[Image] Call for Papers (Short Version) The 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96) will be held in Budapest, Hungary from August 12 - 16, 1996. The biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is the European forum for international scientific exchange and presentation of AI research. The aim of the conference is to cover all aspects of AI and to bring together basic and applied research. The Conference Technical Programme will include paper presentations, invited talks, panels, workshops, and tutorials. ECAI-96 is organized by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and will be hosted by the John von Neumann Computer Society (NJSZT, Hungary). The conference venue will be the Budapest University of Economics. Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to: Automated Reasoning; Application and Enabling Technologies; Cognitive Modelling and Philosophical Foundations; Connectionist and PDP Models of AI; Distributed AI and Multiagent Systems; Knowledge Representation; Machine Learning; Natural Language and Intelligent User Interfaces; Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning about Actions; Reasoning about Physical Systems and under Uncertainty; Robotics, Vision, and Signal Understanding; Standardisation, Verification, Validation and Testing of Knowledge-based Systems. Submissions must be received by the Programme Chair in hardcopy form by 10th January 1996. Successful authors will be notified on or before 18th March 1996. Camera-ready copies of the final versions of accepted papers must be received by 30th April 1996. Proposals for Workshops should be submitted by electronic mail to the Workshop Chair no later than 1st November 1995. Organizers will be notified about the acceptance of workshops no later than 1st December 1995. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Image]