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		IEA95 Newsletter #5 - April 1995.
This is the fifth issue of a regular newsletter counting down to The 
Eighth International Conference on Industrial & Engineering 
Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, Melbourne, 
June 5-9, 1995. The Host Society is the International Society of 
Applied Intelligence (ISAI) and main sponsor is the Institution of 
Engineers, Australia (IEAust), Australia's largest professional 
society. There are a large number of Co-operating Societies including 
the Australian Computer Society (ACS).

Items in this issue:-
	1.	Closing date for Early Registrations - 24th April
	2.	Invited Speakers
	3.	Tutorials and Industry Forum
	4.	Technical Tour (Friday)
	5.	Timetable update due end of April.

1. Early Registration.
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A large number of registrations have already been received and 
conference numbers appear to be on target. Thank you all (and 
particularly authors).

Please note that discounts for early registration cease on 
registrations received after the 24th April. The member/author rate 
will rise from A$565 (about US$420) to A$650 (about US$480). Non-member 
rates will similarly rise from A$680 to A$750. [These are all-inclusive 
rates covering lunches, banquet, Proceedings as well as the 
conference.]

Tutorials (on the Monday) also offer reduced registration fees (saving 
A$30) for registrations received by the 24th April.

2. Invited (Plenary) Papers.
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Three invited plenary papers have been scheduled. 
Tuesday:-
	Professor Bernard Widrow is professor of electrical engineering 
	at Stanford University.
	His research and teaching are in the fields of digital signal 
	processing, adaptive signal processing, adaptive control systems, 
	pattern recognition, and neural networks. He is coinventor of the 
	LMS algorithm and the neural element ADALINE and various MADALINE
	networks.

Wednesday:
	Dr Vic Ciesielski of RMIT will discuss the role in industry and 
	engineering of Hybrid Systems and their component Expert System, 
	Fuzzy System and Neural Networks.
	Dr. Victor B. Ciesielski received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees 
	from the University of Melbourne (Australia) and his Ph. D. from 
	Rutgers University. He is currently senior lecturer in the 
	Department of Computer Science at the Royal Melbourne Institute 
	of Technology.

	Dr. Ciesielski's research interests include applications of
	artificial intelligence, neural networks and the integration of
	symbolic and neural computation.  He has developed knowledge 
	based and neural network systems in a number of diverse areas 
	including insurance underwriting, geomechanics, medicine, law 
	and environment conservation.

Thursday:
	Ron Sharpe, Jacek Gibert and Stephen Oakes (All of CSIRO Division 
	of Building, Construction and Engineering, Melbourne)
	"Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence Applications in 
	Engineering Design and Inspection"

	Ron Sharpe (PhD civil engineering) is a Chief Research Scientist 
	and Industry & Science Manager for Construction Systems;
	Jacek Gibert (PhD computer science) is the Project Leader for 
	Physical Infrastructure AI Systems:
	Stephen Oakes (BSc in computer science) is the Project Leader for
	the BCAider expert system project.

	Their current research interests include expert systems, pattern
	recognition of sewer pipe deterioration, process re-engineering, 
	automation in building and construction, building regulations, 
	optimisation, simulation, visualisation of construction 
	processes, teleconstruction, neural networks, product databases 
	and urban water systems.

See the Timetable for more information.


3. Tutorials and Industry Forum. (TIMETABLE HAS FULL DETAILS)
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Monday (5th June) Morning:
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Three tutorials have been scheduled for the morning session.
TUT-1: Intelligent Robotics: State of the Art/Applications (Prof Angel 
	P. del Pobil & Prof Miguel A. Serna from Universitat Jaime I in 
	Spain.)
TUT-2: Knowledge Integration In Pattern Recognition (Prof Yi Lu Murphey
	University of Michigan-Dearborn [work largely sponsored by Ford])
TUT-3: Hybrid (AI symbolic, Connectionist, Fuzzy) Systems - Towards 
	Comprehensive AI (Dr Nikola Kasabov from University of Otago, NZ)

Monday (5th June) Afternoon:
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Two tutorials and an Industry Forum have been scheduled for the 
afternoon.
Industry Forum: Successes in Use of AI (Industry Panel of 4 or 5 
	speakers and a Chairman) This forum assumes a non-technical 
	audience.
TUT-4: Evolutionary Computation (Dr Xin Yao from the Australian Defence 
	Force Academy.)
TUT-5: Linguistic Geometry (Prof. Boris Stilman from the University of 
	Colorado at Denver

4. Technical Tour.
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A number of sites will be visited on a technical tour on the Friday 
(9th June). A charge of A$25 will cover the coach fare - lunch will be
at your own cost.

The Sites are expected to be:-
	a)	Aerospace Technologies Australia composite layup facility;
	b)	Telstra's Telecommunications Research Laboratory,
	c)	Monash University Robotics Laboratory,
	d)	CSIRO Highett Laboratory (see details of Thursday Plenary).
Neither (b) nor (c) has yet been confirmed.

5. Timetable update due end of April.
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A small number of changes to the timetable will be necessary; these 
will be made late in the month and available from the fileserver. A 
couple of authors have advised that their paper needs to be moved to 
accommodate travel plans and there are also a small number of 
cancellations which will be replaced from the reserve papers.

Exhibitors and Sponsors.
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Exhibitors and sponsors are currently being sought. Copies of the 
information relating to exhibitors and sponsors are available from AE 
Conventions on +61 (6) 270 6562 (fax +61 (6) 273 2918).
 
Distribution.
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This newsletter is being distributed to all email addresses I currently 
have (including those already registered) and will also be posted on 
newsgroups. Please forward on to colleagues who may not be on my email 
list.
 
Fileserver.
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Access to conference documents is available by sending an electronic 
mail message to:-  DOCS@info-isai.dsto.gov.au
The text of the message should include the command required; e.g. HELP, 
LIST or SENDME.
Message   "send iea-aie95.reg*"   sends all documents associated with 
registration.

Earlier versions of the information is also available from the 
ACM/SIGART WWW server:http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ieaaie-95.html

Travel and tours for Overseas delegates.
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QANTAS, The Australian Airline, is the booking agent for air travel and 
add-on tours for all overseas delegates. A colour brochure for overseas 
delegates is available. QANTAS (who can also book on related airlines 
British Airways, US AIR, American, Canadi>n, etc.) can be contacted in 
most cities; e.g. USA/Canada 1800 227 4500; UK 0345 747 767, 
Germany 0130 7470, Japan (except Tokyo) 0120 207020 Tokyo 3 593 7000, 
Paris 42 66 53 05; Rest of France 78 42 21 62.
            Please quote JBZ 5QD.
 
Local Travel.
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Travel for Australian delegates can be arranged by the Conference 
Organizer.
 
Conference Organizer:-
AE Conventions Pty Ltd
PO Box E181
Queen Victoria Terrace  ACT 2600
AUSTRALIA           Tel: +61 (6) 270 6562  Fax +61 (6) 273 2918