AI Magazine Volume 26 Number 1 (2005) (© AAAI) Calendar Calendar of Events April 2005 APRIL 16–17 Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference. Dayton, OH USA ■ Sponsor: University of Dayton ■ Submission Deadline: June 15, 2005 ■ Contact: Martha Evens, Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, 10 West 31st Street, Room 236, Chicago, IL 60616 USA Voice: 312-567-5153 Fax: 312-567-5067 E-mail: evens@iit.edu URL: www.maics.us APRIL 18–21 International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems KIMAS '05. Waltham, MA USA ■ 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 ■ 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 ■ Sponsors: Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence ■ 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 15–17 Eighteenth International FLAIRS Conference. Clearwater Beach, FL USA ■ Sponsor: FLAIRS ■ 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: AMT2005 Organizing Committee, 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 ■ Contact: Michal Wozniak Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, Wroclaw 50-370 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 1–3 First Annual Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE-05). Marina del Rey, CA USA ■ Sponsors: American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, NAVUS ■ Contact: Carol Hamilton AAAI, AIIDE-05, 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Voice: 650-328-3123 Fax: 650-321-4457 E-mail: aiide05@aaai.org URL: www.aiide.org/ or www.aaai.org/Conferences/AIIDE/2005/aiide05.html JUNE 5–10 The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2005). Monterey, CA USA ■ Sponsors: University of Ulm, SRI International, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Honeywell, DARPA/IPTO, RIACS, QSS Group, Inc. ■ Contact: Maria Fox University of Strathclyde, Computer Science and Information Systems, Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XQ UK Voice: 650-328-3123 Fax: 44 0 141 552 5330 E-mail: maria.fox@cis.strath.ac.uk URL: icaps05.icaps-conference.org/ WINTER 2004 109 Calendar JUNE 6–10 JUNE 27–29 The Tenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL-05). Bolgna, Italy Biennial Israeli Symposium on the Foundations of AI. Haifa, Israel ■ Sponsors: The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL), The University of Bologna, Bar Association of Bologna ■ Contact: Ronald Leenes, University of Tilburg, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), P.O. Box 90153, Tilburg 5000 LE The Netherlands Voice: 31 13 466-3655 Fax: 31 13 466-8149 E-mail: R.E.Leenes@uvt.nl URL: www.iaail.org ■ 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, 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 JUNE 13–16 Intelligent Information Systems: New Trends in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining. Gdaòsk, Poland ■ Contact: Michal Ciesioka Institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Sciences, Ordona 21, Warsaw 01-237 Poland Voice: 48 22 836-2841 Fax: 48 22 837-6564 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: Floriana Esposito, Universita degli Studi di Bari, 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 CRA Snowbird 2006 Conference for Computing Research Leadership. Snowbird, VA USA ■ Sponsor: Computing Research Association ■ Contact: Andrew Bernat, Computing Research Association, 1100 17th Street, NW, Suite 507, Washington, DC 20036 USA Voice: 202-234-2111 E-mail: abernat@cra.org URL: www.cra.org 110 AI MAGAZINE 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 ■ Contact: AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Voice: 650-328-3123 Fax: 650-321-4457 E-mail: aaai05@aaai.org URL: www.aaai.org JULY 18–22 The Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Amsterdam, The Netherlands ■ 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: hcs.science.uva.nl/AIED2005/ JULY 19–22 The Seventh IEEE Conference on ECommerce Technology (IEEE CEC'05). Munich, Germany ■ Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce (TCEC) ■ 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 E-mail: congress@venuewest.com URL: www.mining.ubc.ca/ipmm/ JULY 25–27 Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI 2005). Tsukuba, Japan ■ Contact: Vicenc Torra CSIC, IIIA, Campus UAB s/n, Bellaterra 08193 Spain Voice: 34 93 580-9570 Fax: 34 93 580-9661 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, Maryland 20742, USA E-mail: sarit@umiacs.umd.edu URL: www.aamas2005.nl JULY 30–AUGUST 5 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK ■ Sponsors: British Computer Society, University of Edinburgh, Scottish Enterprise ■ Contact: Rob Milne, Intelligent Applications, 1 Michaelson Square, Livingston EH54 7DP UK Voice: 44 1506 47 20 47 E-mail: info@ijcai-05.org URL: www.ijcai-05.org Calendar August 2005 AUGUST 22–24 International Symposium on Smart Graphics. Munich, Germany ■ Submission Deadline: April 24, 2005 ■ Contact: Andreas Butz, Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversity, Institüt für Informatik, LFE Medieninformatik, Amalienstrasse 17 80333, Munich Germany Voice: 49 89 21804665 Fax: 49 89 21804652 E-mail: andreas.butz@ifi.lmu.de URL: www.smartgraphics.org September 2005 SEPTEMBER 7–9 The Sixteenth Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS05). Ballycastle, North Ireland, UK ■ Submission Deadline: May 13, 2005 ■ Contact: Norman Creaney, University of Ulster, Faculty of Engineering, Cromore Road, Coleraine, N. Ireland BT55 7SU UK Voice: 44 028 703 24502 E-mail: aics05@ulster.ac.uk URL: www.ulster.ac.uk/aics05 SEPTEMBER 12–14 FIfth International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Kos, Greece ■ Submission Deadline: May 2, 2005 ■ Contact: Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies, 13274 Fiji Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA Voice: 310-574-5700 Fax: 310-574-5725 E-mail: gratch@ict.usc.edu URL: iva05.unipi.gr/ SEPTEMBER 19–22 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2005. Compiegne University of Technology, Compiègne, France ■ Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society, Web Intelligence Consortium, Association for Computing Machinery ■ Submission Deadline: April 3, 2005 ■ Contact: Ning Zhong Maebashi Institute of Technology, Department of Information Engineering, 460-1 Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City 371-0822 Japan Voice: 81 27 265-7366 Fax: 81 27 265-7366 E-mail: zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp URL: www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/ SEPTEMBER 19–23 Ninth International IEEE EDOC Conference (EDOC 2005). Enschede, The Netherlands ■ Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, University of Twente, and Telematica Instituut ■ Submission Deadline: March 18, 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: www.edocconference.org October 2005 OCTOBER 2–5 Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture. Banff, AB Canada ■ Submission Deadline: May 6, 2005 ■ Contact: Peter Clark Boeing Math and Computing Technology, Knowledge Systems, PO Box 3707, m/s 7L-66, Seattle, WA 98124-2207 USA Voice: 425-865-4304 Fax: 425-865-2964 E-mail: peter.e.clark@boeing.com URL: www.kcap05.org November 2005 NOVEMBER 3–6 AAAI Fall Symposium Series. Arlington, VA USA ■ Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence ■ Submission Deadline: May 2, 2005 ■ Contact: Corina Anzaldo AAAI, FSS-05 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Voice: 650-328 3123 Fax: 650-321-4457 E-mail: fss05@aaai.org URL: www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/ 2005/fss-05.html NOVEMBER 27–30 The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. New Orleans, LA USA ■ Sponsor: IEEE Computer Society ■ Submission Deadline: June 15, 2005 ■ Contact: Vijay V. Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Center for Advanced Computer Studies, P.O. Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504 USA Voice: 337-482-6603 Fax: 337-482-5791 E-mail: raghavan@cacs.louisiana.edu URL: www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05/ December 2005 DECEMBER 15–17 International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICCIS 2005). Fort Panhala, Kolhapur, India ■ Sponsor: Technomathematics Research Foundation, India ■ Submission Deadline: April 20, 2005 ■ Contact: Rajendra Akerkar, Technomathematics Research Foundation, India 204/17 KH, New Shahupuri, Kolhapur 416001 India Voice: 91 0231 165-4522 E-mail: kpr_tmrf@sancharnet.in URL: pune.sancharnet.in/kpr_tmrf/iccis05.html DECEMBER 20–22 Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI05). Pune, India ■ Sponsors: IEEE SMC, NIA Pune, IICAI ■ Submission Deadline: June 1, 2005 ■ Contact: Bhanu Prasad, Florida A&M University, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, FAMU Way, Tallahassee, FL 32307 USA Voice: 850-412-7350 Fax: 850-599-3221 E-mail: bhanu.prasad@famu.edu URL: www.iiconference.org WINTER 2004 111