======================================================== IBERAMIA 2004 9TH Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence Puebla, Mexico November 22-26, 2004 Contact: iberamia2004@inaoep.mx Web Site: http://www.inaoep.mx/iberamia2004 ======================================================== IBERAMIA is the international forum where the Ibero-american AI community meet together for presenting and discussing the research and development carried out in South and Central America countries, Spain, and Portugal. The IX Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA) will take place at Puebla, Mexico, hosted by the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica (INAOE), from November 22-26, 2004. IBERAMIA is supported by the Ibero-American societies of AI AEPIA - Asociacion Espanola para Inteligencia Artificial APPIA - Associaçao Portuguesa para Inteligencia Artificial SBC - Sociedade Brasileira de Computaçao, Brazil SMIA - Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial The first IBERAMIA conference was held in 1988 at Barcelona. Since then IBERAMIA has been the forum to debate research and development on AI in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. Following Barcelona IBERAMIA conferences were held every two years Morelia 1990( Mexico), La Habana 1992 (Cuba), Caracas 1994 (Venezuela), Cholula 1996 (Mexico), Lisboa 1998 (Portugal), Sao Paolo 2000 (Brazil), and Sevilla 2002 (Spain). In these sixteen years, the goals of IBERAMIA have been to strengthen the relationship among the AI research groups of the Ibero-American community, to create the appropriate conditions for researchers to disseminate their research work and to facilitate the contact between new researchers and consolidated groups. The conference will be structured along two main modules: . workshops track . paper track The workshops track is composed of working sessions devoted to the most important areas of AI research in Ibero-American countries. Papers submitted to this workshops track may be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English; they will be reviewed and published in a local edition. The paper track is composed of invited talks and paper presentations from all over the world, covering all topics listed above. Proceedings of this paper track will be published in Springer Verlag's LNCS/LNAI series. ------------------- CONFERENCE TOPICS ------------------- IBERAMIA 2004 topics include, but are not limited to: * Knowledge Engineering and Case Based Reasoning. * Planning and Scheduling. * Distributed AI and Multi-Agent Systems. * AI in Education and Intelligent Tutoring Systems. * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. * Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition. * Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. * Natural Language Processing. * Robotics. * Computer Vision. * Uncertainty and Fuzzy Systems. * Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks. * Foundations (philosophy, mathematics, logic etc.). ------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ------------------- Papers Deadline for paper submission May 21th, 2004 Notification of acceptance July 5th, 2004 Deadline for camera-ready papers August 5th, 2004 Workshops Deadline for Workshop proposal May 14th, 2004 Notification of acceptance June 11th, 2004 Papers for Workshops Deadline for paper submission June 30th, 2004 Notification of acceptance July 30th, 2004 Deadline for camera-ready papers August 27th, 2004 Tutorials Deadline for Tutorial proposal July 12th, 2004 Notification of acceptance August 6th, 2004 Deadline for Tutorial hand-outs October 29th, 2004 Registration Deadline for early registration August 15th, 2004 Deadline for late registration October 29th, 2004 -------------------- Steering Committee -------------------- Francisco Garijo, Telefonica I+D, Spain Helder Cohelo, University of Lisboa , Portugal Christian Lemaître, LANIA, Mexico Miguel Toro, University of Sevilla, Spain Federico Barber, AEPIA, Spain Arlindo Oliveira, APIA, Portugal Jaime Sichman, SBC, Brazil Humberto Sossa, SMIA, Mexico ------------------- Program Committee ------------------- Program Chair: Christian Lemaître, LANIA, Mexico Salvador Abreu, University of Evora, Portugal Juan Manuel Ahuactzin, INRIA Rhônes-Alpes, France Leopoldo Altamirano Robles, INAOE, Mexico Matias Alvarado , IMP, Mexico Analia Amandi, UNICEN, Argentina Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Gustavo Arroyo Figueroa, IIE, Mexico Ruth Aylett, University of Salford, UK Antonio Bahamonde, University of Oviedo, Spain Federico Barber, Polytechnic University of Valence, Spain Beatriz Barros, UNED, Spain Guilherme Bittencourt, UFSC, Brazil Dibio Leandro Borges, PUC-PR, Brazil Pavel Brazdil , UP, Portugal Ramon Brena, ITESM-Mty, Mexico Carlos A. Brizuela, CICESE, Mexico Jean Pierre Briot, LIP6, France Paul Brna, Northumbria University, UK Maria das Graças Bruno