11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (PAAMS'13)

11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (PAAMS'13)

http://www.paams.net
paams@usal.es
Salamanca (Spain), 22nd-24th May, 2013


Plenary Speaker

Longbing Cao - Agent Mining: The Synergy of Multiagent Systems and Data Mining.

SCOPE
Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer. PAAMS started as a local initiative, but has since grown to become THE international yearly platform to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development and deployment of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS intends to bring together researchers and developers from industry and the academic world to report on the latest scientific and technical advances on the application of multi-agent system, to discuss and debate the major issues, and to showcase the latest systems using agent based technology. It will promote a forum for discussion on how agent-based techniques, methods, and tools help system designers to accomplish the mapping between available agent technology and application needs. Other stakeholders should be rewarded with a better understanding of the potential and challenges of the agent-oriented approach.

TOPICS
Problems
·    Agent-based simulation and prediction
·    Distributed problem solving
·    Agent cooperation and negotiation
·    Agent societies and social networks
·    Real-time multi-agent systems
·    Human agent interaction, user interfaces
·    Adaptation, learning and personalization
·    Reputation, trust, privacy and security
·    Agent engineering and development tools
·    Evaluation, ethical and legal issues
Domains
·    Information recovery and information systems
·    Knowledge management and data intensive systems
·    Intelligent control and manufacturing systems
·    Embodied agents and autonomous systems
·    Multi-robot systems and real world robotics
·    Internet softbots and web intelligence
·    Virtual agents, animation and games
·    Pervasive agents and ambient intelligence
·    E-learning and educational systems
·    User-centered applications and assisting agents

DEMO AWARD
The best demo paper in PAAMS'13 will be awarded with 2000? and a diploma.

GRANTS
The BISITE research group (http://bisite.usal.es) of the University of Salamanca, organiser of PAAMS 2013, offers 40 grants/awards to facilitate the attendance to doctoral and young doctors both to the event itself (including Workshops and Special Sessions) and to the parallel collocated events.
More information: http://www.paams.net/grants

SUBMISSION
Review process
PAAMS welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality and clarity.
Types of submissions
They must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference.
Submitting papers
All papers must be formatted according to the Springer template, with a maximum length of 10-12 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the Paper Submission Page.
Publication
Accepted papers will be included in PAAMS 2012 Proceedings. At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS/LNAI series.

IMPORTANT DATES
·    Paper submission deadline: November 26th, 2012
·    Notification of acceptance: January 28th, 2012
·    Camera-Ready papers due: February 25th, 2013
·    Conference Celebration: May 22nd-24th, 2013

COMMITTEES
Scientific
·    Yves Demazeau - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
·    Toru Ishida - Kyoto University (Japan)
Organizing
·    Juan M. Corchado - University of Salamanca (Spain)
·    Javier Bajo - Technical University of Madrid (Spain)

CONTACT
Dr. Juan M. Corchado
Dr. Javier Bajo
Web: http://www.paams.net
Email: paams@usal.es
Tel: +34 923 294400 (Ext:1525)
Tel: +34 618 696589
Fax: +34 923 294514
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http://www.paams.net/sites/default/files/CFP/PAAMS13_Call_For_Papers.pdf

Affective Computing (AC’2011)

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AC@EPIA2011 :: CALL FOR PAPERS

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Special Track on Affective Computing (AC’2011)

15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2011

10th-13th October, 2011 :: Lisbon, Portugal

http://epia2011.appia.pt

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Submission deadline: 10th May, 2011

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The workshop on Affective Computing (AC) will focus on the role of affect, social behaviour, and related issues in the development of computer systems. Relevant topics include the consideration of factors like emotions, mood, personality traits, and attitudes in human-computer, human-robot, and human-environment interaction, especially insofar as they provide better or more "natural" support for humans. Also relevant is the role of such factors in facilitating access to the knowledge essential for making better decisions in response to interactions between individuals and the environments (e.g. facilitating social interaction among humans or among humans and artificial characters).

Affective Computing is a multidisciplinary field that draws upon such areas as sociology, psychology, human-machine interaction, virtual environments, and, obviously, Artificial Intelligence. It is also a field with a wide range of applications, including virtual reality, decision support, computer games, and ambient intelligence, social robotics, and ECAs (Embodied Conversational Agents).

The purpose of this workshop on Affective Computing is to bring together researchers to discuss theories, architectures and applications which are based on a combination of cognitive and affective considerations and that can be applied to groups of individually different persons and their interactions.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

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In order to fulfill these objectives, submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished work are invited in all areas of Affective Computing.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Computational models of emotions

Individual Emotion recognition

Social Web

Personality in Agents Architectures

Group Emotion

Emotion and learning

Artificial characters

Affect and emotion recognition

Emotion and memory

Emotion content classification and affect content classification, used to evaluate or analyse human-X interaction;

Using reputation and trust models in social interactions

Using negotiation and persuasion in social interactions

Infrastructure and policy for affective computing

Understanding and Modelling groups and other social systems

Social aspects of globally distributed computing and new cooperative work technologies

New forms of education, entertainment and social relations based on cooperation technologies

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Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in any other format.

Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are available on the Springer LNCS Web site http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

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In order to submit a paper, authors must register at the EPIA 2011 conference management system (available soon), using the entry of the Affective Computing.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission deadline:           10th May, 2011

Notification of acceptance:    10st June, 2011

Camera-ready papers:           1st July, 2011

EPIA 2011 Conference:          10th - 13th October, 2011

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As usual in the EPIA conference series, a set of the best full accepted papers will be published in a volume of the LNAI series published by Springer, edited by EPIA 2011 Conference Chairs.

All other accepted papers presented at the conference appear in a published book.

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Goreti Marreiros, goreti@dei.isep.ipp.pt(ISEP, Portugal)

Andrew Ortony, ortony@northwestern.edu(Northwestern University, USA)

Ana Paiva, Ana.Paiva@inesc-id.pt, (INESC-ID and IST, Portugal)

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Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2011

Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop 2011

We apologize if you receive more than one copy.
Please share with colleagues and students.
Paper deadline: FEBRUARY 2, 2011

* AAMAS workshop with a long and successful history,
 now in its 11th edition.
* ACM proceedings format with up to 8 pages.
* Accepted papers are eligible for Springer LNAI post-proceedings.

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2nd Call for Papers
ALA 2011: Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop held at AAMAS
2011 (Taipei). The ALA workshop has a long and successful history
and is now in its 11th edition. The workshop is a merger of European
ALAMAS and the American ALAg series which is usually held at
AAMAS. Details may be found on the workshop web site:
http://como.vub.ac.be/ALA2011/
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* Submission Deadline:            February 2, 2011
* Notification of acceptance:     February 27, 2011
* Camera-ready copies:            March 10, 2011
* Workshop:                              May 2, 2011
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Adaptive and Learning Agents, particularly those in a multi-agent setting
are becoming more and more prominent as the sheer size and complexity of
many real world systems grows. How to adaptively control, coordinate and
optimize such systems is an emerging multi-disciplinary research area at
the intersection of Computer Science, Control theory, Economics, and
Biology. The ALA workshop will focus on agent and multi-agent systems
which employ learning or adaptation.
The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness and interest in
adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a
representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive and
learning agents and multi-agent systems. It aims at bringing together not
only scientists from different areas of computer science but also from
different fields studying similar concepts (e.g., game theory,
bio-inspired control, mechanism design).
This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents
and multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on how to modify
established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to
address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
    * Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning
      approaches
    * Integrated learning approaches that work with other agent
      reasoning modules like negotiation, trust models, coordination,
      etc.
    * Supervised multi-agent learning
    * Reinforcement learning (single and multi-agent)
    * Planning (single and multi-agent)
    * Reasoning (single and multi-agent)
    * Distributed learning
    * Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments
    * Evolution of agents in complex environments
    * Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent setting
    * Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate
    * Learning trust and reputation
    * Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent
      coordination
    * Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination
    * Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and
      adaptive agents
    * Emergent behaviour in adaptive multi-agent systems
    * Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems
    * Neuro-control in multi-agent systems
    * Bio-inspired multi-agent systems
    * Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent
      systems to real world complex systems
    * Learning of Co-ordination

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Submission Details
Paper submissions may be emailed in the pdf format to
pvrancx@vub.ac.be  with the subject 'Submission ALA-11'. Submissions may
be up to 8 pages in the ACM proceedings format (i.e., the same as AAMAS
papers in the main conference track). Accepted work will be allocated
time for oral presentation during the one day workshop. Papers accepted at
the workshop will also be eligible for inclusion in a Springer LNAI
post-proceedings
volume published after the workshop.

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Organization

Workshop chairs:
Peter Vrancx (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Matt Knudson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Marek Grzes (University of Waterloo, Canada)

If you have any questions about the ALA workshop, please contact the
chairs by e-mail:pvrancx@vub.ac.be

Senior Steering Committee Members:
Franziska Klugl (University of Orebro, Sweden)
Daniel Kudenko (University of York, UK)
Ann Nowe (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
Lynne E. Parker (University of Tennessee, USA)
Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA)
Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University, USA)
Karl Tuyls (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
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WORKSHOP on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE) 2010

Second INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch and Development (CARE) 2010
31st August 2010, York University, Toronto, Canada

Abstract submission: April 14, 2010
Full paper submission: April 16, 2010

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~xtg/CARE2010/
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The workshop is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT).
http://www.yorku.ca/wiiat10/

Summary
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Collaboration is required when multiple agents achieve complex goals that are difficult or impossible to attain for an individual agent. This collaboration takes place under conditions of incomplete information, uncertainty, and bounded rationality, much of which has been previously studied in economics and artificial intelligence. However, many real world domains are characterised by even greater complexity, including the possibility of unreliable and non-complying collaborators, complex market and incentive frameworks, and complex transaction costs and organisational structures. This workshop's thematic focus is on collaborative and autonomous agents that plan, negotiate, coordinate, and act under this complexity.

This workshop aims to foster discussions on computational models of collaboration in distributed systems, addressing a range of theoretical and practical issues. We seek contributions of members in research and industry that use the agent paradigm to approach their problems.

Some issues of interest of this workshop are:
o How to enable agents to form and follow joint agreements and contracts in complex organisational and market driven domains.
o How to develop a comprehensive contractual formation/maintenance framework applicable to many application domains.
o How to build comprehensive customer lifecycle management systems for customers, including telecommunication consumers, students and patients.
o How to deploy lifecycle management systems in real world applications, such as healthcare, telecommunication, and smart campuses.
o How to design markets that are adequate for agents to act with incomplete and uncertain information of the behaviour of collaborating agents. o How to build MAS that work efficiently in partially regulated markets (where governance policy or partnership agreements govern part of the market).
o What are the implications of partial regulation on the management of contractual relationships and service delivery.
o How organisational structures influence the negotiation of agents and the distribution/execution of tasks.
o How to cope with collaborators that exhibit unreliable and non-conformant behaviour, eg where agreements are made but are not always conformed with.
o How can interventions and incentive structures assist in managing contractual relationships and service delivery.
o How to assign transaction costs to actions in planning, assignment, and execution in organisational structures. o How can transaction costs influence the social outcome of the system which is further influenced by the organisational context under which the collaboration takes place. o Can lessons learnt in game theoretic computation inform collaborative agent settings.
o What role does learning and adaptivity play in building organisational MAS.

The one day workshop will feature a mixture of invited talks, discussions and submitted contributions describing current work or work in progress in collaborative agent research and technology. The workshop environment fosters open discussions among all participants, particularly encouraging students to discuss their research topics and seek feedback from senior agent researchers.


Contact
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CARE organisers

christian.guttmann@gmail.com
dignum@cs.uu.nl

Important Dates
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Abstract submission: April 14, 2010
Full paper submission: April 16, 2010

Notification: May 28, 2010
Camera ready: June 7, 2010


Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
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RESEARCH
* Collaboration frameworks
* Models of teamwork and joint action
* Organisation/Institutes/Norms
* Auctioning/Negotiation
* Task/Resource allocation
* Behaviour modelling/monitoring
* Adherence/Intervention mechanisms
* Incentive frameworks
* Intervention mechanisms
* Agreement technology
* Contract networks/formation
* Cloud computing

APPLICATION AREAS
* Collaborative care planning/management * Disaster planning/management
* Traffic planning/management
* Transport/Logistics
* Applications in primary and preventative healthcare * Chronic disease planning/management
* Epidemiological agent models
* Unmanned air/land vehicles
* Robotic soccer/Robotic rescues
* Weather forecast
* Artificial and natural immune systems
* Social networks (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook,...)
* Smart grid network (e.g., electricity/gas metering)

Submission and Publication
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Submission is to be done electronically at Cyberchair at: http://wi-consortium.org/cyberchair/wiiat10/scripts/ws_submit.php. CARE 2010 seeks 4-page submissions formatted according to IEEE specification.
Style Files for Paper Submission
IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines:
DOC: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.doc PDF:ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.pdf PS: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.ps LaTex Formatting Macros:
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11x2.zip

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by two or three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics.

Post-Proceedings will be published with a major international publisher (most likely Springer as for the CARE 2009).

Workshop Officials
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GENERAL CHAIRS
Christian Guttmann (Monash University, Australia)
Frank Dignum (University Utrecht, Netherlands)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Wei Chen (Intelligent Automation, Inc., United States of America)
Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Michael Luck (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Lawrence Cavedon (NICTA and RMIT University, Australia)
Samin Karim (Accenture, Australia)
Cees Witteveen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)   
Franziska Klügl (Örebro University, Sweden)
Toby Walsh (NICTA and UNSW, Australia)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy)
Alexander Pokahr (University Hamburg, Germany)
Lars Brauchbach (University Hamburg, Germany)
Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Liz Sonenberg (Melbourne University, Australia) Kumari Wickramasinghe (Monash University, Australia)
Simon Thompson (British Telecom Research Laboratories, United Kingdom)
Gord McCalla (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Andrew Gilpin (Hg Analytics, United States of America)
David Morley (SRI International, United States of America)
Marcelo Blois Ribeiro (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Simon Goss (Defence Science and Technology Organisation DSTO, Australia)

Fifth "Starting Artificial Intelligence Research" Symposium - STAIRS-2010

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## STAIRS-2010 ##         Call for Papers            ## STAIRS-2010 ##
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The Fifth "Starting Artificial Intelligence Research" Symposium

16-20 August 2010 ## Lisbon, Portugal

http://ecai2010.appia.pt/

Deadline for submission of papers: Monday, 3 May 2010

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The STAIRS-10 is the fourth European Starting AI Researcher Symposium.
STAIRS is an international meeting intended to support AI researchers,
from all countries, at the beginning of their career: PhD students or
people holding a PhD for less than one year. STAIRS-2010 will be
co-located with ECAI-2010, the European Conference on AI, in Lisbon,
Portugal, over 16-20 August 2010.

