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                        AI*IA 2001 Workshop on

    Artificial Intelligence, Vision and Pattern Recognition


                        Monday, 24 September 2001

                                joint with
 7th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
(AI*IA    2001)
                             Bari, 25th - 28th of September 2001
                 Department of Computer Science, University of Bari
(Italy)

Aim

An intelligent agent which operates in the real world, be it a robot
or a
software system, should be able to perceive and interact with moving
objects, people, etc., in unstructured and unpredictable environments.
In
order to accomplish its own task, the agent must be able to understand
its
workspace, meaning that it should be able to generate an internal
high-level description of what is perceived. Generating this
description
requires sensory data processing by means of Pattern Recognition
techniques; it also requires the generation of bi and tri-dimensional
reconstructions by means of Computer Vision techniques, and it lastly
requires symbolic computation which are typically provided by
Artificial
Intelligence techniques. Building an agent able to understand its
environment is a demanding task that can be achieved only by means of
the
joint application of techniques, methodologies and experiences from
several advanced research fields. The workshop is among the events of
the
Congress AI*IA 2001; the aim is to encourage the cooperation between
Italian researchers working in the fields of Artificial Intelligence,
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, who are interested in
exploring
opportunities for cross-fertilization of theories and methodologies,
and
laying foundations for new intelligent agents that interact with the
surrounding world at high level.


Topics

Researchers are invited to submit contributions concerning methodology
and
application issues raised by the joint application of Artificial
Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition techniques.
Preliminary work highlighting innovative and promising research
directions
is encouraged. In particular, contributions addressing the following
topics are welcome (the list is not exhaustive):

     AI Techniques in Pattern Recognition
     AI Techniques in Computer Vision
     Cognitive Architectures in Computer Vision
     Generation of symbolic representations from sensory data
     Reasoning Techniques on sensory data
     Symbolic Systems for Computer Vision
     Cognitive Models for Focus of Attention

Submission

A selection of the accepted contributions will be published in the
journal
AI*IA Notizie. A summary of one page maximum (A4 format) should be
sent,
preferably by e-mail, by 15 May 2001 to the following address:

Antonio Chella
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Automatica e Informatica
Università di Palermo - Viale delle Scienze
90128 Palermo
E-mail: chella@unipa.it

Important dates

                    Submission:
                                    May 15, 2001
                    Final version:
                                    June 1, 2001
                    Workshop:
                                    September 24, 2001


Scientific Committee

     Giovanni Adorni, Università di Parma
     Virginio Cantoni, Università di Pavia
     Antonio Chella, Università di Palermo e CERE-CNR, Palermo
     Luigi P. Cordella Università di Napoli
     Vito Di Gesù, Università di Palermo
     Arcangelo Distante, IESI-CNR, Bari
     Donato Malerba, Università di Bari
     Vito Roberto, Università di Udine
     Guido Tascini, Università di Ancona

Organizing Committee

  Antonio Chella,Università di Palermo e CERE-CNR, Palermo
  Donato Malerba, Università di Bari