[Event at CIG] Extended deadlines: 46th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2023), Berlin, Germany

[Alexander Steen]

46th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(KI 2023)

Final Call for Papers (extended deadlines)
Doctoral Consortium Call

September 26-29, 2023 in Berlin (Germany)
    <https://ki2023.gi.de/>

**************************************************************************

*** Deadline extension until May 19, 2023 ***

=====================
SCOPE AND VENUE
=====================

The KI 2023 takes place in Berlin, Germany, September 26 - 29, 2023.

KI 2023 is the 46th edition of the German Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (abbreviated KI for "Künstliche Intelligenz") organized
in cooperation with the Fachbereich Künstliche Intelligenz der Gesellschaft
für Informatik (GI-SIG AI).
KI is one of the major European AI conferences and traditionally
brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas
of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research
results on theory and applications. Topics include all subareas of
artificial intelligence with focus on foundations as well as applications.

The technical program of KI 2023 comprises invited keynotes,
panel discussions, paper presentations, as well as several
workshops and tutorials.

=====================
INVITED SPEAKERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS
=====================

* Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid (Univ. of Bamberg, DE)
   Title: Near-miss Explanations to Teach Humans and Machines

* Asbjørn Følstad, PhD (SINTEF, NO)
   Title: Chatbots and large language models --
          how advances in generative AI impact users,
          organizations and society

* Prof. Selmer Bringsjord, PhD (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
    Title: Can We Verify That Neural-Network-based AIs are Ethically 
Correct?

* Prof. Dr. Björn Ommer (LMU Munich, DE/Stable Diffusion)
   -- joint keynote with INFORMATIK 2023 --
   Title: TBA


KI 2023 will feature a round table discussion headed by Anja Schaar-Goldapp
(Schaar-Goldapp Consulting and GI Wirtschaftsbeirat GIWI)
on *ChatGPT -- chances and risks*.

==================
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
==================

We invite papers written in English and formatted according to the
Springer LNCS style, in the following three categories:

(1) Full technical papers (12 pages max., excluding references)

These papers are expected to report on new research that makes a
substantial technical contribution to the field. Additional details
may be included in an appendix, which, however, will be read at the
discretion of the PC.

(2) Technical communications (6 pages max., excluding references)

Technical communications can report on research in progress or other
issues of interest to the AI community. Examples of work suitable for
technical communication paper submissions include: novel ideas whose
scope is not large enough for a full paper; important implementation
techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short experimental
studies; interesting applications that are not yet completely solved
or analyzed; position or challenge papers. Technical communication
submissions are especially invited for software demonstration or
PhD work in progress.

(3) Abstracts of papers accepted at other AI-Conferences
     (3 pages max., excluding references)

Papers accepted at (most recent editions of) major AI conferences are
welcome to bring together German members of the international AI community.
Abstracts of accepted papers will be evaluated based on the ranking of
the venue it has been accepted for. We especially invite abstract of
papers from A or A* ranked AI conferences.

Submission should be made through the EasyChair conference management
system. The submission link is (select "KI 2023 main conference" as track):

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2023

Full papers and technical communications will be subject to single-blind 
peer
review based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of
results, originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation.
Papers accepted in this process will be published in the main conference
proceedings, published by Springer in the LNAI series and will be presented
at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register
for the conference and present the contribution. Conference proceedings will
be available online only (no printed proceedings).

The 3-page paper abstracts will be bundled and included in a preface or 
appendix
section of the conference proceedings.

It is possible to submit a paper (of any category) until the final extended
deadline (see below) even if no abstract was submitted before.



==================
List of Topics
==================

KI 2023 will include a special topic area on large language models and their
impact on society, and invites research and application papers related 
to this field.

Furthermore, KI 2023 also invites original research and application papers
on all aspects of AI research and AI applications, including but not
limited to the following:

    Applications
     * AI applications and innovations
     * AI and digital humanities
     * AI and psychology
     * Multidisciplinary AI
     * Philosophical foundations of AI

    Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization
     * Diagnosis and configuration
     * Planning and scheduling
     * Recommender systems

    Knowledge representation and reasoning
     * Argumentation in AI
     * Belief change
     * Cognitive modeling
     * Commonsense and normative reasoning
     * Interactive and automated theorem proving
     * Knowledge engineering and ontologies
     * Nonmonotonic reasoning and default logics
     * Uncertainty in AI

    Machine learning and related methods
     * Explainable AI
     * Evolutionary computation
     * Knowledge discovery and data mining
     * Neural networks
     * Deep learning
     * Neurosymbolic methods

    Further areas
     * Agent-based and multi-agent systems
     * Computer vision
     * Game playing and interactive entertainment
     * Information retrieval, integration, and extraction
     * Natural language processing
     * Responsible AI
     * Robotics
     * Web and information systems

================
Doctoral Consortium
================

There will be a PhD workshop with keynote and oral presentations during
the KI conference, providing an opportunity for obtaining feedback on
PhD projects. Doctoral students may also participate in a mentoring
program that will connect students with experienced researchers in their 
field.

Additionally, there will be the opportunity to participate in the main
conference poster session where the participants will have the chance to
present their research to a larger audience.

The full call can be found at https://ki2023.gi.de/doctoral-consortium.

================
IMPORTANT DATES
================

Abstract/full paper submission: May 19, 2023 (extended!)
Notification: June 26, 2023
Doctoral Consortium Submission Deadline: July 10, 2023
KI Workshops/Tutorials: September 26, 2023
Main Conference: September 27-29, 2023


=================
ORGANIZING TEAM
=================

Prof. Dr. Dietmar Seipel, University of Würzburg, Germany (PC chair)
Prof. Dr. Alexander Steen, University of Greifswald, Germany (PC chair)
Prof. Dr. Johannes Fähndrich, Hochschule für Polizei Baden-Württemberg 
(Workshop and Tutorial chair)
Prof. Dr. Frieder Stolzenburg, Harz University of Applied Sciences, 
Germany (Doctoral Consortium chair)
Gesellschaft für Informatik, Berlin office (Local chairs)


===========
CONTACT
===========

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ki2023 at easychair.org