AI 2013 CFP: Due Date July 21, 2013 (Extended

[Brendon Woodford]

[Apologies for cross-posting]
                                 CALL FOR PAPERS
	      *** Note extended submission deadline: now 21 July ***

	  26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                                     AI 2013

                                3-6 December, 2013
                               Dunedin, New Zealand

                            http://ai2013.otago.ac.nz/

Since the first AI Conference took place in Sydney in 1987, the series of annual Australasian Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence has become the premier event for Artificial Intelligence researchers in Australasia and one of the major international forums on AI worldwide. In 2008 the AI conference was hosted in New Zealand for the first time, in Auckland. In 2013 the 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence returns to New Zealand, and will be held in Dunedin, hosted by the University of Otago.

AI 2013 will be co-located with the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2013, http://prima2013.otago.ac.nz/) and the 1st New Zealand Agent School (http://prima2013.otago.ac.nz/agent-school/).

Prospective authors are invited to submit original research and application papers in any area of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to the
following:

 * Agent-based and multiagent systems
 * AI applications and innovations
 * Cognitive modelling and computer human interaction
 * Commonsense reasoning
 * Computer vision
 * Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimisation
 * Evolutionary computation
 * Game playing and interactive entertainment
 * Information retrieval, integration, and extraction
 * Knowledge acquisition and ontologies
 * Knowledge representation and reasoning
 * Machine learning and data mining
 * Model-based systems
 * Multidisciplinary AI
 * Natural language processing
 * Planning and scheduling
 * Robotics
 * Social choice
 * Uncertainty in AI
 * Web and information systems

All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format and formatted using Springer's manuscript submission guidelines:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should not be under review or be submitted for publication elsewhere during the review period. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least three independent referees. Reviews will be double blind; authors must avoid including anything that can be used to identify them.
IN PARTICULAR, AUTHOR NAMES SHOULD NOT APPEAR IN THE TITLE BLOCK.

Submission will be through the Easychair conference management system at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=26ai2013

All accepted papers submitted to the Conference will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and to present the paper.

Important Dates:

*** Note extended deadline and change to notification date ***

Submissions due: 21 July (AWST: Australian Western Standard Time)
Notifications: 4 September
Camera-ready copy due: 18 September
Early registration: 31 October
1st NZ Agent School: 1 December
Doctoral consortium: 2 December
Workshops and tutorials: 3 December
Conference: 4-6 December