Call For Papers - Canadian AI Conference 2013

[Sandra Zilles]

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AI 2013: The 26th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

May 28th to May 31st, 2013
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Full paper submission deadline: January 21st, 2013
Notification of acceptance: February 25th, 2013
Final papers due: March 6th, 2013
Conference: May 28th to May 31st, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS
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AI'2013, the twenty-sixth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, invites papers that present original work in all areas of Artificial intelligence, either theoretical or applied. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

	• Agent Systems AI Applications Automated Reasoning Bioinformatics and BioNLP
	• Case-based Reasoning
	• Cognitive Models
	• Constraint Satisfaction
	• Data Mining
	• E-Commerce
	• Evolutionary Computation
	• Games
	• Information Retrieval
	• Knowledge Representation
	• Machine Learning
	• Multi-media Processing
	• Natural Language Processing
	• Neural Nets
	• Planning
	• Robotics
	• Search
	• Smart Graphics
	• Uncertainty
	• User Modeling
	• Web Applications

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members according to its originality, technical merit and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be allocated either a maximum of 12 pages (long papers) or a maximum of 7 pages (short papers) in the proceedings. As in previous years, we plan to publish all accepted papers for which one of the authors will have registered and is present at the conference in the conference proceedings as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence by Springer. The papers will have to be formatted accordingly.

Papers submitted to AI'2013 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another conference.

BEST PAPER AWARD
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The Best Paper Award will be presented at the conference to the authors of the best paper.

SUBMISSIONS
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Authors are invited to submit electronically, by January 21st, 2013. Submissions must be uploaded on Easychair.

Paper format:

	• Papers must be written in English.
	• Papers must be up to 12 pages in length. - Papers must be in PDF format.
	• Papers must be formatted according to Springer LNCS style. The use of the LaTeX2e style file available from Springer is strongly encouraged.

ORGANIZERS
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AI'2013 is collocated with two cognate conferences: the Canadian Graphical Interface Conference and the Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision.

General Co-chairs AI/GI/CRV:
Cory Butz (University of Regina) 
Atefeh Farzindar (NLP Technologies Inc.)

Program Co-chairs:
Osmar Zaiane (University of Alberta)
Sandra Zilles (University of Regina)

Local Arrangement Chair:
Orland Hoeber (University of Regina)

Please mark the dates in your calendar. We hope to receive your submissions and see you at the conference.

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