CFP: AI, People, and the Web (AIMSA 2006)

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                The 12th International Conference on
       Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications
                             AIMSA 2006
                       - AI, people and the web -
                Varna, Bulgaria, 13-15th September, 2006
                    http://www.aimsaconference.org/

SCOPE

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 2006 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 2006, we would like to
put the emphasis on a specific phenomenon that affects all areas of
AI: the application and leverage of artificial intelligence technology
in the context of human = collaboration which today is mediated by the
web.

Artificial intelligence is used for supporting human communication in a
wide variety of ways. For example, reasoning over the semantic web,
analysing relationships between people, enhancing the user experience
by learning from their behavior, applying natural language to large
multilingual corpora, planning a combination of web services, adapting
and personalizing educational material, etc. All Artificial intelligence
techniques are amenable to facilitating communication on the web.

Moreover, these techniques are not deployed in isolation but are
typically combined with results from other disciplines such as the
social sciences, discrete mathematics, network computing, or
cryptography. AIMSA 2006 aims to reflect this plethora of avenues
whereby Artificial intelligence supports human collaboration based
activities.

LOCATION
AIMSA 2006 will be held at the Sunny Day Tourist Complex, 10 km to the
north-east of Varna and 16 km from Varna Airport.

LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.

CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN
John Domingue
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON
Jerome Euzenat
INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Montbonnot, France

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submissions should describe original research and should be sent
electronically at
<http://aimsa2006.inrialpes.fr/>http://aimsa2006.inrialpes.fr in PDF
format. Papers should be written in English and should be no more than
10 pages, font Times New Roman 11pt. The first page should contain the
title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including
e-mail, if available), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of
keywords
(<http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html>http://www.springer.de/co
mp/lncs/authors.html).

Papers accepted for presentation at AIMSA 2006 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.

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
- Computer vision
- Data mining and data analysis
- Data semantics
- Dialogue management and argumentation
- Distributed AI
- AI and Human-computer interaction
- Information integration
- Information retrieval
- 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, linking, merging, reconciliation)
- Planning
- Robotics
- Semantic peer-to-peer and grid systems
- Semantic interoperability
- Semantic web for e-business and e-learning
- Semantic web inference schemes
- Semantic web services (description, invocation, composition)
- Social desktop and personalisation
- Social network analysis
- Tools and methodologies for multi-agent software systems
- Trust, privacy, and security on the semantic web
- AI and visualization and modeling
- AI and web-based technology

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 2006
programme committee, will receive the Best Paper Award during the
conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2006
Deadline for final papers: June 30, 2006
Conference: September 13-15, 2006