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AI Conferences in Lyon, 21-26 July 2002
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Please find enclosed three calls for papers for
ECAI 2002: 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
*** Submission deadline: January 18, 2002 ***
PAIS 2002: Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems
*** Submission deadline: January 18, 2002 ***
STAIRS 2002: First European Starting AI Researcher Symposium
*** Submission deadline: March 1, 2002 ***
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** 15th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ECAI-2002) **
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The ECAI 2002 Programme Committee invites submission of papers for the
Technical Programme of the 15th biennial European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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18 Jan 2002 Deadline for paper summaries
22 Jan 2002 Deadline for papers
22 April 2002 Notification of acceptance
10 May 2002 Camera-ready copies of papers
24-26 July 2002 Technical programme at ECAI 2002
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Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously
unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence,
including, but not limited to:
{*filter*} Knowledge Representation
AI {*filter*} and Creativity Logic Programming
AI Architectures Machine Learning
Art and Music Machine Translation
Automated Reasoning Meta-Heuristics for AI
Autonomous Agents Model-Based Reasoning
Bayesian Learning Multi-Agent Systems
Belief Revision Natural Language Processing
Case-Based Reasoning Neural Networks
Causal Reasoning Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Cognitive Modelling Ontologies
Cognitive Robotics Perception
Common-Sense Reasoning Philosophical Foundations
Computer-Aided Learning Planning
Conceptual Graphs Probabilistic Reasoning
Configuration Qualitative Reasoning
Constraint Programming Real-Time Systems
Constraint Satisfaction Reasoning about Actions and Change
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Reasoning under Uncertainty
Decision Theory Reinforcement Learning
Deduction Resource-Bounded Reasoning
Description Logics Reuse of Knowledge
Design Robotics
Diagnosis Satisfiability Testing
Discourse Modelling Scheduling
Distributed AI Search
Game Playing Spatial Reasoning
Genetic Algorithms Speech Processing
Geometric Reasoning Temp{*filter*}Reasoning
Inductive Logic Programming Text Mining
Information Extraction Theorem Proving
Information Retrieval User Modelling
Intelligent User Interfaces Verification and Validation
Knowledge Acquisition Vision
Knowledge-Based Systems
Formatting guidelines
It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready
formatting style, except that author names should be omitted, and
replaced by the tracking number. Submissions must not exceed five pages
in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to
6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and
bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words.
(Please note that for some papers five camera-ready pages may be
considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Overlengthy submissions
will be rejected without review. Authors submitting unformatted papers
must include a word count on their paper.
Guidelines on the format of submissions are available on the ECAI 2002
Style Guide page ( http://www.*-*-*.com/ ).
{*filter*}style files to support formatting of submissions are also
available ( http://www.*-*-*.com/ ).
Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly
to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI 2002 Style Guide.
Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings.
Submission procedure
Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief
summary of their paper by 18 January 2002, followed by their full paper
before 22 January 2002 (23:59 CET). The strongly preferred submission
method for summaries is to use the web-based summary submission form
( http://www.*-*-*.com/ ). Submitted
summaries will be assigned a unique tracking number that should be
marked on the full paper submission. Authors without access to the web
should send a summary including the title, authors, contact address and
abstract of the paper (maximum 200 words), plus keywords drawn from this
list (plus other key-words if appropriate) to the ECAI 2002 Programme
Chair (by email or postal mail). The summary information and the
tracking number should also be included with the paper itself, on a
separate sheet of paper. Authors not able to use the web-based
submission form may omit the tracking number.
The strongly preferred submission method for full papers is
will be accepted. A free service to convert a number of widely used file
formats to PDF is available at http://www.*-*-*.com/ (the first
three uses of this service are for free). Submissions in hardcopy may
also be made if electronic submission is prob-lematic for the authors.
In that case, six
copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by
postal mail or courier service to the ECAI 2002 Programme Chair, Frank
van Harmelen, at the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers
is 22 January 2002 (23:59 CET) for both electronic and hardcopy
submissions.
Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of
receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon
after receipt.
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ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION
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Frank van Harmelen, ECAI 2002 Programme Chair
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit
De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Summary form:
http://www.*-*-*.com/
Tel: +31-20-444 7700
Fax: +31-84-872 2806
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Anonymous reviewing process
ECAI 2002 will operate an anonymous reviewing process. Reviewing for
ECAI 2002 will be blind to the identities of the authors and their
institutions. To allow for blind reviewing replace the authors line in
your submission by the unique tracking number assigned by the submission
of the summary form (or leave it empty in case you are not able to use
the web-based summary submission form). Please avoid identifying
self-references. Replace phrases like "We have shown in [n]" by "In [n]
it has been shown ...".
Multiple submissions policy
ECAI 2002 will not accept any paper which at the time of submission is
under review for, or has already been published or accepted for
publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also
expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period.
These restrictions only apply to journals and conferences and not to
workshops or similar specialised meetings with limited audiences. The
title page should include a statement that "this paper is not under
review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal".
The review process
All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI 2002
Programme Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI 2002 Programme
Committee Chair. The ECAI 2002 Programme Committee Chair has final
authority over the review process and all decisions relating to
acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas,
technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of
presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted
papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 22 April 2002.
Awards
The best paper of the conference, as selected by the ECAI 2002 Programme
Committee, will receive a prize sponsored by Elsevier Science. The
authors will also be invited to publish a longer version of the paper in
the Artificial Intelligence journal. The authors of the 10 next best
papers will all be invited to submit a long version of their paper to a
special fast-review track of the Artificial Intelligence journal.
Conference proceedings
The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS
Press on paper and as a CD-ROM. The authors will be responsible for
producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2002
formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline
for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 10 May 2002. Note that at least
one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference
to present the paper.
Support for Central and Eastern Europe
ECAI 2002 is dedicated to supporting AI research in Central and Eastern
Europe. A travel grant to attend the conference will be given to one
author of each accepted paper from Central or Eastern Europe. Also,
authors from Central and Eastern Europe are offered the possibility of
pre-reviewing. They can submit their paper anytime after 1 October 2002
to the ECAI 2002 Central and Eastern Europe Chair at the address below.
The paper will then be assigned to a pre-reviewer, who may yield useful
suggestions for the authors. The pre-reviewing is aimed at supporting
authors from Central and Eastern Europe, and is no guarantee of
acceptance of the final paper.
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ADDRESS FOR PRE-REVIEWING
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Michael Beetz
Department of Computer Science IX
Technical University Munich
Orleansstr. 34 81667 Munich Germany
Tel: +49 (89) 48095-129
Fax: +49 (89) 48095-120 (-203)
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** PRESTIGIOUS APPLICATIONS OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (PAIS-2002) **
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ECAI 2002 is pleased to announce its "Prestigious Applications of
Intelligent Systems" (PAIS-2002) sub-conference. The PAIS-2002 Programme
Committee invites authors to submit application papers.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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18 Jan 2002 Deadline for PAIS papers summaries
22 Jan 2002 Deadline for papers
22 Apr 2002 Notification of acceptance
10 May 2002 Camera-ready copies of papers
24-26 July 2002 PAIS-2002, Lyon
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This event, associated with ECAI 2002 is created to specifically
highlight significant successful applications of intelligent system
technology. The purpose of the event is to provide a forum for industry
practitioners to learn about the power and applicability of selected
intelligent system techniques and share experience on the applicability,
development and deployment of intelligent systems in industry. This will
be the largest showcase in Europe of real applications using intelligent
system technology and the ideal place to meet with those working to make
successful intelligent system based applications.
The Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems event will present
papers describing successful applications of intelligent systems.
