ES99: The Nineteenth SGES International Conference on Knowledge-Based
Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence. Peterhouse College, 
Cambridge, UK, December 13th-15th 1999

http://www.bcs-sges.org/es99/

This is the latest in a series organized by SGES, the British Computer
Society Specialist Group on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied
Artificial Intelligence (a member of ECCAI).

The main two-day conference (December 14th-15th) will comprise 

- Two parallel streams (technical and application) of refereed papers
on all aspects of the field including technical stream papers on 
learning, knowledge discovery, case-based reasoning, knowledge 
engineering, and knowledge representation and refinement, and 
application stream papers featuring a wide range of AI techniques, 
including CBR, fuzzy logic, rule based systems, neural networks, data 
mining and intelligent agents.

- Keynote addresses by Prof. Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield,
UK) and Dr. Chris Winter (Cyberlife Technology Ltd.)

- An exhibition of AI tools and software and presentations by
suppliers

A special feature of this year's conference is a presentation of his
prize-winning IJCAI Computers and Thought lecture by Prof. Nick
Jennings (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London). This was first
presented at the IJCAI conference in Stockholm in September 1999 and
is the first time that any European has won this prestigious
international award.

The two-day conference is preceded (on Monday December 13th) by a day
of tutorials and other events, comprising: 

- A full-day tutorial on Intelligent Virtual Environments and Virtual 
Agents

- A half-day tutorial on Knowledge Bases for Ill-structured 
Knowledge

- A low-cost full-day workshop on Using AI to Enable Knowledge
Management

- A full-day event on Practical Application of Artificial Intelligence
sponsored by the DTI Smart Software for Decision Makers initiative.
This event is free to those registering for the two day conference.

As always, there are substantial reductions for members of SGES (as 
at October 31st). For the first time these reductions are also 
offered to members of all other ECCAI societies throughout Europe.

There is a specially reduced rate (50 pounds) for bona fide students
for the two-day event.

Please note that there is a late registration penalty for those
registering after November 12th.

Full details are given on the conference website. A paper copy 
of the conference brochure is available from 
sges-conference@bcs.org.uk