STAIRS offers doctoral students and young post-doctoral AI fellows:

* a first experience on submitting and presenting a paper in an
  international forum with a broad scope and a peer review process

* an opportunity to gather knowledge and exchange ideas related to
  their research problems and approaches together with information on
  European research careers and mobility.

Co-location with both ECAI and PAIS aims at creating a unique and
valuable opportunity for young researchers to gain experience at
presenting their work in a supportive scientific environment, and
obtain constructive feedback on the technical content of the work as
well as how to present the work and other related topics.

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Papers are welcome on all aspects of contemporary AI, including, but
not restricted to:

* Agents & Multiagent Systems
* Case-Based Reasoning
* Cognitive Modeling & Interaction
* Constraints & Search
* Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
* Machine Learning
* Model-Based Reasoning
* Natural Language Processing
* Perception & Sensing
* Planning & Scheduling
* Robotics
* Uncertainty in AI
* Applications of AI

An extensive list of subtopics is available at the conference website.

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Paper submission deadline:
Monday, 3 May 2010

Notification of acceptance/rejection:
Friday, 28 May 2010

Conference:
16-20 August 2010

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Papers must not exceed SIX (6) pages in camera-ready
format. Over-length submissions will be rejected without
review. Papers for STAIRS should be submitted using the ECAI
formatting style; details of the style are available at:

http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mjw/ecai2010.zip

This file unpacks to a directory "ecai2010", and contains LaTeX and
other style files. The file "ecai2010.tex" is an example paper in
LaTeX format using the appropriate styles, and can be used as a
template for submissions.

Each accepted paper will be allocated SIX (6) pages in the
proceedings.

Multiple submissions with ECAI and PAIS is allowed if this is clearly
indicated on a front page preceding the paper itself. In borderline
cases single submissions will be preferred over multiple
submissions. In case of multiple acceptances the author(s) are
strictly required to withdraw their paper from all but one of the
events.

The proceedings of STAIRS, together with those of its associated
events, ECAI and PAIS, will be published and distributed by IOS
Press as a book and as a CD-ROM. The authors will be responsible for
producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2010
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.

Submission and review of papers for ECAI-2010 will be managed via the
EasyChair system:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stairs2010

All submissions will be subject to LIGHT TOUCH review, with the goal
of providing constructive feedback to authors.

Depending on the quality of submissions, a subset of accepted papers
will be invited to submit a revised version to a journal special
issue.

IMPORTANT NOTE: At least one of the authors must be a PhD student, or
a person holding a PhD for less than one year. Papers not satisfying
this criterion will be rejected.

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STAIRS General Chair:

Thomas Ågotnes (mailto:Thomas.Agotnes@infomedia.uib.no)
University of Bergen, Norway

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Thomas Ågotnes
Department of Information Science and Media Studies
University of Bergen
P.O. Box 7802, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
Tel: (+47) 55584105  Fax: (+47) 55589149
Thomas.Agotnes@infomedia.uib.no
http://folk.uib.no/nmita/

ICSOFT 2010 (Int'l Conference on Software and Data Technologies)

Following up previous information on ICSOFT 2010 (Int'l Conference on Software and Data Technologies) we would like to draw your attention to the following specialized events that will be held in conjunction with the conference.
Please see below their information.

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WORKSHOPS  IMPORTANT DATES
    Regular Paper Submission: April 06, 2010
    Authors Notification: May 04, 2010
    Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2010
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ACT4SOC 2010
4th International Workshop on
Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACT4SOC.htm 
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Co-chairs:
Marten van Sinderen
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Brahmananda Sapkota
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Supported by IICREST and seekda

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

    * Service foundation and design issues
          o principles of SOC/SOA, service science
          o service modelling approaches
          o formal specification and analysis
          o reasoning approaches
          o model-driven development, platform-independence
          o service interoperability (semantic, pragmatic), matching and (dynamic) composition
          o ontology-centered design
          o requirements-functionality (business-IT) alignment
          o Web 2.0, social networking, mash-ups
          o REST vs WS
          o repeated aggregation of services into composite applications and business processes

    * Service technology and infrastructure issues
          o architectural patterns
          o service registry management
          o requirements management, service evolution
          o quality-of-service management
          o cross-domain service delivery
          o specific technology platform solutions
          o language-specific solutions
          o tool support
          o applicability and performance experiences
          o service level agreements

    * Service usage issues and applications of SOC/SOA
          o service registration, update, de-registration
          o service discovery, matching, selection, replacement
          o service invocation, interaction, monitoring
          o service choreography, mediation, orchestration
          o traceability of technology changes in requirements and vice versa
          o mobile and ubiquitous applications
          o health and homecare applications
          o supply chain management applications
          o e-commerce applications


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ACES 2010
1st International Workshop on
Autonomic Computing for Enterprise Systems 
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/ACES.htm 
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Co-chairs:
Frances Brazier
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands 

Martijn Warnier
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Areas / Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1 - Software engineering methods for building autonomic systems
2 - QoS management in autonomic and dynamic environments
3 - Emergent behavior, emergent configurations
4 - Service agreements and negotiation
5 - Legal implications of self-management/autonomy in networked systems


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DMIA 2010
1st International Workshop on
Data Management and Information Analytics
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/DMIA.htm
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Co-chairs:

Markus Helfert
School of Computing, Dublin City University
Ireland

Brian Donnellan
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Ireland

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Managing large Data Manufacturing systems
    * Organizational Concepts and best practice
    * Architectural Concepts
    * Data and Information Quality
    * Data Modeling
    * Methods for Data Management
    * Modeling and Analyzing Relationship Data
    * Modeling large Data Manufacturing systems
    * Data Warehousing and Data Cleansing
    * Data Visualization
    * Data privacy and integrity
    * Management of uncertain data
    * Accessibility of data
    * Mobile data management
    * Management of Sensor Data
    * Data integration
    * Integration and analyzing semi-structured and unstructured data
    * Text Analytics
    * Business Cases and Cost/Benefit Analysis of Data Management Approaches


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RTABIS 2010
1st International Workshop on
Recent Trends in Aspect based Information Systems
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTABIS.htm
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Co-chairs:

Philippe Lahire
Laboratoire I3S, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
France

Jean-Yves Tigli
I3S Laboratory, Polytech'Nice Sophia Antipolis, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
France

Valérie Monfort
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne / ISIG, Kairouan University
France / Tunisia

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Software engineering

    * Requirements engineering
    * Analysis and design modeling
    * Domain engineering
    * Software architectures
    * Evaluation and metrics
    * Modular Reasoning
    * Testing and verification
    * Interference and composition
    * Traceability
    * Software development methods
    * Process and methodology definition
    * Patterns

- Programming languages

    * Language design
    * Compilation and interpretation
    * Verification and static program analysis
    * Formal languages and calculi
    * Execution environments & dynamic weaving
    * Dynamic and scripting languages
    * Domain-specific aspect languages

- Related paradigms

    * Model-driven development
    * Generative programming
    * Software product lines
    * Meta-programming
    * Contracts and components
    * View-based development

- Tool support

    * Aspect mining
    * Evolution and reverse engineering
    * Crosscutting program views
    * Refactoring

- Applications

    * Distributed/concurrent systems
    * Middleware, services, and networking
    * Pervasive computing
    * Runtime verification
    * Performance improvement SOA and aspects
    * Multi Agent Systems and aspects
    * E-learning and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and aspect

- Industrial feed back

    * Project management with AOP
    * Success story or failure
    * Other applications experiences


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RTSE4CAA 2010
1st International Workshop on Recent Trends
in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Applications
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/RTSE4CAA.htm
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Co-chairs:
Yacine Atif
College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University
U.A.E.

