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first.gmd.de>- ---------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ----------------------- ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems Berlin, Humboldt University August 20-25, 2000 http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by German Informatics Society (GI) and European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Hosted by Humboldt University Berlin In this special turn of the century we invite you to celebrate ECAI 2000 in Berlin. Being the fourteenth in a very successful series of European Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2000 will offer a unique opportunity to bring industry and academics together to explore the full spectrum of Artificial Intelligence, from theory and methodology to its application in commercial systems. Respond to the call of the German Informatics Society (GI) and the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, the world's largest umbrella organization for AI, and meet well- known AI experts at Humboldt University Berlin, a University that can proudly look back on almost 200 years of tradition and 29 associated Nobel prize winners. Since the year 2000 is a special year, we will make ECAI 2000 a very special conference. ECAI 2000 gathered 443 submissions from which, however, only roughly a third can be accepted for presen- tation. Although the majority of papers comes from Europe, there is a significant number of papers from Australia, Asia, and North America, leading to a total of 42 contributing countries. Furthermore, ECAI 2000 comprises six invited talks given by distinguished scientists, master-class lectures in 10 tutorials and serious discussions of hot new research topics in 34 work- shops. The real success of Artificial intelligence will be measured by the applications that use the technology rather than the techno- logy itself. For the first time, ECAI comprises the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems sub-conference (PAIS 2000), which is the first major European showcase of beneficial solu- tions for industry and commerce based on AI technologies. ECAI and PAIS are accompanied by an exhibition concept that re- flects AI's history, its gaining grounds in the 20th century and its progress paths envisioned into the 21st century. We also plan to have a rather unusual sidetrack meant to attract layman such that ECAI 2000 becomes an event in Berlin and not only one of diverse scientific congresses hardly noticed by the public. In so far, we aim at presenting AI on ECAI 2000 in a very broad scope in order to show its relation to other classical and advanced IT topics. In the following we will present a short glance at the program of ECAI 2000. We will also provide some information on registra- tion deadlines and fees. More detailed information is available on the conference home page at ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de ----------------------------------------------------------------- Do not miss this opportunity. Register now and be cordially welcome at ECAI 2000 in Berlin! - ------------- IMPORTANT DATES - ------------- 15 Jun 2000 Early Registration Deadline 1 Aug 2000 Late Registration Deadline 20-25 Aug 2000 ECAI/PAIS 2000 - ----------- INVITED TALKS - ----------- Piero P. Bonissone General Electric, USA Corporate Research and Development "Hybrid Soft Computing: Where are we going?" Patrick Doherty Linkoeping University, Sweden Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems Division "A Bird's-Eye View of the WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Project" Daniele Nardi Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Artificial Intelligence Research Group "Artificial Intelligence in RoboCup" Bernhard Nebel Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Artificial Intelligence Research Group "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - The Theoretical Side of AI" Luc Steels Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Artificial Intelligence Laboratory "The Emergence of Grammar in Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents" Mark Wallace Imperial College, UK ICL and IC-Parc "Constraint Programming - Applications, Algorithms, Languages" - ------- TUTORIALS - ------- T1: Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence: An Introduction M. Dorigo http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo T2: Stochastic Search Algorithms H. H. Hoos, T. Stuetzle http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-stoch T3: AI Techniques for Knowledge Management S. Decker, S. Staab http://kmtutorial.