----Apologies if you receive multiple copies---- *** EXTENDED DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2002 *** CALL FOR PAPERS IBERAMIA'2002 EIGHTH IBEROAMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Sevilla, Spain, November 12-15, 2002 http://www.lsi.us.es/iberamia2002 (A brochure in Spanish can be foud in http://www.lsi.us.es/iberamia2002/triptico.pdf, available soon in English in http://www.lsi.us.es/iberamia2002/brochure.pdf) The 8th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligent (IBERAMIA) will take place at Seville (Spain) in november 12-15, 2002. The scientific program of IBERAMIA 2002 will consist of: . Main Conference. . Associated workshops. . Tutorials. . Awards to the best papers and doctoral works. (For details about proposing workshops and tutorials, please find it in the web site, section "Call for Papers") The Main Conference will be structured along two main modules: . Papers (Paper Track). . Contributions from Iberoamerica (Open Discussion Track). There will be two types of lectures: . Presentations of the papers accepted by the Program Committee carried out by the corresponding authors. . Speeches about the topics of the Congress given by invited speakers. The difference between the Paper Track and the Open Discussion Track sessions is the presentation language. Papers submitted to the Paper Track should be written in English, whereas papers submitted to the Open Discussion Track may be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. The Paper Track session is intended for the AI International Community. Papers submitted should present substantial new results in theoretical, empirical and applied research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. IBERAMIA 2002 allows simultaneous submission of papers to other conferences, provided this fact is clearly indicated when submitting. Accepted Paper Track papers will appear in the Springer Verlag's LNCS/LNAI (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series conference proceedings only if they are withdrawn from other conferences. All authors of accepted papers will be required to sign copyright release forms, and one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the conference to present the paper. Furthermore, it is the conference policy that at least one of the authors of accepted papers has to register IBERAMIA 2002 by october 15th, 2002. Otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. The Programm Committee will select some papers for publication in a special issue on Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IOS Press). The authors of the selected papers suitable to the scope of the journal will be invited to submit extended version of their paper. These extended papers are subject for another review. The Open Discussion Track is composed of working sessions devoted to the most important areas of research in Ibero-American countries. This track is intended to showcase promising new directions and allow feedback on preliminary work. Submissions of challenge and position papers are also solicited. IBERAMIA 2002 especially encourages students from Ibero-American countries to submit their preliminary doctoral work. Papers submitted to the Open Discussion Track may be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. They should be high in interest and potential, but will typically contain only preliminary results and analysis. Papers accepted for this track will be presented at the conference and will be published in a local edition (ISBN). Conference topics IBERAMIA 2002 topics include, but are not limited to: . Intelligent User Interfaces: Multimedia Applications and Virtual Reality . Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining . Evolutionary Computation, Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks . Real Time Systems . AI Foundations and Knowledge Representation . Knowledge Engineering (Ontologies, Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Representation, Reuse of Knowledge) . Reasoning Models: Non-monotonic Reasoning, Common-Sense Reasoning, Case-Based Reasoning, Abduction, Temporal Reasoning, Belief Revision, Model-Based Reasoning, Qualitative Reasoning and Reasoning under Uncertainty . Natural Language Processing . Robotics, Perception and Artificial Vision . Constraint Satisfaction, Planning and Scheduling . Decision Support Systems . AI in Education and Intelligent Tutoring Systems . Multi-Agent Systems and Distributed AI Awards IBERAMIA 2002 will give the following awards: . José Negrete award to the best paper at IBERAMIA 2002 . José Cuena award to the best doctoral work done at iberoamerican universities . Award to the best work presented at the Open Discussion Track . Award to the best master work done at iberoamerican universities The awards will be given during the Conference. People interested in the best doctoral or master work awards should send a copy of their work in PDF format to the email address iberamia2002@lsi.us.es before june 15th, 2002. Program Committee Francisco J. Garijo (PC Chair), Telefónica I+D, Madrid, España Agostino Poggi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italia Alejandro Ceccatto, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Alessandro Provetti, DSI Univ Milan, Italia Amal El Fallah, LIPN, Francia Ana Paiva, INESC, Portugal Analia Amandi, UNICEN, Argentina Antonio Bahamonde, C Int. Artificial, Universidad Oviedo, España Antonio Ferrández, Dpto. LSI, Universidad de Alicante, España Antonio Moreno, Universidad Rovira y Virgili, España Ariadne Carvalho, UNICAMP Brasil Carolina Chang, GIA Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela Claire Nédellec, LRI Paris Sud, France Ed Durfee, University of Michigan, USA Elisabeth Andre, DFKI, Germany Enrique Sucar, ITESM-Morelos, México Federico Barber, Dpto. Sistemas Informáticos y computación, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, España Fernando Moura Pires, FCT Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Gabriela P. Henning, Universidad Nac. del Litoral - CONICET, Argentina Gerardo Ayala, UDLA, México Hector Geffner, USB/ Pompeu Fabra, Venezuela/ España José Maia Neves, Universidade do Minho, Portugal José Riquelme, Universidad de Sevilla, España Jesús Favela Vara, CICESE, México Kevin Knight, USC/ISI, USA Marcelo Finger, Dpt de Ciência da Computação, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil Maria Cristina Riff, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile Maria Fox, University of Durham, UK Michael Huns, University of South Carolina, USA Osvaldo Cairo, ITAM, México Pablo Noriega, LANIA, Mexico Pavel Bradzil, LIACC / Porto, Portugal Rosa Vicari, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Riichiro Mizoguchi, ISIR, Osaka University, Japan Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Solange Rezende, ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil Stefano Cerri, Univ Montpellier, Francia William B. Langdon, University College, London, UK Yves Demazeau, IMAG, Francia IMPORTANT DATES Papers (both tracks) Deadline for paper submission: may 31st, 2002 Notification of acceptance: june 30th, 2002 Deadline for camera-ready papers: august 1st, 2002 Workshops Deadline for Workshop proposal: may 31st, 2002 Notification of acceptance: june 20th, 2002 Tutorials Deadline for Tutorial proposal: may 31st, 2002 Notification of acceptance: june 20th, 2002 Deadline for Tutorial hand-outs: october 27th, 2002 Registration Deadline for early registration: september 1st, 2002 Deadline for late registration: october 15th, 2002 Please refer to the web site for full details about the conference