Olivier Camp
ESEO, Angers
France

Slimane Hammoudi
ESEO, Angers
France

Zakaria Maamar
College of Information Technology, Zayed University
U.A.E.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Modelling of context and of context aware applications
    * Model driven engineering of context aware applications
    * Ontologies for context-aware applications
    * Dynamic adaptation in context aware applications
    * Discovery, composition and adaptation of services in context-aware applications
    * Intelligent context aware applications
    * Programming paradigm and software architectures for context aware applications
    * Benchmarking and performance of context aware applications
    * Specification, verification and test of context aware applications
    * Context aware business processes
    * Database and Knowledge management in context-aware applications
    * Trust, privacy and security issues in context aware applications
    * Human-computer interaction in context-aware applications


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S2C 2010
1st International Workshop on
Software and Simulation Components
Website: http://www.icsoft.org/S2C.htm
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Co-chairs:

Alexander Verbraeck
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands

Mamadou Seck
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands


Areas / Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1 - Theory formation for hierarchical and component-based modeling
2 - Component-based and hierarchical modeling in the software engineering field
3 - Component-based and hierarchical modeling in the simulation field
4 - Use of libraries of components to enhance (distributed) systems development
5 - Best practices for component development, reuse, and hierarchical systems development


Kind regards,
Monica Saramago
ICSOFT Workshops Secretariat
Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2.esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5433
Email: icsoft.workshops.secretariat@insticc.org
Website: http://www.icsoft.org

14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications

The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications
AIMSA 2010 - AI and Knowledge Societies: Learning, Sharing, Amplifying -

Varna, Bulgaria, 8-10th September, 2010
http://www.aimsaconference.org

**** Submission deadline: April 15th, 2010 ****

**** Proceedings published by Springer/LNCS ****

**** Keynote Speakers ****
John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Center for AI, DFKI, Germany

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SCOPE
The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of Artificial intelligence research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world.

The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of AI research and development since 1984. The conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and provides an ideal forum for international scientific exchange between Central/Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. AIMSA 2010 is supported by ECCAI, European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.

As its name indicates, the conference is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence in its entirety. However, for AIMSA 2010, we would like to put the emphasis on the application and leverage of Artificial Intelligence technologies in the context of knowledge societies where knowledge creation, accessing, acquiring, and sharing empower individuals and communities. A number of AI techniques play a key role in responding to these challenges. Artificial Intelligence is extensively used in the development of systems for effective management and flexible and personalized access to large knowledge bases, in the semantic web technologies that enable sharing and reuse of and reasoning over semantically annotated resources, in the emerging social semantic web applications that aid humans to collaboratively build semantics, in the construction of intelligent environments for supporting (human and agent) learning, etc. In building such intelligent applications, Artificial Intelligence techniq
ues are typically combined with results from other disciplines such as the social sciences, distributed systems, databases, digital libraries, information retrieval, service oriented applications, etc.  AIMSA 2010 aims to reflect this plethora of avenues with special attention to works that demonstrate the potential of AI for supporting learning, sharing, and amplifying of knowledge.

TOPICS
The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to:

   * AI in education
   * Ambient intelligence
   * Automated reasoning
   * Collaborative knowledge construction
   * Computer vision
   * Data mining and data analysis
   * Data semantics
   * Dialogue management and argumentation
   * Distributed AI
   * Information integration
   * Information retrieval
   * Intelligent decision support
   * Intelligent techniques for personalization and recommendation
   * Intelligent user interfaces
   * Knowledge engineering
   * Knowledge representation and reasoning
   * Large scale knowledge management
   * Logic and constraint programming
   * Machine learning
   * Multi-agent systems
   * Multimedia systems
   * Natural language processing
   * Neural networks
   * Ontologies (creating, learning, mapping, merging, alignment, evolution)    * Planning
   * Robotics
   * Semantic interoperability
   * Semantic peer-to-peer and grid systems
   * Semantic web content creation and annotation
   * Semantic web for desktops or personal information management
   * Semantic web for e-learning, e-business, e-culture, e-government, healthcare    * Semantic web inference schemes
   * Semantic web services (description, invocation, composition)    * Semantic web technologies for collaboration and cooperation    * Social network analysis, including community discovery and structure
   * Social networks and processes on the semantic web
   * Trust, privacy, and security on the web
   * Visualization and modelling and AI

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least two members of the program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper.

The best paper of the conference, as selected by the AIMSA 2010 programme committee, will receive the Best Paper Award during the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
   Submission deadline: April 15, 2010     Notification of acceptance: June 05, 2010
   Deadline for camera-ready: June 25, 2010
   Conference: September 8-10, 2010

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PDF format) on the address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimsa2010.

Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 pages, font Times 11pt. Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords.

Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at AIMSA 2010 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work.

Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author.

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence subline of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.

LOCATION
AIMSA will be held at the Golden Sands Tourist Complex, 18 km from the north-east of Varna and 24 km from Varna airport. More information is available in the brochure at the conference web site.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR
Darina Dicheva Winston-Salem State University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
dichevad@wssu.edu
http://myweb.wssu.edu/dichevad/
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Danail Dochev Institute of Information Technologies
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G. Bonchev 29A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail:  dochev@iinf.bas.bg

