Received: from pan.ics.uci.edu by PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU id aa08779; 13 Feb 91 20:16 PST To: ML-LIST: ; Subject: Machine Learning List: Vol. 3 No. 2 Reply-to: ml@ics.UCI.EDU Date: Wed, 13 Feb 91 20:01:25 -0800 From: Michael Pazzani Message-ID: <9102132016.aa08779@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> Machine Learning List: Vol. 3 No. 2 Wednesday, Feb 13, 1991 Contents: ML Position Research position in Automated Reasoning. 2nd ASIS '91 Workshop on Classification Research Second International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis The Machine Learning List is moderated. Contributions should be relevant to the scientific study of machine learning. Mail contributions to ml@ics.uci.edu. Mail requests to be added or deleted to ml-request@ics.uci.edu. Back issues may be FTP'd from ics.uci.edu in /usr2/spool/ftp/pub/ml-list/V/ or N.Z where X and N are the volume and number of the issue; ID & password: anonymous ------------------------------ From: Stan Matwin Subject: ML Position Date: Mon, 11 Feb 91 14:51:31 EST The Department of Computer Science, University of Ottawa, together with the School of Computer Science, Carleton University, has obtained a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for a project entitled "Machine Learning Applied to Software Reuse". We invite applications for a postdoctoral position on this project. The ideal candidate will have a record of original work in symbolic learning, case-based or analogical reasoning, or AI-based software design tools. The position is available immediately and guaranteed for a two and a half year period. Candidates must have a Ph.D. prior to accepting the position. The postdoctoral position is a crucial part of the project's team, consisting of three faculty and several graduate students at both M.Sc. and PhD. level. The postdoctoral fellow will actively participate in all aspects of the project, including all major research decisions. Duties include exploratory research in the area of the project, participation in the design and development of a prototype system, participation in supervision of graduate students involved in the project, and participation in the publications resulting from the project. The research environment in Ottawa includes a joint graduate program with some 35 CS faculty, of which six work in AI, a weekly machine learning seminar, and a team of some 15 graduate students actively interested in machine learning, as well as a number of externally-funded research projects in machine learning. Ottawa, Canada's capital, is a pleasant city of 800,000, surrounded by beautiful countryside, with a unique bilingual atmosphere. Interested persons please contact Stan Matwin or Rob Holte at the addresses below. Stan Matwin Rob Holte stan@csi.uottawa.ca holte@csi.uottawa.ca (613) 564 5069 (613) 564 9194 Department of Computer Science University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ont. K1N 6N5 Canada -- Stan Matwin Department of Computer Science email: stan@csi.uottawa.ca University of Ottawa phone: (613) 564-5069 Ottawa, Ont. fax: (613) 564-9486 K1N 6N5 Canada ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 91 11:24 GMT From: Padraig Cunningham Subject: Research position in Automated Reasoning. Research position in Hitachi Dublin Laboratory ============================================== Hitachi Dublin Laboratory The Hitachi Dublin Laboratory is a research laboratory that has been set up as a campus company by Hitachi, Ltd. in association with Trinity College. Basic and applied research is carried out in the general area of Artificial Intelligence. At the moment there are twelve employees. The laboratory is closely associated with the Computer Science and Physics Departments in TCD and the opportunity exists for all researchers in the laboratory to pursue a higher degree by research. RESEARCHER At present there is a vacancy for a researcher in the area of Automated Reasoning/Machine Learning. The successful candidate will work on research issues concerned with software design using AI techniques, such as Case Based Reasoning and others. The candidate should have a good honours degree or a higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline and some experience in programming. Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence techniques and research/work experience in this field will be an advantage but is not considered essential. The salary will be competitive and will depend on the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate. Applicants should contact or send a complete CV to: N. Hataoka or Padraig Cunningham Hitachi Dublin Laboratory O'Reilly Institute Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland e-mail: cnnnghmp@vax1.tcd.ie Telephone: +353-1-6798911 Closing date for applications is Friday, 29th March 1991. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 19:54:06 EST From: Susanne M Humphrey Subject: 2nd ASIS '91 Workshop on Classification Research 2nd ASIS '91 Workshop on Classification Research Organized by the ASIS Special Interest Group on Classification Research (SIG/CR) Call for Participation The American Society for Information Science Special Interest Group on Classification Research (ASIS SIG/CR) invites submissions for the 2nd ASIS '91 Classification Research (CR) Workshop, to be held at the 54th Annual Meeting of ASIS in Washington, DC. The Workshop will take place Sunday, October 27th, 1991, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ASIS '91 continues through Thursday, October 31. The CR Workshop is designed to be an exchange of ideas among those engaged in active research or practice in the creation, development, management, representation, display, comparison, compatibility, theory, and application of classification schemes. Emphasis will be on semantic classification, in contrast to statistically-based schemes. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Warrant for concepts in classification schemes. - Concept acquisition. - Basis for semantic classes. - Automated techniques to assist in creating classification schemes. - Statistical techniques used for developing explicit, nonstatistically-based semantic classes. - Relations and their properties. - Inheritance and subsumption. - Knowledge representation schemes. - Classification algorithms. - Procedural knowledge in classification schemes. - Reasoning with classification schemes. - Software for managing classification schemes. - Data structures and programming languages for classification schemes. - Comparison and compatibility between classification schemes. - Previously-named topics, highlighting specific applications such as subject analysis, database navigation, information retrieval, natural language understanding, expert systems, and image processing. The CR Workshop welcomes submissions from various disciplines. Attendance will be by invitation only. Those interested in participating are invited to submit a short (1-2 page single-spaced) position paper, summarizing their substantive work in the above areas or other areas related to semantic classification schemes, and a statement briefly outlining the reason for wanting to participate in the workshop. Submissions may include background papers as attachments. Those selected as presenters will be invited to submit expanded versions of their position papers and to speak to those papers in brief presentations during the workshop. All position papers (both expanded and short papers) will be published in proceedings to be distributed prior to the workshop. The workshop registration fee is $30.00 per person, and includes a copy of the proceedings and lunch and refreshments. Submissions should be sent by email, or diskette accompanied by paper copy, or paper copy only (fax or postal), to arrive by May 1, 1991, to Barbara Kwasnik: Barbara Kwasnik, Co-Chair Raya Fidel, Co-Chair School of Information Studies Graduate School of Library and 4-206 Center for Science and Technology Information Science Syracuse University University of Washington, FM-30 Syracuse, NY 13244 Seattle, WA 98195 Internet: bkwasnik@suvm.acs.syr.edu Internet: fidelr@vax1.u.washington.edu Phone: (315) 443-2911 Phone: (206) 543-1888 Fax: (315) 443-580 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jan 91 10:47 PST From: "Ethan A. Scarl" Subject: Second International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis Second International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis Milano (Italy), October 14-15-16, 1991 Organized by CISE Tecnologie Innovative and Dipartimento di Informatica of Universita` di Torino Call for Papers This workshop (which follows the successful one held at Stanford University in 1990) encourages intensive and high quality interaction and cooperation among researchers with a diversity of artificial intelligence approaches to diagnosis. Attendance will be limited to fifty participants with presentations spread over three days. Substantial time will be reserved for discussion. To attend, participants should submit papers (maximum 5000 words) to be reviewed by the committee. Submissions are welcomed on (but not limited to) the following topics: - Theory of diagnosis (abductive vs. deductive diagnosis, isolation vs. identification, diagnosis on non-monotonic theories, diagnosis of dynamic systems,...) - Computational issues (controlling the combinatorial explosion, focusing strategies, controlling diagnostic reasoning of complex systems, ...) - Modeling for diagnosis (multiple, approximate, probabilistic and qualitative models, integrating model-based diagnosis with heuristics ....) - Evaluation of theories on practical applications - Inductive approaches to diagnosis (Case-Based Reasoning, Neural Nets, ...) Accepted papers can be revised for inclusion in the workshop working notes. Although work published elsewhere is acceptable, new original work is preferred. Please send five copies of each submission to the chairman at the postal address below. Include several ways of contacting the principal author in addition to a postal address: electronic mail, fax and telephone numbers are preferred, in that order. Please indicate with your submission if you wish to make a presentation or only to attend. Submissions received after 3 May 1991 will not be considered. The decisions of the committee will be mailed by 1 July 1991. Chairman: Luca Console Dipartimento di Informatica - Universit` di Torino Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino (Italy) E-mail: console@uduniv.cineca.it Fax: (+39) 11 751603 Tel.: (+39) 11 771 2002 Committee: I. Bratko (U. Ljubljana), P. Dague (IBM), J. de Kleer (Xerox), G. Guida (U. Brescia), K. Eshghi (HP), W. Hamscher (Price Waterhouse), M. Kramer (MIT), W. Nejdl (T.U. Wien), J. Pearl (UCLA), D. Poole (U. British Columbia), O. Raiman (Xerox), J. Reggia (U. Maryland), J. Sticklen (Michigan State U.), P. Struss (Siemens), P. Szolovits (MIT), G. Tornielli (CISE). Organizing Committee: M. Migliavacca (CISE, chairman), M. Gallanti (CISE), A. Giordana (U. Torino), L. Lesmo (U. Torino). Secretarial Support: A. Camnasio, CISE, P.O. Box 12081, 20134 Milano, Tel (+39) 2 21672400, Fax (+39) 2 26920587. This workshop is sponsored by AI*IA and ECCAI. ------------------------------ END of ML-LIST 3.2