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   0. Calendar Manager Info:

	   Date:   Wed 21 Auguest 1996
	   Start:  1600
	   End:    1700
	   What:   ANU Comp. Sci. Seminar - Dr John Zeleznikow


   1. Speaker: Dr. John Zeleznikow
	       School of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
	       La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria

   2. Time:     4:00pm - 5:00 pm, 21th August 1996 (Wednesday)

   3. Place:    Room N101, in the Department of Computer Science
		Ground Floor, CSIT building, ANU

 4. Title:   Using cases to perform reasoning and negotiation in decision
             support systems
 

   5. Target Audience: honours students and above

   6. Abstract: 
	
There has been much recent research on how computer systems negotiate
but very little on building computer tools for supporting human
negotiation.  In this project we investigate artificial intelligence
techniques for supporting humans to both reason and negotiate through
the use of cases.

We believe intelligent decision support systems require hybrid
reasoning.  Artificial Intelligence paradigms we have used include a
hybrid of rule based reasoning, case based reasoning and neural
networks.  We discuss six systems we have built that illustrate our
use of hybrid paradigms.
   
7. Biography:

Dr. John Zeleznikow is Head, Database Research Laboratory, Applied
Computing Research Institute La Trobe University. He is the General
Chairman of the forthcoming (July 97) International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Law and has recently published 'Building
Intelligent Legal Information Systems: Representation and Reasoning in
Law', Kluwer.

   8. Contact:

	johnz[at]latcs1.cs.latrobe.edu.au (John Zeleznikow)