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Gennady Agre (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)  Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)   Grigoris Antoniou (ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece)     Annalisa Appice (University of Bari, Italy)  Sören Auer (University of Leipzig, Germany) Franz Baader (Technical University Dresden, Germany)  Roman Barták (Charles University, Czech Republic)  Petr Berka (University of Economics, Prague)   Mária Bieliková (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia) Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy) Paulo Bouquet (University of Trento, Italy) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Valerie Camps (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France)  Yves Demazeau (CNRS, LIG Laboratory, France) Christo Dichev (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
Ying Ding (Indiana University, USA) Danail Dochev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Peter Dolog (Aalborg University, Denmark)  Ben du Boulay (University of Sussex, UK) Stefan Edelkamp (TZI, Bremen University, Germany) Floriana Esposito (University of Bari, Italy) Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)  Dragan Gasevic (Athabasca University, Canada)  Chiara Ghidini (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)  Enrico Giunchiglia (University of Genova, Italy) Vania Dimitrova (University of Leeds, UK)   Martin Dzbor (Open University, UK)  Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool, UK) Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh, UK) Dominikus Heckmann (Saarland University, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Geert-Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Irena Koprinska (University of Sydney, Australia)  Atanas Kyriakov (Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp., Bulgaria) H. Chad Lane (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies, USA)  Ruben Lara (Telefonica R&D, Spain) Dominique Longin (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France)  Pierre Marquis (University of Artois, France) Erica Melis (German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany) Michela Milano (University of Bologna, Italy) Tanja Mitrovic (University of Canterbury , New Zealand)  Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Radoslav Pavlov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)  Marco Pistore (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)  Enric Plaza (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute – CSIC, Spain) Allan Ramsay (University of Manchester, UK)  Zbigniew Ras  (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) Ioannis Refanidis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Paolo Rosso (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari, Italy)  Luciano Serafini (FBK, Center for Information Technology, Italy)       Pavel Shvaiko (TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy)  Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Umberto Straccia (Institute of Information Science and Technologies - CNR, Italy) York Sure (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool, UK)    Annette ten Teije (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands)  Klaus Tochtermann (Know-Center Graz, Austria) Dan Tufis (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Romania) Petko Valtchev (University of Montréal, Canada) Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) Johanna Voelker (University of Mannheim, Germany)

ORGANISERS
Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association
Institute of Information Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IIT – BAS)

Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2010 @ GDN)

Second International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational
Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2010 @ GDN)

               June 21 - 24, 2010, Delft, The Netherlands

                              http://mmi.tudelft.nl/HuCom10/

IMPORTANT DATES:

- April 1, 2010: Paper Submissions Due
- April 16, 2010: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
- May 1, 2010: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers
- June 21 - 24, 2010: Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation

PUBLICATION:

We are pleased to solicit original and unpublished papers for publication and presentation in the Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation. Articles describing novel ideas and applications in all areas related to human factors and computational models in negotiation are of interest. We also invite submissions of statements of interests or position papers. Submit your paper electronically in either PDF or postscript format. Papers should not be more 6000 words. Submission is entirely automated by a paper management tool, which is available from the main web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hucom10. 
 

Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Group Decision and Negotiation conference.

AIMS AND SCOPE:

Negotiation is a complex and sometimes emotional decision-making process aiming to reach an agreement to exchange goods or services. Although a daily activity, extensive research has shown that few people are effective negotiators. Current state of the art negotiation support systems can help make a significant improvement in negotiation performance. In particular, when the negotiation space is well-understood such systems can make a difference, partly because machines can much better deal with the computational complexity involved. However, the negotiation space can only be properly developed if the human parties jointly explore their interests.

The inherent semantic problem and the emotional issues involved make that negotiation cannot be handled by artificial intelligence alone, and a human-machine collaborative system is required. Such systems are not only to support humans in providing strategic advice but also in coping with emotions and moods in human-human interactions.

In order to develop human-machine collaborative negotiation support systems there is a need for the development of computational models, frameworks, and experimental, user-centred and ergonomic methods that enable the engineering of negotiation support systems. It is important for this purpose to study the role of human factors in negotiation as well as computational models to enable intelligent support for negotiation. To develop the next generation of negotiation support systems there are still many, diverse challenges:

models of (qualitative, incomplete) preferences, preference change and strategies, preference elicitation, assessment methods for negotiation performance, learning and adaptativeness in negotiation, models of emotion and user awareness, the use and creation of domain knowledge, user interfaces for negotiation support, human-supported assessment of opponent, conflict handling styles, experimental methods.

Topics covered include but are not limited to:
 

- Negotiation strategies (bidding, acceptance)
- Argumentation for negotiation
- Negotiation interaction
- Learning in negotiation
- Negotiation domain knowledge
- Case studies
- Preference elicitation
- Qualitative preferences
- Incomplete preferences
- Ontologies for negotiation (protocols, preferences, domain knowledge)
- Negotiation Support Systems
- User interfaces for Negotiation Support Systems
- Human-machine negotiation
- Negotiation, conflict handling, and experiments related to e.g. consensus building
- Personality in negotiation (e.g. Big Five)
- Emotions in negotiation
- Cultural factors in negotiation
- Negotiation bidding advice
- Negotiation conflict styles
- Trust in automatically generated negotiation advice
- Negotiation applications
- E-commerce
- Methods and tools for negotiation tasks
- Design and Evaluation of support systems
- Conflict handling styles and consensus building
- HCI aspects and human factors of negotiation
 

Program Chairs:

Koen Hindriks - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Catholijn Jonker - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Pascal Wiggers - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Brooke Abrahams, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Reyhan Aydogan, Bogazici University, Turkey
Willem-Paul Brinkman, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Shaheen Fatima, Loughborough University, UK
Yakov Gal, Harvard University, US
Joseph Giampapa, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Gert Jan Hofstede, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Mark Hoogendoorn, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Takayuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Raz Lin, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Steve Love, Brunel University, UK
Tom McEwan, Napier University, UK
Mark Neerincx, TNO, The Netherlands
Iyad Rahwan, Masdar Institute of Science & Technology, United Arab Emirates
Valentin Robu, University of Southamption, UK
Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dmytro Tykhonov, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Tim Verwaart, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

INFORMATION:

For further information please contact: k.v.hindriks@tudelft.n

2010 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2010)

2010 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2010)

August 28-30, 2010, Toronto, Canada

Homepage: http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10
Mirror page: http://www.yorku.ca/amtbi10 

Co-organized by IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
                Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) 
Co-sponsored by York University, Toronto, Canada
                Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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# Papers Due: *** 31 March 2010 *** 
# Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of 
# the series of LNCS/LNAI.
# Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be
# considered for publication in special issues of journals,
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Brain Informatics (BI) is an emerging interdisciplinary and
multi-disciplinary research field that focuses on studying the
mechanisms underlying the human information  processing system (HIPS). 
BI investigates the essential functions of the brain, ranging from
perception to thinking, and encompassing such areas as multi-
perception, attention, memory, language, computation, heuristic
search, reasoning, planning, decision-making, problem-solving,
learning, discovery, and creativity.  One goal of BI research is to
develop and demonstrate a systematic approach to an integrated
understanding of macroscopic and microscopic level working principles
of the brain, by means of experimental, computational, and cognitive
neuroscience studies, as well as utilizing advanced Web Intelligence 
(WI) centric information technologies.  Another goal is to promote
new forms of collaborative and interdisciplinary work.  New kinds
of BI methods and global research communities will emerge, through
infrastructure on the wisdom Web and knowledge grids that enables high
speed and distributed, large-scale analysis and computations, and
radically new ways of data/knowledge sharing.

The series of Brain Informatics Conferences started with
The First WICI International Workshop on Web Intelligence meets 
Brain Informatics (WImBI'06), held at Beijing, China, December 
15-16, 2006.  The second conference, Brain Informatics 2009, was 
held again in Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2009.  The Brain
Informatics Conferences provide a leading international forum to bring
together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as
computer science, information technology, artificial intelligence, Web
intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience, medical science, life
science, economics, data mining, data and knowledge engineering,
intelligent agent technology, human computer interaction, complex
systems, and system science, to explore the main research problems in
BI lie in the interplay between the studies of human brain and the
research of informatics.  On the one hand, one models and
characterizes the functions of the human brain based on the notions of
information processing systems. WI centric information technologies
are applied to support brain science studies.  For instance, the
wisdom Web and knowledge grids enable high-speed, large-scale
analysis, simulation, and computation as well as new ways of sharing
research data and scientific discoveries.  On the other hand,
informatics-enabled brain studies, e.g., based on fMRI, EEG, MEG
significantly broaden the spectrum of theories and models of brain
sciences and offer new insights into the development of human-level
intelligence on the wisdom Web and knowledge grids.

