1994.


Code: ECW
Title: AI'94 Workshop on Evolutionary Computation
Contact:  Dr. X. Yao 
Email: xin@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au  
Important Dates: Submission Deadline         August 8, 1994.
                 Notification of Acceptance  September 12, 1994.
                 Camera-ready copy           October 17, 1994.
                 Workshop                    November 21 & 22, 1994  (1.5 days).


Code: ES
Title: AI'94 Workshop on Expert Systems in Production use
Contact: Dr. Eric Tsui 
Email:  eric@cs.su.oz.au
Important Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline   August 31, 1994.
                 Notification of Acceptance     September 15, 1994.
                 Workshop                       November 22, 1994.


Code: KBNR
Title: AI'94 Workshop on Knowledge-Based Systems in Natural Resource Management
Contact: Dr. John Weckert
Email: weckert@csu.edu.au 
Important Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline   August 31, 1994.
                 Notification of Acceptance     September 15, 1994.
                 Workshop                       November 22, 1994.

Code: NLP
Title: 2nd Australian Workshop on Natural Language Processing
Contact: Dr. Ingrid Zukerman
Email: ingrid@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au
Important dates: Submission of extended abstract   August 9, 1994.
                 Notification of acceptance        September 16, 1994.
                 Full paper submission             October 17, 1994.
                 Workshop                          November 22, 1994.

The cost of all full day workshops will be $40 with conference 
registration or $140 without  conference registration. The Workshop 
on Evolutionary Computation which runs for one and a half days will 
cost $60 with conference registration and $160 without registration.  
Postgraduate Student registration will be the full registration owing 
less $5.  Further information is available electronically or by 
contacting the conference secretary.


POSTGRADUATE SESSION

A postgraduate students session is scheduled on the 22nd November 1994. 
This session is specifically organised for all Post-Graduate Research 
students who are doing research in Artificial Intelligence.  All 
participating students will get the opportunity to discuss various 
aspects of their research and find out the latest developments in 
Artificial Intelligence, in an informal atmosphere with the three 
keynote speakers.

Only postgraduate students attending the conference are invited to 
attend this special session. If you would like to participate in this 
session, please email  a one-page abstract which: (a) describes your 
research in Artificial Intelligence and (b) lists issues you would 
like to raise with the keynote speakers; to the following electronic 
email address, not later than 1st October 1994: debenham@socs.uts.edu.au

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME

The technical paper presentation of AI'94  will be held over the last 
three days (23rd - 25th November). All papers to be presented here 
will have been independently reviewed. The task of selecting which 
papers will be presented is the job of the following programme committee.

Dr. Chengqi Zhang (co-chair); UNE      Dr. Dickson Lukose; UNE 
Prof. John Debenham (co-chair); UTS    Dr. Anand Rao; AAII 
A/Prof. Mike Brooks; Adelaide          A/Prof. David Russell; PSU, U.S.A
Dr. Jennie Clothier; DSTO              A/Prof. Claude Sammut; UNSW
Dr. Robert Dale; Microsoft Institute   A/Prof. Liz Sonenberg; Melbourne
A/Prof. Wee Leng Goh; NTU, Singapore   Prof. Rodney Topor; Griffith
Mr. Andy Horsfall; Fujitsu             Dr. Wayne Wobcke; Sydney
Prof. Ray Jarvis; Monash               Dr. Xindong Wu; James Cook
Dr. Chris Leckie; TRL                  Dr. Xin Yao; ADFA
Dr. Craig Lindley; CSIRO               Dr. Waikiang Yeap; Otago, N.Z.

   
ACCREDITATION

The Australian Computer Society has accredited the AI'94 Programme 
(technical sessions) with 18 Practising Computer Professional (PCP) 
points. The programme of tutorial/workshop and technical sessions meet 
the requirements for a structured training programme as provided under 
the Training Guarantee (Administration) Act 1990.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Dr. Dickson Lukose (Chair)
Mr. Allan Williams (Secretary)     Dr. Chengqi Zhang  
Dr. Gregory Zevin (Treasurer)      Prof. John Debenham
Mr. Prakash Bhandari               Ms. Gabrielle Aldridge


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

In addition to the paper presentation the following international 
research leaders have each agreed to present a keynote address:

Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Centre  for AI  
 (Microsoft Institute Sponsored keynote speaker)
Date: 23rd November 1994
Topic of address : Intellimedia: Planning Language, Graphics and Layout
                   for Adaptive Information Presentation

