We present a topographic product which measures the preservation of neighborhood relations as a criterion to optimize the output space topology of the map with regard to the global dimensionality DA as well as to the dimensions inthe individual directions. We test the topographic product method not only on synthetic mapping examples, but also on speech data.

It has been observed in numerical simulations that a weight decay can improve generalizationin a feed-forward neural network.

This paper briefly describes an artificial neural network for preattentive visual processing. The network is capable of determiuing image motioll in a type of stimulus which defeats most popular methods of motion detect.ion

We define the concept of polynomial uniform convergence of relative frequencies to probabilities in the distribution-dependent context.

This technology was developed with funding from the National Sony, the Japanese consumer electronics Science Foundation. Working with experts from Armco Steel (Middletown, company, has developed OH), Carnegie Group developed a prototype system to diagnose an intelligent system to improve chatter in a coldrolling mill. In the and consulting company, has developed a PCbased virtual reality system company's semiconductor group, to provide financial planners a visual metaphor for viewing large The system allows the user to "fly" over the The expert system is installed in Meiji's Tokyo service two-thirds. With Domain Dynamics Ltd. (Windsor, England) has developed a PCbased the system, technical support neural network application to automate the recognition of data from the Currently available in days to solve with a text retrieval the form of two circuit boards, TESPAR (which stands for Time Encoded system now take just afew minutes. Signal Processing and Recognition) is capable of being converted to a single piece of silicon.

Another issue concerned The survey of 80 KBS developers in Knowledge-Based Systems, Marc Ayel structural validation of KBS, given financial domains by Daniel O'Leary and Jean-Pierre Laurent, eds., John that the architecture of these systems opens the collection and raises some Wiley and Sons, Chichester, England, (having separate knowledge base and interesting points. VVT is revealed to 1991, 219 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-471- inference engine components) was be a significant concern, with developers 93018-0 (paper). Testing his volume contains a selection First European Workshop on studies were launched to determine with real and contrived test cases was Verification, Validation, and Test of the applicability of software engineering found to account for about half the Knowledge-Based Systems, held evaluation techniques to overall VVT effort on average, with during the 1990 European Conference KBSs and to develop new techniques direct inspection of the knowledge on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI specific to KBSs. Several such studies base accounting for another 30 percent 90) in Stockholm, Sweden. In reviewing were initiated by organizations that in the survey.

The Digital Services Research Group and its predecessor groups and offshoots in Digital Equipment Corporation have been mobilizing leading-edge AI research to bear on real-life problems that face the corporation and its customers. The general strategy of the group is to explore emerging techniques relevant to service and support needs through developing rapid prototypes, deploying these prototypes, and incorporating feedback from users. With over 32 major projects undertaken during the past decade, we have worked on broad spectrum of problems and explored a variety of advanced AI techniques. This article describes the current AI activities in five areas: (1) enterprise advisory systems, (2) natural language processing and textual information retrieval, (3) largescale knowledge base management and access, (4) software configuration management, and (5) intrusion detection. We also list some future research directions.

Models in the Mind: Theory Perspective, in Open Worlds: A Case Study in Design.

In preparation for the Summer tion needs as customer support, field Stone Webster (Boston, MA) and The Olympics in Barcelona, Telefonica de service, end-user computing, and Foxboro Co. (Foxboro, MA) plan to Espana S.A. (Madrid, Spain), the vendor technical support. Advisor, Stone Webster's real-time Macro*World Investor, a stock analysis developed a Spanish-language speech Foxboro system is at Weyerhaeuser's and data transformations while Spain will recognize the caller's Engineers' Design Institute for had previously been done by human company's customer support personnel The a specified roster of physical and on case-based reasoning. Currently in HSB is used to increase employee thermodynamic properties for the production, the Support Management productivity for both instructors and chemical or mixture. ATT reportedly plans to support this market, such as memory implement a pilot project for Mellon close 31 of its operator centers, and cards, smart cards, tokens, tags, and Bank (Pittsburgh, PA) using Nestor's to lay off from 3,000 to 6,000 of its wireless communication, will also be credit card Fraud Detection System, a workers in the next two years ATT covered. The system is designed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ISAI) was held in Cancun, Mexico, 13-15 November 1991. What, another international AI conference, you say? In Mexico? Yes. The first symposium was held in 1988. This fourth consecutive annual conference drew the participation of visitors from several international AI communities, including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Japan, England, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, China, Belgium, Australia, and Singapore -- an impressive breadth of participants for a conference that has existed for only four years.