Brain Informatics 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010
International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2010).  
The two conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend workshops, sessions, exhibits and demonstrations across the two
conferences.

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Topics of Interest
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CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

- Thinking and perception-centric investigations of HIPS:

* Human reasoning mechanisms 
  (e.g., principles of human deductive/inductive reasoning, 
   common-sense reasoning, decision making, and problem solving)
* Human learning mechanisms 
  (e.g., stability, personalized user/student models)
* Emotion, heuristic search, information granularity, and autonomy 
  related issues in human reasoning and problem solving
* Human higher cognitive functions and their relationships
* Human multi-perception mechanisms and visual, auditory, 
  and tactile information processing
* Methodologies for systematic design of cognitive experiments
* Investigating spatiotemporal characteristics and flow in HIPS and
  the related neural structures and neurobiological process 
* Cognitive architectures; their relations to fMRI/EEG/MEG
* HIPS meets complex systems
* Modeling brain information processing mechanisms
  (e.g., neuro-mechanism, mathematical, cognitive and computational models 
   of HIPS).

- Information technologies for the management and use of brain data:

* Human brain data collection, pre-processing, management, and analysis
* Databasing the brain and constructing data brain models
* Data brain modeling and formal conceptual models of human brain data
* Multi-media brain data mining and reasoning
* Multi-aspect analysis in fMRI/EEG/MEG activations
* Simulating spatiotemporal characteristics and flow in HIPS
* Developing brain data grids and brain research support portals
* Knowledge representation and discovery in neuroimaging
* Multimodal information fusion for brain image interpretation
* Statistical analysis and pattern recognition in neuroimaging

- Applications

* Neuro-economics and neuro-marketing
* Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) 
* Brain/Cognition inspired artificial systems
* Wisdom Web systems based on new cognitive and computational models
* MCI and AD diagnosis 
* e-Science, e-Health and e-Medicine

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
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High-quality papers in all BI related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive review. 
All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a
volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). (Pending for approval.)

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI 
manuscript submission guidelines (available at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) 
for their initial submissions (a maximum of 12 pages in Springer 
LNCS/LNAI style file).  All papers must be submitted electronically 
in PDF format only, using the conference management tool. 

We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result 
paper sessions. More detailed instructions and a paper submission 
form can be found the BI'10 Web page at
http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10/

A selected number of the best papers from BI'10 will be expanded
and revised for possible inclusion in "Knowledge and Information Systems:
An International Journal" (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) by Springer
and "Cognitive Systems Research: An International Journal"
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13890417) by Elsevier. 

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Awards
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BI 2009 best paper awards and student paper awards will be conferred
on the authors at the conference.  

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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers 
(12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file): 
*** 31 March 2010 *** 

Notification of paper acceptance: June 1, 2010
Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 24, 2010
Conference:  August 28-30, 2010

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Conference Organization
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Conference General Chairs:
 * Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

Program Chairs:
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
 * Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Organizing Chair:
 * Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada

Publicity Chairs:
 * Jian Yang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China
 * Daniel Tao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

WIC Advisory Board:
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Technical Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

*** Contact Information ***

Email: Yiyu Yao 
       Jimmy Huang 

CfP: Active Media Technology 2010

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            Active Media Technology 2010

                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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2010 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2010)

August 28-30, 2010, Toronto, Canada

Homepage: http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10/
Mirror page: http://www.yorku.ca/amtbi10 

Co-organized by Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) 
                IEEE Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI)
Co-sponsored by York University, Toronto, Canada
                Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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# Papers Due: *** 31 March 2010 *** 
# Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of 
# the series of LNCS/LNAI.
# Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be
# considered for publication in special issues of journals,
##################################################################

In the great digital era, we are witnessing many rapid
scientific and technological developments in human-centred,
seamless computing environments, interfaces, devices, and
systems with applications ranging from business and communication
to entertainment and learning. These developments are collectively
best characterized as Active Media Technology (AMT), a new area
of intelligent information technology and computer science that
emphasizes the proactive, seamless roles of interfaces and systems
as well as new media in all aspects of digital life. An AMT based
system offers services to enable the rapid design, implementation
and support of customized solutions.

The first International Conference on Active Media Technology
(AMT01) was held in Hong Kong in 2001, the second International
Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT04) was held in Chongqing,
China in May 29-31 of 2004, the third International Conference on
Active Media Technology (AMT05) was held in Kagawa, Japan in May
2005, the fourth International Conference on Active Media
Technology (AMT06) was held in Brisbane, Australia in June 7-9,
2006, and the fifth International Conference on Active Media
Technology (AMT09) was jointly held with the 2009
International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2009).
Following the success of AMT01, AMT04, AMT05, AMT06 and AMT09,
the Sixth International Conference on Active Media Technology
(AMT10) will be held in Toronto, Canada from August 28-30, 2010.

Active Media Technology 2010 will be jointly held with the 2010
International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2010).  The two
conferences will have a joint opening, keynote, reception, and
banquet. Attendees only need to register for one conference and can
attend sessions, exhibits and demonstrations across the
two conferences.

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Topics of Interest
+++++++++++++++++++

CONFERENCE TOPICS AND AREAS INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO

* Active Computer Systems and Intelligent Interfaces
* Adaptive Web Systems and Information Foraging Agents
* Agent-Based Software Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems
* AMT for Semantic Web and Web2.0
* Cognitive Foundations for AMT
* Conversational Informatics
* Data Mining, Ontology Mining and Web Reasoning
* Digital City and Digital Interactivity
* E-Commerce and Web Services
* E-learning
* Entertainment and Social Applications of Active Media
* Evaluation of Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Human-Web Interaction
* Human Factors in AMT
* Information Retrieval
* Machine Learning and Human-Centred Robotics
* Multi-Modal Processing, Detection, Recognition, and
  Expression Analysis
* Network, Mobile and Wireless Security
* Personalized, Pervasive, and Ubiquitous Systems and their
  Interfaces
* Semantic Computing for Active Media and AMT Based Systems
* Sensing Web
* Smart Digital Media
* Trust on Web Information Systems
* Web Based Social Networks
* Web Mining, Wisdom Web and Web Intelligence

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On-Line Submissions and Publication
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

High-quality papers in all AMT related areas are solicited. Papers
exploring new directions will receive a careful and supportive
review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of
technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. 

The proceeding of the conference will be published by Springer as a
volume of the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI).
Extensions of selected papers from the proceedings will be
considered for publication in special issues of international journals,
including Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Springer, 
http://www.editorialmanager.com/jiis/).

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript
submission guidelines (available at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) for their initial
submissions (a maximum of 12 pages in Springer LNCS/LNAI style file). 
All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format
only, using the conference management tool. 

We will also have poster, demonstration, and late breaking result
paper sessions. Detailed instructions and a paper submission form
can be found the AMT'10 Web page at http://www.wici-lab.org/amtbi10/

A selected number of the best papers from AMT'10 will be expanded
and revised for possible inclusion in "Knowledge and Information Systems:
An International Journal" (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) by Springer
and "Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal"
(http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) by IOS Press.

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Awards
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AMT 2010 best paper awards and student paper awards will be
conferred on the authors at the conference.

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Important Dates
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Electronic submission of full papers 
(12 pages in Springer LNAI/LNCS style file):  
*** 31 March 2010 *** 

Notification of paper acceptance: June 1, 2010
Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 24, 2010
Conference:  August 28-30, 2010

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Conference Organization
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Conference General Chairs:
 * Sheela Petty, University of Regina, Canada
 * Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan

Program Chairs:
 * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada
 * Aijun An, York University, Toronto, Canada

Organizing Chair:
 * Jimmy Huang, York University, Toronto, Canada

Publicity Chairs:
 * Daniel Tao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
 * Jian Yang, International WIC Institute/BJUT, China

IEEE-CIS-TFBI Chair
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

WIC Co-Chairs/Directors:
 * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
 * Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK

WIC Advisory Board:
 * Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
 * Setsuo Ohsuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
 * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * Philip Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
 * L.A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA

WIC Tech. Committee & WI/IAT Steering Committee:
 * Jeffrey Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA
 * Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK
 * Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
 * Jianchang Mao, Yahoo! Inc., USA
 * Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Compiegne University of Technology, France
 * Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
 * Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
 * Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
 * Jinglong Wu, Okayama University, Japan
 * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
 * Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada


*** Contact Information ***

Email: Pawan Lingras  pawan@cs.smu.ca
       Aijun An  aan@cse.yorku.ca

CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010

      !!!   CALL FOR TUTORIALS -- EASSS 2010   !!!

The twelfth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer
School (EASSS 2010) will be in conjunction with MALLOW 2010
and take place at

  Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne
                  Saint-Etienne, France
                   23-27 August, 2010
                http://easss2010.emse.fr

Researchers and lecturers in the field of autonomous agents
and multi-agent systems are invited to submit a proposal
for a state-of-the-art course in the twelfth edition of the
European Agent Systems Summer School. Like its very successful
predecessors, EASSS 2010 aims to offer a valuable forum for
knowledge exchange between various research groups in this field
for the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and
advanced level. The success of this summer school is essential not
only for the mutual benefit of research groups, but also in
forming future generations of researchers to maintain the
excellence of Agents research and development in Europe.

Tutors are encouraged to submit a 1-page course proposal including:
the topic and its importance for the field, intended audience and
their required background knowledge, outline of the topics to be
presented, how the course material will be prepared, the tutors
and their experience, level of the course (beginners/advanced),
duration (typically 4 or 6 hours), and any special equipment
requirements. Proposals will be evaluated based on the importance and
quality of the topic description, the quality of the presentation
material, and the teaching ability of the proposed speakers.

Deadline for proposals:         April 18, 2010
Notification:                   May 24,   2010
material for reader (< 26 pp)   July 4,   2010

A typical course has 4 hours in total, but variations are
possible. Courses should be broad enough to provide a general
introduction to the chosen topic, but it should also cover
the most important contributions in depth. Courses are expected
to take a wider perspective than one specific approach practised
by an individual or group. For an impression, the courses given in
2001 are collected in a volume of Springer's LNAI series (No 2086),
and programmes of previous editions of EASSS can be found via the
webpage of EASSS09 (http://agents009.di.unito.it/EASSS.html).

The summer schools attract about 100 students each year. We intend
to give a modest contribution towards tutors' expenses by providing
free accommodation, but EASSS would not normally cover tutors'
travel costs. Please note that this year EASSS is in conjunction
(but not co-located) with MALLOW 2010 for the third time and takes
place one week before that event. MALLOW 2010 will be in Lyon
(very close to Saint-Etienne).

Submissions of tutorial proposals should be sent to Mehdi Dastani
(mehdi@cs.uu.nl).

The EASSS-2010 Committee members are:

Local Chairs:
Olivier Boissier                Saint-Etienne, France
Gauthier Picard                 Saint-Etienne, France
Laurent Vercouter               Saint-Etienne, France

Program Committee:
Mehdi Dastani (chair)           Utrecht, Netherlands
Rafael Bordini                  Durham, UK
Catholijn Jonker                Delft, Netherlands
Barbara Keplicz                 Warszawa, Poland
Nicolas Maudet                  Paris, France
Andrea Omicini                  Bologna, Italy
Michal Pechoucek                Prague, Czech Republic

For information about local organisation please contact
Laurent Vercouter (easss2010@emse.fr).

POSSIBLE TOPICS:

* action selection and planning in multi-/agent systems
* adaptation, evolution and learning in multi-/agent systems
* agent-based simulation and modeling
* agent communication, agent dialogues and agent argumentation
* agents, ontologies, web services and semantic web
* agent-oriented software engineering and development methodologies
* agent programming languages and development tools   
* agent standardizations in industry and commerce
* applications and deployment for agents and multi-agent systems
* architectures for multi-agent systems
* artificial market systems, auctions, trading agents and electronic
  commerce, electronic institutions
* autonomous robots and robot teams
* believability, human-like qualities of synthetic agents, humanoid
  and sociable robots
* game theory and coalition formation for agents based systems
* computational complexity in agent systems
* conventions, commitments, norms, social laws and legal issues in
  multi-agent systems
* coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-agent systems
* emergence, self-organisation and collective behavior in agent-based
  systems
* foundational issues and theories of agency     
* information agents, routers, brokering and matchmaking
* logics for specification, verification and validation of
  multi-agent systems
* mobile agents
* negotiation, task and resource allocation, and conflict handling
  in multi-agent systems
* privacy, safety and security in multi-agent systems
* scalability, robustness and dependability of multi-agent systems
* social and cognitive models for agents   
* social and organizational structures of multi-agent systems
* trust and reputation in multi-agent systems
* Multi-agent systems and/for Web Intelligence
* Multi-agent systems and/for Ambient Computing

Second International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2010 @ GDN)

================ CALL FOR PAPERS ==========================

Second International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational
Models in Negotiation (HuCom 2010 @ GDN)

June 21 - 24, 2010, Delft, The Netherlands

http://mmi.tudelft.nl/HuCom10/

IMPORTANT DATES:

• April 1, 2010: Paper Submissions Due
• April 16, 2010: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
• May 1, 2010: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers
• June 21 - 24, 2010: Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational
• Models in Negotiation

PUBLICATION:

We are pleased to solicit original and unpublished papers for publication
and presentation in the Working Conference on Human Factors and
Computational Models in Negotiation. Articles describing novel ideas and
applications in all areas related to human factors and computational models
in negotiation are of interest. We also invite submissions of statements of
interests or position papers. Submit your paper electronically in either PDF
or postscript format. Papers should not be more 6000 words. Submission is
entirely automated by a paper management tool, which is available from the
main web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hucom10. 

Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Group Decision
and Negotiation conference.

