Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and
Agents: An International Workshop

PROGRAM

6-10 April 1998 - University of Aizu
Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan

Monday, April 6

Metaphors

9:00 : Opening : Chrystopher Nehaniv (University of Aizu, Japan)

9:15 : Welcome: Shoichi Noguchi, Conference General Chair, President of the University of Aizu

9:30 -11:00 : Invited Plenary Lecture

Mark Turner (University of Maryland, USA)

Forging Connections

11:00 -11:30 : Coffee Break

11:30 -12:30 : Invited Lecture

Masako K. Hiraga (University of the Air, Japan)

Rough Sea and the Milky Way: `Blending' in a Haiku Text

12:30 - 2:00 : Lunch (in university cafeteria, included in registration)

2:00 - 3:45 : 3 papers

Tony Veale (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Pragmatic Forces in Metaphor Use and Comprehension:
The Mechanics of Blend Recruitment in Visual Metaphors

Patti O'Neill-Brown (Japan Technology Program, U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Designing an Agent for Understanding and Generating Metaphor

Solomon Marcus (Romanian Academy of Sciences)
Cognitive Metaphors and Cognitive Models as a Form of Dictatorship

3:45 - 4:15 : Coffee Break

4:15 - 5:15 : 2 papers

Georgi Stojanov (SS Cyril & Methodius University, Macedonia)
Embodiment as Metaphor: Metaphorizing-In the Environment

John A. Barnden (University of Birmingham, U.K.)
An Implemented System for Metaphor-Based Reasoning with Special Application to Reasoning about Agents

5:30- : Reception

Tuesday, April 7

Life-Like Agents

9:00 - 10:30 : Invited Plenary Lecture

Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Reading, U.K.)

Meaning and Embodiment in Life-Like Agents

10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 : 3 papers

J. L. Alty and R. P. Knott (Loughborough University, U.K.)
Metaphor and Human Computer Interaction: A Model Based Approach

Andreas Lund and John A. Waterworth (Umeā University, Sweden)
Experiential Design: Reflecting Embodiment at the Human-Computer Interface

Andrew Goatly (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
Questions to Ask about the Processing of Textual Metaphor

12:30 - 2:00 : Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 : 3 papers

Hrushikesha Mohanty (University of Hyderabad, India)
A Cognitive Process Model to Build Agents

Tom Fenton-Kerr (University of Sydney, Australia)
GAIA: An Experimental Pedagogical Agent for Exploring Multimodal Interaction

Jim Sinclair (The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand)
The Virtual Class

3:30-4:00 : Coffee Break

4:00-5:30 :

Japanese Spa & Conference Dinner (Takinoyu, Higashiyama)
There will be pick-up at 4:00 pm from University and Washington Hotel.
(Please wear your nametag.)

Wednesday, April 8

Imitation & Embodiment

9:00 - 10:30 : Invited Plenary Lecture

Brian Scassellatti (MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, U.S.A.)

Alternative Essences of Intelligence: Lessons from Embodied AI
(with Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal (Ferrell), Robert Irie, Charles C. Kemp, Matthew Marjanovi´c, and Matthew M. Williamson)

and

Imitation and Mechanisms of Shared Attention: A Developmental Structure for Building Social Skills

10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 : 3 papers

Panel Discussion: Other Minds -- Embodiment & Metaphors

12:30 - 2:00 : Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 : 3 papers

Anneli Kauppinen (University of Helsinki & Helsinki Polytechnic, Finland)
Imitation and Analogy in Language Acquisition

S. J. Nasuto, K. Dautenhahn, and J. M. Bishop (University of Reading, U.K.)
Communication as an Emergent Metaphor for Neuronal Operation

Ulrich Nehmzow (University of Manchester, U.K.)
An Episodic Mapping Algorithm for Mobile Robot Self-Localisation

3:30 - 3:55 : Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:00 : Meaning Transfer Game
(All participants)

Thursday, April 9

Analogies

9:00 - 10:30 : Invited Plenary Lecture

Joseph Goguen (University of California, USA)

An Introduction to Algebraic Semiotics with Applications to Interface Design

10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 : 3 papers

Bipin Indurkhya (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
An Algebraic Approach to Modeling Creativity of Metaphor

Lothar M. Schmitt (University of Aizu, Japan)
Fuzzy Modelling Imbedded in Banach Space Duality and Applications

Heiner Benking (Univeristy of Ulm, Germany)
Sharing and Changing Realities with Extra Degrees of Freedom of Movement

12:30 - 2:00 : Lunch

2:00 - :

Excursion

Friday, April 10

Mapping

9:00 - 10:30 : Invited Plenary Lecture

Meurig Beynon (University of Warwick, U.K.)

Empirical Modelling and the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00:

Panel Discussion: Meaning, Stories, & Agents

12:00 - 1:30 : Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 : 3 papers

Kazuko Shinohara (International Christian University, Japan)
Conceptual Mappings from Spatial Motion to Time: Analysis of English and Japanese

P.S. Subramanian (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Metaphors for Algebraic Engineering

Bob Hughes (Bristol, U.K.)
Narrative as Landscape

3:00 - 3:30 : Coffee Break and Closing