AI'12 Early Registration ends soon (15 November) & panel discussion on "AI in Australasia"

[Sebastian Sardina]

[Apologies if you receive this more than once]


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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Australasian AI conferences, a panel
discussion "AI in Australasia - the Past Twenty-Five Years" will be held on 6
December. The panel members include:

Professor Robin Stanton (DVC at ANU)
Professor Mary O’Kane (NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer, FTSE)
Professor Ross Quinlan (RuleQuest's founder, AAAI Fellow)
Professor Ray Jarvis (Professor in Monash University, IEEE Fellow)
Professor John Lloyd  (Professor in ANU)
Professor Michael Georgeff (Professor in Monash, AAAI Fellow)
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AI'12 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


The 25th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'12)
December 4-7, Sydney Harbour Marriott, Sydney, Australia

About the Conference
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Since the first AI Conference took place in Sydney in 1987, the series of
annual Australasian Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence have become
the premier event for Artificial Intelligence researchers in Australasia and
one of the major international forums on AI worldwide. For its 25th
anniversary, the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence will
return to Sydney in December 2012, jointly hosted by The University of Western
Sydney and The University of New South Wales.

For 2012, the conference venue will be the outstanding Sydney Harbour Marriott
Hotel, one of Sydney’s premier harbourside hotels at Circular Quay. The venue
overlooks the sparkling Sydney Harbour and the world famous Sydney Opera
House, and is just moments away from the historic Rocks district.

Further information can be found on the conference website:

http://25thAnniversaryAustralasianAI.org

or

http://ai12.org


Programme
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We are very pleased to announce that invited speakers Prof. Joseph Halpern,
Prof. Mamoru Kaneko and Prof. Mary O'Kane will be giving talks at AI 2012:

Prof Joseph Halpern (Cornell University, USA)
Constructive decision theory: Decision theory with subjective states and
outcomes

Prof. Mamoru Kaneko (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Epistemic Logic Approach to Game Theory and Inductive Game Theory

Prof. Mary O'Kane (NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer)
AI in Australia -- early days & current impact

Apart from the invited speakers, the programme will mainly consist of talks
given by authors of accepted papers. A list of accepted papers can be found
here:

http://ai2012.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/acceptedpapers.html

In addition, four workshops and two tutorials will be held at AI'12:

http://ai2012.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/workshops.html


The 10th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2012), to be held 5-7
December 2012 is collocated with AI 2012 at the Sydney Harbour Marriott.
Registration for AI 2012 allows full access to AusDM 2012.


Registration
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Registration includes all AI'12 conference sessions (research paper sessions,
keynote sessions). The fees include daily morning and afternoon teas, a buffet
lunch, conference bag, and conference proceedings on a USB stick. The Standard
and Student Plus fees include the conference banquet.

Online registration for the workshop is open and has been extended to **15th
November 2012** to align with collocated events:

http://ai2012.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/registration.html


Organisation
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GENERAL CHAIRS
Simeon Simoff, The University of Western Sydney
Maurice Pagnucco, The University of New South Wales

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Dongmo Zhang, The University of Western Sydney
Michael Thielscher, The University of New South Wales

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIRS
Yan Zhang, The University of Western Sydney
Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University

AWARD SELECTION CHAIR
Toby Walsh, National ICT Australia (NICTA)

WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL CHAIR
Hans Guesgen, Massey University, New Zealand

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Sebastian Sardina, RMIT University

SPONSORSHIP CHAIRS
Sumeet Kumar, Telstra Enterprise & Government
Laurence Park, The University of Western Sydney

CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
David Rajaratnam, The University of New South Wales

AI CHALLENGES COORDINATOR
Anton Bogdanovych, The University of Western Sydney