EPIA'99
9th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
       Évora, Portugal, September 21-24, 1999
Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for
Artificial Intelligence

            http://www.eventos.uevora.pt/epia/

SUBMISSION DEADLINE IN ONE MONTH FROM TODAY

The EPIA'99 Program Committee invites submissions of technical
papers for the 9th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence which is to be held in Évora, Portugal, by
September 21-24, 1999. As in previous issues ('89, '91, '93,
'95 and '97), EPIA'99 will be run as an international
conference with an international Programme Committee, English
being the official language, and the proceedings will be
published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence series.

The scientific program encompasses tutorials, invited
lectures, workshops (for more information, and submission of
papers to workshops, see the EPIA'99 WEB-page), and paper
presentations. The conference is devoted to all areas of
Artificial Intelligence and will cover both theoretical and
foundational issues and applications as well. 

Original papers are solicited in all areas of Artificial
Intelligence, including but not limited to:
o Agent-Oriented Programming        o Automated Reasoning
o Artificial Life                   o Belief Revision
o Case-Based Reasoning              o Common Sense Reasoning
o Constraint Programming            o Distributed AI
o Expert Systems                    o Genetic Algorithms
o Hybrid Systems                    o Intelligent Tutoring
Systems
o Knowledge Representation          o Logic Programming
o Machine Learning                  o Model-Based Reasoning
o Natural Language Understanding    o Neural Networks
o Nonmonotonic Reasoning            o Planning and Scheduling
o Qualitative Reasoning             o Robotics
o Spatial Reasoning                 o Temporal Reasoning
o Theorem Proving                   o Theory of Computation


IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline: April 12, 1999
Notification of Acceptance or Rejection: May 31, 1999
Camera-Ready Copy: June 28, 1999


SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submitted papers must be written in English and describe
original work not
previously published.

Submissions must not exceed 15 pages, including title page,
figures, and references. The title page must contain: title
and authors; physical and e-mail addresses; an abstract of no
more than 200 words; a list of keywords.

Paper should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format,
details of which can be obtained from
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, or by email
from the conference organization (epia99@dmat.uevora.pt).

Authors are invited to send manuscripts by electronic mail to
epia99@dmat.uevora.pt, as uuencoded gzipped postcript files.
Hard copy submission is also possible, by sending 5 copies of
the manuscripts to the inquires address (see below).


REVIEW OF PAPERS
Submissions will be judged on significance, originality,
quality and clarity. Each paper will be cross-reviewed by
three referees. 


PROGRAM CHAIRMAN: Pedro Barahona (pb@di.fct.unl.pt)
CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN: José Júlio Alferes (jja@dmat.uevora.pt)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Amilcar Cardoso 		(Univ. Coimbra)
Carlos Pinto Ferreira		(Univ. Técn. Lisboa)
Elpida Keravnou 		(Univ. Cyprus - Cyprus)
Erik Sandewall			(Univ. Linkopping - Sweden)
Ernesto Costa 			(Univ. Coimbra)
Eugenio Oliveira		(Univ. Porto)
Fernando Moura Pires 		(Univ. Nova Lisboa)
Gabriel Pereira Lopes		(Univ. Nova Lisboa)	
Gerhard Brewka			(Univ. Leipzig - Germany)
Helder Coelho 			(Univ. Lisboa)
Henri Prade			(Univ. Toulouse - Germany)
João Pavão Martins 		(Univ. Técn. Lisboa) 
José Julio Alferes	 	(Univ. Évora)
Luis Moniz Pereira		(Univ. Nova Lisboa)
Manuela Veloso	 		(Univ. Carnegie Mellon - USA) 
Pavel Brazdil 			(Univ. Porto)
Pedro Barahona			(Univ. Nova Lisboa)
Philippe Codognet 		(Univ. Paris VI - France)
Ryszard  Michalski		(Univ. George Mason - USA)
Udo Hahn			(Univ. Freiburg, Germany)
Vladimir Lifschitz		(Univ. Texas at Austin - USA)
Werner Horn			(Univ. Vienna  -Austria)
Wolfgang Nejdl			(Univ. Hannover - Germany)

INQUIRES ADDRESS
EPIA'99
Dep. Informatica
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
P-2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal
Tel: +351 (1) 294 85 36
Fax: +351 (1) 294 85 41
Email: epia99@dmat.uevora.pt