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FOURTH PACIFIC RIM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

        CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA               AUGUST 26-30, 1996

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                     FINAL  CALL  FOR   REGISTRATION
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    PLEASE NOTE: ADVANCE REGISTRATION DEADLINE is  JULY 19, 1996.

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   * Full details concerning PRICAI-96 including full registration  *
   * information, accommodation, social programms and tours as well *
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   * Workshops and Tutorials can be found at:                       *
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   *   http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/research/groups/ai/pricai96/        *
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 The Pacific Rim International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI)
 are biennial international events which concentrate on research and development
 of AI technologies and their applications in areas of scientific, social,
 and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim.  PRICAI-96 will be 
 the fourth, and will be held August 26-30, 1996, at the Cairns Convention 
 Centre, in the Great Barrier Reef resort town of Cairns, on the east coast of 
 Queensland, Australia.


 PRICAI-96 offers a high quality technical program on applications
 and utilisation of AI and its techniques in emerging and dynamic
 areas of the information technology and telecommunications industry such as
 AI and networks, intelligent multimedia, virtual reality, networked
 entertainment and games, financial modelling, learning and data mining,
 enterprise modelling, and multi-lingual text and language processing.

 PRICAI-96 will include:

 *   Technical Program: 
    
          This will be held on August 28 to 30. PRICAI-96 received 174 papers
          and the PRICAI-96 Program Committee accepted 56 for presentation and 
          10 for poster presentation.  The conference proceedings will be 
          published by Springer-Verlag.

 *   Keynote Speakers:

          - Professor Marvin Minsky, MIT, USA

          - Dr Juzar Motiwalla, ISS (NUS), Singapore

          - Professor Joerg Siekmann, DFKI, Germany

 *  Panels:

          - Robotics: Current Trends and Future Goals

              Chair: Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University;
              Rodney Brooks, MIT; Shin'ichi Yuta, Tsukuba University; 
              and Ray Jarvis, Monash University.

          - Telecommunications and AI: Challenge and Opportunities 

              Chair: Rye Senjen, Telstra Research Labs


 *  Workshops:

          PRICAI-96 will provide eight full-day workshops on August 26 and 27, 
          1996. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and 
          discuss issues with a selected focus, providing an informal setting 
          for active exchange among researchers, developers and users on 
          topics of interest. 


                W1: THEORITICAL AND PRACTICAL FOUNDATIONS OF INTELLIGNET AGENTS 
                       Contact: Lawrence Cavedon (cavedon@cs.rmit.edu.au)
                W2: AI & TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
                       Contact: Rye Senjen (RSenjen@VTRLMEL1.TRL.OZ.AU)

                W3: VALIDATION, VERIFICATION AND REFINEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED 
                    SYSTEMS
                       Contact: Grigoris Antoniou (ga@cit.gu.edu.au)
        
                W4: INDUCING COMPLEX REPRESENTATIONS
                       Contact: Srinivas Padmanabhuni (srinivas@cs.ualberta.ca)

                W5: DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
                       Contact: Dickson Lukose (lukose@peirce.une.edu.au)

                W6: KNOWLEDGE-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEMS IN AN INDUSTRIAL 
                    SETTINGS 
                       Contact: Leila Alem (leila@syd.dit.csiro.au)

                W7: REASONING WITH INCOMPLETE AND CHANGING INFORMATION
                       Contact: Grigoris Antoniou (ga@cit.gu.edu.au)

                W8: FUTURE ISSUES FOR MULTI-LINGUAL TEXT PROCESSING
                       Contact: Dominique Estival 
				(Dominique_Estival@muwayf.unimelb.edu.au)

 *   Tutorials:

          PRICAI-96 will provide six half-day tutorials on August 26 and 
          27, 1996. 

                T1:  EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE
                    
                         Professor Rodney Brooks, MIT

                T2: INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES
                 
                         Professor John F. Sowa, SUNY Binghamton

                T3: AGENT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING

                         Dr. Anand S. Rao, AAII

                T4: PRACTICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

                         Dr. Robert Dale, Microsoft Institute

                T5: MACHINE LEARNING
                
                         A/Prof Claude Sammut, UNSW

                T6: PRAGMATICS OF DEFAULT REASONING AND THEORY CHANGE

                         Drs G. Antoniou (Griffith University),
                         A. Nayak and A. Ghose (Sydney University)



                
 *  Conference Registration:

                          Advance Registration          Late Registration
                          (before 19/7/96)              (after 19/7/96)
	
	Conference:

	- Full Rate          Aus $ 365                    Aus $ 445                    
        - Student Rate       Aus $ 175                    Aus $ 250

	Workshops:

        - Full/Student Rate  Aus $ 65                     Aus $ 100 

        Tutorials:

        - Full Rate          Aus $ 200                    Aus $ 250

        - Student Rate       Aus $ 100                    Aus $ 150


   Please contact the Conference Secretariat for the full Registration Brochure
   for any other information at:

                 Ms Susan Dickey 
                 PRICAI-96 Secretariat 
                 Finn Aussi Conference Services 
                 PO Box 1689 
		 121 Abbott Street
                 Cairns, QLD 4870 Australia
                 Phone: +61 70  411 844 
                 Fax:    +61 70 411 244 
                 Email: finnaussi@internetnorth.com.au 


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           PRICAI-96 IS SPONSORED BY 

      *   Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Committee of 
          the Australian Computer  Society 
      *   Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII)
      *   CSIRO (Division of Information Technology)    
      *   Australian Tourist Commission, Continuum Australia Ltd
      *   Continuum Ltd 
      *   CRC for Advanced Computational Systems 
      *   CRC Centre for Intelligent Decision Systems CRC 
      *   Defence Science and Technology Organisation
      *   Digital Equipment Australia  Pty Ltd
      *   Distributed Systems  Technology CRC Pty Ltd  
      *   Griffith University 
      *   Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
      *   Institute  of Systems Science (NUS)
      *   Queensland Government Department of Tourism, Small  Business 
          and  Industry                     
      *   Sun Microsystems Ltd

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PRICAI-96:
Fourth Pacific Rim International Conference On Artificial Intelligence

email: pricai@cs.su.oz.au