17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) Topics CASE-BASED REASONING Case Representation Case-Retrieval CBR Applications Adaptation Explanation Analogical Reasoning COGNITIVE MODELLING AI and Creativity Artificial Life Emotions and Motivation Human-Computer Interaction Human Experimentation Instruction and Teaching Memory Neural Network Architectures Neuroscience Perception and Performance Philosophical Foundations Skill Acquisition and Learning Symbolic Architectures CONSTRAINTS & SEARCH Constraint Logic Programming Constraint Optimization Constraint Programming Constraint Propagation Constraint Satisfaction Distributed Constraint Solving Global Constraints Modelling Search Soft Constraints User Interaction DISTRIBUTED AI Agent Communication Languages Agents Argumentation Cooperation and Coordination Game Theoretic Foundations Information Agents Market-Oriented Programming Multi-Agent Systems Negotiation Protocols and Dialogues Trust Web Intelligence KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Abduction Automated Reasoning Belief Revision Causality Cognitive Robotics Common-Sense Reasoning Decision Making Description Logics Logic Programming Modal Logics Non-classical logics Nonmonotonic Reasoning Ontologies Preferences Probabilistic Reasoning Reasoning about Action Resource-Bounded Reasoning Satisfiability Semantic Web Spatial Reasoning Temporal Reasoning Theorem Proving Uncertainty Verification and Validation MACHINE LEARNING Adaptive Systems Bayesian Learning Data Mining Decision Ttree and Rule Learning Dimension Reduction Ensemble Methods Evolutionary Computing Information Extraction Knowledge Discovery Machine Learning Applications Neural Networks Reinforcement Learning Text Mining Unsupervised Learning MODEL-BASED REASONING AI Architectures Computer-Aided Learning Design and Configuration Diagnosis Human Computer Interaction Intelligent User Interfaces Intelligent Databases Knowledge Engineering Qualitative Reasoning Real-Time Systems User Modelling NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Automatic Summarization Computational Linguistics Dialogue and Discourse Systems Machine Translation Natural Language Generation Natural Language Interfaces Parsing Speech Recognition PERCEPTION/VISION Active and Robot Vision Face and Gesture Image Processing Model-Based Vision Motion, Flow and Tracking Object Recognition Segmentation and Feature Extraction Statistical Models and Visual Learning Stereo, Calibration, and Geometry Texture, Shape and Colour PLANNING AND SCHEDULING Classical Planning MDPs Planning with Incomplete Information Planning with Uncertainty POMDPs Temporal Planning and Scheduling ROBOTICS Autonomous Systems Estimation and Learning for Robotic Systems Exploration Human-Robot Interaction Localization Motion Planning Multi-Robot Systems Robot Architectures Robot Navigation Robot Programming Environments and Languages Search and Rescue Robots Sensory Planning Service Robots Task Planning Viewpoints and Modality Selection Important dates 8 Feb 2006 - Deadline for paper summaries 10 Feb 2006 - Deadline for papers 10 March 2006 - Deadline for posters 10 April 2006 - Notification of acceptance 10 May 2006 - Camera-ready papers