koglist July 1997

koglist@maillist.ttk.hu

7 participants
10 discussions

by Szabo Norbert

Sziasztok! 1. Ha onvedelembol megkeselek 1 tanart, akkor miert en vagyok a hulye? 2. Tudna nekem valaki mesterseges inteligencia programot kuldeni? Egesz pontosan olyanra gondoltam ami a neki irt szovegre valaszol. Ha lehet magyar nyelven, de masik is jo. Es ha lehet akkor eredeti forraskod kene. Norbi

28 years, 9 months

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28 years, 9 months

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by gyorgy buzsaki

Application Information for Ph.D. Program in BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL SCIENCES at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey * Application target date is February 1, 1998 * ----------------------------------------------------------------- Additional information on our Ph.D. program, research facilities,and faculty can be obtained over the internet at: http://www.cmbn.rutgers.edu/bns-home.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Behavioral and Neural Sciences (BNS) graduate program at Rutgers-Newark aims to provide students with a rigorous understanding of modern neuroscience with an emphasis on integrating behavioral and neural approaches to understanding brain function. The program emphasizes the multidisciplinary nature of this endeavor, and offers specific research training in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience as well as Molecular, Cellular and Systems Neuroscience. These research areas represent different but complementary approaches to contemporary issues in behavioral and molecular neuroscience and can emphasize either human or animal studies. The BNS graduate program is composed of faculty from the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN), the Institute of Animal Behavior (IAB), the Department of Biological Sciences, the Department of Psychology, and the School of Nursing. Research training in the BNS program emphasizes integration across levels of analysis and traditional disciplinary boundaries. Basic research areas in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience include the study of the basal forebrain, basal ganglia, hippocampus, visual and auditory systems and monoaminergic and neuroendocrine systems using electrophysiological, neurochemical, neuroanatomical and molecular biological approaches. Research in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience includes the study of memory, language (both signed and spoken), reading, attention, motor control, vision, and animal behavior. Clinically relevant research areas are the study of the behavioral, physiological and pharmacological aspects of schizophrenia, Alzheimer's Disease, amnesia, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, and the molecular genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders Other Information ----------------- At present the CMBN supports up to 40 students with 12-month renewable assistantships for a period of four years. The curent stipend for first year students is $12,750; this includes tuition remission and excellent healthcare benefits. Several other fellowships are offered. More information is available in our graduate brochure, available upon request. 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28 years, 9 months

DSM-V Cyber Disorders (fwd)

