AI Magazine Volume 23 Number 1 (2002) (© AAAI) Calendar Calendar of Events Voice: +44-131 650 2732 Fax: +44-131 650 6513 E-mail: ksco-2002@aiai.ed.ac.uk www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coalition/ksc o/ksco-2002.html May 2002 April 2002 APRIL 3- 6 Fourth International Conference in Enterprise Information Systems. Ciudad Real, Spain ■ Sponsors: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setbal ■ Contact: Hugo Gamboa Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha E. S. Informatica Universidad de Castilha-La Mancha Ciudad Rea 1000 Spain Voice: 34-926 295 300 ext: 3744 Fax: 34-926 295 354 E-mail: secretariat@iceis.org www.iceis.org/ APRIL 13 Michigan Regional Botball Robot Tournament. Ann Arbor, MI ■ Sponsors: American Association for Artificial Intelligence, NASA Robotics Education Project, LEGO ■ Contact: Darcy Schein KISS Institute for Practical Robotics 1818 W. Lindsey, Bldg. D, Ste. 100 Norman, OK 73069 Voice: 405-579-4609 Fax: 405-329-4664 E-mail: dschein@kipr.org www.botball.org APRIL 18–20 Diagrams 2002: Second International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams. Callaway Gardens at Pine Mountain, GA ■ Sponsors: AAAI, Cognitive Science Society, Office of Naval Research ■ Contact: N. Hari Narayanan Auburn University, Computer Science and Software Engineering, 107 Dunstan Hall, Auburn, AL 36849 Voice: 334-844-6312 Fax: 334-844-6329 E-mail: narayan@eng.auburn.edu kogs-www.informatik.unihamburg.de/~d2k2/ APRIL 19–21 2002 International Workshop on Description Logics. Toulouse, France ■ Sponsors: AAAI, Network Inference, Hewlett Packard ■ Contact: Deborah McGuinness Stanford University Computer Science Department Gates Building 2A Stanford, CA 94305 Voice: 650-723 9770 Fax: 650 -725 5850 E-mail: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu www.cs.man.ac.uk/dl2002/ APRIL 22–25 Eighth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Toulouse, France ■ Sponsors: Knowledge Representation, Inc. ■ Contact: Deborah McGuinness Stanford University Computer Science Department Gates Building 2A Room 241 Stanford, CA 94305 Voice: 650-7239770 Fax: 650-725 5850 E-mail: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu www.kr.org/kr/kr02/ APRIL 23–27 AIPS'02 Sixth International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling. Toulouse, France ■ Contact: Malik Ghallab LAAS RIA 7, Ave du Colonel Roche Toulouse Cedex 4 31077 France Voice: 33-5 61 33 62 59 Fax: 33-5 61 33 64 55 E-mail: aips@laas.fr www.laas.fr/aips/ MAY 4 DC Regional Botball Robot Tournament. Alexandria, DC ■ Sponsors: American Association for Artificial Intelligence, NASA Robotics Education Project, LEGO ■ Contact: Darcy Schein KISS Institute for Practical Robotics 1818 W. Lindsey, Bldg. D, Ste. 100 Norman, OK 73069 Voice: 405-579-4609 Fax: 405-329-4664 E-mail: dschein@kipr.org www.botball.org MAY 4 Indiana Regional Botball Robot Tournament. Terre Haute, IN ■ Sponsors: American Association for Artificial Intelligence, NASA Robotics Education Project, LEGO ■ Contact: Darcy Schein KISS Institute for Practical Robotics 1818 W. Lindsey, Bldg. D, Ste. 100 Norman, OK 73069 Voice: 405-579-4609 Fax: 405-329-4664 E-mail: dschein@kipr.org www.botball.org MAY 6–9 Maghrebian Conference on Computer Sciences. Annaba - Algeria, ■ Sponsors: University of Annaba, AIPS ■ Contact: Mokhtar Sellami Research Laboratory on Computer Science, University Annaba Sidi Ammar, AL 23000 Algeria Voice: 213-61321307 Fax: 213-38872991 E-mail: sellami@univ-annaba.net www.mcseai02.univ-annaba.net APRIL 23–24 Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations 2002. Toulouse, France ■ Contact: Austin Tate University of Edinburgh AIAI 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN UK MAY 7–9 Eleventh Conference on ComputerGenerated Forces and Behavior Representation. Orlando, FL ■ Sponsors: Air Force Research Lab, DARPA, Defense