Wolfgang Wahlster is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the 
Department of Computer Science at the University of Saarbruecken, 
Germany where he currently serves as a Scientific Director of the German 
Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Since 1975 he has 
been the principal investigator in various language projects, including 
HAM- ANS, WISBER, SC, XTRA, VITRA and WIP. He has published over 
100 technical papers on natural language processing. His current 
research includes intelligent multimodal interfaces, user modeling, 
natural language scene description, intelligent help systems, and 
deductive plan recognition and generation. Prof. Wahlster is on the 
editorial boards of various international journals and book series 
such as Artificial Intelligence, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 
User Modelling and User-adapted Interaction, Symbolic Computation 
and the MIT-ACL series. He is a AAAI Fellow and a recipient of the 
Fritz Winter Award, one of the most prestigious awards for engineering 
sciences in Germany, for his research on cooperative user interfaces. 
Prof. Wahlster served as the Conference Chair for IJCAI-93 in Chambery 
and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of IJCAII from 1991 -1993.

Professor Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: 24th November 1994
Topic of address: The Present and Future of Distributed Artificial 
                  Intelligence

Katia Sycara is a Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science 
at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also Director of the Enterprise 
Integration Laboratory.  She is directing and conducting research 
aimed at developing decision support systems for integrating 
organisational decision making.  Her doctoral research contributed to 
the definition of the case-based reasoning paradigm. She has been 
Principal Investigator of various government and industry funded 
research (e.g. distributed scheduling, concurrent engineering, 
enterprise integration, case-based Engineering design, crisis 
action planning). Dr. Sycara is the author of a book on manufacturing 
and over 70 technical papers dealing with negotiation, distributed 
problem solving, case-based reasoning, integration of case-based 
reasoning with other problem solving methods, and constraint-based 
reasoning. She is the Area Editor for AI and Management Science for 
the journal "Group Decision and Negotiation" and on the editorial 
board of "AI in Engineering" and "Concurrent Engineering: Research 
and Applications". She is a member of AAAI, ACM, IEEE, and the 
Institute for Management Science (TIMS).


Professor John F. Sowa, State University of New York - Binghamton
Date: 25th November 1994
Topic of Address: Sharing and Integrating Knowledge Bases

John F. Sowa is the author of the book Conceptual Structures, which 
in the past ten years has led to a world-wide movement of people 
who are using, implementing, and extending the theory of conceptual 
graphs. He had been working at IBM for 30 years on various aspects 
of computer systems design and development, especially artificial 
intelligence and computational linguistics. Now, he is teaching, 
writing, and working on standards for conceptual schemas with the 
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International 
Standards Organisation (ISO).


FURTHER INFORMATION

The size of this brochure has restricted the amount of material which 
can be presented.  For further information please use the following 
electronic sources of information. There are currently four ways in 
which information relating to the conference may be accessed:

        1. Anonymous ftp 

                fermat.une.edu.au:/pub/ai94
        
        
        2. Via the ai94info mail server

           ai94-info is set up to respond to requests for files and 
           information relating to the AI'94 conference. To retrieve  
           information on a particular topic such as the conference 
           programme simply mail ai94-info with your request. ie

                 %mail -s "send workshops" ai94-info@fermat.une.edu

          requests for more than one file may be made by including 
          additional send commands (one per line) within the body of  
          the mail. All information at the site will be updated when 
          necessary.

         For a complete listing of the files/topics which are currently  
         available request the "index" file.

        3. Via gopher (or xgopher)

                Name: UNE Gopher Server
                Type: 1
                Host: fermat.une.edu.au
                Port: 70


        4. Via mosaic (or other WWW browser)
        
                URL: http://fermat.une.edu.au


If you experience any problems with any of the above services please do 
not hesitate to send email to ai94@fermat.une.edu.au with a description 
of the problem you are experiencing.

If you do not have electronic access please post or fax your request 
for information to the Conference Secretary. 


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SUMMARY OF REGISTRATION FEES

Early Bird Registration Full Delegate    $490.00            ____________

Early Bird Registration Student          $210.00            ____________

Late Fee (must be added after 1/10/94)   $100.00            ____________

Day Registration                         $220.00            ____________

Extra Conference Dinner Tickets   ______ @$50.00            ____________

Extra Conference Proceedings      ______ @$85.00            ____________

Accommodation at MWC              ______ @$43.00 per night  ____________

Tutorial #1 Code: __ __ __ __                               ___________

Tutorial #2 Code: __ __ __ __                               ___________ 

Workshop Code:    __ __ __ __                               ___________ 

                                           Total in AUS $   ___________



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