by Csaba Pleh

Csaba Pleh Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305 T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)323-1998 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 13:57:37 -0400 From: "Christopher D. Green" <christo(a)YORKU.CA> Reply-To: Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences <CHEIRON(a)YORKU.CA> To: CHEIRON(a)YORKU.CA Subject: DSM-V Cyber Disorders (fwd) Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 97 20:02:51 +100 Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: csaba.pleh(a)casbs.stanford.edu I thought his might amuse you. Christopher D. Green office: (416) 736-5121 Department of Psychology FAX: (416) 736-5814 York University North York, Ontario M3J 1P3 e-mail: christo(a)yorku.ca CANADA http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/christo ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:31:52 -0400 From: Fredric Weizmann <weizmann(a)YORKU.CA> To: PSYCHOLOGY(a)YORKU.CA Subject: DSM-V Cyber Disorders Those of you familiar with the latest in psychiatric and psychological disorders as specified in the current Fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric will no doubt be interested in the preliminary draft of a new DSM-V Committee set up to report on Cyber Disorders. This report comes to you courtesy of Bruce Dienes <bdienes(a)S.PSYCH.UIUC.EDU>. The Cyber Disorders section includes disorders that have a dependency upon cyberexistance as the predominant feature. The section is divided into three parts. The first part describes e-mail episodes that serve as the building blocks for the disorder diagnoses. The criteria sets for most of the Cyber Disorders require the presence or absence of the e-mail episodes described in the first part of the section. The third part includes the specifiers that describe either the most recent e-mail episode, or the course of recurrent episodes. The Cyber Disorders are divided into Posting Disorders, Flaming Disorders and CC Disorders. The Posting Disorders (i.e., Lurking Disorder, Chronic Posting Disorder and Posting Disorder not otherwise specified) are distinguished from the Flaming Disorders by the fact that there is no history of ever having posted a Flame or Flame-With-Apology. CC Disorders (CC-All Disorder and Spam Disorder) may include episodes of Chronic Posting, Flamies, and/or Flame-With-Apologies, but can be distinguished by the number of addresses. Lurking Disorder is characterized by one or more episodes of lurking (i.e., at least two weeks of lurking or loss of interest in answering mail accompanied by at least four additional symptoms of Lurking, including high on-line time balances, walking away from the computer while logged on, composing posts and deleting them without sending them, etc.) Chronic Posting Disorder is characterized by at least 4 weeks of posting to a newsgroup of listserv more days than not, accompanied by additional Cyber symptoms such as checking mail several times per day, posts in which the content is shorter than the message header or sig, and messages of extreme anxiety when list volume drops. Posting Disorder Not Otherwise specified is included for coding disorders with posting features that do not meet the criteria for Lurking Disorder or Flaming Disorder. Flaming Disorder is characterized by one or more episodes of hot-tempered posts, usually posted within seconds of receiving the "trigger" message, but can be distinguished from the Flame-With-Apology in that the sender has a sincere belief that he/she is 100% correct and morally entitled to his/her feelings of outrage. Flaming Disorder is often accompanied by Chronic Posting Disorder. Flame-With-Apology Disorder is a milder form of Flaming Disorder, in which the poster sincerely apologizes for the first portion of the message and yet sends it anyway. A variation of Flame-With-Apology exists in which posters staunchly defend their positiong for 3 to 4 days, then abruptly back down and revert to Chronic Posting or Lurking. The specifiers described in the third part of the section are provided to increase diagnostic specificity, create more homogeneous subgroups, assist in treatment selction, and improve the prediction of prognosis. Some of the specifiers describe the most recent episode (i.e., Pine Elm, Anonymous, With Humerous Features, and With Uncomplicated Internet Access.) Fred Weziamnn

28 years, 9 months

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28 years, 9 months

Conf: AI*IA 97 (fwd)

