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           AAAI Fall 1997 Symposium

 Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations II

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

           Cambridge, Massachusetts

             November 8 - 10, 1997

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      Submission deadline: April 15, 1997    
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Diagrammatic representations and reasoning (DR) are pervasive in many
human endeavors. Understanding and modeling the facility that human
beings have in DR could be of great benefit, for instance, in terms of
computational efficiency through explicit representation, improved
human-machine interfacing, and the development of an artificially
intelligent agent that interacts with its environment as fluently as a
naturally intelligent agent now does.

We define diagrammatic representations as those that analogically model
the semantics of a problem domain and diagrammatic reasoning as the
process by which we make inferences from such representations. We
believe the following broad issues are central to DR:

* Cognitive theories of imagery and imaginal reasoning
* Formal theories of DR 
* Computational models of DR 
* Synergy between cognitive theories, formal theories, and computational
  models of DR
* Application of DR in AI, logic, human-machine interfacing, visual
  languages, information visualization, etc.

The explosion of graphical and visual information has made research in
DR of paramount importance. The prevalence of graphical user interfaces,
the burgeoning of visual languages, the rapid growth of geographic and
molecular structure databases, and the massive graphical content of the
World Wide Web exemplify the urgency of this research.  This symposium,
a sequel to the 1992 AAAI Symposium on Reasoning with Diagrammatic
Representations, is in response to that urgency. Its intent is to
consolidate research efforts since the original and provide a forum in
which to disseminate recent results and initiate new research.


Submission Information:

Potential participants are requested to submit either a full technical 
paper (not exceeding 5000 words), or a brief statement of interest (not 
exceeding 1000 words), preferably as an ASCII or PostScript file by 
April 15, 1997. Authors of accepted papers may be asked to prepare oral 
presentations. Others may be invited to comment on presented work or to 
serve on a panel. We would also like to organize panel discussions on 
fundamental issues/questions about DR. We invite position papers that 
state one or more issues/questions and take a stand on them supported 
by cogent arguments. Accepted papers of this kind will become the focus 
of panels. Submit electronically, saving files under authors first 
initial and last name, by anonymous ftp to morpheus.hartford.edu 
(cd to DRII). In lieu of electronic submission, hardcopy submissions 
(3 copies) should be sent to:

Michael Anderson, chair 
Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations II
Computer Science Department, University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117

Phone:(860)768-4516, Fax:(860)768-5244,
Email:anderson@morpheus.hartford.edu

All submissions should be accompanied by an email message to the chair
specifying paper title, author(s) name(s), date sent, and file name
(when appropriate).  Acknowledgment will be sent upon receipt of the
submission.  Further information regarding the symposium can be found at
http://morpheus.hartford.edu/DRII.


Organizing Committee (aaaidiag@cs.indiana.edu):

Gerard Allwein, Indiana University (gtall@phil.indiana.edu); 
Michael Anderson (chair), University of Hartford
(anderson@morpheus.hartford.edu);
B. Chandrasekaran, The Ohio State University
(chandra@cis.ohio-state.edu);
Janice Glasgow, Queen's University (janice@qucis.queensu.ca);
Vinod Goel, York University (vgoel@yorku.ca);
Mary Hegarty, University of California at Santa Barbara
(hegarty@condor.psych.ucsb.edu);
Yumi Iwasaki, Stanford University (iwasaki@sumex-aim.stanford.edu);
N. Hari Narayanan, Auburn University (narayan@eng.auburn.edu);
Patrick Olivier, University of Wales (plo@aber.ac.uk);
Sun-Joo Shin, University of Notre Dame (sun-joo.shin.3@nd.edu)