********************************************************** Call for Papers and Participation - First Announcement 3rd Intl. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques A I T ' 96 September 9-11, 1996, Brno, Czech Republic ********************************************************** Important Dates and Deadlines: June 3, 1996: Paper/Poster Submission July 3, 1996: Acceptance Notification August 2, 1996: Final Paper Version Organizer: Dept. of Automation and Control, FEE & CS, Technical University of Brno In cooperation with the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno Workshop Official Language: English AIT'96 topics will include the following areas: AI Techniques in Classification, Prediction, and Control; Applications of Combined AI Techniques; Applied Inductive Learning; Artificial Neural Networks; Computer Vision; Fuzzy Logic Theory and its Applications to Control and Approximate Reasoning; Genetic Algorithms in Learning and Optimization; Knowledge Acquisition and Restructuring; Probabilistic and Logical Approaches in Expert Systems; Speech and Natural Language Processing. Contact: e-mail: ait@fi.muni.cz ftp: fi.muni.cz Name: anonymous Password: your complete e-mail address ftp> cd pub/users/popel/AIT http: //www.fi.muni.cz/usr/popelinsky/AIT.html Proceedings: The workshop's programme will include invited lectures and presentations of accepted papers and posters. Accepted submissions will be distributed to the conference participants in the form of Proceedings. International Programme Committee: C. Baroglio, Univ. of Torino, Italy P. Brazdil, LIACC, Univ. of Porto, Portugal I. Bruha, Univ. of Hamilton, Canada J. Csonto, Technical Univ. of Kosice, Slovakia V. Hlavac, Czech Technical Univ., Prague, Czech Republic R. Jirousek, Univ. of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic M. Kubat, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada S. Matwin, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada K. Pala, Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czech Republic F. Solc, Technical Univ. of Brno, Czech Republic L. Spacek, Univ. of Essex, United Kingdom O. Stepankova, Czech Technical Univ., Prague, Czech Rep. P. Vojtas, Slovak Academy of Science, Kosice, Slovakia G. Widmer, Austrian Research Inst. for AI, Vienna, Austria J. Zlatuska, Masaryk Univ., Brno, Czech Republic J. Zizka (Chair), Technical Univ. of Brno, Czech Republic Local Organization Committee: Jirina Pavlickova, Technical Univ. of Brno (pavli@dame.fee.vutbr.cz) Lubos Popelinsky, Masaryk Univ., Brno (popel@fi.muni.cz) Jan Zizka, Technical Univ. of Brno (zizka@dame.fee.vutbr.cz) Contact Address: Jirina Pavlickova pavli@dame.fee.vutbr.cz UAMT FEI VUT tel: (++42 5) 7275274 Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno fax: (++42 5) 41211141 Czech Republic Submissions: Submissions of papers and posters will be reviewed by the Programme Committee members and associated referees. Selected papers may be resubmitted as posters. Please, send your submissions either in the form of a uuencoded postscript file to the e-mail address ait@fi.muni.cz or in the printed form (3 hard copies) to: AIT'96 - Jan Zizka, UAMT FEI VUT Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic Paper Format: Max. 8 pages (a paper) or 2 pages (a poster) including tables, figures, etc., using the style LNCS in LaTeX. The use of other wordprocessors is also acceptable provided that the result is similar to the LNCS style. The LNCS style is available at the ftp address indicated above (fi.muni.cz). Include your contact address and e-mail (if applicable). Use a laser printer, printing quality 300 dpi or better. If you need some additional information, please send your question to ait@fi.muni.cz. Conference fee: 900 Kc (Czech Crowns) or 50 DEM (German Marks). The fee covers the price of proceedings and the necessary workshop's overheads. Should you consider to contribute to the workshop or to participate in AIT'96, please send a note in advance to ait@fi.muni.cz. It would help the organizers to estimate the workshop's facilities.