AI Magazine Volume 25 Number 4 (2004) (© AAAI) Calendar Calendar of Events January 2005 JANUARY 24–28 IPAM-UCLA Probabilistic Models of Cognition: The Mathematics of Mind. Los Angeles, CA USA 4500 16th Ave. NW Calgary, AB T3B 0M6 Canada Voice: 403-288-1195 Fax: 403-247-6851 E-mail: calgary@iasted.org URL: www.iasted.org/conferences/2005/innsbruck/dba.htm ■ Contact: Karen Lee UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, 460 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA Voice: 310-825-4755 Fax: 310-825-4756 E-mail: ipam@ucla.edu URL: www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/ cog2005/ February 2005 FEBRUARY 14–16 IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2005). Innsbruck, Innsbruck ■ Sponsors: IASTED, WMSF ■ Contact: IASTED Secretariat IASTED Conferences #80, 4500 16th Ave. NW Calgary, AB T3B 0M6 Canada Voice: 403-288-1195 Fax: 403-247-6851 E-mail: calgary@iasted.org URL: www.iasted.org/conferences/2005/innsbruck/aia.htm FEBRUARY 14–16 IASTED International Conference on Databases and Appliations (DBA 2005). Innsbruck, Austria ■ Sponsors: IASTED, WMSF ■ Contact: IASTED Secretariat IASTED Conferences #80 December 8, 2004 ■ Contact: Guy Lapalme Université de Montréal, Computer Science, CP 6128, Succ Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7 Canada Voice: 514-343-2145 Fax: 514-343-5834 E-mail: lapalme@iro.umontreal.ca URL: www.iro.umontreal.ca/~ai05 MAY 16–18 The Eighteenth International FLAIRS Conference. Clearwater Beach, FL USA ■ Sponsor: Florida AI Research Society ■ Sponsor: National Science Foundation ■ Submission Deadline: April 2005 APRIL 18–21 International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS ‘05). Waltham, MA ■ Sponsor: IEEE Boston ■ Contact: Leonid Perlovsky, Air Force Research LA SNHE, 80 Scott Drive, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731 USA Voice: 781-377-1728 Fax: 781-377-8984 E-mail: leonid.perlovsky@hanscom. af.mil URL: www.ieeeboston.org/kimas05.htm May 2005 MAY 8–12 Second Workshop on Face Processing in Video (FPiV'05). Victoria, BC Canada ■ Sponsors: CIPPRS, NRC-CNRC ■ Submission Deadline: January 21, 2005 ■ Contact: Dmitry O. Gorodnichy NRC-CNRC, IIT-ITI, Montreal Rd M-50, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6 Canada Voice: 613-998-5298 E-mail: fpiv05@visioninterface.net URL: www.visioninterface.net/fpiv05 MAY 9–11 Canadian AI'2005. Victoria, BC Canada ■ Sponsor: Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence ■ Contact: Diane Cook University of Texas at Arlington Computer Science and Engineering Box 19015 Arlington , TX 76019 USA Voice: 817-272-3606 Fax: 817-272-3784 E-mail: cook@cse.uta.edu URL: ranger.uta.edu/flairs05/ MAY 19–21 The Third International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2005). Takamatsu, Japan ■ Sponsors: Information Processing Society of Japan, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society ■ Contact: Hiroyuki Tarumi Kagawa University, Faculty of Engineering, 2217-20 Hayashi-cho Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0396 Japan Voice: +81 87-864-2214 Fax: +81 87-864-2262 E-mail: tarumi@acm.org URL: www.eng.kagawau.ac.jp/AMT2005/ MAY 22–25 Fourth International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems (CORES 2005). Rydzyna near Leszno, Poland ■ Sponsors: IAPR International Association for Pattern Recognition, WUT Wroclaw University of Technology, TPO Polish Association for Image Processing ■ Submission Deadline: January 3, 2005 ■ Contact: Michal Wozniak WINTER 2004 107 Calendar JUNE 13–16 Intelligent Information Systems: New Trends in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining. Gdaòsk, Poland IJCAI 2005 Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence ■ Contact: Michal Ciesioka Institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Sciences Department of Artificial Intelligence Ordona 21,Warsaw 01-237 Poland Voice: +48 22-8362841 Fax: +48 22-8376564 E-mail: iipwm@ipipan.waw.pl URL: iipwm.ipipan.waw.pl JUNE 22–25 Eighteenth International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. Bari, Italy ■ Sponsors: International Society of Applied Intelligence, AAAI, ACM/SIGART ■ Contact: EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND 30 JULY – 5 AUGUST 2005 Floriana Esposito Universita degli Studi di Ba Dipartimento di Informatica Via E. Orabona 4 Bari 70125 Italy Voice: +39 080-544-3264 Fax: +39 080-544-3264 E-mail: esposito@di.uniba.it URL: www.di.uniba.it/iea-aie/ JUNE 25–27 Electronic Paper and Title Page Submission Deadline – February 1, 2005 www.ijcai-05.org For further information contact: info@ijcai-05.org CRA Snowbird 2006 Conference for Computing Research Leadership. Snowbird, VA USA ■ Sponsor: Computing Research Association ■ Contact: Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, Wroclaw 50-37 Poland Voice: +48 71-320 29 72 Fax: +48 71 -320 29 72 E-mail: cores@pwr.wroc.pl URL: cores.pwr.wroc.pl June 2005 JUNE 6-10 The Tenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-05). Bolgna, Italy ■ Sponsors: 108 AI MAGAZINE The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law, The University of Bologna, Bar Association of Bologna ■ Submission Deadline: January 14, 2005 ■ Contact: Ronald Leenes University of Tilburg, Tilburg Inistitute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), P.O. Box 90153, Tilburg 5000 LE The Netherlands Voice: +31 13-4663655 Fax: +31 13-4668149 E-mail: R.E.Leenes@uvt.nl URL: www.iaail.org Andrew Bernat Computing Research Association, 1100 17th St., NW, Suite 507, Washington, DC 20036 USA Voice: 202-234-2111 E-mail: abernat@cra.org URL: www.cra.org JUNE 27–29 Biennial Israeli Symposium on the Foundations of AI. Haifa, Israel ■ Sponsors: Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science, University