Call for Papers: BNAIC 2007

[Mehdi Dastani]

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       The 19th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                               BNAIC 2007
                       Utrecht, November 5&6 2007
                      http://www.cs.uu.nl/bnaic2007

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The BNAIC 2007 will be held at the Academiegebouw of Utrecht University, 
the Netherlands, and is organized under the auspices of the 
Belgian-Dutch Association for Artificial Intelligence (BNVKI) and the 
Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems(SIKS). The 
conference aims at presenting an overview of state-of-the art research 
in artificial intelligence in Belgium and The Netherlands.

INVITED SPEAKERS
* Michael Thielscher: Dresden University of Technology, Germany
* Pedro Domingos: University of Washington, U.S.A.

TOPICS
For all submission types, possible topics of submissions include, but 
are not limited to:

* multi-agent systems
* intelligent agents
* robotics
* logic in AI
* games
* search
* verification and validation
* logic programming
* knowledge-based systems
* knowledge representation
* knowledge management
* ontologies
* machine learning
* optimisation
* evolutionary algorithms
* neural networks
* knowledge discovery and data mining
* natural language processing
* cognitive modeling
* speech recognition
* handwriting recognition
* applications
* AI in law, music & art
* other

SUBMISSION
Submissions of the following three types are invited:

TYPE A: REGULAR PAPERS
Papers presenting new original work. Submitted papers should not exceed 
a length of 8 pages. These papers will be reviewed on overall quality 
and relevance. A-Papers can be accepted for either oral or poster 
presentation. All accepted papers will be fully published in the 
proceedings.

TYPE B: COMPRESSED CONTRIBUTIONS
Papers that have been accepted after June 1st, 2006 for AI-related 
refereed conferences or journals can be resubmitted and will be accepted 
as compressed contributions. Authors are invited to submit the 
officially published version (without page restriction) together with a 
one or two-page abstract. B-Papers will be accepted for either oral or 
poster presentation. The abstract of the paper will be published in the 
proceedings. Every author may submit at most one B-paper of which they 
are the corresponding author, and only if they do not submit any A-paper 
as corresponding author. Note that a separate author registration is 
required for each B-type contribution.

TYPE C: DEMONSTRATIONS & APPLICATIONS
Proposals for demonstrations will be evaluated based on submitted 
demonstration summaries (in English) stating the following: the purpose 
of the system to be demonstrated, its user groups, the organization or 
project for which it is developed, the developers, and the technology 
used. In addition, the system requirements and the duration (not 
exceeding 30 minutes) should be mentioned. Especially researchers from 
industry are encouraged to submit papers presenting their applications 
and experiences. The maximum size of demonstration summaries is 2 pages.

Papers and demonstration summaries should be submitted electronically. 
More details can be found at the BNAIC 2007 website 
(http://www.cs.uu.nl/bnaic2007). Submissions should be accompanied by a 
message stating the submission type (A, B, or C) and an abstract of the 
paper in plain text. Proper receipt of submissions will be acknowledged 
by e-mail. The deadline for submissions is June 25th, 2007. Submission 
implies willingness of at least one author to register for BNAIC and 
present the paper. For each paper, a separate author registration is 
required. Authors keep the copyright of their submissions. The BNAIC 
Proceedings are published under ISSN series number 1568-7805.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submissions		June 25th, 2007
Notification of acceptance		August 27th, 2007
Deadline for camera-ready papers	September 17th, 2007
BNAIC 2007 conference			November 5-6th, 2007

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