20th German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence

           KI-96      September, 17-19, 1996       Dresden

The 20th German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI-96, will
be held at the conference center Dre.Punct and the Technical University at
Dresden. It consists of a scientific and an application track.

         General Chair:  Guenther Goerz, Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg         
         Program Chair:  Steffen Hoelldobler, TU Dresden 
     Application Chair:  Heinz Schwaertzel, FAST Muenchen 

The application track comprises several forums and an industrial
exhibition. The scientific track consists of invited as well as refereed
talks, workshops, posters and system demonstrations. The official
languages are German and English.

We invite you to submit papers, posters as well as system demonstrations
on all aspects of artificial intelligence like, for example,

     knowledge representation, machine learning, and knowledge based systems;
     reasoning, deduction, inference, and inference systems;
     diagnosis, classification, planning, and expert systems;
     cognition and cognitive systems;
     vision and visual information processing systems;
     language and natural language processing systems;
     neural networks and connectionist systems;
     agents and multi agent systems;
     humans and robot systems;
     AI-systems and their sociological implications.

Beside these topics we are particularly interested in contributions
covering all aspects concerning the representation of knowledge, from
representations within nervous systems to representations within
artificial systems.

Program committee of the scientific track:

     Hassan Ait-Kaci, Simon Fraser Univ., Vancouver, Canada
     Franz Baader, RWTH Aachen, Germany
     Gerhard Barth, Daimler Benz, Ulm, Germany
     Peter Bosch, IBM Heidelberg, Germany
     Georg Dorffner, University of Vienna, Austria 
     Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
     Andreas Guenter, University of Bremen, Germany
     Barbara Hemforth, University of Freiburg, Germany  
     Heinrich Niemann, University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
     Michael Rusinowitch, INRIA, Nancy, France
     Kerstin Schill, LMU Muenchen, Germany
     Michael Thielscher, ICSI, Berkeley, USA 
     Sebastian Thrun, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA 
     Ipke Wachsmuth, University of Bielefeld, Germany 
     Stefan Wrobel, GMD Bonn, Germany

Important Dates:  April, 4th, 1996:  submission deadline
                    May, 5th, 1996:  notification of acceptance
                   June, 6th, 1996:  camera ready copies due

For an extended call for papers, information for the authors as well as 
additional information concerning KI-96 see:

     http://pikas.inf.tu-dresden.de/ki96/ki96.html

For any further questions don't hestitate to contact:

     Steffen Hoelldobler
     KI, Informatik
     TU Dresden
     01062 Dresden
     ki96@inf.tu-dresden.de