by Csaba Pleh

Csaba Pleh Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305 T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)323-1998 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:27:05 +0200 From: AI*IA 97 <aiia97(a)fub.it> To: elsnet-list(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Conf: AI*IA 97 Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 97 19:22:10 +100 Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: csaba.pleh(a)casbs.stanford.edu Sorry for multiple copies of this announce ------------------------------------------------------- AI*IA 97 FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE ITALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Rome, September 16-19, 1997 Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Facolta' di Ingegneria (Sede di S. Pietro in Vincoli), via Eudossiana 18 Call for Participation The Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence represents, at the italian level, the most important meeting point for all persons involved in the various areas of AI. The fifth Congress will include invited relations of international experts, presentation of scientific works, demos of systems and prototypes, round tables about relevant methodological and applicative aspects, tutorials of national experts, student projects and other satellite events. During the last two days, at the same time of the Congress sessions, two workshops of more applicative nature will be held. Technical Session Presented papers contain either theoretical/methodological work or applicative work. Areas of interest include: Distributed artificial intelligence, Natural language, Cognitive modeling, Connectionist models, Vision and Perception, Planning, Automated reasoning, Robotics, Knowledge-based systems, Learning, Control and diagnosis of plants and processes, Software engineering and information systems, Man-machine interfaces, Autonomous systems and robots. The accepted papers are collected in a volume of the serie Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence published by Springer Verlag. Demo section The demo section will deal with demonstration of systems and prototypes using Artificial Intelligence principles and techniques. All partecipants can attend the demos and discuss with the authors of the systems. A short description of all the demos is included in the Congress proceedings. Invited lectures Invited lectures are an important event of the Congress. This year there will be two invited talks: * Complexity in AI and Knowledge Representation by Georg Gottlob, Technische Universitat, Wien (Austria) * Automated Planning for autonomous space strobes by Nicola Muscettola, Nasa Ames Research Center, Moffett Field (CA, USA) Tutorials Four tutorials will be held (tutorials are given in Italian): * Knowledge representation and reasoning in the Web (D. Nardi, M. Schaerf) * Development systems for grammatical representations based on Typed Feature Structures (F. Pianesi) * Multi-agent systems (C. Castelfranchi, F. Giunchiglia) * Diagnostic problem solving: evolution, state of the art and applications (L. Console) Tutorials will be held on the 16th (the day before the officla opening of the Congress), and attendance will be limited. These tutorials are intended for industry representatives, non specialists and Ph.D. students. The participation is only permitted to registered Congress attendees, although a limited number of seats will be available for people not attending the whole Congress. Workshops Workshops are a recent addition in the Congress program, and they are already a useful chance of meeting and discussion among researchers and professionals. In addition, their aim is to verify the contributes that Artificial Intelligence can bring in specific contexts. This year both workshops will focus on crucial sectors of today world, as are services for citizens and financial services. The titles are: * Artificial Intelligence in financial institutions (September 17) (Organized by: C. Rossignoli, C. Ficini) * Artificial Intelligence, new technologies and services for the citizen (September 19) (Organized by: R. Petrioli, D. D'Aloisi, P. Naggar, G. Soda) Each workshop will last a whole day, in parallel with the technical/scientific/applicative sessions. Due to the specific nature of these events, the participation is open also to people who are not registered for the Congress. REGISTRATION FEES (1) Registration Registration within after August,11/97 August,11/97 Congress (2) AI*IA Member 500.000 600.000 Non AI*IA Member 650.000 750.000 Student 100.000 150.000 Tutorials (3) For those registered for the Congress 130.000 180.000 For those non registered for the Congress 300.000 350.000 Workshops (4) For those registered for the Congress - - For those non registered for the Congress 100.000 150.000 (1) Fees are tax-included. (2) The registration fee include: participation to the Congress and Workshops, congress and workshops proceedings, coffee breaks. Please remember that you must be member AI*IA for the year 1997, in order to be eligible for the reduced fee. Students must enclose proof of studentship. (3) The fee is per tutorial and includes all the course material. (4) This is only for those who aren't registered for the Congress. The price is for a single Workshop and includes the workshop proceedings and coffee breaks. Information Updated information on the Congress is available on the World Wide Web at the address: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~aiia97 Alternatively, it is possible to contact directly the Program Chairman: Prof. Maurizio Lenzerini Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma e-mail: aiia97(a)dis.uniroma1.it =========================================== Detailed Program September 16, 1997 ore 8 - 9 Registration ore 9 - 10:30 Tutorial 1 (Aula 15) Knowledge representation and reasoning in the WEB D. Nardi, M. Schaerf (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza") Tutorial 2 (Aula 17) Development systems for grammatical representations based on Typed Feature Structures - F. Pianesi (IRST, Trento) ore 10:30 - 11 Break ore 11 - 12:30 Tutorial 1 (Aula 15) Knowledge representation and reasoning in the WEB D. Nardi, M. Schaerf (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza") Tutorial 2 (Aula 17) Development systems for grammatical representations based on Typed Feature Structures - F. Pianesi (IRST, Trento) ore 12:30 - 14 Intervallo pranzo ore 14:30 - 16 Tutorial 3 (Aula 15) Multi-agent systems C. Castelfranchi (CNR, Roma), F. Giunchiglia (Universita' di Trento) Tutorial 4 (Aula 17) Diagnostic problem solving: evolution, state of the art and applications L. Console (Universita' di Torino) ore 16 - 16:30 Break ore 16:30 - 18 Tutorial 3 (Aula 15) Multi-agent systems C. Castelfranchi (CNR, Roma), F. Giunchiglia (Universita' di Trento) Tutorial 4 (Aula 17) Diagnostic