First call for papers: MIWAI'09

[Richard Booth]

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Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings
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Dear Colleague,

Following on from the success of the 1st and 2nd Mahasarakham
International Workshops on AI (MIWAI 2007,http://www.miwai.org,
MIWAI 2008, http://www.it.msu.ac.th/miwai2008/index.html),
we are delighted to announce the 2009 edition of the event.
Please find the Call for Papers below. Submission of full papers is
due on September 27, 2009. The workshop will take place in
Mahasarakham, Thailand on December 10-11, 2009. We will also
be grateful to you for advertising MIWAI 2009 and inviting your
colleagues and/or research students to submit their work and
participate in the event. The (preliminary version of the)
MIWAI09 homepage may be found here
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai09

This year's MIWAI will take place inbetween the Australasian AI
Conference (AI'09) in Melbourne, Australia and the International
Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
(PRIMA'09) in Nagoya, Japan.

We look forward to receiving your submission.

Best regards,

Natthariya Laopracha
MIWAI 2009 Publicity Chair

Richard Booth and Chattrakul Sombattheera
MIWAI 2009 Program Chairs

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The Third Mahasarakham International Workshop on  AI (MIWAI'09)
Call for Papers:  MIWAI 2009
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December 10-11, 2009
Mahasarakham, Thailand
Contact: richard.b at msu.ac.th, chattrakul.s at msu.ac.th
Homepage: http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai09 (Preliminary version)

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Invited Speakers
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Patrick Doherty
 Linkoping University, Sweden,
 http://www.ida.liu.se/~patdo/patdosite1/index.html

Ryohei Nakatsu
(National University of Singapore,
http://www.idmi.nus.edu.sg/ourpeople/prof_nakatsu.htm)

MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

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Important Dates:
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Papers due: September 27 2009
Author notification: October 25 2009
Camera-ready papers due: November 8 2009
Registration deadline: November 22 2009
Workshop dates: December 10-11 2009

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About  MIWAI
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has broad applications on
real world problems. Examples include control, planning and
scheduling, pattern recognition, knowledge mining, software
applications and strategy games. The advances in AI research have
been driven partially by our passionate enthusiasm and have been
thriving recently. On the other hand, the ever evolving needs in
business both in local and global scale have been demanding for
better technologies for solving more and more complex problems.
Such needs can be found in all industrial sectors and in any part
of the world.

This workshop aims to be a meeting place where excellence in AI
research meets the needs for solving dynamic and complex
problems in the real world. The academic researchers, developers,
and industrial practitioners will have extensive opportunities to
present their original work, technological advances and practical
problems. Participants can learn from each other and exchange
their experiences in order to fine tune their activities in order
to help each other better.

The focus of MIWAI'09 will be fairly broad, taking in all
sub-topics of AI. The programme aims at high quality research
publications in AI of both technical and applied natures.

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About  Mahasarakham
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Mahasarakham is a city in the northeast of Thailand in the
so-called "Isan" region of the country. Mahasarakham University
(http://www.msu.ac.th) is a major centre of learning in the region
and its Faculty of Informatics (http://www.it.msu.ac.th) is
currently enjoying an exciting period of growth, with a blossoming
research culture now complementing its traditional teaching
strengths. The town itself boasts many temples, as well as
numerous restaurants selling delicious Isan food. It is also
renowned for its silk and handicraft.

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Topics of Interest
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The research areas in AI include but not limited to:
 -Agent-based simulation
 -Agent-oriented software engineering
 -Agents and Web services
 -Agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets
 -Constraint satisfaction
 -Decision theory
 -Distributed AI
 -E-Commerce and AI
 -Game theory
 -Internet/WWW intelligence
 -Industrial applications of AI
 -Intelligent tutoring
 -Knowledge representation and reasoning
 -Machine learning
 -Multiagent planning and learning
 -Multiagent systems and their applications
 -Multiagent systems and evolving intelligence
 -Natural language processing
 -Neural networks
 -Planning and scheduling
 -Robotics
 -Web services

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Submission Requirements
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Submissions of the following two categories are invited:

Category A: REGULAR PAPERS
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Papers presenting new original work. Submitted papers should not
exceed a length of 12 pages, formatted in the IEEE style (latex
and MS Word templates available for download from
http://khamreang.msu.ac.th/miwai09/submission.html). These papers
will be reviewed on overall quality and relevance.  Reviewing will
be double-blind, meaning names and institutions of authors should
not appear in the submitted paper. All accepted papers will be
fully published in the proceedings.

Category B: COMPRESSED CONTRIBUTIONS
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Papers that have recently been accepted for AI-related refereed
conferences (e.g., IJCAI 2009, PRICAI 2009, PRIMA 2009) or
journals can be resubmitted and will be accepted as "compressed
contributions". Authors are invited to submit the published
version (without page or format restriction). 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.

The language of the workshop is English. Papers written in any
other language will not be accepted.

The workshop proceedings will be published with ISBN number.
At least one author of each accepted paper (in both submission
categories) is required to attend the workshop.

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Submission Instructions
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Submission will be handled via EasyChair. Please send an
electronic pdf copy via the submission page
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miwai09. (If you do
not already have one, you will be first asked to register an
EasyChair account on this submission page.) Be sure to tick the
box stating clearly to which of the 2 submission categories your
submission belongs. Submission deadline is September 27, 2009.

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Publication
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MIWAI 2009 workshop proceedings will be distributed at the event.
We intend to invite authors of the best papers to submit revised
and extended versions of their papers for a special issue of a
suitable journal.

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Committees
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Advisory Commitee
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 -Wanchai Rivepaiboon (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
 -Wirat Pongsiri(Mahasarakham, Thailand)
 -Sujin Butdeesuwan (Mahasarakham, Thailand)
 -Somnuk Puangpronpitag (Mahasarakham, Thailand)

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Program Co-Chairs
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 -Richard Booth (Mahasarakham, Thailand)
 -Chattrakul Sombattheera (Mahasarakham, Thailand)

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Publicity Chair
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 -Natthariya Laopracha (Mahasarakham, Thailand)

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 Program Committee (provisional)
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 -Samir Aknine (Paris 6, France)
 -Roger Boyle (Leeds, UK)
 -Chee Fon Chang (Wollongong, Australia)
 -Krisana Chinnasarn (Burapha, Thailand)
 -Matthew Dailey (AIT, Thailand)
 -Aniruddha Dasgupta (Wollongong, Australia)
 -Juergen Dix (Clausthal, Germany)
 -Phan Minh Dung (AIT, Thailand)
 -Andreas Herzig (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
 -Wiebe van der Hoek (Liverpool, UK)
 -Jerome Lang (Lamsade, Paris, France)
 -Kittichai Lavangnananda  (KMUTT, Thailand)
 -Fangzhen Lin (HKUST, Hong Kong)
 -Chidchanok Lursinsap (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
 -Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
 -Jerome Mengin (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
 -Ryohei Nakatsu (NUS, Singapore)
 -Supawan Phonphitakchai (Naresuan University, Thailand)
 -Iyad Rahwan (Edinburgh, UK and British University in Dubai)
 -Jun Shen (Wollongong, Australia)
 -Sukree Sinthupinyo (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
 -Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn (SIIT, Bangkok)
 -Leon van der Torre (Uni Luxembourg)
 -Paul Weng (Paris 6, France)