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## PAIS-2010 ##            Call for Papers             ## PAIS-2010 ##
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The Sixth Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems

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

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The PAIS 2010 Program Committee invites papers describing innovative
applications of AI techniques to real-world systems and problems for
the Technical Program of the 6th International Conference on the
Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems - a sub-conference of
the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2010).

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.

Papers highlighting all aspects of the application of intelligent
system technology are most welcome. Our aim is to provide a forum for
academic and industrial researchers and practitioners to share
experience and insights on the applicability, development and
deployment of intelligent systems. PAIS is the largest showcase in
Europe of real applications using AI technology and the ideal place to
meet with those working to make successful applications.

PAIS-2010/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.

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Papers are welcome on all novel and significant applications of
intelligent systems -- the following list of application areas is
indicative only:

* AI & Autonomous Vehicles
* AI & Education
* AI & Life Sciences/Medicine
* AI & Mobile IT
* AI & the Internet
* AI & the Semantic Web
* AI & Sensor Networks

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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

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Submissions must not exceed *SIX* (6) pages in camera-ready
format. Over-length submissions will be rejected without
review. Papers should be submitted using the ECAI formatting style, to
be available soon on the conference website (this will be very close
to previous  ECAI styles). Each accepted paper will be allocated six
pages in the proceedings.

All submissions will be subject to peer review by the PAIS-2010
Programme Committee, and evaluated on the basis of: relevance;
significance of contribution; technical quality; scholarship; and
quality of presentation.

Reviewing for PAIS-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. (As a rule of thumb, any publication venue with an ISBN or
ISSN number counts as a formal publication.) Submissions should not be
submitted elsewhere during the PAIS-2010 review phase.

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.

The proceedings of the PAIS conference, together with those of its
associated symposia, ECAI 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.

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## ORGANISATION	                                                    ##
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PAIS Conference Chair:

	Rudi Studer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology [KIT], Germany)
	mailto:rudi.studer@kit.edu

Local Organisation co-chairs:

	Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon & APPIA, Portugal)
	João Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

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Rudi Studer (KIT, Germany)
Stuart Aitken (University of Glasgow, Edinburgh, UK)
Juergen Angele (Ontoprise, Germany)
Anupriya Ankolekar (HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA)
Richard Benjamins (Telefonica, Spain)
Ansgar Bernardi (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Joost Breuker (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Henrik Christensen (GaTech, USA)
Emilio Corchado (University of Burgos, Spain)
John Davies (BT Innovate, UK)
Rüdiger Dillmann (KIT, Germany)
Asuman Dogac (METU Ankara , Turkey)
Opher Etzion (IBM Research Haifa, Isreal)
Mark Greaves (Vulcan, Inc. USA)
Manfred Hauswirth (DERI Galway, Ireland)
Tom Henderson (University of Utah, USA)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany)
Ann Macintosh (University of Leeds, UK)
Gregoris Mentzas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Daniel Schwabe (PUC Rio, Brazil)
Amit Sheth (Wright State University, USA)
Biplav Srivastava (IBM Research New Delhi, India)
Nenad Stojanovic (FZI, Germany)
Klaus Tochtermann (Technical University Graz, Austria)
Ubbo Visser (University of Miami, USA)
Aldo von Wangenheim (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Ian Watson (University of Auckland, New Zealand )
Stefan Wermter (University of Sunderland, UK)
Yong Yu (APEX-lab, China) 

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