problem solving: evolution, state of the art and applications - L. Console (Universita' di Torino) September 17, 1997 ore 8 - 9 Registration ore 9 - 10 Opening (Aula 1) ore 10 - 10:30 Coffee break ore 10:30 - 12:30 Machine Learning 1 (Aula del chiostro) Modeling Conceptual Change: an Interdisciplinary Approach F. Neri, L. Saitta (Universita' di Torino), A. Tiberghien (CNRS, France) Refining Numerical Terms in Horn Clauses M. Botta, A. Giordana, R. Piola (Universita' di Torino) Handling Continuos Data in Top-Down Induction of First-Order Rules D. Malerba, F. Esposito, G. Semeraro, S. Caggese (Universita' di Bari) Inductive Inference of Tree Automata by Recursive Neural Network P. Frasconi, G. Soda (Universita' di Firenze), M. Gori, M. Maggini, E. Martinelli (Universita' di Siena) Workshop AI e finanza (Aula 1) ore 12:30 - 14 Pranzo ore 14 - 16:15 Natural Language 1 (Aula del chiostro) A Computational Model of Misunderstandings in Agent Communication L. Ardissono, G. Boella, R. Damiano (Universita' di Torino) Wide-coverage Lexicalized Grammars G. Barbero, V. Lombardo (Universita' di Torino) Flexible Response Choice Using Problem-Solving Plans and Rethorical Relations P. Barboni, D. Sestero (Universita' di Torino) A Variant of Earley Parsing M. Nederhof (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), G. Satta (Universita' di Padova) Student presentation Workshop AI e finanza (Aula 1) ore 16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break ore 16:30 - 18:30 Perception, Vision and Robotics (Aula del chiostro) Autonomous Robot Navigation Using a Reactive Agent M. Piaggio, A. Sgorbissa, R. Zaccaria (Universita' di Genova), G. Vercelli (Universita' di Trieste) A Hybrid Architecture for Autonomous Agents A. Chella, S. Gaglio, G. Sajeva, F. Torterolo (Universita' di Palermo) Extraction of Discriminant Features from Image Fractal Encoding M. Baldoni, C. Baroglio, D. Cavagnino, G. Lo Bello (Universita' di Torino) 3-D Facets Construction for Stereovision E. Zagrouba (University of Monastir, Tunisia) Workshop AI e finanza (Aula 1) September 18, 1997 ore 8 - 9 Registration ore 9 - 10 Invited Speaker (Aula 1) Complexity in AI and Knowledge Representation Georg Gottlob (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) ore 10 - 10:30 Coffe break ore 10:30 - 12:30 Machine Learning 2 (Aula 1) Learning Relational Concepts at Different Levels of Granularity G. Armano, G. Fumera (Universita' di Cagliari) Inferring Minimal Rule Covers from Relations C. Carpineto, G. Romano (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma) Learning the Syntax and Semantic Rules of an ECG Grammar G. Kokai, J. Csirik (Jozsef Attila University, Hungary), T. Gyimothy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Corpus-driven Unsupervised Learning of Verb Subcategorization Frames R. Basili, M. T. Pazienza, M. Vindigni (Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata) ore 10:30 - 12:30 Automated Reasoning (Aula del chiostro) Introducing Abduction into (Extensional) Inductive Logic Programming Systems E. Lamma, P. Mello, M. Milano, F. Riguzzi (Universita' di Bologna) An Efficient Algorithm for Temporal Abduction V. Brusoni, L. Console, P. Terenziani, D. Theseider Dupre' (Universita' di Torino) Experimental Analysis of the Computational Cost of Evaluating Quantified Boolean Formulae M. Cadoli, A. Giovanardi, M. Schaerf (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza") A Proof Theory for Tractable Approximations of Propositional Reasoning F. Massacci (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza") Demo (Laboratorio) ore 12:30 - 14 Pranzo ore 14 - 15:45 Knowledge Representation 1 (Aula 1) Embedding Minimal Knowledge into Autoepistemic Logic R. Rosati (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza") User Model-Based Information Filtering F.A. Asnicar, M. Di Fant, C. Tasso (Universita' di Udine) A Comparative Analysis of Horn Models and Bayesian Network for Diagnosis L. Portinale, P. Torasso (Universita' di Torino) Student presentation ore 14 - 15:45 Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Aula del chiostro) Multi-agent Negotiation and Planning Through Knowledge Contextualization E. Sangineto (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza") >From Task Delegation to Role Delegation C.. Castelfranchi, R. Falcone (CNR, Roma) Automated Reasoning On-Board Autonomous Spacecrafts N.D. Monekosso (University of Surrey, UK), P. Remagnino (The University of Reading, UK) Student presentation Demo (Laboratorio) ore 15:45 - 16 Coffee break ore 16 - 17 Planning (Aula 1) A Weakly Backjumping Strategy to Solve Hard Scheduling Problems A. Oddi (CNR, Roma) Compiling Task Network into Partial Order Planning Domains M. Baioletti, S. Marcugini, A. Milani (Universita' di Perugia) Demo (Laboratorio) ore 17 - 18 Premio AI*IA e Conferenza del Vincitore (Aula 1) ore 18 - 20 Assemblea soci AI*IA (Aula 1) ore 20 Cena sociale September 19, 1997 ore 8 - 9 Registration ore 9 - 10 Invited Speaker (Aula 1) Pianificazione automatica per sonde spaziali autonome Nicola Muscettola (RECOM Technologies, NASA AMES Research Center, USA) ore 10 - 10:30 Coffe break ore 10:30 - 12:30 Natural Language 2 (Aula del chiostro) A Hybrid Approach to Hypertext Generation N. Cancedda (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"), G. Kamstrup, E. Pianta (IRST, Trento), E. Pietrosanti (Finsiel, Roma) Generating User-Adapted Hypermedia from Discourse Plans B. De Carolis, F. De Rosis, S. Pizzutillo (Universita' di Bari) WordNet for Italian and Its Use for Lexical Discrimination A. Artale, B. Magnini, C. Strapparava (IRST, Trento) Student presentations Workshop Servizi al Cittadino (Aula 1) ore 12:30 - 14 Pranzo ore 14 - 16 Knowledge Representation 2 (Aula del chiostro) Efficient Support for Reactive Rules in Prolog M. Gaspari (Universita' di Bologna) Reasoning with Behavioural Knowledge in Application Domain Models E. Compatangelo (Universita' di Ancona), F.M. Donini (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza), G. Rumolo (Universita' di Roma TRE) How to Solve Qualification and Ramification Using Dijkstra's Semantics for Programming Languages E.M. Bugaj (Warsaw University, Poland) Towards a Qualitative Representation of Linguistic Negation of Nuanced Properties D. Pacholczyk (Universite' d'Angers, France) Workshop Servizi al Cittadino (Aula 1) ore 16 - 16:30 Coffee break ore 16:30 - 17:30 Machine Learning 3 (Aula del chiostro) CBET: a Case Base Exploration Tool P. Avesani, A. Perini, F. Ricci (IRST, Trento) Learning Feature Weights for CBR: Global versus Local A. Bonzano, P. Cunningham (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), B. Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland) Workshop Servizi al Cittadino (Aula 1) Con il contributo di Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Fondazione Ugo Bordoni IllyCaffe', Trieste SESM - Alenia Difesa, Roma

