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The 5th Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2019) will be
held in Bolzano, 17-19 September 2019.  The core objective of GCAI 2019 is
to bring together the two main souls of AI, namely symbolic reasoning and
machine/deep learning, applied to both software and robotic systems.
See https://gcai2019.inf.unibz.it/

GCAI 2019 will be held as part of the Bolzano Rules and Artificial
INtelligence Summit (BRAIN 2019).  With a special focus theme on
"beneficial AI", BRAIN 2019 aims at presenting the latest advancements in
AI and rules and their adoption in IT systems towards improving key fields
such as environment, health and societies.  Submissions that address this
theme within the general topics of GCAI are especially welcome.
See https://brain2019.inf.unibz.it/


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

GCAI 2019 accepts submissions of two types:
- Full paper submissions, which must be original and cannot be submitted
simultaneously elsewhere.  Full paper submissions must be at most 12 pages
long, excluding references. Additional support material may be included in
an appendix, which may be considered or ignored by the program committee.
- Extended abstract submissions, which report on ongoing or preliminary
work, or on work that is central to symbolic reasoning and/or machine/deep
learning applied to both software and robotic systems, but that has already
been submitted or recently published elsewhere as a full paper (in the case
of an already published paper, the full version has to be referenced
explicitly). Extended abstract submissions must be at most 4 pages long,
excluding references.

Both types of submissions must be prepared in LaTeX or Microsoft Word using
the EasyChair templates, and uploaded in PDF format. Submissions not
complying with these guidelines will be rejected at the discretion of the
program committee.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Abstracts are due on 14 June 2019, full papers and extended abstracts are
due on 21 June 2019, and decisions will be made by 26 July 2019.

Instructions for authors and EasyChair paper templates can be found at
https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors.


LIST OF TOPICS

Submissions in all areas of artificial intelligence are welcome.  Suggested
topics include, but are not limited to:

Foundations
+ Knowledge representation
+ Cognitive modeling
+ Perception
+ Search
+ Reasoning and programming
+ Machine learning
+ Explainable AI
+ Constraints and uncertainty

Architectures
+ Agents and distributed AI
+ Intelligent user interfaces
+ Natural language systems and linguistics
+ Information retrieval
+ Case-based reasoning
+ Hierarchical and deep representations
+ Affective computing

Applications
+ Aviation and aerospace
+ Education and tutoring systems
+ Games and entertainment
+ Human-machine interaction
+ Law and machine ethics
+ Mathematics and the sciences
+ Medicine and healthcare
+ Management and manufacturing
+ World Wide Web
+ Robotics
+ Security

Implications
+ Philosophical foundations
+ Social impact and ethics
+ Evaluation of AI systems
+ AI education


COMMITTEES

Program Chairs
Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Luca Iocchi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Program Committee
The PC members are currently being invited; we plan to have about 40 PC
members.

Steering Committee
Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA)
Adel Bouhoula (University of Carthage, Tunisia)
Laura Kovács (Chalmers University, Sweden)
Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research, India)
Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA)
Andrei Voronkov (University of Manchester, UK)

Organizing Committee of GCAI and BRAIN 2019
https://brain2019.inf.unibz.it/?p=organization


PUBLICATION

GCAI 2019 proceedings will be published in the EasyChair EPiC series in
Computing.  Proceedings of the previous GCAI conferences are available
online:

Georg Gottlob, Geoff Sutcliffe and Andrei Voronkov (editors).
GCAI 2015. Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPiC Series in
Computing, Volume 36)
https://easychair.org/publications/volume/GCAI_2015

Christoph Benzmüller, Geoff Sutcliffe and Raul Rojas (editors).
GCAI 2016. 2nd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPiC Series in
Computing, Volume 41)
https://easychair.org/publications/volume/GCAI_2016

Christoph Benzmüller, Christine Lisetti and Martin Theobald (editors).
GCAI 2017. 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPiC Series in
Computing, Volume 50)
https://easychair.org/publications/volume/GCAI_2017

Daniel Lee, Alexander Steen and Toby Walsh (editors).
GCAI-2018. 4th Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPiC Series in
Computing, Volume 55)
https://easychair.org/publications/volume/GCAI-2018


KEY DATES
- Abstract submission deadline: 14 June 2019
- Paper submission deadline: 21 June 2019
- Acceptance notification: 26 July 2019
- Camera ready copy due: 16 August 2019
- Conference: 17-19 September 2019

VENUE
The conference will be held in the main building of the Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano Italy, 17-19 September 2019.

CONTACT
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the program chairs.