Marietto, USP, Brazil Francisco Cantu Ortiz , ITESM-Mty, Mexico Ariadne Carvalho, UNICAMP, Brazil Fernando Carvalho, UFC, Brazil Alejandro Ceccatto, IFIR, Argentina Stefano Cerri, LIRMM, France Francisco Cervantes, ITAM, Mexico Carolina Chang, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV, Mexico Simon Colton, Imperial College, UK Juan M Corchado, USAL, Spain Luis Correia, DI/FC-UL, Portugal Ernesto Costa, UC, Portugal Paulo Cortez, University of Minho, Portugal Nicandro Cruz, LANIA, Mexico Yves Demazeau, INPG-IMAG, France Michel Devy , LAAS, France Thomas G. Dietterich, Oregon State University, USA Francisco J. Diez , UNED, Spain Juergen Dix, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany Jose Dorronsoro, UAM, Spain Alexis Drogoul, LIP6, France Ed Durfee, University of Michigan, USA Amal El Fallah, LIP6, France Joaquin Fdez-Valdivia, University of Granada, Spain Antonio Ferrandez, University of Alcala, Spain Marcelo Finger, USP, Brazil Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK Juan Flores, Universidad Michoacana, Mexico Thierry Fraichard , INRIA, France Maria Fox, University of Strathclyde ,UK Olac Fuentes, INAOE, Mexico Jose A. Gamez Martin, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Luciano Garcia Garrido, University of la Habana, Cuba Ana Garcia Serrano, UPM, Spain Alexander Gelbukh, CIC-IPN, Mexico Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University, USA Duncan Gillies, Imperial College, UK Pilar Gomez Gil, UDLAP, Mexico Jose Luis Gordillo, ITESM-Mty, Mexico Gabriela Henning, UNL, Argentina Arturo Hernandez Aguirre, CIMAT, Mexico Johan van Horebeek, CIMAT, Mexico Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Leo Joskowicz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Celso A. Kaestner, PUC-PR, Brazil Ingrid Kirschning, UDLAP, Mexico Ryszard Klempous, Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, Poland Kevin Knight, USC, USA Mario Köppen, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Marcelo Ladeira, UNB, Brazil Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen, Germany William B Langdon, University College, UK Pedro Larranaga, University of the Basque Country, Spain Kwang Lee, Penn State University, USA Jim Little, UBC, Canada Michael M. Luck, University of Southampton, UK Jacek Malec, Lund University, Sweden Roque Marin, University of Murcia, Spain Luis Marques Custodio, ISR, Portugal Ana Teresa Martins, UFC, Brazil Rene V. Mayorga, University of Regina, Canada Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan Chilukuri K. Mohan, Syracuse University, U.S.A Maria Carolina Monard, USP, Brazil Raul Monroy, ITESM-CEM, Mexico Eduardo Morales, ITESM-Mor, Mexico Rafael Morales Gamboa, IIE, Mexico Guillermo Morales Luna, CINVESTAV-IPN Mexico Antonio Moreno, URV, Spain Jose Carlos Ferreira Maia Neves, UMINHO, Portugal Pablo Noriega, IIIA, Spain Leliane Nunes de Barros, USP, Brazil Allberto Oliart Ros, LANIA,Mexico Gabriela Ochoa Meier, University Simon Bolivar, Venezuela Mauricio Osorio Galindo, UDLAP, Mexico Arlindo Oliveira, INESC, Portugal Eugenio Oliveira, UP, Portugal Juan Pavon, U Complutense, Spain Luis Moniz Pereira, UNL, Portugal Gabriel Pereira Lopes , UNL, Portugal Andres Perez Uribe, EIVD, Switzerland Luis Alberto Pineda, UNAM, Mexico Angel P. del Pobil, Jaume I University, Spain Agostino Poggi, UNIPR, Italy Andre Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho, USP, Brazil Long Quan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Paulo Quaresma, University of Evora, Portugal Geber Ramalho, UFPE, Brazil Anna Helena Reali, USP, Brazil Carlos Alberto Reyes Garcia, INAOE, Mexico Maria Cristina Riff, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile Jose Riquelme Santod, University of Seville, Spain Katya Rodriguez Vazquez, UNAM Mexico Abraham Sanchez, BUAP, Mexico Eugene Santos, University of Connecticut, USA Fernando Silva, UP, Portugal Leonid Sheremetov, IMP, Mexico Maarten van Someren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Humberto Sossa, CIC-IPN, Mexico Enrique Sucar, ITESM-Mor, Mexico Juan Manuel Torres, University of Avignon, France Rosa Vicari, UFRGS, Brazil Luis Villasenor, INAOE, Mexico Toby Walsh, University of York, UK Franz Wotawa, TUG, Austria Gerson Zaverucha, UFRJ, Brazil ---------------------- Organizing Committee ---------------------- Local Chair: Carlos Alberto Reyes Garcia, INAOE Local Vice Chair: Aurelio Lopez Lopez INAOE, Workshops Chair: Guillermo de Ita BUAP-INAOE, Tutorial Chair: Angelica Munoz, INAOE, Cyber Co-Chairs: Leopoldo Altamirano, Jesus Gonzalez, INAOE, Publicity Co-Chairs: Gabriela Lopez Lucio, Luis Villasenor Pineda, Manuel Montes y Gomez, INAOE, Communication Chair: Guadalupe Rivera Loy, INAOE, Finance Chair: Carmen Meza Tlalpan, INAOE, Local Arrangement Chairs: Gorgonio Ceron Benitez, INAOE, Web Site Design & Maintenance: Hector Lopez, INAOE Contact: iberamia2004@inaoep.mx Web Site: http://www.inaoep.mx/iberamia2004