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Final Call for Papers
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ECAI 2004
16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Valencia (Spain), August 22-27th, 2004
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The ECAI 2004 Programme Committee invites submission of papers for the
Technical Programme of the 16th biennial European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/
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Important dates
13 Feb 2004 Deadline for paper summaries
18 Feb 2004 Deadline for papers
2 May 2004 Notification of acceptance
31 May 2004 Camera-ready copies of papers
24-27 Aug 2004 Technical programme at ECAI 2002
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Topics
Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously
unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence,
including, but not limited to:
Abduction
AI and Creativity
AI Architectures
Art and Music
Automated Reasoning
Autonomous Agents
Bayesian Learning
Belief Revision
Case-Based Reasoning
Causal Reasoning
Cognitive Modelling
Cognitive Robotics
Common-Sense Reasoning
Computer-Aided Learning
Conceptual Graphs
Constraint Programming
Constraint Satisfaction
Data Mining
Decision Theory
Deduction
Description Logics
Design
Diagnosis
Discourse Modelling
Distributed AI
Game Playing
Genetic Algorithms
Geometric Reasoning
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval
Intelligent User Interfaces
Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge-Based Systems
Knowledge Discovery
Knowledge Representation
Logic Programming
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
Meta-Heuristics for AI
Model-Based Reasoning
Multi-Agent Systems
Natural Language Processing
Neural Networks
Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Ontologies
Perception
Philosophical Foundations
Planning
Probabilistic Reasoning
Qualitative Reasoning
Real-Time Systems
Reasoning about Actions and Change
Reasoning under Uncertainty
Reinforcement Learning
Resource-Bounded Reasoning
Reuse of Knowledge
Robotics
Satisfiability Testing
Scheduling
Search
Spatial Reasoning
Speech Processing
Temporal Reasoning
Text Mining
Theorem Proving
User Modelling
Verification and Validation
Vision
Formatting guidelines
It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready
formatting style, except that author names should be omitted, and
replaced by the tracking number. Submissions must not exceed five pages
in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited
to 6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices,
and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600
words. (Please note that for some papers five camera-ready pages may be
considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Overlengthy submissions
will be rejected without review. Authors submitting unformatted papers
must include a word count on their paper. Guidelines on the format of
submissions will be available on the ECAI 2004 Style Guide page (go to
http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/ and follow the link CfP -> Style
Guide). Latex style files to support formatting of submissions are also
available. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to
conform strictly to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI
2004 Style Guide. Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in
the proceedings.
ECAI 2004 also accepts posters. Each poster will have two pages
allocated in the proceedings. Papers originally sent as posters must
follow the same guidelines as the full papers, as reported above, but
paper length is limited to two pages. In this case, the front page must
report the indication "POSTER". However, papers not submitted as
posters can end up accepted as posters if the PC so decides.
Submission procedure
Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief
summary of their paper by 13 February 2004, followed by their full
paper before18 February 2004(23:59 CET). The strongly preferred
submission method for summaries is to use the web-based summary
submission form, accessible from the ECAI 2004 home page
(http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/). Submitted summaries will be
assigned a unique tracking number that should be marked on the full
paper submission. Authors without access to the web should send a
summary including the title, authors, contact address and abstract of
the paper (maximum 200 words), plus keywords drawn from the above list
(plus other key-words if appropriate) to the ECAI 2004 Programme Chair
(by email or postal mail). The summary information and the tracking
number should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate
sheet of paper.
Authors not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the
tracking number. The strongly preferred submission method for full
papers is electronically, by email (see Conference Web page for
details). Only PDF files will be accepted.A free service to convert a
number of widely used file formats to PDF is available at
http://createpdf.adobe.com/(the first three uses of this service are
for free).
Submissions in hardcopy may also be made if electronic submission is
problematic for the authors. In that case, six copies of the paper
(each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or
courier service to the ECAI 2004 Programme Chair, Lorenza Saitta, at
the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 18 February
2004 (23:59 CET) for both electronic and hardcopy submissions. Papers
received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt
of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after
receipt.
Anonymous reviewing process
ECAI 2004 will operate an anonymous reviewing process. Reviewing for
ECAI 2004 will be blind to the identities of the authors and their
institutions. To allow for blind reviewing replace the authors line in
your submission by the unique tracking number assigned by the
submission of the summary form (or leave it empty in case you are not
able to use the web-based summary submission form). Please avoid
identifying self-references. Replace phrases like "We have shown in
[n]" by "In [n] it has been shown...".
Multiple submissions policy
ECAI 2004 will not accept any paper which at the time of submission is
under review for, or has already been published or accepted for
publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also
expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period.
These restrictions only apply to journals and conferences and not to
workshops or similar specialised meetings with limited audiences. The
title page should include a statement that "this paper is not under
review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal".
The review process
All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI
2004 Programme Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI 2004
Programme Committee Chair. The ECAI 2004 Programme Committee Chair has
final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to
acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas,
technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of
presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted
papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 2 May 2004.
Awards
The best paper of the conference, as selected by the ECAI 2004
Programme Committee, will receive a prize sponsored by Elsevier
Science. The authors will also be invited to publish a longer version
of the paper in the Artificial Intelligence journal. The authors of the
10 next best papers will all be invited to submit a long version of
their paper to a special fast-review track of the Artificial
Intelligence journal.
ChairPerson Address
Lorenza Saitta
ECAI 2004 Programme Chair
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universit=E0 del Piemonte Orientale
Spalto Marengo 33
15100 Alessandria, Italy
Tel: +39 0131 287 454
Fax: +39 0131 287 440
E-mail correspondence: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Conference Proceedings
The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS
Press on paper and as a CD-ROM. The authors will be responsible for
producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2004
formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline
for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 31 May 2004. Note that at least
one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference
to present the paper.
For further information on paper submission, please refer to the Web
page at:
http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/
and follow the CFP link.
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Ramon Lopez de Mantaras
IIIA - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
CSIC - Spanish Scientific Research Council
Campus Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
Ph.: +34 93 5809570 Fax.: +34 93 5809661
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iiia.csic.es/~mantaras
