CFP: AI Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA2006)

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

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

        **** Extended deadline: April 28th (see details below) ****
              **** Proceedings published by Springer/LNCS ****

  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.

  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 behaviour,
  applying natural language to large multilingual corpora, planning a
  combination of web services, adapting and personalising 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.

  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
       * Human-computer interaction and AI
       * 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 web
       * Visualization and modelling and AI
       * Web-based technology 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 2006
  programme committee, will receive the Best Paper Award during the
  conference.

  IMPORTANT DATES
  Abstract submission deadline: April 21, 2006
  Submission deadline: April 28, 2006
  Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2006
  Deadline for final papers: June 30, 2006
  Conference: September 13-15, 2006

  SUBMISSION DETAILS
  Papers have to be submitted electronically on
  http://aimsa2006.inrialpes.fr. in PDF format. Author are requested to
  register by the site and submit an abstract first. They will be able
  to update their papers.

  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, if available), an
  abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords.

  Submissions should describe original research. 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.

  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 he Sunny Day Tourist Complex, 10km from the
  north-east of Varna and 16km from Varna airport. More information is
  available in the brochure at the conference web site.

  CHAIRS

  Conference chairman
       John Domingue (Open university, UK)
  Programme chairman
       J=E9r=F4me Euzenat (INRIA Rh=F4ne-Alpes, FR)

 REGISTRATION
 The registration information is now available on the conference =
website:
 www.aimsaconference.org