Call for Paper AI*IA 2007: "Artificial Intelligence and Human-oriented Computing"

[Roberto Basili]

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                       Call For Papers "AI*IA '07"


         "Artificial Intelligence and Human-oriented Computing"
     10th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence


         September 10-13, 2007 - University of Rome, Tor Vergata (Italy)


                  Web: http://aiia.info.uniroma2.it/


              * * * Submission deadline: April 12, 2007 * * *


Current Information Technologies are faced with problems of increasing
complexity. Artificial Intelligence paradigms and ideas are central in most
of the critical research areas of computer science, where the software
interoperability in the Semantic Web or the automatic control required by
multiagent systems or autonomous robots are only some examples. The
influence of AI is notable in all applications centred on humans as users,
producers and consumers of complex, conceptual, distributed and critical
information. This is true for applications ranging from intelligent search
on the Web to complex decision making, from automatic control in autonomous
systems to computing in Ambient Intelligence or collaborative environments.
The convergence of traditional ideas from AI with human-centered
applications will thus motivate most of the technical sessions of the
conference, with a particular emphasis on specific topics covered by some
Special Tracks.


We invite the submission of papers to the AI*IA07 Congress. AI*IA07 is the
10th in a series of international Congresses on Advances in Artificial
Intelligence held bi-annually in Italy by the Italian Association for
Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA). This year the focus is on human-oriented
computing as a unifying paradigm for most of the traditional research and
application areas of AI. The technical program for the conference will
include invited lectures, workshops and presentations of refereed papers and
posters in the main areas of AI. Three special tracks are dedicated to
relevant trends in the AI research. Papers are invited on substantial,
original, and unpublished research on all aspects of artificial
intelligence, including, but not limited to:


Search                                  Constraint Satisfaction
Reasoning                               Inference
Machine learning                        Learning in adaptive systems
Knowledge Representation                Knowledge Engineering
Knowledge Acquisition                   Information Agents
Multiagent Systems                      Distributed AI
Ontologies                              Semantic Web
Natural Language Processing             Web and Data Mining
Information Retrieval and Extraction    Human Computer Interaction
Soft and Evolutionary Computing         Computing Uncertainty
Planning and Scheduling                 Temporal Reasoning
Cognitive Robotics                      Vision
Cognitive modeling                      AI architectures
Mathematical Foundations                Philosophical Foundations
AI Applications                         AI in Art and Music



Conference Chairs


Roberto Basili  (University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy)
Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy)



Program Committee


Khurshid Ahmad (Trinity College Dublin, Rep. of Ireland)
Luigia Carlucci Aiello (University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy)
Stefania Bandini (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy)
Ernesto Burattini (CIB-CNR, Italy)
Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside, UK)
Roberto Cordeschi  (University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy)
Walter Daelemans (CNTS, University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Floriana Esposito (University of Bari, Italy)
Salvatore Gaglio (University of Palermo, Italy)
Attilio Giordana (University of Torino, Italy)
Marco Gori (University of Siena, Italy)
Gregory Grefenstette (Commissariat pur l'Energie Atomique, France)
Nicola Guarino (LOA-CNR Trento, Italy)
Eduard Hovy (Information Sciences Institute - USC, USA)
Leonardo Lesmo (University of Torino, Italy)
Robert Meersman (Free University Of Brussels, Belgium)
Enrico Motta (KMI, Open University, UK)
Sergei Nirenburg (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Patrizia Paggio (Centre for Language Technology, Denmark)
Lorenza Saitta (University of Torino, Italy)
Kiril Simov (LMD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Giovanni Soda (University of Firenze, Italy)
Konstantinos Spyropoulos (NCSR 'Demokritos', Greece)
Steffen Staab (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST, Italy)
Tokunaga Takenobu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Finland)



Three Special Tracks are considered about the following specific topics:


-   AI and Robotics: Cognitive Robotics, Robotic Perception,
     Robotic Learning, Human Robot Interaction Emotional Robotics,
     Humanoid Robots, Bioinspired Robotics, Service Robotics


-   AI for Intelligent Access to Multimedia Data: Multimedia processing
     and AI technologies, Semantic-driven multimedia indexing and retrieval,
     Integration of content analysis with language and speech processing,
     Semantic media annotation, Ontologies and Multimedia,
     Cross-media machine learning and data mining,


-   AI for Expressive Media: Affective Computing, AI and Media Studies,
     AI and Creativity, AI in Entertaiment, Computational Humor,
     AI in Game Design and Programming, Autonomous Animated Characters,
     Emotional Interfaces, Interactive Storytelling, Intelligent Virtual
     Environments


The Special Tracks will be announced in a separate Call for Paper and
information can be found at:
http://aiia.info.uniroma2.it/specialprogram.html




Best Paper Award


Submitted technical papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award
sponsored by the AI*IA. The award will be assigned under further evaluation
by the members of the AI*IA07 Program Committee



Submissions


Submission of technical papers will be electronic, using the paper
submission software that will be accessible through the conference web page.
The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF. The papers must
be submitted no later than April 12, 2007. Please consult the submission web
page for details of the submission procedure.
Submitted papers should not have been previously published in any journals
or refereed conferences or workshops. Full length papers must be in English
and not exceed 8 pages, including references and figures.
The PDF files must be formatted according to the Springer Verlag Proceedings
style. Please access the Conference Web site for links to the LNCS Series
"Author Instruction".


Accepted papers must be presented at the AI*IA07 conference. All accepted
papers and posters will be published in the AI*IA 2007 Congress proceedings
on the Springer-Verlag LNAI series.


Important Dates


Submissions Due: April 12, 2007
Notification: May 25, 2007
Final Copies Due: June 10, 2007


Workshop Proposal: March 15, 2007
A separate AI*IA07 Call for Workshop is foreseen.
Information can be found at: http://aiia.info.uniroma2.it/cfw.html



Conference Venue


The conference will take place at Villa Mondragone (Monte Porzio Catone,
Roma), one of the historical and most beautiful buildings of the "Ville
Tuscolane", dating back to the XVI century. Property of the University of
Tor Vergata, the Villa is located between Frascati and Monte Porzio Catone,
in the hart of the world famous area of Castelli Romani. Roma is only 20 km
north-west from the conference venue.




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Roberto BASILI

Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production
AI Research Group
University of Roma, Tor Vergata
Via del Politecnico 1
00133 Roma, Italy
Tel. +39-06-72597391.
Lab. +39-06-72597332,
Fax. +39-06-72587460
URL: ai-nlp.info.uniroma2.it/basili
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