*********************************************************************** ** 15th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ECAI-2002) ** *********************************************************************** The ECAI 2002 Programme Committee invites submission of papers for the Technical Programme of the 15th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------ 18 Jan 2002 Deadline for paper summaries 22 Jan 2002 Deadline for papers 22 April 2002 Notification of acceptance 10 May 2002 Camera-ready copies of papers 24-26 July 2002 Technical programme at ECAI 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to: Abduction Knowledge Representation AI Abduction and Creativity Logic Programming AI Architectures Machine Learning Art and Music Machine Translation Automated Reasoning Meta-Heuristics for AI Autonomous Agents Model-Based Reasoning Bayesian Learning Multi-Agent Systems Belief Revision Natural Language Processing Case-Based Reasoning Neural Networks Causal Reasoning Nonmonotonic Reasoning Cognitive Modelling Ontologies Cognitive Robotics Perception Common-Sense Reasoning Philosophical Foundations Computer-Aided Learning Planning Conceptual Graphs Probabilistic Reasoning Configuration Qualitative Reasoning Constraint Programming Real-Time Systems Constraint Satisfaction Reasoning about Actions and Change Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Reasoning under Uncertainty Decision Theory Reinforcement Learning Deduction Resource-Bounded Reasoning Description Logics Reuse of Knowledge Design Robotics Diagnosis Satisfiability Testing Discourse Modelling Scheduling Distributed AI Search Game Playing Spatial Reasoning Genetic Algorithms Speech Processing Geometric Reasoning Temporal Reasoning Inductive Logic Programming Text Mining Information Extraction Theorem Proving Information Retrieval User Modelling Intelligent User Interfaces Verification and Validation Knowledge Acquisition Vision Knowledge-Based Systems Formatting guidelines It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera- ready formatting style, except that author names should be omitted, and replaced by the tracking number. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for some papers five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Overlengthy submissions will be rejected without review. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper. Guidelines on the format of submissions are available on the ECAI 2002 Style Guide page (http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/cfp/style.html). Latex style files to support formatting of submissions are also available (http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/cfp/latex). Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI 2002 Style Guide. Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings. Submission procedure Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary of their paper by 18 January 2002, followed by their full paper before 22 January 2002 (23:59 CET). The strongly preferred submission method for summaries is to use the web-based summary submission form (http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/ecai/summary_submission.html). Submitted summaries will be assigned a unique tracking number that should be marked on the full paper submission. Authors without access to the web should send a summary including the title, authors, contact address and abstract of the paper (maximum 200 words), plus keywords drawn from this list (plus other key-words if appropriate) to the ECAI 2002 Programme Chair (by email or postal mail). The summary information and the tracking number should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. Authors not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the tracking number. The strongly preferred submission method for full papers is electronically, by email to: ecai2002-submission@cs.vu.nl Only PDF files will be accepted. A free service to convert a number of widely used file formats to PDF is available at http://createpdf.adobe.com/ (the first three uses of this service are for free). Submissions in hardcopy may also be made if electronic submission is prob-lematic for the authors. In that case, six copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or courier service to the ECAI 2002 Programme Chair, Frank van Harmelen, at the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 22 January 2002 (23:59 CET) for both electronic and hardcopy submissions. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt. ------------------------------------------------------------ ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------ Frank van Harmelen, ECAI 2002 Programme Chair Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081HV Amsterdam The Netherlands Summary form: http://ecai2002.univ-lyon1.fr/ecai/summary_submission.html Email submission: ecai2002-submission@cs.vu.nl Email correspondence: ecai2002@cs.vu.nl Tel: +31-20-444 7700 Fax: +31-84-872 2806 ------------------------------------------------------------ Anonymous reviewing process ECAI 2002 will operate an anonymous reviewing process. Reviewing for ECAI 2002 will be blind to the identities of the authors and their institutions. To allow for blind reviewing replace the authors line in your submission by the unique tracking number assigned by the submission of the summary form (or leave it empty in case you are not able to use the web-based summary submission form). Please avoid identifying self-references. Replace phrases like "We have shown in [n]" by "In [n] it has been shown ...". Multiple submissions policy ECAI 2002 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 only apply to journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialised meetings with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement that "this 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 2002 Programme Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI 2002 Programme Committee Chair. The ECAI 2002 Programme Committee Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 22 April 2002. Awards The best paper of the conference, as selected by the ECAI 2002 Programme Committee, will receive a prize sponsored by Elsevier Science. The authors will also be invited to publish a longer version of the paper in the Artificial Intelligence journal. The authors of the 10 next best papers will all be invited to submit a long version of their paper to a special fast-review track of the Artificial Intelligence journal. Conference proceedings The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS Press on paper and as a CD-ROM. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2002 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 10 May 2002. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Support for Central and Eastern Europe ECAI 2002 is dedicated to supporting AI research in Central and Eastern Europe. A travel grant to attend the conference will be given to one author of each accepted paper from Central or Eastern Europe. Also, authors from Central and Eastern Europe are offered the possibility of pre-reviewing. They can submit their paper anytime after 1 October 2002 to the ECAI 2002 Central and Eastern Europe Chair at the address below. The paper will then be assigned to a pre-reviewer, who may yield useful suggestions for the authors. The pre-reviewing is aimed at supporting authors from Central and Eastern Europe, and is no guarantee of acceptance of the final paper. ------------------------------------------------------------ ADDRESS FOR PRE-REVIEWING ------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Beetz Department of Computer Science IX Technical University Munich Orleansstr. 34 81667 Munich Germany Tel: +49 (89) 48095-129 Fax: +49 (89) 48095-120 (-203) Email: beetzm@in.tum.de ----