Call for Papers

                                 BISFAI-01

                         June 25-27, 2001, Israel


                 Seventh Bar-Ilan International Symposium on the
         	     Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

                            HONORING: Yaacov Choueka


The seventh biennial Bar-Ilan International Symposium on the Foundations of 
Artificial Intelligence, will be held on June 25-27, 2001 in Ramat Gan, Israel.
The meeting will honor the research and accomplishments of Yaacov Choueka and 
will therefore place special emphasis on natural language processing and 
computational linguistics.  

Invited Speakers:

     Yaacov Choueka
     Jieh Hsiang
     Daphne Koller
     Richard Korf
     Doug Lenat 
     Moshe Vardi

We solicit papers on substantial research in all areas of Artificial
Intelligence, including, but not limited to the following:

       	foundations		natural language processing
	searching		knowledge representation
	automated reasoning	computational linguistics
	planning		information retrieval
	machine learning	temporal reasoning
	robotics		knowledge-based systems
       	data mining 		AI algorithms
	intelligent agents	probabilistic reasoning

Updates to this announcement and links to the previous symposia can be found 
at the BISFAI website: www.cs.biu.ac.il/~bisfai

Submission Guidelines: 	Extended abstracts should be 6-12 pages in length, 
including references and figures.  Submissions should be made electronically, 
as attachments in Postscript or PDF format.  Click at the website to submit. 
The official proceedings will be web-based and made available at the BISFAI 
website.

System Demonstrations: We also solicit proposals for demonstrations of
innovative applications of artificialintelligence, of length 1-2 pages. 
Click at the website to submit.

Special Issue: Selected papers will be reviewed for journal publication
in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.

Multiple Submissions: Papers may be submitted to BISFAI even if submitted to 
other conferences or journals, because the BISFAI website is not archival. 
Of course, if a paper is accepted at an archival conference such as AAAI or 
IJCAI and also presented at BISFAI, this paper must be substantially revised 
and/or extended for consideration for journal publication. 
Previously presented or published papers are unacceptable.
 
The BISFAI-01 program and schedule will be available online. Abstracts of
invited and accepted papers will be made available on the abstracts page, 
with pointers to online versions of the paper, when available
at the BISFAI website: www.cs.biu.ac.il/~bisfai

Important Dates:
	March  2, 2001	Paper submission deadline
	April 22, 2001	Notification of acceptance
	May   25, 2001	Revised versions due
	June 25-27, 2001 BISFAI conference

Symposium Committee:
        Symposium co-Chairs:	Martin C. Golumbic  golumbic@cs.biu.ac.il
				Sarit Kraus         sarit@cs.biu.ac.il
	Program Chair:		Nachum Dershowitz   nachumd@tau.ac.il	
	Organization Chair:	Ariel Frank	    ariel@cs.biu.ac.il


Program Committee:
      Rachel Ben-Eliyahu (Ben-Gurion U.)	Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan U.)
      Rina Dechter (U.C. Irvine)		Nada Lavrac (Jozef Stefan Inst)
      Nachum Dershowitz (Tel-Aviv U.)		Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew U.)
      Michael Elhadad (Ben-Gurion U.)		Dan Roth (U. of Illinois)
      Yishai Feldman (Interdisciplinary Ctr.)	Onn Shehory (IBM Israel)
      Nissim Francez (Technion)			Lou Steinberg (Rutgers U.)
      Shmuel Klein (Bar-Ilan U.)		Shlomo Zilberstein (U. Mass.)
                                                 
  
Further Information or Requests:

      Nachum Dershowitz			Ariel Frank
      Program Chair			Organization Chair
      School of Computer Science	Department of Math and Computer Science
      Tel Aviv University		Bar-Ilan University
      Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978	Ramat Gan, 52900
      Israel				Israel
      Tel.: [+972] 3-640-5356		Tel.: [+972] 3-531-7780
      Fax.: [+972] 3-640-9357		Fax.: [+972] 3-535-3325
      Email: nachumd@tau.ac.il		Email: ariel@cs.biu.ac.il