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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:35:08 -0700 From: "ICTD Workshop at IJCAI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Call for Papers - AI in ICT for Development - Workshop @ ICJAI Please forward to relevant colleagues and post to relevant sites. Call for papers for AI in ICT for Development Workshop at IJCAI, Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India; January 6-12, 2007. More information: http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ijcai07/ICTD.htm Description Information and Communication and Technologies for Development (ICTD) is a growing research area where computing is applied to address the challenges of underserved communities such as remote rural areas and poor urban neighborhoods. Our goal is to encourage the use of AI techniques in ICTD. AI has been applied to socio-economic development in the fields of medicine, agriculture, education, government, and finance. Some examples where AI has been put to use include remote, automated diagnosis of human illness, advice on effective interventions for agriculture, adaptive educational content based on the student aptitude, and different ways to analyze data using machine-learning techniques. This workshop is a forum for researchers applying techniques of artificial intelligence to developing-world problems. Topics of Interest The main focus of this workshop will be the application of artificial intelligence algorithms and systems to development projects, whether they are in agriculture, education, or other domains. Within this general theme we aim to bring together researchers to discuss the topics which include, but are not restricted to, the following: * AI in remote diagnosis of human and crop diseases * AI in computer-aided education, particularly for poorer schools * Use of machine-learning techniques for analyzing socio-economic data * Adaptive user interfaces targeted towards users from underserved communities * Speech, natural language, and vision for development * Robotics and other intelligent systems in development * Surveys of work that apply AI to development Why and to whom is this workshop of interest? This workshop is interesting to the larger community of technical ICTD researchers who are exploring applications of computing in solving development regions problems. Researchers with a background in AI will be particularly interested, but given the interdisciplinary nature of ICTD, researchers with backgrounds in other technical areas, but with an inclination for ICTD will also find the workshop useful. Preliminary workshop agenda Reviewed papers will each have 20 minutes to present, with 5-10 minutes of discussion. We also expect to have three or four invited speakers present work in longer, 40-minute slots. There will be plenty of time for open discussion. Submission Instructions The style for papers in the proceedings follows the style of the main conference. Please start your subject with "[IJCAI-ICTD]" when submitting the paper. The papers can be extended abstract or full research papers. Survey or position papers are also welcome. The papers should end with relevant bibliographic references and should be no longer than 10 pages. Selection of participants will be based on relevance to the indicated focus of the workshop, clarity of the work submitted, and the strength of the research. Important Dates and Deadlines ( exact dates will be updated in the website) · Deadline for abstracts and intent to submit: September 1, 2006 · Deadline for the submission of papers for the workshop: September 25, 2006 · Notification of acceptance/rejection: October 23, 2006 · Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: November 15, 2006 · Workshop Date: January 6-8(exact date TBD), 2007 For further information, please see the conference website at http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ijcai07/ICTD.htm Inquiries should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organizing Committee Kentaro Toyama (MSR India), Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay), Anupam Basu (IIT Kharagpur), Rajesh Veeraraghavan (MSR India) Program Committee Chair: Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research India) Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) Umar Saif (Lahore University of Management Sciences) Sriganesh Madhvanath (HP Labs, India) S. Keshav (University of Waterloo) Madelaine Plauche (UC Berkeley) N. Balakrishnan (Indian Institute of Science) Roni Rosenfield (Carnegie Mellon University) Tapan Parikh (University of Washington) Pushpak Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) Anupam Basu (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur) Mike Best (Georgia Tech) Uday Desai (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) Rajesh Veeraraghavan (Microsoft Research India) http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ijcai07/ICTD.htm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
