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5th Int'l Symposium on Knowledge Eng. Seville (Spain), October 1992

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Sep 3, 1992, 10:44:29 AM9/3/92

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FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
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Seville (Spain), 5-9 October 1992

Tutorials: 5-6 October 1992
XEROX Pavilion at Expo'92
Technical Sessions: 7, 8, 9 October 1992
Sogexpo Building at Expo'92

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
SPONSORED BY RANK XEROX ESPANOLA, S.A.

INTRODUCTION

Human beings very often tend, mistakenly, to look at differences as
if they were contradictions, and therefore focuses and techniques
from different fields are prevented from being used as support. The
division of the phenomenal world into contradictory pairs is, as the
recently deceased Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine, K. Lorenz (1974)
said, "an unknown ordering principle, an aprioristic mental
imperative with distant origins. The resulting tendency to create
mutually exclusive disjunctive concepts is clearly predominant among
many thinkers. Although this mental predisposition is of great
importance, it has to be brought to a halt", at least in the area of
software. Of course, great intellectual rigour is needed to hold down
this antithetic, though productive, human faculty.

The paradigm of power, that is, the massive use of search as
intensive computational power, and the paradigm of knowledge as
intensive intellectual work were antagonistic until a few years ago
in AI; the extremes were reconciled by the use of heuristics and
other kinds of knowledge which guide and put constraints on the
search.

Owing to the importance of heuristics and the processes of discovery
in AI, linked with the fact that the 500th Anniversary of the
Discovery of America is being commemorated this year, it was thought
appropriate for the leitmotiv of the 5th Symposium to be Heuristics
and Discovery, and the conference will also deal with a little known
eventuality very much associated with discovery called serendipity.

The Organizing Committee is aware that it is very difficult to
improve upon the company of speakers in former years, which has
included the Nobel prize winner Simon, the father of Artificial
Intelligence McCarthy, Jaime Carbonell, among other outstanding
members of the AI community. However, we have managed to gather an
extraordinary array of AI researchers and scientists for this
Symposium, given the historical event that is being commemorated.

The organizers would like to thank Rank Xerox Espanola for sponsoring
this, the 5th International Knowledge Engineering Symposium.

With the collaboration of:
- AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence) (pending
confirmation)
- FESI (Federacion Espanola de Sociedades de Informatica)
- IAKE (International Association of Knowledge Engineers)

Chairman of the Honorary Committee:
HRH Felipe de Borbon y Grecia, Prince of Asturias

TUTORIALS

5 October (Monday):
10.00 h Neural Computation
Jose Mira
11.45 h Coffee Break
12.15 h Multilayer Artificial Neural Networks
Juan Rios
16.00 h 2nd Generation Architectures for Intelligent Systems
Jose Cuena

6 October (Tuesday):
10.00 h Knowledge Conceptualization and Formalization
Juan Pazos
11.45 h Coffee Break
12.45 h Session, second part
16.00 h Knowledge Acquisition Techniques
Natalia Juristo

TECHNICAL SESSIONS

7 October (Wednesday):
Plenary Keynote
Guest Speaker:
Marvin Minsky
Chairman:
Nadal Batle
Panel: INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING AND NATURAL
LANGUAGE
Chairman:
Jose Cuena
Panelists:
Claudi Alsina
Elaine Rich
R.P. Van de Riet
16.00 h Plenary Lecture:
Hans Berliner
Chairman:
Antonio Insua
17.00 h Communications

8 October (Thursday):
Plenary Lecture
Nico Haberman
Chairman:
J. Luis Mate Hernandez
Panel: KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING PRACTICES: CASE STUDIES
Chairman:
Jose Mira
Panelists:
Robert A. Greenes
Norberto Ezquerra
Angel R. Puerta
16.00 h Communications

9 October (Friday):
Plenary Lecture
Daniel Bobrow
Chairman:
Roberto Moreno
Panel: APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING IN PROBLEM SOLVING AND
DISCOVERY
Chairman:
Rafael Infante
Panelists:
Hojjat Adeli
Pedro J. Otaduy
Pat Langley
Derek Partridge

HOTEL ACCOMMODATION
HOTELS
Double room for single use whit breakfast.
***** 44.000 Pesetas.
**** 30.000 Pesetas.
*** 24.000 Pesetas.
Payment:
50% in advance.
50% on your arrival.
For hotel reservations in Seville, please contact:
Mr. Antonio Chaves
SERVICIOS ABIERTOS
Virgen de Lujan, 51
41011 SEVILLA
Telephone: 95-428.0750
FAX: 95-428.0667

PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Chairman: Juan Pazos
Fernando Alonso Amo SPAIN
Mario R. Barbacci USA
Jaime Carbonell USA
Luis M. Laita SPAIN
Jay Liebowitz USA
Panos A. Ligomenides USA
Jose Mira Mira SPAIN
Jose Luis Morant SPAIN
Roberto Moreno SPAIN
Juan Pazos SPAIN
Angel Puerta USA
Juan Rios Carrion SPAIN
Michel Thorne UNITED KINGDOM

PROGRAM ADVISORY SECRETARY
Juan Castellanos

ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS
Centro Informatico Cientifico de Andalucia (CICA)
Junta de Andalucia (Autonomous Government of Andalusia)

Facultad de Matematicas
Universidad de Sevilla

Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial
Universidad de Granada

Facultad de Informatica
Universidad de Malaga

Facultad de Informatica
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (CETTICO)

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