Call For Papers AI98 AI-98 Twelfth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 18-20 June, 1998 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Sponsored by the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence ( CSCSI ) Societe canadienne pour l'etude de l'intelligence par ordinateur ( SCEIO ) (Please also see our Call for Workshop Proposals at http://www.cs.usask.ca/homepages/faculty/eric/ai98workshop.html) Submitted papers must not exceed 5000 words in length, including abstract and bibliography. Theoretical and position papers will be judged on their originality and contribution to the field of AI and applied papers on the importance and originality of the application. To help in the review process, authors should list, in decreasing order of relevance, 1 to 3 of the following keywords: * applications * planning * robotics * learning * architectures * search * perception * problem solving * cognitive modelling * theorem proving * knowledge representation * language understanding * reasoning (indicate subarea) * neural nets/connectionism * uncertainty * data mining * knowledge acquisition * other (please specify) Authors should submit five (5) complete copies of the paper in hardcopy form to one of the program co-chairs for review by members of the program committee. Acceptance depends on the overall merit and significant of the reported research as well as the quality of the written presentation. The AI-98 final program will include both plenary and poster sessions. Each copy of the paper must include a cover page separate from the body of the paper, including, in order, (1) title of the paper, (2) full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of all authors, (3) an abstract of no more than 250 words and (4) keywords to classify the paper for review purposes, (5) contact author if other than the first author. As a condition of acceptance, the author or a co-author must present the paper at the conference. If the paper is being submitted to other conferences, either verbatim or in essence, authors must clearly indicate this on the cover page. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the contact author by 31 January 1998. Camera ready copy of accepted papers is due 28 March 1998. Each paoper will be allotted up to eigth (8) pages in the conference proceedings, formatted using 12pt LaTeX or equivalent. The journal Computational Intelligence will invite the author(s) of the best paper of the conference to submit a version of the paper to the normal review process for publication. Selection of the best paper will be done by the program committee. INVITED SPEAKERS (Unofficial, and incomplete) *Ken Ford, Associate Center Director for Information Technology, NASA Ames Research Center. *Stuart Russell, University of California at Berkeley, author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, and winner of 1995 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award. URLS: * http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/cscsi/conferences/ai98.html or * http://cscsi.sfu.ca/conferences/ai98/ai98_cfp.html or * http://www.cs.usask.ca/homepages/faculty/eric/ai98.html DATES: * Papers Due: October 31, 1997 * Author Notificaton: January 31, 1998 * Camera Ready Copy Due: March 28, 1998 * Conference Dates: June 18-20, 1998 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: Robert Mercer Department of Computer Science University of Western Ontario London, ON, K1A 0R6 Canada FAX: 519-661-3515 Phone: 519-679-2111 email:mercer@csd.uwo.ca Eric Neufeld Department of Computer Science 57 Campus Drive University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK CANADA S7N 5A9 FAX: 306-966-4884 Phone: 306-966-4887 Email: eric@cs.usask.ca PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Craig Boutilier, University of British Columbia Jim Greer, University of Saskatchewan Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto Charles Ling, University of Western Ontario Paul McFetridge, Simon Fraser University Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick Andre Trudel, Acadia University Qiang Yang, Simon Fraser University Chrysanne Dimarco , University of Waterloo Howard Hamilton, University of Regina Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba Joel Martin, National Research Council Peter Patel-Schneider, AT and T Research Fei Song, University of Guelph Ahmed Tawfik, Wilfred Laurier University Peter van Beek, University of Alberta Yang Xiang, University of Regina