The IJCAI-01 Conference Committee invites you to participate in the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01), to be held in Seattle, Washington, USA, August 4-10, 2001. IJCAI-01 is sponsored by the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAII) and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Attached is the Call for Papers. Please note that the submission deadlines are January 8 (electronic abstract) and January 9 (electronic and hard copy paper). If you would like a hard copy of the IJCAI-01 poster or the Call for Papers, please contact us at ijcai@aaai.org. For complete information about IJCAI-01, please visit our web site at http://www.ijcai-01.org. We hope to see you in Seattle! ************************************************************************ IJCAI-01 Call for Technical Papers The IJCAI-01 Program Committee invites submissions of technical papers for IJCAI-01, to be held in Seattle, Washington, USA, on August 4-10, 2001. Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of Artificial Intelligence. Important Dates for Papers January 8, 2001: Electronic Title Page and Paper Submission Deadline January 9, 2001: Hardcopy Paper Submission Deadline March 19, 2001: Acceptance Notification April 10, 2001: Deadline for Receipt of Camera-ready Copy August 7-10: IJCAI-01 Paper Sessions Timetable Authors must first submit their paper's title page (preferably electronically together with an electronic copy of the paper, as described below) to arrive by January 8, 2001. They must then submit six complete printed copies of their paper to arrive by January 9, 2001. Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened. Authors should note that mail can sometimes be considerably delayed, especially during the winter in North America, and should take this into account when timing their submissions. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) by March 19, 2001. Camera-ready copy of accepted papers must be received by the publisher in the USA by April 10, 2001. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work. Electronic Title Page & Electronic Paper Copy Because of the large number of submissions anticipated and the tight reviewing schedule, authors desiring to submit a full paper must declare their intention by submitting a title page by January 8, 2001. The strongly preferred submission method is to use a World Wide Web (WWW) browser such as Netscape to connect to http://www.ijcai-01.org. There authors will find a title page submission form to fill in and submit. Title pages will be given a unique tracking number that should be marked on the full paper submission. In addition to the electronic title page we also require an electronic copy of the paper to be submitted. Instructions for submitting the electronic copy of the paper will be available at http://www.ijcai-01.org. Authors without access to a WWW browser with forms support should mail a printed title page to the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, whose address is at the end of this call. This title page must arrive by January 8, 2001, and should have the following format: author: name of first author address: address of first author ... author: name of last author address: address of last author title: title of the paper abstract: abstract<200 words content areas: first area,..., last area The abstract should be less than 200 words. Authors who submit printed title pages may omit a tracking number from the full paper. Also, authors who are submitting a printed title page and wish to avoid a second mailing may mail their title pages and papers together, both to arrive by January 8, 2001. We cannot accept title pages or papers submitted by e-mail or FAX. Content Areas To facilitate the reviewing process, authors are requested to put one or more appropriate content area keywords from the list below on their title page and on the submitted paper. Please use the exact phrases below; do not make up new keywords, since they will be ignored by the paper classification software. List of area keywords abduction AI architectures applications art and music artificial life automated modeling automated reasoning autonomous agents belief revision and update case-based reasoning causality cognitive modeling cognitive robotics common-sense reasoning computational complexity computer-aided education conceptual graphs configuration constraint programming constraint satisfaction data mining decision theory decision trees design description logics diagnosis diagrammatic reasoning dialog processing discourse modeling distributed AI enabling technologies expert systems game playing genetic algorithms geometric reasoning human computer interaction inductive logic programming information extraction information retrieval intelligent databases knowledge acquisition knowledge discovery knowledge representation lifelike characters logic programming machine learning machine translation mathematical foundations model-based reasoning multiagent systems multimedia natural language generation natural language parsing natural language processing natural language understanding neural networks nonmonotonic reasoning ontologies perception philosophical foundations planning probabilistic reasoning problem solving qualitative reasoning reactive control real-time systems reasoning about actions reasoning under uncertainty reinforcement learning resource-bounded reasoning robotics rule learning satisfiability testing scheduling scientific discovery search simulation software agents spatial reasoning speech processing temporal reasoning theorem proving user interfaces user modeling validation and verification virtual reality vision Policy on Multiple Submissions IJCAI will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during IJCAI's review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience. Paper Format All six copies of a submitted paper must be clearly legible. We cannot accept e-mail or FAX submissions of full papers. Submissions must be printed on 8-1/2 x 11 inch or A4 paper. The paper should be formatted identically with the format for camera-ready copy of accepted papers as described below (except that authors' names and affiliations should be omitted). Detailed instructions on the required format are available from IJCAI's home page on the World Wide Web. In addition, macros for word-processing systems to facilitate the formatting of paper submissions will be available at http://www.ijcai-01.org. Submissions must not exceed six pages in camera-ready format. Overlength papers will be returned without review. Each accepted paper will be allowed six pages in the proceedings; up to two additional pages may be purchased at a price of $250 per page. Authors from countries in which access to word-processing systems is limited may submit unformatted papers. The body of these submissions must be at most 6200 words, including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 500 words. Papers longer than 6200 words will be returned without review. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on the first page of their paper body. In order to make blind reviewing possible, authors should omit their names and affiliations from the paper. In place of their names and affiliations, they should provide the list of content areas and their paper's tracking number. (Authors without access to Web browsers, who therefore did not submit electronic abstracts, may omit the tracking number.) Also, while the references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, it should not include unpublished works. When referring to one's own work, use the third person rather than the first person. For example, say "Previously, Nebel [7] has shown that...", rather than "In our previous work [7] we have shown that...." Try to avoid including any information in the body of the paper or references that would identify the authors or their institutions. Such information can be added to the final camera-ready version for publication. Title Page In addition to six review copies of the submitted paper, authors should submit two copies of a separate title page, including the title of the paper, the names and addresses of all authors, a short abstract of less than 200 words, a list of content areas (see above), the tracking number from the electronic title page (if any, see above), acknowledgments (if any), and the following declaration: "This paper has not already been accepted by nor is it currently under review for a journal or another conference, nor will it be submitted for such during IJCAI's review period." These two pages can be printouts of the electronic title page (see above). Review Process Papers will be subject to blind peer review; reviewers will not be aware of the identities of the authors. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results and quality of the presentation. The decision of the Program Committee will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers selected will be scheduled for presentation and will be printed in the Proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference. Paper Submissions and Inquiries IJCAI-01 is co-sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Paper submissions should be sent to: IJCAI-01 American Association for Artificial Intelligence 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025-3442 USA Please send program suggestions and inquiries to: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nebel, IJCAI Program Chair Institut für Informatik Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Georges-Köhler-Alle, Geb. 52 D-79110 Freiburg, Germany E-mail: ijcai-pc@informatik.uni-freiburg.de FAX: +49-761-203-8222