AIMS AND SCOPE:

Negotiation is a complex and sometimes emotional decision-making process
aiming to reach an agreement to exchange goods or services. Although a daily
activity, extensive research has shown that few people are effective
negotiators. Current state of the art negotiation support systems can help
make a significant improvement in negotiation performance. In particular,
when the negotiation space is well-understood such systems can make a
difference, partly because machines can much better deal with the
computational complexity involved. However, the negotiation space can only
be properly developed if the human parties jointly explore their interests.
The inherent semantic problem and the emotional issues involved make that
negotiation cannot be handled by artificial intelligence alone, and a
human-machine collaborative system is required. Such systems are not only to
support humans in providing strategic advice but also in coping with
emotions and moods in human-human interactions.

In order to develop human-machine collaborative negotiation support systems
there is a need for the development of computational models, frameworks, and
experimental, user-centred and ergonomic methods that enable the engineering
of negotiation support systems. It is important for this purpose to study
the role of human factors in negotiation as well as computational models to
enable intelligent support for negotiation. To develop the next generation
of negotiation support systems there are still many, diverse challenges:
models of (qualitative, incomplete) preferences, preference change and
strategies, preference elicitation, assessment methods for negotiation
performance, learning and adaptativeness in negotiation, models of emotion
and user awareness, the use and creation of domain knowledge, user
interfaces for negotiation support, human-supported assessment of opponent,
conflict handling styles, experimental methods.

Topics covered include but are not limited to:
- Negotiation strategies (bidding, acceptance)
- Argumentation for negotiation
- Negotiation interaction
- Learning in negotiation
- Negotiation domain knowledge
- Case studies
- Preference elicitation
- Qualitative preferences
- Incomplete preferences
- Ontologies for negotiation (protocols, preferences, domain knowledge)
- Negotiation Support Systems
- User interfaces for Negotiation Support Systems
- Human-machine negotiation
- Negotiation, conflict handling, and experiments related to e.g. consensus
building
- Personality in negotiation (e.g. Big Five)
- Emotions in negotiation
- Cultural factors in negotiation
- Negotiation bidding advice
- Negotiation conflict styles
- Trust in automatically generated negotiation advice
- Negotiation applications
- E-commerce
- Methods and tools for negotiation tasks
- Design and Evaluation of support systems
- Conflict handling styles and consensus building
- HCI aspects and human factors of negotiation

Program Chairs:
 

Koen Hindriks - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Catholijn Jonker - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Pascal Wiggers - Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Brooke Abrahams - Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Reyhan Aydogan - Bogazici University, Turkey
Willem-Paul Brinkman - Delft University of Technology
Frank Dignum - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Shaheen Fatima - Loughborough University, UK
Yakov Gal - Harvard University, US
Joseph Giampapa - Carnegie Mellon University, US
Gert Jan Hofstede - Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Mark Hoogendoorn - Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Takayuki Ito - Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Raz Lin - Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Steve Love - Brunel University, UK
Tom McEwan - Napier University, UK
Mark Neerincx - TNO, The Netherlands
Iyad Rahwan - British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Valentin Robu - University of Southamption, UK
Carles Sierra - IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Liz Sonenberg - University of Melbourne, Australia
Dmytro Tykhonov - Delft University of Technology
Tim Verwaart - Delft University of Technology
Hans Weigand - Tilburg University, The Netherlands
John Zeleznikow - Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

INFORMATION:

For further information please contact: k.v.hindriks@tudelft.nl

Deadline Extension: AISC 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS
      AISC 2010 - 10th International Conference on 
    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION 
        Theory, Implementations and Applications
      http://cicm2010.cnam.fr/aisc/
           
     CNAM, Paris, France, July 5th - July 6th, 2010

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: - Abstracts:      March 9, 2010
                    - Full papers:   March 12, 2010
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INVITED SPEAKERS: James Davenport (http://people.bath.ac.uk/masjhd/)
                  Bruno Salvy     (http://algo.inria.fr/salvy/)
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Artificial  Intelligence and  Symbolic Computation  are two  views and
approaches for automating  problem solving, in particular mathematical
problem solving.  The two  approaches are based  on heuristics  and on
mathematical  algorithmics, respectively. Artificial  Intelligence can
be  applied to Symbolic  Computation and  Symbolic Computation  can be
applied  to Artificial  Intelligence. Hence,  a wealth  of challenges,
ideas, theoretical insights and  results, methods and algorithms arise
in  the  interaction  of  the  two fields  and  research  communities.
Advanced tools of software technology and system design are needed and
a broad spectrum  of applications is possible by  the combined problem
solving power of the two fields.

Hence, the conference is in the center of interest and interaction for
various research communities:

 * Artificial Intelligence  * Logic
 * Symbolic Computation     * Software Technology 
 * Computer Algebra         * Semantic Web Technology
 * Automated Reasoning      * Mathematical Knowledge Management 
 * Formal mathematics       * Computer-based Math Teaching & Didactics
 * Machine Learning         * Computer-Supported Publishing 
 * Automated Discovery      * Language and System Design 
    
Topics
======

Topics of particular interest of the conference include:

  * AI in Symbolic Mathematical Computing
  * Computer Algebra Systems and Automated Theorem Provers
  * Symmetries in AI problems
  * Engineering, Industrial and Operations Research Applications
  * Foundations and Complexity of Symbolic Computation
  * Mathematical Modeling of Multi-Agent Systems
  * Implementations of Symbolic Computation Systems
  * Programming Languages for Symbolic Computation
  * Symbolic Computations for Expert Systems and Machine Learning
  * Symbolic Computation and Ontologies 
  * Logic and Symbolic Computing
  * Implementation and Performance Issues
  * Intelligent Interfaces
  * Symbolic Techniques for Document Analysis

Papers on  other topics  with links to  the above research  fields and
topics will also be welcomed for consideration.

Proceedings
===========

The proceedings of the conference will be published as a volume in the
series   Lecture   Notes   in   Artificial  Intelligence   (LNAI)   by
Springer-Verlag. Accepted papers will have to be prepared in LaTeX and
formatted according to the  requirements of the Springer's LNAI series
(the    corresponding   style   files    can   be    downloaded   from
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html  and  are  the same  for
LNCS and LNAI).   In addition to the  formal proceedings  published by
Springer,  we intend to  make online versions  of the published papers 
available from the conference website.

Submission
==========

Theoretical and applied research papers on all topics within the scope
of the conference are invited.  Submitted papers (in English) must not
exceed 15 pages  in length (in the LNCS style).  The title page should
contain the title,  author(s) with affiliation(s), e-mail address(es),
listing of keywords  and abstract plus the topics  from the above list
to which the paper is related. The program committee (PC) will subject
all  submitted papers  to a  peer review.  Theoretical papers  will be
judged  on their  originality  and contribution  to  their field,  and
applied papers  on the importance and originality  of the application.
Results must be original and have not been published elsewhere.

The web page for electronic submission is at:

  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aisc20100

Best Paper Awards
=================

Every  submission automatically  competes  for the  Best Paper  Award.
Papers  which have  been mainly  developed  by (PhD)  students can  be
marked as student papers upon  submission to also compete for the Best
Student Paper Award.

Important Dates
===============

 Abstract Submission deadline (extended):       Tuesday, March 9, 2010 
 Submission deadline (extended):                Friday, March 12, 2010
 Notification:                                          April 18, 2010
 Camera Ready Version:                                  April 28, 2010
 Conference:                                     July 5 - July 6, 2010