BISFAI-99
                  FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


                    BAR-ILAN SYMPOSIUM
        ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

            THEME:  BRIDGING THEORY AND PRACTICE


Bar-Ilan  is please to announce its sixth biennial
Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence,
to be held on June 23-25, 1999 in Ramat Gan, Israel.
The symposium is international in scope, with invited lectures
by leading researchers and contributed papers on foundations of AI.
The invited speakers for BISFAI-99 include Stan Rosenschein of Stanford
University and Leo Joskowicz of Hebrew University.  Additional
invited speakers will be posted on the website. 

We solicit substantial research papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence,
including but not limited to,
    automated reasoning                  machine learning
    data mining                          natural language processing
    information retrieval                planning
    intelligent agents                   probabilistic reasoning
    knowledge-based systems              robotics
    knowledge representation             search
            mathematical and philosophical foundations



We especially encourage papers on the theme of this year's symposium-

                BRIDGING THEORY AND PRACTICE:
          THEORY-BASED PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS
               AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS


Authors should submit papers (preferrably postscript files via email)
by March 2, 1999, together with a text version of the title and abstract,
to either of the program chairs,
Leora Morgenstern  (leora@watson.ibm.com) or
Solomon Eyal Shimony (shimony@cs.bgu.ac.il)

Papers should be at most twelve pages in length, excluding references.
Questions on content, format, or appropriateness
should be addressed to the program chairs.


Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 12, 1999.
A final version of the accepted papers
will be available at the BISFAI-99 website.
Selected refereed full-length papers will be published in a special issue
of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence as a permanent
record of the symposium.  These should be submitted shortly after the
conclusion of the symposium.

MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS:  Papers may be submitted to BISFAI even if
submitted to other conferences or journals, because BISFAI is not
an archival conference.  Of course, if a paper is accepted at an
archival conference such as AAAI or IJCAI and also presented at BISFAI,
this paper must be substantially revised and/or extended before submitting
it to the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.
Previously presented or published papers are not acceptable for BISFAI.

CALL FOR DEMOS: We solicit proposals for demonstrations of
innovative applications of artificial intelligence.  Details can be found
at http://www.cs.biu.ac.il:8080/bisfai/cfd.html, or at
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/leora/bisfai/cfd.html.

Information on registration, accommodations, and other relevant topics
will appear in future announcements.  You may contact bisfai@cs.biu.ac.il
for further information, or visit the BISFAI-99 website at
http://www.cs.biu.ac.il:8080/~bisfai.
This site is mirrored in the United States at
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/leora/bisfai


IMPORTANT DATES:
March 2, 1999:   paper submission deadline
March 16, 1999:  demo proposal submission deadline
April 12, 1999:  notification to authors of acceptance
May 21, 1999:    final papers due
June 23-25,1999: BISFAI conference

SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE:
Martin Charles Golumbic, Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan, Israel),
Symposium Chair

Leora Morgenstern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (New York, USA),
Program Co-Chair

Solomon Eyal Shimony, Ben-Gurion University (Beer Sheva, Israel),
Program Co-Chair



PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Luigia Carlucci Aiello (U. Rome-"La Sapienza", Italy)
Rachel Ben-Eliyahu (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Yaacov Choueka (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Ernest Davis (New York University, USA)
Rina Dechter (UC Irvine, USA)
Ronen Feldman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Nir Friedman (Hebrew University, Israel)
Hector Geffner (Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela)
Dan Geiger (Technion, Israel)
Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Daniel Lehmann (Hebrew University, Israel)
Shaul Markovitch (Technion, Israel)
John McCarthy (Stanford University, USA)
Jack Minker (U. Maryland at College Park, USA)
Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew University, Israel)
Erik Sandewall (Linkoping University, Sweden)
Eugene Santos (University of Connecticut, USA)
Uri Schild (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Moshe Tennenholtz (Technion, Israel)
Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, Great Britain)