Subject: IJCAI-97 Call For Tutorial Proposals
From: [email-masked] (Hiroshi G Okuno)
Date: 19 Apr 1996 14:58:36 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.ai

Call for Workshop Proposals

           Fifteenth International Joint Conference on 
                    Artificial Intelligence
                         IJCAI-97

                     August 23-29, 1997

Important Dates:
    Oct.    21, 1996 : Proposal Submission Deadline 
    Nov.    20, 1996 : Acceptance notification
    Dec.    13, 1996 : Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, and 
                          speaker biography
    May      1, 1997 : Deadline for receipt of course material
    Aug. 23-25, 1997 : IJCAI-97 Tutorials

For further information:
       from the IJCAI-97 WWW page at the URL of
                    http://ijcai.org/ijcai-97/
       by sending a mail to
                    [email-masked]

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CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: IJCAI-97

The IJCAI-97 Program Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial
Program for IJCAI-97, which is to be held in Nagoya, Japan, August
23-29, 1997. Tutorials will be held in the period of August 23-25,
immediately prior to the start of the main conference. 

Tutorials will be offered both on standard topics and on new and more
advanced topics. A list of suggested topics that can be covered by
tutorials is given below, but this list is only a guide. Other topics, will be
considered: 

      Analogical and Inductive Inference 
      Logics for AI and Inference Techniques 
      Reasoning about Knowledge 
      Temporal and Spatial Reasoning 
      Probabilistic Reasoning and Uncertainty 
      Planning and Scheduling 
      Case-based Reasoning 
      Machine Learning 
      Neural Networks - Principles and Applications 
      Computer Vision 
      Natural Language Processing 
      Mobile Robot Navigation 
      Motion Planning in Robotics 
      Programming and Reasoning with Constraints 
      Architectures for AI Systems 
      Distributed AI 
      Knowledge Acquisition - Theory and Practice 
      Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 
      Intelligent Environments to Support Human Learning 
      Intelligent Interfaces 
      Innovative Applications of AI Techniques 
      AI in Engineering Design 
      AI in Education 

Requirements for Submission

Anyone interested in presenting a tutorial should submit a proposal to the
IJCAI-97 Tutorial Chair, Prof. Bernhard Nebel. A tutorial proposal should
contain the following information: 

      A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the
     conference registration brochure 
      A detailed outline of the tutorial 
      The necessary background and the potential target audience for
     the tutorial 
      A description of why the tutorial topic is of interest to a
     substantial part of the IJCAI audience 
      A brief resum$@i (Jof the presenter(s), which should include name,
     postal address, phone and fax numbers, email address if available,
     background in the tutorial area, any available example of work in
     the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article on the subject),
     evidence of teaching experience (including references that
     address the proposer's presentation ability), and evidence of
     scholarship in AI/Computer Science (equivalent to a published
     IJCAI conference paper or tutorial syllabus). 

Those submitting a proposal should keep in mind that tutorials are intended
to provide an overview of the field; they should present reasonably well
established information in a balanced way. Tutorials should not be used to
advocate a single avenue of research, nor should they promote a product. 

Timetable

Proposals must be received by October 21, 1996. Decisions about topics
and speakers will be made by November 20, 1996. Accepted tutorial
presenters must provide title and abstract for their tutorial, and a brief
biography and photograph for publicity, by December 13, 1996. They will
then be sent a set of guidelines for the preparation of course materials,
which will be due May 1, 1997. Please note that IJCAI will normally only
duplicate up to 200 pages per participant. 

IJCAI reserves the right to cancel any tutorial if deadlines are missed, or if
the number of registered attendees at the tutorial is too low to support the
costs associated with running the tutorial. 

Proposals should be sent to: 

     Prof. Bernhard Nebel
     Institut f$@|r(J Informatik
     Albert-Ludwigs-Universit$@dt(J Freiburg
     Am Flughafen 17
     79110 Freiburg GERMANY
     E-mail:
     [email-masked] 
     WWW:
     http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~nebel

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Hiroshi "Gitchang" Okuno
IJCAI-97 Publicity Chair
Basic Research Laboratories
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-01, JAPAN
E-mail: [email-masked]
URL:    http://www.nue.org/people/okuno/okuno.html