Subject: AIMSA'98 - Final CALL for PAPERS
From: Paolo Bouquet <bouquet@cs.unitn.it>
To: elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:09:01 +0100 (MET)

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                             AIMSA'98
    8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
               Methodology, Systems, Applications
           Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 21 - 23, 1998

               http://boogie.cs.unitn.it/AIMSA-98/

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                    * Final CALL for PAPERS *
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The  AIMSA conference  series has  provided a  biennial forum for  the
presentation of  AI  research    and  development since  1984.     The
conference, which is held in Bulgaria, covers the full range of topics
in   AI   and provides an  ideal   forum  for international scientific
exchange  between  Central/Eastern  Europe  and    the rest   of   the
world. AIMSA'98 is sponsored by ECCAI, European Coordinating Committee
for Artificial Intelligence. 

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Fausto Giunchiglia                      Email: fausto@irst.itc.it
Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e   Phone: +39 461 314517 (secr.)
Tecnologica (IRST)                             +39 461 314436 (off.)
Via Sommarive, Loc. Pante` di Povo      Fax:   +39 461 302040/314591
38050 Trento, Italy                     http://www.cs.unitn.it/~fausto

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE			

David Aha  (USA)		   Igor Kononenko (Slovenia)
Varol Akman (Turkey)		   Witold Lukaszewich (Poland)
Ralph Bergmann (Germany)	   Zdravko Markov (Bulgaria)
Susanne Biundo (Germany)	   Erica Melis   (Germany)
Ivan Bratko (Slovenia)		   John-Jules Meyer  (The Netherlands)
Marco Cadoli  (Italy)		   Jorg Muller  (United Kingdom)  
Vladan Devedzic (Yugoslavia)	   Enric Plaza i Cervera (Spain)
Christo Dichev (Bulgaria)	   Roberto Sebastiani (Italy)
Boi Faltings (Switzerland)	   Bart Selman (USA)
Klaus Fisher (Germany)		   Carles Sierra (Spain) 
Mike Fisher (United Kingdom)	   Sam Steel (United Kingdom)
Ivan Futo  (Hungary)		   Olga Stepankova  (Czech Republic)
Enrico Giunchiglia  (Italy)	   Dan Tufis (Romania)
Georg Gottlob (Austria)		   Haruki Ueno (Japan) 
Altay Guvenir (Turkey)		   Maarten Van Someren (The Netherlands)
Andreas Herzig (France)		   Toby Walsh (United Kingdom)
Mark Keane (Ireland)		   Ian Watson (United Kingdom)
Vladimir Khoroshevsky  (Russia)	   Mike Wooldridge  (United Kingdom) 
				   Qiang Yang (Canada)

TOPICS

AIMSA'98 will be mainly (but not only) centered around  the the use of
REASONING in AI, and  in particular: Case-based Reasoning, Multi-Agent
Systems, Planning & Temporal  reasoning,  SAT &  Decision  Procedures,
Inductive Reasoning. Other  topics   of interest will  be:  Abduction,
Constraint  Based  Reasoning,  Knowledge Acquisition,  Knowledge Based
Systems,  Learning, Natural Language  Processing, Temporal  and Causal
Reasoning. This is not an exhaustive list, and papers from other areas
are also encouraged. 


IMPORTANT DATES:

        Submission deadline: 3 April, 1998
        Notification of acceptance: 29 may, 1998
        Deadline for final papers: 12 June, 1998
        Conference: September 21-23, 1998

Submissions should describe    original research.   Papers   should be
written in English and be  printed on A4 paper (double-sided  printing
is    encouraged),  using  high    quality printers.  They   should be
single-spaced, 12 point  type with no more than  50 lines per page and
up to 5000  words  (10 pages maximum including  the  title page).  The
first page should contain the title  of the paper, names and addresses
of all authors (including e-mail,  if available), an abstract (100-150
words) and a list of keywords. Electronic and fax submissions will not
be considered. 

Four copies  of submitted papers must be  received before 3 April 1998
at the following address: 

Fausto Giunchiglia
  AIMSA'98 Conference Chair
  Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
  Via Sommarive, Loc. Pante` di Povo
  38050 Trento, Italy

The Proceedings of AIMSA-98 will be available at the conference.

SELECTION OF PAPERS:

Each paper will  be reviewed by  at least two  members of  the program
committee.   Selection criteria  include  accuracy and  originality of
ideas, clarity and significance  of results, quality  of presentation.
At least one of  the  authors of an   accepted  paper is expected   to
present the paper at the conference. 

The program committee will select one paper of  high quality among the
accepted papers.    The author(s) will  receive   the best paper award
during the conference. 

The accepted  papers will appear in a  the Lecture  Note on Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag. 

LANGUAGE:

The official language of the conference is English.

CONFERENCE LOCATION

AIMSA'98 will be held at Sozopol, a small ancient and picturesque town
on the Black sea cost,   famous for its   unique architecture and  art
exhibitions.   It is a favorite  place  for rest and entertainment for
many Bulgarians and foreigners.  Sozopol   is located 30 km south   to
Bourgas.  Bourgas   has an  international and domestic    airport with
flights  to and from  Sofia (the capital city  of Bulgaria). There are
also direct flights connecting  the  major European cities  with Sofia
and Bourgas. AIMSA'98 will take  place in a  luxury holiday home  near
the beach at a walking distance from downtown Sozopol. 

ORGANIZATION:

Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association
Institute for Information Technologies
Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians
  with the support of the Bulgarian Society for Cognitive Science
  and of the Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition.

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR

Christo Dichev				 Email: cdichev@iinf.acad.bg
Institute for Information Technologies   Phone: +359 2 707 586
Bl. 29A, Acad. G. Bonchev St.            Fax:   +359 2 720 497
1113 SOFIA - BULGARIA                    http://www-it.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/
                                                CDichev/CDichev.html

PUBLICITY CHAIR

Paolo Bouquet
Universita` di Trento                    Email: bouquet@cs.unitn.it
Via Inama, 5                             Phone: +39 461 882135
38100 Trento, Italy                      Fax:   +39 461 882124
                                         http://www.cs.unitn.it/~bouquet