###################################################################### ## ECAI-2010 ## Call for Papers ## ECAI-2010 ## ###################################################################### The Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal http://ecai2010.appia.pt/ Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 February 2010 Deadline for submission of full papers: 22 February 2010 ###################################################################### ## INTRODUCTION ## ###################################################################### The ECAI-2010 Programme Committee invites the submission of papers and posters for the technical programme of the nineteenth biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a central topic in contemporary computer science and informatics. The fruits of fifty years of AI research have benefited application domains as disparate as industrial systems control and medicine. The milestone events in AI research are increasingly regarded as milestones in human scientific and technological development: from the first chess playing program to defeat a reigning world champion under standard chess tournament rules, to the first robot to autonomously traverse 150 miles of rough terrain. Techniques, results, and concepts developed under the banner of AI research have proved to be of fundamental importance in areas such as economics, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and logical analysis. And of course, AI remains a topic of perennial fascination in popular culture. Initiated in 1974, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is Europe's premier archival venue for presenting scientific results in AI. Organised by the European Coordinating Committee for AI (ECCAI), the ECAI conference provides an opportunity for researchers to present and hear about the very best research in contemporary AI. As well as a full programme of technical papers, ECAI-2010 will include the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems conference (PAIS), the Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS), and an extensive programme of workshops, tutorials, and invited speakers. (Separate calls are issued for PAIS, STAIRS, and workshops.) ECAI-2010 will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Lisbon, Portugal. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and gastronomy, Lisbon promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable conference. ###################################################################### ## TOPICS OF INTEREST ## ###################################################################### High-quality original submissions are welcome from all areas of contemporary AI; the following list of topics is indicative only. * Agents & Multiagent Systems * Case-Based Reasoning * Cognitive Modeling & Interaction * Constraints & Search * Knowledge Representation & Reasoning * Machine Learning * Model-Based Reasoning * Natural Language Processing * Perception & Sensing * Planning & Scheduling * Robotics * Uncertainty in AI * Applications of AI An extensive list of subtopics is available at the conference website. ###################################################################### ## IMPORTANT DATES ## ###################################################################### Deadline for electronic abstracts: Monday, 15 February 2010 Paper submission deadline: Monday, 22 February 2010 Author response period: 15-16 April 2010 Notification of acceptance/rejection: Friday, 30 April 2010 Conference: 16-20 August 2010 ###################################################################### ## PAPER FORMATTING & SUBMISSION INFORMATION ## ###################################################################### Submissions for ECAI and PAIS must not exceed SIX (6) pages in camera-ready format. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. Papers for ECAI and PAIS should be submitted using the ECAI formatting style; details of the style are available at: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/ecai2010.zip This file unpacks to a directory "ecai2010", and contains LaTeX and other style files. The file "ecai2010.tex" is an example paper in LaTeX format using the appropriate styles, and can be used as a template for ECAI and PAIS submissions. Each accepted paper will be allocated SIX (6) pages in the proceedings. ECAI 2010 also accepts posters. Each poster will have TWO (2) pages allocated in the proceedings. Posters must follow the same formatting guidelines as full papers. Authors may indicate whether they want a submitted full paper to be considered as well as a submitted poster in case of non-acceptance of the full paper. Reviewing for ECAI 2010 will be blind: reviewers will not be presented with the identity of paper authors. To allow for blind review, author names in a submitted paper or poster should be replaced by the unique tracking number assigned by the conference website at the submission of an electronic abstract. Authors should avoid writing anything that makes their identity obvious in the text. Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously have been formally published. (Any publication venue with an ISBN or ISSN number counts as a formal publication; this includes LNCS/LNAI volumes, for example.) Submissions should not be submitted elsewhere during the ECAI 2010 review phase. The proceedings of the ECAI conference, together with those of its associated symposia, PAIS and STAIRS, will be published and distributed by IOS Press as a book and as a CD-ROM. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2010 formatting guidelines for inclusion in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper or poster is required to attend the conference to present the contribution. Submission and review of papers for ECAI-2010 will be managed via the ConfMaster system: http://ecai2010.confmaster.net/ -- for the ECAI main conference http://pais2010.confmaster.net/ -- for the PAIS conference ConfMaster will go live for ECAI and PAIS abstracts and submissions on Friday 15 January 2010. Prior to this date, the sites will be used for configuration and testing. All data uploaded or registered before this date will be deleted and will not be considered for the conference. Do NOT register or upload papers before 15 January 2010! Submission for ECAI/PAIS-2010 is a two stage process: * The abstracts of all papers for submission should be registered with the relevant ECAI or PAIS web server no later than Monday 15 February 2010. * Papers should then be uploaded in PDF format no later than Monday 22 February 2010. All submissions will be subject to peer review by the ECAI 2010 Programme Committee, and evaluated on the basis of: relevance; significance of contribution; technical quality; scholarship; and quality of presentation. The primary authors of submitted papers will be offered the opportunity to respond to the reviews for their papers before the final decision on acceptance or otherwise is made. The author feedback phase will last two days, between 15-16 April 2010. ###################################################################### ## ORGANISATION ## ###################################################################### Conference chair: Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal) ECAI Programme chair: Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) PAIS Programme chair: Rudi Studer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) STAIRS Programme chair: Asunción Gómez Pérez (Technical University of Madrid, Spain) Workshop Chair: Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Local Organisation co-chairs: Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon & APPIA, Portugal) João Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Finance co-chairs: Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon & APPIA, Portugal) João Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Sponsorship co-chairs: Pedro Henriques (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal) Paulo Novais (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal) Printing, Publicity & Webmaster chair: Cesar Analide (University of Minho & APPIA, Portugal) Infrastructure co-chairs: Luis Correia (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Luis Moniz (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Volunteer & Student Scholarships chair: Paulo Trigo (ISEL, Portugal) Local Workshop & Tutorial chair: Paulo Urbano (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Local STAIRS & PAIS chair: Graça Gaspar (University of Lisbon, Portugal) ###################################################################### ## AREA CHAIRS ## ###################################################################### Area chairs currently confirmed include: * Baader, Franz [Germany] * Beetz, Michael [Germany] * Bosch, Antal van den [Netherlands] * Bradzil, Pavel [Portugal] * Declerck, Thierry [Germany] * van der Gaag, Linda [Netherlands] * Geffner, Hector [Spain] * Harmelen, Frank van [Netherlands] * Hunter, Anthony [UK] * Ingrand, Felix [France] * Kraus, Sarit [Israel] * Lang, Jerome [France] * Lukasiewicz, Thomas [Austria] * Marquis, Pierre [France] * Meseguer, Pedro [Spain] * Meyer, John-Jules [Netherlands] * Mladenic, Dunka [Slovenia] * Plaza, Enric [Spain] * Poesio, Massimo [UK] * Refanidis, Ioannis [Greece] * Rosenschein, Jeff [Israel] * Rossi, Francesca [Italy] * Sierra, Carles [Spain] * Thielschler, Michael [Germany] * Wilson, Nic [Ireland] * Wolter, Frank [UK] ###################################################################### ## PLENARY SPEAKERS ## ###################################################################### The ECAI-2010 programme will include plenary talks from internationally leading researchers in AI and cognate disciplines. Plenary speakers so far confirmed include: * Ian Horrocks [Oxford University, UK] * Christos Papadimitriou [UC Berkeley, USA] * Judea Pearl [UCLA, USA] * Manuela Veloso [CMU, USA] ###################################################################### ## TUTORIAL SPEAKERS ## ###################################################################### ECAI-2010 will include a programme of masterclass tutorials from leading researchers in AI; these tutorials will be *free* to all ECAI/PAIS/STAIRS delegates. Tutorial speakers so far confirmed include: * Sarit Kraus [Bar Ilan University, Israel] -- Automated Negotiation * Ilkka Niemelä [Helsinki University of Technology, Finland] -- Answer set programming * Joao Marques-Silva [University College Dublin, Ireland] -- Boolean Satisfiability & Optimization Algorithms & Applications More tutorial speakers to be announced soon! ######################################################################