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LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
XVI Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
11 - 14 November 2002
Porto de Galinhas/Recife - Brazil
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Extended deadline 26/04/2002 !!!
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The Symposium
The biannual Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (SBIA'02)
- of which this is the 16th event - is a meeting and discussion forum
for Artificial Intelligence researchers, practitioners, and students
worldwide. SBIA is the leading conference in Brazil for presentation
of research and applications in Artificial Intelligence. Since 1995,
SBIA has become an international conference, with papers written in
English, an international program committee, and proceedings published
in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series of
Springer-Verlag (SBIA'95:991, SBIA'96:1159, SBIA'98:1515,
SBIA'00:1952).
SBIA'02, sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), will be
held in Porto de Galinhas/Recife in November 11-14, Hotel Arma��o
(http://www.hotelarmacao.com.br/). Porto de Galinhas, at the south
coast of Recife, is one of the most beautiful and famous beaches of
Brazil. Porto de Galinhas coast has 18 km of beaches with natural
pools, fish of all colors and warm green clean waters. Recife,
located on the northeast of Brazil, is known as the "Brazilian Venice"
because of its many canals and waterways and the innumerable bridges
that span them. It is the major gateway to the of the Brazilian
Northeast with regular flights to all major cities in Brazil as well
as Lisbon, London, Frankfurt, and Miami.
This year, SBIA'02 will be held in conjunction with the VII Brazilian
Symposium on Neural Networks (SBRN'02). SBRN'02 has its main focus on
Neural Networks and on other models of computational
intelligence. Crossfertilization of these fields will be strongly
encouraged. Both Symposia will feature keynote speeches and tutorials
by world-leading researchers. More details on paper submission and
conference registration will be coming soon.
Topics of Interest
The topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:
* AI Foundations (philosophy, epistemology, economics, etc.)
* Theoretical and logical methods
* Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
* Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
* Machine Learning
* Knowledge Acquisition
* Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
* Planning and Scheduling
* Knowledge Engineering
* Hybrid systems (fuzzy, genetic, neural, symbolic, etc.)
* Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life
* Uncertainty
* Natural Language Processing
* Robotics
* Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
* AI in Education and Intelligent Tutoring Systems
* AI Development Tools and Methodologies
* Innovative applications
Important Dates
April 26, 2002 - Deadline for submission of papers (extended)
June 17, 2002 - Notification of acceptance
July 22, 2002 - Deadline for final camera-ready papers
Program Committee
Guilherme Bittencourt, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil) - Chair
Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
Alexis Drogoul, Universit� Paris VI (France)
Ana L�cia Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Ana Teresa Martins, Universidade Federal do Cear� (Brazil)
Andre Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures Corporation (USA)
Carlos Sierra, Institut d'Investigaci� en Intellig�ncia Artificial (Spain)
Christian Lemaitre, Laboratorio Nacional de Informatica Avanzada (Mexico)
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Institute of Psychology of CNR (Italy)
D�bio Leandro Borges, PUC-PR (Brazil)
Donia Scott, University of Brighton (United Kingdom)
Eug�nio Costa Oliveira, Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
Evandro de Barros Costa, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (Brazil)
F�bio Cozman, Universidade de S�o Paulo (Brazil)
Fl�via Barros, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil)
Francisco Carvalho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil)
Gabriel Pereira Lopes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
Gabriela Henning, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina)
Geber Ramalho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil)
Gerhard Widmer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence (Austria)
Gerson Zaverucha, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Hector Geffner, Universidad Simon Bolivar (Venezuela)
Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
Jacques Wainer, Universidade de Campinas (Brazil)
Jacques Robin, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil)
Jacques Calmet, Univert�t Karlsruhe (Germany)
Jaime Sichman, Universidade de S�o Paulo (Brazil)
Kathy McKeown (Columbia University, USA)
Lluis Godo Lacasa, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (Spain)
Luis Otavio Alvares, UNiversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Marcelo Ladeira, Universidade de Bras�lia (Brazil)
Maria Carolina Monard, Universidade de S�o Paulo (Brazil)
Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina (USA)
Nitin Indurkhya, University of New South Wales (Australia)
Olivier Boissier, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de
Saint-Etienne (France)
Pavel Brazdil, Universidade do Porto (Portugual)
Ramon Lopes de Mantaras, Institut d'Investigaci� en
Intellig�ncia Artificial (Spain)
Rosaria Conte, National Research Council (Italy)
Sandra Sandri, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)
Solange Rezende, Universidade de S�o Paulo (Brazil)
Stefano Cerri, LIRMM (France)
Tarc�sio Pequeno, Universidade Federal do Cear� (Brazil)
Uma Garimella, AP State Council for Higher Education (India)
Vincent Corruble, LIP6 - Universit� Paris VI (France)
Vera L�cia Strube de Lima, PUC-RS, (Brazil)
Paper Submission
Policies
The papers should present substantial new results in theoretical,
empirical and applied research in all areas of Artificial
Intelligence. SBIA'02 allows simultaneous submission of papers to
other conferences, provided that this fact is clearly indicated by the
authors in the submission process.
All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. All authors of
accepted papers will then be required to sign copyright release forms,
and one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the
conference to present the paper. Furthermore, it is the conference
policy that at least one of the authors of accepted papers has to
register for SBIA'02. Otherwise, the paper will not be included in the
proceedings.
Format Papers must be written in English and should be no longer than
10 pages, including all tables, figures, and references, but excluding
the cover page. Over-length papers may be rejected without review. It
is recommended that the authors use the style file of Springer-Verlag
Lecture Notes (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) to minimise the
possible conflict of paper length when preparing the camera ready.
Review Process
All papers received will be cross-reviewed by at least two referees in
the topical area. The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one
person.
Submission Procedure
The submission of papers is to be performed through the site
http://cyberchair.das.ufsc.br/. This site, generated by the
CyberChair system (www.cyberchair.org) provides all the
necessary information about the submission procedure.
Any other questions regarding papers submission may be
directed to the program committe chair Dr. Guilherme
Bittencourt at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Guilherme Bittencourt
Departamento de Automa��o e Sistemas
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
UFSC/CTC/DAS
88040-900 Florian�polis SC Brasil
Fone: +55 (48) 331 7665
Fax: +55 (48) 331 9770
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet: http://www.das.ufsc.br/~gb
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