Announcement
                                      First Call for Papers

                                         EPIA-2001
           10th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA-01

                                       17-19 December 2001
                                          Porto, Portugal
    The 10th Portuguese Conference on Artificial on Artificial
Intelligence, EPIA'01, will continue with certain tradition of previous
conferences in the series and will be organized under the auspices of
the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). It will
maintain its international character and continue to provide a forum for
presenting and discussing research on different aspects of Artificial
Intelligence.
    To promote motivated discussions among participants, the coming
conference will strengthen the role of thematic workshops. These will
not be just satellite events, but rather form an integral part of the
conference. Certain sessions integrated within the workshops (e.g.
presentations of invited speakers etc.) will, at the same time, form
part of the main conference. This has the advantage that the work is
presented to motivated audience. Workshop papers of high quality
(excluding late breaking submissions), will be selected for publication
in the main volume of conference proceedings, to be published by
Springer-Verlag.
    Interdisciplinary discussions and interchange of ideas between
different sub-areas will also be promoted. Special opportunities will be
created for young researchers to be able to present their work. This
will be done by creating a possibility of submitting late breaking
papers for the main conference or to workshops.
    The EPIA'01 will be held in Porto, permitting to celebrate its 10th
edition in the town where this series of conferences and
workshops started about 15 years ago.

Programme Co-Chairs:

      Pavel Brazdil and Alípio Jorge
          LIACC, University of Porto, Rua Campo Alegre 823, 4150-180
Porto, Portugal
          Email: {amjorge, pbrazdil}@ncc.up.pt
          Phone: (+351) 22 607 8830
          Fax: (+351) 22 600 3654

Programme Committee
          Paulo Azevedo  (Univ. Minho, Portugal)
          Pedro Barahona  (UNL, Lisboa, Portugal)
          Pavel Brazdil  (Univ. Porto, Portugal)
          Luis Camarinha Matos  (UNL, Lisboa, Portugal)
         Armando Campos e Matos (Univ. Porto, Portugal)
          Hélder Coelho  (UL, Portugal)
          Ernesto Costa  (Univ. Coimbra, Portugal)
          Miguel Filgueiras (Univ. Porto, Portugal),
          Mário Florido, (Univ. Porto, Portugal)
          João Gama  (Univ. Porto, Portugal)
          Alipio Jorge  (Univ. Porto, Portugal)
          Claude Kirchner, (LORIA-INRIA, France)
          Carolina Monard (Univ. S. Paolo, Brazil)
          Luis Moniz Pereira (UNL, Lisboa, Portugal)
          Fernando Moura Pires (Univ. Evora, Portugal)
           Nelma Moreira (Univ. Porto, Portugal)
           Arlindo Oliveira (IST, Lisboa, Portugal)
           Eugénio Oliveira (Univ. Porto, Portugal)
           Ramon Otero, (Univ. Coruña, Spain)
           David Pearce  (DFKI, Germany)
            Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
            Ruy de Queiroz (UFPe, Brazil)
            Jan Rauch, (Univ. of Economics, Czech Rep.)
            João Sentieiro  (IST, Portugal)
            Carles Sierra, (Univ. Catalunia, Spain)
            Ana Paula Tomás (Univ. Porto, Portugal)
             Luís Torgo  (Univ. Porto, Portugal)

Invited Speakers

      Fernando Pereira, WhizBang and Penn University, USA
      Peter Flach, University of Britol, UK
      (others are being contacted / will be contacted later)

Workshops

      Contraint Satisfaction and Operational Research Techniques for
Problem Solving
      Organizers: Pedro Barahona (UNL, Lisboa).

      .Extraction of Knowledge from Databases (EKDB 2001)
      Organizers:  Fernando Moura-Pires (U. Évora) and Gabriela
Guimarães (UNL, Lisboa)
       .
      Intelligent Techniques for Financial Time Series Analysis
      Organizers: Luís Torgo (Univ. Porto)

      Multi-Agent Systems
      Organizers: Eugénio Oliveira (Univ. Porto)
      .
      Natural Language Processing / Information Extraction from Text
      Organizers: Gabriel Pereira Lopes (UNL, Lisboa)
      .
      Logic Programming for Artificial Intelligence and Information
Systems
      Organizers: José Alferes (UNL, Lisboa, Portugal), Salvador Abreu
(U. Évora)


Deadlines for Main Conference Track and Workshops:
    Submissions of papers due:             13 July  01
    Acceptance notice due:                 15 September  01
    Camera ready copy due:                  1 October  01

Selection of Workshops Papers for Conferences Proceedings

   * Papers can be submitted to the main conference track and/or to one
of the thematic workshops. Submissions via  thematic
      workshops are preferred, provided a suitable workshop exists.
   *  Submissions to main conference should be sent to conference
co-chairs.
   *  Submissions to one of the workshops should be sent directly to the
workshop organizers. An extra copy should also be sent
      to conference co-chairs.
   *   Workshop papers of high quality (excluding late breaking
submissions), will be selected for publication in the main volume
      of conference proceedings, edited by the conference co-chairs and
published by Springer Verlag.

.Late breaking papers for main conference and workshops:
    Late breaking submissions by young researchers:    15 October  01
    Late breaking submissions for workshops:                15 October
01
    Acceptance notices
due:                                              5 November  01
    Camera ready copy (for photocopied volume) due:   20 November  01

Publicity Chair
      Rui Camacho (Univ. Porto)

Internet Address (containing this information):
    http://www.niaad.liacc.up.pt/Events/EPIA01/
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