LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL AICS-97 Programme Thursday, September 11th, 1997 INTRODUCTION: 9.15 `Official Opening' Fabian Monds, Provost of Magee College John Hughes, Dean, Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster INVITED SPEAKER (Imvip-97): 9.30 `Computer vision: challenges and applications' Anil K. Jain Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University, US 10.30 Break, posters and exhibits DATA ANALYSIS: (Chair: Ivo Duentsch) 11.00 `From raw data to symbol processing' Darryl Charles Artificial Neural Network Group, Paisley University, Scotland 11.20 `Non-invasive data analysis' Ivo Duentsch and Guenther Gediga School of Information and Software Engineering University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland FB Psychologie/Methodenlehre, University of Osnabrueck, Germany 11.40 `Enhanced rough set analysis of the Pima Indian diabetes data' Ciaran Browne School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland 12.00 `A category formation system based on an attribute typology: the ROCE system' Colette Faucher and Didier Borderie 1 DIAM-IUSPIM, Marseille, France 12.20 LUNCH ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND NEURAL NETWORKS: (Chair: Niall Griffith) 2.00 `A new crossover operator for rapid function optimisation using a genetic algorithm' Bill Keller and Rudi Lutz School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, England 2.20 `A framework for the evolution of autonomous agents' Adrian Trenaman Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland at Maynooth, Ireland 2.40 `NeuroDraughts: the role of representation, search, training regime and architecture in a TD draughts player' Niall Griffith and Mark Lynch Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Ireland 3.00 `Efficient rule extraction from real-valued feedforward neural networks' Peter Howes and Nigel Crook School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England 3.20 Break, posters and exhibits KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION: (Chair: Jack Smith) 3.50 `Representing relative temporal knowledge with TAND connective' Pathirage Gamini Wijayarathna Graduate School of Information Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan 4.10 `A tesseral approach to multi-dimensional reasoning' Frans Coenen, Bernard (Diz) Diaz, Michael Shave, Trevor Bench-Capon and Bridget Beattie Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool, England 4.30 `Representation of knowledge in a scientific problem solving system' S. Loughlin, M. Sullivan, F.J. Smith Department of Computer Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland 4.50 `A frame semantics for an IntelliMedia TourGuide' Paul Mc Kevitt and Paul Dalsgaard Center for PersonKommunikation, Aalborg University, Denmark 6.30 Conference Reception ********************** Friday, September 12th, 1997 PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY: (Chair: Ronan Reilly) 9.10 `Brocas area and the development of object assembly and language production skills' Ronan Reilly Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland 9.30 `Reinventing behaviorism' Patrick Juola Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, England 9.50 `The changing role of representation in AI' Steve Battle The Intelligent Computer Systems Centre, Computer Studies and Mathematics, University of the West of England, Bristol, England 10.10 `Functional compositionality and a new view of knowledge representation' James A. Hammerton School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, England 10.30 Break, posters and exhibits NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: (Chair: Mike McTear) 11.00 `Rationality, cooperation and conversational implicature' Mark Lee Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, England 11.20 `A dialogue control algorithm for spoken dialogue systems based on an object-oriented architecture' Ian M. O Neill and Mike McTear School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland 11.40 `A rapid prototyping approach to spoken dialogue system development: the directory assistance project' Kevin Greenan and Mike McTear Telecom Eireann, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland 12.00 `Knowledge-based error diagnosis in CALL' Anja Kruger, Henrik Dittman and Maureen Murphy University of Osnabruck, Germany School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland 12.20 `On generating quantifiers' Norman Creaney Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland 12.40 LUNCH INVITED SPEAKERS: 2.00 `The logic road to human-level AI' John McCarthy Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US 3.00 Break, posters and exhibits 3.30 `Putting together the parts: complex Artificial Intelligence systems' Walther Von Hahn Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany 4.30 `AESOPWORLD: an integrated system for intellectual emotional agents' Naoyuki Okada Department of Computer Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan 7.00 Conference Banquet ********************** Saturday, September 13th, 1997 INVITED SPEAKER (Imvip-97) AND PANEL: 9.30 `Computer vision techniques for man-machine interaction' James Crowley Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), Grenoble, France 10.30 Break, posters and exhibits 11.00 Panel Discussion: `Is there a crisis in AI?' 11.30 Conference close 11.30 Special interest group meetings 1.30 Conference tour: Bushmills Distillery Giants' Causeway (Return: approx. 7.00 PM) LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL AICS-97 Posters "Off-line cursive script recognition system for languages with diacritic symbols" Hariton Costin, Adrian Ciobanu and Amalia Todirascu Institute for Theoretical Informatics Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, Romania "Clustering integration through examples" Teresa Cristina Goncalves and Fernando Moura-Pires Departamento de Informatica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal "Advantage of hybrid reasoning strategies in legal decision-support systems" Kamalendu Pal and John A Campbell Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, England "Methdology and monolingual requirements for the acquisition of transfer functions" Sean Barry Redmond, Norman Creaney & Ray J Hickey Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland "Using patterns in state spaces of complex problems to hypothesise solution behaviour" Paul Rogers and Martin Lefley Department of Design Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, England "Turing test and intelligence with trick" Sun Zhaohao and Klaus Weber Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften, TU Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL