ISIKNH'94 Conference Program: (Sponsored by AAAI and University of Florida) Time: May 9-10 1994; Place: Pensacola Beach, Florida, USA. MAY 9, 1994: ======================================================================== Keynote Speech: May 9, 9:00-9:45 a.m. "Representation, Cognitive Architectures and Knowledge and Symbol Levels" B. Chandrasekaran ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Plenary Speech: May 9, 10:00-10:45 a.m. "Fuzzy Logic as a Basis for Knowledge Representation in Neural Networks" Ronald R. Yager ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Plenary Speech: May 9, 11:00-11:45 a.m. "Hybrid Models for Fuzzy Control" Jim Bezdek ======================================================================== **** Lunch Break **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Session 1: (Integration Methodology I) Chair: Armando F. da Rocha May 9, 1:15-2:00 p.m. ``Integrating temporal symbolic knowledge and recurrent networks'' Christian W. Omlin, C. Lee Giles ``Implementing schemes and logics in connectionist models'' Ron Sun ``Integrating rules and neurocomputing for knowledge representation'' Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Session 2: (Learning) Chair: Ron Sun May 9, 2:15-3:00 p.m. ``Symbolic knowledge from unsupervised learning'' Tharam S. Dillon, S. Sestito, M. Witten, M. Suing ``Genetically refining topologies of knowledge-based neural networks'' David W. Opitz, Jude W. Shavlik ``On using decision tree as feature selector for feed-forward neural networks'' Selwyn Piramuthu, Michael Shaw ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **** Snack Break **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Session 3: (Fuzziness and Uncertainty) Chair: Lee Giles May 9, 3:30-4:15 p.m. ``Modifying network architectures for certainty-factor rule-base revision'' Jeffrey Mahoney, Raymond Mooney ``Learning EMYCIN semantics'' K.D. Nguyen, R.C. Lacher ``Special fuzzy relational methods for the recognition of speech with neural networks'' Carlos A. Reyes, Wyllis Bandler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Session 4: (Integration Methodology II) Chair: Ron Sun May 9, 4:30-5:30 p.m. ``Learning knowledge and strategy of a generic neuro-expert system model'' Rajiv Khosla, T. Dillon ``Integrating symbolic and neural methods for building intelligent systems'' Ricardo Jose Machado, Armando Freitas da Rocha ``Modular integration of connectionist and symbolic processing in knowledge-based systems'' Melanie Hilario ``Symbolic computation with monotonic maps of the interval'' Ron Bartlett, Max Garzon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Poster Session: May 9, 1:30-4:30 p.m. ``The KoDiag system Case-based diagnosis with Kohonen networks'' Jurgen Rahmel, A. von Wangenheim ``Deriving conjunctive classification rules from neural networks'' Chris Nikolopoulos ``Generalization and fault tolerance in rule-based neural networks'' Hyeoncheol Kim, L. Fu ``Low level feature extraction and hidden layer neural network training'' T. Windeatt, R.G. Tebbs ``Sleeping staging by expert networks'' Hui-Huang Hsu, L. Fu, J. Principe ``Comparison of neural network and symbolic approaches for predicting electricity generation requirements'' Terry Janssen, Eric Bleodorn, Ron Capone, Sue Kimbrough ``Reconciling connectionism with symbolism'' Roman Pozarlik ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MAY 10, 1994: Registration: 7:30-11:00a.m. ======================================================================== Plenary Speech: May 10, 9:00-9:45 a.m. "Teaching the Multiplication Tables to a Neural Network: Flexibility vs. Accuracy" James Anderson ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Plenary Speech: May 10, 10:00-10:45 a.m. "Words and Weights: What the Network's Parameters Tell the Network's Programmers" Steve Gallant ======================================================================== ######################################################################## Panel Discussions: May 10, 11:00 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. "The Future Direction of AI" Chair: Chris Lacher Panelists: James Anderson, Steve Gallant, Ronald Yager, Ron Sun, Lawrence Bookman. ######################################################################## **** Lunch Break **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Session 5: (Application Methodology I--Finance and Medicine) Chair: Sylvian R. Ray May 10, 1:30-2:15 p.m. ``Building a knowledge base from on-line corpora'' Lawrence A. Bookman ``Multivariate prediction using prior knowledge and neural heuristics'' Kazuhiro Kohara, Tsutomu Ishikawa ``Applying artificial neural networks to medical knowledge domain'' Harry Burke, Philip Goodman, David Rosen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Session 6: (Application Methodology II--Engineering) Chair: Lawrence Bookman May 10, 2:30-3:15 p.m. ``Integrating knowledge from multichannel signals'' Sylvian R. Ray ``Using partitioned neural nets and heuristics for optical character recognition'' Kai Bolik, Steven Shoemaker, Divyendu Sinha, Miriam Tausner ``An expert network approach for material selection'' Vivek Goel, Jianhua Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **** Snack Break **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Session 7: (Language, Psychology, and Cognitive Science) Chair: Steven Walczak May 10, 3:45-4:30 p.m. ``From biological learning to machine learning'' Iver H. Iversen ``RAAMs that can learn to encode words from a continuous stream of letters'' Kenneth A. Hester, Michael Bringmannm, David Langan, Marino Niccolai, William Nowack ``The psychology of associative and symbolic reasoning'' Steven Sloman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical Session 8: (Integration Methodology III) Chair: Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis May 10, 4:45-5:30 p.m. ``Situation awareness assessments as a means of defining learning tasks for neural networks'' Thomas English ``Integrating neural networks and expert systems for intelligent resource allocation in academic admissions'' Steven Walczak ``Rule constraint and game playing heuristic embedded into a feed forward neural network'' Walter H. Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ******* Wrap-Up ******* --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please send your registration including a registration fee to: Rob Francis ISIKNH'94 DOCE/Conferences 2209 NW 13th Street, STE E University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32609-3476 USA (Phone: 904-392-1701; fax: 904-392-6950) [Registration fee: $250 by April 8, $300 on site, $150 for students] --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- For registration, please submit the following information to the above address: NAME: _______________________________________ ADDRESS: ____________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ INSTITUTION/COMPANY: ________________________ PHONE: ______________________________________ FAX: ________________________________________ E-MAIL: _____________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------