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      COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION
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           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.

See 
for further information.
contact Patrick Olivier (plo@aber.ac.uk) at the address below.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Tony Cohn (agc@scs.leeds.ac.uk), University of Leeds, UK.
Janice Glasgow (janice@qucis.queensu.ca), Queen's University, Canada.
Barbara Landau (blandau@orion.uci.edu), UC Irvine, USA.
Keiichi Nakata (kkn@aber.ac.uk), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
Patrick Olivier (plo@aber.ac.uk), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
Barbara Tversky (bt@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@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