SPRING 2002 123 Calendar ■ Modeling and Simulation Office JUNE 12–15 JUNE 24–27 Contact: Kevin Gluck Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL/HEA 6030 S. Kent St. Mesa, AZ 85212-6061 Voice: 480-988-6561 Fax: 480-988-6560 E-mail: Kevin.Gluck@williams.af.mil www.sisostds.org/cgfbr/11th/index.htm The Second International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'02). Cambridge, MA The 2002 International Conference in Artificial Intelligence. Las Vegas, NV ■ ■ MAY 11 Silicon Valley Regional Botball Robot Tournament. San Jose, CA ■ ■ Sponsors: American Association for Artificial Intelligence, NASA Robotics Education Project, LEGO Contact: Darcy Schein KISS Institute for Practical Robotics 1818 W. Lindsey, Bldg. D, Ste. 100 Norman, OK 73069 Voice: 405-579-4609 Fax: 405-329-4664 E-mail: dschein@kipr.org www.botball.org Fifteenth International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. Cairns, Australia ■ Sponsors: International Society of Applied Intelligence, Southwest Texas State University (SWT), Centre for Intelligent Systems and Complex Processes, SUT, Australia ■ Contact: Tim Hendtlass Swinburne University of Technology Centre for Intelligent Systems and Complex Processes P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn 3122 Australia Voice: 61 3-9214 8863 Fax: 61 3-9819 0856 E-mail: chair@iea2002aie.bsee.swin. edu.au, iea2002aie.bsee.swin.edu.au FIfteenth International FLAIRS Conference. Pensacola, FL ■ Sponsors: Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (in cooperation with AAAI) Contact: Gene Simmons University of South Alabama School of Computer and Information Science FCW 20 Mobile, AL 36688 Voice: 251-460-6390 Fax: 251-460-7274 E-mail: simmons@cis.usouthal.edu www.flairs.com June 2002 JUNE 10–12 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). Sardinia, Italy ■ Sponsors: OntoWeb, Network Inference ■ Contact: Deborah McGuinness Stanford University Computer Science Department Gates Building 2A Stanford, CA 94305 Voice: 650-723 9770 Fax: 650 -725 5850 E-mail: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu iswc.semanticweb.org/ 124 AI MAGAZINE Contact: Juyang Weng Michigan State University Department of Computer Science and Engineering 3115 Engineering Building East Lansing, MI 48824-1226 Voice: 517-353-4388 Fax: 517-353-4388 E-mail: weng@cse.msu.edu www.egr.msu.edu/icdl02/ JUNE 17–20 MAY 16–18 ■ Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Cognitive Science Society JUNE 24–27 International Workshop on Computer Modeling of Scientific Reasoning and Applications. Las Vegas, NV ■ Sponsor: CSREA - Computer Science Research, Education and Applications Press ■ Contact: Claudio Delrieux Universidad Nacional del Sur Electrical Eng. Dept. c.c. 127 Baha Blanca 8000 Argentina Voice: 54-291-4595101 ext. 3381 Fax: 54-291-4595154 E-mail: claudio@acm.org www.lip.uns.edu.ar/cmsra ■ Sponsors: CSREA, World Academy of Sciences (pending) ■ Contact: Hamid R. Arabnia The University of Georgia Computer Science 415 GSRC Building Athens, GA 30602-7404 Voice: 706-542-3480 Fax: 706-542-2966 E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/ JUNE 25–27 European Business Rules Conference. Zurich, Switzerland ■ Sponsors: KnowGravity Inc., Model Systems London, ESI Expert Solutions International, Versata ■ Contact: Mr. Markus Schacher KnowGravity Inc. Badenerstr. 