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Int'l Conf. on Information, Statistics & Induction in Science, ISIS'96
                Melbourne, Australia, 20-23 August 1996

   The full version of this announcement is available at URL:
   http://www.cs.utwente.nl/data/amast/links/v03/i01/full/AC0301MA.txt

  This conference will explore the use of computational modelling to
understand and emulate inductive processes in science.  The problems
involved in building and using such computer models reflect
methodological and foundational concerns common to a variety of
academic disciplines, especially statistics, artificial intelligence
(AI) and the philosophy of science.  This conference aims to bring
together researchers from these and related fields to present new
computational techniques for supporting or analysing scientific
inference and to engage in collegial debate over the merits and
difficulties underlying the various approaches to automating inductive
and statistical inference. See the full version of this announcement
for a list of subject areas of particular interest.
  *Invited Speakers:*
   Henry Kyburg, Jr. (University of Rochester, NY)
   Marvin Minsky (MIT)
   J. Ross Quinlan (Sydney University)
   Jorma J. Rissanen (IBM Almaden Research, San Jose, California)
   Ray Solomonoff (Oxbridge Research, Mass)
  *Inquiries* to:
   isis96@cs.monash.edu.au
   David Dowe: dld@cs.monash.edu.au
   Kevin Korb: korb@cs.monash.edu.au or
   Jonathan Oliver: jono@cs.monash.edu.au
  *Registration*. A registration form will be available at the WWW site
quoted below or by mail from the conference chair. Student registration
will be available at a discount (but prices have not yet been fixed).
Relevant dates are:
   Early registration (at a discount): 3 June, 1996
   Final registration: 1 July, 1996
  *More Information* is available on the WWW at URL:
   http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~jono/ISIS/ISIS.shtml