IBERAMIA-98 SIXTH IBEROAMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Lisbon, Portugal, October 5-9, 1998 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence) The age of AI Atlantic discoveries "The Portuguese dared to engage the great oceanic sea. They entered it fearlessly. They discovered new islands, new lands, new seas, new peoples, and what is more important, new heavens and new stars ... Now it is clear that these discoveries ... were not achieved through guesswork: our seamen set off well trained and provided with instruments and rules of astronomy and geometry." from Pedro Nunes, 1537 The Sixth IberoAmerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on October 5-9, 1998, under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), in a unique cultural environment, precisely the headquarters of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (two museums, one for Modern Art and another for Classical Art, covering also the private collection of the founder, a library, permanent exhibitions, and a beautiful garden). At the same time the World Exposition (Expo'98), around the main topic of Oceans and commemorating the Portuguese sea discovery of India (1498), will be open in the eastern side of Lisbon, creating a historic context for discussing the cooperation within the sciences of the artificial among the countries of the Atlantic rein, and under the theme of AI Atlantic discoveries. Established in 1988 (Barcelona) by three IberoAmerican Associations of AI (AEPIA, SMIA and APPIA), after a first meeting in Morelia (Mexico) in 1986 of SMIA and AEPIA, the event was organized every two-years since then in Morelia (1990), La Habana (1992), Caracas (1994) and Cholula (1996), taking Portuguese and Spanish as official languages and with the aim to promote and diffuse the research and development carried out in the countries associated with those two Latin languages and connected by strong historical links from XVI century. Along the years, the Executive Committee of IBERAMIA was enlarged with the inclusion of AVINTA (Venezuela), SMC (Cuba) and SBC (Brazil). IBERAMIA-98 will run for the first time in a decade with a paper track in English (for submission and presentation) in order to close the links now with other AI communities where AI is more developed and explored. Structure * The scientific program will be structured along two main modules, the open discussion and the paper track. October 5, a bank holiday in Portugal, may be dedicated to visit the World Fair Expo'98. The first day of the Conference (Tuesday) is organized with tutorials directed to informatics professionals, the formal opening, the IBERAMIA lecture delivered by a distinguished iberoamerican researcher, and the declaration of the prize José Negrete awarded by the Scientific Committee to the best paper submitted. Also, and in parallel, working groups will be organized in order to discuss general topics (eg. scientific and industrial joint cooperation). The open discussion track (Wednesday) will be composed by working sessions devoted to the most important areas of research in iberoamerican countries, the AI Education Symposium dedicated to confront ideas about the best ways to teach AI, a session to present the best M. Sc. or Ph. D. thesis of the whole region, and a video conference panel to establish bridges between Europe and America (involving those unable to attend this panel). The paper track (Thursday and Friday) will be composed by invited talks and paper presentations from all over the world on the full range of AI research and covering both theoretical and foundational issues, and applications as well. Some Workshops will be organized the week before, namely one on Distributed Artificial Intelligence (following the first one in Xalapa (Mexico) in 1996, before IBERAMIA-96, and on any other topics to be proposed by those interested in activating the current research. During the Conference there will be an exhibition of books written by iberoamerican researchers and academics, access to the WWW pages of the AI associations sponsoring the event, and demonstrations of AI industrial products designed in Iberoamerican countries. The Portuguese association (APPIA) will organize the week before the Sixth Advanced School on AI (EAIA-98) adopting English as the official language. Paper presentations * The first track will be held mainly in latin languages (Portuguese and Spanish), but also in English (depending on the preference of the authors). The papers may be written in English. The second track will be conducted only in English. Publication * The invited lecture and the papers of the open discussion track will be published in the Proceedings of the Conference. The contributions to the paper track will be published by Springer Verlag. Submission * Submissions are namely requested in the following topics: Agent-oriented programming Case-based reasoning Computer vision Constraint programming Data mining tools and applications Explanation mechanisms Foundations issues Genetic algorithms Hypothetical reasoning Intelligent information retrieval Intelligent tutoring and learning environments Knowledge acquisition Knowledge representation Knowledge-based systems validation Model-based reasoning Multi-agent and distributed problem-solving Natural language and Speech Neural nets Robotics Temporal and spatial reasoning Machine learning Important Dates * Deadline for submission of papers (Open Discussion and Full International tracks): by email (strongly recommended): Wednesday, January 28, 1998 by surface mail: Monday, February 2, 1998 Deadline for submission of tutorials, working groups and workshops proposals: March 2, 1998 Deadline for submission of proposals for the contest for the best thesis (M. Sc. or Ph. D.): April 2, 1998 (Chair: Dr. Jaime Sichman, o Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Professor Luciano Gualberto, nº 158, travessa 3, CEP 05508-900 São Paulo, SP, Brasil, jaime@pcs.usp.br) Notification of acceptance of papers: May 15, 1998 Notification of acceptance of tutorials, working groups, and workshops: June 1, 1998 Deadline for receipt of paper's final version: June 15, 1998 Conference site The Conference takes place in Lisbon within the installations of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. President and Local Chairman: * Gabriel Pereira Lopes (P) Departamento de Informática Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Quinta da Torre 2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal Phone: (351 1) 294 85 36 Fax: (351 1) 294 85 41 gpl@di.fct.unl.pt Program and Scientific Chairman: * Helder Coelho (P) Departamento de Informática Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa Bloco C5, Piso 1, Campo Grande 1700 Lisboa, Portugal Phone: (351 1) 7500087 Fax: (351 1) 7500084 hcoelho@di.fc.ul.pt 2nd DAI IBERAMIA Workshop Chair * Francisco Garijo Telefonica I+D Emilio Vargas 6 28043 Madrid, Spain Phone: +34 1 337 4518 Fax: +34 1 337 4602 fgarijo@tid.es Scientific Committee: * Alexis Drogoul (F) Alfred Kobsa (G) Álvaro del Val (S) Angel Puerta (S) Antonio Sanchez (M) Carlos Pinto Ferreira (P) Christian Lemaitre (M) Cristiano Castelfranchi (I) Ernesto Costa (P) Felisa Verdejo (S) Francisco Cantu (M) Gabriel Pereira Lopes (P) Guillermo Simari (A) Hector Geffner (V) Hermann Steffen (U) Jaime Sichman (B) Javier Pinto (Ch) John Self (UK) Jorge Villalobos (C) José Cuena (S) José Felix Costa (P) José Moreno (V) José Ramirez (V) Juan Carlos Santamaria (V) Leopoldo Bertossi (Ch) Luciano Garcia (Cu) Olga Padron (Cu) Pedro Barahona (P) Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (S) Raul Carnota (A) Rosa Viccari (B) Suresh Manandhar (UK) Tarcisio Pequeno (B) Veronica Dahl (C) Werner Nutt (G) Werner DePauli-Schimanovich (A) Wilmer Pereira (V) Sponsored by: * APPIA (Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial), AAIA (Asociación Argentina de Inteligencia Artificial), AEPIA (Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial), AVINTA (Asociación Venezolana de Inteligencia Artificial), Centro Nacional de Computación - Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo - Paraguay, SMCC (Sociedad de Matematica y Computacion de Cuba), SBC (Sociedade Brasileira de Computação), SCCC (Sociedade Chilena de Ciencia de la Computación), SMIA (Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial), Unidad de Inteligencia Artificial y Sistemas de Información Geográfica - Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Equador, [Image] [Image] Agência Abreu Turismo EIVAL, SA Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. 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