______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/call.html The ECAI-98 Programme Committee invites submission of papers for the Technical Programme of the 13th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98). IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- 20 Jan 1998 Deadline for abstracts 23 Jan 1998 Deadline for papers 15 Apr 1998 Notification of acceptance 15 May 1998 Camera-ready copies of papers 26-28 Aug 1998 Technical programme at ECAI-98 An extended call for papers is attached. See the ECAI'98 website (http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98) for full details. Recent additions to the site include: + finalised programme committee listing + detailed formatting and paper submission information + form-based submission of abstracts + call for exhibitors CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/call.html Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to: Abduction, Temporal, Causal Reasoning, and Diagnosis; Automated Reasoning; Application and Enabling Technologies; Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning; Case-Based Reasoning; Cognitive Modelling and Philosophical Foundations; Computational Linguistics; Constraint-Based Reasoning and Constraint Programming; Distributed AI and Multiagent Systems; Fuzzy Logic; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Representation; Logic Programming, and Theorem Proving; Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Natural Language and Intelligent User Interfaces; Neural Networks in AI; Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning about Actions; Probabilistic Networks; Qualitative Preferences and Decision in AI; Qualitative and Spatial Reasoning; Reasoning under Uncertainty; Robotics, Vision, and Signal Understanding; Search and Meta-Heuristics for AI; Verification, Validation and Testing of Knowledge-Based Systems. Formatting guidelines Submissions must not exceed 6000 words. Submissions which exceed this length will be rejected without review. This is the only strict formatting requirement for paper submissions. (But note that a five page limit will be imposed on the final camera-ready papers - for some papers this may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Additional guidelines on the format of submissions are available on the ECAI-98 Style Guide page. We hope to make available soon a latex style file supporting these guidelines. Accepted papers will be required to conform more strictly to the publishers' formatting requirements, which will be broadly in line with the present formatting guidelines. Submission procedure Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary of their paper by email to ecai98@irit.fr by 20 January 1998. This summary should include the title, authors, contact address and abstract for the paper, plus keywords drawn from the above list (plus other keywords if appropriate). A web-based summary submission form is available to make this easier. This summary information should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, electronic submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet), should be sent by post to the ECAI-98 Programme Chair, Henri Prade, at the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 23 January 1998. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION ---------------------- Henri Prade, ECAI-98 Programme Chair IRIT Université Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 4 France Email: Henri.Prade@irit.fr Tel: +33(0)561 55 65 79 Fax: +33(0)561 55 62 39 Multiple submissions policy ECAI-98 will not accept any paper which at the time of submission is under review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialized meetings with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement that the paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal. The review process All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI-98 Programme Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI-98 Programme Chair. The ECAI-98 Programme Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Conference proceedings The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the formatting guidelines specified by the publisher, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline for receipt of camara-ready copy is 15 May 1998. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Programme Committee The final membership of the programme committee for ECAI-98 is as follows. A. Aamodt Norway F. Giunchiglia Italy J.J.A. Alferes Portugal W. Horn Austria E. André Germany F. Jensen Denmark N. Asher USA A. Kakas Cyprus F. Bergadano Italy R. Kruse Germany H. Bersini Belgium N. Lavrac Slovenia C. Bessière France D. Lehmann Israel S. Biundo Germany M. Lenzerini Italy M. Brady United Kingdom M. McTear United Kingdom P. Brazdil Portugal S. Moral Spain J. Breuker The Netherlands J.P. Müller Switzerland G. Brewka Germany E. Orlowska Poland H. Bunt The Netherlands U. Reyle Germany H.T. Christensen Sweden K. Satoh Japan M.O. Cordier France T. Schaub Germany P. Cunningham Irish Republic D. Scott United Kingdom A. Del Val Spain B. Selman USA P. Doherty Sweden M. Shanahan United Kingdom B. Faltings Switzerland P. Siegel France L. Fariñas C. Sierra Spain del Cerro France O. Stepankova Czech Republic R. Feldman Israel Y-H. Tan The Netherlands R. Fisher United Kingdom P. Torasso Italy J. Fox United Kingdom P. van Beek Canada C. Freksa Germany W. van de Velde Belgium D. Gabbay United Kingdom G. Widmer Austria A. Galton United Kingdom M-A. Williams Australia O. Gascuel France A. Zaenen France M. Ghallab France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448 Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320 University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98 ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex on behalf of AISB. --------------------------------------------------------------------------