Appel: PAIS 2012

Fri Feb 3 20:26:42 UTC 2012

Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:54:12 +0100
From: ECAI Publicity <ecai2012-publicity at lirmm.fr>
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A kind reminder that the deadline for submissions is in about one month

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## PAIS-2012 ##            Call for Papers             ## PAIS-2012 ##
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The Seventh Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent
Systems

29-30 August 2012 ## Montpellier, France

http://www.lirmm.fr/ecai2012

Deadline for submission of full papers: 6 March 2012

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## INTRODUCTION                                                     ##
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The PAIS 2012 Program Committee invites papers describing innovative
applications of AI techniques to real-world systems and problems for the
Technical Program of the 7th International Conference on the Prestigious
Applications of Intelligent Systems - a subconference of the 20th
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2012).

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a central topic in contemporary
computing science.  The fruits of almost sixty years of AI research have
benefited application domains as disparate as industrial systems control
and medicine.  The milestone events in AI research are increasingly
regarded as milestones in scientific and technological development: from
the first chess playing program to defeat a reigning world champion
under standard chess tournament rules, via the first robot to
autonomously traverse 150 miles of rough terrain, to the first computer
program that beat humans in a quiz. Techniques, concepts, and results
developed under the banner of AI research have proved to be of
fundamental importance in areas such as medicine, biology, economics,
philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and engineering. And of course, AI
remains a topic of perennial fascination in popular culture.

Papers highlighting all aspects of the application of intelligent
systems technology are most welcome. Our aim is to provide a forum for
academic and industrial researchers and practitioners to share
experience and insights on the applicability, development and deployment
of intelligent systems. PAIS is the largest showcase in Europe of real
applications using AI technology and the ideal place to meet with those
working to make successful applications.

PAIS-2012/ECAI-2012 will be held in the vibrant and elegant city of
Montpellier, France. With excellent opportunities for sightseeing and
gastronomy, Montpellier promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable
conference.

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## TOPICS OF INTEREST                                               ##
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Papers are welcome on all novel and significant applications of
intelligent systems -- the following list of application areas is
indicative only:

* AI&  Life Sciences and Medicine
* AI&  Autonomous Vehicles
* AI&  Energy
* AI&  Ecology
* AI&  Education
* AI&  Mobile Computing and the Internet
* AI&  Sensor Networks
* AI&  Smart Surroundings
* AI&  Aerospace

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## IMPORTANT DATES                                                  ##
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Paper submission deadline:	
	Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Notification of acceptance/rejection:	
	Monday, 21 May 2012

Camera-ready papers due:
         Sunday, 3 June 2012

Conference:
	29-30 August 2012

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## SUBMISSION INFORMATION                                           ##
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Both long and short papers can be submitted.  Long papers must not
exceed *SIX* (6) pages in camera-ready format. Over-length submissions
will be rejected without review. Papers should be submitted using the
ECAI formatting style, to be available soon on the conference website
(this will be very close to previous ECAI styles). Each accepted paper
will be allocated six pages in the proceedings. Submission of short
papers, not exceeding *TWO* (2) pages in ECAI page format, is also
encouraged. Short papers are meant for highly promising but still
preliminary work. Short papers will be presented as a poster. Rejected
long papers will not be considered for poster presentation.

All submissions will be subject to peer review by the PAIS-2012
Programme Committee, and evaluated on the basis of: social relevance,
scientific and technological impact, originality, technical quality, and
quality of presentation.

Reviewing for PAIS-2012 will be double blind: reviewers will not be
presented with the identity of paper authors. To allow for double blind
review, author names in a submitted paper or poster should be replaced
by the unique tracking number assigned by the conference website at the
submission of an electronic abstract.  Authors should avoid writing
anything that makes their identity obvious in the text.  Submissions
should be original, and in particular should not previously have been
formally published. (As a rule of thumb, any publication venue with an
ISBN or ISSN number counts as a formal publication.) Submissions should
not be submitted elsewhere during the PAIS-2012 review phase.

The primary authors of submitted papers will be offered the opportunity
to respond to the reviewers before the final discussion and decision
phase.

The proceedings of the PAIS conference, together with those of the main
conference, and STAIRS, will be published online (as an open access
book) and USB sticks with the proceedings will be given to the
participants. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready
copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI-2012 formatting guidelines for
inclusion in the proceedings.  At least one author of each accepted
paper or poster is required to attend the conference to present the
contribution. Based on the recommendations made by the reviewers and a
separate award committee, one of the accepted long papers will receive
the *BEST PAIS PAPER AWARD*. In addition, there will be a *BEST STUDENT
PAIS PAPER AWARD* (first author should be a student to qualify).

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## ORGANISATION	                                                    ##
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PAIS Conference Co-Chairs:

         Paolo Frasconi (Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
	mailto:p-f at dsi.unifi.it
	Peter Lucas (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
	mailto:peterl at cs.ru.nl

Local Organisation Chair:

	HAVE TO FIND ONE!

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## PROGRAM COMMITTEE                                                ##
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Juan-Manuel Ahuactzin, France
Peter Antal, Hungary
Roberto Bayardo, USA
Samy Bengio, USA
Diego Calvanese, Italy
Robert Castelo, Spain
Marc Cavazza, UK
Fabrizio Costa, Germany
Jesse Davis, Belgium
Yves Deville, Belgium
Kurt Driessens, Netherlands
Norman Fenton, UK
Pierre Flener, Sweden
Maria Fox, UK
Thore Grapel, USA
Johan de Kleer, USA
Yolanda Gil, USA
Peter Haddawy, Macau
Jesse Hoey, Canada
Arjen Hommersom, Netherlands
Vanja Josifovski, USA
Hidde de Jong, France
Ross King, UK
Pedro Larranaga, Spain
Tze-Yun Leong, Singapore
Michael Madden, Ireland
Chris Manning, USA
Stephen Muggleton, UK
Tartar Mugur, Germany
Daniele Nardi, Italy
David Page, USA
Andrea Passerini, Italy
Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, Portugal
Alun Preece, UK
Gregory Provan, Ireland
Dan Roth, USA
Carles Sierra, Spain
Barry Smith, Ireland
Peter Struss, Germany
Enrique Sucar, Mexico
Louise Trave-Massuyes, France
Paolo Traverso, Italy
Allan Tucker, UK
Peter Van Roy, Belgium
Marina Velikova, Netherlands
Jiri Vomlel, Czech Republic

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