**************************************** AAAI-15 January 25-29, 2015 Austin, Texas, USA http://www.aaai.org/aaai15 ****************************************
We invite your participation at the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence — the First Winter AAAI — to be held in Austin, Texas, USA, January 25–29, 2015. Blai Bonet and Sven Koenig, program chairs of AAAI-15, have integrated many innovations into the program of this inaugural winter conference. Please mark the following dates on your calendar: September 10, 2014: Electronic abstracts due September 15, 2014: Electronic papers due October 22-24, 2014: Author feedback about initial reviews November 7, 2014: Notification of acceptance or rejection November 20, 2014: Camera-ready copy due at AAAI office Innovations for the AAAI-15 Technical Program include the following: • Resubmission possibilities for substantially improved AAAI-14 submissions • Some software demonstration opportunities • Easily accessible papers (with Students Meet Author events) Special tracks: • AI and the Web special track • Cognitive Systems • Computational Sustainability • Integrated Systems (with special review criteria) See www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2015/aaai15call.php AAAI-15 will also include the following programs: • Workshop Program New! Drive for interdisciplinary workshop proposals (16 workshops planned) www.aaai.org/Workshops/ws15.php October 14: Workshop submissions due • Tutorial Program NEW! Drive for tutorial proposals with expanded scope in topics, Hands on tutorials (that include exercises), Getting Started tutorials (that help graduates students go deeper in a field of research), tutorials that teach widely-used tools, tutorials that introduce the soware used for ongoing competitions, and tutorials about successful applications of AI research www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2015/aaai15tutorialcall.php • Demonstration Program New! Open to researchers from academe and industry (including authors of submissions to AAAI-15, IAAI-15 and all associated events); award for best demonstration www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2015/aaai15demos.php September 15: Demonstration applications due • Senior Member Presentation Track NEW! Blue Sky Ideas track (in addition to the regular track) and CCC awards for the three best proposals in the Blue Sky Ideas track www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2015/aaai15seniorcall.php October 8: Senior member submissions due • AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium New! Initiative to involve more international participation www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2015/aaai15dccall.php September 22: AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium applications due • Student Abstract and Poster Program NEW! 3-minute presentation contest and Best Presentation and Best Poster awards www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2015/aaai15studentcall.php September 23: Student abstract submissions due • AAAI-15 Robotics Program NEW! A large number of events: a robotics exhibition (including a Robotics in Texas event), an AI Robotics Fellowship program (aimed at Ph.D. students from robotics labs that typically do not publish at AI venues), a track with selected papers from Robotics: Science and Systems 2014, an AI Robotics Early Career Spotlight Talk and other invited talks, a celebration of the Shakey project, and more. Some activities are in cooperation with the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, and the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference. Stay tuned for URL and additional information. October 1: AI Robotics Fellowship program application deadline November 1: Robotics Exhibition registration deadline • AI Video Competition NEW! Submissions also encouraged from the AAAI-15 main track and demonstration program www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2015/aaai15videos.php October 15: AI video competition submissions due • AAAI-15 Student Activities NEW! ACM SIGAI Early Career Research Networking Event (colocated with AAAI-15), Lunch with an AAAI Fellow, Women's Mentoring Lunch, AAAI Newcomers' Lunch, Student Travel Coordination, Student Social Activities, Student Volunteer Program movingai.com/AAAI15/ We are also working on a variety of additional events, including a community meeting where AI societies discuss their initiatives, a virtual agent exhibit, an AI Limerick and Haiku competition, a “finding funding” event, a computer game exhibition, several game competitions (colocated with AAAI-15) and an open house to introduce high-school students and selected other members from the general public to artificial intelligence. -- Yixin Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Washington University in St. Louis http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~chen/ Phone: (314) 935-7528 _______________________________________________ uai mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
