*** Apologize for multiple posting *** 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 Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of artificial intelligence, including, but not limited to: Search Constraint Satisfaction Reasoning Inference Machine learning Learning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.