Announcement & call for papers

[Romano Scozzafava <romscozz@dmmm.uniroma1.it>]

Please, transmit the following information to whom it may concern

   In the period 8-15 April 1997 a Workshop on 
      CONDITIONING AND INFERENCE IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS     
will take place in the framework of the International School 
of Mathematics "G. Stampacchia", which has its seat at the 
famous "Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture" of 
ERICE, a small town in Sicily, on top of a mountain (750 m. 
above sea level). Homer, Theocritus, Polybius, Virgil, Hora- 
ce and others have celebrated this magnificent spot in their 
poems : at present Erice is a mixture of ancient and mediev- 
al architecture, with its Cyclopean Walls, Castle of Venus 
and Gothic Cathedral. Other masterpieces of ancient civili- 
zations and splendid beaches are in the neighbourhoods.

   The aim of the Workshop, directed by Giulianella Coletti 
(Universita' di Perugia, Italy) and Romano Scozzafava (Uni- 
versita' "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy), is to give an overview 
of the state-of-the-art and of research trends concerning 
the various aspects and methodologies for the management of 
partial and revisable information in automated reasoning: 
particular emphasis will be given to conditioning and infe- 
rence.
   Some more detailed information on the running of the 
Workshop follows. Participants should arrive in Erice on 
Tuesday, April 8, not later than 5 p.m., and leave on the 
morning of Tuesday, April 15. The workshop will start on 
Wednesday morning at 9 a.m.: the format includes lectures, 
seminars, contributed papers (as a poster session), a round 
table (on Monday morning). An excursion is being planned on 
Sunday.
  The Proceedings will be published as a special issue of 
SOFT COMPUTING RESEARCH JOURNAL (Springer Verlag): detailed 
instructions will be given during the Workshop. The deadline 
will be the end of June 1997.

   Here is the list of invited speakers:
B.Bouchon-Meunier (Non-deductive Fuzzy reasoning)
M.Di Bacco (Pooling Expert Opinions)
A.Di Nola (Algebraic Models for Lukasiewicz Logic)
J.Y.Jaffray (Conditioning and Dynamic Decision Making under 
             Uncertainty)
F.V.Jensen (Inference in directed acyclic graphs)
E.P.Klement (Measures of Fuzzy Sets)
F.Lad (The Operational Characterization of Conditional 
       Probability)
G.Regoli (Inference under Imprecise Probability Assessments)
Ph.Smets (Conditioning and Combination in Belief Models)
S.Termini (On Quantum Logic and Revisable Reasoning)
R.R.Yager (Generalized Inference Techniques for Fuzzy 
            Modeling)

   Persons wishing to attend the Workshop should write to:

Prof G.Coletti 
Dip. di Matematica 
Via Vanvitelli 1 
06100 PERUGIA 
E-mail : coletti@dipmat.unipg.it 
phone: 39-75-5855019
fax: 39-75-5855024

   They should specify: (i) date and place of birth, toge- 
ther with present nationality; (ii) degree, graduating In- 
stitute and other academic qualifications; (iii) list of 
publications; (iv) present position and place of work; (v) 
address, telephone, fax, e-mail (if any); (vi) motives for 
wishing to attend.
   Young persons with only little experience should enclose 
a letter of recommendation from the head of their research 
group or from a senior person active in the field.
   The TOTAL FEE, which includes a copy of the proceedings, 
full board and lodging (arranged by the School), is US $700. 
Thanks to the generosity of the sponsoring Institutions, 
support can be granted to some deserving students who need 
financial help. Requests to this effect must be specified 
and justified in the letter of application.

   No special application form is required. Closing date for 
application and for contributed papers (extended abstracts 
of 2-3 pages): February 28, 1997.
   A letter will be sent to successful applicants by March 
15, 1997. Admission to the Workshop will be decided in 
consultation with the Advisory Committee of the School 
composed of Professors G.Coletti, F.Giannessi, R.Scozzafava 
and A.Zichichi.