Although associated with ECAI, it has a separate review process
conducted by experts in the application of intelligent system
technologies. Papers are selected to highlight critical areas of success
(and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons of value to other
developers. Submitted papers should make these points clear. Accepted
papers will be published in a special section of the ECAI 2002
proceedings.
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PAIS CHAIR
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Boi Faltings
Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle (LIA)
Dpartement Informatique (DI)
Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Ecublens 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
Tel: +41 21 693-2735
Fax: +41 21 693-5225
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Paper submissions to PAIS 2002 will follow exactly the same format and
procedure as ECAI 2002. Papers must respect the formatting and length
restrictions given on page 5, but additionally should be clearly marked
as a submission to PAIS on the first page. Submissions should be made
electronically or in hardcopy to the same addresses and by the same
deadlines as papers submitted to the regular conference. Do not submit
papers directly to the PAIS programme committee. For full details, see:
http://www.*-*-*.com/
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** FIRST EUROPEAN STARTING AI RESEARCHER SYMPOSIUM (STAIRS-2002) **
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Affiliated to ECAI'2002, Lyon, July 22-23, 2002
AIMS AND SCOPE
STAIRS'2002 is the first European Starting AI Researcher Symposium, an
international meeting aimed at AI researchers, from all countries, at
the beginning of their career: PhD students or people holding a PhD for
less than one year. It offers them:
1.a first experience on submitting and presenting a paper in an
international forum with a broad scope and thorough selection process;
2.the opportunity to gather knowledge and exchange ideas related to
their research problems and approaches, and to attend ECAI at a reduced
cost;
3.information on European research careers and mobility.
STAIRS'2002 will be held in Lyon, in the period immediately preceeding
ECAI'2002.
WEB PAGE
Additional information about STAIRS'2002 will be found on the symposium
web pages: http://www.*-*-*.com/
IMPORTANT DATES
Title and abstract due to the PC co-chairs March 1, 2002
Paper submission deadline March 6, 2002
Notification of acceptance sent to authors April 19, 2002
Camera-ready copies due to the PC co-chairs May 6, 2002
Symposium venue July 22-23, 2002
TOPICS
Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously
unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence,
including, but not limited to:
Adaptive Sytems
Automated Reasoning
Autonomous Agents
Case-Based Reasoning
Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning
Cognitive Science in AI
Constraints
Data Mining and Information Retrieval
Description Logics and Conceptual Graphs
Diagnosis and {*filter*}
Distributed AI
Genetic Algorithms and Soft Computing
Intelligent User Interfaces
Intelligent Web Applications
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Logic Programming
Machine Learning
Model-based and Qualitative reasoning
Multi-Agent Systems
Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition
Neural Networks
Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Ontology
Planning and Scheduling
Real-time AI and Control
Reasoning about Actions and Change
Robotics
Search
Spatial and Temp{*filter*}Reasoning
Uncertainty in AI
Vision
Additionally, we welcome contributions addressing practical results and
lessons learned from the integration of artificial intelligence
techniques
into industrial applications, either completed or in progress. Such
papers
should be clearly identified as "Application paper" and will be treated
separately by the Program Committee.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are first asked to submit a
summary of their research paper by March 1st, 2002, by sending it to
with full affiliations and email addresses, the contact author, and an
abstract of the paper (maximum 200 words), plus keywords drawn from the
above list of topics (plus other keywords if appropriate).
Please do not forget to add "Application paper" when relevant.
The full paper should be sent electronically to the same address by
March 6th, 2002, in either postscript or PDF format (the latter being
highly preferred). Free services to convert a number of widely used file
formats to PDF are available at http://www.*-*-*.com/
http://www.*-*-*.com/ :8001/cgi-bin/browse.
If electronic submission is problematic, please contact both PC
co-chairs
by February 15 (addresses are below).
It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready
formatting style (including authors and affiliations on the first page).
