CALL FOR PAPERS
			 
			    ICTAI'96
8th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence

                       November 16-19, 1996
                         Toulouse, France
 

The annual ICTAI conference is an international forum for the exchange
of ideas relating to artificial intelligence (AI) among academe,
industry, and government agencies. It fosters the creation and transfer
of such ideas, and promotes their cross-fertilization over all AI
application domains and AI paradigms through a unifying theme: AI
Tools.  ICTAI focuses on both theory and development methodologies and
encompasses all aspects of specifying, developing, implementing, and
evaluating theoretical and applied frameworks that may serve as tools
for developing intelligent systems and pursuing AI applications.  The
following is a non-exhaustive list of paradigms and topics of interest:

AI PARADIGMS:
  Knowledge-Based Systems
  Artificial Neural Networks
  Genetic Algorithms
  Empirical Models
  Hybrid Systems

FOCAL TOPICS:
  Adaptive Systems and Process Control
  AI Algorithms
  AI in Software Engineering
  Automated Reasoning 
  Case Based Reasoning
  Cognitive Modeling
  Constraint Satisfaction
  Distributed AI and Intelligent Agents
  Environmental Applications
  Instructional Environments
  Intelligent Internet Services
  Intelligent User Interfaces and Multimodal HC Interaction
  Knowledge Base Technology, Intelligent Databases
  Knowledge Representation
  Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning
  Music, Audition and The Arts
  Natural Language Processing and Speech Understanding
  Non-Standard Logic(s) for AI
  Planning and Temporal Reasoning
  Robotics
  Qualitative Reasoning and Diagnosis
  Reasoning under Uncertainty
  Vision and Image Processing 
  ...

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS 

Authors are requested to submit five copies of a double-spaced
manuscript (in English, maximum of 20 pages), including an abstract and
a list of subject areas, to one of the program chairs by May 10, 1996.
Each submission must report on original work and be accompanied by a
cover letter that indicates the contact author's postal address, e-mail
address, telephone number, and fax number (if available), and the
paper's subject areas. The subject areas should consist of the most
relevant paradigm(s) and focal topics. Authors will be notified of
acceptance by July 15, 1996 and will be given instructions for
camera-ready versions of their papers at that time.  Outstanding papers
will be eligible for publication in the International Journal on
Artificial Intelligence Tools and for receiving the C.V. Ramamoorthy
Best Paper award.

Panel organizers are requested to submit a panel proposal consisting of
a position statement and a list of panelists to one of the program
chairs by May 10, 1996. Panel organizers will be notified of acceptance
by July 15, 1996.

Submit papers and panel proposals by May 10, 1996, as follows:

Europe, Asia, and Africa:         
Dr. Pierre Marquis    
CRIN-CNRS and INRIA-Lorraine
Ba^timent LORIA - Campus Scientifique 
B.P. 239    
F-54506 Vandoeuvre-le`s-Nancy Cedex
France
Phone: (33) 83 59 20 54 Fax: (33) 83 41 30 79
Email: marquis@loria.fr         

North America, South America, and Australia:  
Dr. Bill Manaris 
Computer Science Department
University of Southwestern Lousiana
2 Rex Street, P.O. Box 41771, 
Lafayette, LA 70504-1771, USA 
Phone: (318)482-6638 Fax: (318)482-5791
Email: manaris@usl.edu

Further information on the conference is available on WWW at
http://www.tai96.tulane.edu. This includes information on Toulouse,
France, and electronic versions of the CFP, advance program,
registration form, and hotel reservation form.

General Chair:
  Rudiger W. Brause, J.W. Goethe-University, Germany
  
Program Chairs:
  Bill Manaris, University of Southwestern Lousiana, USA
  Pierre Marquis, CRIN-CNRS and INRIA-Lorraine, France
  
Registration Chair:
  Mark G. Radle, University of Southwestern Lousiana, USA

Local Arrangements Chair:
  Michel Cayrol, IRIT-CNRS and Universite' Paul Sabatier, France
  
Publicity Chair:
  John F. Vassilopoulos, Tulane University, USA

Steering Committee:
  Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, Binghampton University, USA, Chair
  Cris Koutsougeras, Tulane University, USA
  John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
  C. V. Ramamoorthy, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA