------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- ****************** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION ************************************************************ American Association for Artificial Intelligence 1996 Spring Symposium Series March 25 - 27, 1996 Stanford University California COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION Technological advances in multimedia, graphics, vision and speech technology are driving research into new interfaces and retrieval mechanisms based on spatial dialogues and queries. Recent years have also seen an increase in interest in newer fields that depend heavily on spatial representation, in particular, analogical/diagrammatic reasoning, and multimodal interface design. Concurrently, cognitive linguistics has concentrated much effort on semantic accounts of spatial language, and the revival of the imagery debate has sharpened the focus of research into human spatial cognition. Despite its increasing importance, spatial representation has been tackled as a subproblem of many different domains, which in turn has led to a fragmentation of the overall research effort. This symposium intends to meet the growing desire to integrate research into spatial representation and reasoning by the artificial intelligence, cognitive science and cognitive psychology communities. The goals of the symposium are: o to initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue to facilitate exchange of ideas and cross-fertilization among researchers; o review the current influence that research into spatial cognition has on approaches to spatial representation in AI; o develop a better appreciation of research into spatial representation by identifying issues that span domain and discipline boundaries; o stimulate the discussion of issues in the computational realization of cognitive models of spatial representation. Contributions are invited on the computational and cognitive modeling of spatial representation in any problem domain, in particular, we are keen to encourage contributions from researchers interested in spatial aspects of: the acquisition, representation and processing of natural language spatial expressions; mental and computational imagery; diagrammatic reasoning; analogical reasoning and direct representations of space; navigation and cognitive models of large scale space. For further information see http://www.dcs.aber.ac.uk/~plo/AAAI_SSS or contact Patrick Olivier (plo(a)aber.ac.uk) at the address below. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Tony Cohn (agc(a)scs.leeds.ac.uk), University of Leeds, UK. Janice Glasgow (janice(a)qucis.queensu.ca), Queen's University, Canada. Barbara Landau (blandau(a)orion.uci.edu), UC Irvine, USA. Keiichi Nakata (kkn(a)aber.ac.uk), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. Patrick Olivier (plo(a)aber.ac.uk), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. Barbara Tversky (bt(a)psych.stanford.edu), Stanford University, USA. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Potential attendees should submit either (1) a full technical paper (not exceeding 5000 words), or (2) a brief statement of interest preferably a summary of an ongoing research effort (not exceeding 1000 words). Send five copies by October 31, 1995 to: Patrick Olivier (plo(a)aber.ac.uk) Centre for Intelligent Systems Department of Computer Science University of Wales Aberystwyth Dyfed, SY23 3DB, UK Tel: +44 1970 622447 Fax: +44 1970 622455 --------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Olivier Centre for Intelligent Systems Department of Computer Science Tel: +44 1970 622447 University of Wales Fax: +44 1970 622455 Aberystwyth e-mail: plo(a)aber.ac.uk Dyfed, SY23 3DB, UK ---------------------------------------------------------