FLAIRS-30: Call for Papers (DEADLINE: November 21, 2016)

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*The 30^th International Conference of the
Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS-30)*

/In cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial 
Intelligence (AAAI)///

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www.FLAIRS-30.info <http://www.flairs-30.info>__

May 22-24, 2017

*The Hilton Marco Island Beach Resort and Spa*
Marco Island, Florida, USA

/Paper submission deadline/
November 21, 2016*//*

	

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*/Call for Papers/*

FLAIRS-30 continues a tradition of presenting and discussing state of 
the art artificial intelligence and related research in a sociable 
atmosphere within a beautiful setting. Events will include invited 
speakers, 17 accepted special tracks, discussion panels, and 
presentations of papers, posters, and awards. Traditionally, FLAIRS 
features not only some of the world’s leading researchers but also 
quality submissions from students.

/Submission of papers and posters for presentation at the conference are 
now invited!/

Topics of interest are in all areas of (or related to) artificial 
intelligence, including, but not limited to:

Foundations

·Knowledge representation

·Cognitive modeling

·Perception

·Reasoning and programming

·Learning

Architectures

·Agents and Distributed AI

·Intelligent User Interfaces

·Natural language

·Information retrieval

·Robotics

Applications

·Aviation and Aerospace

·Education

·Entertainment

·Medicine

·Management and manufacturing

·World Wide Web

	

Implications

·Philosophical foundations

·Social impact and ethics

·Evaluation of AI systems

·Teaching AI

Special Areas

·Spatial Temporal Reasoning

·Machine Learning

·Data Mining

·Computational Linguistics

·Uncertain Reasoning

·Artificial Intelligence in Education

·Games & Entertainment

·Intelligent Tutoring Systems

·Case-Based Reasoning

·Applied Natural Language Processing

·Affective Computing

·AI and Cognitive Science

·Healthcare Informatics

·Cyber Security

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*/Accepted Special Tracks/*

Artificial Intelligence in Games, Serious Games, and Multimedia (Chairs: 
Michael Franklin and Cedric Buche)

AI in Healthcare Informatics (Chairs: Doug Talbert and Steve Talbert)

AI and Cyber Security (Chairs: Li Li, Om Patri, Laurent Nana, Soon Ae 
Chun and David Bisant)

Data Mining (Chairs: David Bisant and Bill Eberle)

Semantic, Logics, Information Extraction and AI (Chairs: Ismaïl Biskri, 
Anca Pascu, Rim Faiz, Vladislav Kubon and Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno)

Recommender Systems Special Track (RecSys) (Chairs: Carlos Seminario, 
Nadia Najjar and Yong Zheng)

Autonomous Robots and Agents (Chairs: Roman Bartak and David Obdrzalek)

Intelligent Learning Technologies (Chairs: Stephen Fancsali and Benjamin 
Nye)

Applied Natural Language Processing (Chairs: Fazel Keshtkar and Chutima 
Boonthum-Denecke)

Uncertain Reasoning (Chairs: Leopoldo Bertossi and Tabia Karim)

Intelligent Support for Decision Making (Chairs: Marius Silaghi)

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry 
(Chairs: Chayan Chakrabarti and Rachel Green)

Case-Based Reasoning (Chairs: Alexandra Coman and Joseph Kendall-Morwick)

Non-Classical Logics (Chair: Jean-Yves Beziau)

Natural Language Processing of Ancient and other Low-Resource Languages 
(Chairs: Yudong Liu, John Lee and James Hearne)

Artificial Intelligence for Big Social Data Analysis (Chairs: Erik 
Cambria, Viviana Patti, Eric Bell and Nathan Hodas)

EAST: Learning from Heterogeneous Data Analytics (Chairs: Mathieu Roche, 
Juan Antonio Lossio and Maguelonne Teisseire)

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*/Location/*

FLAIRS-30 takes place at the Hilton Marco Island Resort and Spa, Marco 
Island, FL. The Marco Island Hilton Beach Resort and Spa hotel is 
situated on the beautiful Marco Island beach on the Southwest Florida 
Gulf Coast. Every room has a balcony and at least a partial gulf view. 
Marco Island is next door to the Florida Everglades National Park and 
some of Southwest Florida's best shopping, dining and recreational 
activities. FLAIRS will have exclusive use of the 12,000 square feet of 
conference facilities and access to the hotel's various amenities 
including Sandcastle's lounge, pool, hot tub, and exercise room. Various 
pubs, restaurants, shops, and a movie theater can be found across the 
street.

*/Important Dates/*

November 21, 2016 Paper submission deadline

January 23, 2017               Paper acceptance notification

February 6, 2017               Poster abstract submission

February 13, 2017             Poster abstract notification

February 20, 2017             AUTHOR registration

February 27, 2017             Camera ready version due
April 11, 2017                   Early registration
May 16, 2017                    Regular registration
May 22-24, 2017               Conference

*/Submission Instructions/*

Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted concurrently to a 
journal or another conference. Full oral presentation papers may be up 
to 6 pages, short poster presentation papers up to 4 pages, and abstract 
only poster presentations up to 250 words. Submissions for special 
tracks, workshops, tutorials, and discussion panels are also welcome. 
Papers must be in AAAI format, and submitted as PDF through the 
EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through the main 
conference web site (http://www.FLAIRS-30.info). The proceedings of 
FLAIRS-30 will be published by AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be 
required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to 
AAAI. In order for a paper to be published in the proceedings, the paper 
must be accompanied by at least one AUTHOR REGISTRATION.  It is also 
expected that for a full (i.e., maximum 6-page) paper, at least one of 
the authors will attend the conference to present their work. In order 
for a poster to be presented at the conference, it must also be 
accompanied by an AUTHOR REGISTRATION.

*/Organization/*

Conference Chair:                   Ingrid Russell, University of 
Hartford, USA

Program Co-Chairs:                Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, USA

Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University, USA

Special Tracks Coordinator:   Keith Brawner, Army Research Lab

For information about the program, contact Vasile Rus at 
vrus@memphis.edu <mailto:vrus@memphis.edu> or Zdravko Markov at 
markovz@ccsu.edu <mailto:markovz@ccsu.edu>

For general information about the conference, contact Ingrid Russell at 
irussell@hartford.edu <mailto:irussell@hartford.edu>