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============================================================ PLEASE CIRCULATE ============================================================ *********************************************************************** Third Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence MICAI 2004 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS April 26-30, 2004 Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico http://gsidom.iie.org.mx/micai2004.html *********************************************************************** We are pleased to announce the third edition of the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) 2004, which will take place on April 26-30, in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. MICAI is sponsored by the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA) in cooperation with the Mexican Society for Computer Science (SMCC), and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). MICAI is an international conference whose main aim is to promote research in AI, and cooperation among Mexican researchers and their peers worldwide. The scientific program includes invited lectures, paper presentations, tutorials, panels and workshops. Paper Submission **************** The MICAI Program Committee invites you to submit original papers to conform the technical program of this conference. Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, as were MICAI“00 (LNAI 1793) and MICAI“02 (LNAI 2313). MICAI-2004 requires electronic submission of papers and abstracts according to instructions posted at the conference home page. Authors are required to submit a title and a short abstract a week before the paper submission deadline. All papers MUST be written in English and have a maximum of 10 pages and be submitted for evaluation as a PDF or PostScript file following the instructions from LNCS series, http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf All submissions will be subject to blind peer review for accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results and quality of the presentation by three program committee members. The decision of the program committee will be final and cannot be appealed. Important dates: **************** Monday September 22, 2003, 23:59, deadline for abstract submission. Monday September 29, 2003, 23:59, deadline for full paper submission. Monday November 17, 2003, 23:59: deadline for author notification. Monday December 8, 2003, 23:59, deadline for camera ready copy of accepted papers Topics: **************** Original papers are solicited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to: - Expert Systems/KBS - Multiagent systems and Distributed AI - Knowledge Management - Intelligent Interfaces: Multimedia, Virtual Reality - Natural Language Processing/Understanding - Computer Vision - Neural Networks - Genetic Algorithms - Fuzzy logic - Belief Revision - Machine Learning - Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Data Mining - Knowledge Acquisition - Knowledge Representation - Knowledge Verification, Sharing and Reuse - Ontologies - Qualitative Reasoning - Model-Based Reasoning - Constraint Programming - Common Sense Reasoning - Case-Based Reasoning - Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Spatial and temporal Reasoning - Robotics - Planning and Scheduling - Navigation - Assembly - Hybrid Intelligent Systems - Logic Programming - Automated Theorem Proving - Intelligent Organizations - Uncertainty / Probabilistic reasoning - Philosophical issues of AI Conference Organization *********************** Conference Chairs: J. Humberto Sossa Azuela ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) CIC-IPN Alvaro de Albornoz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ITESM-CCM Program Chairs: Raśl Monroy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ITESM-CEM Gustavo Arroyo Figueroa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GSI-IIE Enrique Sucar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ITESM-CVA Tutorial Chair: Carlos Alberto Reyes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) INAOE Workshop Chairs: Matias Alvarado ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IMP Leonid Sheremetov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IMP Local Chair: Juan Flores ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Universidad Michoacana Please direct general inquiries to the General Conference Chairs. Inquiries about the conference program and submission requirements should be directed to the Program Co-Chairs.