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CALL FOR PAPERS
XVII Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
22 - 24 September 2004
S�o Luis, Maranh�o - Brazil
http://www.sbc.org.br/sbia
or
http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/sbiarn04
The Symposium
SBIA, the Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, is a biannual
event intended to be the main forum of the AI community in Brazil.
However since the 1990's it has also attracted researchers from all over
the world, when it started to have an international program committee
and also keynote invited speakers.
The SBIA 2004 is the 17th event of the series. Since 1995, SBIA has been
accepting papers written and presented only in English, with proceedings
being 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'02:2507).
The SBIA 2004 is sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). It
will be held in S�o Luis, the capital of the state of Maranh�o in the
northeast of Brazil, together with the Brazilian Symposium on Neural
Networks, and with the IEEE NNSP 2004.
This way, we expected you and both the AI and ANN communities to join us
and make this event a very exciting one. Last but not least, besides the
dense scientific programme we are preparing (technical papers,
tutorials, invited talks, and student sections), there are still the
cultural highlights of S�o Luis, as well as the natural beauties of one
of the most wonderful
places in Brazil: beaches, sun, and pristine water.
Hope to meet you there!
Topics of Interest
The topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:
- AI Development, Tools and Methodologies
- AI Foundations (philosophy, epistemology, economics, etc.)
- Artificial Life
- Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Evolutionary Computation
- Hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, neural, symbolic, etc.)
- Innovative applications of Artificial Intelligence (Bioinformatics,
Computational Biology, Education, Internet, Law, Music, etc.)
- Knowledge Acquisition
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Knowledge Engineering
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Planning and Scheduling
- Robotics
- Theoretical and Logical Methods
- Uncertainty
Important Dates
February 29, 2004 - Deadline for submission of papers
April 30, 2004 - Notification of authors
May 23, 2004 - Deadline for final camera-ready papers
Paper Submission
Format
Papers must be written in English and should be no longer than 10 pages
(Springer LNCC/LNAI style), including all tables, figures, and
references. Over-length papers will definetly be rejected without
review. It is recommended that the authors use the style file of
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes to minimise the possible conflict of paper
length when preparing the camera ready.
Policies
The papers should present substantial new results in theoretical,
empirical and applied research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence.
SBIA 2004 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 register and attend the
conference to present the paper. Otherwise, the paper will not be
included in the proceedings.
Review Process
All papers received will be peer-reviewed by referees of the area.
Submission Procedure
Information on the submission of papers will be posted soon in the
conference web site.
Any other questions regarding papers submission may be
directed to the program committe chair Dr. Ana L. C. Bazzan (bazzan at
inf.ufrgs.br).
Organizing Committee
Sofiane Labidi (SBIA chair)
Allan Kardec Barros (SBRN chair)
Ana L. C. Bazzan (SBIA program committee chair)
Alu�zio Ara�jo (SBRN program committee chair)
Program Committee (confirmed so far)
* Luis Otavio Alvares, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
(Brazil)
* Analia Amandi, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
* Br�ulio Coelho Avila, PUC-PR (Brazil)
* Ana Lucia Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
* Guilherme Bittencourt, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
(Brazil)
* Olivier Boissier, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de
Saint-Etienne (France)
* Rafael Bordini, University of Liverpool (UK)
* Dibio Leandro Borges, PUC-PR (Brazil)
* Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
* Jacques Calmet, Universit�t Karlsruhe (Germany)
* Mario Campos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
* Fernando Carvalho, Universidade Federal do Cear� (Brazil)
* Francisco Carvalho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil)
* Cristiano Castelfranchi, Institute of Psychology of CNR (Italy)
* Stefano Cerri, LIRMM (France)
* Ibrahim Chaib-draa, Universit� Laval (Canada)
* Helder Coelho, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
* Anna Helena Reali Costa, Universidade de S�o Paulo (Brazil)
* Ant�nio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Universidade Cat�lica de Pelotas
(Brazil)
* Augusto C�sar Pinto Loureiro da Costa, Universidade Federal da
Bahia (Brazil)
* Evandro de Barros Costa, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (Brazil)
* Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire (UK)
* Keith Decker, University of Delaware (USA)
* Marco Dorigo, Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
* Michael Fisher, University of Liverpool (UK)
* Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia, Universidade Federal Fluminense
(Brazil)
* Uma Garimella, AP State Council for Higher Education (India)
* L�cia Giraffa, PUC-RS (Brazil)
* Claudia Goldman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA)
* Fernando Gomide, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
* Gabriela Henning, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina)
* Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina (USA)
* Nitin Indurkhya, University of New South Wales (Australia)
* Celso Ant�nio Alves Kaestner, PUC-PR (Brazil)
* Franziska Kl�gl, Universit�t W�rzburg (Germany)
* Lluis Godo Lacasa, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
(Spain)
* Marcelo Ladeira, Universidade de Bras�lia (Brazil)
* Christian Lemaitre, Laboratorio Nacional de Informatica Avanzada
(Mexico)
* Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA)
* Vera L�cia Strube de Lima, PUC-RS (Brazil)
* Jose Gabriel Pereira Lopes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
* Michael Luck, University of Southampton (UK)
* Ana Teresa Martins, Universidade Federal do Cear� (Brazil)
* Maria Carolina Monard, Universidade de S�o Paulo (Brazil)
* Val�rie Monfort, MDT Vision (France)
* Eugenio Costa Oliveira, Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
* Tarcisio Pequeno, Universidade Federal do Cear� (Brazil)
* Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence (Austria)
* Geber Ramalho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil)
* Solange Rezende, Universidade de S�o Paulo (Brazil)
* Carlos Ribeiro, Instituto Tecnol�gico de Aeron�utica (Brazil)
* L�cia Helena Machado Rino, Universidade Federal de S�o Carlos
(Brazil)
* Sandra Sandri, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)
* Sandip Sen, University of Tulsa (USA)
* Jaime Sichman, Universidade de S�o Paulo (Brazil)
* Carles Sierra, Institut d'Investigaci�n en Intellig�ncia
Artificial (Spain)
* Milind Tambe, University of Southern California (USA)
* Andre Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures (USA)
* Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Edinburgh (UK)
* Rosa Maria Vicari, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
(Brazil)
* Renata Vieira, UNISINOS (Brazil)
* Jacques Wainer, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
* Renata Wasserman, Universidade de S�o Paulo (Brazil)
* Michael Wooldridge, University of Liverpool (UK)
* Franco Zambonelli, Universit� di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy)
* Gerson Zaverucha, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