28 years, 9 months

Folk Biology & Anthropology of Science: BBS Call for Commentators

by BBS - Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on: FOLK BIOLOGY AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE: COGNITIVE UNIVERSALS AND CULTURAL PARTICULARS by Scott Atran This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send EMAIL to: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/ ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/ gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ FOLK BIOLOGY AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE: COGNITIVE UNIVERSALS AND CULTURAL PARTICULARS Scott Atran Institute for Social Research The University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48106-1248 USA satran(a)umich.edi KEYWORDS: Folk biology, taxonomy, cognitive universals, modularity, evolution, culture, Maya, anthropology ABSTRACT: This essay in the "anthropology of science" is about how cognition constrains culture in producing science. The example is folk biology, whose cultural recurrence issues from the very same domain-specific cognitive universals that provide the historical backbone of systematic biology. Humans everywhere think about plants and animals in highly structured ways. People have similar folk-biological taxonomies composed of essence-based species-like groups and the ranking of species into lower- and higher-order groups. Such taxonomies are not as arbitrary in structure and content, nor as variable across cultures, as the assembly of entities into cosmologies, materials or social groups. These structures are routine products of our "habits of mind," which may be in part naturally selected to grasp relevant and recurrent "habits of the world." An experiment illustrates that the same taxonomic rank is preferred for making biological inferences in two diverse populations: Lowland Maya and Midwest Americans. These findings cannot be explained by domain-general models of similarity because such models cannot account for why both cultures prefer species-like groups, despite the fact that Americans have relatively little actual knowledge or experience at this level. This supports a modular view of folk biology as a core domain of human knowledge and as a special player, or "core meme," in the selection processes by which cultures evolve. Structural aspects of folk taxonomy provide people in different cultures with the built-in constraints and flexibility that allow them to understand and respond appropriately to different cultural and ecological settings. Another set of reasoning experiments shows that the Maya, American folk and scientists use similarly structured taxonomies in somewhat different ways to extend their understanding of the world in the face of uncertainty. Although folk and scientific taxonomies diverge historically, they continue to interact. The theory of evolution may ultimately dispense with the core concepts of folk biology, including species, taxonomy and teleology; in practice, however, these may remain indispensable for scientific work. Moreover, theory-driven scientific knowledge cannot simply replace folk knowledge in everyday life. Folk-biological knowledge is not driven by implicit or inchoate theories of the sort science aims to make more accurate and perfect. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide Web or by anonymous ftp or gopher from the US or UK BBS Archive. Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.atran.html ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.atran ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.atran gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.atran When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit

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Representation of Similarities: BBS Call for Commentators

by BBS - Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on: REPRESENTATION IS REPRESENTATION OF SIMILARITIES by Shimon Edelman This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send EMAIL to: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/ ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/ gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ REPRESENTATION IS REPRESENTATION OF SIMILARITIES Shimon Edelman Center for Biological and Computational Learning Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT E25-201 Cambridge MA 02142 USA edelman(a)ai.mit.edu http://www.ai.mit.edu/~edelman KEYWORDS: representation, similarity, visual shape recognition, categorization, perception, features, invariance, mental models, affordance, constancy, distal/proximal stimulus, isomorphism ABSTRACT: Advanced perceptual systems are faced with the problem of securing a principled (ideally, veridical) relationship between the world and its internal representation. I propose a unified approach to visual representation, addressing the need for superordinate and basic-level categorization and for the identification of specific instances of familiar categories. According to the proposed theory, a shape is represented internally by the responses of a small number of tuned modules, each broadly selective for some reference shape, whose similarity to the stimulus it measures. This amounts to embedding the stimulus in a low-dimensional proximal shape space spanned by the outputs of the active modules. This shape space supports representations of distal shape similarities that are veridical as Shepard's (1968) second-order isomorphisms (i.e., correspondence between distal and proximal similarities among shapes, rather than between distal shapes and their proximal representations). Representation in terms of similarities to reference shapes supports processing (e.g., discrimination) of shapes that are radically different from the reference ones, without the need for the computationally problematic decomposition into parts required by other theories. Furthermore, a general expression for similarity between two stimuli, based on comparisons to reference shapes, can be used to derive models of perceived similarity ranging from continuous, symmetric, and hierarchical, as in multidimensional scaling [Shepard, 1980], to discrete and non-hierarchical, as in the general contrast models [Tversky, 1977; Shepard and Arabie, 1979]. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide Web or by anonymous ftp or gopher from the US or UK BBS Archive. Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.edelman.html ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.edelman ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.edelman gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.edelman When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit

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Cognitive Task Analysis (fwd)

by Csaba Pleh

Csaba Pleh Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305 T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)323-1998 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 17:26:08 -0400 (EDT) From: al(a)pop.pitt.edu To: PLEH(a)izabell.elte.hu Subject: Cognitive Task Analysis Resent-Date: Mon, 7 Jul 97 23:54:49 +100 Resent-From: PLEH(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: csaba.pleh(a)casbs.stanford.edu NATO Research Study Group 27 on Cognitive Task Analysis is culminating its activities with an international workshop intended to provide an up-to-the-minute view of the state of the art of cognitive task analysis. The workshop will be held in Washingt , DC, October 30-November 1, 1997, with the financial sponsorship of the U.S. Office of Naval Research. Previous activities of the NATO study group have included a review of the literature on cognitive task analysis. Thus, we are particularly interested in reports of very recent and innovative efforts that have not yet been extensively reported -- the s rch for these is the primary reason for this open announcement. If you are interested in participating, we invite you to submit an abstract (200-400 words) outlining your potential contribution by August 1. Travel expenses will be provided for a limi d number of invited participants. European researchers are particularly encouraged to submit in order to help maintain the international balance of the workshop. Abstracts may be submitted in English or French. The primary language of the workshop is expected to be English, but French translation services will be provided if there are participants who would benefit from them. Abstracts and/or questions about the workshop should be sent to Dr. Susan Chipman of ONR (chipmas(a)onr.navy.mil) nd Dr. Jan Maarten Schraagen at TNO in the Netherlands (Schraagen(a)tm.tno.nl). Please do not reply directly to this email, as this will not get your response to Drs. Chipman and Schraagen.

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by Ladanyi Maria

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