of Haifa, IRST Trento, Italy ■ Submission Deadline: April 8, 2005 ■ Contact: Uri J. Schild Calendar ICEIS 2005 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 24 - 28 May 2005, Miami - USA http://www.iceis.org Keynote Speakers Main Topic Areas Databases and Information Systems Integration Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Information Systems Analysis and Specification Software Agents and Internet Computing Human-Computer Interaction Richard Soley, Object Management Group, Inc, USA Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Thomas Greene, MIT, USA Rosalind W. Picard, MIT, USA Henri Barki, HEC Montréal, Canada Daniel Schwabe, PUC-RIO, Brazil M. Lynne Markus, Bentley College, USA Raghavan Srinivas, Sun Microsystems, USA Local Chair: Robin Burke, DePaul University • In cooperation with the American Association in Artificial Intelligence. The ICCBR'05 Program Committee invites submissions of original theoretical research, applied research and deployed application papers on all aspects of Case-Based Reasoning. Important Dates: • Submission deadline: 31 January 2005 • Author notification: 16 March 2005 • Camera ready copy due: 11 April 2005 Program Chairs: • Héctor Muñoz-Avila, Lehigh University • Francesco Ricci, ITC-irst Workshop Coordinator: • Stefanie Bruninghaus, University of Pittsburgh Industry Day Chair: • Mehmet H. Göker, PricewaterhouseCoopers Submission Procedure: Authors must submit a full paper plus a title page by 31 January 2005. For further details please visit the conference website. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Conference Web Site: http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr05/ WINTER 2004 109 Calendar Call for Participation First Annual General Game Playing Competition HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE TWENTIETH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Details: http://games.stanford.edu Bar Ilan University, Computer Science, Ramat Gan 52900 Israel Voice: 972-3 531-8075 Fax: 972-3 736-0498 E-mail: schild@cs.biu.ac.il URL: www.cri.haifa.ac.il/events/2005/ bisfai05/bisfai05.htm Fax: 650-321-4457 E-mail: aaai contact form URL: www.aaai.org JULY 18–22 The Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Amsterdam, The Netherlands ■ Submission Deadline: July 2005 JULY 9–13 Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Seventeenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference. Pittsburgh, PA USA ■ Sponsor: AAAI January 28, 2005 ■ Contact: Bert Bredeweg University of Amsterdam, Social Science Informatics, Roetersstraat 15 1018 WB, Amsterdam 1018 WB The Netherlands Voice: +31 20-525-6788 Fax: +31 20-525-6896 E-mail: aied2005@swi.psy.uva.nl URL: swi.psy.uva.nl/AIED2005/ ■ Submission Deadline: March 18, 2005 ■ Contact: Conference Coordinator AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Voice: 650-328-3123 110 AI MAGAZINE JULY 19–22 The Seventh IEEE Conference on ECommerce Technology (IEEE CEC'05). Munich, Germany ■ Sponsor: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce (TCEC) ■ Submission Deadline: January 20, 2005 ■ Contact: Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Faculty of Business and Information Technology, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, ON L1H 7K4 Canada Voice: 905-721-3111 Ext. 2835 Fax: 905-721-3372 E-mail: patrick.hung@uoit.ca URL: cec05.in.tum.de JULY 19–23 Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Processing and Manufacturing of Materials. Monterey, FL USA ■ Contact: Khara LeRoux IPMM Secretariat, 645-375 Water Street Vancouver, BC V6B 5C6 Canada Voice: 604-681-5226 Calendar E-mail: congress@venuewest.com URL: www.mining.ubc.ca/ipmm/ JULY 25–27 Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI 2005). Tsukuba, Japan ■ Submission Deadline: February 1, 2005 ■ Contact: Vicenc Torra CSIC, IIIA Campus UAB s/n, Bellaterra 08193 Spain Voice: 34-935809570 Fax: 34-935809661 E-mail: vtorra@iiia.csic.es URL: www.iiia.csic.es/~vtorra/ mdai2005/ JULY 25–29 Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Utrecht, The Netherlands ■ Contact: Sarit Kraus, University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, College Park, MD 20742 USA E-mail: sarit@umiacs.umd.edu URL: www.aamas2005.nl SENIOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYST AT IAG, NEW YORK Conduct Statistical Analysis and Data Mining for television advertising research company. Responsible for Multi-Variate Regression Analysis, new product development and research documentation writing and publication. Write white paper and document company research methodologies. Research related programming: Brio reporting includes writing Oracle stored procedures to retrieve data; SPSS customization using scripts; and Excel reports automation using VBA. Must have a Masters Degree in Data Mining. Strong undergraduate academic performance with leading university. Strong analytical and communication skills. $65,000 per annum. 40 hours per week; Monday to Friday; 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Must have proof of legal authority to work in the United States. Fax resume and salary requirements to the Director of Human Resources at 212-871-5300. July 2006 JULY 16–20 Twenty-first National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Eighteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference. Boston, MA USA ■ Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence ■ Contact: Conference Coordinator AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Voice: 650-328-3123 Fax: 650-321-4457 E-mail: aaai contact form URL: www.aaai.org Twenty-first National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Eighteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference Boston, MA USA July 16–20, 2006 WINTER 2004 111