Submissions must not exceed six pages in camera-ready format, or 10
pages
in plain article format (such as the Springer LNCS format). Overlength
submissions will be rejected without review. Guidelines on the format of
submissions and style files will be available on the STAIRS'02 webpage
http://www.*-*-*.com/
will
be required to conform strictly to these guidelines, and will be
allocated
six pages in the proceedings.
Papers received after March 6th 2002 (23:59 CET) will not be reviewed.
Notification of receipt of full papers will be emailed to the
corresponding
author soon after receipt.
REVIEW PROCESS
Papers should address significant research works undertaken by the
authors.
At least one of the authors must be a PhD student, or a person holding a
PhD
for less than a year. Preference will be given to papers whose authors
are
all in such condition.
All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the
STAIRS'2002
Program Committee. Each paper will be assigned at least two reviewers.
Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical soundness,
significance of
results, and quality of presentation.
Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be
emailed
to the corresponding author by April 19, 2002.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS
Press.
The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of
papers,
conforming to the STAIRS'2002 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in
the
proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is May 6,
2002.
For each accepted paper, at least one author, and most preferably one of
the
beginner researchers involved in the work, is required to attend the
conference
to present the paper.
AWARDS
At least one best paper of the conference will be selected by the
STAIRS'2002
Program Committee, and announced during the Gala Dinner on the evening
of
July the 22nd. The authors of this paper, as well as those of other
papers
selected by the Program Committee, will be invited to submit a longer
version
for a fast review process for publication in the AI Com journal.
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Thierry Vidal Paolo Liberatore
ENIT Tarbes, Dipartimento di Informatica e
Sistemistica,
47, avenue d'Azereix - BP 1629 University of Roma La Sapienza,
F-65016 Tarbes cedex, France Via Salaria 113, I-00198, Roma,
Italy
Tel: +33-5-62442762 Tel: +39-0649918488
PROGRAM COMMITTE
The PC consists of 39 junior established researchers, most of them
having
completed their PhD in the past decade, and either European or working
in a
European research team.
Liliana Ardissono, University of Turin, Italy
Carlos Areces, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alessandro Artale, UMIST University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Bernhard Beckert, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Gianluca Bontempi, Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum, Belgium
Jean-Cdric Chappelier, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
Lausanne,
Switzerland
George Coghill, University of Wales, UK
Silvia Coradeschi, ?rebro University, Sweden
Carlos Damsio, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Khalid Daoudi, INRIA Lorraine, France
Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy
Alvaro del Val, Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Spain
Luc de Raedt, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany
Yannis Dimopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Alexis Drogoul, University Paris 6, France
Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Universit d'Angers, France
Dieter Fox, University of Washington, USA
Jose Manuel Gutierrez, University of Cantabria, Spain
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayov, Universit?t des Saarlandes, Germany
Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings universitet, Sweden
Vincenzo Lombardo, Universit del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro",
Italy
Vittorio Maniezzo, Universit di Bologna, Italy
Dunja Mladenic, Josez Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abdel-Illah Mouaddib, University of Caen, France
Bart Netten, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland
Chris Reed, University of Dundee, UK
Jochen Renz, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Jussi Rintanen, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany
Florence Sellini, Airbus, UK
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland
Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Csaba Szepesvri, Mindmaker Ltd, Hungary
Hans Tompits, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Ioannis Tsamardinos, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Sofie Verbaeten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Rob Vingerhoeds, Siemens, Toulouse, France
Llus Vila, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Pinar ?zturk, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology Throndheim,
Norway
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Nathalie Guin-Duclosson
Laboratoire d'Ingnierie des Systmes d'Information (LISI)
Universit Claude Bernard - Lyon 1
Nautibus (Batiment 710), 8 Boulevard Niels Bohr
Domaine scientifique de la Doua, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
with Olivier Aubert, Pierre-Antoine Champin, Stphanie Jean-Daubias,
Serge Fenet, Sandra Nogry, Simone Pimont, Arnaud Stuber, Olivier Teytaud
AI Conferences in Lyon, 21-26 July 2002