AI Magazine Volume 26 Number 2 (2005) (© AAAI)
Calendar
Calendar of Events
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 11–29
Graduate Summer School: Intelligent
Extraction of Information from
Graphs and High Dimensional Data.
Los Angeles, CA USA
■ Sponsor:
National Science Foundation ACT Program
■ Submission Deadline:
July 11, 2005
■ Contact:
Janice Amar, UCLA,
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Box 957121,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7121
Voice: 310-825-2627
Fax: 310-825-4756
E-mail: amar@ipam.ucla.edu
URL: www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/
gss2005/
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 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 25–AUGUST 6
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 20–23
Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of
Cognitive Science Society
(CogSci2005). Stresa, Italy
■ Sponsors:
Cognitive Science Society, Center for
Cognitive Science of Turin
■ Contact:
Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou, and
Monica Bucciarelli
Center for Cognitive Science of Turin ,
Department of Psychology of the University of Turin, the Department of
Computer Science of Turin Politechnic,
Via Po, 14, Torino 10123 Italy
Voice: (+39) 011 6703051
Fax: (+39) 011 8146231 / 8159039
E-mail: cogsci05@psych.unito.it
URL: www.psych.unito.it/csc/cogsci05/
Seventh Biennial Summer School: Eurolan 2005 — The Multilingual Web:
Resources, Technologies, and
Prospects. Cluj-Napoca, Romania
■ Sponsors:
IJCAI, Knowledge Web, Vassar College,
Siemens Program and System Engineering, Romania
■ Contact:
Dan Cristea
Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi,
Faculty of Computer Science,
16 General Berthelot,
Iasi 700483 Romania
Voice: 40-232 201542
Fax: 40-232 201490
E-mail: dcristea@infoiasi.ro
URL: www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005/
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
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August 2005
AUGUST 22–24
International Symposium on Smart
Graphics. Munich, Germany
■ 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
■ 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
■ 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
■ 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/
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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
■ 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
■ 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
OCTOBER 8–11
Eighth International Conference on
Discovery Science. Singapore, Singapore
■ Sponsors:
Air Force Office of Scientific Research,
Asian Office of Aerospace R&D
■ Contact:
Achim Hoffmann
University of New South Wales,
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Barker Streer,
Sydney 2052 NSW Australia
Voice: 61-2 9385 6934
Fax: 61 -2 9385 5995
E-mail: achim@cse.unsw.edu.au
URL: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/
~achim/DS05
OCTOBER 8–11
Sixteenth International Conference
on Algorithmic Learning Theory.
Singapore, Republic of Singapore
■ Sponsor:
Lee Foundation
■ Contact:
Sanjay Jain
National University of Singapore
Department of Computer Science
Singapore 117543
Republic of Singapore
Voice: 65-6874-7842
Fax: 65-6779-4580
E-mail: sanjay@comp.nus.edu.sg
URL: www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/
~thomas/ALT05/alt05.jhtml
OCTOBER 20–22
Third International Symposium on
Stochastic Algorithms: Foundations
and Applications — SAGA2005.
Moscow, Russia
■ Sponsors:
Moscow State University, Russia, King's
College London, UK, The Royal Society,
UK
■ Contact:
SAGA2005, Moscow State University,
Department of Discrete Mathematics,
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics,
Moscow 119992 Russia
Voice: 7 095-9394268
Fax: 7 095 -9392090
E-mail: saga05@dcs.kcl.ac.uk
URL: mech.math.msu.su/department/
dm/SAGA2005
November 2005
NOVEMBER 3–6
AAAI Fall Symposium Series. Arlington, VA USA
■ Sponsor:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
■ 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 14–18
Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Monterrey, Mexico
■ Contact:
Alexander Gelbukh
IPN,
CIC,
Av. Juan Dios Batiz, Col Zacatenco,
Mexico DF 07738
Mexico
Voice: 52-(55) 5729-6000 ext 56544
Fax: 52-(55) 55862936
E-mail: cfp2005@micai.org
URL: www.MICAI.org
Calendar
The 19th International FLAIRS Conference
Holiday Inn -- Melbourne Oceanfront
Melbourne Beach, Florida
May 11-13, 2006
In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
General Chairs
Philip Chan, Debasis Mitra
{pkc,dmitra}@cs.fit.edu
Florida Institute of Technology
Program Chairs
Geoff Sutcliffe, geoff@cs.miami.edu
University of Miami
Randy Goebel, goebel@cs.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta
Special Tracks Chair
Barry O’Sullivan, b.osullivan@cs.ucc.ie
University College, Cork
Publicity / Web Chair
Raja Sooriamurthi, raja@indiana.edu
Indiana University
Local CoCo-Chairs
Ronaldo Menezes, Marius Silaghi
{rmenezes,msilaghi}@cs.fit.edu
Florida Institute of Technology
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: Nov. 21, 2005
Author notification:
Jan. 20, 2006
Camera-ready copies:
Feb. 13, 2006
NOVEMBER 27–30
The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. New Orleans,
LA USA
■ Sponsor:
IEEE Computer Society
■ 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 6–7
Second International Symposium on
Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart
Worlds (UISW2005). Nagasaki, Japan
■ Contact:
Jianhua Ma
Hosei University, Faculty of Computer
and Information Sciences,
3-7-2, Kajino-cho, Koganei-shi,
Tokyo 184-8584 Japan
Voice: 81-42-387-4540
Fax: 81-42-387-6028
The 19th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS 2006) will be held May 11-13
2006, in Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA. Melbourne Beach is on Florida's "Space
Coast" (centered around NASA's Kennedy Space Center), and has easy access to
Orlando and the Disney World attractions.
Submission of papers for presentation at the conference is now invited. Topics of
interest are in all areas of artificial intelligence, including: • Foundations: Knowledge
representation, Cognitive modeling, Perception, Reasoning and programming, Search,
Learning; • Architectures: Agents and distributed AI, Intelligent user interfaces, Natural
language systems Information retrieval, Robotics; • Applications: Aviation and
aerospace, Education, Entertainment, Medicine, Management and manufacturing,
World wide Web; • Implications: Philosophical underpinnings, Social impact and
ethics, Evaluation of AI systems, Teaching AI.
In addition to the general conference, FLAIRS offers numerous special tracks. Special
tracks provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to meet and present their
work. Please consult the conference web site for details on the special tracks and
paper submission.
Planned Activities
Reception at Florida Institute of Technology
Excursion to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
Conference Web Site:
E-mail: uisw2005@malab.k.hosei.ac.jp
URL: www.ubiquitous-intelligence.org/
conf/uisw2005
DECEMBER 15–17
International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICCIS
2005). Fort Panhala, Kolhapur, India
■ Sponsor:
Technomathematics Research Foundation, India
■ 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 15–19
2005 International Conference on
Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS'2005). Xi'an, China
■ Sponsors:
IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter and Xidian University,
China, IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter, Hong Kong
Baptist University, Xidian University,
www.indiana.edu/~flairs06
and Guangdong University of Technology,
■ Submission Deadline:
July 31, 2005
■ Contact:
Yiu-Ming Cheung
Hong Kong Baptist University,
Department of Computer Science,
7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building,
Hong Kong China
Voice: 852-34115155
E-mail: cis05@comp.hkbu.edu.hk
URL: www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~cis05
DECEMBER 20–22
Second Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI05). Pune, India
■ Sponsors:
IEEE SMC, NIA Pune, IICAI
■ 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
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