808 Zuerich CH-8048 Switzerland Voice: +41-1 434 20 00 E-mail: markus.schacher@knowgravity. com, www.eurobizrules.org July 2002 JULY 15–19 Tenth International Conference pn Conceptual Structures. Borovets, Bulgaria ■ Sponsors: CLPP-BAS (as BIS-21 Centre of Excellence) ■ Contact: Galia Angelova Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing (CLPP), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) Linguistic Modelling Department(LMD) acad. G. Bonchev Str. bl.25A Sofia 1113 Bulgaria Voice: 359 2-9796607 Fax: 3592-707273 E-mail: galia@lml.bas.bg lml.bas.bg/iccs2002/ JULY 17–19 Sixth IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2002). Banff, AB Canada Calendar ■ ■ Sponsor: IASTED Contact: Katherine Ruelle IASTED - International Association of Science and Technology for Development #80, 4500 - 16th Avenue NW Calgary, AB T3B 0M6 Canada Voice: 403-288-1195 E-mail: calgary@iasted.com www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/banff /asc.htm JULY 22–23 Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology - IDAMAP 2002. Lyon, France ■ Sponsor: ECCAI ■ Contact: Peter Lucas University of Aberdeen Dept. of Computing Science Meston Building Aberdeen AB24 3UE UK Voice: +44-1224 273829 Fax: +44-1224 273422 E-mail: idamap2002@csd.abdn.ac.uk idamap.org/idamap2002 JULY 28–AUGUST 1 The Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Edmonton, Canada ■ ■ Sponsor: American Association of Artificial Intelligence JULY 28–AUGUST 1 JULY 30–31 AAAI-02 Student Abstract Program. Edmonton, Canada The Fourteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference. Edmonton, Canada ■ ■ Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence Contact: AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Voice: 1-650-328-3123 E-mail: ncai@aaai.org www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2002/aaai02.html JULY 28–AUGUST 1 AAAI-02 Workshop Program. Edmonton, Canada ■ ■ Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence Contact: AAAI 445 Burgess Avenue Menlo Park , CA 94025 Voice: 1-650-328-3123 E-mail: workshops@aaai.org www.aaai.org/Workshops/2002/ws02.html ■ Contact: AAAI 445 Burgess Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 Voice: 1-650-328-3123 E-mail: iaai@aaai.org www.aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/2002/i aai02.html August 2002 AUGUST 2–4 SARA-Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation. Kananaskis, AB Canada ■ Sponsors: AAAI, NASA-Ames Research Center ■ Contact: Robert Holte University of Alberta Computer Science Dept. 3-49 Athabasca Hall Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8 Canada Voice: 780-492-3105 Fax: 780-492-1071 E-mail: holte@cs.ualberta.ca www.cs.ualberta.ca/~holte/SARA2002 AAAI-02 Intelligent Systems Demonstrations Program. Edmonton, Canada ■ ■ Contact: AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Voice: 1-650-328-3123 E-mail: ncai@aaai.org www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2002/aaai02.html Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence Contact: George Ferguson Department of Computer Science University of Rochester Rochester NY 14627-0226 Voice: 716-275-5766 E-mail: ferguson@cs.rochester.edu www.cs.rochester.edu/research/aaai200 2/isd/ JULY 28–AUGUST 1 AAAI-02 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition. Edmonton, Canada AAAI-02 Doctoral Consortium Program. Edmonton, Canada ■ Sponsor: The American Association for Artificial Intelligence JULY 28–AUGUST 1 JULY 28–AUGUST 1 ■ ■ Sponsors: American Association for Artificial Intelligence ■ Contact: AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Voice: 1-650-328-3123 E-mail: ncai@aaai.org www.aaai.org/Conferences/ National/2002/aaai02.html ■ Sponsors: American Association for Artificial Intelligence, ACM SIGART Contact: AAAI 445 Burgess Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 Voice: 1-650-328-3213 E-mail: ncai@aaai.org www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2002/aaai02.html AUGUST 4–11 Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 2002. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK ■ Sponsor: International Society for Adaptive Behavior ■ Contact: Bridget Hallam University of Southern Denmark Biology institute Campusvej 55 Odense DK 5230 Denmark Voice: 00-45 6550 2763 E-mail: sab02@isab.org.uk www.isab.org/sab02/ AUGUST 12–14 Third International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. Manchester, UK ■ Sponsors: IEEE Neural Networks, EPSRC, SpringerVerlag ■ Contact: Hujun Yin IDEAL 2002 Secretariat SPRING 2002 125 Calendar Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, UMIST, PO Box 88 Manchester M60 1QD UK Voice: 0044-161 200 8714 Fax: 0044-161 200 4784 E-mail: ideal@umist.ac.uk ideal02.ee.umist.ac.uk AUGUST 18–22 Seventh Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-02). Tokyo, Japan ■ Sponsor: The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence ■ Contact: Takao Terano University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Systems Management, 3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112-0012 Japan Voice: 81-3-3942-6855 Fax: 81-3-3942-6829 E-mail: terano@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp pricai-02.nii.ac.jp/ SEPTEMBER 9–13 ■ Sponsor: Argentine Computer Science and Operational Research Society. (SADIO) ■ Paper Submission Deadline: May 6, 2002 ■ Contact: Adriana Zapico Univ. Nacional de Rio Cuarto Dpto. de Computacion. Enlace Ruta 8 y 36 km 601 Rio Cuarto 5800 Argentina Voice: 54-358-4650916 E-mail: zapico@dc.exa.unrc.edu.ar www.dc.uba.ar/people/profesores/santo s/asai2002.html ■ Contact: Mark Musen Medical Informatics Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 5479 Voice: 650-723-6979 Fax: 650-725-7944 E-mail: musen@smi.stanford.edu www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/IIP2002 ■ Engineering of Intelligent Systems (EIS'2002). Malaga, Spain ■ SEPTEMBER 9–10 Second IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2002). Marbella, Spain Sponsors: IASTED ■ Contact: Katherine Ruelle IASTED - International Association of Science and Technology for Development, #80, 4500 - 16th Avenue NW Calgary, AB T3B 0M6 Canada Voice: 403-288-1195 E-mail: calgary@iasted.com www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/spai n/aia.htm 126 AI MAGAZINE Contact: Gerhard Lakemeyer RWTH Aachen Computer Science V (Knowledge-Based Systems) Ahornstrasse 55 Aachen 52056 Germany Voice: 49-241 80 21 530 Fax: 49-241 80 22 321 E-mail: gerhard@informatik.rwthaachen.de ki2002.rwth-aachen.de/ SEPTEMBER 24–27 September 2002 ■ IASTED International Conference on Information and Knowledge Sharing (IKS 2002). St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands ■ ■ ■ Twenty-fifth German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI2002). Aachen, Germany Intelligent Information Processing IIP-2002. Montreal, QC Canada Sponsors: IFIP TC-12 NOVEMBER 18–20 SEPTEMBER 16–20 AUGUST 25–30 ■ 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Voice: 1-650-328-3123 E-mail: fss@aaai.org www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/2002/fss02.html Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence. Santa Fe, Argentina Contact: Nicole Elzebroek NAISO Natural and Artificial Intelligence Systems Organization Parabool 160 Sliedrecht 3364 DH The Netherlands Voice: 31 184-496999 E-mail: eis2002@global-conf.org www.icscnaiso.org/conferences/eis2002 November 2002 NOVEMBER 8–10 The 2002 Fall Symposium Series. Eastern US location ■ Sponsors: American Association for Artificial Intelligence ■ Contact: AAAI Sponsors: IASTED, University of the Virgin Islands Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2002 Contact: Katherine Ruelle IASTED - International Association of Science and Technology for Development #80, 4500 - 16th Avenue NW Calgary, AB T3B 0M6 Canada Voice: 403-288-1195 E-mail: calgary@iasted.com www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/vi/iks .htm NOVEMBER 24–26 The Fifth International Conference on Discovery Science (DS2002). Luebeck, Germany ■ ■ Paper Submission Deadline: May 12, 2002 Contact: Ken Satoh National Institute of Informatics 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi Tokyo 101-8430 Japan Voice: 81-3-4212-2554 E-mail: ksatoh@nii.ac.jp www.dfki.de/~lange/ds2002.html