<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">====================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "> KI 2013 From Research to Innovation and Practical Applications </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "> 36th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "> Koblenz, September 16-20, 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(4, 46, 238); "><span style="color: #000000"> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://ki2013.uni-trier.de">http://ki2013.uni-trier.de</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">====================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">*** Extended deadline: 3.5.2013 ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">CO-LOCATED EVENTS:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">INFORMATIK-2013: Annual Meeting Gesellschaft fόr Informatik e.V. (GI)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; ">MATES-2013: 11th German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">KI 2013 From Research to Innovation and Practical Applications </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">36th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Koblenz, September 16-20, 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">About the Main Conference</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">KI 2013 is the 36th edition of the German Conference on Artificial </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and industrial </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">researchers from all areas of AI. The technical program of KI 2013 will </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">and tutorials.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">KI 2013 will take place in Koblenz, Germany, September 16th-20th, 2013, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">and is a premier forum for exchanging news and research results on </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">theory and applications of intelligent system technology. The conference </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">is organized by the Artificial Intelligence section of the German Informatics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Society (GI e.V.) . KI 2013 is co-located with Informatik 2013 (Annual </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Conference of the German Informatics Society), the 11th MATES 2013 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">(German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies), and the 4th </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">JAWS (Joint Agent Workshops in Synergy). The conference invites original </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">research papers from all areas of AI, its fundamentals, its algorithms, its </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">history and its applications.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">----</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Invited speakers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">----</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Together with MATES 2013, several keynotes, which are delivered by </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">highly renowned scientists on relevant topics of the broad area of artificial </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">intelligence and intelligent agent technology.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">For details see: <a href="http://ki2013.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=13">http://ki2013.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=13</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">----</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Areas of interest include, but are not limited to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">----</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Knowledge Acquisition, Representation, Reasoning and Ontologies</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Combinatorial Search, Configuration, Design and Deduction</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Natural Language Processing, Statistical NLP, Semantics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Planning and Scheduling; Spatial and Temporal Reasoning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Reasoning under Uncertainty, Probabilistic Inferences</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Non-Monotonic Reasoning and Default Logics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Constraint Satisfaction, Processing and Programming</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Embodied AI: Robotics, Vision and Perception</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Intelligent Information Retrieval, Semantic Search, Semantic Web</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Evolutionary and Neural Computation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Machine Learning, Computational Learning Theory and Data-Mining</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Game Playing and Interactive Entertainment, AI for Graphics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Game Theory and General Game Playing, Generalized Intelligence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>AI for Human-Computer-Interaction and Adaptive Communication</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Mobile Solutions with Textile, Semantic and Spatial Media</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Augmented Reality, Smart Cities, Smart Traffic, Smart Hardware</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Assistance Systems in Living and Working Environments</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Software-Engineering, Model Checking and Security in AI</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Distributed Computation and Swarm Intelligence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Artificial General Intelligence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cognitive Modelling, AI and Psychology</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>History and Philosophical Foundations of AI</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Applications including Logistics, Production and Health Care</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">We especially welcome application papers and posters providing novel </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">insights on the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">bring useful computational technologies from other areas of computer</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">science into AI.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">---</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Submission Guidelines</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">---</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 12 pages </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">in Springer LNCS style for full technical contributions and 4 pages for poster </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">contributions.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Full technical papers are expected to report on new research that makes a </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">substantial technical contribution to the field. Poster submissions are also </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">included in the main proceedings and can report on new research or other</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">issues of interest to the AI community. Examples of work suitable for poster </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">submissions include: novel ideas that are not yet fully developed or whose </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">scope is not large enough for a full paper: important implementation </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short experimental </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved or </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">analyzed; position or challenge papers; etc. Poster submissions are </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">especially invited for software demonstration or PhD work in progress.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Submission of papers is handled via ConfTool </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); "><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://www.conftool.pro/informatik2013/index.php?page=newPaper&form_contributiontypeID=10&newpaper=true">https://www.conftool.pro/informatik2013/index.php?page=newPaper&form_contributiontypeID=10&newpaper=true</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Papers will be subject to blind peer review. All papers will be reviewed based </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results, originality of ideas, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">soundness, and quality of the presentation.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">All accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">The KI 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume of the </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Important Dates </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">--------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Paper submission: 3.5.2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Acceptance notification: 17.6.2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Final version due: 1.7.2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">KI Conference: 16.-20.9.2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Main Organizers of KI 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">-------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Ingo J. Timm (General Chair, Univ. Trier)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Matthias Thimm (Local Chair, Univ. Koblenz-Landau)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Ute Schmid (Workshop Chair, Univ. Bamberg)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Jόrgen Sauer (Tutorial Chair, Univ. Oldenburg)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Stefan Kirn (Industry Chair, Univ. Hohenheim)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Andreas D. Lattner (Doctoral Consortium Chair, Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">General Chair and Contact</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Prof. Dr. Ingo J. Timm</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">University of Trier</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">54286 Trier</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); ">Email: <a href="mailto:ingo.timm@uni-trier.de">ingo.timm@uni-trier.de</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(49, 51, 52); "><a href="http://ki2013.uni-trier.de">http://ki2013.uni-trier.de</a></div><div><br></div></body></html>