2nd European Starting AI Researcher Symposium - STAIRS 2004
 

STAIRS'04 offers doctoral students and young post-doctoral AI students:

* a first experience on submitting and presenting a paper in an international forum with a broad scope and thorough selection process
* the opportunity to gather knowledge and exchange ideas related to their research problems and approaches
* information on European research careers and mobility

Important dates

Title and abstract due to the PC co-chairs: April 1, 2004
Paper submission deadline: April 7, 2004
Notification of acceptance sent to authors: May 21, 2004
Final paper due: June 4, 2004
Symposium venue: August 23-24, 2004

Topics

Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously
unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence,
including, but not limited to:

Autonomous agents
Case-Based Reasoning
Constraints
Data Mining
Distributed AI
Genetic Algorithms
Information Retrieval
Intelligent User Interfaces
Knowledge Discovery
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Machine Learning
Multi-Agent Systems
Natural Language
Neural Networks
Ontology
Planning and Scheduling
Real-time AI and Control
Robotics
Search
Temporal Reasoning

Paper Submission

Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit to the
STAIRS'04 co-chairs (see below) a brief summary of their paper by
Thursday, April 1, 2004, followed by their full paper by Wednesday,
April 7, 2004 (23:59 CET). The strongly preferred submission method
for summaries and full papers is to use the web-based submission
form. 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 to the STAIRS'04 PC co-chairs. Only PDF files
will be accepted.

Electronic or hardcopy submissions may also be made if web-based
submission is problematic for the authors.

Guidelines on the format of submissions will be available at: http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004/stairs2004/cfp/style.html.

Review process

Papers should address significant research works undertaken by the
authors. At least one of the authors must be a PhD student, or a
person holding a PhD for less than a year. Preference will be given to
papers whose authors are all in such condition.

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the
STAIRS'04 Program Committee. The papers will undergo an anonymous
reviewing process. Each paper will be assigned at least two
reviewers. Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical
soundness, significance of results, and quality of presentation.

Multiple submission policy: Multiple submissions with ECAI is allowed
if this is clearly indicated on a front page preceding the paper
itself. In borderline cases single submissions will be preferred over
multiple submissions. In case of multiple acceptance the author(s) are
strictly required to withdraw their paper from all but one event.

Conference Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS
Press. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready
copies of papers, conforming to the STAIRS'04 formatting guidelines,
for inclusion in the proceedings.

For each accepted paper, at least one author, and most preferably one
of the beginner researchers involved in the work, is required to
attend the conference to present the paper.