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de T4: Solving and Programming with Soft Constraints: Theory and Implementation F. Rossi, P. Codognet http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/ecai2000-tut.html T5: Empirical Methods for Computer Science P. Cohen, I. Gent, T. Walsh T6: Knowledge Markup Techniques H. Boley, S. Decker, M. Sintek http://www.SemanticWeb.org/knowmarktutorial T7: Applying Automatic Text Generation M. Stede, L. Wanner http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~stede/ecaitutorial.html T8: Rational Action in Autonomous Agents S. Parsons, M. Wooldridge T9: Seeking Information: Methods from Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence D. Fensel, M. Lalmas http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/ECAI.html T10: Neural Networks and Structured Knowledge F. Kurfess http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/franz - ------- WORKSHOPS - ------- W1: 14th Workshop on Planning and Configuration (PuK 2000) Submission date: March 28th, 2000 http://www-is.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~sauer/puk2000/index.html W2: Configuration Submission date: April 16th, 2000 http://www.cs.hut.fi/u/pdmg/ECAI2000WS W3: Agent-oriented Software Management (AOSM) Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.wirtschaft.tu-ilmenau.de/wi/wi2/ECAI2000-AOSE W4: Cognitive Robotics Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/LuFG/cogrob2000 W5: Current Issues in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~hans/spacetime W6: Local Search for Planning & Scheduling Submission date: May 1st, 2000 http://www.ai-center.com/events/ecai-2000-ws W7: 2nd ECAI Workshop on Binding Environmental Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (BESAI 2000) Submission date: expired http://www.lsi.upc.es/~webia/besai/besai2000.html W8: Scientific Reasoning in AI and Philosophy of Science Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://www.compulog.org/workshops/ecai W9: Application of Ontologies and Problem Solving Methods Submission date: March 29th, 2000 http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/WORKSHOP/ECAI00/index.html W10: Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW 00) Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00 W11: Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory Submission date: expired http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2000-OM/call.html W12: Knowledge Representation and Ontologies in Education Submission date: expired http://virtcampus.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de/ecai-2000 W13: Agent Technologies and Their Application Scenarios in Logistics Submission date: May 31st, 2000 http://www.tzi.de/ecai00-mas W14: Multi-Agent Systems and Geographical Information Systems Submission date: April 3rd, 2000 http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/MAGMA/ECAI00/ecai-ws.html W15: Foundations of Connectionist-Symbolic Integration: Representation, Paradigms, and Algorithms Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/ECAI2000 W16: Machine Learning for Information Extraction Submission date: expired http://ecate.itc.it:1024/cirave/ecai-workshop.html W17: AI in Product Data Management: Modelling and Reasoning about Product Data in e-Commerce and e-Business (AiPDM) Submission date: May 5th, 2000 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/pub/Other/AiPDM W18: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB-2000) Submission date: March 20th, 2000 http://www-lti.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/KRDB2000 W19: Applied Semiotics: Control Problems (ASC2000) Submission date: expired http://www.iitp.ru/asc2000 W20: Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.uni-bremen.de/~sppraum/sr00.htm W21: Workshop on Bayesian and Causal Networks: From Inference to Data Mining Submission date: expired http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/CaNew2000.html W22: Computational Dialectics: Models of Argumentation, Negotiation and Decision Making Submission date: April 8th, 2000 http://www.philos.rug.nl/~gerard/cd2000 W23: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2000) Submission date: April 20th, 2000 http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap-2000 W24: Ontology Learning Submission date: April 1st, 2000 http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de W25: Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints Submission date: May 5th, 2000 http://www.iiia.csic.es/ecai2000 W26: Analysis and Modelling of Collaborative Learning Interactions Submission date: expired http://collide.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/ecai-2000 W27: Machine Learning in Computer Vision (MLCV) Submission date: March 20th, 2000 http://www.di.uniba.it/~malerba/ws-ecai2000 W28: Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jonker/masho-ecai2000 W29: Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems Submission date: May 1st, 2000 http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html W30: Flexible Strategies for Maintaining Knowledge Containers Submission date: April 17th, 2000 http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/mkc-ws W31: Knowledge-Based Systems for Model-Based Engineering Submission date: April 10th, 2000 http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/ecai2000-kbsmbe W32: Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2000) Submission date: April 21st, 2000 http://www.eml.org/aims2000 W33: AI in Agriculture and Natural Resources Submission date: April 3rd, 2000 http://www-bia.inra.fr/T/decision/WS-ECAI2000 W34: Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence Submission date: May 5th, 2000 http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-empai - ---------- REGISTRATION - ---------- The details given here are for your information only. To re- gister for ECAI 2000, its tutorials and workshops and to book a hotel please use the forms provided on our home page. Prices are given in Euro (EUR) and Deutsche Mark (DM). To re- ceive the reduced fee as a member of an ECCAI member society or being a member of GI, please provide evidence of membership (e.g. membership card) and send it together with your registration form. If you are a student, please provide proof on your status. ECAI 2000 CONFERENCE (PAIS 2000 included) Early Late On-Site (until June 15th) (until August 1st) (after August 1st) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Member EUR 350 / DM 684.54 EUR 410 / DM 801.89 EUR 480 / DM 938.08 Non-Member EUR 450 / DM 880.12 EUR 510 / DM 997.47 EUR 570 / DM 1114.82 Student/Member EUR 120 / DM 234.07 EUR 145 / DM 283.06 EUR 190 / DM 371.61 Student/Non-Member EUR 130 / DM 254.26 EUR 155 / DM 303.15 EUR 200 / DM 391.17 TUTORIALS (each) Early Late On-Site (until June 15th) (until August 1st) (after August 1st) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Member EUR 200 / DM 391.17 EUR 220 / DM 430.28 EUR 260 / DM 508.52 Non-Member EUR 250 / DM 488.96 EUR 270 / DM 528.07 EUR 310 / DM 606.31 Student/Member EUR 80 / DM 156.47 EUR 110 / DM 215.14 EUR 140 / DM 273.82 Student/Non-Member EUR 90 / DM 176.02 EUR 120 / DM 234.70 EUR 150 / DM 293.37 WORKSHOPS (each) There is a flat fee for each workshop: EUR 50 / DM 97.79 Workshop participants must register for the main ECAI conference. No extra charge for late workshop registrations. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "At the change of ages we will make ECAI 2000 in Berlin a special conference"Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
dc.fi.udc.es>====================================================================== Final CALL FOR PAPERS - -------------------------------------------------------------------- SEPLN 2000 XVI Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing - -------------------------------------------------------------------- September 26-28 2000 Vigo, Spain Sponsored by Universidade de Vigo with the support of Caixavigo e Ourense Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/ Following the XV SEPLN Conference that took place in Lleida in September 1999, the XVI SEPLN Conference shall be held in Vigo in September 2000. The event shall take place after TAPD 2000 http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/ which is a conference centered upon applications of tabulation technologies for syntactic analysis and deduction. MOTIVATIONS: The motivation for this Conference is to provide researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing a chance to present their recent work, to share their experimental results, and to discuss a range of problems which must be treated. Moreover, an important objective of this Conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and opinions for future basic research directions and to compare these ideas with the actual needs of the society. PROJECTS AND DEMOS: The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of oral presentations, some session may be reserved to this purpose. For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information must be included: - Project title - Funding institution - Participant groups in the project - Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the director of the project. - Abstract (2 pages maximum). - If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be included, as indicated below. For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory: - Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors. - Abstract (2 pages maximum). - Time estimation for the whole presentation. This information must be received by June 4, 2000. CONFERENCE FORMAT: The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as project an demos presentations and group discussions. INVITED SPEAKERS: -- Daniel Tapias Merino Telefonica investigaci�n y desarrollo (Spain) -- Christopher S. Butler Univ. of Wales Swansea SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors are invited to submit an abstract about a system to be presented, or a paper concerning a theoretical contribution. Submission and paper reviews shall be handled exclusively electronically (PostScript or PDF format). Submission should include a separate file with the title, authors, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail. Papers, in a second file, should be anonymous, excluding autoreferences in the text. Accepted works must be presented at the congress and adhere to certain rules: - They must include an abstract (150 word maximum). - The proposed area of interest must be included. - Maximum length is 3500 words, abstract included. - Accepted papers must follow format rules that will be given in the conference web page http://coleweb.ei.uvigo.es/sepln2000/ Submissions must be sent to sepln-submitMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue