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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Call for Workshop Proposals</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>MICAI 2008</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>October 26-27, 2008,<BR>Mexico City,
Mexico</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Important Deadlines<BR>Proposal submission: May,
1<BR>Notification of acceptance: May, 15<BR>Camera-ready manuscripts: October,
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<DIV><BR>Proceedings of the workshops will be published as a single book (soft
cover, with ISBN) with all workshops.<BR>Topics: all areas of Artificial
Intelligence, including but not limited to:</DIV>
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<DIV>* Expert Systems & Knowledge-Based Systems <BR>* Knowledge
Representation & Management <BR>* Knowledge Acquisition <BR>* Multi-agent
Systems and Distributed AI <BR>* Intelligent Organizations <BR>* Natural
Language Processing <BR>* Ontologies <BR>* Intelligent Interfaces: Multimedia,
Virtual Reality <BR>* Computer Vision & Image Processing <BR>* Neural
Networks <BR>* Genetic Algorithms <BR>* Fuzzy Logic <BR>* Machine Learning <BR>*
Pattern Recognition <BR>* Belief Revision <BR>* Qualitative Reasoning <BR>*
Uncertainty & Probabilistic Reasoning <BR>* Model-Based Reasoning <BR>*
Non-monotonic Reasoning <BR>* Common Sense Reasoning <BR>* Case-Based Reasoning
<BR>* Spatial and Temporal Reasoning <BR>* Constraint Programming <BR>* Logic
Programming <BR>* Automated Theorem Proving <BR>* Robotics <BR>* Planning and
Scheduling <BR>* Hybrid Intelligent Systems <BR>* Bioinformatics & Medical
Applications <BR>* Philosophical and Methodological Issues of AI <BR>*
Intelligent Tutoring Systems <BR>* Data Mining <BR>* Applications <BR>* Other
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<DIV>Workshop proposals should include:<BR>1. The name of the workshop. <BR>2.
Statement of goals of the workshop. <BR>3. Names and addresses of the
organizers. <BR>4. List of probable program committee members. <BR>5. Expected
acceptance rate and planned number of accepted papers. <BR>6. Names and webpages
of some potential participants (if possible). <BR>7. Information on
dissemination (e.g., draft call for papers, advertizing plan, etc.). <BR>8.
Suggested duration of the workshop (half-day, 1, or 2 days). </DIV>
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<DIV>Organizers of accepted workshops will:<BR>* Write and disseminate a call
for papers / participation for the workshop. <BR>* Design and maintain a web
page for the workshop (a link will be put on the main conference website). <BR>*
Form the Program Committee and properly conduct the reviewing and selection
process. <BR>* Provide the organizers of the conference with:
<BR> camera-ready versions of the accepted papers,<BR> preface for the
workshop, signed by its organizers, to be published in the
book,<BR> statistics of submitted / accepted papers,<BR> list of the
Program Committee members, to be published in the book.</DIV>
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<DIV>Paper format: submissions are to be formatted in accordance with the
Springer LNCS format guidelines (even though the book will be published by
another publisher, we will use the format identical to the Springer LNCS). Page
limit is 10 pages per paper, with additional pages available for a small
fee.</DIV>
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<DIV>Workshop fees to be announced.</DIV>
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<DIV>Contact: Proposals are to be sent by email to the MICAI-2008 Workshop
Chair: Grigori Sidorov, Centre for Research in Computer Science (CIC), National
Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico, <A
href="mailto:sidorov@cic.ipn.mx">sidorov@cic.ipn.mx</A>.</DIV>
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