Subject: CFP: ICTAI'96
From: Hassan Ait-Kaci <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:39:46 -0800
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.lang.prolog,comp.constraints

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                          CALL FOR PAPERS
			 
			    ICTAI'96
8th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence

                       November 16-19, 1996
                         Toulouse, France

The annual ICTAI conference is an international forum for the exchange
of ideas relating to artificial intelligence (AI) among academe,
industry, and government agencies. It fosters the creation and transfer
of such ideas, and promotes their cross-fertilization over all AI
application domains and AI paradigms through a unifying theme: AI
Tools.  ICTAI focuses on both theory and development methodologies and
encompasses all aspects of specifying, developing, implementing, and
evaluating theoretical and applied frameworks that may serve as tools
for developing intelligent systems and pursuing AI applications.  The
following is a non-exhaustive list of paradigms and topics of interest:

AI PARADIGMS:
  Knowledge-Based Systems
  Artificial Neural Networks
  Genetic Algorithms
  Empirical Models
  Hybrid Systems

FOCAL TOPICS:
  Adaptive Systems and Process Control
  AI Algorithms
  AI in Software Engineering
  Automated Reasoning 
  Case Based Reasoning
  Cognitive Modeling
  Constraint Satisfaction
  Distributed AI and Intelligent Agents
  Environmental Applications
  Instructional Environments
  Intelligent Internet Services
  Intelligent User Interfaces and Multimodal HC Interaction
  Knowledge Base Technology, Intelligent Databases
  Knowledge Representation
  Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning
  Music, Audition and The Arts
  Natural Language Processing and Speech Understanding
  Non-Standard Logic(s) for AI
  Planning and Temporal Reasoning
  Robotics
  Qualitative Reasoning and Diagnosis
  Reasoning under Uncertainty
  Vision and Image Processing 
  ...

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS 

Authors are requested to submit five copies of a double-spaced
manuscript (in English, maximum of 20 pages), including an abstract and
a list of subject areas, to one of the program chairs by May 10, 1996.
Each submission must report on original work and be accompanied by a
cover letter that indicates the contact author's postal address, e-mail
address, telephone number, and fax number (if available), and the
paper's subject areas. The subject areas should consist of the most
relevant paradigm(s) and focal topics. Authors will be notified of
acceptance by July 15, 1996 and will be given instructions for
camera-ready versions of their papers at that time.  Outstanding papers
will be eligible for publication in the International Journal on
Artificial Intelligence Tools and for receiving the C.V. Ramamoorthy
Best Paper award.

Panel organizers are requested to submit a panel proposal consisting of
a position statement and a list of panelists to one of the program
chairs by May 10, 1996. Panel organizers will be notified of acceptance
by July 15, 1996.

Submit papers and panel proposals by May 10, 1996, as follows:

Europe, Asia, and Africa:         
Dr. Pierre Marquis    
CRIN-CNRS and INRIA-Lorraine
Ba^timent LORIA - Campus Scientifique 
B.P. 239    
F-54506 Vandoeuvre-le`s-Nancy Cedex
France
Phone: (33) 83 59 20 54 Fax: (33) 83 41 30 79
Email: [email-masked]         

North America, South America, and Australia:  
Dr. Bill Manaris 
Computer Science Department
University of Southwestern Lousiana
2 Rex Street, P.O. Box 41771, 
Lafayette, LA 70504-1771, USA 
Phone: (318)482-6638 Fax: (318)482-5791
Email: [email-masked]

Further information on the conference is available on WWW at
http://www.tai96.tulane.edu. This includes information on Toulouse,
France, and electronic versions of the CFP, advance program,
registration form, and hotel reservation form.

General Chair:
  Rudiger W. Brause, J.W. Goethe-Univ., Germany
  
Program Chairs:
  Bill Manaris, Univ. of SW Lousiana, USA
  Pierre Marquis, CRIN-CNRS and INRIA-Lorraine, France
  
Registration Chair:
  Mark G. Radle, Univ. of SW Lousiana, USA

Local Arrangements Chair:
  Michel Cayrol, IRIT-CNRS and Univ. Paul Sabatier, France
  
Program Committee:
  Robert Aiken, Temple University, USA  
  Hassan Ait-Kaci, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  Larry Albright, St. Mary's College of Maryland, USA
  Christian Bessiere, LIRMM-CNRS, France
  Dennis Bouvier, University of Arkansas, USA
  Ricardo Caferra, LEIBNIZ-IMAG, France
  Michel Cayrol, IRIT, France
  Henry Chu, University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
  Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati, USA
  Didier Dubois, IRIT-CNRS, France
  Be'chir El Ayeb, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
  Malik Ghallab, LAAS-CNRS, France
  Janice Glasgow, Queen's University, Canada
  Eric Gre'goire, CRIL and Universite' d'Artois, France
  William Greene, University of New Orleans, USA
  Russell Greiner, Siemens Corporate Research Inc., USA
  Daniel Hardt, Villanova University, USA
  Louis J. Hoebel, USAF Rome Laboratory, USA
  Anupam Joshi, Purdue University, USA
  Stamos Karamouzis, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
  Henry Kautz, AT&T Research, USA
  Mitsuo Kawato, Osaka University, Japan
  Yves Kodratoff, LRI-CNRS, France
  Tony Maida, University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
  Cindy Mason, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
  Rene'e McCauley, University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
  Dimitri Pados, University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
  Cecile Paris, University of Brighton, UK
  Sukesh Patel, Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory, USA
  Henri Prade, IRIT-CNRS, France
  Michael Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
  Tamas Roska, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary
  Michae'l Rusinowitch, INRIA-Lorraine and CRIN-CNRS, France
  Oliviero Stock, IRST, Italy
  Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA
  Kimon Valavanis, University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
  Shengruii Wang, University of Sherbrooke, Canada.
  Chris Welty, Vassar College, USA

Publicity Committee:
  John F. Vassilopoulos, Tulane Univ., USA, Chair
  Hassan Ait-Kaci, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
  Daniel Leberre, IRIT-CNRS and Univ. Paul Sabatier, France
  Heinz Schmidt, Monash Univ., Australia
  Jawed Siddiqi, Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK
  Eiji Uchino, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Steering Committee:
  Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, Binghampton Univ., USA, Chair
  Farokh Bastani, Univ. of Houston, USA
  Cris Koutsougeras, Tulane Univ., USA
  John Mylopoulos, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
  C. V. Ramamoorthy, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA
  Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  Benjamin W. Wah, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA